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

_Stephan: I want to thank all of you who wrote to send me good wishes. I really appreciate it. I have some kind of flu-cold, and it is as bad as when I got Covid. But, after spending the day in bed, I felt a little better and decided to come down and try to do SR, inasmuch as the United States, indeed the whole world, has been severely damaged by the madness of psychopath Trump. Anyway, I hope this illness is ending, and I tha … ⌘ Read more

A catastrophe is unfolding at the top US health agency — and it will put American lives at risk
Dylan Scott,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: In 2024 the United States was ranked by the World Health Organization as the worse healthcare, yet by orders of magnitude the most expensive, in the developed democracies. Thanks to psychopath “monarch” Trump American healthcare will now get significantly worse, Almost unbelievably America’s h … ⌘ Read more

Trump Turns Homelessness Response Away From Housing, Toward Forced Treatment
Angela Hart,  Staff Writer  -  MedPage Today | Kaiser Family Foundation

Stephan: In so many ways psychopath Trump, who sees himself as a kind of medieval lord, makes it clear he couldn’t care less about those whom he sees as American peasants. I see example after example of his attitude in the choices he makes; this article reports on his views of the homeless.

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Americans are behind on car payments at a record level
April Rubin,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: As I lay in bed and thought about the disaster wrought on America by psychopath “monarch” Trump, the increase in car prices recurred several times, and I wondered how were Americans doing with car payments prior to  Trump’s self-mutilation of the country of which he is President. So when I felt a little better I came down to my office and did a some research. It turns o … ⌘ Read more

The billionaire-filled city so secretive it does not want outsiders to know that it exists
James Cirrone,  News Reporter  -  Mail Online (U.K.)

Stephan: Yet another example of the neo-medieval trend that is socially reshaping the United States. You have probably never heard of Bradbury, California, and that is the way the residents want it. It is the richest city in California.

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No SR Today Due to Illness
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Trump announces sweeping new tariffs, upending decades of US trade policy
Lauren Aratani and David Smith,  Staff Writers  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I have been predicting since Trump was sworn in as President that the United States will be in recession by June, and the American economic sectors, farming, construction, manufacturing, healthcare and others will be in crisis. If you actually look at the list Trump is holding you will see he is putt … ⌘ Read more

The IRS unit that audits billionaires has lost 38% of its employees since January, new data shows
Spencer Woodman,  Reporter  -  International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

_Stephan: As I told you yesterday, it is my view that Trump made a deal with a group of fascist billionaire oligarchs to dismantle American democracy and give them a level of influence and control they have never before attained. If they would buy hi … ⌘ Read more

JD Vance is now in charge of making museums racist
Oliver Willis,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: Psychopath “monarch” Trump has always been a White supremacist, as was his father before him. Now, seeing himself as an authoritarian leader of a fascist pseudo-democracy who can not be overruled, he is rewriting American history, as this article describes. As he does this, the spineless MAGAts in Congress are silent, and the American people themselves, as the voters of … ⌘ Read more

Travel Cancellations Surge as US Faces New Decline in Tourism: Canada, Western Europe, and Mexico See Increased Interest in Alternative Destinations
,  Contributing Writer  -  Travel and Tour World

_Stephan: As this article says, “For decades, the United States has consistently ranked as one of the top three most visited countries in the world.” Well, that’s over. If you work in a … ⌘ Read more

Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, defying Elon Musk
Adam Edelman,  Reporter  -  NBC News

_Stephan: Finally, we have some good news. You have probably already heard that Susan Crawford has beaten Brad Schimel for the Wisconsin Supreme Court despite the tens of millions of dollars Elon Musk spent trying to buy the election outcome for “monarch” Trump and his MAGAt cult. The media is covering all this, but as I have thought about what happened t … ⌘ Read more

Widespread firings start at federal health agencies including many in leadership
Rob Stein, Sydney Lupkin, Selena Simmons-Duffin, Joseph Shapiro, Carmel Wroth, and Yuki Noguchi,  Staff Writers  -  npr

_Stephan: Today psychopath “monarch” Trump gutted your healthcare. The result is going to be not just increased death, as Senator Bernie Sanders said, but a significant increase in avoidable injuries and illnesses. The lifespan of Americans is alr … ⌘ Read more

Sanders Says 67,000 Could Die Awaiting Benefits Under Musk Cuts to Social Security Administration
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: As I am writing this the media is telling me that Republicans have won the two House races in Florida, a state where many people can’t get home insurance; where universities are having courses removed, and public school curricula is being altered from education to indoctrinati … ⌘ Read more

How did childcare in the US become so absurdly expensive?
Robin Buller,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: As I have told readers again and again, one of the things that stands out about American society is how poor, and yet how expensive everything about childhood is. It is hard to be born as a baby in the United States, our infant mortality rate is the highest in the developed world, and even if the child survives American maternal mortality is almost f … ⌘ Read more

Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of voters
Alexis Anderson-Reed,  President of State Voices, a non-partisan organization   -  The Guardian (U.K.)

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_It should be clear to anyone with an IQ higher than their height in inches (78 is considered retarded) that the Trump MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party is doing everything in its power to create a pseudo-democracy. They do not want a fair all-citizens voting election. Here is … ⌘ Read more

Grassley unveils bill to limit reach of judicial rulings
Rebecca Beitsch,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

Stephan: I hate having to do these stories, but the psychopath “monarch” Trump MAGAt (Republican) coup is the dominant trend shaping America’s future. Sen. Grassley put into office by Iowa voters is one of the most despicable MAGAts in Congress, and he is explicitly trying to dismantle the country’s constitutional judiciary system, as this article describes.

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Trump Just Ripped Up Federal Workers’ Union Contracts
Meagan Day,  Staff Writer  -  Reader Supported News | Jacobin

Stephan: Part of psychopath “monarch” Trump’s coup to dismantle democracy and a functioning government, is the elimination of any kind of collective action such as unions. This is the latest move to accomplish that goal.

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Pam Bondi orders DOJ to drop case accusing Georgia of suppressing Black voters
David Edwards,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

Stephan: Pam Bondi, incomprehensibly the Attorney General of the United States looks to me like a Barbie doll and sounds about as competent as one. But she is an unfailingly loyal vassal of psychopath “monarch” Trump and is doing his bidding to destroy voting rights in the country. Here is the latest in that trend.

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All 50 States Show Rising Rates of Avoidable Death, While Comparable Countries Improve
Irene Papanicolas, Maecey Niksch, and Jose F. Figueroa,  Medical Researchers  -  Study Finds

_Stephan: The United States has the worst, yet most expensive healthcare in the developed world. Americans live shorter lives than people in other developed nations. The United States has more avoidable deaths than other developed nations. Those are facts. And un … ⌘ Read more

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

_Stephan: It has been known for years that Roundup causes various kinds of cancer, but that knowledge did not take it off the shelves of thousands of stores in the United States. Why? Because, of course, it was very profitable and Monsanto the company that made it, thanks to Citizens United, bought enough politici … ⌘ Read more

Europe looks to poach US researchers as Trump cuts funding
Pieter Haeck,    -  Politico

_Stephan: As psychopath Trump and his MAGAt vassals destroy American science institutions and agencies, a trend describing the U.S. future is emerging.  As this article describes 12 European countries are offering many of the scientists from those institutions and agencies positions in their country. Frankly, if I were younger and such an option were offered to me I think I might … ⌘ Read more

JD Vance is now in charge of making museums racist
Oliver Willis,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

Stephan: Psychopath Trump is a lifelong racist, just as his father was, and with the help of his vassals, he is now making racism a fundamental trend in the United States. Even the revered Smithsonian Institution is being changed by this racism. Here is the latest on this emerging trend.

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Wisconsin appeals court won’t stop Musk’s $1 million payments to voters after attorney general sues
Thomas Beaumont,  Reporter  -  The Associated Press

_Stephan: America’s judiciary like its law firms is partially corrupt and weak and partially ethical and strong. This appellate court decision is an example of corruption and weakness. How could any ethical court rule that open bribery of voters to buy an election outcome is lega … ⌘ Read more

Yet another Trump-loving creep is arrested for alleged sex crimes
Emily Singer,  Contributing Writer  -  Daily Kos

Stephan: The characteristic of the Republican MAGAt political world that really stands out to me, is the sexual perversion and dysfunction that defines so many of these White men. Particularly, their interest in pubescent underage girls.

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$500m superyacht, $32k-night-hotels & a $2m ring… inside the Bezos wedding of the century in world’s most beautiful city
Harvey Geh,  Reporter  -  Sun News

_Stephan: Welcome to the oligarch world. It surprises me how little attention the media pays to the emergence of the neo-medieval culture the oligarchs have created. I don’t think most Americans can really conceptualize the difference between their lives and t … ⌘ Read more

Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’
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_Stephan: Fascist MAGAt Republican Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, is one of the politicians who along with Florida’s fascist-controlled state legislature is creating the neo-medieval society the oligarchs wish to emerge in the United States. If the bill described in this British newspaper becomes law school children in … ⌘ Read more

Canada Announces Bombshell Break With U.S. Over Trump
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_Stephan: MAGAt monarch Trump is singlehandedly destroying a 200-year-old friendship and working partnership between the United States and Canada. The effect this is going to have on U.S. communities is going to be devastating. Trump is a resentful psychopath and not smart enough to realize that Canada will very quickly find alternative buyers for their raw materials and products, while America will have to fin … ⌘ Read more

Trump signs executive order that will upend US voter registration processe
Joseph Gedeon and Sam Levine,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: The MAGAt monarch and the White oligarchs who seek to create a neo-medieval authoritarian state are doing everything they can to end genuine democracy in the United States. Here is the latest. ⌘ Read more

Republicans, Men Push Trump Approval Higher in Second Term
Jeffrey M. Jones, PhD and Megan Brenan,   Senior Editor | Senior Editor  -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: What amazes me is how the percentage of MAGAt monarch Trump’s approval rating remains so high. I see this not only as a political issue but, even more, as a cultural issue. It reflects the weakness, resentment, and insecurity of American men of all ages. It is such a powerful trend in America that it … ⌘ Read more

Women twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as men — but scientists do not know why
Sofia Moutinho ,  Contributing Writer  -  Nature Medicine

Stephan: If you are a woman, or married to a woman, or with female older relatives, please read this fact-based research report on Alzheimer’s disease. Notice three things: First, the extreme gender disparity. Second, the racial disparity. Third, the hormonal factor.

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Trump is a Threat to the Entire Human Species
John B. Alexander,  Commentator  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: As MAGAt dictator Trump’s regime continues its coup, although I am beginning to see ordinary Americans turning out in opposition, I still don’t see media or ordinary Americans acknowledging that this devastation of the country’s democracy is disordering the entire world and endangering the matrix of life on Earth, and that it is going to take years to repair this damage. John Al … ⌘ Read more

RFK Jr.’s Mass Layoffs: How Many Jobs Top Health Agencies Will Lose
Kristina Fiore,  Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting  -  MedPage Today

Stephan: The United States already has the lowest-ranked and most expensive healthcare system in the developed world. Now, as the fascists continue their coup, it is going to get worse. The vast majority of Americans have no idea what good healthcare is actually like.

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Some European countries and Canada issue advisories for travelers to the U.S.
Chandelis Duster,  Reporter  -  npr

_Stephan: Over the past three weeks, I have received five emails from SR readers who live in other countries telling me that they are cancelling their plans to come to the United States for vacations or business. A sixth reader, a German medical researcher, told me that she had been offered a research grant that would have required her … ⌘ Read more

Three Stories for Today’s Edition
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Today’s edition contains only three articles due to internet outages caused by bad weather.

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Trump administration to cut vaccine aid to developing countries
Marina Dunbar,  U.S. Guardian Fellow  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: MAGAt Monarch Trump’s regime has just ended vaccine aid for millions of children in the developing countries. It is estimated that will result in the death of several million children. It will also ensure that Americans, particularly unvaccinated Americans, both adults and children, who travel to any of these countries may now b … ⌘ Read more

Trump Administration Cancels at Least 68 Grants Focused on LGBTQ Health Questions
,    -  Med Page Today | Associted Press

_Stephan: In 2025, a Gallup poll found that 9.3% of adult Americans identify as LGBTQ+. The population of the U.S. in the census of 2024 was 340,110,988. Now it is probably greater, but in 2024 that meant 31,630,322 males and females identified as LGBTQ+. So MAGAt Monarch Trump and his regime yesterday degraded the healt … ⌘ Read more

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
Annie Waldman and Sharon Lerner,  Health Car Reporter | Health and Environment Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: MAGAt Monarch Trump and his regime are very pointedly doing nothing to prepare for climate change. Indeed, they deny it exists as a real alteration in the ecosystems of Earth. So no funding for healthcare to prepare for what is demonstrably happening. It is going to create … ⌘ Read more

Alien Enemies Act Deportations Were Carefully Orchestrated To Keep Courts In The Dark
Josh Kovensky,  Investigative Reporter  -  TPM

Stephan: We are all watching the ongoing coup and the rising autocracy. What particularly stands out for me over the past several days is the deliberate carefully constructed dismantlement of our democracy’s legal system.

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Law firms refuse to represent Trump opponents in the wake of his attacks
Michael Birnbaum ,    -  msn | The Washington Post

_Stephan: One of the keys to all fascist takeovers of democracies when the democracy is being taken apart is to so threaten and badly damage the legal system that when critics and opponents are attacked by the authoritarian, they cannot even get a lawyer to represent and defend them in the courts while, at the same time, the cour … ⌘ Read more

Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
Scott Wong, Melanie Zanona and Rebecca Kaplan,  Reporters  -  NBC News

_Stephan: The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is not functioning as the leader of a coequal branch of the Executive branch. Instead, he behaves like a White House staff assistant. He is clearly a participant in the authoritarian dismantlement of the legal system of the United … ⌘ Read more

There are 132 lawsuits against Trump. Pay attention to these two.
Ian Millhiser,  Senior Correspondent  -  Vox

_Stephan: I predict we are within a few weeks of the final threshold to see if the United States still has a functioning democracy-based legal system. As this article describes, the answer to this question will come down to how the Supreme Court rules on these two cases. Speaking as a historian, the two worst Supreme Court decisions, in my opinion, of … ⌘ Read more

‘I don’t care what judges think’: Tom Homan doubles down despite deportation ban
David Edwards,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Border czar Tom Homan is a despicable human being. He is also stating out loud what psychopath “king” Trump and his MAGAt servants believe and Project 2025 stated clearly, and which the Supreme Court has ruled is American law. The President is above the law, and immune to any prosecution for his official decis … ⌘ Read more

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
Annie Waldman and Sharon Lerner,  Staff Writers  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: An important part of the psychopath “king” Trump’s coup and strategy to create a kind of neo-medieval society owned and controlled by Trump’s oligarch aristocracy, is to dismantle and disable any attempt to prepare for climate change. This report describes the coup group’s latest move. Why is this happening? The an … ⌘ Read more

There Are Four Things You Must Do to Save America
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: As I was researching stories for today’s SR, I did a podcast with a host named Helen Cowan. She asked me what I thought was going on in the United States, and what I thought ordinary people could do to preserve the nation’s democracy and avoid the country being owned by oligarchs. As I answered her I thought that rather than do the usual four trend stories … ⌘ Read more

Musk PAC offers voters $100 for signing petition against ‘activist judges’
Henry Redman,  Reporter  -  Wisconsin Examiner / Raw Story

_Stephan: It is apparently now legal in the United States for oligarchs to openly bribe American voters to vote for the candidate of their choice. Can this possibly be true? I am ashamed to tell you it is, and here is the factual proof.  Psychopath Trump’s Frankenstein co-president Musk, as this report describes, is openl … ⌘ Read more

20% of Americans support boycott of firms aligning themselves with Trump agenda
Lauren Aratani ,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: Americans, at least some of them, seem to be waking up to what is being done to the democracy, economics, and gender and racial equality of the United States by psychopath Trump and his oligarchs and MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party. I completely support this, and my wife and I are amongst the boycotters.
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List of American Companies That Support President Donald Trump
Katherine Fung and Jenna delong,  Staff Reporters  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: Here is a list of companies and individuals who are supporting psychopath “king” Trump and what he is doing to the United States. If you want to stop the destruction of American democracy, our economy, gender and racial equality, and the place of the United States in the world, don’t spend a dime with any of these companies. (cl … ⌘ Read more

Taking $200 Out of an ATM Should Not Trigger Federal Financial Surveillance
Joe Lancaster ,  Staff Writer  -  reason

_Stephan: In the course of my life, as I have studied how wellbeing fostering social transformations can be made to happen, I have spent a considerable amount of time in fascist, authoritarian, and communist countries. One of the things I learned over those years is that the people in those countries become very sensitive to tripwires … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s funding ax throws colleges into an existential crisis
Erica Pandey,    -  Axios

_Stephan: The Trumpian authoritarian coup continues, and democracy dissipates; all of this following Hitler’s action list point by point. What stands out for me is how weak the institutional resistance is. Universities are docilely falling to their knees. Law firms are proving equally craven. There is only one way this is going to stop. You – and I mean you – must participate … ⌘ Read more

Is a Kinder World a Happier One?
Jon Clifton and Julie Ray,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: The other day SR had an article about the happiest nations in the world. Not surprisingly the United States is not even in the top 20 – we are 24th – and dropping. This report from Gallup shows factually, how countries become happy: They make fostering wellbeing, kindness, and integrity their top priorities. I have been telling you this for 30 years based on my decades of research on successf … ⌘ Read more

Bill Gates Is Giving Up on Climate Change as Trump Drains the Woke Out of Washington: Looks like banking on billionaires to solve climate change isn’t gonna do the trick.
AJ Dellinger,  Staff Writer  -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: I confess this report surprised me. I thought Bill Gates, and his cohorts, recognized that no matter what Trump did they would stay the cour … ⌘ Read more

China, Russia eager to fill void as Trump axes US-funded media
,    -  Agence France-Presse (France) | Raw Story

_Stephan: Because the fascist oligarchal coup now underway in the United States is led by an ignorant psychopath and greedy short-sighted oligarchs, it is being carried out incredibly stupidly. The Putin dictatorship, of course, is very happy, because they have something that controls Trump in matters in which they are involved, i.e., the Ukrainian w … ⌘ Read more

These are the world’s happiest countries in 2025
Marnie Hunter,  Reporter  -  CNN

Stephan: Thanks to psychopath Trump, the oligarchs who own him, and the flying monkeys in Congress who pay obeisance to him, the United States has gone from Ronald Reagan’s description of the nation as a “Shining city on a hill.” to a non-democratic sewer of fascism, racism, resentment, and misery. We are no longer even in the top 20.

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‘Absolute chaos’ at Dept of Agriculture could skyrocket rural grocery prices: report
Brad Reed,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The United States as I predicted is going into recession, and your groceries prices are going to go up. We are at a moment of truth we have not experienced since the Founders created the United States. We are no longer a functioning democracy, and the authoritarian government that now runs the country cares noth … ⌘ Read more

US measles outbreak tops 300 cases — what to know about the disease
Emily Cooke,  Staff Writer  -  Live Science

_Stephan: Because of the destruction of the healthcare agencies in the United States by psychopath Trump, his Frankenstein oligarch Musk, and the flying monkeys of DOGE, I predict we are going to see more pandemics. Measles, now above 300 cases, has spread to a number of states beyond Texas – Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland … ⌘ Read more

Trump Issues Firm Directive to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Sonam Sheth and Gabe Whisnant,  Evening Politics Editor | Breaking News Editor   -  Newsweek

_Stephan: This, in my opinion is the critical turning point on whether democracy survives in the United States. Psychopath “king” Trump believes he is above the law, and will not, and need not, follow what judges decide. We are about to find out whether by judges he also means Supreme Court … ⌘ Read more

Trump administration unveils sweeping environment rollbacks
,    -  Agence France-Presse (France)

_Stephan: This is the way the United States is being described by the leading news service in France. The good news I think is that it is beginning to dawn on Americans that psychopath Trump and the MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party are carrying out a coup, and that the world sees this. The really bad news is that the Trump/Musk/MAGAt cabal have gutted all efforts to … ⌘ Read more

Here are the 60 universities under investigation by the Trump administration
Ray Bogan ,  Political Correspondent  -  Straight Arrow News

_Stephan: The Trump coup has made clear it considers the universities of America enemies of its authoritarian takeover of the United States. So completely predictably, like all fascist coups in history, the Trumpers (read neo-Nazis) are attacking and attempting to take control of American higher education. They g … ⌘ Read more

Local food for schools helps farmers and kids. So why is Trump cutting funding?
Sunny Baker,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: For hundreds of thousands of American school children their lunch at school is an essential part of their diet, and interrupting these lunches could have horrible lifelong health consequences for these children. So why are the Trumpers sabotaging these school lunches?

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Russia’s Shadow War Against the West
Seth G. Jones,  President of the Defense and Security Department and Harold Brown Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)  -  Center for Strategic and International Studies

_Stephan: You may have heard or read that the Trumper administration (read neo-Nazi) has decided to end surveillance of Russian attempts to sabotage the wellbeing of the United States. Here is an excellent accurate assessment of what Putin is doing not jus … ⌘ Read more

U.S. deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, despite court order
Luke Garrett,    -  npr

_Stephan: You have undoubtedly seen or read something about the shipment of Venezuelans to what amounts, by all accounts, to an El Salvadoran concentration camp, and the ruling by a federal judge that this was an unconstitutional act by psychopath Trump. Four things stood out about this sequence of events for me. First, none of these individuals had any of th … ⌘ Read more

Transcript: Trump’s Rage at Canada Darkens—This Is “Not a Joke”
Greg Sargent and Brian Beutler,    -  Daily Blast Podcaster | The New Republic

_Stephan: Psychopath Trump has some deep not fully understood by the media or American voters hate about Canada, and is creating an international crisis over it. As bad as that is, however, as this discussion between Greg Sargent and Brian Beutler discusses the failure of the Democrats to stand up to what Trump, his Franken … ⌘ Read more

‘Brain Drain’: Study Shows Workers Fleeing States With Abortion Bans
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Yet another report on the decline of healthcare for women in Red states. This is becoming a permanent trend, which seems to have no impact on the MAGAt Party, which continues to restrict women to second-class status and to take control of their bodies away from them. Think about this, “The group analyzed a survey of 10,000 adults by M … ⌘ Read more

Judge finds Elon Musk likely acted unconstitutionally in shuttering USAID
Zach Schonfeld and Ella Lee,  Staff Writers  -  The Hill

_Stephan: This is good news on several levels. First, it will restore aid to millions of needy or ill men, women, and children. Second, it will hopefully, restore respect and appreciation for the United States – although trusting the U.S. again may take quite a while. Third, there have been a whole series of court rulings … ⌘ Read more

Trump Border Czar Says He’ll Ignore the Courts as Much as He Wants
Malcolm Ferguson,    -  The New Republic

Stephan: The United States in less than two months has moved from authoritarian fascism to a kind of neo-Nazism. Trump appointees are openly bragging they are above the law and need pay no attention to anything a court rules. Tom Homan, psychopath Trump’s border czar, is but one example of this, and he couldn’t be more explicit.

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Trump asks Supreme Court to curb judges’ power to block policies nationwide
Josh Gerstein,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Trump has taken his authoritarianism to the Supreme Court and I predict we are coming to a moment of truth for the future of the United States. Trump is clearly banking on the corrupt fascists on the Court to rule in his favor, and I understand this thinking. But strangely, I’m not sure it is going to play out as he hopes. I … ⌘ Read more

‘DOGE has broken into our building’: Nonprofit sounds alarm as Musk’s team forces way in
Erik De La Garza,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: So the United States under the authority of psychopath Trump and his co-president Elon Musk have now recreated the Gestapo, the Third Reich’s secret political police force, within the Prussian police department. This is the second time DOGE has used armed federal officers to force their way into an … ⌘ Read more

Trump pushes annexation of Greenland during meeting with NATO secretary
Brett Samuels,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Authoritarian psychopath Trump is modeling himself on Vladimir Putin and aggressively threatening the takeover of Greenland, territory belonging to another country, Denmark, just as Putin invaded Ukraine.  Just as happened in Germany, when the Nazis were voted into office and dismantled German democracy in less than two months, exa … ⌘ Read more

It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot.
David Brooks,  Columnist  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: We are no longer a functioning democracy. We have one party, the MAGAts (formerly Republican) that is openly fascist, and the other, the Democrats, who are led in Congress by spineless individuals who don’t seem to understand what is going on. And all of this is being observed by all the other countries of the world. As David Brooks describes in his column, f … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
Marin Scotten,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering wellbeing that President Jimmy Carter worked with for years, and to which my wife and I have sent support, is one of a number of wellbeing fostering foundations now being attacked by psychopath fascist Trump using as his agents his corrupted FBI. I predict that any 501©3 that … ⌘ Read more

‘This Felt Like a Kidnapping Because It Was’: Family of Mahmoud Khalil Releases Arrest Video
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: As I search the media each day it becomes ever more obvious that psychopath fascist Trump’s idea of government is to mimic Hitler. We are now at the stage where men in plain clothes showing no warrant can break into someone’s home and kidnap them, just as the Gestapo did. You can click … ⌘ Read more

‘Civil War is too woke’: Trump’s anti-DEI crusade comes for Arlington National Cemetery
Daniel Hampton,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

Stephan: The conversion of the United States from an equalitarian democracy to a racist fascist autocracy is being carried out by psychopath fascist Trump and his servants down to the smallest detail. This story provides the factual proof of what I am saying.

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U.N. report accuses Israeli forces of “genocidal acts,” sexual violence in Gaza and West Bank
Ramy Inocencio,  Reporter  -  CBS News

_Stephan: I have been seeing report after report of Israel’s genocidal actions and policies under criminally indicted Benjamin Netanyahu and his fascist cohorts, but there has been so much disaster occurring in the United States, that I haven’t posted anything about Israel and what the Jews are doing in a … ⌘ Read more

What Is a Psychopath?
: Hailey Shafir, LCMHCS, LPCS, LCAS, CCS,  Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Supervisor Licensed Professional Counselor Associate  -  Choosing Therapy

Stephan: A reader wrote me today asking, “Why do you keep our President a psychopath? On what basis do you say that?” Well, here is the answer, based entirely on the evidence of medical science.

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‘A Hallmark of Autocracy’: Flurry of Trump Attacks on Universities Sparks Alarm
Eloise Goldsmith,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: As many, perhaps most of you, know I live mostly in the world of research and science as an experimentalist. Many of my friends and colleagues come from that world and today, in addition to the letter from the woman about why I call Trump a psychopath, I heard from a researcher at John Hopkins University who ha … ⌘ Read more

Trump Accuses Media of Doing ‘Totally Illegal’ Reporting
Michael Luciano,  Senior Editor  -  MEDIAite

_Stephan: Another page from the fascist playbook is to scare journalists, newspapers and television channels from accurately reporting what the fascist administration is actually doing. And we are now deep into that. With a few exceptions –  Lawrence O’Donnell, and Rachel Maddow come immediately to mind – what stands out for me as I search each day for fact-based repo … ⌘ Read more

Extreme weather and powerful winds predicted for 100m Americans
,    -  Associated Press

Stephan: Maybe this is getting covered on your local media, but I don’t see much discussion in the national media (this came from A British newspaper). It is, of course, yet another manifestation of the changing climate. Anyway if these storms are headed your way, prepare. This is all just going to get worse and worse.

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Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi Controversy
Antonio Pequeño IV,  Staff Writer  -  Forbes Magazine

_Stephan: In the fascist coup Trump is trying to carry out, Elon Musk is his Joseph Goebbels. The analogy is more accurate than most of the media seems to understand. Musk is a South African immigrant who was a supporter of apartheid and who has with increasing openness, as he works for Trump to make the Unit … ⌘ Read more

Trump calls his opponents ‘scum’ and lawbreakers in bellicose speech at Justice Department
Irie Sentner and Josh Gerstein,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: Trump is a fascist, and today he went to the Department of Justice he has gutted and turned into his personal law firm and told us it was going to be used by him to get revenge on those who oppose him, and to end freedom of the press so the media will stop saying negative things … ⌘ Read more

DHS Official Explicitly Equates Protest to Terrorism in ‘Stunning’ Interview
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Your country is being taken away from you, I hope every American realizes that. It is happening because a small majority of us voted for it. After all, all of what is taking place day-by-day was completely spelled out in Project 2025. Aspiring dictator Trump doesn’t like opposition so he has his flying monkeys trying to … ⌘ Read more

Behold The Golden Age Of Public Corruption In America
David Kurtz ,  Staff Writer  -  Talking Points Memo

Stephan: As the MAGAt Trump dismantlement of democracy and our economy continues, one of the main things that stands out for me is the mind-boggling level of cancerous corruption that is a major aspect of what is being done. The United States is now less of a democracy than Hungary. I am actually not at all certain there will be a 2026 election.

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Judge orders Trump administration to give fired workers their jobs back
Lily Jamali,  Tech Correspodent  -  BBC (U.K.)

Stephan: Here is some good news. It tells us that there are still honorable men and women serving as judges. Congressional Republican flying monkeys, of course, are trying to impeach them. However, these judges offer hope that some part of the U.S. government that Trump’s coup is trying to destroy still works.

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A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes
Jeremy Kohler,  Contributing Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: If you are a woman and you live in the Red state, and maybe you voted for psychopath Trump and other MAGAt Republicans, you voted to put your personal health at risk. OB/GYN specialist physicians and nurses are fleeing your state, Trump and his DOGE Frankenstein have … ⌘ Read more

Trump admin cancels $21M promised for Arizona to buy food for kids and poor
Jim Small,  Reporter  -  Arizona Mirror | Raw Story

_Stephan: Do you get it yet? Psychopath Trump, his Frankenstein Musk, and their congressional flying monkeys don’t give a damn about the wellbeing of American children. They don’t even care if they get enough to eat. I don’t think I have a lot of readers who voted for Trump, but if you know someone who did voter for Trump, … ⌘ Read more

U.S. Added to Global Human Rights Watchlist Over Declining Civil Liberties
Solcyré Burga,  Staff Reporter  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: Psychopath Trump – I say psychopath, by the way, because no functioning rational person would behave as Trump is behaving – aided by the MAGAt flying monkeys – an image from the Wizard of Oz – in Congress are not only destroying our democrsacy and economy, they are also completely trashing the stature of the United … ⌘ Read more

Trump Signs Executive Order Handing U.S. Public Forests Over to Private Logging Industry
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: The national parks and monuments have existed in the United States for over a century since the first national park in the U.S., Yellowstone National Park, was established on 1 March 1872 by an act of Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. Since they were estab … ⌘ Read more

International Push for Consumer Boycott of US Grows
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I predict that anti-Americanism is going to become a prominent view of populations throughout the world, and that this new attitude is going to have a disastrous effect on our economy. People throughout the world will make it a point not to buy anything made in America, and other businesses in other countries, particularly China, will see the opportunity created by p … ⌘ Read more

US taxpayers have shelled out tens of millions of dollars for Trump’s golf trips
Richard Luscombe,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: You may be one of the thousands of federal workers who lost their job without notice, but the psychopath who caused you to lose your job has plenty of time to play golf, does it most weekends by being flown from the White House to Mar-a-Lago in Florida, and American taxpayers, including you, are payin … ⌘ Read more

Bombshell report reveals staggering amount of government funds paid to Elon Musk
Adam Nichols,  Editor-in-Chief  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Criminal Trump and and his Frankenstein Elon Musk, are both destroying the economic wellbeing of millions of Americans and, at the same time, enriching themselves with all kinds of schemes and scams. There have been a number of reports of how much Musk has lost from Tesla stock collapse, but what you don’t hear … ⌘ Read more

Oops, Scientists May Have Miscalculated Our Global Warming Timeline
Darren Orf,  Contributing Writer  -  Popular Mechanics

_Stephan: The latest research, as this report describes, is that climate change is happening faster than has previously been estimated. I have told you repeatedly, and put up two papers of research showing why I keep saying this, that within 15 years humanity is going to go through a civilization-altering crisis. This prediction is based … ⌘ Read more

Department of Education lays off nearly half of workforce
Lexi Lonas Cochran ,  Staff Writers  -  The Hill

_Stephan: The United States population is already the most illiterate and innumerate population in the developed world. As I have said before 54% can;t read past 6th grade level, and 43% can’t read past 5th grade; can’t calculate fractions or do conversions from fractions to decimals. Now psychopath Trump, aided by his flying monkey billionaire wrestling magnate … ⌘ Read more

How hard will Trump’s immigration raids hit red states?
Myah Ward,    -  Politico

_Stephan: As this article describes all those farmers and herders, most of whom voted for MAGAts, are now going to face the economic crisis that will come from that decision. For years at our property in rural Tidewater Virginia, my family raised registered purebred Angus cattle, not for meat, but like a dog breeding operation, to improve the herd genetics.  It introduced me to a world I ha … ⌘ Read more

Dow falls by almost 900 points in market rout after Trump says he won’t rule out a recession
John Towfighi and Lucy Bayly,  Reporters  -  CNN

Stephan: I warned you it was going to happen, and two months into this nightmare it is happening. And “king” Trump is admitting the reality. All the men and women who voted for this psychopath I now expect to begin whining because of what is happening to their wellbeing.

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Trump’s Energy Secretary vows reversal of Biden climate policies
John Biers,  Staff Writer  -  Agence France-Presse (France) | Raw Story

_Stephan: Well, just as I predicted would happen, now it has been made official. Psychopath Trump has told his flying monkeys that his administration should do nothing to prepare for climate change. and should emphasize carbon energy. We can therefore conclude that because Trump and his Frankenstein have gutted the training o … ⌘ Read more

US supreme court weakens rules on discharge of raw sewage into water supplies
Nina Lakhani,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: Once again, the corrupt majority on the Supreme Court has decided against wellbeing.  Depending on where you live, and you will have to check, your local water supplies may become more polluted.

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Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency’s programs gone
ELLEN KNICKMEYER,   Foreign Policy and National Security Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: I have always found Marco Rubio loathsome. However, it was not until I have seen his behavior and words as Secretary of State that I have fully comprehended how loathsome he really is. The closing of USAID means that millions of people, … ⌘ Read more

Insider poll: The Democratic Party has ‘lost its way’
Holly Otterbein, Lisa Kashinsky, Brakkton Booker and Myah Ward,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: I agree with this article and the poll it reports on. I think the Democratic Party is a disaster, and I don’t understand why its leaders do not seem to understand why they are failing. What I think the Democratic Party should be doing is putting forward leaders in their 30s and 40s, who are good public speakers  who can … ⌘ Read more

US Coast Guard Academy Censors ‘Climate Change’ From Its Curriculum
Marianne Lavelle,  Staff Writer  -  Inside Climate News

_Stephan: Psychopath Trump, by his actions and orders, makes it clear that he doesn’t believe climate change is real, and using his foying monkeys, he is doing everything in his power to cripple America’s response to this ongoing disaster. Here is the latest proof of what I am saying. If Trump remains President for the next four years, t … ⌘ Read more

Trump administration cancels classes at National Fire Academy amid funding freeze
,    -  Associated Press | The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: As wildfires consume forests across the United States, the resentful psychopath Americans chose for their President, has just closed the school that teaches fire fighters how to fight these fires (it is a difficult skill set). It is just another example of how the United States is a fundamentally differen … ⌘ Read more

New study reveals unifying theme behind homelessness — and it’s not drug use
,    -  Good Good Good | Case Western Reserve University

_Stephan: In American cities all over the country, homelessness is becoming a growing problem. In 2022, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the United States approximately 18 out of 10,000 Americans, or 582 … ⌘ Read more