Originally published April 25, 2025 for our End-of-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.
A. DC
- TRUMP ADMIN UPDATES COVID.GOV TO REVEAL TRUE ORIGINS OF COVID – The Biden-era covid.gov website now redirects to a site titled “LAB LEAK: The true origins of COVID-19.” The page criticizes the EcoHealth Alliance’s gain-of-function research and faults Dr. Anthony Fauci and others who claimed COVID-19 did not leak from the Wuhan lab. The website stresses, “The WHO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was an abject failure because it caved to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party and placed China’s political interests ahead of its international duties…”
- RFK JR. BANS ARTIFICIAL FOOD DYES – HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA chief Dr. Marty Makary said the FDA will phase out petroleum-based dyes in U.S. food and medications. Kennedy said, “[When] my uncle was president, 3% of American kids had chronic disease. Today it’s around 60%. If they [food companies] want to be eating petroleum, they can add it themselves at home…”
- U.S. HOUSE PASSES BILL TO REIN IN ROGUE JUDGES – The U.S. House voted 219-213to pass the No Rogue Rulings Act to restrict the ability of individual judges to issue nationwide injunctions. Bill sponsor Rep. Darrell Isa (R-CA) stated, “Since President Trump has returned to office, left-leaning activists have cooperated with ideological judges who they have sought out to take their cases and weaponize nationwide injunctions to stall dozens of lawful executive actions and initiatives. These sweeping injunctions represent judicial activism at the worst.”
- NOTE: Be sure to read the May 30 issue of MIA where Joshua Bontrager will continue his investigative series on JUDGEFARE (barring major breaking news).
- RUBIO SHUTTERS CENSORSHIP AGENCY – Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the $50 million Biden-era Global Engagement Center has officially been shut down. Rubio explained, “If citizens need the government to step in and tell them what is disinformation and what isn’t, then power doesn’t rest with the people at all – it rests instead with the people who write the propaganda telling the public what to believe.”
- RUBIO TRIMS STATE DEPARTMENT – Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reducing offices from 734 to 602, and moving to cut 15% of agency staff. Rubio stated, “The sprawling bureaucracy created a system more beholden to radical political ideology than advancing America’s core national interests. That is why today I am announcing a comprehensive reorganization plan that will bring the Department into the 21st Century.”
- TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PARTNERS WITH HILLSDALE AHEAD OF AMERICA’S 250TH ANNIVERSARY – The Trump White House has partnered with Hillsdale College to release a history video series called “The Story of America.” The series highlights “the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.”
Watch the first two videos here.
- NEW POLL FINDS COLLEGE-AGED YOUTH LEAN REPUBLICAN – While young people aged 22 to 29 lean Democrat by 6.4 points, youth aged 18 to 21 lean Republican by 11.7 points, according to the Yale Youth Poll. Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk stated, “The latest Yale Youth Poll confirms the trend we’ve seen at one campus after another: The youngest voters have turned sharply to the right… The most dramatic generational political swing in history is unfolding before our eyes.
B. STATES
- AMISH REBUILD NORTH CAROLINA – For six months, 2,000 Pennsylvania Amish have worked to rebuild homes, businesses, and bridges in Chimney Rock, North Carolina, a town ravaged by Hurricane Helene. Amish volunteer Amanda Zook said, “We wanted to help the people with the disaster. Our hearts just felt drawn to come help the people in this area. It’s just inspiring to me to see how people can pull together, work together, and get something done.”
- ARKANSAS BRINGS TEN COMMANDMENTS BACK TO SCHOOLS – Arkansas passed a new law requiring government buildings and schools to display the Ten Commandments and the national motto. “You cannot separate the history of our nation and the development of moral law and the Ten Commandments, nor should we,” explained bill sponsor state Rep. Alyssa Brown (R).
- ARKANSAS LEGALIZES GOLD AND SILVER FOR TRANSACTIONS – Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) signed a law making the state the first in the nation to allow local governments to receive payment in gold and silver. Former Arkansas State Senator Jason Rapert (R) said, “We encourage all state legislators and federal elected officials to study this issue and seek approval in every state in the nation.”
- ALABAMA AFFIRMS GOLD AND SILVER AS LEGAL TENDER – The Alabama Legal Tender Act recognizes “any refined gold or silver bullion, specie, or coin that has been stamped, marked, or imprinted with its weight and purity” as legal tender in the state. Following the bill’s unanimous passage, State Sen. Tim Melson (R) said, “This bill upholds their constitutional status and supports sound money for our citizens across the state.”
- IOWA ALLOWS 18-YEAR-OLDS TO CARRY HANDGUNS – Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) signed a law allowing 18-year-olds to own and carry handguns. State Rep. Steven Holt (R) said, “I joined the Marines when I was 18, I graduated from boot camp when I was 18. I was carrying firearms in the military, ready to defend my country when I was 18, along with hundreds of thousands of other young men and women.”
C. INTERNATIONAL
- KLAUS SCHWAB OUT AT THE WEF – Arch-globalist Klaus Schwab officially resigned as World Economic Forum Chairman, one day after the WEF launched an investigation into Schwab for allegedly misusing WEF funds and mistreating employees. The Sociable’s Tim Hinchliffe warned that the WEF will “continue to push for the totaltechnocratic takeoverof society.”
Professor Michael Rectenwald said, “He [Schwab] saw himself as deciding the future for all of humanity. Thus, he will go down in history as one of the most arrogant globalists ever to live.”
- HUNGARY BANS PRIDE PARADES – The Hungarian parliament overwhelmingly passed a law banning pride parades in the nation and affirming the existence of only two biological genders. PM Viktor Orban declared, “We’re protecting children’s development, affirming that a person is born either male or female, and standing firm against drugs and foreign interference. In Hungary, common sense matters.”
- EL SALVADOR NOW SAFER THAN MOST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES – In just ten years, El Salvador has gone from being the most violent country in the Western Hemisphere to safer than France, Germany, the UK, Sweden, and Spain. The U.S. State Department now lists the country as Level 1 for travel. The New American noted, “In 2024, the Gallup Global Safety report listed El Salvador in its top 10 countries ‘where people feel safest when walking alone’: 88% of those polled said they felt safe.”
- ECUADOR REELECTS CONSERVATIVE PRESIDENT – President Daniel Noboa won reelection with over 55% of the vote. Noboa, whose top priority has been reducing crime, said, “Ecuador is changing…and that path will mean our children will live better lives than we did.”
D. FAITH
- TRUMP AFFIRMS JESUS CHRIST AHEAD OF EASTER – In an official Presidential message, President Trump said, “We acknowledge that the glory of Easter Sunday cannot come without the sacrifice Jesus Christ made on the cross… Through His suffering, we have redemption. Through His death, we are forgiven of our sins. Through His Resurrection, we have hope of eternal life. On Easter morning, the stone is rolled away, the tomb is empty, and light prevails over darkness – signaling that death does not have the final word… We pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon our beloved Nation…”
One Trump official added, “Under President Trump, there will never be a ‘trans visibility month’ – and on Easter, we will be celebrating Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.”
- WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY PRAYS BEFORE BRIEFING – Ahead of a press conference, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt prayed, “Lord Jesus, please give us the strength, the knowledge, the ability to articulate our words, have fun, and be confident. In Jesus’ name, Amen.” At 27, Leavitt is the youngest press secretary in American history.
- FLORIDA STATE REP. CALLS TO PROTECT CHILDREN – Florida State Rep. Taylor Yarkosky (R) said, “I look back when I was a child growing up in the 80s in Iowa, what was the reason why we didn’t have all this [sexual materials in schools]? I’ll tell you what it was: because God was first and foremost and primary in every single thing that we did. The nuclear family was strong, and it governed this stuff.”
Yarkosky continued, “Over the course of the last 30, 40 years, we’ve destroyed the nuclear family in this country. We’ve got culture wars through the roof, and this kind of filth is what is permeating our children. They’re attacking our children. And this is pure evil… We have to take a stand.”
- KING OF KINGS PROCLAIMS CHRIST – Over Easter weekend, the animated movie The King of Kings ranked #2 at theaters, earning $19.3 million. Commentator Benny Johnson said the film’s success proves that “the demand for faith-based, non-woke entertainment is undeniable.”
- 18.6 MILLION USE YOUVERSION BIBLE APP ON RESURRECTION SUNDAY – The YouVersion Bible app reported a record 18.6 million people engaging with the Bible on Resurrection Sunday, up 11% from last year, and up 27% for the week in North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Founder Bobby Gruenewald said, “We’ve been seeing a growing hunger for God’s Word – not just through Bible App use, but in print Bible sales and momentum across the global Church… God is on the move… It’s about more people encountering the hope and love of Jesus and being transformed by the power of God’s Word.”
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