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On MLK Day, Donald Trump isn’t honoring MLK’s legacy; he’s dismantling it. From scrubbing MLK Day and Juneteenth from the National Park Service calendar, to whitewashing American history under an Orwellian “sanity” order, to weaponizing DEI bans as grievance-driven affirmative action for Whites, Project 2025 amounts to a full-scale rollback of civil rights. iPINIONS damns… Read more.
CNN just reported that US companies are moving manufacturing to the Dominican Republic. But don’t be fooled by talk of reshoring. This isn’t patriotism — it’s proximity-enabled exploitation. And iPINIONS fears that Haitians, yet again, will pay the price. Read my take on Substack: The Sweatshop Next Door… Read more.
Granted, Sean Spicer made it clear on Day One of Trump’s first term that you can’t believe a word his press secretaries say. After all, beyond displaying abject loyalty, the only real job requirement is a cult-like willingness to parrot the lies (big and small) Trump spews every time he opens his mouth. That said,… Read more.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ‘administrative error,’ and zero accountability The Trump administration’s deportation program has always been a cocktail of malice and mismanagement. But its treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia reeks of the collateral damage we expect only from autocracies like Russia. It deported him to El Salvador. Never mind that, like hundreds of other deportees,… Read more.
Booker showed MAGA Trump is more Thurmond than Eisenhower Senator Cory Booker made history this week, speaking on the Senate floor for 25 hours and 5 minutes. He was protesting the Trump administration’s cruel, corrupt, and unconstitutional policies. In doing so, Booker shattered Strom Thurmond’s infamous 1957 record of 24 hours and 18 minutes. Back… Read more.
A secretary of state in name only I said from the start that Marco Rubio’s nomination as Secretary of State was about tokenism, not diplomacy. Trump proved me right by stacking his administration with White, DEI (“didn’t earn it”) special envoys, making Rubio irrelevant. Case in point: Richard Grenell, Trump’s envoy of special envoys, was… Read more.
The quid pro quo Emil Bove is Trump’s deputy attorney general. Danielle Sassoon is the US attorney for the Southern District of New York. Eric Adams is the mayor of New York City. Bove ordered Sassoon to drop corruption charges against Adams. He claimed the case was interfering with Adams’ ability to help Trump tackle… Read more.
On Wednesday evening, an American Airlines regional jet collided midair with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The jet carried 64 people; the helicopter had three soldiers on board. Both aircraft plunged into the Potomac River. Rescue teams have recovered 28 bodies from the icy waters. Authorities fear there… Read more.
Lil’ Marco not big enough for the job The Senate confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state on Monday by unanimous vote. This makes him the first Latino to serve as America’s top diplomat and the first cabinet secretary to be confirmed for Trump’s second term. Except that Rubio’s role appears more about optics than… Read more.
