Shutdown Optics, Kid-Safe Screens, and a Town That Outlawed Tobacco

Carl’s Jr. turns shutdown politics on its head with one-dollar kids’ meals for SNAP families. Denmark moves to bar social media for under-15s, echoing The Anxious Generation and forcing Big Tech to prove real age checks. Tiburon, California, passes the nation’s toughest tobacco ban—no sales, no deliveries, period. We break down what a single can of Coke does to your body in an hour. And inside China’s billion-dollar bet on longevity—between medical promise and marketing hype. Plus: Democrats scale back to end the shutdown, “South Park” rides a ratings wave by skewering Trump, and Musk’s “Ani” stirs an AI backlash. Today on Filtered, with TJ Walker.

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