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Citizen Frank
May 23, 2025
Good evening. It’s Thursday, May 22.
A deadly EF-3 tornado that tore through St. Louis on May 16, 2025—leaving five dead, 38 injured, and over $1 billion in damages—has ignited a growing debate about the role of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in public safety leadership.
The controversy centers on the failure to activate the city’s tornado sirens and the actions of the official in charge of emergency response.
At the heart of the issue is Sarah Russell, Commissioner of the St. Louis City Emergency Management Agency (CEMA), who was not present at the agency’s main office during the storm. Instead, Russell was attending a workshop at 1520 Market Street, approximately half a mile from the facility where sirens are activated. City officials have not publicly disclosed the subject of the workshop.
Another federal judge ruled against President Donald Trump on Thursday, this time to block his order to close down the Department of Education.
U.S. District Judge Myong Joun said the order needed congressional approval and rejected the government’s argument that it was merely a “reorganization” of the department. He cited the president’s statement from March ordering the ED secretary to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department.”
Joun also ordered the president to rehire the ED employees he fired so that the department could be restored “to the status quo such that it is able to carry out its statutory functions.”
Senator Ron Johnson opened the hearing with a bombshell: the Biden administration knew about deadly heart risks tied to the COVID shots, and deliberately kept it from the public.
Johnson released newly subpoenaed records exposing a detailed timeline of what officials knew and when. While Pfizer and Moderna received insider updates, doctors and citizens who raised concerns were silenced.
In February 2021, Israeli health officials warned the CDC of “large reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people” following Pfizer injections, just two and a half months after the vaccine received emergency use authorization.
President Trump’s Make America Healthy Again Commission blamed factors including bad diets, chemical exposure and unnecessary medication for causing childhood chronic illness in a highly anticipated report released Thursday.
The 68-page document from a panel led by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seeks to lay out a unifying theory around what’s causing conditions like obesity, autoimmune conditions and behavioral disorders in kids.
Here are the key takeaways.
A woman accused of spitting on Washington’s former top federal prosecutor was arrested Thursday on an assault charge, according to court filings.
Emily Gabriella Sommer, 32, is charged with one federal count of assaulting, resisting or impeding a government official after she allegedly spit on former interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin when he was still in the post.
The spitting incident occurred on May 8 — the same day President Trump withdrew Martin’s nomination to formally assume the role of U.S. attorney — while the acting prosecutor was conducting an interview with a Newsmax reporter outside his office.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a civil investigative demand to Media Matters, requesting records about the group’s communications with other media watchdogs. The inquiry focusess on whether Media Matters helped coordinate advertising boycotts targeting the social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk.
According to a document reviewed by Reuters, the FTC is seeking details about the Washington, DC-based nonprofit’s interactions with groups that monitor hate speech and misinformation in media.
The Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) is one of those groups, an initiative of the World Federation of Advertisers. Both GARM and Media Matters are facing lawsuits from X.
The Minnesota Supreme Court decided that women completely exposing their breasts in public is legally acceptable.
The ruling in the case State of Minnesota v. Plancarte revolved around Eloisa Rubi Plancarte, who had exposed herself in a police officer’s presence by revealing her bare breasts.
The state Supreme Court overturned a Court of Appeals decision against Plancarte, who had been arrested and charged with a misdemeanor. Plancarte argued to the court that her breasts were not “private parts” and her actions were not “lewd.” A district court found her actions “legally obscene.”
Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe after its parliament adopted a law raising it to 70 by 2040.
Since 2006, Denmark has tied the official retirement age to life expectancy and has revised it every five years. It is currently 67 but will rise to 68 in 2030 and to 69 in 2035.
The retirement age at 70 will apply to all people born after 31 December 1970.
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