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Pantone Bends the Knee to Trump by Choosing White as Color of the Year

Monday, December 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Pantone White cloud dance with Brown farm worker

Pantone brands white as calm and renewal for 2026. But in a political climate shaped by DEI rollbacks and mass deportations of Black and Brown people, white makes right, and means right. iPINIONS argues that Pantone’s choice of “Cloud Dancer” reads less like serenity than submission — a corporate whitewashing dressed up as neutrality. Read… Read more.

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Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: brown people, color of the year, mass deportations, Pantone, white, white supremacy

From FDR Decrying a Day of Infamy to Trump Executing a Year of Infamy

Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Pearl Harbor Day the Monroe Doctrine and Trumpism

On Pearl Harbor Day, history is meant to warn, not comfort. As iPINIONS argues, America has moved from condemning infamy abroad to exporting it across the hemisphere—through economic coercion, naval intimidation, and revived imperial arrogance. From FDR’s moral clarity to Trump’s year of infamy, this piece reframes remembrance as indictment. Read my full take on… Read more.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: American Empire, Historical Memory, Monroe Doctrine, Pearl Harbor Day, Trumpism, U.S. Foreign Policy, Year of Infamy

Paramount Wants Warner Bros. for MAGA Media. But Here’s to Netflix Playing White Knight

Friday, December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
WBD weighing bids from Paramount, Comcast and Netflix

Trump tried to strong-arm Warner Bros. Discovery into selling to Paramount (a company owned by his billionaire backers), while threatening regulatory hell for anyone who defied him. iPINIONS called for Netflix to win this bidding war. It did, proving independence is still possible. But the MAGA push for media control is only getting started. Read… Read more.

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Filed Under: Entertainment Tagged With: Comcast, Gavin Newsom, Larry Ellison, MAGA media, Netflix, Paramount, Trump, Warner Bros. Discover, WBD

When He Isn’t Passing the Buck Trump Is Selling Pardons and Selling Out America

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Cartoons of drug-running speedboats and of Trump signing pardons

Trump has turned the Resolute Desk into the Excuse Desk, dodging blame while auctioning off pardons, rewarding crooks, and selling out America to foreign strongmen. iPINIONS argues that, from Saudi blood money to Honduran narco-politics to get-out-of-jail cards for wealthy swindlers, Trump’s presidency is now a pay-to-betray operation. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/when-he-isnt-passing-the-buck-trump Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: bombing drug speedboats, drug trafficking, Jared Kushner, MbS, pay-to-play, presidential pardons, Saudi Arabia, Trump presidency, Venezuela

From Muslim Ban to ‘Third World’ Ban: Trump Expands Racist Immigration Policies

Monday, December 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
image of Trump banning migrants from Third World countries

Trump is banning Black and Brown migrants while granting a VIP asylum lane for white South Africans. He calls it security. iPINIONS calls it apartheid… Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/from-muslim-ban-to-third-world-ban Read more.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: CIA, immigration, national security, racism, South Africa, Third World migration, Trump

Holiday Travel: Flying Passengers Like Herding Cattle

Friday, November 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Airport scene during holiday travel

Airport lounges were once meant to elevate the travel experience. Now they’re just overcrowded holding pens. Sure, Perrier instead of seltzer, but it’s the same chaos, only at a premium. iPINIONS thinks nothing betrays America’s nostalgia more than the absurd belief that “Sunday best” can restore dignity to modern flight. This Thanksgiving, the real luxury… Read more.

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Air Travel Misery, Airport Lounges, Holiday Travel, Sean Duffy, Thanksgiving Travel, Travel Industry, TSA

Thanksgiving 2025: Everything Settled in Conflict Again

Wednesday, November 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Thanksgiving cartoon for 2025

Thanksgiving 2025 should be about gratitude and grace, but this year it’s exposing empty wallets, political trench warfare at the table, and leaders gaslighting us that life is “wonderful” while millions slide toward modern breadlines. In this iPINIONS commentary, I explain how inflation, culture wars, and Trumpian excess have turned Thanksgiving into a stress test… Read more.

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Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Culture, democracy, economy, family, Happy Thanksgiving 2025, Inflation, politics, Trump

ChatGPT: The AI of Everything That Can’t Be Trusted to Do Anything

Monday, November 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
ChatGOP as the hand of God

Sam Altman wants ChatGPT to become “the core of how people use technology.” But after months of using it, I spend more time correcting its mistakes than benefiting from its intelligence. OpenAI posted $7.8 billion in losses while multiple lawsuits link ChatGPT to teen suicides. Meanwhile, Anthropic’s founders hired a philosopher to build AI responsibly.… Read more.

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Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: AI Ethics, AI Safety, Anthropic, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Claude AI, Dario Amodei, iPINIONS, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Silicon Valley, Tech Criticism, Teen Safety

Death of Pennies Heralds the Cashless Society’s Only Coin

Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
the death of the penny

The Treasury is finally putting the penny out of its misery. But between iPhones replacing wallets and digital payments replacing bills, even nickels and quarters are becoming relics of the past. The irony is that iPINIONS thinks we may be heading toward a future with just one coin to rule them all — and it’s… Read more.

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Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: bitcoin, cashless society, the penny

Statement on the Arrest of My Cousin Eunece Morris

Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
ZNS reporting on arrest of Eunece Morris

Police in The Bahamas allege that Eunece Morris defrauded multiple clients through her travel agency more than a decade ago, before fleeing the jurisdiction in 2011. She was reportedly living as a carefree fugitive in the Turks and Caicos Islands. But, just days ago, she was detained while transiting through the Cayman Islands and extradited… Read more.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: crime, Eunece Morris, extradition, fraud, Gilbert Morris, Grand Bahama, Turks and Caicos Islands

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