This is what propaganda looks like.
.@LidiaNews Lidia Curanaj, on .@NEWSMAX, just told Dr. Fauci "your policies killed millions of people" and that "justice has no deadline." No evidence. No nuance. Just a pile of garbage as journalism.
Here's the actual record: Dr. Fauci is a doctor who spent 40 years saving lives. He testified before Congress over 250 times across four decades and never once invoked the Fifth Amendment, until Rand Paul turned a hearing into a prosecution setup.
Where was "News"max's outrage when Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 440 times in his own 2022 deposition in the Trump Organization fraud case? Same right. Same Constitution. When Trump does it, it's "smart lawyering." When Fauci does it, once, he's a "monster."
The real danger isn't Fauci. It's teaching every scientist watching that testifying honestly before Congress can get you criminally referred, so next pandemic, the experts we need either won't show up, or won't tell us the truth.
"News"max isn't reporting the news. It's manufacturing propaganda nonsense 24/7, because a real doctor telling the truth doesn't sell outrage as well as a fake one does.
🚨 EPSTEIN FILES UPDATE — MARK YOUR CALENDAR.
August 13. 1 PM ET.
A federal court will hold a PUBLIC hearing on the Justice Department’s compliance with court orders involving the Epstein files.
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan presiding.
Anyone can listen:
📞 1-833-990-9400
Meeting ID: 712190216
I’ll be listening live and posting real-time updates here.
Be sure you’re following me.
Recording/rebroadcasting is prohibited. Listen only.
THURSDAY: A federal judge is opening a public phone line.
You can listen….live…as Katie Phang’s suit against Todd Blanche over the Epstein files goes before Judge Sullivan.
No spin. No panel. No press release.
Just YOU, a phone, and a judge who isn’t taking DOJ’s word for it.
Dial in.
Read this number twice.
According to the Ohio Immigration Alliance, among a group of 59 ICE and Border Patrol agents it studied, 85% had sex-offense histories in their backgrounds.
Wolf: What hasn’t been discussed publicly, to my knowledge, is the fact that, in my opinion, President Trump committed a crime in negotiating the settlement agreement in this case and it’s possible that Mr. Blanche would be found to be a co-conspirator in that crime. Let me try to explain…
Congress enacted a statute that makes it illegal for the president or the vice president to directly or indirectly request the initiation or termination of a tax investigation. There’s a potential five-year prison term for violating that statute.
Donald Trump would not have immunity from criminal prosecution for violating that statute in this case because he filed this lawsuit in his personal capacity. Therefore, negotiating the settlement was not an official act for which he has immunity as president.
So, in this case, he was negotiating essentially with himself. As Judge Williams said in Trump v. IRS—a case in which I’m one of the 35 plaintiffs who, through excellent lawyers, persuaded the court to reopen the case and find that this was not a genuine case—it wasn’t a real case or controversy that was legitimately in federal court. It was a collusive case brought for an improper purpose: to get a personal benefit for President Trump, his family, and his allies.
Walter Rhein (Substack) had a magnificent idea earlier today. One, that, psychologically…has legs: Start referring to Republicans as COMMUNISTS. Drop the MAGA, and go with “These Communist Republicans…” If it gets traction, it goes a long way in sucking to energy and usefulness of their use of the word.
The measure of a society is how it invests in its children.
For decades, I have advocated for Head Start because every child deserves a strong start in life. Today, I stand with the more than 100 civil rights and child advocacy organizations opposing efforts to dismantle the program from within.
Head Start is more than preschool. It supports healthy babies, working parents, and stronger families.
You don't build a stronger nation by starving its children of opportunity.
Should Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, pay the same amount of taxes into Social Security as a fireman or nurse? Of course not.
The answer isn't complicated. Let's lift the cap and make the wealthiest people in America pay their fair share to strengthen Social Security.
Tak żyją dzieci na Ukrainie. Jeśli ktoś chce epatować emocjami w debacie o polskiej polityce wschodniej, powinien raczej skupić się na poniższych ze zwykłego, ludzkiego miłosierdzia:
Good morning. The sky is clear. My dog is a good boy.
More and more, we're seeing this same progression:
1. Trump has a craving and does something stupid.
2. Trump lies about what he did or why he did it.
3. Trump and lackeys try to cover up his stupidity.
4. Trump gets humiliated and America is worse off.
5. Trump doubles down defiantly, force-feeding a false reality.
6. Trump's polling tanks further.
You can see this exact progression in the fiasco of the Reflecting Pool. Trump made a stupid decision to hire an incompetent crony - a donor - on a no-bid contract - and he f*cked up the job - there's the STUPIDITY.
When the stupidity led to problems, Trump lied about why, and blamed vandals - there's the LIE.
Trump and Pirro, among others, then try to obscure Trump's stupidity by arresting someone, filled with bluster and bravado - there's the COVER-UP.
The case against the person Trump has arrested fell apart, exposing the stupidity - there's the HUMILIATION.
Trump is not the least bit contrite, because there's a divot in his brain where empathy, shame, and contrition reside with normal people, and he simply cannot admit imperfection - on anything. So, he blabbers more nonsense about vandalism.
Enough people see through him now, so his polling sinks further.
You can ALSO see this progression in the more major fiasco of the War in Iran. Trump attacked Iran with lots of ferocity but zero forethought or anticipation of consequence - there is the STUPIDITY.
When the stupidity led to problems - the Strait of Hormuz closure and the price of oil rising - Trump poo-poos it, saying he had to attack because Iran was close to a nuclear weapon - there's the LIE.
Trump then spends months making blustery threats, alternated with contrived diplomacy - the COVER-UP.
Iran sees through it, ignores Trump's pseudo-bluster, selectively seizes the narrative, and flexes occasionally - enough so that America and its friends are worse off, and Trump - who needs an exit, keeps doubling down defiantly because - doubling down is all he knows how to do - and there is the HUMILIATION. (A bigger humiliation will come soon, when Trump is forced to cave entirely on Iran, and push some false reality as to how it ended.)
We can apply this formula to almost anything he touches - tariffs, Epstein, the Blanche confirmation - anything. It all starts with a stupidity, moves to a lie, then a cover-up, then a humiliation and then - a doubling down.
Why does he double down? Because he's a psychopath! Because he's a malignant narcissist, owned by his disorders, in an advanced stage of his decline, and he has zero connection to logic, truth, or humanity. All he cares about are his cravings, his power, and his grift.
Why doesn't his stupidity and resulting lies get called out at the onset? It does by indie media, but not enough by legacy media, where he is normalized.
Why am I posting this, much of which you already know? Because repeating it adds focus and awareness.
And our awareness is important.
We are The People. We have the Power. May his polling tank further.
Have a nice day!
BREAKING: OMG! Trump's cronies just got busted setting up FAKE NEWSPAPERS in order to push their lies and misinformation!
While Donald Trump and his flunkies almost reflexively scream “fake news” at every piece of real reporting they don’t like, one of the Republican Party’s most powerful dark money groups has been busy creating ACTUAL fake news sites of its own.
One Nation – the Senate Republicans’ largest dark money organization – has quietly built at least six state-based websites that look like independent local news outlets.
The sites pose as independent local news organizations, and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting their bogus stories directly into voters' Facebook and Instagram feeds, according to a new investigation by Popular Information.
In reality, these sites function as campaign vehicles for MAGA Senate candidates, pumping out glowing coverage and promoting it through Facebook and Instagram ads.
One of them, The Alaska Navigator, bills itself as “independent news covering the Last Frontier.” It isn’t.
It published stories such as “As Fentanyl Deaths Rise in Alaska, Sullivan Pushes Tougher Penalties and Enforcement,” crediting Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan with leading the fight – even though he neither wrote nor originally sponsored the legislation in question.
Similar sites have popped up in Maine, Ohio, Iowa, Georgia, and New Hampshire, each carefully named and branded to resemble hometown journalism.
The report says One Nation spent roughly $200,000 to $275,000 promoting the sites through Meta ads. The ads disclosed they were paid for by One Nation, but only disclose that the sites themselves are also owned and operated by One Nation in a tiny font at the bottom of the page.
The most brazen detail may be that the Alaska Navigator’s domain wasn’t even registered until March 2026, yet it already displayed articles dating back to January!
The source code shows those earlier stories were generated with a WordPress plugin called – wait for it – FakerPress, software designed to create placeholder content so a website looks older and more established than it actually is.
Some of the sites went further and simply stole articles from real newsrooms. One Georgia site allegedly copied the full text of an 11Alive story and presented it as its own.
Since One Nation is a nonprofit, it doesn’t have to disclose its donors, so the public has no way of knowing who is funding this operation. The group did not respond to requests for comment.
Under Trump, Republicans have built an entire political brand around denouncing “fake news.” Now we learn one of their most influential dark money groups has been manufacturing websites that look like independent local journalism while quietly feeding campaign messaging to voters who have no idea who’s really behind the headlines.
Trump calls legitimate reporting “fake news.” His minions are out here building the real thing.
If a Republican dark money group creating fake local news sites while the party screams about “fake news” has you furious, like and share.
The hypocrisy is off the friggin' charts here. Like and share if you agree.
This spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up.