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This is a CHARLATAN because the U.S. isn’t just absent — it’s pretending that absence doesn’t matter. By sitting out COP30 while claiming to “prioritize domestic solutions,” the administration is abandoning global responsibility and ignoring its contributions to the problem.

♻️ US Sits Out UN Climate Summit as Rest of the World Presses Forward

November 13, 2025

At the UN COP30 climate summit in Brazil, major global leaders are pushing real commitments — but the United States, historically the largest greenhouse-gas emitter, is conspicuously absent, having pulled out earlier this year because its president thinks climate change is a hoax. The U.S. is ignoring the current signs and imminent catastrophic effects of climate change in exchange for continuing to reward big oil huge profits.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: ☎️ Call your senators and representatives and demand that the U.S. fully re-engage in climate diplomacy with binding emissions targets and funding for adaptation in vulnerable nations. Share this story with your own network and tag your local environmental groups.

⚖️ Unions Sue Over Trump-Admin Loyalty ‘Essay’ Question for Federal Job Applicants

November 11, 2025

Three major unions are suing the Donald Trump administration after thousands of federal job applications began including an essay asking candidates how they’d advance the president’s policy priorities—effectively turning merit-based hiring into a politics test.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: ☎️ Contact your senators and representatives to demand public hearings on merit-based civil service protections. Share this story widely, tag your union or professional network, and support watchdog groups like the Project on Government Oversight (POGO).

🤝 UN Says Israeli Ops in Gaza Meet Genocide Criteria; Gov. in Turmoil Over Leaked Abuse Video

November 3, 2025

A UN commission says Israel’s campaign in Gaza meets the legal elements of genocide, even as the government denies systematic abuses. The crisis deepened when Israel’s top military lawyer was arrested after admitting she leaked a video showing soldiers gang raping a Palestinian woman—evidence that contradicts official narratives and angered right wing factions in the government.

👉 Read about the lawyer’s arrest

👉 Read about the UN’s Israel genocide accusation

What You Can Do: ☎️ Urge your members of Congress to condition aid on independent investigations and compliance with international law, and support reputable human-rights monitors documenting abuses on the ground.

♻️ Environmental Orgs Sue Trump Admin to Reinstate Restrictions on Toxic Air Emissions

October 23, 2025

Various environmental groups sued to stop an executive action that would unlawfully exempt 52 of the country’s most toxic chemical plants from protections that guard people against cancer-causing air pollutants. A quick look at the map of plants should show you that black, brown, and low-income communities would be the hardest hit, with dozens of hard-won public-health gains erased with a stroke of Trump’s pen.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: ☎️ Check your neighborhood in EPA’s EJScreen, then call your state AG and local air board to demand enforcement and fenceline monitoring—and share our map with neighbors.

⚖️ The Art of the Steal: From the Louvre to the Dept. of Justice

October 22, 2025

Call it “reimbursement” if you want—this reads like a Louvre caper: a $230M grab from DOJ as if the rule of law were a glass case to smash in broad daylight. This isn’t repayment for harm to Trump’s reputation; it’s a heist of the public’s crown jewels. And the pretexts collapse: agents DID recover top-secret documents at Mar-a-Lago, and the 2016 probes DID show serious misconduct and troubling contacts that warranted scrutiny.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: ☎️ Urge your House and Senate members to block any DOJ fund transfer, demand an Inspector General review, and sign onto oversight letters opposing the $230M “reimbursement.

♻️ The “Gold Standard” Toxic Chemical Regulation That Protects No One

October 21, 2025

The Trump EPA is pushing a “Gold Standard” rule that sounds rigorous but is designed to paralyze oversight of America’s most toxic chemicals. By requiring all research data to be public—even when privacy laws make that impossible—the standard would effectively declare “insufficient information” on nearly every chemical and prevent regulation altogether.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: ☎️ Demand your representatives reject this sham rule and protect the ability of EPA scientists to act on evidence, not industry spin.

🗽 Abbott Sending National Guard to Deter “No Kings” Rallies

October 17, 2025

On the eve of peaceful “No Kings” demonstrations, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the National Guard, DPS troopers, and Texas Rangers into Austin—casting dissent as danger and chilling the right to assemble. This is a direct strike on free expression and democratic norms, using state muscle to deter lawful peaceful protest, and does not protect public safety.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: ☎️ Contact Texas lawmakers and Austin city officials to oppose troop deployments against peaceful protest, show up lawfully with witnesses, and support civil-liberties groups documenting abuses.

📢 Pentagon Gag Pledge Backfires: All Major Newsrooms Walk

October 17, 2025

The Pentagon demanded reporters swear off seeking or using “unauthorized” information under threat of being de-credentialed; all major outlets refused and left the building. The signers were a motley handful: One America News (OANN), The Federalist, Epoch Times, two Turkish outlets, two Turkey-based freelancers, one freelancer from Afghanistan, AWPS News, The India Globe, and USA Journal Korea. Apparently, only those orgs trying to curry favor will be reporting on the Defense Department!

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: ☎️ Tell your representatives to oppose policies that condition access on speech restrictions, and support watchdog groups challenging the rules.

🤝 Federal Gov. Places Politicized Conditions on Domestic Violence Victims, Judge Intervenes for Now

October 14, 2025

The administration tried to strap conditions onto domestic-violence grants—rules that would prevent providers from suggesting options the admin. doesn’t agree with and shrink lifesaving options for survivors fleeing abuse. A federal judge blocked it for now, but the attempt itself shows a willingness to play politics with the shelters, hotlines, and legal aid many women rely on to stay alive.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: Support your local domestic violence shelter and ☎️ tell your state and federal reps to keep victim-services funding free of political strings.

🗽 New Jersey Prof’s Flight Reservation Cancelled — by the U.S. Government? UPDATE: BRAY DEPARTED NEWARK THURS. NIGHT!

October 9, 2025

We can’t yet confirm whether the U.S. government cancelled Rutgers historian Mark Bray’s family trip to Spain—but given the climate and what we do know, why would we give them the benefit of the doubt? If lawful scholarship about antifascism can cascade into doxxing, death threats, and then a same-day cancellation at the gate, that’s a five-alarm warning for free speech and academic freedom…and everything else that defines our country.

What to know:

  • 10/10 UPDATE: A United flight with Bray and his family aboard departed Newark for Spain on Thursday night, according to a BlueSky post from Bray.
  • Who he is: Mark Bray is a U.S. citizen, Rutgers historian, and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook who has also taught a university course on antifascism.
  • Why he was relocating: After doxxing and explicit death threats—including one about killing him in front of students—he planned to move his family to Spain for the year and continue teaching remotely. He has the full support of the Rutger administation.
  • What happened Wednesday night: At Newark, with boarding passes in hand and after clearing security, the family’s reservation suddenly “disappeared” at the gate; they were later rebooked for Thursday—Bray suspects interference, though no agency or has claimed responsibility.
  • What to watch next: Any on-the-record statements from the airline/TSA/DHS; whether other scholars report similar disruptions; responses from ACLU/AAUP; and paper trails (PNR logs, FOIA requests) that could confirm or rule out government retaliation.

👉 Read the full story

♻️ Forests on the Chopping Block: Rolling Back the Roadless Rule

October 7, 2025

The administration moved to weaken the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, opening tens of millions of acres of national forest to new roads, logging and extraction. That’s not just a regulatory tweak—it’s a direct hit to the nonnegotiables of a livable climate, healthy communities, and intergenerational stewardship, with Indigenous and rural (and democrat!) communities likely to bear the greatest harm.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: ☎️ Call your governor and state forester to urge state-level roadless protections, and tell your members of Congress to codify the Roadless Rule and block any new road-building in inventoried roadless areas.

🤝 Weaponizing Preschool: A Bid to Kick Undocumented Kids Out of Head Start

October 7, 2025

HHS tried to limit Head Start to citizens and “qualified” immigrants—excluding undocumented families and even those whose green card applications are in process. A federal judge has put the rule on hold for now, but the intent was unmistakable: turn toddlers’ classrooms into an immigration battlefield and punish vulnerable kids to score political points.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: ☎️ Call your local Head Start to affirm no status screening, urge your members of Congress to bar immigration checks in early-childhood programs, and share know-your-rights enrollment info with mixed-status families.

🗳️ DOJ Sues Six States to Seize Full Voter Files

September 29, 2025

The Trump Justice Department filed suits against California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania to force release of statewide voter-registration lists, including addresses, birth dates, driver-license numbers, and Social Security numbers. This clearly threatens the ability of states to run elections. It follows similar suits against Oregon and Maine.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: ☎️ Call or email your state’s Secretary of State and Attorney General to oppose releasing unredacted voter files (SSNs/driver-ID digits) and demand a public pledge to share only lawful, redacted data—and to fight the DOJ suit.

📚 ‘Patriotic Education’ Grants Try to Standardize Viewpoint & Whitewash History

September 19, 2025

The Education Department just created a new supplemental priority to shift discretionary funds toward “patriotic education,” aligning with a conservative civics coalition and signaling federal rewards for ideologically compliant curricula. That’s a direct shot at academic freedom and honest history—literally using government money to rewrite history.

👉 Read the Chilling DOE Press Release

What You Can Do: ✍️ Submit a quick public comment at Regulations.gov opposing the “Patriotic Education” grant priority (search that exact title), and 📬 email/call your local school board + state reps to reject any grant that ties funding to ideology—ask for evidence-based civics (e.g., the C3 Framework).

♻️ Trump DoJ Moves to Kill Vermont’s Climate Superfund Law

September 19, 2025

The Justice Department asked a federal court to nullify Vermont’s 2024 Climate Superfund Act, which makes major polluters pay for climate damages. This is an aggressive attempt to shield fossil fuel giants and preempt state accountability, and it’s an attack on climate protection and the rule of law.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: 📣 Share case updates with friends and family and call out any effort to preempt states’ rights to recover climate damages.

🗽Poll: American Jews Say Trump’s Campus “Antisemitism” Drive Is a Pretext to Muzzle Dissent

September 18, 2025

A new survey finds roughly three-quarters of American Jews believe the Trump administration is using antisemitism as an excuse to silence free speech on campus. Even though nearly half of the respondents have faced some form of antisemitism in the past two years and a majority are concerned about antisemitism on college campuses, nearly three-quarters believe that Trump’s campus threats and actions are targeting something other than antisemitism.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: 💸 Contact your Senators and Representative: oppose viewpoint-based funding threats and demand Title VI enforcement that protects speech and due process.

⚖️ 📢 File Big, Intimidate Bigger: Trump’s $15B NYT Lawsuit

September 16, 2025

Trump’s latest $15 billion suit against The New York Times isn’t about winning in court — it’s about grabbing headlines, intimidating reporters, and preventing future truth-telling. With no federal anti-SLAPP law, these cases can linger long enough to drain resources and leave the false allegation as the lasting record.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: 💸 Share the follow-ups when these suits collapse and support journalism under fire. Learn more about SLAPP laws where you live .

🤝 Trump Administration Disallows Medicaid Funding of Planned Parenthood Services

September 12, 2025

A federal appeals court is allowing the government to block Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood, cutting off access to care for more than a million low-income patients. The move punishes providers for offering reproductive health services, even when those services are legally protected and widely relied upon. By weaponizing Medicaid rules to serve an ideological agenda, the administration is playing politics with people’s health.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: 💸 Support local clinics and Planned Parenthood — donations now directly cushion the blow of blocked reimbursements.

♻️ Energy Secretary Says Fossil Fuels Safer Than Climate Risk, Pushes Fossil Fuel Sales in Europe

September 11, 2025

Today in Brussels, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright downplayed the dangers of climate change while promoting expanded U.S. oil and gas sales to Europe, claiming hydrocarbons have delivered more human safety and prosperity than any climate harms. Days earlier he blasted global net-zero targets as unrealistic “crazy” ideas. And on Sept. 3 his department disbanded a DOE climate working group of contrarian advisers, a move now wrapped up in ongoing legal wrangling.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: Defend evidence standards. Urge local agencies, school boards, and utilities to keep science-based climate metrics in curricula, procurement, and resilience plans.

🗽UK Criminalizes Solidarity: Nearly 900 Arrested for “Palestine Action” Signs

September 10, 2025

After the UK government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist group in July, London police arrested 890 people at a rally where many were detained simply for holding “I support Palestine Action” signs. Rights groups called the mass arrests a new low for protest rights, as detainees reportedly included older Britons—vicars, priests, war veterans, and descendants of Holocaust survivors. Critics warn the crackdown weaponizes anti-terror laws to chill lawful dissent and assembly.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: Tragedies like the murder of Charlie Kirk can trigger hurried, overbroad restrictions—watch for proposals in the U.S. that criminalize support, signage, or association rather than actual violence.

⚖️ Texas School Tries to Gut Title IX – Judge Says Not So Fast

Stephen F Austin Title IX

August 4, 2025

Stephen F. Austin State University cut multiple women’s sports teams — despite female students making up a majority of enrollment. A federal judge ruled the move violated Title IX and ordered the teams reinstated. Now the school is appealing, and the outcome could weaken protections for women in sports nationwide.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: 🔁 Call SFA’s president at (936) 468-2201 and urge the school to drop its appeal. Then share this story with the Title IX athletes and supporters in your life — the stakes go far beyond one campus.

🗳️ Update: Abbott Pushes Forward to Redraw Texas Voting Districts, Threatens to Arrest Dems Stalling Vote

Governor Abbott Redistricting Texas, a True Charlatan

August 4, 2025

The Texas redistricting vote has stalled after Democratic lawmakers left the state to deny Republicans a quorum. In response, Gov. Greg Abbott has threatened to have them arrested and forcibly returned. Meanwhile, the redistricting plan — which could shift five congressional seats in Republicans’ favor — remains a flashpoint in the battle over voting rights and political power in the state, and the nation.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: Support groups fighting gerrymandering, like Common Cause Texas or the Brennan Center. Share the story with friends outside Texas — gerrymandering anywhere is a threat to democracy.

📚 Trump Fires Truth-Teller: Labor Stats Chief Ousted for Reporting Bad News

distrustful information

August 1, 2025

In an authoritarian swipe at independent government data, Donald Trump has fired Erika McEntarfer, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after a July jobs report contradicted his claims of economic strength. McEntarfer — a respected, Senate-confirmed expert — was accused without evidence of “rigging” the numbers. The real issue? The data told the truth, and Trump didn’t like it. If he’s willing to purge a statistician for inconvenient facts, can we trust anything the federal government tells us?

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: 🔁 Contact the Senate HELP Committee (which oversees labor issues) at 202-224-5375 — Urge hearings and public statements defending civil servants against political retaliation. Also, join one of Saturday’s Rage Against the Regime Protests near you!

🌎 Pentagon Pulls Out of Aspen Security Forum, Citing “the Evil of Globalism”

July 29, 2025

The Pentagon abruptly withdrew its senior officials from the Aspen Security Forum, explicitly branding the event as promoting “the evil of globalism” and being out of alignment with the Trump administration’s values. (The U.S. has deeply engaged in this forum since its inception in 2010.) This retreat from public forums signals a broader ideological shift: sidelining platforms that prioritize international cooperation and nuanced policy debate, and reinforcing a closed, administration‑aligned worldview.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: 🔁 Share this post and the Politico article to highlight how ideological posturing may harm U.S. soft power and undermine engagements with allies and experts.

🌎 Ex-Marine Who Killed 3 in Madrid Freed by Trump in Prisoner Swap

July 23, 2025

Dahud Hanid Ortiz—a former U.S. Marine and convicted triple murderer of three people in Madrid in 2016—was included in last week’s prisoner swap between the Trump administration, Venezuela, and El Salvador. Despite being sentenced in Venezuela to 30 years, he was released alongside nine other American “political prisoners.” Spain’s victims’ families are outraged, calling it a “grave miscarriage of justice” and warning that Ortiz is a “real danger to society.”

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: Stand with Spain’s justice system and the victims’ families—urge both U.S. and Spanish officials to press for accountability. Demand transparency from the U.S. government: Was Ortiz detained upon return?

📢 Congress Votes to Defund NPR and PBS — Cuts Approved July 18

July 18, 2025

Last night, the Senate passed a bill rescinding $1.1 billion in federal funding for NPR and PBS — funds essential to local and national news, children’s programming, and civic education. Critics say it’s biased media, but rural stations warn it’s their lifeline—and they’ll struggle to survive without it. The Senate vote is set for July 18.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: Become a sustaining member of NPR/PBS Visit NPR.org or PBS.org to start ongoing donations that offset federal losses. 🌐Share this post to alert friends and family—public media depends on every voice.

📚 Federal Gov. Slashes DOE Jobs & School Funding, Then Tells States: “You’re On Your Own”

states begging federal government for funding

July 15, 2025

The Trump administration says it’s “returning education to the states,” but is doing so by gutting federal funding—especially programs aimed at helping the poorest students, English learners, and special education needs. Districts across the country are now facing massive staffing cuts, especially in the communities least able to fill the gap.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: 📞Call your state’s Department of Education and demand they release a district-by-district impact report — and tell your governor and state reps to fight back against federal overreach that hurts the kids who need support most.

🗽 Free Speech on Trial — Literally — in Massachusetts Court

July 7, 2025

A historic bench trial begins today in Boston, where a coalition of universities is suing the Trump administration for punishing them over peaceful, pro-Palestinian campus protests. The federal government has pulled funding, blocked student aid, and labeled dissent as extremism — all in violation of First Amendment rights.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: Support organizations fighting for civil liberties on campus, like the ACLU and PEN America. And write to university leaders — thank those standing up, and push those who aren’t to speak out.

🤝 U.S. Steps Back from Defending LGBTQ Rights at the U.N.

photo of people on the street

July 7, 2025

In a reversal that stunned human rights advocates, the U.S. declined to support the U.N.’s renewal of a watchdog tasked with investigating LGBTQ+ discrimination worldwide. Though the mandate passed, America’s absence sends a chilling signal: under Trump, the U.S. is stepping away from its long-held role as a defender of human dignity.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: Contact your representatives and demand that the U.S. recommit to LGBTQ rights on the global stage. Remind elected officials that global leadership means defending human rights, not retreating from them.

♻️ New Spending Bill Slashes Clean-Energy Funding

July 3, 2025

This Ugly Un-American bill is a giant U-Turn when it comes to key climate incentives for solar, wind, and hydro- conversion, which motivated consumers to seek cleaner energy sources and required companies to move away from fossil fuels. This bill will cost Americans tens of thousands of jobs and likely cause irreparable harm to our planet.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: Donate to or volunteer with grassroots climate orgs like Sunrise Movement, Evergreen Action, and Climate Cabinet.

♻️ Trump’s Undoing of Eco-Legislation Fulfills Carbon Brief’s Worst-Case Warning

gray scale photo of metal fence

June 30, 2025

In early 2024, the UK-based climate analysis nonprofit Carbon Brief warned that if the rollback-heavy environmental agenda Trump campaigned on became reality, U.S. emissions could soar by billions of tons—undoing decades of climate progress and pushing global temperatures higher than ever projected. Today, that warning reads like prophecy. Many key clean-energy programs have already been dismantled. And if the Senate passes Trump’s latest spending bill, the final chapter of Carbon Brief’s climate horror story will be nearly complete.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: Tell USAID and your reps that the U.S. must lead with compassion, not fear. Stand up for global responsibility.

🌐 America, the Island: Global Aid Slashed to Fund Domestic Deportation

June 24, 2025

This is no budget tweak. The administration is gutting foreign aid—then redirecting the funds to deportation flights and immigration crackdowns. Money once used for food, medicine, and disaster relief around the world is now bankrolling “voluntary exits.” This isn’t putting America first. It’s abandoning the rest of the world.

👉 Read the full story

What You Can Do: Tell USAID and your reps that the U.S. must lead with compassion, not fear. Stand up for global responsibility.

♻️ Trump’s Wars at Home & Abroad: Deregulate, Drill, and Deceive

June 23, 2025

What a week for Trump! — rolling back clean air rules, killing EV credits, and stoking foreign oil chaos. All while handing billions to fossil fuel donors. This isn’t energy independence. It’s fossil fuel obedience.

👉 Read the full story

🤝 Navy to Rename Ships That Honor Veterans, Black, Gay, and Female American Heroes

Navy ship maneuver

June 4, 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth leaked plans to rename a U.S. Naval ship named for prominent San Francisco gay activist and Navy veteran Harvey Milk, who was assassinated at City Hall in 1978. Hegseth’s plans also include removing the names of Thurgood Marshall, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Medgar Evers, Cesar Chavez, and others from ships already named after these heroes.

👉 Read the full story

This is an IDIOT because it’s pure performance, not policy. Trump’s bluster about firing or punishing air-traffic controllers—people working grueling hours without pay due to his own shutdown—is both tone-deaf and illegal.

DT: “Get Back to Work, NOW!!!” —  Air-Traffic Controllers Who Took Even One Day Off Will Be “Substantially ‘Docked” IGNORE THIS!

November 11, 2025

In a post on Truth Social, Trump demanded that all air-traffic controllers report to work immediately, threatened to cut pay for those who missed shifts, and proposed a $10,000 bonus for the “patriots” who did not take time off during the government shutdown — ignoring the fact that many of these workers are required to serve without pay and are facing serious financial strain. Ignore this, because what he’s threatening is entirely illegal, even with his puppet justice department theater.

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Floating a Third Term IGNORE THIS!

October 27, 2025

This can’t happen. This won’t happen. Right? If things start trending in that direction, we may be forced to invoke the 4th R!

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Trump’s Golden Ballroom: Champagne Taste on a Shutdown Budget IGNORE THIS!

October 22 2025

In an increasingly brazen display of greed-fueled apathy, Trump is pushing forward with the White House “golden ballroom” at a time when his reign of incompetence has resulted in tens of thousands of federal workers being furloughed. Not only is Trump’s White House pushing ahead with the renovation, but yesterday he called the sounds of demolition “music to my ears.” Perhaps not since January 6 has so much destruction taken place in D.C., both times at the urging of DT himself.

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The Trump Dollar Coin: When Treasury Mints Sycophancy IGNORE THIS!

October 4, 2025

The Treasury’s draft $1 “Trump coin”—dutifully hyped by U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach—reads like knee-bending cosplay, complete with a “fight, fight, fight” motif, while real governance smolders. It also tries to skate past Congress’s long-standing bar on slapping living politicians on currency, underscoring the sheer absurdity of the stunt.

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Warrior Theater at Quantico: When False Bravado Replaces Real Strength IGNORE THIS!

September 30, 2025

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned all U.S. generals and admirals to Virginia today, packaged as a “code of conduct” and “warrior ethos” refresher. America’s military didn’t develop deterrence and earn global credibility with chest-thumping and photo-ops; it did so by speaking softly and carrying a big stick. If your strategy relies on parades and Power Points, you’ve already admitted weakness.

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Oklahoma’s Ed. Sec. Quits, Leaving His Bible-in-Classrooms Circus Behind IGNORE THIS!

September 25, 2025

The same Oklahoma schools chief who pushed Trump Bibles and wanted Bible lessons taught in school has resigned to head into the private sector. Even in a deeply conservative state, Walters’ unserious stunts and grandstanding proved unfit for public office. For a taste of the spectacle he leaves behind, see our earlier coverage of his spectacular failures.

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RFK Jr. & Trump Warn Against Tylenol in Pregnancy — Still No Proof IGNORE THIS!

September 23, 2025

In a high-profile White House announcement, RFK Jr. and President Trump told pregnant women to avoid acetaminophen (Tylenol), claiming an increased autism risk for their children — yet offered no new evidence. Medical experts immediately rejected the claim: decades of research have found no evidence that acetaminophen causes autism.

👉 Read the full story from a trusted physicians’ group

Oklahoma Demand for Kirk Statues & Bibles in Schools, Nothing But Legal Fantasy IGNORE THIS!

September 20, 2025

After Oklahoma’s education head suggested earlier this year that every K-12 classroom should have at least 1 Trump Bible, Senators have now advanced legislation requiring every state university to erect a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza — complete with a statue, signifying him a “modern civil rights leader”. The proposals are spectacularly over the top, especially since none are likely to survive basic legal scrutiny. This kind of legislative grandstanding is why Oklahoma often looks less like serious policymaking and more like political theater.

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America’s Got a New “War Department” — Just for Show IGNORE THIS!

September 8, 2025

President Trump has issued an executive order rebranding the Department of Defense as the “Department of War,” giving it that title as a secondary name while keeping “Defense” legally intact. The move appears largely symbolic, designed to project toughness and evoke wartime imagery, rather than change actual policy or military structure. Critics say this name-game distracts from pressing issues — modernization, strategy, budget — and wastes time and money on signage and semantics.

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Moonshot Madness: Duffy’s Lunar Nuclear Dream Ignores Republican-Led Collapse of U.S. Science IGNORE THIS!

August 5, 2025

While America guts science standards, slashes education budgets, and shuts out global engineering talent, federal officials like Sean Duffy are proposing a nuclear reactor on the moon…yep, you read that right! Just more fantasy policy from a party that can’t even staff domestic labs — but wants to claim space. And wants to distract from what truly matters!

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Distraction Action: Administration Making Idiot Headlines to Shift Focus from Epstein IGNORE THIS!

July 21, 2025

While the Epstein firestorm burns bright over MAGA-world and D.C.: Trump demanded two pro sports teams revert to their (racist) former mascots. The Army reversed renaming of bases that had just recently shed their Confederate ties. And a new Republican-led inquiry into President Biden’s mental competency has been launched. All frustrating and awful, yes…but not when Rome is burning. We can’t let these distract us from the erosion of the 8 Nonnegotiables! (And for that matter, Epstein too…unless Trump is on that list, the whole Epstein saga is an IDIOT too!)

Idiot Alert: MTG Thinks the Government Controls the Weather IGNORE THIS!

AI generated MTG as idiot scientist weather forecaster

July 11, 2025

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene just introduced a bill to criminalize “weather modification” — blaming wildfires and floods on what she claims are deliberate manipulations of the skies. Scientists say it’s total fiction. But that doesn’t stop this kind of nonsense from dominating headlines and distracting from real threats — like climate change, limits on free speech and press, and basic science literacy.

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Turbulence in the Headlines — Not in the Sky IGNORE THIS!

safe plane travel

July 10, 2025

Panic over near misses and emergency landings is fueling air travel anxiety, but the reality doesn’t match the noise. U.S. airline safety remains as strong as ever — with fatalities and serious incidents at historic lows. Unless you’re an air traffic controller, you can ignore the hype and keep your focus on what truly matters.

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Trump Demands Nobel Peace Prize— For Being Trump IGNORE THIS!

June 26, 2025

At a recent rally, Trump complained that he’s never received the Nobel Peace Prize — despite “many, many nominations.” He then scoffed that it was a “media conspiracy” to hide his greatness. Never mind that his nominations came from far-right European nationalists and U.S. MAGA lawmakers. The Narcissist in Chief should be ignored…again!

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Texas Mandates Ten Commandments in Classrooms IGNORE THIS!

Ten Commandments Classroom

June 23, 2025

Starting this fall, every public school classroom in Texas must display a framed copy of the Ten Commandments—specifically the Capitol-monument version. Lawmakers claim it promotes “moral clarity,” but critics see it as religious pandering wrapped in a culture war stunt. Why ignore it? Even Texas courts are highly likely to overturn this, but it does highlight a bevy of misguided education efforts ongoing in the state for 2+ decades.

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Trump Again Pushes False Claim of SA Genocide, This Time to President Ramphosa IGNORE THIS!

South Africa President Ramphosa Trump

May 28, 2025

It’s not clear whether Trump actually believes a “white genocide” is taking place in South Africa, or if he’s trying to mislead Americans for some ulterior reason (or if he doesn’t know the definition of “genocide”!). Either way, he’s only embarrassing himself and the country he represents.

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Qatar’s Gifting a Luxury 747 to Trump, and You Shouldn’t Care Less! IGNORE THIS!

Boeing 747

May 25, 2025

Nothing should surprise us less than the Grifter president accepting a $400M gift from a foreign government that undoubtedly wants to curry favor from the US government. The infighting it’s causing in the world of Trump sycophants is amusing, though, as even FoxNews acknowledges.

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