22 Republican AGs Sue to Stop New York’s Attempt to Make Fossil Fuel Polluters Pay for Climate Damages
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: I hope you understand that the coup that is occurring is not happening just because of the actions of “emperor” Trump, his co-“emperor” Elon Musk, and their lackeys in Congress. The “Republicans” who run the Red States are equally complicit. As this arti … ⌘ Read more

2025 Budget Stakes: Many Households Could Lose Needed Rental Assistance
Research Staff,    -  Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

_Stephan: I know that a number of my readers rent their homes; they do not own them, and many depend on rental assistance. I am publishing this report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities because I want to warn you that ‘emperor” Trump and his “co-emperor” Elon Musk don’t give a damn about your wellbeing, and are … ⌘ Read more

Trump administration orders consumer protection agency to stop work, closes building
Christopher Rugaber,  Staff Writer  -  Federal News Network | Associated Press

_Stephan: Did you vote for Trump? Is you did you are reasonable and complicit in the end of all consumer protection against scams. Your bank has implemented new fees, your credit card corporations have done the same? You were deceived into paying money for some benefit you didn’t … ⌘ Read more

‘Sabotaging the American empire’: Paul Krugman explains how MAGA ‘destroyed’ US moral authority
Alex Henderson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: ”Emperor” Trump and his coup vassals are destroying America’s stature in the world. Nobel Laureate Economist Paul Krugman spells it out.  The United States will neither be respected or trusted, and it will change the whole structure of geopolitics. The effects of this I believe will last … ⌘ Read more

States With More Maternal-Fetal Specialists Had Lower Rates of Maternal Death
Rachael Robertson,  Investigative Writer  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: The Dobbs decision has had an impact on the wellbeing of women that is not getting anywhere near the media or political attention it should. If you are a fertile woman living in a Red State and planning to have a child your life and the life of your fetus are at much higher risk than if you live in a Bl … ⌘ Read more

Trump removes top government ethics czar
Fredreka Schouten,  Staff Writer  -  CNN

_Stephan: ”Emperor” Trump is committed to the destruction of American democracy, and he does not want to be bothered by anyone reporting his, and his vassals, lack of ethics and ongoing criminality. So what to do? The answer is simple: eliminate any ethical oversight of their ongoing coup. And that is exactly what criminal Trump has done. This article describes it. Meanwhile, the majority of the America … ⌘ Read more

CBS News poll — Trump has positive approval amid “energetic” opening weeks; seen as doing what he promised
Anthony Salvanto,  CBS News’ Executive Director of Elections and Surveys.  -  CBS News

_Stephan: It has become very clear that unlike Europeans or Asians or Latin Americans, the people of the United States have never lived under a christofascist authoritarian rule, and most of us seem incapable of understanding what is … ⌘ Read more

America’s Crisis of Morality
John B. Alexander,  Commentator  -  Daily Kos

Stephan: John Alexander gets it exactly right in my opinion. As I said in my previous comment, American democracy has ended, not as a political opinion but as an historical fact. If you are not doing something to speak out in some way against what is happening you are complicit.

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‘He’s Building a Concentration Camp’: Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at Gitmo
Jon Queally,   Managing Editor   -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: The Trumpian coup, like all fascist movements, is building a concentration camp for the people it wants to persecute. And, of course, they’re putting it in a location where none of their opponents can oversee what is happening. The Nazis did the same thing. Think about it:  30,000 peo … ⌘ Read more

Trump rescinds $4B in US pledges for UN climate fund
Karl Mathiesen,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Fascist Trump isn’t very bright (as anyone will conclude who actually examines the history of his life) but he is very greedy and obsessed with being in control. So part of the coup he and the Republicans are carrying out is to serve their petroleum oligarch funders and block any sensible preparation for climate change. That several hundred million Americans will suffe … ⌘ Read more

Scientists used a computer to predict exactly when society will collapse
Lucy Devine,    -  LADBIBLE

_Stephan: I have been telling you, my readers, as well as anyone else who was interested and would listen that between 2040-2045 there was going to be a cataclysmic change in humanity’s cultures, including the United States. (See YouTube searching on my name, or my personal website, where you can hear or read me expoun … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s plan to kill offshore wind is paying off
Rivard and Marie J. French,    -  Politico

_Stephan: One of the major goals of “emperor” Trump’s MAGAt coup is to do nothing to prepare the United States for climate change and to trap the nation in the carbon energy era with a  “drill, baby… drill” policy to increase the profits of the petroleum oligarchs who helped buy his office for him. To that end, criminal Trump has attacked wind power as he said he would do, and it is h … ⌘ Read more

California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy
Matty SImon,  Senior staff Writer  -  Grist

Stephan: Even as the coup continues, in Blue states there are continued programs to transition out of the carbon energy era. Here is some good news from California, that debunks for the major carbon energy lies against the conversion.

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‘So stupid!’ Prof. shares government threat to halt scientific studies mentioning ‘women’
David Edwards,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Research to improve your healthcare, particularly if you are female, is under assault as part of the “Republican” coup being led by “emperor” Trump, his co-president Elon Musk, and the spineless “Republicans” in Congress. They are going to stop any funding of research that deals with promoting wellbei … ⌘ Read more

‘Dangerous climate breakdown’ warning as hottest January on record shocks scientists
Thomas Moore,  Science Correspondent  -  Sky News

_Stephan: While the Republican christofascist male dominant coup proceeds climate change, which they ignore, continues and scientists are freaking out. As Bill McGuire, an emeritus professor of geophysical and climate hazards says. “The fact that the latest robust Copernicus data reveals the January just gone … ⌘ Read more

Online Censorship In Schools Is ‘More Pervasive’ Than Expected, New Data Shows
Tara García Mathewson,  Members of the CalMatters Youth Journalism Initiative  -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: As the Republican coup continues the news reports I see say that Trump, supported by the Congressional Republicans, is seeking to close the Department of Education so that education in the United States can be turned into an indoctrination profit industry.  But even before … ⌘ Read more

An 1895 8th Grade Final Exam: I Couldn’t Pass It. Could You?
Martin Peretz,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: I got two emails this week from Trump supporters telling me that I am lying to my readers when I say that Trump and the Republicans are destroying the quality of education. That, in fact, “President Trump and the Republicans at the state level are just eliminating all the DEI nonsense and leftist propaganda. Actually, they are improving education to … ⌘ Read more

Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series
David Corn and Dan Friedman,  Washington Bureau Chief | Senior Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: The coup continues and becomes more and more blatant. Here is the latest on Kash Patel, who last year it has been revealed was a Russian propagandist against the FBI. The same FBI that “emperor” Trump has now nominated him to head. There are so many stories of the … ⌘ Read more

Notes to the American People — and Government Workers — on How to Stop Trump
Brendan Ballou,  Former Federal Prosecutor and Contributing Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: The only thing that is going to stop the authoritarian MAGAt coup which is underway is we ourselves. Please call or write your representative and both Senators and tell them your feelings about the coup, and ask them outright: What are you doing to stop the dismantlement of our democracy … ⌘ Read more

School district warns parents of border patrol agents boarding buses for citizenship check
David Edwards,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Militarily armed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are going into apartments in the Denver area to drag possible illegal immigrants out of their homes. Texas is warning parents, as this report describes, that agents may board school buses to check children for their citize … ⌘ Read more

Member of Elon Musk’s DOGE team resigns after racist posts resurface
Bobby Allyn, Shannon Bond,  Reporters  -  npr

_Stephan: Did you know that almost all your personal data was made available to an openly racist sexist bully boy who was one of Elon Musk’s lieutenants until he was outed by journalists? The hallmark of the men and women committing the Republican coup is their objectively verifiable racism, sexism, dishonesty, and marginal competence. These ar … ⌘ Read more

Trump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with White nationalists to top State Department role
Andrew Kaczynski, Jennifer Hansler and Em Steck,  Staff Writers  -  CNN

_Stephan: Just to prove the point I made in my previous comment, here is another fascist racist “emperor” Trump appointment. And please notice not a single “Republican” member of Congress has spoken out about any of this. They are co … ⌘ Read more

Editor’s Note
Stephan A Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: The coup continues. We are just 17 days into the destruction of our democracy, our economy, and poised to become involved in wars. And the effect of the coup is not just affecting Americans. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of women, children, and men in poor countries around the world have had their already meager lives ripped apart.. Tens of thousands of children in those countries are predicted to die as a result of this. Rather … ⌘ Read more

Trump says US will ‘take over’ and ‘own’ Gaza Strip and says US troops will be deployed ‘if it’s necessary’ – live
Léonie Chao-Fong, Christy Cooney and Yohannes Lowe,  Staff Writers  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: As you have probably already heard, Benjamin Netanyahu, an international war criminal and Donald Trump, a convicted sex offender and multiple felon just stood at a press conference in the White House and com … ⌘ Read more

How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream
Abrahm Lustgarten,  Contributing Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: War criminal Trump and his servants care nothing for climate change, don’t believe it is a real threat, and are doing everything they can to promote the interests of the petroleum oligarchs who bought Trump’s election for him, as well as the seats of the MAGAt Republicans in Congress. But as Los Angeles, California and Asheville, North Carolina have demonstrated … ⌘ Read more

Trump administration finalizing plans to shutter Education Department
Juan Perez Jr.,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: The MAGAt Republican – and yes as we watch it happen it is clear that this is not just Trump, it is the entire “Republican” Party – coup that is taking place, just as was described in Project 2025, involves ending federal involvement in public education. That trend is now underway. In my opinion, this part of the coup has several pu … ⌘ Read more

CIA Sends ‘Buyout’ Offfers to Entire Workforce
Katie Bo Lillis and Kaitlan Collins,  Senior Reporter | Anchor and Chief CNN White House Correspondent  -  CNN

_Stephan: As you have no doubt noticed part of the “Republican” coup that Trump and Musk are engineering is to dismantle federal law enforcement, the FBI, and national security, the CIA, agencies. As the dismantlement of American democracy proceeds why is this happening? Again for several reasons, in my opinion. First, beca … ⌘ Read more

Why are the Democrats so spineless?
Moira Donegan,  Columnist  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: What is standing out for me as “emperor” Trump’s MAGAt coup proceeds is why the Democrats have been so spineless as this article describes. Why, for instance, has not a single Democratic Representative introduced an article of impeachment against Trump for his grotesque and illegal attempts through his vassals, and his co-president Elon Musk, to dismantle the American government to make the Unit … ⌘ Read more

‘Cruel and deadly’: Aid organizations reeling from Trump’s freeze on foreign aid
Erik De La Garza,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Not only is “emperor” Trump destroying America’s democracy, he is also devastatingly diminishing the stature of the United States in the world. Do you see foreign leaders from other democracies reposing trust and confidence in anything “emperor” Trump says? Do you think they will continue to share sensitive inte … ⌘ Read more

NPR and PBS first target in MTG’s DOGE crosshairs
Katherine Tully-McManus,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Part of the coup “emperor” Trump’s administration is carrying out involves suppressing, or bankrupting a free press, replacing it as Orban did in Hungary, with a misinformation press that supports the authoritarian government the administration is trying to create. Scum MAGAt Representatives like Marjorie Taylor Greene are only too happy to help. This is their schem … ⌘ Read more

Confusion over federal funding freeze prompts public health concerns
Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

Stephan: The coup we are undergoing is putting millions of Americans at risk by screwing up their healthcare. There is confusion and chaos raging throughout the system, and I think we are going to very shortly see worsening health reports across the country.

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CDC Researchers Ordered to Retract Papers Submitted to All Journals
Jeremy Faust, MD, MS, MA,  Editor-in-Chief  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: As a research scientist, I have published some 325 papers in seven disciplines in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. I have been doing this for 47 years, and in all that time I have never heard or read of a U.S. government agency censuring a science research publication. But that is where we are now in “e … ⌘ Read more

‘It’s a coup’: Musk’s DOGE granted access to system that pays out Social Security
Olivia Rosane,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams | AlterNet

_Stephan: What amounts to an oligarchical coup of the United States has just happened. The unelected billionaires who bought “emperor” Trump his office now have my, and probably your, complete personal financial data – anything any of us has ever filed with the federal government, as well as any military serv … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s trade war among allies triggers retaliation from Canada and Mexico
ROB GILLIES and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ,  Staff Writers  -  Associated Press

Stephan: Expect prices for everything from gas to grocery store items, as well as a long list of other products, to go up significantly before the month is out. “emperor” Trump has created a trade war with our neighbors to the North and South as well as with China.

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With tariffs signed, Trump warns of ‘pain’ to come for Americans
Kevin Liptak and Veronica Stracqualursi,  Staff Writers  -  CNN

_Stephan: Get ready for it. “emperor” Trump has just warned the Commons that as a result of the trade war he has initiated, we will all be experiencing “some pain.” This pain is going to come in all kinds of ways, not just the increase in grocery prices. There will be major loss of jobs in some states. For example as cited in this repor … ⌘ Read more

Trump signs tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China
Brett Samuels ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Fascism like a lethal cancer is growing in the United States. Government agents are roaming the streets grabbing immigrants, families are being separated. concentration camps are being set up, federal agencies are being dismantled, the economy is about to go in to recession with tariffs, and allies are breaking away. Say goodbye to American democracy readers. It is disappearing … ⌘ Read more

USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites
Zack Colman and Marcia Brown,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: There is a christofascist playbook, Hitler followed it, Mussolini followed it, and Stalin followed it. The latest version in Project 2025. And one of the constants of the christofascist playbook is that the government must be censured to ensure that information the fascists don’t like is not made available to citizens. “king” Trump and his MAGAt vassals don … ⌘ Read more

CDC Purging Its Website After Trump Orders
Joyce Frieden,  Washington Editor  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: Christofascists don’t care about the wellbeing of the country, good healthcare is not part of their agenda. That’s why the CDC websites have now been heavily censured. It is no longer going to be possible for Americans to look to the scientific agendas of the government for fact-based information on issues that are critically important to them. Nor can they rely on their governm … ⌘ Read more

Trump Executive Order Aims To Drive Federal Funds to Private School Vouchers
Erica Meltzer,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig / Chalkbeat

_Stephan: ”king” Trump has just gutted public education in the United States. American public schools were once the envy of the world, and families came to the United States because they could get the best education possible for their children. That is no longer true, and exactly what is going to happen to pubic … ⌘ Read more

A free California? Trump visits as initiative to leave U.S. cleared to gather signatures
Elizabeth Weise Josh Peter,  Staff Writers  -  USA Today

_Stephan: Texas has a growing secession movement as I have previously reported in SR (see archives) and other MAGAt states do as well. But it isn’t just MAGAt states that are thinking like this. California, a Democrat-controlled state, and the fifth largest economy in the world is thinking about … ⌘ Read more

Tennessee Republican women’s group cites Hitler in promoting its reading list
Sarah Dolgin,  Political Reporter  -   Chattanooga Times Free Press

_Stephan: Tennesse Republican MAGAt women apparently see Hitler as a hero and a model of leadership. As the link at the head of this report shows, it appears that after posting this laudatory reference they were sufficiently embarrassed publicly that they have subsequently taken their Hitler reference off … ⌘ Read more

Electric cars took 89% of Norway market in 2024
,    -  Agence France-Presse (France)

Stephan: While “king” Trump and his vassals express no interest in preparation for climate change and want to “drill baby…drill.” The democracies of Europe and Asia are going in the opposite direction, and preparing to leave the carbon energy era. Here is the latest from Norway making this point.

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People Who Get Most of Their News From Social Media Sources Are More Likely to Think Climate Change Is a Conspiracy: Study
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: The weaponization of misinformation has become one of the major trends shaping American culture. “king” Trump and the MAGAts in Congress are doing nothing to prepare the United States for climate change, and there … ⌘ Read more

Trump orders opening of migrant detention center at Guantánamo Bay
Léonie Chao-Fong and Tom Phillips,  Reporters  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The incompetence of “king” Trump and his administration is becoming glaringly obvious as you have probably already learned. But let’s not overlook “king” Trump’s scheme to create concentration camps. Here, in a British newspaper, is an account of what is being done in at the Naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Similar p … ⌘ Read more

Finally, an answer to why Earth’s oceans have been on a record-hot streak
Sachi Kitajima Mulkey,  Staff Writer  -  Popular Science / Grist

_Stephan: I have a dozen more stories about the disaster that is occurring as “king” Trump attempts to get confirmation of the utterly incompetent people he is attempting to appoint. I have a dozen stories in my file about Kash Patel, Robert Kennedy, Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, and a host of other horrors that have been n … ⌘ Read more

U.S. Students Post Lowest Reading Scores in Decades
Todd Feathers,    -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: I have been tracking America’s literacy trend for years (see SR archive) because from the fifth century BCE, the linkage between literacy and democracy was understood; a correlation that still exists.  Our democracy is in sharp decline as the news about “king” Trump’s administration reveals daily. And part of the reason for this, I believe, is because we are becoming an increasingly i … ⌘ Read more

‘Cruel and deadly’: Aid organizations reeling from Trump’s freeze on foreign aid
Erik De La Garza,  News Writer  -  Raw Story

Stephan: The stature of the United States in the world has suffered a massive wound. I predict the Chinese are going to step into the void created by “king” Trump. We are a declining nation both within our own borders, and geopolitically.

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EPA fires science advisers
Sean Reilly,    -  Politico

Stephan: ”king” Trump, by gutting the science advisory panels of the EPA,  is making it clear that the United States government during his administration is going to do nothing to prepare for the ongoing devastation of climate change. It is all part of Project 2025. As “king” Trump has said his administration is all about “drill, baby…drill.”

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Trump Pardons Anti-Abortion Activists Who Blockaded Clinic Entrances
,    -  MedPage Today | Associated Press

Stephan: With all the other devastation being wrought by “king” Trump on the American government this hardly got mentioned, except in the medical newsletters. But “king” Trump’s purpose is clear. He and his MAGAt party are going to try to make political control of a woman’s body the national norm.

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Republican Suggests Kids Work at McDonald’s Instead of Getting Free Lunch
Aila Slisco,  Staff Writer  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: The outcry was so great yesterday that “king” Trump is backing down on some of his sweeping devastation of the American government through his OMB order. I think that should be prominently noted and reported on by media, although that isn’t what is happening. But I hope my readers have paid attention to this. I think we should als … ⌘ Read more

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Administration Freeze On Federal Grants And Loans
JoNel Aleccia, Moriah Balingit, Collin Binkley, Matthew Daly, Lisa Mascaro, Adithi Ramakrishnan, Amanda Seitz, Michael Sisak, Lindsay Whitehurst and Tammy Weber,  Reporters  -  Huffington Post | Associated Press

_Stephan: Criminal Trump basically shut down the government today, despite his administration’s denial, but this move has been blocked by … ⌘ Read more

Trump Medicaid freeze seems to lock 72 million Americans out of their health insurance
Bruce Gil,  Staff Writer  -  Quartz

_Stephan: Thanks to criminal Trump about a third of Americans just lost their healthcare. If you are on Medicaid you may be one of them. If you have a child that depends on food support, or an elderly person who gets some kind of federal aid, they are cut off as well. What can you do? Please call  (202) 224-3121 and a … ⌘ Read more

CDC health officials in US ordered to stop working with WHO immediately
,    -  The Guardian (U.K.) | Associated Press

_Stephan: As part of his effort to dismantle the American government and turn it into a dictatorship, Trump has isolated the United States from the international healthcare network maintained by the World Health Organization.  This is the organization that coordinates amongst countries when a pandemic occurs. This is the organization … ⌘ Read more

DOJ Halts All Civil Rights Cases Following Trump’s Directives
Zane McNeill ,    -  truthout

Stephan: Apparently, there will be no civil rights protection during the Trump regime. Day by day we are becoming a nation I don’t even recognize. I have had two readers currently living in Europe who just wrote to tell me they were renouncing their U.S. citizenship, and taking on the citizenship of the country in which they are living.

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Federal DEI websites go dark after Trump order and threat of ‘consequences’
Robert King and Ben Leonard,    -  Politico

Stephan: In full accord with Project 2025, the American government is being restructured so that only Whites, and preferably males, are treated fairly. All DEI issues or basic civil rights are no longer protected. The United States is becoming South Africa in the 1960s.

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Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps
Alaa Elassar,  Writer  -  CNN

_Stephan: If you are a Native American you are being warned to carry documentation of your citizenship and tribal affiliation on your person because Native Americans are being stopped by criminal Trump’s immigration patrols because they aren’t pale Wh … ⌘ Read more

Homan defends immigration raids at middle, elementary schools
Lauren Irwin,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Trump’s villein Homan who is running the everyone but Whites to be checked immigration raids has authorized raiding elementary and middle schools. Think about this for a minute. You are in third-grade arithmetic class and suddenly a bunch of men in dark clothes and gun protection vests with some big letters on their backs burst into your classroom. And … ⌘ Read more

Trump executive orders threaten healthcare of millions of Americans
Marina Dunbar ,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: Healthcare is going to deteriorate more in this country, as well as becoming more expensive As this article describes middle and lower-class Americans will be particularly affected.

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Trump fires independent inspectors general in Friday night purge
Megan Messerly, Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney and Nahal Toosi,    -  Politico

_Stephan: Trump has fired the independent Inspector Generals whose task is to oversee the integrity of the American government. Why was this done? The answer is obvious. Criminal Trump did it so that his villeins can create the corrupted government agencies he wants without any hassle or oversight. The already corrupted Am … ⌘ Read more

US freezes almost all aid except for Israel, Egypt arms: memo
Shaun Tandon,  Staff Writer  -  Agence France-Presse (France) | Yahoo! News

_Stephan: The status of the United States in the world has just been gutted by criminal Trump’s new Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Programs that depended on U.S. foreign aid worldwide have now been devastated. The result will affect millions of people, diminishing U.S, status and reputation worldwide. I think one should also se … ⌘ Read more

Addressing Elites at Davos, UN Chief Says Fossil Fuel Addiction Is a ‘Frankenstein Monster’
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor and Staff wwriter  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: While criminal Trump is using the powers of the Presidency to assure that the United States remains dependent on fossil fuel so the carbon energy oligarchs who funded him can maintain their profits, the United Nations Secretary-Genmeral Antonio Guterres describes this poli … ⌘ Read more

Rubio Orders State Department to Stop Issuing Accurate Passports to Trans People
Shawn Musgrave,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Our new MAGA Trump villein Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as soon as he came into office, screwed up the lives of any trans-Americans. How many people are we talking about? According to the Williams Institute, about 1.3 million adults in … ⌘ Read more

Nearly One-Third of U.S. Residents Exposed to Dangerous, Unregulated Contaminants in Drinking Water, Analysis Finds
: Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Here is yet another fact-based report on the poor quality of American drinking water. I have been telling you for years (see SR archive) to get an independent water test. Unless you do this you will have no idea what your actual … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s neofascism is here now. Here are 10 things you can do to resist
Robert Reich,  Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies.  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Robert Reich offers some very good counsel in this essay. I detailed in my book [The 8 Laws of Change](https://www.amazon.com/Laws-Change-Individual-Planetary-Wellbeing-ebook/dp/B0932JHXXC/ref … ⌘ Read more

Farms already seeing ‘massive drop off’ in workers as mass deportations begin: report
Erik De La Garza,  News Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Expect food prices to go up significantly in the weeks to come, as well as medical costs. I think there is a strong chance that we will be in recession by June. Also, there are going to be new international crises. I think this is going to be a very difficult period because the Republicans in the Senate … ⌘ Read more

Bloomberg to fund UN climate agency after US exit from Paris accord
,    -  Agence France-Presse (France)

Stephan: Here is what honor and integrity in support of wellbeing look like. It happens so rarely in the United States today it is unusual and notable. Note that I had to go to the French press to get the whole story.

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Texas GOP chair claims church-state separation is a myth as lawmakers, pastors prep for “spiritual battle”
Robert Downen,  Democracy Reporter  -  Texas Tribune

_Stephan: One of the most important issues for the Founders, and an issue upon which there was very strong agreement, was the absolute separation between church and state. The christofascist MAGAt world is now trying to erase the Founders’ convictions on this issue … ⌘ Read more

The Growing Inequality in Life Expectancy Among Americans
Amy Maxmen ,    -  Kaiser Family Foundation | truthdig

_Stephan: If you read me regularly you know that I have been tracking this trend for several years. It is getting worse. As you can see in the chart at the head of this research paper, Americans generally have shorter life spans than people in other developed nations. And I don’t mean a few months I mean years. Even worse there is a large racial component … ⌘ Read more

Danish Government Horrified to Learn Trump Is Serious About Wanting Greenland
AJ Dellinger,    -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: In the 76 years since NATO was created in 1949, I cannot remember any prior example of the United States trying to bully a fellow NATO member into giving up some of its territory. If that sounds like Putin demanding part of Ukraine, that’s because it is. Criminal Trump is not only unraveling American democracy in front of the eyes of … ⌘ Read more

National Institutes of Health cancel scientific meetings after Trump directives
Selena Simmons-Duffin,  Staff Writer  -  npr

Stephan: We are in day four of the ongoing disaster of the Trump regime, and today he ripped the guts out of the leading healthcare research institute in the world. The implications of this are devastating.

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VA exempts 300,000 health care positions from governmentwide hiring freeze
Jory Heckman,  Reporter  -

_Stephan: Trump and his MAGAt villeins (yes, that is the correct spelling, look it up) want to privatize the Veterans Administration so it can be turned into a profit source, and to this end, he issued an Executive Order to stop all VA hiring. However, it created such an uproar that the VA had to back off and allow at least medical staff to be hired. … ⌘ Read more

Trump creates DOGE with an executive order. It says the unit’s purpose is upgrading IT.
Amy Picchi,  Reporter  -  CBS News

_Stephan: The DOGE agency that criminal Trump has just created, has nothing to do with reducing federal spending as originally claimed although Musk, who heads it, wants to eliminate the penny. Instead, I predict this scheme is designed to give Trump control over all federal agencies independent of any Congressional ove … ⌘ Read more

A Third of the Arctic’s Landmass is Now a Source of Carbon: Study
Eloise Goldsmith,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Criminal Trump has made it clear that he either doesn’t care about climate change, isn’t smart enough to understand what is happening, or figures it won’t happen in his lifetime so sucking up to the petroleum oligarchs has no downside for him personally. Humanity, however, is going to experience great misery because of what Trump is doin … ⌘ Read more

Trump Quietly Scraps Nondiscrimination Rule While No One Is Looking
Malcolm Ferguson,    -  The New Republic

_Stephan: We are in day three of the attempted transformation of the United States from a genuine democracy into a christofascist oligarch-controlled pseudo-democracy. Decades of forward progress about equality and the end of racism and genderism are being reversed by a man who, having gotten away unpunished for literally dozens of felonies, feels he … ⌘ Read more

Why Donald Trump pardoned the Silk Road creator a decade after his life imprisonment
Luke Cooper,  Digital Journalist  -  abc net (Australia)

_Stephan: Yet another pardon, this for Ross Ulbricht who, after being convicted by a jury of his peers, had been sentenced to life in prison with no parole by Judge Katherine Forrest in U.S. District Court for the southern district of New York. What I see in all these pardons is a man who views himsel … ⌘ Read more

The White House Press Corps Gears Up for Another Trump Term
Jake Lahut,  Staff Writer  -  Columbia Journalism Review

_Stephan: A free fact-based press is fundamental to a functioning democracy, as the Founders understood. Unfortunately, I don’t see much of that in the journalism of today. I see journalists and media, both print and video, as increasingly controlled by oligarchs, and staffed by journalists more interested in air-time or front page bylines than objec … ⌘ Read more

Scientists and engineers produce world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery with potential lifespan of thousands of years
,    -  University of Bristol (U.K.)

Stephan: Here, thank goodness – I am so tired of all the bad news – is what looks to be very important good news about non-carbon energy. I will follow this as it develops.

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Trump ends program to lower prescription prices, make disease therapy available
Josh Moon,  Investigative Reporter  -  Alabama Political Reporter

Stephan: We are only at day two but already you can expect your drug prices to go up. With Executive Order 14087 Trump reversed Biden’s attempt to lower the cost of drugs and treatments for cancers and other diseases. And I think this is just the beginning.

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22 states sue to stop Trump’s order blocking birthright citizenship
Mike Catalini,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: For over a century if your mother gave birth to you in the United States you were an American citizen. Millions of Americans became citizens that way. But that will not continue if Donald Trump has his way. As this report describes, and you have probably heard, with a stroke of his pen Trump seeks to abrogate the 14th Amendment of the C … ⌘ Read more

Trump fires first woman to head a U.S. military service
,    -  Agence France-Presse (France) | Raw Story

_Stephan: The first woman to head a military service in U.S. history, Coast Guard Admiral Linda Fagan, has been summarily relieved of her command by the Trump administration. As one of the small team of people who, back in the early 1970s, transformed the American armed forces into an all-volunteer gender and racially neutral military, I find this particularly off … ⌘ Read more

CO2 Levels Rose at Record Rate in 2024
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

Stephan: Here is your guarantee that climate change is going to intensify and get worse. Underwriting this guarantee the Trump administration is committed to enlarging America’s dependency on carbon energy.

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Trump withdraws US from landmark Paris climate agreement, expand drilling
,    -  Agence France-Presse (France)

_Stephan: Well, it is official now. Within minutes of being sworn in as President, the United States under Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement and plans to do nothing to alleviate climate change. MAGAt world has learned nothing from the environmental catastrophes in Asheville, North Carolina, or Los Angeles and, instead, Trump pl … ⌘ Read more

‘Has the world gone mad? It has’: foreign reporters share a view of Trump from abroad
Danielle Renwick,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The United States is now going down a well-traveled road, that path many other nations have recently taken as they cease to be genuine democracies and become electoral autocracies It may not be obvious to Americans and American media, but here is what it looks like to journalists from other nations that ha … ⌘ Read more

Trump issues sweeping pardons and commutations for Jan. 6 rioters
Katherine Faulders and Alexander Mallin,    -  abc News

_Stephan: Today we witnessed the corruption of our legal system by a convicted felon who a majority of us have once again made America’s leader. I predict these people who attacked the the nation’s Capitol, attacked Congress’ defending police and sought to. hang the Vice President will once again become Trump’s militia. Having been once con … ⌘ Read more

Melania Trump joins her husband in the meme coin billions business
Ben Berkowitz , Brady Dale,  Reporters  -  Axios

_Stephan: In the whole of American history there has been no precedent for the corruption, lack of ethics, and greed of Donald and Melania Trump. Convicted sex offender and multiple felon, and his porn sex model wife have, with an existential appropriateness, become the couple leading a country that has lost its way; like an ancient myth come t … ⌘ Read more

New memo shows ‘exactly how Republicans plan to sell out the American people’: senator
Matthew Chapman,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I think that within the next month, starting with this coming Tuesday, we are going to see just how radically felon Trump and his MAGAts plan to restructure American society. If felon Trump does what he says he wants to do by June you and I will not recognize the United States we have known all our liv … ⌘ Read more

US to hit debt ceiling Tuesday, starting Congress’ countdown clock
Tami Luhby,  Senior Writer  -  CNN

Stephan: This isn’t what everyone is talking about today but starting tomorrow we will see this and newly inaugurated Trump’s executive orders sweep across the United States like a hurricane. Buckle up it is going to get strange and, I am afraid, very chaotic.

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Garlanded with Failure: History will not remember the outgoing attorney general kindly.
Bill Blum,  Contributing Writer  -  truthdig

_Stephan: Speaking as an historian of the early American republic I completely agree with what Bill Blum says in this article. I think within a decade great students will be writing their doctoral dissertations, on what a weak failure Merrick Garland was as Attorney General, and how badly he handled the many … ⌘ Read more

Beyond Excessive Force: How Police Abuse Women, the Poor, the Homeless
David Nakamura,  Reporter  -  rsn / The Washington Post

_Stephan: American politicians, and Americans themselves do not seem to be willing to tell the truth about what the country is really like.  Just as we lie about having the best healthcare, education, and democracy, so we endlessly lie about the police and sheriffs. In fact, we have the worse trained law enforcement amongst the deve … ⌘ Read more

Justice Department Sues Six of the Nation’s Largest Landlords in Effort to Stop Alleged Price-Fixing in Rental Markets
Heather Vogell,  Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Housing costs are one of the difficult problems faced by middle class and poor Americans. And much of the source of their stress and struggle is, at its source, an aspect of our economy being taken over by oligarchs. They are able to cause a … ⌘ Read more

Real Estate Vultures Eye Middle-Class Enclave of Ravaged LA
Michelle Ma, Jennifer Epstein and Kelsey Butler ,  Staff Writers  -  msn | Bloomberg

_Stephan: Even as the fires still rage, the real estate profit vultures have descended on the burned-out neighborhoods of Los Angeles. We are far far from the end of this story. And, I predict, it is going to play out all over the nation as climate change wreaks havoc. To his credit, California’s Democratic Governor Gavin … ⌘ Read more

Nearly half of GOP voters support using military to put immigrants in camps
Russell Contreras,    -  Axios

_Stephan: If the criminal a majority of Americans have chosen for their President, a man who sees himself more as a king than a President, does as he says he will do because he knows that half of his MAGAt voters support the use of the military in his deportation schemes by the end of this coming week we may see members of the armed forces invo … ⌘ Read more

‘Sign language is woke now’: Outrage over right wing’s new culture war
Erik De La Garza,    -  Raw Story

Stephan: I keep thinking we must surely have reached the outer limit of MAGAt world’s stupidity and nastiness. But I keep being surprised. Who even suspected that sign language for the deaf would be ranked by MAGAts as something “woke.” and offensive to them? Well, as this article describes, they do.

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A Tale of Two Justice Systems: Only Trump Gets Convicted of 34 Felonies and Receives No Punishment
Jessica Washington,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: No one seems to be properly discussing this in the media, but I think it is very important that Americans realize they have elected a President who is not only a convicted sex offender but a 34-count multiple convicted felon, and six-time bankrupt, and that this demonst … ⌘ Read more

It’s not just social media giving violent white supremacists a pass
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann gives us an accurate snapshot of the state of America as we prepare to inaugurate for President a man who could not get a job as a janitor if all they saw was his resumé. And his demand for loyalty over ethical behavior reminds me more of Hitler or Putin than any prior President. Get ready, I think we are in for something we h … ⌘ Read more

U.S. Political Parties Historically Polarized Ideologically
Megan Brenan,    -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: I have been telling you for years about what I call The Great Schism Trend. As this report from Gallup confirms this trend is real, and the split is growing ever greater. We are increasingly becoming two countries in a single nation. I think we will stay one nation, but I also think real power is going to move to the states, and they are going to become … ⌘ Read more

Patient Care Deteriorates After Private Equity Acquisition of Hospitals
Kristina Fiore,  Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: American healthcare is getting worse, as this evidence proves. Under Trump, I think the trend will continue downward because of the people he is appointing and his Congressional subservients are going to confirm. Think about it. Mehmet Oz, Robert Kennedy, Jr. both incompetent conspiracy fre … ⌘ Read more

In farewell speech, Biden warns an ‘oligarchy’ in America is threatening democracy
Zoë Richards and Megan Lebowitz,  Politics Reporters  -  NBC News

_Stephan: Normally, I would not feature something so well-covered by all manner of media, as President Biden’s final national address, but these comments by the President are not getting the kind of coverage they should. We are on the edge of becoming an electoral autocracy, and I think this is goin … ⌘ Read more

Oligarchs already own much of U.S. – can they buy democracy?
,    -  Agence France-Presse (France) / Raw Story

Stephan: Can the oligarchs buy control of the United States? They already control many of the levers of power, corporations, media, and influence in government. I think we are going to get our answer in the first 100 days of criminal Trump’s presidency.

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Why the Christian Right Demonizes Discourse
J. Dylan Sandifer,  Instructor in Sociology at the University of the District of Columbia and Founder and Chief Strategist of Sandifer Strategies  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: This is one of the main reasons the Republican oligarchs and Trump find it so easy to manipulate lower IQ, lower education, and poorer White people. As the report says, “Their toxic fear of ideas is shaping the modern censorship movement.” I see all of this as a c … ⌘ Read more