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![The “Sustainable” Company Behind POM Juice Also a Top Sprayer of Toxic Weedkiller Paraquat](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pomegranate-400x284.jpg)
The Wonderful Company in California is celebrated for "sustainable" practices. But it is also one of the top sprayers of paraquat—a toxic weedkiller—that is banned in 60 other countries.
![Ukraine: 1 — Republican Putin Posse, and Trump: 0](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/a78d54c0-a99a-43ab-9aea-d8c4503058fb-400x284.jpg)
Now that military assistance from the U.S. will begin flowing again, Ukraine has a chance to counter the Russian summer offensive that is expected to begin as early as June.
![Protecting Our Water Systems Against Cyber Attack](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/7h-djo7higc-400x284.jpg)
Recent events highlight the fact that water systems are targets for cyber attacks. There are ways of strengthening defenses at little to no cost, but more needs to be done to implement them.
![Trump’s Week in Court: Widdle Baby Needs His Blankie!](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pexels-ekaterina-bolovtsova-6077447-400x284.jpg)
Comparing Trump's Trial to that of John Gotti, what was missing in those days was the overall threat of violence by Trump supporters that hangs over this trial.
![How Trump Is Using His Courtroom Problems to His Political Advantage](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ny-criminal-court-400x284.jpg)
In the conservative media sphere, Trump is using the trial as a campaign strategy to stoke his base’s fears and quoting pundits and hosts from Fox News, Newsmax and OAN who echo his messages.
![Republican Calls for Violence Are Going to Get People Killed](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ugdkmhdg1m8-400x284.jpg)
Calls for violence are madness, a madness being perpetrated by the Republican Party in a desperate attempt to win elections they cannot win with votes cast at the ballot box.
![Putin, Trump, Iran, Netanyahu and the Terrifying Perils of Strongman Rule](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pinochet-400x284.jpg)
The irony about strongman leaders is that they’re generally not strong people. They use violence and the rhetoric of violence to mask their own fear and weakness.
![Trump’s 77, and He’s Going to Get His Nap In, Damn It!](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/sleepy-trump-400x284.jpg)
The facts of Trump's trial—engaging in election interference which he is accusing his opposition of—have not been enough to keep him awake. But, hey, maybe the verdict will.
![Reagan’s Vision of a “Shining City on a Hill” vs Trump’s Dark Christian Nationalism](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/reagan-trump-400x284.jpg)
Reagan believed that his religious vision would promote freedom and democracy worldwide. But Trump’s religious vision—that hawks Bibles and disparages democracy—isn’t one that Reagan would recognize.
![Florida’s Legislature Proposes to Muzzle Ethics Watchdogs in the State](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rzqecc64d6o-400x284.jpg)
Why not defang the ethics watchdogs? As if any politician in Florida would ever do anything shady. Besides, ethics laws are just plain rude.
![Trump Makes One Last Presidential Immunity Argument to the Supreme Court](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SCOTUS-Adam-Michael-Szuscik-400x284.jpg)
Trump's attorneys are still trying to make the case that since his crimes were "official acts" he is immune to prosecution for them. Of course this would place the Office of President above the law.
![There Goes Chris Sununu, the Last “Reasonable” Republican](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/chris-sununu-400x284.jpg)
Chris Sununu said previously that Trump should drop out of the race if he is convicted of a crime. Does he think that now? “No, no, no, of course not. That is not to be expected at all."
![Could Voter Suppression Hand the 2024 Election to Trump?](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/voter-suppression-2-gigapixel-standard-scale-2_00x-400x284.webp)
While it requires lawful due process—your day in court—to take away your gun, red state governors and secretaries of state can take away your vote without even telling you.
![Virtual Power Plants: A Valuable and Largely Overlooked Resource](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/picsekmisrs-400x284.webp)
A virtual power plant allows a utility to harness the collective power from private batteries to shave electric demand when it spikes rather than calling for more generation.
![Facebook’s AI Wiped Out Links From a News Site. And Even Facebook May Not Know What Went Wrong.](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KR-FB-400x284.webp)
Facebook's AI system removed posts from an independent news website and sent notifications to users that falsely identified that site and others as cybersecurity risks.
![Iran’s Attack on Israel Was a Strategic Miscalculation. Can All-Out War Now Be Averted?](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/iron-dome-2-400x284.webp)
This weekend’s attack appears to be a grave miscalculation by the leadership in Tehran. The US and other countries in the West swiftly rallied to support Israel.