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Trump Responds to Rob Reiner’s Murder by Mocking Him in Death
After news broke that acclaimed Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home on Sunday, December 14, Donald Trump took to social media and … wait for it … ridiculed Reiner in death, using the moment to rehash his long-running political attacks and […]
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Trump’s NSPM-7 Turns Dissent into Domestic Terrorism
President Donald Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is Operation TIPS on steroids. After 9/11, President George W. Bush proposed a program recruiting ordinary workers — truck drivers, postal workers, utility workers, cable installers — to report “suspicious behavior” to authorities. Critics quickly warned that TIPS resembled a domestic informant network, a kind of “neighbors spying […]
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Ragebait Governance
Image information: “Trollface” by Me in ME is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Oxford University Press’ 2025 Word of the Year is “ragebait.” The term captures a defining feature of today’s information ecosystem: content engineered to provoke anger, boost engagement, and overwhelm our ability to think clearly. Fake news is a potent form of ragebait, […]
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“The Days of the United States Propping Up the Entire World Order Like Atlas Are Over.”
On Thursday, the White House released the new National Security Strategy for the United States. Others may well give it a different read, but here is my quick take: The document is ghoulish, abhorrent, repetitious, and sometimes incoherent, but I found its honesty refreshing. The mask is torn off sanctimonious bullshit, tall tales about spreading […]
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The Agony of Defeat
A peaceful settlement of the Ukraine conflict is not in the cards. It is a logical impossibility given the following truths 1. America’s leaders could not tolerate terms minimally acceptable to Russia. For such terms would represent a) an unmistakable loss of status and self-regard; b) a reversion from the strategic foundations of the country’s […]
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US State Department Travel Warning on Venezuela: What Washington Fears Most
Following his earlier threat that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s days are numbered, US President Donald Trump announced on social media he was closing Venezuelan airspace. He then immodestly proclaimed the “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, commending his nineteenth century predecessor for presciently envisioning “a superpower unlike anything the world had ever known.” On December […]
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People’s Response to APEC: Breakdown or Breakthrough?
The Doomsday Clock advances 10 seconds closer to midnight. Global temperatures rise beyond 1.5°C. Forests burn. Hurricanes intensify. Meanwhile, countries produce bombs and bullets, the New Cold War inches us closer to nuclear annihilation, and US President Donald Trump extorts the world. The response of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is to draw from the […]
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Donald Trump, Union Buster
Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor unions. The most flagrant Trump action along these lines occurred in March 2025, when he issued an […]
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As Public Support for ICE Drops, Women’s March WIN Launches Campaign Urging Agents to Walk Away
As the Trump administration enters its eleventh month pushing aggressive immigration crackdowns, public sentiment appears to be shifting. A new YouGov survey finds growing discomfort with the broad and aggressive methods being employed by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to the poll, a majority (53%) of Americans somewhat or strongly disapprove of […]
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