What Happened to Trump…and Why It Explains Everything Happening Right Now
When a gentle, thoughtful, holy man like Pope Leo XIV denounces what Trump has done by killing thousands in an illegal and unnecessary war of choice — he called it a “scandal to the whole human family” yesterday — the world knows our president has descended into something truly and profoundly evil.
Bannon Exposes Trump’s 2026 “Test Run,” and It’s Already Happening
Steve Bannon, an enthusiastic advocate of authoritarianism, dropped the mask this week. On his War Room podcast, while interviewing far-right lawyer Mike Davis, Bannon said plainly what the Trump administration has been dancing and weaving around for months:
From “Fake News” to Full Control: How the GOP Trained the Media to Serve Its Narrative
Yesterday morning, standing in the Oval Office, Donald Trump declared that the war with Iran — a war he started without a declaration of Congress, apparently at the urging of MBS and his son-in-law who takes $25 million a year from Saudi Arabia — is “won,” and then added that “the only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news.”
What Just Happened in the Meta Trial Should Set Off Alarms Everywhere
On Monday, a New Mexico jury delivered what the coalition ParentsSOS called “a watershed moment,” finding that Meta (Facebook, Instagram) and Google (YouTube) knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what its executives knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms.
“ICE Was My Idea”: The Kind of Moment History Writes About Later
The Minnesota Star Tribune reports that ICE thugs have been following anti-ICE state legislators around in their cars and standing in front of their homes taking pictures, clear intimidative threats.
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— Is the Supreme Court preparing to take a knife to mail-in voting just in time for the midterms?. In Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case pushed all the way up to SCOTUS by billionaire Trump buddies, the litigants want the Court’s corrupt Republicans to block states from counting mail ballots arriving after Election Day, even if they’re post…
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