Trump Blacklists UFC Champ Over Epstein Jokes

The CFPB quietly deleted at least 2,200 webpages, USAID's shutdown likely contributed to 600,000 preventable deaths, and nearly 60 people have gotten sick after drinking raw milk

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Sean Strickland says the UFC banned him from its White House card because he called Trump “owned by Netanyahu.” The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau quietly deleted at least 2,200 webpages built to warn people about predatory lenders. Killing USAID likely contributed to 600,000 preventable deaths, two-thirds of them children. And nearly 60 people in Idaho got sick after drinking raw milk from two unnamed dairies at RFK Jr.’s direction.

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UFC Fighter Banned From White House Brawl Over Epstein Comments

Sean Strickland has never met a fight he’d walk away from, but apparently some fights will walk away from him.

The UFC’s outspoken middleweight champion went on Instagram to announce that he’s been banned from the UFC White House card scheduled for June 14. He says it’s punishment for his criticism of Trump’s relationships with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

“UFC at the White House with Benjamin Netanyahu in the audience. Straight slop,” Strickland wrote. “To be fair, they did ban me.” Asked what exactly earned him the ban, he wrote: “I made fun of Israel and Jeffrey Epstein.”

Strickland supported Trump’s re-election in 2024 and has since soured, openly opposing the conflict in Iran. He now calls himself “the only male American champ banned at the White House” and says he’s “not American enough to go to Freedom 250.”

His plan should the ban hold is to bring his championship belt to the gate and stand outside. This should be no problem for Trump, who has experience with uninvited guests at government buildings.

The Agency Built to Stop Predatory Lenders Just Deleted Its Websites

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has a new process for handling consumer complaints: Step one, delete the website. Step two was also deleted.

The CFPB scrubbed at least 2,228 webpages from its newsroom last month, according to a Guardian analysis comparing the live site to the Internet Archive. Everything removed was published before Trump’s second term, some of it dating to 2010, when the agency was created.

Gone are consumer advisories, know-your-rights pages for veterans, congressional testimonies, and several speeches by Senator Elizabeth Warren, who helped build the agency. The most common topics in the deleted posts were enforcement, mortgages, banking, and rule-making.

Russell Vought, the Project 2025 architect who called for the bureau’s abolition, now serves as acting director. He ordered employees to stop work, dropped enforcement cases, and tried to cut headcount from 1,174 to 556. Court filings confirm the number.

The CFPB also deleted its translation menu, removing Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Tagalog, Russian, Arabic, and Haitian Creole. At least 129 Spanish posts vanished.

Meanwhile, consumer complaints hit a record 5.4 million in 2025, double the prior year. Directors are required to testify before Congress twice a year. Vought has skipped both appearances so far.

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By Killing USAID, Elon Musk’s DOGE Killed 600,000 People

Elon Musk ran global health the same way he runs everything: straight into the ground.

House Oversight Democrats found that the Trump administration’s decision to kill the U.S. Agency for International Development likely contributed to 600,000 “entirely preventable” deaths. Modeling from Boston University estimates that two-thirds of those deaths were children.

The report, issued Thursday, is built on interviews with eight former USAID employees and contractors, plus outside studies. It documents the firing of more than 10,000 federal workers and contractors, and a resurgence of diseases the agency spent decades fighting such as HIV, malaria, mpox, bird flu, diphtheria, polio, and measles.

Africa is now facing a fresh Ebola outbreak. Past surges drew USAID funding and officials to test, track, isolate, and treat. This one hasn’t. The Trump administration’s response so far is airport screening that has already shown gaps.

The report says USAID may have saved as many as 92 million lives over two decades. A contractor told the panel that $150 million in healthcare products sat undistributed in warehouses, including HIV supplies and oxygen machines for infants. Musk has returned to Mars stuff.

Nearly 60 People in Idaho Got Sick Drinking Raw Milk

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls raw milk “nature’s perfect food.” Idaho is having a different experience.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare announced Wednesday that nearly 60 people got sick after drinking raw milk over the past two weeks. The infections, which began May 19, are linked to two different milking operations, one in North Idaho and one in the south.

So far, 45 of the sick have tested positive for campylobacteriosis, a bacterial infection. Officials note that not everyone who got sick has been tested, so the count could climb.

Raw milk isn’t pasteurized, the heating process that kills bacteria like Campylobacter, E. coli, Listeria, and Salmonella. Symptoms include vomiting, diarrhea, fever, and dehydration, with the worst risk falling on young children, pregnant women, the elderly, and the immunocompromised.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who now oversees the nation’s public health as HHS secretary, has long championed raw milk, pushing to lift federal restrictions on its sale across state lines. His agency has not commented on the Idaho outbreak.

The state’s public health division is working across six of Idaho’s seven regional health districts to find the source. The agency declined to name the dairies, saying the risk applies to any raw milk producer.

Which is another way of saying the safest batch is the one that was heated up first.

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