Millions of US Families Could Soon Go Hungry Thanks to Trump-GOP Government Shutdown
Brett Wilkins,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: As the organizational programs and agencies that have maintained the wellbeing of the United States are being dismantled by dictator Trump and his Republican Congress, funds are being cut, the healthcare system is in chaos, public education is becoming a disaster, and on and on. But now these MAGAT mo … ⌘ Read more

Step by awful step, Trump is using this 12-stage plan to seize total control
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann is correct in his description of what is happening to the United States. That is why the “No KIngs” nonviolent demonstrations are so important. The American people must rise up. The Republicans and their leader are going to do everything in their power to rig the election to keep themselves in power. The only … ⌘ Read more

US falls out of world’s 10 most powerful passports list for first time in 20 years
Marina Dunbar,  Guardian U.S. Fellow  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: This report in the British Guardian, something you are unlikely to hear, see, or read in the American media, is important because it is another sign demonstrating how Trump and the Republican Party has caused America’s position and presence in the international community to decline.

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MAGA Media Wages Asymmetric Warfare
PRRI Research Staff,    -  PRRI

_Stephan: As you can see from the chart that heads this research report, in spite of the millions who turned out for the nonviolent “No Kings” demonstrations, there are still large number of Americans, particularly MAGAT supporters, i.e., Republican voters, who still do not comprehend what is happening to the United States, or maybe they are so racist, resentful, and ignorant they don;t care of support what Trump, his adm … ⌘ Read more

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’
Gregory Royal Pratt,  Reporter  -  Chicago Tribune

_Stephan: Do you always have your papers on your person? If you immigrated from another country, even if you are a White person, it might be a good idea to do so. Like everything else dictator Trump is doing, having his Gestapo stop people and demanding t … ⌘ Read more

Trump Could Soon Make America’s Refugee Program a Tool for White Nationalism
Noal Lanard,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Yet another story about the growing White supremacy racism of dictator Trump, who has always been a racist, his administration, and the Republican Party. Soon, we are going to see whether the fascist majority of the Supreme Court eliminates the Voting Rights Act. The United States has rejected 160 years of its history since … ⌘ Read more

‘Finances are getting tighter’: US car repossessions surge as more Americans default on auto loans
Edward Helmore,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: You don’t hear much about the auto loan business, but I, and economists who study this, when something fundamental changes in a negative way, see it as a canary warning us about the state of the American economy. And it is getting harder and harder to work out what is actua … ⌘ Read more

Something Weird Is Happening to Earth’s Magnetic Field
Passant Rabie,  Science Reporter  -  Gizmodo

Stephan: It isn’t clear to even scientists exactly what this change in Earth’s magnetic field is going to cause, but clearly it will be something dramatic.

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The Racist Roots, and Racist Present, of Today’s Republican Party
Harold Meyerson,  Commentator  -  American Prospect

_Stephan: I am a Virginian whose maternal family came to a land grant on the water that they were given by Queen Elizabeth I, in the early 1600s, and that my father bought back when I was a child. I suspect, but don’t know, some of my early family may have owned slaves, and as a boy, I knew a man who had been born a slave. In spite of that ancien … ⌘ Read more

This clear scale shows how American democracy is in terminal decline
Martina Moneke,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story | Common Dreams

_Stephan: Day by day, as I watch the dismantlement of our democracy, and see aspiring dictator Trump’s revenge arrests and court cases against former colleagues, I realize that nothing is going to stop this except tens of millions of Americans nonviolently out in the street on Saturday, and every Saturday thereafter, and … ⌘ Read more

The Brutality Is the Message: Why America’s Violence Against Immigrants Isn’t About Immigration
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: I think Thom Hartmann has it exactly right. This whole immigrant business is about creating an “other” just as the Nazis made the Jews the “other” and using the “other” to create fear and intimidation. Project 2025 is just a restating of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, and the Republican … ⌘ Read more

Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon
Deni Ellis Bechard,  Senior Tech Reporter  -  Scientific American

_Stephan: Because AI has been allowed to develop to serve a tiny group of individuals whose motivation is their lust for greed and power, and it is subject to almost no government oversight, It is becoming almost impossible to know that anything you read, hear, or see is authentic and factually accurate. This is producing all manner o … ⌘ Read more

There’s no such thing as Antifa, you eejits
Sabrina Haake,  Columnist  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: I keep hearing about aspiring dictator Trump and his vampire vassals talking about how Antifa is a terrorist organization, bnut when I do a Google search on “antifa” or “antifa website,” nothing comes up. Nor have I ever met anyone associated with such an organization. So I began asking around, and soon realized that there is no Antifa. As far as I can see , and this article confirm this, t … ⌘ Read more

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

_Stephan: The Supreme Court decision on Citizens United legalized the bribery of politicians and is, I believe, one of the main reasons the United States is becoming a fascist authoritarian oligarchy owned country that has such appalling members of Congress. Nothing is going to change this except the election of Democ … ⌘ Read more

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears
PATRICK WHITTLE,  Reporter  -  Assoociated Press

_Stephan: The Republican Party is owned by the carbon energy oligarchs, and as we learned yesterday, what they say, and do makes them one of the most disgusting, loathsome collection of people in the United States. They have made it clear they don’t believe in climate change, and think it is a “con.” And they care … ⌘ Read more

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica
Laura Paddison,  Reporter  -  CNN

_Stephan: Climate change is going to alter Earth in ways no one could have predicted, changes that are leaving scientists who actually know what they are talking about, as opposed to Trump and the Republican Party, frightened about the effects all this is going to have on humanity and the other creatures w … ⌘ Read more

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools
Megan O’Matz and Jennifer Smith Richards,    -  ProPublica

_Stephan: A successful democracy requires a literate, numerate, educated citizenry. Everyone, going back to the Athenians of the fifth century BCE, has recognized this. That is why I have been closely following what the Trump Republican fascist coup has been doing to public education. It is getting worse and worse, as this article describ … ⌘ Read more

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

Stephan: There is a very serious crisis in the United States involving male culture and psychology. It involves both men and boys; they are overwhelmingly White and Republican. Read this article, and you will see what these men and boys actually say amongst themselves. It is horrifying.

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‘Bombshell!’ Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning
Travis Gettys,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Even the most respected “originalist” scholar is now on record against Trump and his Republican coup are trying to do with their dismantling of American democracy. Since this is the scholar the Supreme Court majority cites over and over, as this article describes, it will be very revealing to see how they n … ⌘ Read more

GOP spreads increasingly desperate and dangerous lies to shirk blame for their shutdown
Emily Singer,  Staff Writer  -  Daily Kos

_Stephan: Today I listened to one Republican congress member after another claiming that the coming Saturday “No King” rallies are really “Hate America” rallies, and I thought how cowardly do you have to be to say something that dishonest and stupid about rallies that will involve millions of American who actu … ⌘ Read more