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Kaitlan Collins has become the rare White House reporter who can rattle Trump with a follow-up question. Maggie Haberman praised her for it. But with Trump-adjacent media oligarchs circling CNN, iPINIONS fears that praise may read less like a tribute than a warning. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/cnns-kaitlan-collins-scares-trump Read more.
iPINIONS thinks Amazon Prime Day is just a genius business model to make Bezos richer by getting us to buy stuff we don’t need. Then we turn to Goodwill to clean up our shame. Read more.
The Roberts Court handed Trump two immigration wins, blessing border cruelty and allowing him to target Haitian immigrants. iPINIONS argues this is Taney reasoning in Roberts robes: racism laundered through law. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/supreme-court-rules-trump-can-send Read more.
Zohran Mamdani’s New York sweep proves Democratic Socialists are doing more than making noise. iPINIONS argues that they’re turning insurgent energy into institutional power, forcing establishment Democrats to confront a threat MAGA never posed in deep-blue districts: Democratic replacement from within. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/mamdani-shows-why-establishment-democrats Read more.
Nostalgia isn’t about pining for the past. It’s about detoxing from a present that feels too synthetic, intrusive, performative, and fake. From flip phones and vinyl to social media fatigue and dating-app burnout, iPINIONS argues that the past is calling because the future got too creepy. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/nostalgia-is-having-a-moment Read more.
Trump stripped Juneteenth and MLK Day from the national parks’ free-admission calendar while making his birthday a free-admission day. iPINIONS notes that’s not an administrative tweak. That’s a confession. Meanwhile, Obama opened a monument to Black achievement as Trump wages war on Black history. Read the full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-is-making-juneteenth-more-cause Read more.
America once crushed Antigua for legalizing online gambling, preaching morality while destroying a Caribbean industry. iPINIONS marvels at Trump now hosting the same vice at the White House, dressed up as spectacle, sport, and profit. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/america-criminalized-online-gambling Read more.
Trump’s Haiti policy exposes Washington’s oldest habit toward the world’s first Black republic. It outsources guilt, privatizes violence, and calls the invoice policy. iPINIONS contends that the Shield of the Americas was never meant to shield Haiti. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/the-shield-of-the-americas-against Read more.
Trump’s travel bans and visa denials have turned the World Cup into a showcase of American racism, with Black and Brown teams, fans, journalists, and even referees treated like security threats. But iPINIONS contends that, if America cannot host the world without humiliating it, the world should not legitimize LA 2028. Read my full take… Read more.
Trump isn’t just moving markets. iPINIONS contends that he’s turning the presidency into a Ponzi scheme with a Bloomberg terminal, where taxpayers and ordinary investors are the suckers while his family, donors, crypto cronies, prediction-market operators, and rich friends profit from the volatility he manufactures. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trump-turns-the-presidency-into-a Read more.
