💵 Is a "Plandemic" coming?

Joe Biden unveiled his $6 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2022, with $1.52 trillion for the military and domestic programmes and $4.5 trillion for infrastructure and social initiatives.

The plan reflects Biden’s "shifting priorities toward confronting China and Russia" and reducing emphasis on the wars in Afghanistan and in the Middle East, according to US observers.

🧐 However, with such a large increase in spending, what will the cost be in terms of its impact on the public debt?

A weapon system test conducted by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii failed to intercept a target.

"The objective of the test was to demonstrate the capability of a ballistic missile defense-configured Aegis ship to detect, track, engage and intercept a medium-range ballistic missile target" with a salvo of two Standard Missile-6 Dual II missiles, according to an agency statement.

‼️ Chelsea win the Champions League!

🦠 Mike Pompeo claimed that the Wuhan Institute of Virology has a secret military programme, hidden from the World Health Organization mission that visited the city earlier this year to determine the origins of the pandemic.

"What I can say for sure is this: we know that they were engaged in efforts connected to the People's Liberation Army inside of that laboratory, so military activity being performed alongside what they claimed was just good old civilian research."

So, was the virus 'accidental' on purpose?

Now that's a twist!

Fiddleheads café in Mendocino, California is charging patrons a $5 fee if they wear a face mask or are"caught bragging" about their COVID vaccine.

🗣 The cafe's owner, Chris Castleman, explained the move as an attempt to help "charities that have been overwhelmed by the collateral damage of the government lockdowns," as the money is going to them.

Sounds like a fee most people will be happy to pay.

Double standards?

Pelosi's fines for violating security screening and mask mandates could soon face a legal test.

GOP lawmakers' decision to challenge Pelosi's rules came after Georgia Republican Andrew Clyde was fined while Democrat James Clyburn's similar case went unpunished.

🗣 “I welcome the Committee on Ethics to reconsider my case based on their most recently established precedents. Should they choose not to reconsider, I am eager to have my day in court to stop Democrats from further trampling on our cherished Constitutional rights,” Clyde told The Washington Times in a statement.

American TV and film actor Gavin MacLeod known for his role as Capt. Merrill Stubing on "The Love Boat," has died at the age of 90, US media report.

🚁 At least one person was killed and another injured in a single-engine plane crash in Texas, reports say.

❌ Kamala Harris is being criticised for failing to recognize fallen US soldiers in a Memorial Day tweet.

"Enjoy the long weekend", Harris tweeted, which was seen as inappropriate by many netizens given the significance of the day.

🤔 Well, Memorial Day itself is on the last Monday of May, so let's hope the VP will remember the fallen by Monday.

🚁 One person died and another one was injured as a result of an airplane crash in Eden, Utah, the Weber County Fire District said.

🚔 Pittsburgh police slammed the owner of the Ross Park Mall for refusing to install security cameras despite multiple requests from local authorities.

The lack of cameras left cops at a tactical and investigative disadvantage from the start, when they attempted to respond to a mall shooting. Luckily, no one was injured.

😩 US troops accidentally raid vegetable oil factory in Bulgaria

Workers at a sunflower oil processing factory in the village of Cheshnegirovo, located in the Plovdiv region of Bulgaria, had a close and not exactly pleasant encounter with US servicemen who entered the facility unannounced: https://youtu.be/q_2p0u1_HPA

The US Embassy in Sofia later explained that the soldiers believed the building was a part of the training area. Oops.

Joe Biden has criticised the Texas GOP’s priority voting bill, called Senate Bill 7, as a “part of an assault on democracy”.

“Today, Texas legislators put forth a bill that joins Georgia and Florida in advancing a state law that attacks the sacred right to vote. It’s part of an assault on democracy that we’ve seen far too often this year –and often disproportionately targeting Black and brown Americans. It’s wrong and un-American. In the 21st century, we should be making it easier, not harder, for every eligible voter to vote,” Biden said in a statement.

US President Joe Biden spoke of human rights and the US global mission at the Memorial Day service.

🇨🇳Biden said he had had a long conversation about human rights with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

🇷🇺And at the upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Biden is also planning to raise the issue of human rights.

@MichaelRPompeo is set to return to Iowa in July, sparking more rumours about a potential 2024 presidential bid, as the ex-top diplomat has previously refused to rule out the possibility

The Biden administration reportedly authorized U.S. embassies to fly LGBTQ and Black Lives Matter flags, as seen at the U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece.

The gesture has prompted backlash from many, including Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who introduced a new bill to prevent political flags other than the American flag from being flown outside U.S. embassies around the world.

🗣 "It is inappropriate for President Biden and Secretary Blinken to authorize and encourage the display of inherently political flags that are in no way affiliated with the U.S. Government over American embassies overseas," Malliotakis said,

🏛 The Texas Senate approved a bill that would empower poll watchers, create criminal penalties and add new restrictions on where, when and how to vote.

The Senate Bill 7 proposes cutting back on early voting, banning drive-thru voting and making it a felony for elected voting officials to send unsolicited mail ballot applications to Texas voters.

Texas has now taken a major step toward becoming the nation’s largest state to have implemented new GOP-backed rules making it harder to vote following the 2020 elections

🚧 At least 16 states are considering or have signed into law bills that would limit the teaching of certain ideas linked to "critical race theory," which seeks to reframe the narrative of American history. Its proponents argue that federal law has preserved the unequal treatment of people on the basis of race and that the country was founded on the theft of land and labor.

Those states include Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.

⚫️ American actor Joe Lara, 58, who was the star of "Tarzan: The Epic Adventures" died in a plane crash along with his wife, Gwen Lara, 66, and five people said to be members of the same church.

⚫️ The Cessna C501 jet crashed into Percy Priest Lake near Smyrna, a town in Rutherford County, Tennessee, on Saturday morning, after departing from the Smyrna Rutherford County Airport. The plane was bound for Palm Beach International Airport, Florida. The exact cause of the accident is under investigation.