3/25/26: Ryan Smeared For Cuba Aid Trip, Newsom Flips On Israel Apartheid, Blackouts Imminent In US, Mortgage Rates Spike

Ryan Grimm, a Breaking Points reporter, faced backlash after joining a humanitarian delegation to Cuba that delivered 50 tons of medical supplies and solar panels amid U.S. sanctions tightening the island's economy. Critics from The Free Press, New York Times, and Cuban politicians accused him and streamer Hassan Piker of propping up the regime by staying in a powered hotel during blackouts. Grimm countered that U.S. law restricts Americans to few hotels, often foreign-operated, and that Trump-era policies allow private businesses like hotels to import diesel but block public hospitals, exacerbating shortages. On the ground in Havana, he witnessed nationwide blackouts affecting 9 million people, hospitals using phone flashlights to hand-crank ventilators for children (with a 1-6 minute generator delay risking lives), recycled bags for urine collection, and sanctions halting helium for MRI machines, screws for surgery, and cystic fibrosis drugs—often requiring personal smuggling networks. He stressed these policies, including the state sponsor of terrorism label, aim to "make the economy scream" for regime change but push Cuba toward Russia and China, as seen in U.S. efforts to block a Russian oil tanker. In a Newsmax interview, Grimm highlighted the hospital fuel double standard without defending the regime's political prisoners or lack of elections, arguing letting Cuba "fail