ā»ļø Trump Launches Airstrikes on Nigeria Under False āChristian Targetingā Premise
December 26, 2025
The U.S. carried out airstrikes against Islamic Stateāaffiliated militants in northwest Nigeria, and the administration repeated claims that the campaign was a response to extremists ātargeting Christiansā. Nigeria did not ask the U.S. for a religiously framed intervention since the violence is a tangle of jihadist insurgency, criminal militancy, land and ethnic disputes, and communal strife affecting both Christians and Muslims. Trump insists it was a defense of Christianity in a bid to shore up his base.
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ā»ļø Trump Invokes āNational Securityā to Block Wind Farms ā Further Eroding Climate Protections
December 24, 2025
The Trump administration has halted multiple offshore wind projects along the East Coast, citing vague ānational securityā concerns about radar interference ā despite earlier Pentagon reviews finding no credible threat. The move targets projects that had already cleared environmental reviews and legal challenges, putting billions in clean-energy investment and thousands of jobs at risk.
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š¢ When Power Doesn’t Need to Censor the Press
December 22, 2025
Under a cloud of influence from the administration, CBS pulled a 60 Minutes segment examining the administrationās deportation policy and its use of El Salvador to detain deportees, including notorious high-security prisons, just hours before it was set to air. The reporting raised concerns about human rights, due process, and U.S. accountability for detention conditions abroad ā and was shelved amid heightened political sensitivity, not factual disputes.
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ā»ļø CT Case Against ExxonMobil’s Climate Deception Survives Court Challenge
December 16, 2025
A court ruled that the state of Connecticutās lawsuit alleging long-running āgreenwashingā and consumer deception by ExxonMobil can move forward. The case argues that Exxon knowingly misled the public about the climate impacts of its products while promoting itself as part of the solution. If successful, the lawsuit could force real accountability for decades of deception tied directly to climate harm.
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š¢ Praise Us or You’re Not Welcome: The U.S. Tests New Loyalty Filter for Travelers
December 11, 2025
The latest proposed U.S. travel rule would force visitors to hand over up to five years of social-media history before entering the country ā turning tourism into surveillance theater. Cloaked in āsecurity,ā this is digital submission sold as national policy, a preemptive capitulation to fear and a fear of different people and ideas. It’s actually embarrassing.
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š¢ Targeting the Truth-Tellers: Government Power Aimed at the Press
December 1, 2025
The White House has created a government-backed website that labels reporters and publications as ābiasedā or āmisleadingā simply for producing coverage the administration dislikes. This is their thinly veiled attempt to undermine the pressās core democratic role as an independent check on power.
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ā»ļø Blue State, Red Flags: Even Our āClimate Leadersā Arenāt Leading
November 24, 2025
Rhode Island just admitted its emissions are rising and that it is not on track to meet its own legally mandated climate targets ā in a state fully controlled by Democrats, with one of the strongest climate laws in the country. If even the āgood guysā canāt keep their promises, what exactly are we doing? As Al Gore warned two weeks ago, it is literally insane that we are letting this continue.
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š½ When Activist Chats Become Intelligence Files ā A New Low for Immigrant and Civil-Rights Oversight
November 21, 2025
New documents show the FBI secretly monitored a private Signal group of volunteer immigrant-rights activists in New York, logging their plans to observe federal immigration courts. The surveillance targeted people already in the legal queue ā among the most vulnerable in our immigration system.
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š A Pardon for Federal Climate Dataā¦for Now
November 21, 2025
Congress just introduced the NOAA Data Preservation Act ā a bipartisan bill designed to protect essential climate and weather datasets from disappearance. The only reason this bill exists is because critical datasets have already gone missing, leaving scientists, planners, and coastal communities in the dark.
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āļø Venezuelaās Resource Wealth May Be Real Target of Trump Chokehold
November 17, 2025
While the official line frames the US campaign against Venezuela as a fight against ānarco-terrorism,ā analysts argue the true prize is the countryās vast oil, gas and critical-mineral reserves. There’s little doubt that any imperialist action by the US will further line the pockets of the orange-one-in-chief and his family, disregarding Venezuela’s sovereignty and further eroding the status of the U.S. around the world.
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ā»ļø 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 ā 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.
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āļø Unions Sue Over Trump-Admin Loyalty āEssayā 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 theyād advance the presidentās policy prioritiesāeffectively turning merit-based hiring into a politics test.
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š¤ UN Says Israeli Ops in Gaza Meet Genocide Criteria; Gov. in Turmoil Over Leaked Abuse Video
November 3, 2025
A UN commission says Israelās campaign in Gaza meets the legal elements of genocide, even as the government denies systematic abuses. The crisis deepened when Israelās top military lawyer was arrested after admitting she leaked a video showing soldiers gang raping a Palestinian womanāevidence that contradicts official narratives and angered right wing factions in the government.
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ā»ļø 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 countryās 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.
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āļø The Art of the Steal: From the Louvre to the Dept. of Justice
October 22, 2025
Call it āreimbursementā if you wantāthis 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 isnāt repayment for harm to Trump’s reputation; itās a heist of the publicās 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.
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ā»ļø The āGold Standardā Toxic Chemical Regulation That Protects No One
October 21, 2025
The Trump EPA is pushing a āGold Standardā rule that sounds rigorous but is designed to paralyze oversight of Americaās most toxic chemicals. By requiring all research data to be publicāeven when privacy laws make that impossibleāthe standard would effectively declare āinsufficient informationā on nearly every chemical and prevent regulation altogether.
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š½ Abbott Sending National Guard to Deter āNo Kingsā Rallies
October 17, 2025
On the eve of peaceful āNo Kingsā demonstrations, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the National Guard, DPS troopers, and Texas Rangers into Austinācasting 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.
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š¢ Pentagon Gag Pledge Backfires: All Major Newsrooms Walk
October 17, 2025
The Pentagon demanded reporters swear off seeking or using āunauthorizedā 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!
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š¤ 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 grantsārules 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.
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š½ New Jersey Prof’s Flight Reservation Cancelled ā by the U.S. Government? UPDATE: BRAY DEPARTED NEWARK THURS. NIGHT!
October 9, 2025
We canāt yet confirm whether the U.S. government cancelled Rutgers historian Mark Brayās family trip to Spainābut 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, thatās 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 threatsāincluding one about killing him in front of studentsāhe 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 familyās reservation suddenly ādisappearedā at the gate; they were later rebooked for ThursdayāBray 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.
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ā»ļø 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. Thatās not just a regulatory tweakāitās 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.
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š¤ Weaponizing Preschool: A Bid to Kick Undocumented Kids Out of Head Start
October 7, 2025
HHS tried to limit Head Start to citizens and āqualifiedā immigrantsāexcluding 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 toddlersā classrooms into an immigration battlefield and punish vulnerable kids to score political points.
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š³ļø 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.
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š āPatriotic Educationā Grants Try to Standardize Viewpoint & Whitewash History
September 19, 2025
The Education Department just created a new supplemental priority to shift discretionary funds toward āpatriotic education,ā aligning with a conservative civics coalition and signaling federal rewards for ideologically compliant curricula. Thatās a direct shot at academic freedom and honest historyāliterally using government money to rewrite history.
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ā»ļø Trump DoJ Moves to Kill Vermontās Climate Superfund Law
September 19, 2025
The Justice Department asked a federal court to nullify Vermontās 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 itās an attack on climate protection and the rule of law.
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š½Poll: American Jews Say Trumpās Campus āAntisemitismā 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.
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āļø š¢ File Big, Intimidate Bigger: Trumpās $15B NYT Lawsuit
September 16, 2025
Trumpās latest $15 billion suit against The New York Times isnāt about winning in court ā itās 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.
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š¤ 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 peopleās health.
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ā»ļø 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 ācrazyā 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.
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š½UK Criminalizes Solidarity: Nearly 900 Arrested for āPalestine Actionā 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 āI support Palestine Actionā signs. Rights groups called the mass arrests a new low for protest rights, as detainees reportedly included older Britonsāvicars, priests, war veterans, and descendants of Holocaust survivors. Critics warn the crackdown weaponizes anti-terror laws to chill lawful dissent and assembly.
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āļø Texas School Tries to Gut Title IX – Judge Says Not So Fast
August 4, 2025
Stephen F. Austin State University cut multiple womenās sports teams ā 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.
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š³ļø Update: Abbott Pushes Forward to Redraw Texas Voting Districts, Threatens to Arrest Dems Stalling Vote
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 ā which could shift five congressional seats in Republicans’ favor ā remains a flashpoint in the battle over voting rights and political power in the state, and the nation.
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š Trump Fires Truth-Teller: Labor Stats Chief Ousted for Reporting Bad News
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 ā a respected, Senate-confirmed expert ā was accused without evidence of āriggingā the numbers. The real issue? The data told the truth, and Trump didnāt like it. If heās willing to purge a statistician for inconvenient facts, can we trust anything the federal government tells us?
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š Pentagon Pulls Out of Aspen Security Forum, Citing āthe Evil of Globalismā
July 29, 2025
The Pentagon abruptly withdrew its senior officials from the Aspen Security Forum, explicitly branding the event as promoting āthe evil of globalismā and being out of alignment with the Trump administrationās 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, administrationāaligned worldview.
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š Ex-Marine Who Killed 3 in Madrid Freed by Trump in Prisoner Swap
July 23, 2025
Dahud Hanid Ortizāa former U.S. Marine and convicted triple murderer of three people in Madrid in 2016āwas included in last weekās 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 āpolitical prisoners.ā Spainās victimsā families are outraged, calling it a āgrave miscarriage of justiceā and warning that Ortiz is a āreal danger to society.ā
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š¢ Congress Votes to Defund NPR and PBS ā Cuts Approved July 18
July 18, 2025
Last night, the Senate passed a bill rescinding $1.1āÆbillion in federal funding for NPR and PBS ā funds essential to local and national news, children’s programming, and civic education. Critics say itās biased media, but rural stations warn itās their lifelineāand theyāll struggle to survive without it. The Senate vote is set for July 18.
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š Federal Gov. Slashes DOE Jobs & School Funding, Then Tells States: āYouāre On Your Ownā
July 15, 2025
The Trump administration says it’s āreturning education to the states,ā but is doing so by gutting federal fundingāespecially 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.
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š½ Free Speech on Trial ā Literally ā 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 ā all in violation of First Amendment rights.
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š¤ U.S. Steps Back from Defending LGBTQ Rights at the U.N.
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, Americaās absence sends a chilling signal: under Trump, the U.S. is stepping away from its long-held role as a defender of human dignity.
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ā»ļø 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.
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ā»ļø Trumpās Undoing of Eco-Legislation Fulfills Carbon Briefās Worst-Case Warning
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 tonsāundoing 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 Trumpās latest spending bill, the final chapter of Carbon Briefās climate horror story will be nearly complete.
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š America, the Island: Global Aid Slashed to Fund Domestic Deportation
June 24, 2025
This is no budget tweak. The administration is gutting foreign aidāthen redirecting the funds to deportation flights and immigration crackdowns. Money once used for food, medicine, and disaster relief around the world is now bankrolling āvoluntary exits.ā This isnāt putting America first. Itās abandoning the rest of the world.
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ā»ļø Trumpās Wars at Home & Abroad: Deregulate, Drill, and Deceive
June 23, 2025
What a week for Trump! ā rolling back clean air rules, killing EV credits, and stoking foreign oil chaos. All while handing billions to fossil fuel donors. This isnāt energy independence. Itās fossil fuel obedience.
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š¤ Navy to Rename Ships That Honor Veterans, Black, Gay, and Female American Heroes
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. Hegsethās 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.
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More Wind Turbine Scare Tactics ā This Time a Fake Bald Eagle
December 31, 2025
Donald Trumpās latest attack on wind energy leaned on a viral image he claimed showed a bald eagle killed by turbines in the U.S., but closer inspection revealed the photo was actually of a falcon at an Israeli wind farm from 2017, not a native eagle. Instead of addressing real environmental trade-offs, the administration continues to recycle debunked scare stories about windmills ākilling eagles,ā echoing long-standing misinformation rather than facts.
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Another Trump-Pleasing Trophy
December 30, 2025
Benjamin Netanyahu used a Mar-a-Lago visit to announce heāll award Donald Trump an Israeli prize ā another hollow honor in a long line of name-checks and trophies designed to flatter power, not recognize merit. Like the FIFA āpeace prize,ā this gesture signals loyalty and access, not achievement. This ongoing Trumpification of awards and institutions is best ignored.
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Viral MN āEmpty Daycareā Claims Spark FBI Scrutiny ā Yet Still No Evidence
December 29, 2025
A viral video alleges that a Minneapolis daycare licensed for 99 children received millions in public funds despite appearing empty ā and the FBI is sending dozens of agents to investigate. While the footage has driven political commentary and broader fraud investigations, thereās no official finding that the Quality Learning Center committed fraud or that the specific $4 million claim is verified. Whatās spreading fast on social media isnāt the same as documented proof of wrongdoing.
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$1,776 Isnāt a Bonus ā Itās Just Money Troops Were Already Owed
December 20, 2025
The White House is touting a $1,776 payment to service members as a patriotic ābonus,ā but itās nothing of the sort. The money is a one-time housing stipend payment already promised under the previously approved OBBB ā not new compensation, not extra support, and not a reward. Rebranding an obligation as generosity may make for good optics, but it doesnāt improve pay, housing stability, or long-term conditions for military families.
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A Walk of Fame Fit for a Child, Not a President
December 18, 2025
Donald Trump has installed a Presidential Walk of Fame at the White House, complete with plaque descriptions he appears to have written himself ā including petty, sneering put-downs of past presidents. The project is vain, juvenile, and unserious: a mix of playground taunting, self-mythologizing, and attention-seeking that belongs in Spencer Gifts, not on public grounds. Trouble is, it would actually be funny at Spencer Gifts, but not at the people’s house.
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Trump Sues the BBC for $10B for Editing Reality
December 15, 2025
Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC, claiming the outlet deceptively edited a speech to suggest he incited the January 6 rioters. The lawsuit ignores what is already broadly established in the public record ā that Trumpās words and actions before January 6 played a central role in fueling the attack. The suit is all about using an absurd damages figure to warn journalists everywhere not to frame his behavior honestly again.
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Trumpās $2,000 Tariff Bonus Wouldnāt Even Pay Back the Price Hikes He Already Triggered
November 19, 2025
Trump is promising a $2,000 ātariff dividend,ā but his 2025 tariffs have already pushed prices up roughly 2.3% ā about $1,000 per person per year once lagging housing and energy costs catch up. That means Americans will pay more in higher prices than theyāll ever get back, while the price hikes stick around permanently.
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DT: āGet Back to Work, NOW!!!ā ā āAir-Traffic Controllers Who Took Even One Day Off Will Be āSubstantially āDockedā
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 āpatriotsā who did not take time off during the government shutdown ā 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
October 27, 2025
This canāt happen. This wonāt happen. Right? If things start trending in that direction, we may be forced to invoke the 4th R!
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Trumpās Golden Ballroom: Champagne Taste on a Shutdown Budget
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 Trumpās 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
October 4, 2025
The Treasuryās draft $1 āTrump coināādutifully hyped by U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beachāreads like knee-bending cosplay, complete with a āfight, fight, fightā motif, while real governance smolders. It also tries to skate past Congressās 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
September 30, 2025
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned all U.S. generals and admirals to Virginia today, packaged as a ācode of conductā and āwarrior ethosā refresher. Americaās military didnāt 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, youāve already admitted weakness.
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Oklahomaās Ed. Sec. Quits, Leaving His Bible-in-Classrooms Circus Behind
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, Waltersā 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 ā Still No Proof
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 ā yet offered no new evidence. Medical experts immediately rejected the claim: decades of research have found no evidence that acetaminophen causes autism.
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Oklahoma Demand for Kirk Statues & Bibles in Schools, Nothing But Legal Fantasy
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 ā complete with a statue, signifying him a āmodern civil rights leaderā. 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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Americaās Got a New āWar Departmentā ā Just for Show
September 8, 2025
President Trump has issued an executive order rebranding the Department of Defense as the āDepartment of War,ā giving it that title as a secondary name while keeping āDefenseā 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 ā modernization, strategy, budget ā and wastes time and money on signage and semantics.
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Moonshot Madness: Duffyās Lunar Nuclear Dream Ignores Republican-Led Collapse of U.S. Science
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 canāt even staff domestic labs ā 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
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 Bidenās 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
July 11, 2025
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene just introduced a bill to criminalize āweather modificationā ā blaming wildfires and floods on what she claims are deliberate manipulations of the skies. Scientists say itās total fiction. But that doesnāt stop this kind of nonsense from dominating headlines and distracting from real threats ā like climate change, limits on free speech and press, and basic science literacy.
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Turbulence in the Headlines ā Not in the Sky
July 10, 2025
Panic over near misses and emergency landings is fueling air travel anxiety, but the reality doesnāt match the noise. U.S. airline safety remains as strong as ever ā 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 Prizeā For Being Trump
June 26, 2025
At a recent rally, Trump complained that heās never received the Nobel Peace Prize ā despite āmany, many nominations.ā He then scoffed that it was a āmedia conspiracyā 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
June 23, 2025
Starting this fall, every public school classroom in Texas must display a framed copy of the Ten Commandmentsāspecifically the Capitol-monument version. Lawmakers claim it promotes āmoral clarity,ā 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
May 28, 2025
Itās not clear whether Trump actually believes a āwhite genocideā is taking place in South Africa, or if heās trying to mislead Americans for some ulterior reason (or if he doesnāt know the definition of āgenocideā!). Either way, heās only embarrassing himself and the country he represents.
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Qatarās Gifting a Luxury 747 to Trump, and You Shouldnāt Care Less!
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 itās causing in the world of Trump sycophants is amusing, though, as even FoxNews acknowledges.
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