New Mideast Project Is Latest Trump Company Deal Tied to a Foreign Government
Vivian Nereim and Eric Lipton,  Lead Reporter | Investigative Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: How much talk do you hear or read about how Trump and his family are using the office of the Presidency to enrich themselves? Nowhere near enough in my opinion. The truth is they are making hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars, from deals they are working … ⌘ Read more

Marco Rubio And Trump’s Border Czar Defend Deportation Of U.S. Citizen Children
Paige Skinner,  Staff Writer  -  Huff Post

_Stephan: It is always important to remember that fascist coups, although they center on the leader, can only occur because thousands of other men and women kneel to the leader, lack any compassion, integrity, and ethics, and do his bidding. It was true during the reigns of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin.  Marco Rubio and Tom H … ⌘ Read more

The Trump administration’s push to privatize US public lands
Chris D’Angelo,  Staff Writer  -  Grist

_Stephan: Many of my most beloved memories occurred in the public lands, parks, forests, rivers and lakes all Americans own collectively. Well, as this article describes, psychopath Trump’s fascist coup is trying to change that. His oligarch co-conspirators want those lands to mine, and drill on, or to develop for their personal profit. And Trump is supporting them … ⌘ Read more

The Trump/Hitler Controversy Misses the Point
John B. Alexander,  Contributing Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: John Alexander lays out in great detail what I have been saying without all the details. To anyone who is familiar with history and the rise of fascist coups it is very obvious what is going on in the United States. What I particularly liked about Alexander’s essay is the references he provides to books that will give the sources they need to fully comprehend how the Tru … ⌘ Read more

DOGE has made a big impact on Washington. But government spending is up.
Sophia Cai and Irie Sentner,    -  Politico

_Stephan: I think it should be obvious by now, to anyone paying attention, that the whole point of DOGE was not saving taxpayer dollars; it twas about creating chaos, confusing and misdirecting the media, and dismantling the Constitutional Federal Republic of the United States (what America’s governmental form should really be called). All … ⌘ Read more

Hitler’s First 100 Days — And Trump’s
Werner Lange,  Contributing Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Yet another view on the comparison of Hitler and Trump. I first began to see this comparison after I read Project 2025, and realized the role of the other. Hitler chose Jews and ovens. Trump chose immigrants, and disappearing them to a concentration camp where taxpayer dollars pay the gulag fee; it is tidier. Hitler liked swastika arm bands, Trump likes Red baseball caps. Otherwise what is h … ⌘ Read more

Editor’s Note – What it will take to save America’s Economy and Democracy, and Stature in the World
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Today, I am only doing one story because I think it is that important. I see only one path to save America’s democracy, economy, and stature in the world, and I don’t think most Americans, including many Congress members and journalists, have thought it through or even compre … ⌘ Read more

Majority of US Voters Support Third Trump Impeachment: Poll
Jessica Corbett,  Senior Editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Americans seem to be awakening to the Trumpian Republican coup, as this poll about impeaching Trump (for a third time) demonstrates. There seems to be a growing resistance to the fascist coup Trump, the oligarchs, and the Republicans in Congress are trying to carry out.  But restoring America to a functioning democracy is much more complicated then … ⌘ Read more

Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
Michael Tomasky,    -  The New Republic

Stephan: Psychopath Trump may be the most corrupt man in the United States. He is a convicted sex offender, multiple felon, multiple bankrupt, and multiple convicted fraudster. And yet the media never presents that list, nor as this article describes, do you often see anything about his current ongoing corruption.

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DOJ Memo Shows Trump Admin Ordered ICE to Conduct Warrantless Home Invasions
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Further proof that the United States is no longer a functioning democracy but has, instead, become a fascist autocracy. Pam Bondi, perhaps the most incompetent and corrupt Attorney General in American history, has turned the Department of Justice into a Trumpian Gestapo where masked people without warrants are author … ⌘ Read more

China’s Xi Prepares to Eat America’s Lunch as Trump Cedes Leadership on Clean Energy
Fiona Harvey,  Staff Writer  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Psychopath Trump is such an incompetent President/despot that I don’t think he even understands how he is being outplayed by President Xi of China, and none of his Congressional servants seem to understand what is happening either. Note the meeting described in this report and the fact that Trump wasn’t e … ⌘ Read more

Inside the Desperate Rush to Save Decades of US Scientific Data From Deletion
Chris Baraniuk,  Reporter  -  rsn | BBC (U.K.)

_Stephan: Now that the United States has become a fascist autocracy, the damage being done to science and education has become one of the most notable features of the Trump despotism. Fascists don’t like science because science proves how wrong and stupid they are. Nor do they like fact-based education, because educated peo … ⌘ Read more

UN food agency says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s blockade
WAFAA SHURAFA and LEE KEATH,  Reporter | Chief Editor for Middle Eastern Stories  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: The Israeli genocide of Palestinians is not getting the attention it should in the United States, because psychopath Trump and the Republicans are using anti-semitism as a cover to support the killing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, particularly … ⌘ Read more

Teens, Social Media and Mental Health
Michelle Faverio , Monica Anderson and Eugenie Park,  Research Staff  -  Pew Research Center

_Stephan: Are you old enough to remember a time when there was no internet or social media, and what your life was like. More social activity. More physical activity. More hanging out physically with friends. Drive-in movies and dances.  Today’s teens are fatter, less socially comfortable, woefully misinformed, and influenced by the weaponization of misinform … ⌘ Read more

Why Women Outlive Men in the U.S.
,    -  USA FACTS

_Stephan: The people of the United States do not live as long as people who live in developed, wellbeing-oriented democracies. Also, men in the United States overall have much shorter lives than women. Here are the facts. Partly this is the result of having an illness profit system rather than a healthcare system. But it is also partly the result of the resentment, stress, and anger so many men feel about gender and racial equality, which … ⌘ Read more

Supreme Court is ‘suffocating’ the Constitution as it ‘facilitates authoritarianism’: analyst
Ailia Zehra,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: The Republican Congress members have already knelt to give obeisance to despot Trump as he continues his fascist coup, effectively surrendering their role as defined by the Constitution; something straight out of Hitler’s playbook. Now the coup perpetrators are turning on the third branch of dem … ⌘ Read more

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case
Daniel Bice John Diedrich Mary Spicuzza, and Vanessa Swales,  Reporters  -  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

_Stephan: Psychopathic dictator Trump for the first time in U.S. history has arrested a  County Circuit Judge. Because Trump’s first response is always to be a bully he is clearly attempting to intimidate lower court judges from ruling against him. Like all fascists … ⌘ Read more

Arkansas appeals Trump administration denial of federal aid for tornado recovery
Lauren Irwin ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: The notably incompetent and nasty Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noemsaid in late March that she has plans to “eliminate” FEMA, to which despot Trump responded, “great.” As this report describes, Noem has already begun stopping the customary federal support for climate damage from floods, fires, and tornadoes. … ⌘ Read more

Trump signs executive order to dismantle the Civil Rights Act of 1964
,    -  Daily Kos | VPS Community

_Stephan: I still vividly remember walking down Constitution Avenue to the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King give his “I have a Dream” speech, and months later taking my then-girlfriend, who worked for the President, to a White House party after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964. After years of being involved in Ci … ⌘ Read more

Study Estimates Fossil Fuel Giants Have Inflicted $28 Trillion in Climate Damage Worldwide
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dream

_Stephan: Despot Trump and his nefarious administration are doing everything they can to protect the interests of the carbon energy corporations, and terminate any positive activity to ameliorate the damage of climate change. What has it cost? As a new study reports, try $28 trillion.  I don’t think ma … ⌘ Read more

42% of Americans under 30 say they’re ‘barely getting by’ financially, Harvard survey finds
Mike Winters,  Money Reporter  -  CNBC

_Stephan: When I was a boy, the social consensus was that each generation would do better than the one before. Despot Trump has reversed all of that and, as you can see in this report, it is particularly affecting young people who didn’t go to college. We are moving into a recession, maybe even a depression, a … ⌘ Read more

Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism
Frank Langfitt,  Roving Nstionsl Correspondent  -  npr

_Stephan: I have been telling you for weeks now that we have a psychopath, elected by frightened, resentful Americans, assisted by a cadre of men and women with no morality other than their greed and lust for power, who are turning America into a fascist autocracy like Hungary. As this article describes, I am far from the only … ⌘ Read more

Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican
Anna Silman,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Most of the Trump Republican anti-democracy coup is straight out of Hitler’s playbook. The one thing that stands out for me, however, is the growing weakness and gender fear of a large percentage of American men. They are frightened by and resentful of gender equality. … ⌘ Read more

$1 Trillion of Wealth Was Created for the 19 Richest U.S. Households Last Year
Juliet Chung,  Reporter  -  The Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: When I tell you the United States is now a neo-medieval society, I am neither kidding nor exaggerating. Medieval societies were authoritarian, and ruled by a despot. There was a very small group that had most of the wealth. The king and they rich wanted deference, submission and obedience, and had little conce … ⌘ Read more

A little-known federal agency is at the center of Trump’s executive order to overhaul US elections
CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: I told you despot Trump and his Republican Congressional servants were going to try and rig the 2026 election so they could not be voted out of office. Well, here it is. The United States is now, at best, a pseudo-democracy. We will definitely have an election in 2026, … ⌘ Read more

$8 billion of US climate tech projects have been canceled so far in 2025
Casey Crownhart,  Senior Climate Reporter  -  MIT Technology Review

_Stephan: You, your kids, and their kids are going to have a severely degraded quality of life because despot Trump is doing everything he can to stop any preparation for climate change, or anything that will take the United States out of the carbon energy era. The actions of this psychopath is going to negatively … ⌘ Read more

‘Alarming’ Report Shows Billions at Risk From Historically Low Snow Melt in Himalayas
Eloise Goldsmith,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Climate change is underway, as this article describes.  At a time when the United States should be leading a campaign to have all the nations of the world join together to address a trend that is going to transform the planet and the matrix of life, instead the United States, under despot Trump, is … ⌘ Read more

Editor’s Note – Is This What You Voted For
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

Stephan: EDITOR’S NOTE – IS THIS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR?

_The Founders didn’t agree about everything when they created the Constitution. But they did all agree about three things. They did not want a king. They did want a firewall between church and state. And they wanted the three branches of government they were creating to operate equally to preserve democracy. Now, 250 years later, psych … ⌘ Read more

‘American version of Adolf Hitler’: Major Jewish newspaper makes stark Trump comparison
David Edwards,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

Stephan: Jews who strongly remember Adolf Hitler now see despot Trump as a Hitler wannabe. This is how the world now sees the United States.

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Al Gore compares Trump administration to Nazi Germany
Debra Kahn,  California Policy Editor  -  Politico

_Stephan: When was the last time you heard a former vice president of the United States, (and former president if a fascist Supreme Court majority had not rigged his election) compare a presidential successor to Hitler? Never? Neither have I. It has never happened before in 250 years. This, however, is the reality of today; this is what is happening to the reputation … ⌘ Read more

Which Past Fascist Does Trump Most Resemble? The Incompetent One.
Alexander Stille,  Professor of international Journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University   -  The New Republic

_Stephan: While there is a growing agreement in the other nations of the world that the United States is becoming a fascist autocracy, a country you don’t want to visit or do business with, there is a growing discussion about whether despot Trump is more like … ⌘ Read more

GOP Judge Darkly Warns Of Last Chance To Avoid Tyranny
David Kurtz,  Staff Writer  -  Talking Points Memo

_Stephan: Although there are corrupt fascists on the courts – Alito and Thomas being prime examples – and the Department of Justice is completely corrupt, I think the general response of the judiciary is good news. Federal appeals court Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III is one such example. As this article describes, he makes it clear that he sees and understands the … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears
James Risen,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Despot Trump’s racism was inherited from his father, and has been a life-long attribute of his character, and is a defining aspect of MAGAt world. Black MAGAts don’t seem to get this, but then there were Black slave owners in pre-Civil War America. We don’t talk enough about this White supremacy racism in the Republican Party, and media doesn’t cover it properly, if at all.  But … ⌘ Read more

Money Worries: Just 13% of Americans Feel Confident About Their Finances
Study Fiinds Staff,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: Financial insecurity and stress, as this study shows, are hallmarks of American society. We are truly becoming a neo-medieval culture with The population the United States is 347,275,807. In 2025, the United States has 902 billionaires, which is the highest number of billionaires in the world, according to [Forbes](https://www.google.c … ⌘ Read more

Former Google CEO Warns That AI Is About to Escape Human Control
Noor Al-Sibai,  Staff Writer  -  The Byte

_Stephan: Sunday, I watched the segment of 60 Minutes discussing AI. Here is another view. What I don’t see any of these people discussing is the reality of what has happened as a result of the weaponization of the internet as a result of intentional misinformation, and how it has served tech billionaires supporting Trump’s fascist coup. I think the issue … ⌘ Read more

‘Deep red rural America’ hurts most as Trump attacks on liberal programs backfire: report
Jennifer Bowers Bahney,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Just as I, and many others have predicted, MAGAt world is going to experience the worst effects of the Trump coup and dismantlement of the economy and government. And in many ways, MAGAt voters didn’t even think about that when they voted. Here is an example of what I mean. I think … ⌘ Read more

Taxes on super rich and tech giants stall under Trump
Editorial Staff Agence France-Presse,  https://www.rawstory.com/trump-super-rich/  -  Agence France-Presse | Raw Story

_Stephan: Despot Trump has proven repeatedly that he doesn’t give a damn for the health, wellbeing, longevity, or education of you and your family. But he sure cares for the oligarchs and uber-rich who bought him his office with their hundreds of millions of dollars of donations and gifts. The United … ⌘ Read more

Trump signs executive order ending years of protections in Pacific monument
Sam Mauhay-Moore,  Trending News Reporter  -  SFGate

_Stephan: It is unclear to me whether Despot Trump is simply too stupid to understand the importance of supporting ecosystems, or he knows but just doesn’t care because someone has bribed him to make a decision that will allow them to damage an ecosystem. Or, most probably, it is both.  In any case the United States has no … ⌘ Read more

EPA Deletes Pollution Tracking Tools as It Offers Exemptions to Polluters
Mike Ludwig ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Here is yet another example of Despot Trump’s corruption doing favors for the uber-rich who enrich him so that he permits them to destroy Earth’s matrix of life and wellbeing. His corruption is going to have a decades-long impact, and will be a major factor contributing to the civilization-altering catastrophe that happens betwe … ⌘ Read more

America’s Ten Most Endangered Rivers Announced in New Report
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: The United States has not paid appropriate and adequate attention to the wellbeing of the nation’s ecosystems since President Jimmy Carter’s administration, and Despot Trump is doing everything in his power to gut any kind of climate protection in order to serve the uber-rich who bought him his office. And, sadly, American voters don’t … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
Alec MacGillis,  Reporters  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Fascist authoritarians like Despot Trump and his minions don’t ever like objectively verifiable databases to be compiled or maintained because the information can be used to prove how inferior their social policies are. If you have been reading my research papers (see SR arch … ⌘ Read more

China’s Breakthrough: Thorium Discovery Promises 60,000 Years of Clean Energy
,    -  Discovery / Alert

_Stephan: This, I think, is a very big deal and, in a planetary sense, good news, although not for the United States. It is going to be a major factor in ending the carbon era that Despot Trump, his unethical servants, and his oligarch funders are working so hard to keep Americans trapped in. I think this is the technology my remote viewers have b … ⌘ Read more

Experts Say Abrupt and “Staggering” CDC Cuts Will Cost Lives
Rita Rubin,    -  Journal of the American Medical Association

Stephan: America’s medical community of physicians and nurses is beginning to recognize how deadly the incompetence and disregard for human life of Despot Trump, his Frankenstein Musk, and the rest of the fascist MAGAts really is.  It is going to have a fatal effect on the population of America.

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‘Victory for scammers’: Trump fires 90% of Consumer Protection Agency staff
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story | Common Dreams

_Stephan: Donald Trump is both a fascist authoritarian and a lifelong scammer and grifter. Steaks, University, I am sure you can remember some of them. Or do a Google search, you’ll be amazed he is not in prison. So it is entirely predictable that as President, he is making it very hard to catch scammers and grifters. Un … ⌘ Read more

Editor’s Note
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Stephan:

_Like billions of others across the planet I have been watching for months now as the entire social order of the United States of America is dismantled in an attempt to create a neo-medieval oligarch owned white supremacy, male dominant, authoritarian fascist state. [1], [2], [3] As I write this we are not the same country we were before January 2025, and the destruction of the na … ⌘ Read more

Judge orders halt to mass firings at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Alexander Mallin and Peter Charalambous,  Reporters  -  abc News

_Stephan: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created by President Obama, has saved Americans over $20 billion from grifts. So is it surprising that Dictator Trump, who has been convicted multiple times of millions of dollars of grifts and scams, is trying to destroy the CFPB by firing 1,474 who work a … ⌘ Read more

White House proposes eliminating Head Start funding as part of sweeping budget cuts
JOCELYN GECKER,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Since its inception in 1965, the Head Start program has served nearly 40 million children and their families. If you have a preschool child, are they benefiting from a Head Start program? Well, Dictator Trump doesn’t give a damn about the wellbeing of little children, and he is working hard to eliminate … ⌘ Read more

Earth’s Atmosphere Faces ‘Thirstwaves,’ Scientists Warn
Paige Bennett,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: I had never even heard of Thirst Waves, and I doubt if you have either, but this is going to be a big deal as we go through climate change. I read a technical paper on this phenomenon and then found this article that explains it clearly. If you live in an area where it is dry and water is in short supply, I am afraid your life is going to get a lot more diffic … ⌘ Read more

Everything Trump is doing makes perfect sense if you understand one simple fact
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

Stephan: I think Thom Hartmann’s assessment of Directator Trump Is very insightful. It certainly agrees with what I have been telling you for years.

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Trump’s disastrous trade war is killing US tourismUS Economy to Lose Billions as Foreign Tourists Stay AwayTrump’s disastrous trade war is killing US tourism
Augusta Saraiva,  https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-economy-set-lose-billions-100000258.html  -  Yahoo! Finance | Bloomberg

_Stephan: If you live in an area where tourists are major contributors to your local budge … ⌘ Read more

Trump EPA’s Next Move: Making It Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer from Roundup
Schuyler Mitchell,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: A reader who said she had contracted and is being treated for cancer from using Roundup in her gardening sent me this. It is yet another nasty horrifying report about Dictator Trump’s MAGAt coup. I find it quite notable that so much of the evil of this coup and its corruption is how badly it harms the wellbeing a million … ⌘ Read more

Getting Rid of FEMA Will Bankrupt Small Towns
Jesse M. Keenan and Yuliya Panfil,  Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning within the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at Tulane University  -  Scientific America

_Stephan: Dictator Trump, the oligarchs who bought him his office, and his Congressional retainers, don’t give a damn about the American population. I don’t know how many ways they have to make this clear before it sinks … ⌘ Read more

The measles crisis is worse than we know—and the CDC can’t keep up
Walter Einenkel,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: We are beginning to see the effects resulting from Dictator Trump’s dismantlement of healthcare in the U.S., and it is not pretty. I predict we are going to see an increase in all kinds of healthcare issues in the coming months. I don’t really understand why the MAGAt coup is destroying healthcare in America, because I don’t see what they … ⌘ Read more

White House embraces Abrego Garcia fight
Brett Samuels,  Staff writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: The United States has come to the abyss of dictatorship. In the next three weeks we are going to learn whether Donald Trump must follow the laws as the courts decide or whether Donald Trump now defines the laws. Whether we remain a democracy or become a formal dictatorship. When Hitler took power in 1933, 53 days after coming into power he started opening concentration camps. The first one wa … ⌘ Read more

El Salvador denies senator visit with mistakenly deported man: Van Hollen
Sareen Habeshian,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: The utterly incompetent Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and her $50,000 Rolex, had no problem getting into the El Salvador concentration camp and posing in front of the inmates. But Democrat Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, when he went to El Salvador, was denied any access. Dictator Trump’s deal with Dictator Nayib B … ⌘ Read more

State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
Robbie Gramer and Nahal Toosi,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a man who throughout his career has made it clear that he is utterly lacking in honorable ethics, in service to Dictator Trump, is now doing something straight out of the Hitler playbook. This is exactly what Hitler did, although few in the media seem to know this. It is just another … ⌘ Read more

Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young
John Leicester,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Concurrent with the coup in the United States, something equally dangerous to democracy is going on internationally: the weaponization of the internet by terrorists and fascists. If you have young children who spend hours of their day on the internet, you would be wise to underst … ⌘ Read more

Trump Administration Fires Hundreds of Climate and Weather Specialists
Editorial Staff,    -  Yale Environment 360

_Stephan: The Trump authoritarian coup is very anti-science because science is about facts and facts are the one thing that frightens dictator Trump. The result of what he and his servants are doing has been the devastation of all the science, healthcare, and climatology agencies.  As this article from Yale University reports climatologists … ⌘ Read more

Patient Safety Network Abruptly Cut by Trump Administration
Jeremy Faust, MD, MS, MA,,   Editor-in-Chief   -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: American healthcare has been devastated by dictator Trump and his servants, and the Republicans in Congress have stood by and watched while they sucked their thumbs. The only chance we have of retaining a democracy in the United States, assuming the 2026 election is not rigged in advance, is to vote all Republicans in the House and t … ⌘ Read more

‘The Homegrowns Are Next’: Trump Promises to Send American Citizens to El Salvador in Harrowing Comments to Bukele
Colby Hall,  Founding Editor  -  Mediate

_Stephan: I am surprised the media isn’t saying out loud what is actually going on. American dictator Donald Trump has made a deal with dictator Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to run a concentration camp for which he will pay him $6,000 per person of your tax doll … ⌘ Read more

Polling shows growing number of Republicans identify with the MAGA movement
Ben Kamisar,    -  NBC News

Stephan: What you rarely hear anyone talking about is how many Germans supported Hitler for years after they voted him into office. You may find it hard to believe but that is exactly the same thing happening in the United States, Here are the facts.

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‘We’​re Turning Into a Dictatorship’: Trump Tariffs Seen as Ploy to Further Consolidate Power
Jake Johnson,  Senior editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: We became a dictatorship this morning, and democracy ended in the United States. Dictator Trump made it clear he doesn’t give a damn what the Supreme Court says. He’ll do what he likes, including deporting without any legal process anyone he likes, including American-born citizens. He als … ⌘ Read more

Trump administration contends it has no duty to return illegally deported man to US
Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: The legal system of the United States is collapsing. We are very quickly becoming a country of ethical laws. Dictator Trump has made it clear he is above the law and the courts have no power over him. He is also corrupting major law firms in the country which are bowing down and telling him … ⌘ Read more

Law firms pledge almost $1 billion in free work to Trump
Sam Baker,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

Stephan: Here is a list, it is probably longer today but this was the most fact-based one I could find, of the law firsm that have become the legal servants of dictator Trump. The men and women in these firms are week and unethical. Don’t become a client of any of them, and if you are in law school do not go to work for any of them when you pass your law exam.

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Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters
Sharon Lerner,  Environmental Staff Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Dictator Trump has made it very clear that in thanks for the millions the carbon industries spent to buy his presidency for him, he will do nothing to prepare the United States for the catastrophe of climate change. As a result, millions of Americans are going to have their lives turned … ⌘ Read more

Editor’s Note – Israel’s Ongoing Genocide
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: I am been so focused on the coup that destroying America’s democracy, legal system, our healthcare, education systems, museums, and libraries that I haven’t posted anything about the ongoing genocide being carried out by Israel under the fascist Benjamin Netanyahu and his ultra-rightist government. Ostensibly this is because the terrorist organization Hamas captured some 1,200 Israelis wh … ⌘ Read more

As Israel Pulls Plug on Gaza, Smotrich Says Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Plan ‘Taking Shape’
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: To be very clear: I in no way defend, in fact, actively condemn Hamas’ terrorism and hostage taking. But that does not justify what is being done in Gaza. There are deeper plans being perpetrated.  One is the issue “dictator” Trump has been talking about for weeks. I suspect that Netanyahu and Tru … ⌘ Read more

Israeli air strike destroys part of last fully functional hospital in Gaza City
Rushdi Abualouf,  Reporter  -  BBC (U.K.)

_Stephan: Israel has now destroyed the last functioning medical center in Gaza City, thus ending the health system available to the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel claims it has destroyed all the Gazan hospitals because they are being used as terrorist command centers by Hamas. However, all journalists and all medical staff at t … ⌘ Read more

Journalists Under Fire in Gaza, Israel’s Deadly War on Reporters
,    -  The Intercept

Stephan: The Israelis and Trump don’t want journalists covering what is happening in Gaza because it is such a moral nightmare, and as the briefing describes, there is an active war on journalists to stop them from really digging into the tragedy that is going on. This is also, I think, why pro-Palestinian college students are having their visas terminated.

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Children in Gaza Are So Hungry They’re Drawing Pictures of Food in the Sand
Sharon Zhang,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

Stephan: This is what Palestinian children of Gaza have been reduced to, even as the international aid workers who are trying to help the children are being killed by Israel.

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Americans Give Early Trump Foreign Policy Actions Mixed or Negative Reviews
Laura Silver, Jordan Lippert, and Andrew Prozorovsky,  Research Staff  -  Rew Research Center

_Stephan: I am following reliable research polls on Trump and his administration because I have been so surprised at how many Americans still support his coup, and his destruction of the economy, social security, education, and healthcare. My explanation for this is that a large per … ⌘ Read more

The manosphere and networked misogyny
Zhen Troy Chen, PhD, FHEA , Dr. Calogero Giametta, PhD , Dr. Jacob Johanssen, PhD & Dr. Irida Ntalla, PhD,    -  Nature

_Stephan: One of the many negative effects of social media is the rise of the manosphere. I had no idea until I began to research this the weaponization of misinformation how many American men, particularly young men, are weak, psychologically disturbed, insecure about their manhood, and threatened by women. In the United States ri … ⌘ Read more

What we know about rumors Trump admin ordered ‘loyalists’ to wear golden lapel pins of president’s face
Laerke Christensen,  Contributing Writer  -  Snopes

_Stephan: Between 1981 and 1993 I spent about three months each year in communist dictator countries; the worst of which culturally was Romania. But even in Romania, I didn’t see his people going around with gold Nicolae Ceaușescu pins in the labels of their jackets. This … ⌘ Read more

Wall Street execs worried ‘erratic’ Trump ‘maybe isn’t all there’: CNN
Tom Boggioni,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

Stephan: I have been telling you for months that based on the Hare psychopathology scale Trump is a psychopath, and may have other mental disorders as well. Others are also beginning to think this. I predict we are going to see more of this.

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73% of Americans are financially stressed. Two-thirds say tariff concerns are the source: CNBC survey
Stephanie Dhue and Sharon Epperson,  Reporters  -  CNBC

_Stephan: As this report describes nearly three-quarters of Americans are now feeling economic stress as a result of the catastrophe being created by one man who aspires to openly be a dictator. I have been predicting for months that we would be in a recession by June; I … ⌘ Read more

American Stasi
John B. Alexandria,  Contributing Writer  -  Daily Kos

Stephan: John Alexander, who has considerable expertise in the geopolitical world, has it exactly right. Our democracy is crumbling into authoritarianism as the Republicans in Congress sit sucking their thumbs listening to Daddy tell them what to do.

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Marco Rubio memo cites Mahmoud Khalil’s beliefs in justifying his deportation
Chloe Atkins and Matt Lavietes,  Reporters  -  NBC News

_Stephan: We are now at a point in the Trump coup where you can be thrown out of the United States for what some official thinks you might think.  Note particularly that the coup is using as a justification for its deportations what it calls anti-semitism, whenever anyone opposes Israel’s genocide of the people of Ga … ⌘ Read more

Hundreds of Museum and Library Grants Terminated Overnight
Valentina Di Liscia,  News Editor  -  Hyperallergic

_Stephan: Benjamin Franklin and other Founders thought public libraries were so important that a library was one of the first things they established. Andrew Carnegie, an immigrant from Scotland, also saw the importance of libraries and he spent much of his fortune building and establishing public libraries all over the country, many of which still exist. B … ⌘ Read more

Trump approval rating now? What polls say of president today amid tariffs pause, China trade war
Chris Sims,   Digital Content Producer for Midwest Connect Gannett  -  IndyStar

_Stephan: We are experiencing a coup created by a man who sees himself as above the law, basically the self-appraisal of every aspiring dictator, and yet if you look at the polls reported today you see that between 42 to 47% of Americans still approve what … ⌘ Read more

Trump Targets Law Firm Behind $787.5 Million Fox News Suit (4)
John Hughes,  Reporter/Editor  -  Bloomberg Law

_Stephan: Psychopath “tyrant” Trump, and his fascist servant, Attorney General Pam Bondi, are, as quickly as possible, trying to destroy the judicial system of the United States. As a result over half of the attorneys in the Solicitor General’s office are resigning, and Trump is resentfully targeting law firms, many of whom are caving to his wishes. This a … ⌘ Read more

Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’
Gustaf Kilander,  Reporter  -  Independent (U.K.)

Stephan: This article stood out to me for two reasons: First, this is what the United States and its psychopathic “tyrant” Trump look like to media in the U.K. and other countries. Second, it is one of the first major media pieces I have seen dealing with Trump’s mental illness.

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Crackdown: Hundreds of Student Visas Cancelled
Michael Arria,  Staff Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: The United States under “tyrant” Trump is going full Stalin. We are driving foreign students out of the country’s already deeply damaged universities and colleges. This is going to have several major consequences destructive to the nation’s wellbeing. First, foreign college students are going to stop applying to American colleges and universities. Second, did you know that approxim … ⌘ Read more

NYC and Long Island Could Lose 80,000 Homes to Flooding by 2040, Exacerbating Housing Crisis: Report
By: Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: While we are witnessing one psychopath destroy the structure and wellbeing of the United States stage a coup, and create a global economic crisis, the climate change disaster grows ever more threatening. Importantly, the psychopath has shown no interest in … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s justice department to disband unit investigating crypto fraud
Anna Betts,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I think history is going to record this period of American history as the most corrupt in 250 years. And it is also blatantly obvious. You suspect as well as I do, I bet, that at least several MAGAt leaders in the “emperor’s” regime made millions in this ongoing manipulated tariff crime.  But that is just one piece of what is going on. Just … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s Tariffs Whiplash Is Open Corruption. He Admitted It Himself.
Malcolm Ferguson,  Staff Writer  -  THe New Republic

Stephan: Here is the evidence validating what I said in my comment on the previous article. I find it notable that corporate media is not focused on the corruption that is so notably the hallmark of the MAGAt coup that is tearing the United States apart.

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Chaos and Corruption Weekly Digest: Week 11
,    -   American Federation of Government Employees

Stephan: Week 11 of the corruption that is the unacknowledged but defining character of the coup.

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Week 11 saw Trump’s attack on the free press, our country’s economy and ability to fight diseases and find cures. But the American people pushed back against his attacks in four elect … ⌘ Read more

‘Fossil Fuels Are Killing Us’: Major Study Details How Fossil Fuels Are Driving Climate, Health and Biodiversity Crises
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: As a madman and his enabling oligarchs and quisling Senators and Representatives are dismantling American democracy, social order, and economy they are also destroying all efforts to stop the planetary disaster being wrough … ⌘ Read more

MAGA Podcaster Turned FBI Boss Demands 20-Agent Security Detail
Liam Archacki ,  News Reporter  -  The Daily Beast

_Stephan: The thing that stands out for me is the utter incompetence of the people in the Trump administration, and how much they wanted to be pampered and indulged. They claim they want efficiency but produce just the opposite. I wonder how many American voters realize that the two largest agencies overseeing health care in the United States are b … ⌘ Read more

USDA to slash headquarters, other staff and relocate some to new ‘hubs’ around the country
Eric Katz,  Senior Correspondent  -  Government Executive

_Stephan: The Department of Agriculture is being torn apart and moved out of Washington, D.C. entirely. The impact this is going to have on the wellbeing of farmers, whose average age is about 59, is going to be devastating. That guarantees that your grocery prices of anything those farmers … ⌘ Read more

‘Cost us $26M!’ Jasmine Crockett spits ‘fire’ at Trump’s golfing
David Edwards,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

Stephan: While psychopath “emperor” Trump and his cretinous minions blather on about efficiency while they dismantle the government and destroy the wellbeing of America, you and I are spending millions of dollars to pay for the “emperor’s” golf games. It is straight out of the reign of Nero and Caligula.

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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Damian Carrington,  Environment Editor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Capitalism is fine, as long as there is one modification, the first priority must be that  your capitalism must be conducted in such a way that it promotes wellbeing. Government policies must do the same. You can see how this works, and how it proves what I am saying is factually accurate. Look at the top seven happiest count … ⌘ Read more

CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration
Helen Branswell,  Senior Writer, Infectious Diseases  -  STAT

_Stephan: American healthcare already the worst amongst the developed democracies of the world and by orders of magnitude the most expensive, has been so severely destroyed that your healthcare is already seriously compromised and your health may be at risk. Imagine, we have a system in which th … ⌘ Read more

The Trump Administration’s Department of Homeland Publicity
James Poniewozik,  Chief TV Critic  -  The New York Times

Stephan: The one thing the monster and his MAGAt vassals are good at is the weaponization of misinformation. It is the main tool they use to keep the low IQ, low education, resentful and racist worshippers in a dark fantasy reality. And your tax dollars are being used to pay for this.

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Trump Will Get His Showy (And Likely Expensive) Military Parade in D.C.
Tom Sherwood,  Staff Writer  -  Washington, D.C. City Paper

_Stephan: I have been waiting for this. All dictators like nothing better than huge ceremonial military displays. Think about Nazi Germany, North Korea, Stalin’s Soviet Union, and Putin’s Russia. So it appears So, that’s where we are headed on Saturday, June 14, for the maximum leader’s 79th birthday. It will cost tens of mill … ⌘ Read more

Editor’s Note –Thank you, On The Mend
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

Stephan: Thank you all for your good wishes and healing intentions. I am on the mend from a flu-cold I apparently caught from someone last week at a community gathering.  A nasty passage, but nothing serious. ⌘ Read more

The entire tariff Executive Order is based on bogus numbers and a fake expert economist
,  Contributing Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: This should be the most important story in the news on every media platform, but it is not; either because except for Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, and a few other commentators, journalists and their editors and producers are afraid to publish or broadcast it, or they don’t understand it. Here is the truth abou … ⌘ Read more

White House Adviser Peter Navarro Calls Fictional Alter Ego An ‘Inside Joke’
Scott Horsley,  Chief Economics Correspondent  -  npr

Stephan: Here is the proof that both the media and psychopath “emperor” Trump have known for years that Peter Navarro is a fraud and pseudo-economist. Yet how many Americans do you think know anything about this? Why isn’t it mentioned every time Navarro’s name comes up?

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‘Turbulence far away’: NYT exposes Trump ‘moneymaking weekend’ amid huge ‘market meltdown’
David McAfee,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: As the days go on psychopath “emperor” Trump makes it ever more clear how little he is concerned with actual governing in a democracy sense. He shows Americans by his daily actions that he sees them as peasants and himself as above their petty wellbeing. And, because the corrupt  U.S. Supreme Court p … ⌘ Read more

‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package
Dharna Noor,   Fossil Fuels and Climate Reporter   -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I keep watching to see whether American voters are clear that as long as psychopath “emperor” Trump is President nothing is going to be done to prepare and obviate the impact of climate change on their lives. He is completely corrupt and in the service of the carbon oligarchs who bought him his office. Do you think MAGAt … ⌘ Read more

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