Trump’s FBI Cuts Ties with Anti-Defamation League in Latest Nod to White Nationalism

Posted on 2025/10/02 by admin

In a stunning move on Wednesday, the FBI announced it has severed ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish civil rights organization that has tracked antisemitism and extremism for more than a century. The decision comes after sustained pressure from right-wing activists, who attacked the ADL for flagging Turning Point USA—founded by the late Charlie Kirk—in its glossary of extremist groups and narratives.

This break represents more than bureaucratic housekeeping. It is the latest sign of the Trump administration’s increasingly open alignment with white nationalist and extremist rhetoric. By abandoning cooperation with one of the nation’s most respected watchdogs on hate, the FBI is sending a chilling message: political loyalty and appeasement of extremist groups take precedence over safeguarding communities from hate-fueled violence.

The hypocrisy is glaring. Trump and his allies routinely rail against antisemitism when it suits their narrative, yet they are now actively undermining the very organization tasked with monitoring and exposing antisemitic threats. Severing ties with the ADL does not merely weaken efforts to combat antisemitism—it emboldens those who perpetuate it.

The decision underscores a broader pattern of the Trump administration: normalizing extremism, discrediting institutions of accountability, and dismantling safeguards designed to protect pluralism and democracy. With antisemitic incidents at record highs in the United States, this move leaves Jewish communities and other vulnerable groups increasingly isolated.

Once again, the administration has proven itself not just indifferent to hate, but complicit in its spread.

Trumpenomics: The Decline of the USA

Trump Faces Over 300 Lawsuits for Executive Overreach and Harm to U.S. Citizens

Posted on 2025/09/28 by admin

Donald Trump is now facing more than 300 lawsuits challenging his executive overreach, authoritarian policies, and actions that have caused widespread harm to American citizens. The sheer volume of litigation is unprecedented in modern U.S. history and reflects the growing backlash against his administration’s unchecked power and disregard for constitutional limits.

A large portion of these lawsuits stem from Trump’s implementation of the largest regressive tax policies in U.S. history, which disproportionately burden working families, individuals, and small businesses while offering sweeping benefits to billionaires and multinational corporations. Small businesses across the country argue that Trump’s tax structure and tariffs have left them at a competitive disadvantage, forcing layoffs, closures, and in some cases, permanent shutdowns.

The tariff wars have also crushed American farmers, driving up input costs, cutting off access to foreign markets, and leaving crops unsold. Instead of addressing the damage caused by his own policies, Trump has announced that he will use billions in taxpayer money for bailouts—a form of economic intervention he derides as “socialism” when practiced by other countries. Critics point out that this hypocrisy not only undercuts U.S. credibility on trade policy but also exposes farmers to greater long-term instability as markets realign away from American agriculture.

Other lawsuits target Trump’s executive actions undermining democratic norms, including restrictions on immigration, the use of federal agents without identification in domestic operations, and policies that have weaponized federal agencies for political gain. Civil rights groups, state attorneys general, and advocacy organizations have joined the litigation, arguing that these actions not only violate the Constitution but also set dangerous precedents that erode the rule of law.

Additionally, several cases allege that Trump’s decisions have resulted in direct violations of individual rights—including denial of due process, infringement on free speech and assembly, and discriminatory practices rooted in racism and bigotry. Plaintiffs point to travel bans, detention practices, and the rollback of environmental and labor protections as examples of executive overreach that harm both people and the planet.

Legal experts note that while many of these cases will take years to wind through the courts, the sheer number and diversity of lawsuits illustrate a nation in deep conflict with its own leadership. If successful, these challenges could redefine limits on executive authority and reshape the balance of power between the presidency, the judiciary, and the people.

Trumpenomics: The Decline of the USA

Trump’s Crimes, Illegal Activities, and Immorality: A Record of Corruption

Posted on 2025/09/272025/09/27 by admin

Donald Trump’s public record is one of corruption, cruelty, and contempt for truth, law, and democracy. His actions—documented in court rulings, congressional reports, and his own words—paint a picture of a man unfit for power.

Trump’s Record:

Been implicated in pedophilia and sexual misconduct allegations. The Epstein files are being withheld by Donald Trump—that’s not an accusation, it’s a fact. Trump himself admitted that Epstein “stole” his underaged massage girl from Mar-a-Lago, and his relationship with Epstein is well documented.
Repeatedly denied science—on climate change, on public health, and on issues with life-or-death consequences.
Lied pathologically about everything from crowd sizes to election results.
Promoted white supremacy and emboldened racially charged violence.
Been found liable for sexual assault in civil court.
Stoked division through bigotry, bullying, and fear-based politics.
Stood by as the U.S. Capitol was attacked, later praising or pardoning those responsible.
Attempted to overturn a lawful election, undermining democracy itself.
Engaged in financial fraud, including a judgment for falsifying business records.
Misused charity funds, leading to a lifetime ban from operating a charitable foundation in New York.
Implemented family separation policies at the border, losing track of children in the process.
Attacked the independence of the Federal Reserve, destabilizing global markets.
Attacked the First Amendment going so far as to threaten any television network critical of him.
Exploded the national debt by trillions while handing tax cuts to billionaires, worsening inequality.
Tried to weaponize the Justice Department as his personal shield and sword.
Floated the idea of “suspending” the Constitution to stay in power.
Been convicted of falsifying business records to hide damaging information from voters before an election.
The real question is: who, knowing all of this, still chooses to support or defend such behavior?

The Bottom Line

Trump’s record is not a string of mistakes or misjudgments—it is a sustained pattern of lies, lawbreaking, and immorality. The real question is not whether Trump is guilty of corruption. The evidence is overwhelming. The real question is: who, knowing all of this, still chooses to support or defend such behavior—and why?

Trumpenomics: The Decline of America

100% TACO: Trump’s Reckless Tariff on Life-Saving Medicines

Posted on 2025/09/262025/09/26 by admin

Protectionism, White Nationalism, and the Collapse of U.S. Economic Credibility

Donald Trump has just announced one of the most dangerous and reckless policies of his presidency: a 100% tariff on all branded or patented pharmaceutical products, unless the manufacturer is currently building a plant in the United States.

“Starting October 1st, 2025, we will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any branded or patented Pharmaceutical Product, unless a Company IS BUILDING their Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant in America,” Trump declared on Truth Social. The tariff exemption would only apply if a company had already broken ground on U.S. facilities.

While generic drugs—representing the majority of U.S. imports—are excluded, the real impact falls on life-saving branded medicines, including cancer treatments, biologics, vaccines, and advanced therapies. Nathalie Moll, director-general of the European pharma lobby EFPIA, warned bluntly: “Tariffs on medicines, however excessive, will create the worst of all worlds. Patients will be denied access to life-saving treatments.”

The pharmaceutical industry had previously been spared from Trump’s earlier “reciprocal tariff” packages, but this announcement breaks with prior commitments made to the EU and other trading partners. The EU’s 15% tariff ceiling deal, which included a “no stacking” clause, now appears to be in jeopardy. Switzerland, despite agreeing to steep tariffs in August, had exempted pharmaceuticals—until now. The UK, lacking any pharma-specific trade agreement, is scrambling for clarity.

In an attempt to appease Washington, drugmakers like AstraZeneca, GSK, Novartis, and Roche have already announced new U.S. investments, though many projects remain in the planning stage. Analysts caution that even these companies could face tariffs until actual construction is underway, leaving them vulnerable to immediate disruption.

Financial markets reflected the uncertainty: AstraZeneca and Roche shares initially fell before recovering. Still, the longer-term threat is not to investors but to patients, who may face higher drug costs, restricted supply, and delayed access to new treatments.

This tariff bombshell highlights the hypocrisy of Trump’s economic nationalism. For years, Trump has attacked foreign countries for subsidizing industries like farming or steel while quietly supporting similar “Trump-socialist” policies at home, including stakes in U.S. Steel, Intel, and other politically favored corporations. His latest tariffs expand this protectionist playbook to essential medicines—a sector where the costs of political gamesmanship are measured not in dollars but in human lives.

The announcement came alongside new tariffs of 25% on imported heavy-duty trucks and 50% on kitchen and bathroom cabinets—further evidence of Trump’s broader war against free trade. Rather than strengthening America’s position, these moves isolate the U.S., alienate allies, undermine credibility, and expose consumers to higher costs across essential goods.

This is not an “America First” policy. It is protectionism and white nationalism masquerading as economic strategy. If enacted, it could mark not only the collapse of Trump’s economic credibility but also the decline of U.S. global leadership. By weaponizing access to life-saving medicine, Trump has crossed a line that could cost lives, destabilize markets, and fracture alliances.

The question now is simple: Will Trump TACO out before America does?

Trumpenomics: The Decline of the USA

Microsoft Cuts Off Israeli Military Unit Over Gaza Surveillance Scandal

Posted on 2025/09/26 by admin

September 26, 2025 — A Breaking Human Rights and Technology Story

Israel’s military has been accused of using Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure, to conduct mass surveillance on millions of Palestinians, feeding into a system of targeted killings, forced displacement, and economic suppression. The surveillance campaign, run largely by Israel’s cyber-intelligence arm Unit 8200, reportedly included real-time monitoring of cell phone calls, location tracking, and mass data harvesting that helped guide Israeli airstrikes and disrupt daily civilian life in Gaza and the West Bank.

After months of mounting evidence and pressure, Microsoft has announced it terminated cloud storage and AI services provided to a unit within the Israeli Ministry of Defence. The company’s president and vice chair, Brad Smith, confirmed the decision in a blog post on Thursday, citing an August 6 investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call.

Surveillance Powered by Big Tech

The investigation revealed that after a 2021 meeting between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Unit 8200’s commander Yossi Sariel, Microsoft entered into an agreement to move massive volumes of classified intelligence into its Azure platform. By 2022, Unit 8200 was operating with Azure’s vast storage capacity and machine learning tools, enabling Israel to collect, replay, and analyze the private communications of millions of Palestinians.

Sources from inside Unit 8200 told reporters that this system was directly tied to Israel’s targeted killing program and played a key role in selecting targets for airstrikes. Data was reportedly stored not only in Israel but on Microsoft servers in the Netherlands and Ireland, raising serious concerns about violations of European privacy and data protection laws.

Microsoft’s Limited Action

While Microsoft confirmed some subscriptions had been cancelled — including cloud storage and certain AI tools — Smith declined to name the specific Israeli military units involved. The move comes after Microsoft previously admitted to selling advanced cloud and AI services to the Israeli military following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks. At the time, the company insisted there was “no evidence” its platforms were being used for human rights abuses, though the new review has contradicted those claims.

Even now, critics argue Microsoft’s move is cosmetic at best. Former employee Hossam Nasr, who was among more than a dozen fired or arrested for protesting the company’s complicity in the Gaza war, called the decision “an unprecedented win” but added:

“Microsoft has only disabled a small subset of services to a single unit. The vast majority of its contracts with the Israeli military remain intact.”

War Crimes, Human Rights, and Big Tech

Human rights advocates and international legal experts say the revelations add to growing evidence of systematic war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza and the occupied territories — and the complicity of U.S. tech firms in enabling them. The use of AI to select human targets for assassination, combined with surveillance of an entire population, has been described as “a dystopian experiment in digital apartheid.”

Meanwhile, reports suggest that Israel is now in talks with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to take over much of the surveillance and data-processing capacity Microsoft is cutting off, raising fears that accountability will be little more than a tech industry shell game.

The Bigger Picture

This episode underscores the increasing entanglement of Silicon Valley with modern warfare, especially in conflicts involving U.S. allies. While Microsoft’s decision marks a rare public rebuke, critics argue it is too little, too late to undo the harm already caused — and that without binding international regulation, big tech companies will continue to serve as silent enablers of war crimes.

War Crimes

Trump’s Complicity in Global War Crimes: Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran
Despite branding himself as a “man of peace,” President Donald Trump’s actions during the first five months of his second term have contributed to a disturbing escalation of global conflict. From enabling brutal regimes to undermining international law, Trump’s role in supporting war crimes across multiple regions—Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran—marks one of the most troubling legacies of any U.S. president in modern history.

Israel and Palestine

Evangelical Christianity and Israel

America’s Secret War in Gaza: U.S. Boots on the Ground in Genocide, Funded by You
If you’re curious about the driving force behind US support for Israel, it’s ironically rooted in Evangelical Christianity. Many Evangelical Christians believe they can hasten the “second coming of Christ” by bringing about the apocalypse. According to their interpretation of the Bible, this involves Israel reclaiming Jerusalem, Jesus returning, and ultimately eliminating all Jews. For numerous “Christian Zionists,” especially influential evangelists aligned with the Republican Party, support for Israel is less about political strategy and more about its supposed role in biblical prophecy. In this worldview, war is not something to be avoided but embraced as a divine necessity—an inevitable and even celebratory step toward Jesus’ rule from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The fate of Jews and Palestinians is, to put it mildly, seen as collateral damage.

Criminalizing Conscience: Trump’s Crackdown on Anti-Genocide Voices

Silencing Truth: The War on Journalism by Netanyahu and Trump

Trumpenomics: The Decline of the US

Trump’s Manufactured Shutdown: White Nationalism Over Economics

Posted on 2025/09/252025/09/25 by admin

by Daniel Brouse
September 25, 2025

The U.S. government is once again barreling toward a shutdown, and the chaos is entirely of Donald Trump’s making. Despite branding himself a “businessman president,” Trump continues to push policies that baffle economists and devastate the very citizens he claims to represent.

The MAGA movement has ballooned the deficit through reckless spending while simultaneously cutting healthcare assistance for millions of Americans in need of insurance. Now, Trump is refusing to meet with Democratic leaders to even attempt a compromise. The result: a government paralyzed not by fiscal necessity, but by ideology.

I have been warning since Trump first took office that trying to reconstruct the global economy through the lens of white nationalism would end in disaster. Without the intellect of a second grader, Trump has undermined decades of U.S. economic stability in pursuit of grievance politics.

The government is already reeling from the DOGE fiasco, yet Trump’s proposed response is even more dangerous: firing thousands of government employees if a shutdown occurs, under the absurd pretense of “teaching Democrats a lesson.” These tactics are not only cruel—they could be the final nail in the coffin of what is already a failed Trump economy.

Protectionism and white nationalism are not economic strategies. Trade wars with nearly every major economy have shredded American credibility and competitiveness. Trump has violated the Constitution by pushing through the largest regressive tax increase in U.S. history, enriching the wealthy while burdening working families. Meanwhile, his racist, anti-immigration policies are crippling the backbone of American capitalism: population growth. Immigration has accounted for approximately 80% of GDP growth over the last five years—yet Trump insists on cutting off this lifeline.

A shutdown is now looking increasingly inevitable, not because of necessity, but because Trump believes he can spin an economic collapse into a political weapon against the so-called “radical left.” The irony, of course, is that it is the right—through Trump’s recklessness—that is dismantling the very fiscal conservatism it once claimed to uphold. As a fiscally conservative Republican economist, I cannot overstate the damage: Trump is destroying America from within.

Trumpenomics: The Decline of America

The Science They Refuse to See: Debunking Climate Denial and the Accelerating Crisis

Posted on 2025/09/232025/09/23 by admin

by Daniel Brouse
September 23, 2025

Debunking Common Climate Science Denial Claims: A Scientist’s Rebuttal

Climate science denial often takes the form of oversimplified analogies or misrepresentations of complex physical processes. One common line of attack is the claim that greenhouse gases and potent molecules like methane cannot significantly affect global temperatures. Here, I provide a fact-based response that can help anyone encountering similar arguments.

The Claim

A climate denier recently argued:

“Without greenhouse gases, place a container of ‘greenhouse gas’ in sunlight and see if it warms 33°C more than normal air—prove it!”
“Methane is too rare and short-lived to matter; its atmospheric concentration is under 2 ppm.”
“Theoretical physics is imagination; your climate predictions are politically motivated and have not come true.”

At first glance, these statements might appear plausible to the uninformed. But a deeper look reveals serious scientific inaccuracies.

Who I Am

I am a climate scientist and economist with over 45 years of experience in research and applied systems analysis. I’ve co-authored papers on:

Carbon cycles
Jet stream dynamics
Albedo and brown carbon
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
Permafrost thaw and Amazon rainforest dieback
Sea-level rise pulses
Hydroclimate whiplash and Arctic sea ice loss
Tipping points in climate systems

My work employs probabilistic, ensemble-based climate models, integrating socio-economic and ecological feedbacks within dynamic, nonlinear frameworks.

In the 1990s, my lab partner—a Doctor of Physics from Ohio State—and I first hypothesized the non-linear acceleration of climate change. This theory was experimentally and observationally supported by the early 2000s and has since been independently validated, forming the foundation of the current scientific consensus.

Why the Claims Are False

1. Greenhouse Gases and Surface Warming

The assertion that greenhouse gases cannot warm the Earth unless demonstrated in a small container experiment ignores decades of physics, spectroscopy, satellite measurements, and paleoclimate data.

Earth’s average surface temperature of +15°C vs. -18°C without greenhouse gases comes from planetary energy balance and radiative transfer physics, not trivial experiments.
The greenhouse effect is directly observed in the atmosphere: infrared radiation is absorbed and re-emitted by CO₂, methane, water vapor, and other gases.

Container experiments are not needed to validate this well-established, observable process.

2. Methane is Highly Potent

It is true that methane has an atmospheric half-life of 7–12 years, but this is irrelevant to its radiative impact:

Methane’s molecule-for-molecule warming potential is ~80 times CO₂ over 20 years.
At even 2 ppm, methane significantly contributes to warming due to secondary chemical effects, including ozone formation and stratospheric water vapor.
Ignoring these feedback loops is scientifically inaccurate.

3. Climate Impacts Are Accelerating

The denier’s claim that “predictions have not come true” is demonstrably false. Observations show:

In just ten days in July 2025, the U.S. experienced hundreds of flash floods, multiple “1-in-1,000-year” and “500-year” rainfall events, hundreds of deaths, and billions of dollars in damage.
These extreme events are consistent with rapidly accelerating climate change, as projected by climate models integrating nonlinear feedbacks.

4. Doubling Time of Climate Impacts

Initially, climate effects doubled roughly every 100 years. Today, the doubling time is just two years.
This means the damage we see now is twice as severe as two years ago; in a decade, it could be 64 times worse.
These trends are observed, not theoretical, and they underscore the urgency of immediate mitigation.

The Real Political Motivation

The political bias is on the side of denial, not science:

Groups like the CO₂ Coalition deliberately cherry-pick data, misrepresent feedback loops, and misinform the public.
Denial campaigns often pose as “objective skepticism” while ignoring overwhelming evidence, downplaying the real and escalating risks of climate change.

Conclusion

Climate change is not a theoretical imagination; it is an accelerating, well-documented phenomenon backed by decades of rigorous research. Attempts to dismiss it with flawed analogies, incomplete chemistry knowledge, or misrepresented physics are propaganda, not science.

Anyone seeking to understand the climate crisis must rely on:

Peer-reviewed research
Observational data
Predictive modeling validated across decades

Ignoring these facts is dangerous, not clever.

The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

Resistance 101

Posted on 2025/09/232025/09/23 by admin

by C. Moore
September 23, 2025

I’ve been getting a flood of questions about how to resist the Trump Regime: “What can I do?” in the midst of growing feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. My answer: focus on your strengths. Build a strong individual plan. Be resourceful. And sharpen your wits — because wit is often the best weapon.

The Censorship Example

As an investigative journalist with decades of experience defending the First Amendment, I’ve faced threats, targeted attacks, assaults by both criminals and police, fines, arrests, jail time, and years of court battles. Yet never — not once — have I seen anything as alarming as what is happening today. I’m furious at the erosion of our First Amendment rights, and I’m returning to my roots. In protest of this assault on free speech — and in solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and the countless journalists silenced worldwide this year — I’m returning to my roots: sharp-witted satire. Words are swords, and comedy is our shield. That’s why tyrants fear it, why dictators ban it, and why Trump is trying to kill it. Humor exposes lies, punctures egos, and topples emperors who think they wear clothes.

During one period when I was illegally detained, silenced, and stripped of my rights, I adopted the pseudonym Mootmute. My lawyer was on speed dial, and I even had a plan to publish from jail. The name itself became a symbol of resistance. As they tried to turn me into a moot mute, I turned their strategy back on them. As I often say: hold up your sword and stand firm. If they continue to impale themselves on your defensive position, so be it.

Another form of resistance was publicly exposing their hypocrisy. For amusement and effect, while under oath I asked prosecutors what I wasn’t allowed to say. Their response? They wheeled in file cabinets overflowing with papers they themselves had published and read, line by line, everything that was now forbidden as “speech.” And so the name Mootmute stuck. They tried to silence me, but instead they became my unwitting mouthpiece, committing the very crime they accused me of.

Expanding the Resistance

In addition to the personal defiance above, I found other ways to resist oppression. While I was under attack, my publishing company — and the entities that had licensed my intellectual property — also became targets. To protect the innocent, I created a new publishing company. Much like Prince, who famously changed his name to a symbol when stripped of his own, I adopted a symbol too — only mine was crafted from ASCII characters and represented “the finger.” The irony was delicious: every time prosecutors wheeled in stacks of paper and read the forbidden words into the record, each page carried my publishing company’s logo at the bottom. The very emblem of defiance they sought to erase stared back at them from their own exhibits.

For added effect — and a touch of legal one-upmanship — I included a copyright notice on every page:

“These pages and their content may not be used without our expressed written consent. Violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent allowed under the law.”

In their zeal to prosecute me, they inadvertently committed yet another offense: publishing my work without consent while declaring in court that no one was allowed to say what they themselves had just published.

Conclusion

So, “What can I do?” in the face of rising helplessness and hopelessness? Focus on your strengths. Develop a solid, individual plan. Be resourceful. And hone your wit — because wit is often your sharpest weapon and, in some cases, may literally save your life.

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Violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent allowed under the law.
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Words as Swords: Fighting Tyranny with Satire

Posted on 2025/09/212025/09/21 by admin

by MootMute
September 21, 2025

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The new release of the day, “Mootmute,” was born from the flood of questions I keep hearing: “What can I do?” in the middle of this growing sense of helplessness and hopelessness. My answer? Focus on your strengths. Build a strong individual plan. And sharpen your wits — because wit is a weapon.

As an investigative journalist with decades defending the First Amendment, I’ve been threatened, targeted, assaulted by both criminals and police, fined, arrested, jailed, and dragged through years of court battles. But never — not once — have I seen anything as alarming as what’s happening today. I’m furious at the loss of our First Amendment rights, and I’m going back to my roots. In protest of this assault on free speech — and in solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and the countless journalists slaughtered worldwide this year — I’m returning to satire. Words are swords, and comedy is our shield. That’s why tyrants fear it, that’s why dictators ban it, and that’s why Trump is trying to kill it. Humor exposes lies, punctures egos, and topples emperors who think they wear clothes.

During one period when I was illegally detained, silenced, and stripped of my rights, I adopted the pseudonym Mootmute. I had my lawyer on speed dial and even had a plan to publish from jail.

So, what is a moot mute? It’s the absurdity of censorship itself — being forced into silence until your very voice becomes a moot point. If a town crier had their tongue cut out, how would they warn the people? If a writer were pressed so hard that the only escape was invoking the Fifth, would they become a moot mute? That’s what censorship does: it tries to erase you into irrelevance.

Much to my amusement, when I was under oath I asked prosecutors what I wasn’t allowed to say. Their response? They wheeled in file cabinets overflowing with papers they themselves had published and read, line by line, everything now forbidden as “speech.”

And so the name stuck — Mootmute. They tried to silence me, but instead they became my unwitting mouthpiece, committing the very crime they accused me of.

PSA: “Remember, killing humor isn’t funny. Kill humor, kill freedom. Not so funny now, is it?”

ABOUT THE SONG: The Death of the First Amendment: Trump’s War on Free Speech

The Dangerous Adventures of Mootmute

Trumpenomics: The Decline of America

Trump v. The First Amendment: A Mismatch for the Ages

Posted on 2025/09/20 by admin

by C. Moore
September 20, 2025

Trump’s $15 Billion Tantrum: When a Lawsuit Becomes Performance Art

President Donald J. Trump’s $15 billion lawsuit against The New York Times has been tossed like yesterday’s fast-food wrapper, for now.

Calling the president’s 85-page magnum opus of grievance “decidedly improper and impermissible,” U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday effectively told Trump to either learn how to write like a lawyer or go back to yelling at clouds. The judge, apparently unamused by the creative writing project, noted that the suit only contained two actual claims of defamation — Count I appearing on page 80, Count II on page 83 — buried beneath 79 pages of ego stroking, political invective, and what could best be described as a rejected campaign speech.

Judge Merryday reminded the former president that a legal complaint is supposed to be a “short and plain statement” of facts, not a “megaphone for public relations” or a “passionate oration at a political rally.” Translation: save the ranting for Truth Social. Oh, and trim it down to 40 pages or less — think of it as Twitter with footnotes.

This latest courtroom spectacle follows Trump’s ongoing legal vendetta tour against the media — having already aimed lawsuits at ABC, CBS, and The Wall Street Journal. His beef with The Times? That it acted as a “mouthpiece” for Democrats and gave Kamala Harris a campaign contribution in the form of journalism he didn’t like. In other words, reporting = rigging.

Free Speech, Unless You’re Pro-Palestinian

Meanwhile, in Trumpworld, free speech is sacred — unless you say something he doesn’t like. Multiple lawsuits have been filed against the administration’s alleged policy of targeting pro-Palestinian non-citizens for deportation, simply for expressing political views. Critics call it a direct violation of the First Amendment, creating a climate of fear on university campuses.

Take the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University alum and legal U.S. resident. On September 17, 2025, an immigration judge in Louisiana ordered him deported — either to Algeria or Syria — over alleged misrepresentations on his green card application. Federal courts, however, are still blocking his deportation while his case proceeds. The irony, of course, is that Trump insists on defending the “freedom” of Confederate statues while trying to silence actual human beings.

The Pentagon Redefines “Free Press”

Not to be outdone, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled new rules limiting Pentagon press access. Reporters now risk being banned for “unprofessional conduct” or even attempting to obtain information — whether classified, unclassified, or simply embarrassing to the administration.

In short: report at your own risk. The rules are so broad, you could probably lose access for asking where the bathroom is without “appropriate authorizing official” approval.

Trump’s Top Hits: Freedom Edition

As academics around the world scratch their heads, one burning question remains: which Trump-era attack on free speech is the most idiotic?

Renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” — because nothing says freedom like renaming water.
Renaming the Department of Defense the “Department of War” — because why bother hiding it?

Perhaps, in the end, Trump’s lawsuits and renamings are all just a form of performance art — a legal and political avant-garde movement where coherence, constitutionality, and common sense are strictly optional.