Thousands of Unexploded Bombs Dropped by Israel Have Turned Gaza into a Minefield
Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous,    -  Drop Site

_Stephan: Gaza has been rendered unlivable by the Israelis, and that is not an anti-semitic comment. MAGAT world chooses not to distinguish between Jews and Israel. Israel is a multi-religious nation. Few Americans, and even fewer Republican politicians, seem to know or acknowledge that over a quarter … ⌘ Read more

Kristi Noem refuses state’s request not to use tear gas near children on Halloween
Carl Gibson,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

Stephan: The defining characteristics of the Trump vassals are their incompetence, their nastiness, and their desire to live the life of the uber-rich, and be protected while doing so from ordinary Americans. No one demonstrates this more openly than Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

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The surveillance state is here—and it’s bleak
Lisa Needham,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: I wonder how many Americans realize that dictator Trump is spending hundreds of millions of dollars of your tax dollars to pay the costs of putting the National Guard and his ICE Gestapo in American cities to harass and detain thousands of men, women, and children. The stories coming out of this military takeover of American civilian society get more horrific day by day. Only a thug … ⌘ Read more

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
Jonathan Watts,   Global Environment Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Human societies are becoming less democratic and more neo-medieval. A tiny group of men and women, just as in the 14th century, overwhelmingly owns or controls the assets of humanity, and shapes the way their societies treat Earth. This greed and ignorance trend is why the 2040 catastrop … ⌘ Read more

Stephen Miller Is Hiding From Protesters by Living on Military Base
Edith Olmsted,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Have you noticed how dictator Trump’s vassals all seek to emulate him? Did you realize that Christie Noem, Stephen Miller, and others have forced generals and admirals out of their homes so they can live on military bases, just as the Vice President now lives in what used to be the home of the Chief of Naval Operations, on the Nava … ⌘ Read more

Trump directs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons
Julia Manchester and Filip Timotija ,  Staff Writers  -  The Hill

_Stephan: It has been 33 years since a nuclear weapon was exploded in the United States, but dictator Trump who, I think, neither knows nor cares about what nuclear explosions cause, is about to start this stupidity again. To quote the Atomic Heritage Foundation, “There have been various debates over how much radiation exposure and nuclear fallout w … ⌘ Read more

Congress Enjoys Ultraluxe Health Care as It Fights to Gut Yours
Alexis Coe,  Staff Writer  -  rsn | Rolling Stone

_Stephan: About to lose your Medicaid coverage, won’t be able to afford your health insurance fees with the coming rise? Well, you needn’t worry about the Representative or Senators. They have health and other benefits only billionaires could afford. We may not have a working Congress anymore; many House members aren’t even in the United States. Th … ⌘ Read more

America’s Impending Population Collapse
Idrees Kahloon ,  Staff Writer  -  msn | The Atlantic

_Stephan: Donald Trump, convicted felon, sex offender, multiple bankrupt, was elected to the Presidency largely because a large White segment of the American voter population did not want people of any color to come into the country. They didn’t realize or care that millions of them worked for companies founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants. They didn’t understand or note, parti … ⌘ Read more

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Jonathan Watts and Wajã Xipai,  Environmental Writers  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The 2040 catastrophe I have long been warning you about looks ever more inevitable. As  the Secretary General of the UN has warned, after studying the scientific research, “Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately.” Trump and the Republicans, of cou … ⌘ Read more

Scientists Discover a Key Biological Difference Between Psychopaths and Normal People
Nanyang Technological University,    -  SciTech Daily

Stephan:

_The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), according to the National Institutes of Health is the most accepted diagnostic test for psychopathology. But that test Donald Trump is a psychopath, and I suspect the same could be said for a number of Republican leaders, and many vot … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s Unprecedented Actions Deepen Asymmetric Divides
Research Staff,    -  PRRI

_Stephan: I have been describing for you, for two decades, what I have called the Great Schism Trend (see SR archive) that is making the United States two cultures in a single nation. Two cultures that are increasingly divergent and hostile.  This schism is one of the main dynamics making it possible for the Trump, Republican Party, oligarch, fascist coup to dismantle democracy in Ameri … ⌘ Read more

Not so proud to be American — ‘fed up’ expats renounce citizenship
Steve Hendrix,    -  msn

_Stephan: Today, I got the third email I have received since August from an SR reader living overseas telling me they are giving up their American citizenship.  I have known many Americans living overseas, but until recently, I couldn’t remember any of them telling me they were giving up their American citizenship. However, as this article describes, renouncing American c … ⌘ Read more

Trump administration won’t tap emergency funds to pay food aid
Grace Yarrow and Meredith Lee Hill,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

Stephan: The sheer nastiness of Trump and the Republican Party is beyond my comprehension. What kind of person doesn’t care that fellow Americans won’t get enough to eat? Yet that is what is going to happen Saturday unless something changes.

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The Right’s Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections
David Sirota, Jared Jacang Maher,    -  rsn | Rolling Stone

_Stephan: Trump and the Republican fascists, aided by the Supreme Court fascist majority, are doing everything in their power to rig the outcome of the 2026 election. The only thing that is going to stop this is an overwhelming majority of American voters voting only for Democrats. If that doesn’t happen, you can kiss American democracy goodbye. B … ⌘ Read more

Why Republicans want you to die—and fast
Oliver Willis,    -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: For 34 years I have been describing the negative reality of America’s illness profit system. On a factual basis, it is the worst healthcare system in the developed world. And, again, on the basis of factual data, it is entirely the product of the Republican Party, and the illness profit corporations that own the party. The question I have been asking, and advocating for over those 34 years, is universal … ⌘ Read more

Americans Brace for Food Stamps to Run Out: ‘The Greatest Hunger Catastrophe Since the Great Depression’
Eric Berger,  Reporter  -  rsn.org | The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Part of America’s transition from a democratic republic to an authoritarian neo-medieval society, is that just as was the case in the 14th century, the rich and powerful care nothing for the welllbeing of the peasants. Nothing illustrates this more cle … ⌘ Read more

People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world’s economy
Brian Mann and Sarah McCammon,  Correspondents  -  npr

_Stephan: The decline across the developed world in the number of children being born is a major civilization changing trend that is getting very little coverage in the media or being discussed by anyone but researchers. This article lays it all out very well, with one exception. I think a major factor in this trend … ⌘ Read more

ICE contract could bring controversial surveillance tech to American streets
Ja’han Jones,    -  MSBNC

_Stephan: Dictator Trump has now authorized ICE to take the next step in its Gestapo tactics. Trump has authorized ICE to use a spyware programn called Pegasus on the phones of people who oppose him. You won’t know it has happened to your phone, but ICE will then have access to everything on your phone, and everthing your phone is connected to. IC … ⌘ Read more

Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies
Gavin Feek,  Contributing Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: In yet another demonstration of his utter uninterest in the wellbeing of Earth or Americans, particularly the indigenous tribes of Alaska, Trump is now allowing the devastation of the Arctic National Park. I have been there; it is an awe-inspiring, long-protected wilderness. The Biden administration denied this project for obvious environmental issues, b … ⌘ Read more

New study sparks outrage after revealing how US government funnels billions of dollars to industry giants: ‘Lining the pockets’
Matthew Swigonski,    -  TCD

_Stephan: ”Researchers have revealed that the U.S. government doles out over $30 billion in funding to support the fossil fuel industry every year.” … ⌘ Read more

RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts
Hannah Harris Green,  Contributing Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: No one illustrates the incompetence of the Trump administration than Robert Kennedy, Jr, Secretary of Health and Human Services. I know children who would be more competent in that position than Kennedy, whose only qualification seems to be his surname and his submissive loyalty to his king. Please … ⌘ Read more

Bringing trains back: Rail’s surprising role in a sustainable future
Chelsea Haney,  Staff Writer  -  New Atlas

_Stephan: While China, Europe, and Japan have developed very sophisticated high speed-passenger rail, in fiscal year 2022, Amtrak’s long-distance trains averaged only 48 mph between stations. There are a few lines running short distances in the Northeast U.S. that get up to 150, but there is nothing like China’s long range passenger rail that avera … ⌘ Read more

‘This Is Astounding’: Overnight, Millions More Americans Could Be Labeled Obese
,    -  Sttudy Finds

_Stephan: The other day, I published a lengthy academic study showing that Americans have shorter lives, and are less healthy in general than populations in other developed countries. Now another study has just been published showing that research data has redefined obesity. It turns out that Americans, under the new research data, have gone from 42 … ⌘ Read more

Tax cuts for the rich in 5 red states have cost residents whopping $2.2 billion: report
Brad Reed,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

Stephan: Every day, I am amazed at how many Americans, particularly in Red States, still support Trump and the Republican Party, given what is happening in the country and in their own lives. Here is an example of just what I mean.

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Trump targets Atlantic and Pacific coasts for new oil drilling
Ben Lefebvre,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Every scientist who is competent to do research on climate change describes a coming disaster unless there is a dramatic transition ending carbon energy and transitioning to non-polluting renewable energy. In contrast, aspiring dictator Trump and the Republican Party don’t give a damn about climate change and are doing everything they can to keep Ame … ⌘ Read more

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Eric Berger,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: How is it possible that the richest country in the world has tens of millions of its people facing lack of food issues? What kind of country is the United States, and why is adequate food not driving tens of millions into the streets in nonviolent demonstrations. W … ⌘ Read more

NIH Institute Director Abruptly Replaced
Kristina Fiore,   Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: It should be clear to you and anyone else paying any attention to what is going on, that fascists such as Trump and the Republican Party at both the state and federal level, care not all about the wellbeing of ordinary Americans. The already very poor, very expensive, healthcare system in the United States has been gutted, as you may be about to find … ⌘ Read more

US army taps private equity groups to help fund $150bn revamp
Steff Chávez and Antoine Gara,  Reporters  -  Financial Times

_Stephan: The military-industrial corporate system in the United States, and the military itself, is being corrupted like every other agency of government, as the Trump Republican Party oligarch fascist coup continues. We are 10 months into the coup, and almost every day there are reports, like this one, about more corruption.  The Republican … ⌘ Read more

Chicago-Area Judge Rules ICE Agents Can Be Arrested at Courthouses
Warner Todd Huston,  Contributing Writer  -  Breitbart

_Stephan: AS we go through the dismantlement of democracy in the United States, what we are seeing is people of integrity standing up for the law and ethical behavior, and the Trump coup vassals, doing what their pseudo-king desires of them. In this case, a District Court judge has authorized police to arrest Trump’s ICE Gestapo if they d … ⌘ Read more

‘Utter Moral Failure’: Critics Aghast at New Reporting That Shows US Elites ‘Scared of Crossing Trump’
Brad Reed,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: One of the major trends I am seeing as the Trump Republican coup proceeds is the grotesque lack of ethics I see amongst the wealthy, who bow to Trump as their king, and pour money into his corruption schemes. It is the exact opposite of the creation of the United States. Man … ⌘ Read more

ICE Is Mounting a Mass Surveillance Campaign on American Citizens
Autumn Billings ,  Assistant Editor  -  reason

_Stephan: In every country ruled by an authoritarian dictator, one of the hallmarks of such societies is the surveillance of the citizenry, to control any resistance to the leader’s authority. Well, now that reality has come to the United States. I’m not sure how I will get to my daughter’s wedding. I have been warned not to fly or go through any g … ⌘ Read more

We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
Nicole Foy,  ProPublica Ancil Payne Fellow  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: The Trump Gestapo is becoming more and more aggressive and racist. If your skin color is anything other than White, I advise you to get one of those [passport cards.](https://govplus.com/solutions/passp … ⌘ Read more

Looks like ICE recruits are a hot mess
Lisa Needham,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

Stephan: Creating the Trump Gestapo is turning out to be harder than one might think, but one option, which Trump is playing, is just to reduce the qualifications and integrity of the people you recruit, as this article describes. Of course, it helps to have a corrupt Gestapo leader, say someone like Tom Homan.

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‘Chilling’: FBI shocks with visits to homes of innocent protesters under Trump’s orders
David Edwards,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The legal system that has been the foundation of the American governance system, just like the White House itself, has been dismantled. The Department of Justice and its agencies, like the FBI, are no longer the organizations they once were. Integrity has disappeared. I think, however, Trump and the Re … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s Unprecedented Actions Deepen Asymmetric Divides
,    -  Public Religion Research Institute

_Stephan: As we saw last Saturday, over seven million Americans turned out in protest of the fascist coup being carried out by dictator Trump, his docile Republican congress members, and authorized by the fascist Supreme Court majority. We are getting there, but research shows that to end authoritarian coups, 3.5% of the population must turn out repeatedly in nonviolent d … ⌘ Read more

‘RIP free and fair elections’: Critics aghast as another red state OKs election-rigging
Brad Reed,  Common Dreams Staff Writer  -  Raw Story | Common Dreams

_Stephan: The Republican Party in all the Red States is doing everything it can to rig the election, just as I have been telling you since Dictator Trump was elected by Americans. These state politicians are fascists who want to dismantle democracy in the United States and guarantee th … ⌘ Read more

Trump Said He Wouldn’t Touch the East Wing. Then He Tore It All Down.
Luke Broadwater,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: How symbolic, just as Trump and the Republican Party and the Supreme Court majority are destroying democracy in the United States, so Trump is destroying the White House you have known and seen all your life. Simultaneously, he is telling his administration to give him $230 million in tax dollars of your money and mine, because th … ⌘ Read more

Pentagon names new press corps from far-right outlets after reporter walkout
Eric Berger,  Contributing Journalist  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: It is no longer going to be possible to believe or trust any media coverage coming out of the Pentagon, as this British article reports, because the free press has been replaced by fascist media reporters. Essentially, the United States has become the media equivalent of Russia or North Korea.

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Why do Americans have shorter life expectancy and worse health than people in other high-income countries?
Mauricio Avendano and Ichiro Kawachi ,  London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Social Policy, LSE Health and Social Care | Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences,  -  National Library of Medicine

_Stephan: I have published on this in science journals, … ⌘ Read more

Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century
MICHELLE R. SMITH and LAURA UNGAR,  AP Global Investigations Team | Medicine and Science on the AP’s Global Health and Science Team  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: Based on fact-based research studies, American healthcare, as I have repeatedly published, is terrible. But, and this is important to note, under dictator Trump’s adminis … ⌘ Read more

Trump’s EV retreat is a huge win for his No. 1 trade rival
Allison Morrow,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: Because Trump, his vassals, and the Republican Party think climate change is not real, and just a “con”, America is going backwards, while China is being handed world leadership of the EV transition. It is just one of a dozen other trends reducing the geopolitical stature and economic success of the United States. Yet millions of Americans still don’t get what Trump … ⌘ Read more

Trump pushed Zelenskyy in vulgar ‘shouting match’ to cede land or be ‘destroyed’: report
Alexander Willis,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Dictator Trump is a geopolitical non-democracy supporting incompetent, as he demonstrates again and again. Americans may not be paying much attention to this, and it certainly isn’t getting appropriate media coverage, but I assure you the rest of the world is watching his mistakes, and reassessing t … ⌘ Read more

Mike Johnson says Trump was ‘using satire to make a point’ with AI poop-bombing video
Meredith Lee Hill,  Senior Congress Reporter  -  Politico

_Stephan: I have not been able to get the Trump video of him wearing a crown as a pilot and shitting on Americans demonstrating for “No Kings.” There is no precendent for anything remotely like this in the entire history of the United States. Indeed, I can recall no precedent in any country. You woul … ⌘ Read more

Portions of White House East Wing being demolished amid ballroom construction
Michelle Stoddart,  Reporter  -  ABC News

_Stephan: When I first went to work for National Geographic after Unversity one of my first assignments was to become part of the team that did the official guidebooks on the White House and then the Capitol. It left me with a deep appreciation and respect for the historical appearance and continuity of both of these buildings. I … ⌘ Read more

The ‘3.5% rule’: How a small minority can change the world
David Robson,  Reporter  -  BBC (U.K.)

_Stephan: I have been telling you since Trump became President for the second time, and began his fascist coup, assisted by the loyal incompetents he appointed to his administration, and the Republican Party at the state and Congressional level, that the only thing that will change this is millions of Americans nonviolently demonstrating. I hope you were one of the people o … ⌘ Read more

Meet the young Americans who want a monarchy — but not ‘King Trump’
George Grylls,  Washington Reporter  -  The Times (U.K.)

Stephan: You hear nothing about this in American media, but there is a growing number of Gen Z Whites who actually have become so disaffected by what has happened to American democracy that they would choose monarchy over democracy. It is a glaring demonstration of how poorly educated about the history of civics these young people are.
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Trump’s immigration crackdown weighs heavy on the US labor market
PAUL WISEMAN and GISELA SALOMON,  Reporters  -

_Stephan: Dictator Trump’s ignorance and nastiness, expressed daily in his ongoing fascist Republican Party coup, is severely impacting the U.S. labor market and the wellbeing of millions, including you and what you have to pay for groceries, clothes, and anything else made overseas, as this article describes. Did you think this moron even knows tha … ⌘ Read more

Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam,    -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Here is one of the best descriptions I have read about the Gestapo dictator Trump has created. It is unlike anything that has ever previously existed in the United States. All of this is straight out of Hitler’s playbook, but Americans seem to just be realizing what is happening, as t … ⌘ Read more

Donald Trump shares AI video of himself bombing ‘No Kings’ protesters with manure
JADA BAS,  Trainee Reporter  -  Daily Mail (U.K.)

_Stephan: Just how mentally sick and contemptuous of Americans who don’t support him, dictator Trump is can, perhaps, best be illustrated by the video of himself wearing a crown, flying as a fighter pilot, and dropping faeces on “No Kings” demonstrators. He, himself, actually posted this video.  I think it is also i … ⌘ Read more

The World’s Hottest Engine Is Smaller Than a Cell and Hotter Than the Sun’s Corona
Gayoung Lee,  Staff Reporter  -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: In my remote viewing study of the future, some viewers describe something like this. Their comments seemed so strange to me, I didn’t even know how to ask questions about what they were describing. However, it is now clear that there are going to be a number of breakthroughs that are going to redefine physics as … ⌘ Read more