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
Trump ‘Seriously Considering’ Lifting All Biden-Era Restrictions on Ukraine’s War Effort, Sources Say ⌘ Read more
Trump says Putin is “playing with fire” ⌘ Read more
Trump considers new sanctions on Russia as he grows more furious with Putin ⌘ Read more
Trump admits to protecting Russia from ‘really bad things’ ⌘ Read more
Russian bots roast “clown” Donald Trump after Putin comments ⌘ 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
Trump considers imposing sanctions on Russia in coming days, WSJ reports ⌘ Read more
Kremlin calls Trump ‘emotional’ after US president says Putin is ‘crazy’ ⌘ Read more
King Charles III arrives in Canada to underscore its sovereignty after Trump annexation threats ⌘ Read more
Macron: Trump has realised Putin has been lying to him ⌘ Read more
Trump crashes Russian stock market: minus US$1 billion in few hours ⌘ Read more
Russia says Trump’s attack on Putin due to “emotional overstrain” ⌘ 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
President Trump’s approval rating: Here’s what latest opinion polls show
Kathryn Palmer, Trending News Reporter - USA Today
_Stephan: The truth that corporate media doesn’t seem able or willing to touch is that the transformation of the United States into a fascist autocracy by Trump and his vellains is only happening because a small majority of Americans voted for it. Fascism never comes into power through violence; it is always voted into office by … ⌘ Read more
Welcome To The White Christian Nationalist Presidency
David Kurtz, Editor-at-Large - TPM
_Stephan: In the United States, a strange affiliation has arisen amongst evangelical Christianity, White racism, and fascism. This is the core partnership of MAGAt world, and a historic distortion of Jesus’ teachings. These are the people who voted Trump into office, whose wellbeing will be most severely damaged. Yet, they still support and kneel to Donald Trump. He, in turn, art … ⌘ Read more
Rule change would allow Trump to ‘cook the books’ and hide collapsing economy: report
Tom Boggioni, Senior Editor - Raw Story
_Stephan: Fascist governance is always inferior to democratic governance. Can you think of a single fascist ruled nation in history that was world leader in social wellbeing, education, science, or medicine? No, neither can I because there is no such example One of the hallmarks of fascists is that they never want t … ⌘ Read more
Trump calls Putin ‘absolutely crazy’ after largest Russian attack on Ukraine - BBC News ⌘ Read more
Trump says Putin has gone ‘absolutely crazy,’ warns of downfall of Russia ⌘ Read more
Trump calls Putin ‘crazy’ after largest Russian attack on Ukraine ⌘ Read more
Trump says he’ll delay a threatened 50% tariff on the European Union until July ⌘ Read more
Trump delays 50% tariffs on EU to July 9 ⌘ Read more
Senators Visit Canada, Seeking a Reset Amid Trump’s Provocations ⌘ Read more
Trump opens borders to cartel families while locking up students
Oliver Willis, Staff Writer - Daily Kos
Stephan: It should be clear to anybody by now that to Trump, everything is some kind of grift, and if you can make him richer, anyone can make a deal. It should also be clear that Trump and the Republicans have made the United States one of the most corrupt nations in the developed world. There is no governmental integrity anymore. ⌘ Read more
Outrage as Trump’s Pentagon promotes staffer who pushed ‘neo-Nazi’ theories
Maatthew Chapman, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Aspiring dictator Trump uses antisemitism to take control of Universities so he can turn education into indoctrination. Yet, at the same time he promotes an antisemitic Neo-Nazi to be the press secretary of the Department of Defense. What does that tell you? That Trump is using antisemitism as a wedge issue to create chaos … ⌘ Read more
Trump’s ban on Harvard foreign students may come at a hefty price to the economy
Lexi Lonas Cochran , Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: I have been telling you for years about the contribution immigrants have made to the economic and social success of the United States. Apparently, as this article reports, this is beginning to dawn on others. What it is also telling anyone who can actually think is that aspiring dictator Trump and his servant … ⌘ Read more
Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Is Only ‘About the Babies of Slaves.’ Historical Evidence Says Otherwise.
Damon Root , Senior Editor - reason
Stephan: Here is a fact-based exegetic essay on U.S. birthright citizenship. I have looking at MAGAt media to see how it was playing this issue, and the racism and ignorance on this subject is astonishing.
_Stephan: Does it strike you as strange that while masked ICE and Homeland Security agents are pulling non-White immigrants from their homes, out of their cars, and off the streets, White immigrants from South Africa are being welcomed into the United States? Did you know that Elon Musk is a Whit … ⌘ Read more
Authorities arrest over 100 people on Tennessee roads in support of Trump’s deportation plan
Travis Loller, Reporter - Associated Press
_Stephan: Just as Hitler began incorporating local police into his Gestapo actions, so aspiring dictator Trump, is beginning to use local state troopers and police to work with his ICE and Homeland Security thugs. Every day, as I begin looking for the trends shaping America, I am struck by how clo … ⌘ Read more
Federal Funds for Rural Health Care Are on the Chopping Block—Here’s What That Could Mean
Rita Rubin, Staff Writer - Journal of the American Medical Association
_Stephan: When I look at the healthcare trends that are shaping America’s future what really stands out for me is the the MAGAt Red state rural voters who overwhelmingly voted for aspiring dictator Trump, did not really seem to understand that Trump cares nothing for the peas … ⌘ Read more
DHS requests 20,000 National Guard troops to help with mass deportations
Ellen Mitchell, Senior Defense Reporter - The Hill
_Stephan: I have been waiting for this development in the Trump MAGAt coup, and now it is openly here. Trump is trying to create a militarized Gestapo so that civil resistance ostensibly about immigrants, just as Hitler made it about Jews, can use the military to eliminate people who oppose him. That’s why Hegseth has been firin … ⌘ Read more
Flawed Federal Programs Maroon Rural Americans in Telehealth Blackouts
arah Jane Tribble and Holly K. Hacker, - Med Page Today | Kaiser Family Foundation
_Stephan: I live on a rural island, and depend on telehealth sessions with doctors, because if telehealth ends, as the Republicans are trying to do, a 15-minute call would become a daylong trip to the mainland. Sadly, even worse plans to extend internet access have not proceeded under Trump and th … ⌘ Read more
Even Once Reluctant Scholars Now Agree on Israel’s Gaza Assault: It’s a Genocide
Julia Conley, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: I have been telling you for months now that, in my view, what has been happening in Gaza is an Israeli-created genocide with the purpose of either killing Palestinians, or forcing them to leave Gaza so that Israel can take it over Gaza and, with the help of the Trump family, turn the area into a Israeli profit-ma … ⌘ Read more
The End of Rule of Law in America
J. Michael Luttig, Retired Republican appointed Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit - The Atlantic Magazine
_Stephan: J. Michael Luttig is a former federal Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, appointed by Republican President George Bush. He is not some liberal activist, and yet, as he writes in this article, he sees the Trump MAGAT coup for what it is, the end of the rule of law and democracy in the United States. What s … ⌘ Read more
‘Dark swerve’: Analysis shows US quickly becoming a ‘police state’ under Trump
Mattthew Chapman, News Writer - Raw Story
Stephan: I think this is an accurate report, and I think that is all I need to say.
President Donald Trump has not quite turned America into a dictatorship, wrote Eduardo Porter in a [ … ⌘ Read more
Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
Tom Dreisbach, Staff Writer - npr
_Stephan: There are a number of anti-semite serving in the Trump coup administration. But at the same time Trump has spent billions supporting Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and forcibly deporting pro-Palestinian college students. That would appear to be a contradiction, but what is this really telling us? I think what it is telling us is th … ⌘ Read more
Trump Tells Tim Cook to Stop Building iPhones in India
President Donald Trump has asked Apple CEO Tim Cook to halt the company’s manufacturing expansion in India, in a potential disruption of Apple’s plan to shift iPhone production away from China.
“I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday,” Trump said during his state visit to Qatar, according to _[Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic … ⌘ Read more
Trump just uttered the most despicable lie pushed by GOP in decades
Thom Hartmann, Contributing Writer - Raw story | Commentary
Stephan: Although Trump is a terrible multi-bankrupt businessman, as I have pointed out repeatedly, he has real skill with lying and manipulating media to focus on fake or irrelevant stories to avoid attention on the real stories. Thom Hartmann explains what I mean very well.
_Stephan: In my view, the Chinese have played Donald Trump like a flute in the trade war crisis he created. I don’t know why corporate media hardly mentions that Trump has gone bankrupt six times; he couldn’t even make a success of a gambling casino. He is a terrible businessman. What he does understand is how to manipulate American media with big … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Uses Minecraft to Spread DEI Messaging, Notch Calls That Evil
Plus: Microsoft game studios (where employees have called for the murder of Trump voters) are unionizing. ⌘ Read more
Scientists Just Found Who’s Causing Global Warming
Joe Wilkins, Staff Writer - Futurism
_Stephan: The oligarchs who bought Trump his presidency by misinforming and confusing a majority of American voters are also the same people, as this article reports, who are also destroying the wellbeing of Earth. To quote them, “A recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has found that the richest 10 percent of … ⌘ Read more
Trump says he’s fighting antisemitism — and accepting a $400 million gift from a government that funded Hamas
Anthony L. Fisher, Senior Editor and Writer - MSNBC
_Stephan: The corruption of multi-felon, convicted sex abuser Donald Trump and his family is unlike anything ever seen before in the United States 250-year history. Do you remember when Hillary Clinton could not accept a necklace valued at something like $42 … ⌘ Read more
US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return
Giovanna Coi, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan: Part of the problem afflicting the United States is neither the population nor the public officials can tell the truth about the country. We are not “the greatest country in the world.” We are third class and getting worse in healthcare, public education, literacy, lifespan, etc., etc., and we have a anti-democratic coup administration that is destroying th … ⌘ Read more
‘Buyer’s remorse’ as MAGA faithful face ‘gradual — then sudden — realization’ Trump only hurts them
Elizabeth Preza, Staff Writer - AlterNet
_Stephan: It is slowly, ever so slowly, beginning to dawn on the MAGAt voters that they made a horrible mistake, and are now the leading victims of the Trumpian coup. I think this is good news that could have a major impact on the 2026 elections and put the Democrats in control of both the Sen … ⌘ Read more
U.S. Amps Up Spying on Greenland and Denmark as Trump Covets New Territory
Matt Novak, Staff Writer - Gizmodo
_Stephan: This is a very nasty trend. Psychopath Trump is obsessed with Greenland as his fellow fascist, Vladimir Putin, is obsessed with taking over Ukraine. The people of Greenland loathe Trump, and Denmark has been an ally of the U.S. for decades. As we go along with the fascist madness that is destroying America, don’t be surprised if T … ⌘ Read more
HIV Testing and Outreach Falter as Trump Funding Cuts Sweep the South
Amy Maxmen, Research Staff, KFF - Kaiser Family Foundation | MedPage Today
_Stephan: As I have told you since before the 2024 election that started the Trump fascist coup, the people in the Red states who voted this utterly corrupt psychopath and his despicable minions into power are going to be the main ones paying the price for what Trump and his administration are going to do to … ⌘ Read more
South Florida Homes for Sale Quadruple As Residents Leave En Masse
Joe Edwards, Reporter - Newsweek
_Stephan: I told you this was coming and now it has begun. Florida. First, insurance companies stopped insuring homes and businesses, climate change is becoming more threatening, and as this article describes, people are leaving in droves. Because the Trump administration is doing nothing about preparing for climate change all the evidence I see tells me th … ⌘ Read more
Influencer with no medical license picked to be nation’s top doctor
Emily Singer, Staff Writer - Daily Kos
_Stephan: The United States, which already has the lowest healthcare ranking in the developed world, as well as the highest expense, thanks to aspiring dictator Trump, now has the strangest healthcare system in the world. Not only has Trump gutted most the institutions and agencies that do medical research, he has now appointed as Casey Means as Surg … ⌘ Read more
Why Do Americans Pay More for Prescription Drugs?
David Armstrong, Investigative Health Care Reporter - ProPublica
_Stephan: I have been searching for weeks for some good news coming out of the Trump administration coup, and have finally found something. Because we have an illness profit system, not a real healthcare system, U.S. drug prices are orders of magnitude higher than the same drugs in other developed nations. Now a bi-partisan bill backed by Trump may finally do … ⌘ Read more
Trump Has Skipped Out On All But 12 Of His Daily Intelligence Briefings
Jack Revell, Staff Writer - Daily Beast
_Stephan: Kash Patel only shows up for work as the director of the FBI a few days a week, Pete Hegseth is more interested in his makeup studio than managing one of the largest organizations and budgets in the world. And Trump can’t be bothered to get the secret briefings the Preisdent is supposed to get every day so that he can properly und … ⌘ Read more
Trump administration ‘looking at’ suspending habeas corpus, Stephen Miller says
Dan Mangan, Reporter - CNBC
_Stephan: Habeas Corpus – literally in Latin, “you have the body” is a legal principle so old and revered it predates the creation of the United States in 1787. It is a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person’s release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detent … ⌘ Read more
‘The Fix Is In’: GOP Wants Poor People to Pay More for Medicaid to Fund Tax Cuts for Wealthy
Jake Johnson, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Healthcare in the United States is the worst system, as well as the most expensive, in the developed world. It is about to get much worse because aspiring dictator Trump, and his MAGAt-controlled Congress are trying to pay for tax cuts for the oligarch – who already pay a lower fraction of their annu … ⌘ Read more
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden is fired by Trump
Nicholas Wu, Lisa Kashinsky and Katherine Tully-McManus, Staff Writers - Politico
_Stephan: The Library of Congress, whose beginnings trace back to Benjamin Franklin, is the largest library in the world and the most important. Despot Trump, as he has made clear, doesn’t like libraries because they are repositories of facts. And he also doesn’t want government agencies, whether the Chief of Naval Operations or the Lib … ⌘ Read more
Empty shelves, for-lease signs and job layoffs point to recession by summer
David Blond, Economist Specializing in Global Economic Analysis - Market Watch
_Stephan: I have been telling you for seven months now, since I read Project 2025, that I thought that if Trump was elected and did what Project 2025 outlined that he would attempt a coup and it would put us in a recession by June. A growing number of economists think the same; here is the most … ⌘ Read more
Trump admin turns to far right outlet to distribute news through Voice of America
Ben Johansen, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan: Back about 1970, I wrote, and my friend Don McDonough produced, the first Voice of America satellite worldwide video broadcast. I called it, It’s a Small, Small World and it was based on promoting humanity’s wellbeing. We would go on to do several other things for VoA, and I was, and remain, very proud of that wo … ⌘ Read more
Donald Trump Nominates Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro for Interim DC US Attorney
Sonam Sheth and Gabe Whisnant, Evening Political Editor - Newsweek
_Stephan: Aspiring dictator Trump has appointed another MAGAt fanatic and Fox host, Jeanine Pirro, as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Like Hegseth, Patel, and others, the United States government agencies are now headed by Fox hosts because Trump doesn’t select his administration leadership … ⌘ Read more
Addressing Trump’s NASA Budget Cuts ⌘ Read more
Lawyers scramble to stop deportation flight to Libya they say ‘blatantly’ defies court order
Myah Ward, Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein, Staff Writers - Politico
_Stephan: As I started to write this, CNN announced that a judge has just ruled the Trump dictatorship can not send immigrants to prisons in Libya, known to be amongst the vilest gulags in the world; and Chief Justice Roberts has just spoken out about Trump’s disregard for t … ⌘ Read more
Trump AG’s latest vow is straight from dictator’s playbook — and it’s a threat to us all
Thom Hartmann, Commentator - Raw Story
_Stephan: The assault on media, and the weaponization of misinformation is a high priority goal of the aspiring Trump dictatorship, and that is straight out of Hitler’s playbook. Thom Hartmann describes what the Trump coup is trying to do under the guidance of Pam Bondi, perhaps the most unscrupulous, unethical A … ⌘ Read more
Amid Forced Starvation in Gaza, NGO Coalition Decries Israel’s New Registration Rules
Brett Wilkins, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: The fascist government of Israel has made its intentions very clear, while the Trump administration remains silent. Kill Palestinians. Starve Palestinians. Drive Palestinians to other countries. Take over the entirety of Gaza and, with the Trump family’s help, turn Gaza into a profit-making resort are … ⌘ Read more
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
Anna Clark, Staff Writer - ProPublica
_Stephan: I have been telling you since the Trump Republican Party coup began that one of its most notable features is the rise of American neo-medievalism, in which the wellbeing of the peasants is of little interest. Do you get your water from the Great Lakes? If you do I would do some rese … ⌘ Read more
Trump’s Onslaught Hits Staffers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Henry Carnell, Digital Fellow - Mother Jones
_Stephan: The Trump coupsters have no interest in the science of renewable non-carbon energy. In fact, because the carbon energy oligarchs support Trump, there is an active effort by his administration to keep the United States dependent on carbon energy. The result is going to be disastrous for social and individual wellbeing. … ⌘ Read more
Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says
Jason Burke and Julian Borger, International Security Correspondent | Senior International Correspondent - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: The fascist Israeli Netanyahu administration’s Palestinian genocide continues without a negative comment from the Trump administration. Probably because the Trump family hopes to profit from what the Israelis have in mind for Gaza after they kill or push out all the Palestinians … ⌘ Read more
In ‘Highly Unusual’ Move, Trump DOJ Sues to Block States From Holding Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for Climate Crisis
: Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: The Trumpian fascist coup shows you almost every day that it cares nothing about your wellbeing, and it seeks to suppress any preparation to ameliorate the devastation of your life, and the lives of your children a … ⌘ Read more
Trump Sons’ Deals on Three Continents Directly Benefit the President
Eric Lipton and David Yaffe-Bellany, Investigative Reporter | Contributing Writer - The New York Times
_Stephan: Are you having problems with your grocery costs? Were you stunned by what your pharmaceuticals cost? Were you appalled by the prices you saw when you looked to buy a new car? As ordinary Americans struggle with the economic chaos that aspiring dictator and psychopath Trump h … ⌘ Read more
Trump when pressed on if he needs to uphold the Constitution: ‘I don’t know’
Gregory Svirnovskiy, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan: We have reached the stage in Trump’s fascist coup where he feels secure enough in his power that he is now openly saying he is not compelled to follow the Constitution, or listen to the courts, or Congress. I tell you again, the only thing that is going to stop this is if you and a million other people are out in the st … ⌘ Read more
Trump officials gut 25 centers that monitor flooding and drought in the US
Tom Perkins, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Just as hurricane season and flooding events are poised to begin, despot psychopath Trump and his administration of lackeys have just destroyed the science centers that predict oncoming weather events and warn of flooding. And yet still it is not clear to millions of American voters that Trump cares nothing for their wellbeing. … ⌘ Read more
‘It’s bad’ MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow slams Trump for ‘killing miracle’ drug
Erik De La Garza, Staff Writer - Raw Story | MSNBC
_Stephan: Yet further proof that psychopath Trump and his MAGAt servants care nothing for the wellbeing of Americans. I just don’t understand how this could get any clearer, nor how Americans fail to understand we are becoming a neo-medieval society. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, particularly young people who use drugs, are aliv … ⌘ Read more