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Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

It"s easy to get lost in the daily news cycle, with its constant barrage of headlines and updates. What"s often missing, however, is a broader and deeper analysis of what’s behind the headlines. Crossroads, hosted by Epoch Times senior investigative reporter Joshua Philipp, is an opinion and analysis show that presents deeper insights into the news cycle, culture, and society. It connects current events with history, ties various news stories together with analysis and opinion, and goes beyond the

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01:02:24

Anti-Trump Resistance Forms Among Government Employees

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/23

President Donald Trump is now the 47th president of the United States. He has given some previews of his ambitious plans for office, including his 200 Day 1 executive actions. Yet this plan could soon meet with resistance. While the lead-up to the inauguration had been comparably smoother than the 2016 elections, when the nation saw large-scale anti-Trump protests, there’s now talk of how new challenges to Trump’s policies could begin.

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01:01:39

America Changes Overnight as Trump Issues Flurry of...

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/22

Overnight, the United States has changed. Immediately following his inauguration and speech, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive actions in front of a live audience at the Capital One Arena.With cheers from the crowd, he ended a long list of policies from the former administration and issued new orders, before heading to the White House where he continued issuing executive actions while speaking with the press.

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59:22

Trump’s Inauguration: 100 Executive Actions Ready to...

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/21

President Donald Trump is being sworn in as the 47th president of the United States today. With this, the political landscape could change globally, and we already have a general idea of what’s going to happen, given that Trump has detailed what he has in store for his first days in office. He reportedly has 100 executive actions ready to go starting on day one of his new administration.

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55:51

Trump Announces Plan for Hollywood; SCOTUS Rules 9-0...

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/18

Hollywood hasn’t been doing so well. Many of the major planned blockbusters have fallen flat, and some have blamed this on things like social justice and other issues that have steered Hollywood more toward policies than toward creating good movies. President-elect Donald Trump is now saying he hopes to create a new “Golden Age of Hollywood,” and to do this, he announced the appointment of actors Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone to become special ambassadors to Hollywood.

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01:06:29

Why TikTok, RedNote and Tencent are Dangerous

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/17

TikTok may soon be banned in the United States due to its China ties, but some users are now migrating to a platform even more strongly linked to China’s communist regime. The case with TikTok is now in the hands of the Supreme Court, which is weighing the constitutionality of banning the video app unless its China-based owner, ByteDance, sells it off. It appears the ban is likely to be upheld, and some TikTok users have been jumping to another platform that’s even more Chinese—RedNote. Technically,

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01:05:50

Trump to Create ‘External Revenue Service’; Jack...

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/16

President-elect Donald Trump has announced his plan to create a new agency called the External Revenue Service. This is an inversion of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and, as the new agency’s name suggests, its focus will be on collecting money from outside the United States—including through the use of tariffs.In other news, special counsel Jack Smith has officially left his position. The federal investigation and charges against Trump have now come to an end. But before leaving, part of

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01:10:44

As Trump Cabinet Hearings Begin, Veterans Rally...

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/15

With the presidential inauguration now less than a week away, the Senate is holding hearings on the appointments of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. The hearings could display the level of support, or lack of enthusiasm, that Republicans will show for the incoming administration. And there are also questions about how this will go for Cabinet selections who’ve been the focus of media attacks. Among these is Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, and already veterans are rallying on

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01:14:26

How Censorship Was Forced On Facebook

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/14

Censorship programs were forced onto Facebook and Instagram through outside pressure, said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who provided the details during an interview with Joe Rogan. Zuckerberg explained how programs for content moderation transformed into large-scale censorship systems after the COVID-19 outbreak. This ties in with his recent announcement that Meta will be ending these censorship practices, and working with the incoming Trump administration to push for freedom of expression

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31:17

How the Legacy Media Helped Conceal Mass Killing in...

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/12

A persecution of between 70 million and 100 million people has largely been hidden from the world, and western news outlets have played a role in concealing it from the public. The Chinese Communist Party launched a campaign of torture, killing, and live organ harvesting against the Falun Gong religious group in 1999. And while many news outlets even won awards in the early years for exposing the truth of the Chinese regime’s brutal actions, many mysteriously stopped covering it around 2003, and

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01:08:39

DEI Criticized as Fires Burn Los Angeles

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/11

The fires in Los Angeles are not just a natural disaster. They’re also turning into a political disaster, as blame falls on California’s policies on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and environmental regulation. Many are now raising concerns over regulations that allegedly led to water shortages, policies on forestry management, and money for the Fire Department being diverted to programs for DEI.

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01:00:28

Biden Considering Preemptive Pardons Before Trump...

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/10

Individuals who risk prosecution under the incoming Trump administration could receive preemptive pardons. President Joe Biden said he was considering issuing pardons like this in order to shield key figures from prosecution. Biden demonstrated a novel use of pardons like this when he granted his son, Hunter Biden, a pardon for any potential crimes committed between January 2014 and December 2024. The president has been pressed to give similar pardons to others, although he has not fully committed

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01:04:35

Zuckerberg Ends Censorship on Facebook, Instagram

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/09

Meta is ending its third-party fact-checking system on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, and looking to adopt a community notes system following in the footsteps of X. This push for more freedom of expression was announced in a video from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, where he noted the problems that were caused by an increase in censorship in recent years, and he also explained how he plans to work with the incoming Trump administration to push back against censorship pressure coming to the United

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01:10:11

Trump Plans to Jumpstart His New Administration with...

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/08

President-elect Donald Trump is hoping to jumpstart his administration with one massive bill, covering everything from border policies to taxes to energy. With less than two weeks before the inauguration, he has held closed-door meetings to win support among key figures in Congress. The goal is to fast-track the agenda through Congress and get the package of legislation on Trump’s desk by the end of April.Read 'China’s Massive Hacking Campaign Targeting the

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59:46

All Eyes Are on Trump’s Election Certification

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/07

It’s Jan. 6 yet again, and this time, it will be the electoral college votes for President-elect Donald Trump getting certified at the U.S. Capitol building.Over the course of the last four years, and even after the election results were declared for 2024, Trump has faced legal actions that raised questions over whether he could be rendered ineligible for reelection. Despite the pressure, and some recent doubts that were cast over the election certification, Republicans and Democrats in Congress

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59:50

Imminent Terrorist Resurgence in the US, Former CIA...

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/04

A suspected terrorist attack killed at least 14 people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. The suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was killed in a shootout with police after driving a truck through a crowd of people celebrating the new year, and an ISIS flag was discovered inside the vehicle. The FBI is now investigating whether the attack has any ties to another incident the same day, where a Tesla Cybertruck loaded with gas tanks and fireworks exploded outside the Las Vegas Trump International Hotel. Yet

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01:02:21

'Dead Internet' Concerns Raised as Meta Plans Roll...

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/03

You may soon be seeing new engagement on Facebook, but this may not be from human users. Instead, it may be from AI bots, and you may be unable to tell whether or not you’re engaging with a real person. Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has announced it will bring AI-generated characters to the social media platforms in a move to increase engagement on the platform, and users will be able to engage with these bots. This is raising some concerns over what’s been referred to as the

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01:13:33

Trump Weighs In On H-1B Visas Amid Heated Debate

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2025/01/02

A heated debate has erupted over H-1B visas, and now President-elect Donald Trump has chimed in. The debate was triggered by comments from Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will head the incoming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Both came out in support of the visas, while many influencers with pro-Trump leanings came out strongly against the visa policies. The topic could become a key factor in the policies of the next Trump administration on immigration, domestic manufacturing, and

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01:06:56

CCP Launching Cognitive War Against the US, Pentagon...

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2024/12/31

A new Pentagon report says the Chinese regime is planning to launch a cognitive war against the United States. The Department of Defense released its 2024 report to Congress on the military and security developments of the CCP, and it notes that the CCP is planning to launch sophisticated information warfare operations against the United States. These will allegedly include the use of deepfake AI content and other forms of psychological warfare.

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57:31

Could Trump’s Inauguration Be Blocked?

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2024/12/28

Could Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th president of the United States be blocked? A roadmap for this roadblock was laid out in a recent op-ed in The Hill.In other news, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center lost its funding in the recent spending bill. House Republicans pushed to have the center’s funding pulled over concerns that it was engaging in unconstitutional censorship.Also, a former Chinese official has revealed the existence of human organ markets being run by the Chinese

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01:05:23

Partial Greenlight to Shoot Mystery Drones Raises New...

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp ·

2024/12/27

Limited authority to shoot down the mystery drones was given to police in Long Island. This is now raising debates in other parts of the United States where the lack of clear answers is deepening concerns over exactly what the drones are, and who may be behind them. And the debates are also raising new questions over military laws on shooting down drones, and why they’re not being used.

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