The Destruction in Gaza Is What the Future of AI Warfare Looks Like
Rhett Jones,  Senior Editor  -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: As I have watched Israel carry out its genocide of Muslims and wreak utter devastation on Gaza, and how the Ukrainians are defending themselves against Russia’s invasion of their country, without adequate help from the United States, what has stood out for me is the role AI technology is playing in both wars. This, I think, is the nature of … ⌘ Read more

Did Qatari Money Drive Trump’s Push for Gaza Ceasefire?
Jonah Valdez,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: This article, I think, reveals with at least some accuracy why Trump has behaved as he has in the Gaza war. Always remember that Qatar gave Trump an aircraft, which you and I are now paying nearly a billion tax dollars to update, and that will be given to Trump and his family when he leaves office. Also, as this article describes, the Trump family and the Qatari leadership … ⌘ Read more

The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention
Jessica Washington,  Political Reporter  -  The Intercept

Stephan: The stories that are coming out of the Trump concentration camps are each more horrible than the ones of the previous day. This is a United States we have never seen before, and I think it is very important that this is going on with no real response from the Republicans in Congress.

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‘Oops’: Trump health official admits half of ‘sweeping’ layoffs at CDC were a mistake
David McAfee,  Senior Editor  -  Slate

Stephan: At one level, this is a bit of good news. At another level it is a further picture of the chaos the Trump administration has created in America’s already low ranking, but most expensive in the world, healthcare system.

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This Nazi philosopher’s playbook explains everything Donald Trump does
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I have been telling you since before Trump was inaugurated the last time that he was going to follow and is following Hitler’s playbook. That’s what Project 2025 was all about.  I was going to write a paper on this, but haven’t had time. Now Thom Hartmann has done it, so I don’t have to. The media lacks the courage to speak the truth … ⌘ Read more

‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing
Peter Stone ,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: Have you noticed that Trump, his vassals, and their MAGAT Republican supporters, still have not given up on the murder of Charlie Kirk. Why is this murder the endless focus of Trump and MAGAt world? Here is the answer.

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The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
Stephen Witt,  Contributing Writer  -  The New York Times

Stephan: As I have watched the AI technology develop what has concerned me is whether this technology is going to be advanced to foster wellbeing for humanity, or just to ,make more money for a small group of oligarchs. If the motivating impulse is the later I think humans are in real trouble. Stephen Witt, author of The Thinking Machine seems to agree.

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What we know after MS homecomings see 14 shot, 8 killed in 3 shootings around football games
Pam Dankins,  Reporter  -  Mississippi Clarion Ledger

_Stephan: I am running this story for two reasons. First, the United States has, and has had for decades, a deadly, unaddressed problem with guns. The largest cause of death in the young is gunfire. No other developed country, not openly at war in the world, has the kind of gun deaths that … ⌘ Read more

US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians
George Chidi,  Politics and Democracy Reporter   -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: One of the tragedies that now defines the United States, as it is seen by the rest of the world, is that Trump has created a military combat uniformed and armed for war Gestapo that is now wandering the streets of major American cities, just as the world has seen happen in other fascist control … ⌘ Read more

Private Equity Tightens Its Grip on Outpatient Surgery
Jennifer Henderson,  Enterprise and Investigative Writer  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: Depending on which poll you look at, between 25% to 40% of the emergency rooms in hospitals are not actually part of the hospital. Instead, they are owned by private equity investment firms, and the physicians and nurses are employees of those firms. Private equity firms also own approximately 8.5% to 9% of all private hospitals in … ⌘ Read more

Immigrants nationwide placed in solitary confinement for weeks, report says
Steph Solis ,  Staff Writer  -  msn | Axios

_Stephan: The United States is now running concentration camps. They don’t call them that, but as accurate information about their living conditions comes out, it is clear that is what they are. This is all part of the fascist coup, engineered by Trump, his vassals, the Republican Party, and the Supreme Court they have created toge … ⌘ Read more

Republican Candidate in Virginia Caught in Tumblr Nazi Porn Scandal
Robert McCoy,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: What stands out about what has happened to democracy in the United States is the almost universal scum of the Republican Party. It’s not just that the party controls all the branches of government and yet is doing nothing to foster wellbeing for the people of America. Instead, we have the Bondis, the Patels, the Homans, and this cre … ⌘ Read more

Trump considers massive bailout of at least $10 billion for American farmers hurt by his trade war
Alayna Treene and Bryan Mena,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: You and I are about to spend over 10 billion dollars of our tax dollars to bail out the farmers whose economies have been put in a tailspin by the stupidity of Trump’s tariff madness. It surprises me that millions of Americans still support this psychopath, but that is alw … ⌘ Read more

How Trump’s Supreme Court lackeys pushed us to the brink of one-man rule
Graham G. Dodds,  Professor of Political Science, Concordia University  -  Raw Story | Commentary

Stephan: This is a good assessment of how the Republicans perverted the Supreme Court, creating its corrupt fascist majority.

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RFK Jr. Ties Autism to Circumcision and Tylenol in Bonkers Rant
Farrah Tomazin ,  Political Correspondent  -  Daily Beast

_Stephan: US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert Kennedy, Jr, is now the man overseeing your healthcare and medical wellbeing in the Trump Republican coup. This is his latest insanity that circumcision results in autism. Never forget that Kennedy was a heroin addict in high school and college, and does not have 30 minutes of medica … ⌘ Read more

News organizations hold out on signing Pentagon media policies ‘designed to stifle a free press’
Jeremy Barr,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Part of the Trump Republican Party fascist strategy is to use the American military to take control of Democrat controlled cities. And one aspect of that strategy is to suppress a free press from covering the military. Here is a good description of what they are doing. It has nev … ⌘ Read more

Rural US town outraged as only hospital forced to shut: ‘I would have died without it’
Dani Anguiano,  West Coast Breaking News Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: As I have been telling you repeatedly, what Trump and the Republicans are doing to healthcare is not only blatantly nasty, consider the coming outrageous monthly premium increases, it is also harmful to the wellbeing of millions of Americans. Rural healthcare is becoming do … ⌘ Read more

GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: ‘We’re bad memers’
Adam Nichols,  Editor-in-Chief  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I keep telling you that it is getting harder and harder to get accurate information for SR because of the vast Trump MAGAT Republican disinformation campaign, and here is a classical example of what I mean. If it is hard for me, I can easily understand why typical MAGAT Republican voters – overwhelming … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s Threat to Jail Elected Officials Is a Constitutional Alarm the Media Can’t Ignore
Colby Hall,  Mediaite Founding Editor  -  MEDIAite

_Stephan: There is no historical precedent for the President of the United States calling for the jailing of a state’s governor, and the mayor of the third largest city in the country, but that is what we are in the Trump Republican coup. It is another step in the dismantling of American democracy.  … ⌘ Read more

US Senate blocks debate on ending military action against Venezuelan vessels
Richard Cowan,  Reporter  -  Reuters

_Stephan: Trump’s vindictiveness and uncontrollable quest for revenge against anyone who opposes him looks like it is trying to get us into a war in South America. Why isn’t the Republican controlled Senate stopping this? What geopolitical rationale could justify this? There is nothing, and the Republican senators are once again submiss … ⌘ Read more

What to know about Trump’s national guard deployment, from rulings to protests
Guardian Staff,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: This is what the British press is reporting about dictator Trump’s military occupation of cities where voters have chosen Democrat governance. Under Trump and the MAGAT Republicans, the United States is now being described as what used to be called a Banana Republic.

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It’s Time for Soft Secession
Clara Jeffery,  Editor-in-Chief  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: I have been telling you about the Great Schism Trend for years now, partly because I thought it was only a matter of time until Democrat governed states began to realize that for decades, they have underwritten the failure of states where Republicans govern, and that there is a fundamental flaw in the Constitution where, regardless of population, each state gets two senators. (This structure was a result of th … ⌘ Read more

‘Vertical Morality’ Might Describe Why MAGA Christians Seem So Unchristian
Caroline Bologna,    -  HuffPost

Stephan: Evangelical MAGAT Christianity is actually pseudo-Christianity, as I have been telling you for years. It has nothing to do with Jesus’ teachings. Here is a good explanation of what I mean, and why I mean it.

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Texas and Florida Have Become National Models for Using the Police State To Wage Culture War Battles
C.J. Ciaramella,  Criminal Justice Reporter  -  reason

_Stephan: Since Trump was inaugurated in January, Florida and Texas have led the Great Schism Trend Red-Blue culture war. Here is a good description of what governors, Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott, and their legislatures are trying to do. We are two countries in a single … ⌘ Read more

Shutdown Threatens Food Aid Program Relied on By Millions of Families
Associated Press Reporters,    -  MedPage Today | Associated Press

_Stephan: Trump is a psychopath, and so are a number of his vassals like Stephen Miller. They demonstrate their mental illness every day, and it just gets nastier. They obviously care nothing for the wellbeing of American families as this report details. And, meanwhile, the Republican Congressmembers just docilely watch … ⌘ Read more

Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act
Irie Sentner,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

Stephan: We are watching the military, ICE, and CBP Gestapo takeover of cities where Americans voted for Democrat control. In my opinion, this is all being done because Trump wants to frighten Americans into submission, and control the outcome of 2026 election so a submissive Republican majority retains control of Congress.

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What You Need to Know About the National Guard, the Insurrection Act, and Martial Law
LWV’s Summer 2025 legal interns,    -  League of Women Voters

Stephan: Here is the best fact-based article I could find explaining what you need to know about dictator Trump’s military takeover of major American cities, to further his dismantlement of the democracy of the United States.

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Even Republicans admit Johnson is doing everything to hide Epstein files
Emily Singer,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: As anyone should know by now MAGAT Republican Speaker of the House has demonstrated repeatedly that he is totally subservient to his master Donald Trump, and is a man with no honor or integrity. It is very interesting to watch the lengths to which Trump and his servants are going to stop the release of the Epstein files. This art … ⌘ Read more

Trump is reviving large sales of coal from public lands. Will anyone want it?
MATTHEW BROWN and MEAD GRUVER,  Reporters  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: The Trump Republican coup is not only putting Democrat controlled cities under military occupation, and dismantling the country’s efforts to convert to renewable energy, it is literally working to take the country back to the early 20th century when coal was a main source of power. This is why I predi … ⌘ Read more

Massive system of rotating ocean currents in the North Atlantic is behaving strangely — and it may be reaching a tipping point
Sascha Pare ,  Staff Writer  -  Live Science

_Stephan: If you read SR regularly, you know I have been tracking the scientific research pertaining to ocean currents for years now, because it is going to have an enormous impact on the wellbeing of hundreds of millions of people, … ⌘ Read more

The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion
Robert Frank,  Wealth Editor  -  CNBC

Stephan: When I tell you the United States has become a neo-medieval authoritarian oligarchy society, this is what I mean.

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Trump Administration Conjures Up New “Terrorist” Designation to Justify Killing Civilians
Nick Turse,   national Security Fellow for The Intercept  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: The media won’t openly say it yet, but the Trump Republican fascist coup has now placed Democrat controlled cities under military occupation, and they are developing a legalistic rationale allowing Trump’s Gestapo to shoot and kill people in the occupied cities. We … ⌘ Read more

War on America, Chicago Theater of Operations
Ruth Ben-Ghiat ,  Professor of History New York University  -  Reader Support News | Lucid Substack

_Stephan: Ruth Ben-Ghiat is an American history professor and political commentator. She is a scholar on fascism and authoritarian leaders, and a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University. She is absolutely correct. What amazes and saddens me is that millions of Americans sit at home basically reading social media … ⌘ Read more

Trump Just Gave the Military an Extremely Sinister Mission
Fred Kaplan,    -  Slate

Stephan: As usual Trump tells us what he is going to do, but our political system does not seem to be able to process what he says. I am going to be a dictator and take revenge against those who oppose me he made very clear, and that is exacty what he is doing.

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‘I cannot abide’: Biting dissent blasts Supreme Court for ‘plainly misjudging’ case
Nicole Charky-Chami,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Like the country itself, the Supreme Court is divided between the majority of corrupt justices who are basically helping Trump and the Republicans to make the United States a nation controlled by a fascist authoritarian oligarchy, and a minority of justices who follow precedent and the laws. The minority … ⌘ Read more

Why are single men so miserable?
Allie Volpe,  Correspondent  -  Vox

_Stephan: I listen to the interviews of younger men, and read the research surveys and academic papers, and it is clear that something has gone terribly wrong with the culture of masculinity in the United States. This article and all the links it provides lay this all out in detail. As I read it, and all the other things I have mentioned it realized that I never had any of those issues, nor did the boys and young men who wer … ⌘ Read more

Karoline Leavitt Says It’s OK to Target Americans Repped by Democrats
Malcolm Ferguson,  Breaking News Associate Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Have you noticed how nasty Trump, his administration, the Congressional Republicans, and the fascist majority on the Supreme Court are becoming? I see all of this as part of Project 2025, so not of this should be surprising. It is all the manifestation of the MAGAT fascists’ actions to advance the Great Schi … ⌘ Read more

This U.S. Government Shutdown Is Different—Especially for Science
Dan Garisto & Nature Magazine,  Contributing Writer  -  Scientific American

_Stephan: For over a century, the United States has been considered the world’s leading nation in scientific research. The Trump MAGAT Republican coup has destroyed all that. China is now the leading nation scientifically. Look at the chart at the head of this report. This has a whole spectrum of negative implications fo … ⌘ Read more

Lawmakers Across the Country This Year Blocked Ethics Reforms Meant to Increase Public Trust
Gabriel Sandoval, ProPublica, with additional reporting by Nick Reynolds and Anna Wilder, The Post and Courier; Yasmeen Khan, The Maine Monitor; Lauren Dake, Oregon Public Broadcasting; Marjorie Childress, New Mexico In Depth; Louis Hansen, Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO; Mary Steurer and Jacob Orledge, North Dakota Moni … ⌘ Read more

Can You Afford to Die in Your State?
John Stevenson,  Researcher  -  John Stevenson Website

Stephan: Few Americans are spending a lot of time thinking about what their dying would cost, although over half of us (as the chart at the head of this report shows) worry they wouldn’t be able to afford a loved one’s passing.

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South Korea’s new president vows to ‘restore democracy’
Reuters Editorial Staff,    -  Reuters

_Stephan: I am leading today’s SR with this story because it represents exactly how the population of a country can end a fascist authoritarian coup. First, millions go into the streets for nonviolent demonstrations, then citizens overwhelmingly vote for democracy. As Trump tries to stir up violence in the Los Angeles demonstrations so he can claim it is an insurrection and susp … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s troop deployment is a warning sign for what comes next, legal scholars fear
Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: What is see in Trump is a bully in a panic. He wants to create misdirection so the media stops covering his bully-off with Elon Musk, and the nasty oligarch benefit bill his morally spineless Republican vassals in Congress are trying to pass. Like all cowardly bullies, his solution is to over … ⌘ Read more

Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.
Jeremy Kohler,  Contributing Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: The Republican Party at both the state and federal level has been completely taken over by fascists. It is a fascist anti-democratic party that cares nothing for the voters they are supposed to serve, but which they seek to dominate. Nowhere is this made clearer than in Republican cont … ⌘ Read more

Looser gun laws tied to thousands more US child shooting deaths
Issam Ahmed,  Staff Writer  -  Agence France-Presse / Raw Story

Stephan: The failure of the Democrats and Republicans, and the corrupt Supreme Court MAGAt majority to deal with gun violence in the United States has made death by gunfire the leading cause of nonmedical death. The Trump coup fascists have even gone so far as to legalize functional machine guns in civilian hands.

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How a stupidity epidemic is threatening America’s actual existence
Bobby Azarian,  Cognitive Neuroscientist and the author of the new book The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity.  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: In the history of the United States, over the past more than two centuries,  there has never been a stupider administration than the Trump coup people. The important point to make here is … ⌘ Read more

Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event
Ben Makuch,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: As with all authoritarian fascist regimes, civil violence, sanctioned and official, the Gestapo, and unofficial but supportive of the regime arises. That  is just what is happening as aspiring dictator Trump creates a federal. military presence in the streets of Los Angeles, following days of Tru … ⌘ Read more

Supreme Court tosses Mexico’s lawsuit against American gun manufacturers
Josh Gerstein,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: In Mexico, the drug cartels use American-made weapons for their crimes, and the Mexican government wanted to have the gun companies that make these weapons, knowingly being sold in Mexico – note they even have Spanish language sayings and graphics carved or etched on the weapons – held responsible. Sadly, in the United States, i … ⌘ Read more

Trump deploying California National Guard over governor’s objections to LA to quell protests
ERIC THAYER, MORGAN LEE and MICHELLE L. PRICE,  Reporters  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: This is all out of Hitler’s playbook, and its more modern version Project 2025. The United States has Gestapo raids, of masked armed men bursting into homes, schools, and hospitals and dragging people out. Now, aspiring dictator Trump has moved on to the … ⌘ Read more

The Way Trump’s America Most Closely Resembles 1930s Germany
Dahlia Lithwick,    -  Reader Supported News

_Stephan: A few brave journalists and commentators are beginning to tell the obvious truth they see. What is happening is exactly what happened in Germany when Hitler came to power. Dahlia Lithwick spells it out quite well. I tell you again, history is very clear about this. The only thing that is going to stop the Trump fascist takeover of the United States is … ⌘ Read more

Earth’s Atmosphere Contains More CO2 Than It Has in Millions of Years
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: While fascist, aspiring dictator Trump and his administration are doing everything in their power to keep the United States committed to carbon energy because he is beholden to the carbon energy oligarchs, scientists are screaming in alarm. Humanity is destroying Earth’s ecosystem, as this latest report on CO2 in Earth … ⌘ Read more

EPA Moves to Roll Back Rules Projected to Save Thousands of Lives and Billions of $$
Associated Press Editorial Staff,    -  Associated Press / MedPage Today

_Stephan: When I tell you that the fascist Trump Republican coup is deliberately undermining America’s future wellbeing, I am not being partisan. I don’t give a damn whether something is done by Republicans or Democrats. All I care about is does it foster wellbeing for the individual and … ⌘ Read more

‘We’re citizens!’: Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren’t suspects
: Spencer Humphrey,  Reporter  -  KFOR TV (Oklahoma)

_Stephan: A reader in Oklahoma sent me the URL for this report, it is yet another report describing the actions of the Trump Gestapo. This is Nazis behavior, and this is what the United States has now become under the coup created by aspiring dictator Trump, his Republican Congressi … ⌘ Read more

Feudalism Is Our Future
Cullen Murphy,  Editor at Large of The Atlantic.  -  Reader Supported News | The Atlantic Magazine

_Stephan: As I read Project 2025, I realized it was a modern version of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, and understood that what Trump and the Republican Party planned was to replace American democracy with a fascist feudal system. Although this reality is not discussed on corporate media, I am not the only person who sees this clearly. Here is how Cullen Murphy, Editor-at-Large at the Atl … ⌘ Read more

House GOP ‘didn’t know’ what was in the spending bill when they voted: report
Krystina Alarcon Carroll,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The spineless, moral weaklings Republican Americans elected as their Congressional Representatives, as this report describes, did not even bother to read the Trump fascist bill designed to destroy healthcare in the United States and make the uber-rich even richer, before voting on it. I hope all you Repub … ⌘ Read more

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
Hannah Allam,  Staff Writer  -  Pro Publica

_Stephan: To get an appointment in the Trump coup administration, your appointment has nothing to do with competence or experience. It is all about unflinching fascistic loyalty and submission to Trump’s will. Here is the latest example: Thomas Fugate, a former gardener one year out of college with n … ⌘ Read more

Trump Puts Lives at Risk by Revoking Emergency Abortion Guidelines for Hospitals
Jessica Washington,    -  The Intercept

_Stephan: I have personal experience of what happens when a woman, my pregnant wife, is awakened in the middle of the night because of severe cramping and blood gushing out of her vagina. It was so dramatic I realized we couldn’t wait for an ambulance, so I carried her out to the car and drove through the night to the emergen … ⌘ Read more

Texas hospital that discharged woman with doomed pregnancy violated the law, a federal inquiry finds
Associated Press Editorial Staff,    -  CNN | Associated Press

Stephan: Here is a current example describing exactly what I predicted in my previous comment. I think we are going to see more and more of these life-threatening disasters.

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Women in West Virginia who miscarry could face criminal charges, prosecutor says
Carter Sherman,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This is what American healthcare for women has sunk to. If you’re a pregnant woman in West Virginia and you have a miscarriage you are now being advised to report this to police lest you be charged with murder.  West Virginia has always been one of the poorest, least educated, and most poorly governed s … ⌘ Read more

Reimbursement inequities lead to hospitals deprioritizing women’s healthcare, experts tell Congress
Maia Anderson,  Staff Writer  -  Healthcare Brew

_Stephan: In the United States, it isn’t just that women get inferior healthcare compared to men. There is also a major issue about how insurance companies are prepared to pay for that healthcare. To quote this report after studying the issue a team of researchers said, “The group— … ⌘ Read more

Women in West Virginia who miscarry could face criminal charges, prosecutor says
Carter Sherman,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: This is what American healthcare for women has sunk to. If you’re a pregnant woman in West Virginia and you have a miscarriage you are now being advised to report this to police lest you be charged with murder.  West Virginia has always been one of the poorest, least educated, and most poorly governed s … ⌘ Read more

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies
James Temple,    -  MIT Technology Review

_Stephan: Trump, his fascist oligarchs, and his servants in Congress have made it very clear that they’re not going to do anything to prepare for what climate change is going to do to the country.  Quite the contrary, the use of carbon energy, the cause of the problem, is being promoted. Can this possibly be true? If you have been reading SR you k … ⌘ Read more

Trump administration strips federal protections for emergency abortion providers
Adriel Bettelheim,  Senior Health Care Editor  -  Axios

_Stephan: The Trump Republican coup is devastating health care, but particularly for women, in ways few women seem to realize. If you are a pregnant woman in a Republican-controlled state, and it comes down to your life or the baby’s life, thanks to the Trump coup, it may be your life, because no doctor will d … ⌘ Read more

Doctors flee Trump’s America: ‘It’s no longer safe or sane to practice here’
Brett Kelman,  Kaiser Family Foundation Health News  -  Kaiseer Family Foundation | Raw Story

_Stephan: It is not only that the Republicans and Trump are trying to terminate the healthcare of millions of Americans. All of this dismantlement of the medical system in the U.S. is also causing a significant number of physicians to just leave the country, as this article describes. … ⌘ Read more

ICE Invaded Child’s Birthday Party Claiming It Was a Gang Meeting
Malcolm Ferguson,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: You’re five years old, a little boy or girl. You’re at a birthday party with your parents when suddenly masked men in black burst into the house with rifles and handguns. They shout and throw flash grenades that burst, creating big flashes, smoke, and loud noises. They grab your parents, screaming at them, turn them around, and handc … ⌘ Read more

Trump Disappeared Them to El Salvador. Now, They’re Being Erased by Immigration Courts.
Isabela Dias,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: The Trump Gestapo shipped hundreds of men, mostly innocent of any crime except being in the United States without proper documentation, to concentration camps maintained by other countries. Now, the Trump immigration courts are “disappearing” them permanently. Will they ever be released? Maybe when the U. … ⌘ Read more

Navy to erase civil rights leaders’ names from ships — starting with Harvey Milk
Jennifer Bowers,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Aspiring dictator Donald Trump, like his father before him, has always been a White Supremacy racist, and that racism has now reached so far into the Navy that ships bearing the name of once prominent Black civil rights leaders and even a Black Supreme Court Justice are being changed, as this article describing th … ⌘ Read more

‘This Is the Scalpel They’ll Use to Ruin the Lives of Individuals the President Is Opposed To.’
Ian Ward,    -  Politico Magazine

_Stephan: Like Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin before him, like all fascist authoritarians in history, Trump is very thin-skinned about criticism and very vengeful. Here is the morally revolting first-person account of Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, describing wha … ⌘ Read more

Younger Men in the U.S. Among the Loneliest in West
Benedict Vigers,  Senior Global News Writer  -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: The World Happiness Index tells us the United States has a very unhappy population compared to the other developed democracies of the world. And, as this Gallup Organization report further details men, particularly young men, are uniquely lonely. Reading this study, I found it very strange since growing up, I don’t ever remember being lonely. … ⌘ Read more

China’s 1,000-Mile EVs Render Range Anxiety Obsolete
Danny Lee,  Staff Writer  -  Bloomberg

Stephan: China is cleaning America’s clock with a new generation of EVs, and a new kind of hybrid. Meanwhile, fascist Trump’s tariffs are leaving American car companies confused and unsure.

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Trump Amplifies Another Outlandish Conspiracy Theory: Biden Is a Robotic Clone
Zolan Kanno-Youngs,  White House Correspondent  -  The New York Times

Stephan: Fascist, aspiring dictator Trump is a psychopath who lies compulsively. Every person who can think rationally knows this. What many don’t seem to know, and that media is not properly covering, is how truly bizarre his lies have become. This is an example of what I mean.

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‘Freedom for Captives!’ Trump Puts Clemency Machine Into Overdrive for Political Allies
Jamiles Lartey,  Staff Writer  -  The Marshall Project

_Stephan: The corruption of the Trump administration is completely typical of fascist regimes, but unlike anything that has ever been seen in the United States, and nowhere is Trump’s corruption more obvious than in his pay-for-pardon and loyalty to Trump above all other considerations scheme, as thi … ⌘ Read more

At least 20 Planned Parenthood clinics shutter amid political turbulence
Carter Sherman,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: For decades, the Republican Party has sought to subordinate women’s bodies, placing females under the control of the state. They have particularly targeted in this strategy the dismantlement of Planned Parenthood.  This has now escalated significantly under Trump and his fascist coup. We are no longer a country where medical care … ⌘ Read more

Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Mica Rosenberg, Trevizo, Melissa Sanchez,Gabriel Sandoval; Ronna Rísquez, Alianza Rebelde, Adrián González,  Reporters  -  ProPublica | Texas Tribune | Cazadores de Fake News (Venezuela)

_Stephan: The fascist playbook, which Trump and the Republican Party are following to the letter, teach … ⌘ Read more

AI DISASTER: Fears AI will leave Earth with population ‘the size of UK’ by 2300 & turn entire countries into apocalyptic wastelands
David Rivers and Sayan Bose,    -  The U.S. Sun

_Stephan: The remote viewers who have participated in my 47-year-long remote viewing of the future project, which began in 1978, to described a future radically different than the present day. One of the things that stood … ⌘ Read more

Appeals Court Strips Voters’ Ability to File Voting Rights Act Lawsuits in 7 States
Andrew Garber,    -  Brennan Center for Justice

Stephan: Parts of the Judicial system are still honorable and law-abiding, parts are not. This is going to mean a lot as the 2026 election comes closer. Here is an example showing what I mean.

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Meanwhile, back in the real world
Bill McKibben,  Commentator  -  The Crucial Years

Stephan: I think Bill McKibben describes quite accurately what is going on with the Trump Republican coup. And yet over 40 per cent of Americans continue to support what he is doing. Here is Nat Silver’s latest poll report:

_“But what can we learn from the polls we do have? Well it’s a mixed bag. In the latest AtlasIntel poll, Donald Trump’s approval r … ⌘ Read more

Supreme Court Boosts Oil Billionaires By Restricting Environmental Reviews
Alison Durkee,  Staff Writer  -  Forbes

_Stephan: The United States government, and this is true of the governments of many other countries as well, but has gotten particularly grievous with the Trump coup and his restructuring of the Supreme Court in his first term, simply are not preparing humanity for the disaster of climate change. I don’t know whether it is oil billionair … ⌘ Read more

‘HERCULEAN TASK’ Emirates airline president reveals staggering cost to transform Qatari ‘sky Palace’ into Trump’s new Air Force One jet
Georgie English,  Foreign News Reporter  -  The U.S. Sun

_Stephan: The story of the corruption of Trump, represented by his grift to get the Qatar “flying palace” has passed from the attention of the corporate media, but that doesn’t mean this corrupt scheme has … ⌘ Read more

How the US became the biggest military emitter and stopped everyone finding out
Nina Lakhani,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Yet another story showing that the U.S. government just doesn’t get it, or more accurately, doesn’t want to get it, and neither do the majority of Americans who voted these cretins into office. Our technologies are destroying the Earth’s matrix of life, and the price for this greed and willful ignorance is goi … ⌘ Read more

Over $14 Billion in U.S. Clean Energy Investments Have Been Canceled or Stalled This Year
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: Under the Trump Republican MAGAt coup the United States is not only not preparing for climate change the country is being taken backwards into greater carbon energy dependence. The complete lack of ethics in the Republican Congress, and the failure of the media to focus on this tr … ⌘ Read more

Intense Culture of Fear”: Behind the Scenes as Trump Destroys the EPA From Within
Akela Lacy,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: The Trump and Congressional fascist coup is dismantling the government agencies that were designed to help America prepare for climate change and assist Americans when they experience some kind of climate crisis. Trump is gutting EPA, as well as FEMA, and I feel very sad for the millions of Americans who are goi … ⌘ Read more

Trump Is Weaponizing the Justice Department to Advance His Voter Suppression Plans
Ari Berman,  National Voting Rights Correspondent  -  Mother Jones

Stephan: I have been convinced since the Trump coup began last January that the MAGAt Republicans and their king were going to do everything they could to rig the 2026 election to keep themselves in power. And sure enough, they are.

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TSA warns travelers these free services at airports can lead to your data being stolen
Matt Durr ,  Contributing Writer  -  mlive

Stephan: Flying in the United States today has become more expensive, less safe, often cancelled, and it leaves you more vulnerable to having your personal data stolen.  Even the TSA acknowledges this vulnerability, and this is what they recommend to protect yourself.

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The Billion-Dollar Business Behind Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Elizabeth Findell, Jack Gillum, Jemal R. Brinson, and Juanje Gómez,    -  Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: The fascist coup Trump and the Republican Party are trying to carry out, like all fascist coups, requires an “other”. A group of people, the racist, low IQ, low education members of their movement, can hate and focus their resentments against. For Hitler, it was the Jews. For Trump and the Repub … ⌘ Read more

Earth’s Oceans Are Going Dark —Scientists Warn of an Unfolding Global Catastrophe
Lydia Amazouz,    -  Daily Galaxy

_Stephan: I have been telling you for several years now about the catastrophic change humanity is causing to Earth’s Matrix of Life. The change in the environment that will transform human cultures all over the world. Here is another, just reported, aspect of this coming catastrophe. Anyone who reads anything about the climate that … ⌘ Read more

This Trump-made disaster is more deadly than any hurricane
Thoma Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

Stephan: Be very clear about this. Trump and his MAGAt fellow coup perpetrators are not only dismantling science in the United States; they are also sabotaging any system that can help and protect you and me as we face the effects of climate change. If this goes on for four years I’m not sure the United States we have grown up and known will still exist.

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RFK Jr.’s MAHA Report Cited Studies That Don’t Appear to Exist
,    -  Associated Press

_Stephan: I wonder how many Americans, and I would include members of Congress, do not fully comprehend that American healthcare is being overseen by three people, none of whom have any medical training. In fact, only one of them even has a doctorate degree of any kind, and two of them are known for their blatant anti-science obsessions. But I confess I never thought Robert Ke … ⌘ Read more

Trump Stonewalls Federal Judges In New Round Of Brazen Defiance
David Kurtz,  Editor at Large  -  TPM

_Stephan: Aspiring dictator Trump, like Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin before him wants to castrate the judicial system of the nation he seeks to rule. Here is a clear fact-based description of what he is doing. Note also the picture at the head of this article. Again, like Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin, Trump wants banner of his picture hanging from government … ⌘ Read more

US trade court blocks Trump’s sweeping tariffs. What happens now?
Peter Hoskins and Yang Tian,  Business Reporter | News Reporter  -  BBC (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is some potentially excellent good news.  The Court of International Trade has just emasculated aspiring dictator Trump’s entire tariff scheme. None of it was ruled to be legal by a three judge panel, one judge appointed by Trump, another by President Reagan. It is assumed that Trump will appeal. I think … ⌘ Read more

Trump accused of ‘most blatant show of white supremacy in America in history’
Matt LasloMartin Pengelly,  Washington Correspondent  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: As I walked down Constitution Avenue to the Lincoln Memorial on  Wednesday, August 28, 1963, to hear Martin Luther King give what has come to be known as his “I have a Dream” speech I was filled with hope. I thought we were finally curing the White supremacy cancer that has sickened the United Sta … ⌘ Read more

‘Mar-a-Lago face’ now the most in-demand plastic surgery — doctor reveals who everyone is requesting to look like
Adriana Diaz,  Reporter  -  New York Post

Stephan: This is a trend, and it is one of the sickest, weirdest in American history.

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The Final Checkmate: Republicans Move to Destroy the Balance of Powers
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Corporate media and newspapers like The Washington Post and the The Los Angeles Times, both owned by MAGAt billionaires, as well as local television stations owned by MAGAts, and the social media rightwing disinformation network are not reporting what is happening in the United States accurately. They do not acknowledge that … ⌘ Read more

The New Dark Age
Adam Serwer,  Contributing Writer  -  The Atlantic Magazine

_Stephan: I was very happy to find this article, because I had been thinking I would need to write something on this. Adam Serwer has laid out very well the rise of what I have been calling neo-medievalism, what Serwer calls The New Dark Age. The United States is going into a catastrophic decline because of Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and the oligarchs who are funding this all, because American voters were not smart enough … ⌘ Read more

Trump uses pardon power to build army of devoted MAGAt vigilantes: analyst
Matthew Chapman,    -  Raw Story

_Stephan: There has never been the kind of corruption being seen every day now in the United States. We have reached a stage of fascist corruption where you can buy a pardon from the President, or get one if you are willing to do something he wants done. You see these stories day after day, and wonder how did we get to this depravity? This is a … ⌘ Read more

American Bishops’ War With Trump Admin Is Heating Up
Jordan King,  Reporter  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: A very interesting trend and, I think, a positive one, is emerging. A significant percentage of MAGAt world are Roman Catholics, but under the new Pope the hierarchy is changing even though a number of the bishops have been very rightwing. As this article describes, however, the Roman Church under Pope Leo, is going into direct opposition to the Trump MAGAt coup. It is going … ⌘ Read more

How Trump’s megabill transfers wealth in the US
Analysis by Tami Luhby and Zachary B. Wolf,  Senior Writers  -  CNN

_Stephan: I have been looking for days for a clear, fact-based analysis of what Trump and the MAGAt Republicans are trying to do with the American economy, and I finally have found it. If you are a middle class or lower income person if this bill passes the Senate without major changes that require it going back to the House, and it is signed by Trump you are goin … ⌘ Read more

There’s a hidden provision in that big ugly bill that makes Trump king
Robert Reich,  Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: As you can see, I am not the only person who tracks the trends shaping the United States, who sees what is going on with the Trump MAGAt coup. In this article he points out something almost no one else in corporate media is talking about even though it ends democra … ⌘ Read more

Did Harvard reject Barron Trump? Truth behind his college choice has sparks buzz online
,    -  The Economic Times (India)

_Stephan: I have been following closely Trump’s attack on Harvard. At one level it is clearly part of MAGAt coup to intimidate or take over universities, so they do what the MAGAt fascists want, indoctrinate instead of educate. But there is something weird and personal about what Trump is doing and saying. According … ⌘ Read more

Malia Obama Is Charting Her Own Course
Dorian Smith-Garcia,  Staff Writer  -  Yahoo

_Stephan: Malia Obama graduated from Harvard and has already established herself independent of her parents as a film director.  Trump’s dislike of the Obamas is well known. Could the Obama daughter’s Harvard success and the stories of Barron’s Harvard rejection be why Trump seems so personally retributive against Harvard? I don’t know, maybe it is just a coincidence, but I suspect history will tell us. … ⌘ Read more

Workers at top US consumer watchdog sound warning as Trump bids to gut agency
Michael Sainato,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The fascist Trumpian coup continues, and one of its main goals, to turn Americans into powerless peasants, escalates. One of its strategies, as this article in the British newspaper The Guardian describes, is that you and I will no longer have any place to turn if we are cheated or ripped off by a corporation. A bipart … ⌘ Read more