📚 ‘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
♻️ 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.
🗽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.
⚖️ 📢 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.
🤝 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.
♻️ 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.
🗽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.
⚖️ Texas School Tries to Gut Title IX – Judge Says Not So Fast
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.
🗳️ 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 — 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.
📚 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 — 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?
🌎 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.
🌎 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.”
📢 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.
📚 Federal Gov. Slashes DOE Jobs & School Funding, Then Tells States: “You’re On Your Own”
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.
🗽 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.
🤝 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, 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.
♻️ 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.
♻️ Trump’s Undoing of Eco-Legislation Fulfills Carbon Brief’s 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 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.
🌐 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.
♻️ 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.
🤝 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. 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.
America’s Got a New “War Department” — Just for Show
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.
Moonshot Madness: Duffy’s 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 can’t even staff domestic labs — but wants to claim space. And wants to distract from what truly matters!
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 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
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.
Turbulence in the Headlines — Not in the Sky
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.
Trump Demands Nobel Peace Prize— For Being Trump
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!
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 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.
Trump Again Pushes False Claim of SA Genocide, This Time to President Ramphosa
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.
Qatar’s Gifting a Luxury 747 to Trump, and You Shouldn’t 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 it’s causing in the world of Trump sycophants is amusing, though, as even FoxNews acknowledges.
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