‘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
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
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
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
‘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.
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
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.
_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.
 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.
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.
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.
_Donald Trump signs an executive order in t … ⌘ Read moreTrump 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
La France se met (quasiment) en ordre de bataille pour reconquérir le monde.
La première semaine de Trump au pouvoir n’a laissé aucun doute sur la rapidité avec laquelle le nouveau patron de la Maison Blanche voulait agir : ordres exécutifs à gogo, déclarations tranchantes, mise en route immédiate de certains de ses programmes, à commencer par les reconduites à la frontières des illégaux dangereux… Bref, le bulldozer Trump […] ⌘ 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
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
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.
_The histori … ⌘ Read moreVA 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
The T on the cars made by the car manufacturer lead by E Musk really stood for Trump all along
Predicting what is to be expected in about four years in the USA : there is no way in Hell where Trump will allow any form of return to the way it use to be before he took hold of the country. He will let other people die to make sure his regime will stay on for as long as at least he lives.
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
What is Stargate? Trump’s $800b AI investment explained
The announcement is set to reshape the tech sector and create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Where does Australia fit in, and what does Elon Musk have to say? ⌘ Read more
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.
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.
Atmospheric [carbon dioxide levels](https://www.ecowatch.com/global-carbon-bu … ⌘ Read more
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
I hope to ignore US politics as much as I can in the next few years – it can really bring you down. Let’s also hope Trump and his oligarch friends don’t cause too much harm until then. ⌘ 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.
 / 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.
_ … ⌘ Read moreWhy 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
China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than ‘all the oil on Earth’
Ben Turner, Staff Writer - Live Science
_Stephan: While the incoming Trump administration is committed to “drill baby drill” continuation of the carbon era the Chinese are moving to exit the carbon era, as the extraordinary project to beam power down from space described in this re … ⌘ Read more
Wright poised for confirmation despite hearing clashes over climate, LA fires
Rachel Frazin, Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: In contrast to what the Chinese are doing, felon Trump’s administration is moving in the opposite direction. Chris Wright, Trump’s pick of Secretary of Energy has a long history of being an evangelist for ramping up carbon energy production. HIs personal financial interests are entwined with fossil fuels. You would think … ⌘ Read more
Jack Smith Report Insists Evidence Against Trump ‘Sufficient’ for Conviction If Not for 2024 Victory
David Gilmour, Staff Writer - MEDIAite
_Stephan: It is now clear that had American voters not elected him to be their next President that already multiply convicted felon Donald Trump would have been convicted yet again and be headed for prison. That is very clear in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s just-issued report. I don’t t … ⌘ Read more
‘Merrick Garland has been wholly useless’: MSNBC host drops the hammer on outgoing AG
Tom Boggioni, Senior Editor - Raw Story
_Stephan: I completely agree with Michael Steele’s comments and thinking. Felon Trump with the assistance of Attorney General Merrick Garland, Judge Aileen Cannon, and President Joe Biden’s permissive complacency has essentially walked away from accountability for his multiple crimes, sex offenses, and traitorous be … ⌘ Read more
‘Abominable’: Trump and GOP Float Tying Los Angeles Wildfire Aid to Debt Ceiling
Eloise Goldsmith, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: Felon Trump has a long history of blocking federal aid to states led by politicians he doesn’t like, and his Republican Congressional cretins support him in this. However, this situation in Los Angeles is unlike anything the country has seen before regarding the extent of damage, the suffering, and damage tha … ⌘ Read more
This could be the beginning of the end for fire insurance in California
Blanca Begert, Camille von Kaenel, Thomas Frank and Zack Colman, Staff Writers - Poliitico
_Stephan: Putting aside the disinformation crap that felon Trump endlessly spews – a revealing sign as to what his administration is going to be like – what is standing out for me is the insurance issue. In large parts of Florida, it is already impossible to get home insurance, and it loo … ⌘ Read more
‘Morally Bankrupt’ Biden Blasted for $8 Billion More in Arms to Israel Amid Gaza Genocide
Jessica Corbett, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: I predict that historians will define President Biden in three ways: First, and the good news, he restored the wreck of the American economy he inherited from Donald Trump. Second, and then shameful bad news, he arranged for the United States government during his term to fund Israel’s genoci … ⌘ Read more
Electric cars took 89% of Norway market in 2024
, - Agence France-Presse (France)
Stephan: Convicted felon Trump has repeatedly stated that he wants more drilling, more use of petroleum, and Project 2025, the MAGAt guidebook for the new administration, doesn’t even address climate change and talks about increased drilling for oil and gas. In contrast other nations are moving as quickly as they can out of the carbon era. Here is a good news report from Norway.
 in the hands of Elon Musk, who gets crazier every day and hangs out too much with Donald Trump (and recommends a fascist party in Germany), and now Mark Zuckerberg with Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) is also joining the group of friends around Trump and removing fact checks in the name of “free speech”. What could possibly go wrong? ⌘ Read more
Fact Check: Melania Trump’s Nude Photos Aired on Russian State TV
Aleksandra Wrona, Staff Writer - Yahoo! News | Snopes
_Stephan: Russian state media a few days after the U.S. election aired soft porn photos of soon-to-be first lady Melania Trump. I am leading with this story today because I think it is telling us something very important about the geopolitical trend showing the decline of the United States. Think about it for a moment. The American people … ⌘ Read more
The Fossil Fuel Industry Spent $219 Million to Elect Trump and Republicans in Congress
Karin Kirk, Staff Writer - Reader Supported News | Yale Climate Connections
_Stephan: The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, as I have told you many times, legalized the renting of politicians like hiring prostitutes. A large percentage of American voters either don’t realize this, or don’t care but it has corrupted American democracy so compl … ⌘ Read more
Linda McMahon Has no Education Experience Except Wanting to Defund Public Schools
Jessica Washington, Staff Writer - The Intercept
_Stephan: Betsy DeVos Trump’s Secretary of Education in his first administration did everything she could to sabotage free public schools. This time he seeks to appoint Linda McMahon, who knows and has no experience with public education at all, and will do Trump’s bidding. United States public school children a … ⌘ Read more
New Year’s attacks fuel fears of extremism in military
Brad Dress, Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: Did you particularly note that the two terrorists that recently murdered innocent Americans were militarily trained MAGAts? The rising percentage of MAGAts in active service, or recent retirement, in the armed forces is a trend I having been following and reporting on (see SR archive) in SR for years. It really concerns me because if Trump orders the use of the militar … ⌘ Read more
Apple CEO Tim Cook to Donating $1 Million to Trump’s Inaugural Fund
Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, reports Axios. The donation will be a personal donation directly from Cook rather than a donation from Apple.
Following Trump’s wi … ⌘ Read more
Trump Bibles, Rudy coffee, Tucker nicotine pouches: the rightwing knick-knack racket
Adam Gabbatt, - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Here is another American trend that is getting almost no coverage in the increasingly coorrupted U.S. billionaire owned media. Once again I saw the trend but have had to go to another British newspaper to get a decent article describing the trend. The Republican Party has become a billionaire-controlled organiz … ⌘ Read more
Jimmy Carter made eradicating Guinea worm disease a top mission
RUSS BYNUM and SAM MEDNICK, Reporters - Associated Press
Stephan: This article describes what policies that foster wellbeing look like. This is multi-decade work by President Carter before and after his presidency. Do you think we will see anything remotely like this during the Trump Presidency. I don’t.
![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screenshot-2025-01-01-at-9. … ⌘ Read more
Trump Medicare Pick Dr. Oz Says Uninsured ‘Don’t Have Right to Health’ in Resurfaced Clip
David Badash, Staff Writer - The New Civil Rights Movement
_Stephan: Both my wife and I, like many of you, pay for and receive Medicare so we could be affected by what Mehmet Oz has in mind. This should not be mistaken for the evil Medicare Advantage programs designed to enrich insurance corporations. You would think Mehmet Oz’s heartless nonsens … ⌘ Read more