This Was Supposed to Modernize America's Nuclear Missiles. It Paid for Trump's Jet Instead. The Air Force pulled $934 million from the Sentinel nuclear missile program to retrofit a $400 million jet Qatar gave Trump, a gift structured to become his personal property once he leaves office. It arrived alongside billions in Qatari arms sales and a Trump Organization deal with Qatar's own sovereign wealth fund. Posted on Aug 7, 2026 | The Enemy Within
This Is Not Eleven Scandals. It Is One Purge. Seventeen inspectors general fired in one night. A CDC director fired for refusing to lie. FBI agents purged for old casework. Named political rivals indicted by a hand-picked prosecutor, then un-indicted by a judge. A Supreme Court ruling that just made most of it permanent. Same mechanism, run in parallel across the federal government since day four of this administration. Posted on Aug 7, 2026 | The Enemy Within
We Called Him America's Lysenko. Now a State AG Is Doing His Purge For Him. Texas is investigating the American Academy of Pediatrics for breaking with RFK Jr.'s reshaped vaccine schedule, his own CDC director was fired for refusing to rubber-stamp his conclusions, a court injunction is still blocking the schedule, and the White House is now weighing an executive order to escalate further. This publication named this dynamic in December 2024, before Kennedy even had the job. Posted on Aug 7, 2026 | The Enemy Within
Reflecting on Trump's bottomless pool of corruption The botched, no-bid Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation, and the felony prosecution of David Hearn for picking up a paint chip from it, becomes a lens on deeper corruption and institutional decay under Trump. Posted on Aug 7, 2026 | Salon
The Chaos and Cruelty of ICE Argues fatal ICE shootings of bystanders in Texas and Maine within six days aren't an aberration but an indictment of Trump's mass deportation machine itself. Posted on Aug 6, 2026 | Time
This Is the Real Story of Trump's Presidency—If Democrats Will Tell It Argues the throughline of Trump's second term is brazen self-dealing, a Truth Social scheme selling paid early access to his own market-moving posts, layered on a newly preserved IRS audit-immunity deal from his self-initiated lawsuit settlement, and asks why Democrats aren't making more of it. Posted on Aug 5, 2026 | The New Republic
Why Congress must act to protect foreign journalists from new US rule Argues a new DHS rule shortening foreign journalists' visa durations threatens press freedom and coverage of the U.S., and that Congress should intervene before it takes effect. Posted on Aug 5, 2026 | The Hill
Trump keeps making threats. Washington and the world have stopped flinching. Argues a pattern of unfulfilled threats and reversed bluffs, from tariffs to strikes on Iran, has eroded Trump's credibility with world leaders and Washington insiders alike, who have learned to wait him out rather than react. Posted on Aug 4, 2026 | Washington Post
Trump Refuses to Face His Disaster Polls Argues Trump's refusal to reckon with his cratering approval ratings reveals a governing style fundamentally at odds with democratic accountability, one where the response to bad polling is never to adjust but to redirect attention back to himself. Posted on Aug 4, 2026 | Daily Beast
Citizen Vigilante Is a White-Supremacist Mass-Shooter Fantasy and a Terrible Movie Uwe Boll's anti-immigrant revenge thriller strips the vigilante genre of everything except racial grievance, political paranoia and the fantasy of killing people who have been declared the enemy. Posted on Aug 3, 2026 | The Enemy Within