Will Trump Work Himself Into a Shoot Versus Illinois Governor?
Trump seems to be baiting the Democrats into civil conflict, but does anyone involved actually know what they’re doing?
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Coffee Break: Ken Paxton Takes His Anti-Antifa Fight Undercover
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced “undercover operations to infiltrate and uproot leftist terror cells in Texas.”
Read more...TINA Never Die: Is Taxing the Rich Unthinkable Forever?
Establishment Democrats and Donald Trump both agree there is no alternative to the relentless upward mobility of wealth, is there any hope of change?
Read more...Coffee Break: Bari Weiss, CBS News, Meet the New Boss, Same as the Same Old
David Ellison is installing Bari Weiss as the new EIC of CBS News, paying $150 million for her publication The Free Press. She will likely handle hasbara for the network.
Read more...Nat Wilson Turner: Naked Capitalism – Your Antidote to The Stoopid
Thanks to your support, Naked Capitalism has been able to keep telling truths that the officialdom tries hard to hide. Please chip in!
Read more...Trump Admin Moving Fast, Breaking Things as Shutdown Continues
The Trump administration is moving fast to capitalize on the opportunities presented by the government shutdown, compliant courts, ethically flexible corporations, and generous foreign governments.
Read more...Coffee Break: Shutdown, Clampdown, Clownshow or Horror Movie?
Trump, Hegseth and Russell Vought are clamping down and lashing out as the US government shuts down, but how much is clown show and how much is horror?
Read more...Censorship, Surveillance, and Spin: EU, UK, and Ukraine Try to Drive the Narrative
The EU, UK, and Ukraine are using a mix of expanded surveillance, censorship, and spin in an attempt to influence the narrative in their homeland and in the U.S.
Read more...Coffee Break: Delusion, Deception and Dipshittery: Hasbara on the 8th Front
Israel and its billionaire ally Larry Ellison are engaged in a desperate mix of deception, delusion, & dipshittery to hold narrative control.
Read more...Coffee Break: Palantir, Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and the Antichrist
Palantir co-founders Peter Thiel and Alex Karp almost embody the zeitgeist of 2025 with Palantir’s use of AI for ICE and the IDF, their Trump affiliations, and their outspoken views on the Antichrist and “Western Civilization.”
Read more...Coffee Break: Impunity, Incompetence, and Maybe Insight Into How Trump Works
This past week the Trump administration has put on a bravura display of impunity and seeming incompetence, but perhaps we can glean some insight into how they function.
Read more...Coffee Break: Competence, Corruption and Control Limit Administrative Ambition
Does the corrupt Trump administration have the competence and control to impose its will?
Read more...Coffee Break: Doomscrolling the Influencer Apocalypse
The influencer apocalypse triggered by the assassination of influencer Charlie Kirk is the biggest American moral panic since 2001, but the right-wing may not be able to control what has been unleashed.
Read more...Coffee Break: Silicon Valley Ideologies as a Lens for Viewing Current Events
Silicon Valley ideologies like transhumanism, effective altruism, and neoreaction drive the actions of billionaires like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg.
Read more...Coffee Break: Trump’s Imperial Boomerang Gets Different Reactions in Chicago, D.C.
As Donald Trump threatens to hit Chicago with the imperial boomerang, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson fights back with an executive order that contrasts sharply with the actions taken by Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.
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