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Monday, December 08, 2025

Attorney General Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to "compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism," according to a Justice Department memo published here exclusively. read more


In 2016, as then-presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed that US troops would carry out even his most extreme battlefield orders as commander in chief " some of which former military leaders said would be illegal " Pete Hegseth warned that service members had a duty to refuse unlawful orders from a potential President Trump.


Saturday, December 06, 2025

Sources familiar with internal discussions say Trump, 79, was left fuming as a growing stream of reporting from publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN, scrutinized the signs of his apparent deteriorating health. read more


American manufacturing contracted for the ninth straight month, a survey showed, as uncertainty tied to ever-changing tariffs and a historic government shutdown weighed on business. read more


Friday, December 05, 2025

On January 20, 2025, the first day of his second term, Trump issued a sweeping clemency proclamation that effectively pardoned nearly all ... read more


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More: The trick here is simple and old. You starve the public systems until they're so weak that anything looks like relief. Then you let a billionaire deliver a drop of water and call it a miracle. Americans have been trained to applaud the spectacle. They forget to ask why one of the richest men in the country gets to decide how twenty-five million children experience their first introduction to money. They forget to ask why the richest people get public praise for giving back pennies compared to what they extract. They forget to ask why children need investment accounts instead of stable housing, food, medical care, and schools that aren't falling apart.

The applause is the point. When billionaires are cast as heroes, no one has to admit that the system has collapsed so thoroughly that private charity is now doing the work of the state. This is how the social contract dies without anyone calling it what it is. People look at the $250 and say at least it's something. They say maybe it'll grow. They say maybe it'll help someday. They don't say what's obvious. They don't say the quiet part. They don't say that America now expects the financial markets to raise children because the country has decided it won't.

There's also the quiet financialization happening underneath. These accounts invest in index funds. That means millions of new dollars flowing into the same corporate structures that already dominate the economy. Kids become passive capital generators before they can read. Their "gift" enriches the very companies that helped create the inequality this program is pretending to solve. It's a perfect loop. The wealthy get to look generous while reinforcing the machine that made them wealthy. The public gets a story about hope. The corporations get the money.

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