President Trump’s approval rating: Here’s what latest opinion polls show
Kathryn Palmer,   Trending News Reporter  -  USA Today

_Stephan: The truth that corporate media doesn’t seem able or willing to touch is that the transformation of the United States into a fascist autocracy by Trump and his vellains is only happening because a small majority of Americans voted for it. Fascism never comes into power through violence; it is always voted into office by … ⌘ Read more

Welcome To The White Christian Nationalist Presidency
David Kurtz,  Editor-at-Large  -  TPM

_Stephan: In the United States, a strange affiliation has arisen amongst evangelical Christianity, White racism, and fascism. This is the core partnership of MAGAt world, and a historic distortion of Jesus’ teachings. These are the people who voted Trump into office, whose wellbeing will be most severely damaged.  Yet, they still support and kneel to Donald Trump. He, in turn, art … ⌘ Read more

Rule change would allow Trump to ‘cook the books’ and hide collapsing economy: report
Tom Boggioni,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Fascist governance is always inferior to democratic governance. Can you think of a single fascist ruled nation in history that was world leader in social wellbeing, education, science, or medicine? No, neither can I because there is no such example One of the hallmarks of fascists is that they never want t … ⌘ Read more

Trump opens borders to cartel families while locking up students
Oliver Willis,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

Stephan: It should be clear to anybody by now that to Trump, everything is some kind of grift, and if you can make him richer, anyone can make a deal. It should also be clear that Trump and the Republicans have made the United States one of the most corrupt nations in the developed world. There is no governmental integrity anymore. ⌘ Read more

Outrage as Trump’s Pentagon promotes staffer who pushed ‘neo-Nazi’ theories
Maatthew Chapman,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Aspiring dictator Trump uses antisemitism to take control of Universities so he can turn education into indoctrination. Yet, at the same time he promotes an antisemitic Neo-Nazi to be the press secretary of the Department of Defense. What does that tell you? That Trump is using antisemitism as a wedge issue to create chaos … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s ban on Harvard foreign students may come at a hefty price to the economy
Lexi Lonas Cochran ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: I have been telling you for years about the contribution immigrants have made to the economic and social success of the United States. Apparently, as this article reports, this is beginning to dawn on others. What it is also telling anyone who can actually think is that aspiring dictator Trump and his servant … ⌘ Read more

Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Is Only ‘About the Babies of Slaves.’ Historical Evidence Says Otherwise.
Damon Root ,  Senior Editor  -  reason

Stephan: Here is a fact-based exegetic essay on U.S. birthright citizenship. I have looking at MAGAt media to see how it was playing this issue, and the racism and ignorance on this subject is astonishing.

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On Corruption – America’s Choice
John B. Alexander,  Contributing writer  -  Daily Kos

Stephan: I think John Alexander gives an accurate assessment of what is going on in the United States, and I will say again the only thing that is going to stop this is millions of Americans out in the streets in nonviolent demonstrations every day. Are you willing to make this commitment?

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Tom Homan is costing American taxpayers $1 million a month: reporter
Sarah K. Burris,  Senior Digital Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Did you know that you and I are spending one million dollars a month protecting the thug Tom Homan, whom aspiring dictator Trump has appointed “Border Czar”?  No, neither did I, but we are. As I read this report, all I could think about was how many children would get school lunches for $1,000,000 a month if Trump and the MAGAt … ⌘ Read more

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
Miryam Naddaf,    -  nature

_Stephan: For all of your lifetime and mine, the United States has been the world leader in science. America’s inventors, many of whom, from Einstein to Nikola Tesla, to Wernher von Braun were immigrants; American universities, which attracted the best and brightest students from around the world; American research laboratories, many begun and staffed by immigrant graduates of t … ⌘ Read more

Russia Has Started Losing the War in Ukraine
Michael Kimmage,  Director of the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center   -  Foreign Policy

_Stephan: Media in the United States has not been covering the Ukraine war in its geopolitical consequence anywhere deeply enough. Partly this is because Trump has for years been completely in the pocket of Putin, and has tried to skew media in Russia’s favor. However, it is becoming hard for Trump to sustain it because Putin so blatantly disreg … ⌘ Read more

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
Adrienne Matei,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Between 1981 and 1993, I spent several months each year in the Soviet Union. I had three businesses and several hundred employees there, as well as a philanthropy, Artlink. All of this was done to help the Soviet Union become a democracy, an effort that came to a screeching halt in as the fascist oligarchs took over the government, … ⌘ Read more

Kristi Noem tells Congress she doesn’t have to follow the Constitution
Oliver Willis,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

Stephan: Almost every day, aspiring dictator Trump and the obedient servants who make up his administration tell America that neither Congress nor the courts has any power over Trump. The Constitution is just a historical document.

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Trump’s cultural overhaul throttles local arts, humanities programs nationwide
Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Sunlen Serfaty,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: Aspiring dictator Trump, like his father before him, has always been a White supremacist racist. He and his father were both penalized decades ago for using racism in the renting of the apartments they owned. Trump and his MAGAt followers don’t want children to be taught the true history of America … ⌘ Read more

Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students
COLLIN BINKLEY and MICHAEL CASEY,  Reporters  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: The United States is becoming a fascist pseudo-democracy so quickly that I don’t think many Americans understand or realize what is happening. We have never experienced anything like this. Harvard, according to aspiring dictator Trump, can no longer enroll foreign students. The media is covering this, but what they aren … ⌘ Read more

‘They’re Not Just Cutting Medicaid’: GOP Bill Would Trigger Over $500 Billion in Medicare Cuts
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: By the time you read this, if the Congressional MAGAt Trump servitors pull off their dead of night scheme and pass Trump’s bill if you depend on Medicaid for healthcare, you may have lost it. If you, like my wife and I, are old enough to be on Medicare, it may have been devastated. If y … ⌘ Read more

Trump demands Obama arrest in frantic QAnon-fueled posting spree
Matthew Chapman,  News Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The increasing fascism that is pervading Trump’s administration flows from the top down, and it is actually getting rather scary. “Disappearing” people to places like South Sudan, where they will probably never be seen again. Congressional testimony by high-ranking officials who clearly are incompetent and unqualified to hold the posts to whic … ⌘ Read more

FEMA Shifts Disaster Burden to States in Wake of Deadly Tornadoes
Ellyn Lapointe,  Contributing Writer  -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: I feel very sorry for the individuals and families, particularly in Red states, who are already suffering from climate events like tornadoes, but I am particularly concerned about those living in hurricane regions. The dismantlement of FEMA by the Trump coup is going to leave hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of Americans, without t … ⌘ Read more

Mortgage rates jump above 7% after Moody’s downgrade of U.S. credit
Aarthi Swaminathan,  Staff Writer  -  Markey Watch

_Stephan: As the Trump fascist coup dismantles the American economy, buying a house becomes ever more difficult. As this report describes, because of what the Trump coup has done, Moody’s dropped the United States’ credit rating and this, in turn, has caused mortgage rates to go above 7%. The average house price in the U.S. is currently $503,8 … ⌘ Read more

Rising Seas From Fossil Fuels Threaten Inland Migration ‘Never Witnessed in Modern Civilization’
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I have been warning my SR readers for years now about the civilization-altering crisis climate change is going to create, and the migrations it will produce (see SR archives, search on the term “migration”). Now, the science is getting ever clearer that this is what is going to … ⌘ Read more

Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE
Nick Turse, Jonah Valdez,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Here is yet another report about Trump’s attempt to use your tax dollars to “disappear” people into a global network of concentration camps. I think this is a very big deal that is not getting anywhere near the media attention it should. I question whether a large percentage of Americans who get their news from MAGAt Media even know this is … ⌘ Read more

Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns
Ken Dilanian,  Reporter  -  NBC News

Stephan: The Trump coup and its corrupt Supreme Court, in deference to the NRA and the White militias, have re-legalized the right to own what amounts to a machine gun. Expect to see more murders and civil violence. It’s that simple.

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Everything from animals to plants to atoms has consciousness, a scientific theory that is gaining momentum
Eric Ralls,    -  earth.com

_Stephan: I am an experimentalist who has been researching the nature of consciousness for over half a century, and have published hundreds of papers in peer-reviewed journals and academic books presenting evidence that materialism is not so much wrong as it is inadequate. What this arti … ⌘ Read more

Global Warming Has Already Made Natural Habitats Unsurvivable for 2% of Amphibians: Study
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: I have been telling you for several years now that humanity, and particularly in the United States, is not doing anywhere close to enough to stop the damage being caused by climate change and the degradation of the matrix of life. Here is yet another scientific report on the impact on Amphib … ⌘ Read more

‘Second biggest scandal’: Trump accused of new grift that puts Qatari plane in shade
Matt Laslo,  Washington Correspondent  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The corruption of aspiring dictator Trump and his family is so vast I don’t think most Americans even understand how bizarre and extreme it has become. There has never been anything like it in the previous 250 years. The Qatar 13-year-old hand-me-down airplane got a lot of attention, but that is jus … ⌘ Read more

Used-car dealerships charge hidden fees: How to spot them
Dieter Holger,  Data Reporter  -  Consumer Affairs

_Stephan: Because of the incompetence of aspiring dictator Trump and his tariff nonsense the price a new cars is going to go up significantly, so people are turning to buying used cars. But, because greed is the defining characteristic of American culture, used car dealerships are rigging the purchase arrangements to make more profit. If you are thinking about … ⌘ Read more

It’s Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System
Lucas Ropek,    -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: As this report spells out, “Thanks to a new breed of chatbots, American stupidity is escalating at an advanced pace.” The reality is that young Americans are not going to be as well educated as their parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents. The Trump MAGAt Republican coup is destroying American leadership, stature in the world, and even the ability of Am … ⌘ Read more

Consumer sentiment slides to second-lowest on record as inflation expectations jump after tariffs
Jesse Pound,  Reporter  -  CNBC

Stephan: For me, the important takeaway from this poll is that it is saying that finally MAGAt world is beginning to realize just how badly aspiring dictator Trump and his unelected co-President Musk have damaged the American economy with their incompetent stupidity and nonsense.

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What Is News?
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Measuring people’s news habits and attitudes has long been a key part of Pew Research Center’s efforts to understand American society. Our surveys regularly ask Americans how closely they are following the news, where they get their news and how much they … ⌘ Read more

‘A Huge Scandal’: Internal Doc Exposes Trump-Musk Hunt for Social Security Fraud as a Sham
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor and Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I see all of this disruption of federal government agencies as part of a scheme to cause chaos, confusion, and create misdirection of the attention of the American people. Meanwhile, a coup is being carried out to turn the United States from the democratic republic the Founders des … ⌘ Read more

The US buried millions of gallons of wartime nuclear waste – Doge cuts could wreck the cleanup
Andrew Buncombe,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Remember the disaster of Chernobyl and Fukushima, how many years it has taken, and is still taking, to clear up the lethal nuclear debris left by the accident. Now triple that, or maybe more, and think about what could happen at Hanford, Washington, as this article describes. Thi … ⌘ Read more

Ten Cities That Promote a Long Life: Lessons from the Healthiest Places on Earth
Steve Calechman,    -  Super Age

_Stephan: Here is a very interesting list of the top ten cities in the world where people live longer, have better wellbeing, and are happier than any other cities in the world. The first thing you should notice is that, except for Boulder, Colorado, none of these cities are in the United States. Why do you think that is, since we ar … ⌘ Read more

Infant with rare, incurable disease is first to successfully receive personalized gene therapy treatment
NIH/Office of the Director,    -  Science News

_Stephan: Here is a first report on what I think is going to become a major good news trend. I was first introduced to genetic manipulation before it actually existed by remote viewers who, when I asked them about healthcare in the future, told me that many traditional dis … ⌘ Read more

NASA satellites show Antarctica has gained ice despite rising global temperatures. How is that possible?
Patrick Pester ,  Trending News Writer  -  Live Science

_Stephan: I chose this for two reasons. First, I saw a misinformation report in a conspiracy group social media saying it showed climate change wasn’t real. Second, because it shows that climate change is more complicated than is generally understood. We are going … ⌘ Read more

DeSantis makes Florida the 2nd state to ban fluoride from its water
,    -  Associated Press | Daily Kos

Stephan: Have you noticed that Red states seem to be becoming increasingly anti-science and going backwards to a lower quality of life, to the detriment of the wellbeing of the people in those states who elected the Republicans who shape their lives? Here is an example of this.

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Trump is Building A Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE
Nick Turse,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Aspiring dictator Trump is reputed to read very few books, but the one he has clearly studied in Hitler’s Mein Kampf, since all the trends he has created to reshape the United States come from Hitler. Just as the Nazis created concentration camps in the countries they controlled so Trump, as this article describes, is creating an international a … ⌘ Read more

First group of white South Africans arrive in US after Trump grants refugee status
Rachel Savage and David Smith,  Reporters  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Does it strike you as strange that while masked ICE and Homeland Security agents are pulling non-White immigrants from their homes, out of their cars, and off the streets, White immigrants from South Africa are being welcomed into the United States? Did you know that Elon Musk is a Whit … ⌘ Read more

Authorities arrest over 100 people on Tennessee roads in support of Trump’s deportation plan
Travis Loller,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Just as Hitler began incorporating local police into his Gestapo actions, so aspiring dictator Trump, is beginning to use local state troopers and police to work with his ICE and Homeland Security thugs. Every day, as I begin looking for the trends shaping America, I am struck by how clo … ⌘ Read more

Federal Funds for Rural Health Care Are on the Chopping Block—Here’s What That Could Mean
Rita Rubin,  Staff Writer  -  Journal of the American Medical Association

_Stephan: When I look at the healthcare trends that are shaping America’s future what really stands out for me is the the MAGAt Red state rural voters who overwhelmingly voted for aspiring dictator Trump, did not really seem to understand that Trump cares nothing for the peas … ⌘ Read more

DHS requests 20,000 National Guard troops to help with mass deportations
Ellen Mitchell,  Senior Defense Reporter  -  The Hill

_Stephan: I have been waiting for this development in the Trump MAGAt coup, and now it is openly here. Trump is trying to create a militarized Gestapo so that civil resistance ostensibly about immigrants, just as Hitler made it about Jews, can use the military to eliminate people who oppose him. That’s why Hegseth has been firin … ⌘ Read more

We Study Fascism. And We’re Leaving the US.
Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley,  Reporters  -  Reader Supported News | The New York Times

_Stephan: Three professors, leading scholars of fascism and how democracies succumb to authoritarianism, have resigned their prestigious positions at Yale and are moving to Canada and accepting positions at the University of Toronto. Once again this is what you saw in Germany as the Nazis took over the democracy and turned it into a fas … ⌘ Read more

Flawed Federal Programs Maroon Rural Americans in Telehealth Blackouts
arah Jane Tribble and Holly K. Hacker,    -  Med Page Today | Kaiser Family Foundation

_Stephan: I live on a rural island, and depend on telehealth sessions with doctors, because if telehealth ends, as the Republicans are trying to do, a 15-minute call would become a daylong trip to the mainland.  Sadly, even worse plans to extend internet access have not proceeded under Trump and th … ⌘ Read more

Even Once Reluctant Scholars Now Agree on Israel’s Gaza Assault: It’s a Genocide
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I have been telling you for months now that, in my view, what has been happening in Gaza is an Israeli-created genocide with the purpose of either killing Palestinians, or forcing them to leave Gaza so that Israel can take it over Gaza and, with the help of the Trump family, turn the area into a Israeli profit-ma … ⌘ Read more

The End of Rule of Law in America
J. Michael Luttig,  Retired Republican appointed Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit  -  The Atlantic Magazine

_Stephan: J. Michael Luttig is a former federal Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, appointed by Republican President George Bush. He is not some liberal activist, and yet, as he writes in this article, he sees the Trump MAGAT coup for what it is, the end of the rule of law and democracy in the United States. What s … ⌘ Read more

‘Dark swerve’: Analysis shows US quickly becoming a ‘police state’ under Trump
Mattthew Chapman,  News Writer  -  Raw Story

Stephan: I think this is an accurate report, and I think that is all I need to say.

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Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
Tom Dreisbach,  Staff Writer  -  npr

_Stephan: There are a number of anti-semite serving in the Trump coup administration. But at the same time Trump has spent billions supporting Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and forcibly deporting pro-Palestinian college students. That would appear to be a contradiction, but what is this really telling us? I think what it is telling us is th … ⌘ Read more

‘They’re Not Doing Enough’: Poll Reveals Deep Dissatisfaction With Democratic Party
Jessica Corbett,  Senior Editor and Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I think the polls cited in this article are accurately showing us how Americans are thinking. I also think the Republicans are just corrupt scum, and the Democrats are pathetic. The only people who stand out positively for me in the current Congress are Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizab … ⌘ Read more

CBO: 7.6 million would go uninsured under GOP Medicaid bill
Ben Leonard,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: I understand that a lack of integrity is the hallmark of the MAGAt Republican Party. The MAGAt members of Congress make it clear everyday that they are on their knees kissing the ass of their monarch. What I don’t get is how these men and women imagine they are going to stay in office in the 2026 election. The easy answer is that they think Americans in thei … ⌘ Read more

Trump just uttered the most despicable lie pushed by GOP in decades
Thom Hartmann,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw story | Commentary

Stephan: Although Trump is a terrible multi-bankrupt businessman, as I have pointed out repeatedly, he has real skill with lying and manipulating media to focus on fake or irrelevant stories to avoid attention on the real stories. Thom Hartmann explains what I mean very well.

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Xi Jinping’s defiance against Donald Trump paid off for China: Report
News Staff,    -  Hindustan Times (India)

_Stephan: In my view, the Chinese have played Donald Trump like a flute in the trade war crisis he created. I don’t know why corporate media hardly mentions that Trump has gone bankrupt six times; he couldn’t even make a success of a gambling casino. He is a terrible businessman. What he does understand is how to manipulate American media with big … ⌘ Read more

Crossing the U.S. Border? Here’s How to Protect Yourself
Nikita Mazurov ,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: I live up near the Canadian border and a lot of people I know go back and forth between the U.S. and Canada, and a number own properties in Canada. Today I got a very disturbing email from a reader who had been up in Canada and drove back down with a Canadian friend who has family in Burlington. When they got to the border, the border guards, who were very confrontatio … ⌘ Read more

Scientists Just Found Who’s Causing Global Warming
Joe Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Futurism

_Stephan: The oligarchs who bought Trump his presidency by misinforming and confusing a majority of American voters are also the same people, as this article reports, who are also destroying the wellbeing of Earth. To quote them, “A recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has found that the richest 10 percent of … ⌘ Read more

Trump says he’s fighting antisemitism — and accepting a $400 million gift from a government that funded Hamas
Anthony L. Fisher,  Senior Editor and Writer  -  MSNBC

_Stephan: The corruption of multi-felon, convicted sex abuser Donald Trump and his family is unlike anything ever seen before in the United States 250-year history. Do you remember when Hillary Clinton could not accept a necklace valued at something like $42 … ⌘ Read more

US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return
Giovanna Coi,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Part of the problem afflicting the United States is neither the population nor the public officials can tell the truth about the country. We are not “the greatest country in the world.” We are third class and getting worse in healthcare, public education, literacy, lifespan, etc., etc., and we have a anti-democratic coup administration that is destroying th … ⌘ Read more

‘Buyer’s remorse’ as MAGA faithful face ‘gradual — then sudden — realization’ Trump only hurts them
Elizabeth Preza,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: It is slowly, ever so slowly, beginning to dawn on the MAGAt voters that they made a horrible mistake, and are now the leading victims of the Trumpian coup. I think this is good news that could have a major impact on the 2026 elections and put the Democrats in control of both the Sen … ⌘ Read more

U.S. Amps Up Spying on Greenland and Denmark as Trump Covets New Territory
Matt Novak,  Staff Writer  -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: This is a very nasty trend. Psychopath Trump is obsessed with Greenland as his fellow fascist, Vladimir Putin, is obsessed with taking over Ukraine. The people of Greenland loathe Trump, and Denmark has been an ally of the U.S. for decades. As we go along with the fascist madness that is destroying America, don’t be surprised if T … ⌘ Read more

HIV Testing and Outreach Falter as Trump Funding Cuts Sweep the South
Amy Maxmen,  Research Staff, KFF  -  Kaiser Family Foundation | MedPage Today

_Stephan: As I have told you since before the 2024 election that started the Trump fascist coup, the people in the Red states who voted this utterly corrupt psychopath and his despicable minions into power are going to be the main ones paying the price for what Trump and his administration are going to do to … ⌘ Read more

South Florida Homes for Sale Quadruple As Residents Leave En Masse
Joe Edwards,  Reporter  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: I told you this was coming and now it has begun. Florida. First, insurance companies stopped insuring homes and businesses, climate change is becoming more threatening, and as this article describes, people are leaving in droves. Because the Trump administration is doing nothing about preparing for climate change all the evidence I see tells me th … ⌘ Read more

It’s more than a wind turbine for home — Unlimited, free energy at home with this 22-century invention
Laila A. ,  Contributing Writer  -  ECO NEWS

Stephan: Here is some potentially quite good news about renewable energy. I will follow this and let you know

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Influencer with no medical license picked to be nation’s top doctor
Emily Singer,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: The United States, which already has the lowest healthcare ranking in the developed world, as well as the highest expense, thanks to aspiring dictator Trump, now has the strangest healthcare system in the world. Not only has Trump gutted most the institutions and agencies that do medical research, he has now appointed as Casey Means as Surg … ⌘ Read more

Why Do Americans Pay More for Prescription Drugs?
David Armstrong,  Investigative Health Care Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: I have been searching for weeks for some good news coming out of the Trump administration coup, and have finally found something. Because we have an illness profit system, not a real healthcare system, U.S. drug prices are orders of magnitude higher than the same drugs in other developed nations. Now a bi-partisan bill backed by Trump may finally do … ⌘ Read more

Trump Has Skipped Out On All But 12 Of His Daily Intelligence Briefings
Jack Revell,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Beast

_Stephan: Kash Patel only shows up for work as the director of the FBI a few days a week, Pete Hegseth is more interested in his makeup studio than managing one of the largest organizations and budgets in the world. And Trump can’t be bothered to get the secret briefings the Preisdent is supposed to get every day so that he can properly und … ⌘ Read more

The founders fought tyrants, the morbidly rich, religious elites. Remind you of anyone?
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Commentary | Raw Story

Stephan: Thom Hartmann describes something I have known, but never before seen covered in the daily media. As Hartmann explains, what is happening in the United States today is exactly what the Founders did not want the country they were creating to ever become.

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Trump administration ‘looking at’ suspending habeas corpus, Stephen Miller says
Dan Mangan,  Reporter  -  CNBC

_Stephan: Habeas Corpus – literally in Latin, “you have the body” is a legal principle so old and revered it predates the creation of the United States in 1787. It is a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person’s release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detent … ⌘ Read more

‘The Fix Is In’: GOP Wants Poor People to Pay More for Medicaid to Fund Tax Cuts for Wealthy
Jake Johnson,    -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Healthcare in the United States is the worst system, as well as the most expensive, in the developed world. It is about to get much worse because aspiring dictator Trump, and his MAGAt-controlled Congress are trying to pay for tax cuts for the oligarch – who already pay a lower fraction of their annu … ⌘ Read more

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden is fired by Trump
Nicholas Wu, Lisa Kashinsky and Katherine Tully-McManus,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: The Library of Congress, whose beginnings trace back to Benjamin Franklin, is the largest library in the world and the most important. Despot Trump, as he has made clear, doesn’t like libraries because they are repositories of facts. And he also doesn’t want government agencies, whether the Chief of Naval Operations or the Lib … ⌘ Read more

Oklahoma will teach high school students debunked 2020 election-fraud theories as fact
Grace Deng,  Staff Writer  -  Snopes

_Stephan: If you live in a Red State, Oklahoma being the example I have chosen, I hope you realize that your children are not being educated with fact-based information. They are being indoctrinated into fascist ideology, as part of the MAGAt Party plan to stay in power by training the next generation of Americans in … ⌘ Read more

Empty shelves, for-lease signs and job layoffs point to recession by summer
David Blond,  Economist Specializing in Global Economic Analysis  -  Market Watch

_Stephan: I have been telling you for seven months now, since I read Project 2025, that I thought that if Trump was elected and did what  Project 2025 outlined that he would attempt a coup and it would put us in a recession by June. A growing number of economists think the same; here is the most … ⌘ Read more

Trump admin turns to far right outlet to distribute news through Voice of America
Ben Johansen,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Back about 1970, I wrote, and my friend Don McDonough produced, the first Voice of America satellite worldwide video broadcast. I called it, It’s a Small, Small World and it was based on promoting humanity’s wellbeing. We would go on to do several other things for VoA, and I was, and remain, very proud of that wo … ⌘ Read more

Donald Trump Nominates Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro for Interim DC US Attorney
Sonam Sheth and Gabe Whisnant,  Evening Political Editor  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: Aspiring dictator Trump has appointed another MAGAt fanatic and Fox host, Jeanine Pirro, as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Like Hegseth, Patel, and others, the United States government agencies are now headed by Fox hosts because Trump doesn’t select his administration leadership … ⌘ Read more

Lawyers scramble to stop deportation flight to Libya they say ‘blatantly’ defies court order
Myah Ward, Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: As I started to write this, CNN announced that a judge has just ruled the Trump dictatorship can not send immigrants to prisons in Libya, known to be amongst the vilest gulags in the world; and Chief Justice Roberts has just spoken out about Trump’s disregard for t … ⌘ Read more

Trump AG’s latest vow is straight from dictator’s playbook — and it’s a threat to us all
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The assault on media, and the weaponization of misinformation is a high priority goal of the aspiring Trump dictatorship, and that is straight out of Hitler’s playbook. Thom Hartmann describes what the Trump coup is trying to do under the guidance of Pam Bondi, perhaps the most unscrupulous, unethical A … ⌘ Read more

North American Bird Populations Are Collapsing in Places They Once Thrived: Study
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Human technology is destroying Earth’s matrix of life, and except for the scientific community, there is almost no awareness of this, even though it is going to have a devastatingly negative impact on human civilization. Human governments must make fostering wellbeing their first priority if the … ⌘ Read more

Amid Forced Starvation in Gaza, NGO Coalition Decries Israel’s New Registration Rules
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The fascist government of Israel has made its intentions very clear, while the Trump administration remains silent. Kill Palestinians. Starve Palestinians. Drive Palestinians to other countries. Take over the entirety of Gaza and, with the Trump family’s help, turn Gaza into a profit-making resort are … ⌘ Read more

Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
Anna Clark,  Staff Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: I have been telling you since the Trump Republican Party coup began that one of its most notable features is the rise of American neo-medievalism, in which the wellbeing of the peasants is of little interest. Do you get your water from the Great Lakes? If you do I would do some rese … ⌘ Read more

‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, PhD,  Historian and Contrbuting Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The Republican fascist coup does not like facts. Therefore, they don’t like universities, they don’t like museums, they don’t like public education, they don’t like science, they don’t like a fact-based media, and they actively weaponize and spread misinformation. Here is the lates … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s Onslaught Hits Staffers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Henry Carnell,  Digital Fellow   -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: The Trump coupsters have no interest in the science of renewable non-carbon energy. In fact, because the carbon energy oligarchs support Trump, there is an active effort by his administration to keep the United States dependent on carbon energy. The result is going to be disastrous for social and individual wellbeing. … ⌘ Read more

Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says
Jason Burke and Julian Borger,  International Security Correspondent | Senior International Correspondent  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The fascist Israeli Netanyahu administration’s Palestinian genocide continues without a negative comment from the Trump administration. Probably because the Trump family hopes to profit from what the Israelis have in mind for Gaza after they kill or push out all the Palestinians … ⌘ Read more

In ‘Highly Unusual’ Move, Trump DOJ Sues to Block States From Holding Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for Climate Crisis
: Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: The Trumpian fascist coup shows you almost every day that it cares nothing about your wellbeing, and it seeks to suppress any preparation to ameliorate the devastation of your life, and the lives of your children a … ⌘ Read more

Trump Sons’ Deals on Three Continents Directly Benefit the President
Eric Lipton and David Yaffe-Bellany,  Investigative Reporter | Contributing Writer  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: Are you having problems with your grocery costs? Were you stunned by what your pharmaceuticals cost? Were you appalled by the prices you saw when you looked to buy a new car? As ordinary Americans struggle with the economic chaos that aspiring dictator and psychopath Trump h … ⌘ Read more

Study reveals stark differences in life expectancy across US states over the past century
Colin Poitra,  Staff Writer  -  Medical Press

_Stephan: Look at the graph at the head of this article. What do you notice? I have been telling you for 30 years that by every objective measure I can find, from happiness to literacy to life expectancy, Republican governance is always inferior to Democratic governance, even as flawed as it often is. … ⌘ Read more

A militarized conspiracy theorist group believes radars are ‘weather weapons’ and is trying to destroy them
Andrew Freedman,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: The weaponization of misinformation on social media, plus America’s gun obsession, plus the rise of fascism in the MAGAt world, is creating a serious distortion of the U.S. culture. Here is an example of what I mean. The only thing that is going to change this is you an … ⌘ Read more

Trump when pressed on if he needs to uphold the Constitution: ‘I don’t know’
Gregory Svirnovskiy,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: We have reached the stage in Trump’s fascist coup where he feels secure enough in his power that he is now openly saying he is not compelled to follow the Constitution, or listen to the courts, or Congress. I tell you again, the only thing that is going to stop this is if you and a million other people are out in the st … ⌘ Read more

Trump officials gut 25 centers that monitor flooding and drought in the US
Tom Perkins,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Just as hurricane season and flooding events are poised to begin, despot psychopath Trump and his administration of lackeys have just destroyed the science centers that predict oncoming weather events and warn of flooding. And yet still it is not clear to millions of American voters that Trump cares nothing for their wellbeing. … ⌘ Read more

Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department
Rob Stein,  Staff Writer  -  npr

_Stephan: For the past 20 years I have written a column for the largest holistic medicine journal, Explore. I am also on the editorial board of about 8 other peer reviewed journals in a spectrum of disciplines, and, over the years, I have been the editor of several scientific journals. I tell you this to make it clear that I understand the peer review pr … ⌘ Read more

‘It’s bad’ MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow slams Trump for ‘killing miracle’ drug
Erik De La Garza,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story | MSNBC

_Stephan: Yet further proof that psychopath Trump and his MAGAt servants care nothing for the wellbeing of Americans. I just don’t understand how this could get any clearer, nor how Americans fail to understand we are becoming a neo-medieval society. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, particularly young people who use drugs, are aliv … ⌘ Read more

Trump Posts AI-Generated Image of Himself as Pope, Days After Joking He’d Like to Be the Next Pontiff
Rebecca Schneid,  Reporter  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: When I tell you that Americans have voted into the office of the President an egomaniacal psychopath, here is some proof of that statement. Can you imagine John Kennedy, George Bush 41, Barack Obama or, in fact, any other president doing something like this? Neither can I … ⌘ Read more

Critics see ‘monumental shift’ in Trump remaking of DOJ civil rights division
Rebecca Beitsch,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: America’s aspiring dictator Trump, his serfs, and his Republican servants in Congress are working as hard as they can to turn the United States back into a White supremacist, male-dominant society.   They are blatant and insistent in their intention, and are destroying the painfully achieved civil rights laws that so ma … ⌘ Read more

‘You will be hunted’: Voting machine company reveals new death threats from Fox viewers
Carl Gibson,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story / Alter Net

_Stephan: The longer this fascist coup goes on the more it impresses on me that this could only be happening to the United States because there are millions of Americans who are supporting aspiring dictator Trump, the Republicans and their coup. The problem we face as a country is ourselves. Surely you … ⌘ Read more

Inside the Trump family’s 100 days of presidential profit
Zachary Basu ,    -  msn

Stephan: There is no precedent in American history for how Trump and his family have used the office of the president to satisfy their greed and benefit themselves. I think it is disgusting.

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It is Going to Be More Complicated to Remain a Constitutional Federal Republic Than Many Seem to Realize
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Last Friday ASO Communications and Research Collaborative published a polling memo of data collected by Data for Progress just days before – 18-21 April. It showed that just as the country approaches Donald Trump’s 100th day in office 52% of likely voters acros … ⌘ Read more

Pam Bondi fires ‘warning shot’ at free press with ‘most chilling’ guidelines yet: report
Krystina Alarcon Carroll,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: This is all straight out of the Hitler/Mussolini/Stalin/Orban playbook. and completely predictable. You get your uber-rich supporters to buy your seat in office, then you get them to buy major media, as has happened with the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Fox Propaganda, then … ⌘ Read more

U.S. Press Freedom Plummets to All-Time Low
Tom Sanders ,  Staff Writer  -  The Daily Beast

_Stephan: The U.S. freedom of the press was ranked 57th in Reporters Without Borders‘ (RSF) annual press freedom index, putting it on par with countries such as Gambia and Uruguay. Fascists don’t want the people they rule to be factually educated or well-informed. That’s why colleges and … ⌘ Read more

How Nearly a Century of Happiness Research Led to One Big Finding
Susan Dominus,  Contributing Writer  -  The New York Times Magazine

_Stephan: As this article describes, scientists have been trying to determine what creates personal happiness for a century, and it is a very complicated research task. But the one constant I see in almost all these studies, and I have been doing and following this research for over 50 years, although it is rarely mentioned as … ⌘ Read more

White House looking for other countries to accept deportees
Gregory Svirnovskiy,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

Stephan: Just as Hitler did, Trump is looking for other countries where he can establish concentration camps, paying for them with citizen tax dollars. Hitler’s principal target population was Jews, whereas Trump’s is immigrants. But both actually imprisoned anyone who opposed them.

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Far-right fight groups endorse ‘youth clubs’ targeting US young men and boys
Ben Makuch,  Contributing Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: If you go back and read the history of Hitler you will very quickly learn that creating youth groups to indoctrinate boys and girls into Nazism. As the Holocaust Encyclopedia describes it, “The Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend, or HJ) was the Nazi-organized youth movement. It was made up of different sections for b … ⌘ Read more

Prescription drug prices have outpaced inflation and tariffs would make them pricier
Dieter Holger,  Reporter  -  Consumer Affaairs

_Stephan: I went to the pharmacy to pick up a renewed prescription and discovered it had doubled in price, even with GoodRx. The woman in the line before me was stunned by what her prescription cost. She wasn’t sure she could afford it, and it made me realize the fascist Trumpian coup is beginning to devastate … ⌘ Read more

White House launches Drudge-style website to promote Trump
Alex Isenstadt,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: This article is yet another move straight out of the fascist coup playbook. Get the billionaires to buy big media, both print and electronic. Try to scare and suppress the rest of the media. Create chaos amongst journalists. Start the coup’s own media. Weaponize and distribute misinformation. Everything Trump is doing is straight out of the Hitler playbook, a … ⌘ Read more

Trump administration to cancel $1bn in Biden-era school mental health grants
,    -  Associated Press | The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The Trump fascist coup administration is making it clear they care nothing about the wellbeing of actual Americans, particularly children. As I am writing this I am thinking particularly about the Oklahoma mother and his young daughters, all American citizens, who were awakened at 0600 by armed men who would not ide … ⌘ Read more

Republican posts video defending law that declared slaves ‘three-fifths’ of a person
Sarah K. Burris,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I think it is very important to recognize that Donny “2 doll”, as Lawrence O’Donnell called him on his program tonight, when Trump said basically that American children have too many toys, is just the leader of a racist fascist coup, but far from the only person perpetrating this destruction of the feder … ⌘ Read more