2+ week, 20+ hour ago (469+ words) For years, there have been whispers that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had ties to key officials in the US and foreign governments, was involved with Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad. "Knack for steering the superpowers' Drop Site"s investigations into the Handala hack have included six major stories since late September, four of which have centered around "Epstein's work on behalf of Israeli military interests, particularly as it relates to his role in the development of Israel's cyber warfare industry." Drop Site reporters Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim (9/28/25) detailed how Epstein wielded his influence to expand Israel's cyber warfare industry into Mongolia. Drop Site wrote: In the same piece, Hussain and Grim quoted Epstein asking Barak to "wait until they could speak privately before Barak notified intelligence leaders of a deal" with Russian-Israeli oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, and to "not…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago (492+ words) A new report in Newsweek says that although President Donald Trump has changed America in many ways, moderate Americans who the president has targeted in the past, are now changing Trump. "In a year obsessed with fracture, the Epstein Files Transparency Act produced legislative agreement: a left-right coalition large enough to end a monthslong stall. The bill moved after a discharge petition " one of Congress's bluntest tools " forced the vote," they write. But that rare political agreement and alignment wasn't the only interesting development to emerge in this highly divided partisan climate, they note. "Trump did remake American politics " on trade, on the border, on the judiciary " but the country's broad middle is now remaking his administration back," they write. This has been evident in several ways, Newsweek explains, including "near-unanimous votes to take down AI deepfakes; lopsided margins to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago (569+ words) The focus of the fightback by Trump's supporters is in Miami, where a Trump-appointed US attorney, Jason A. Reding Qui'ones, has begun to issue subpoenas to a wide range of former officials. This has included former CIA director John Brennan, former FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok, former FBI attorney Lisa Page and former director of national intelligence James Clapper, all of whom were involved in the federal investigation into alleged links between Russian intelligence and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. The story is that hidden government and proxy networks manipulate the truth and judicial outcomes and that only through pressure from "truthers" (what many people in the US who believe conspiracy theories call themselves) will wrongdoers be brought to account. Once these ideas are popularised, they take on a momentum and a direction that is difficult to control. In the US the norm…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago (1455+ words) Will the 2028 election even happen, or are we watching the slow-motion rehearsal for its cancellation? Every signal from Trump's orbit points to a deliberate strategy to turn fear, chaos, and manufactured crisis into political weapons. History tells us how these stories end. From John Adams jailing his critics under the Alien and Sedition Acts to Richard Nixon's troops gunning down students at Kent State to crackdowns by Viktor Orb'n and Vladimir Putin, authoritarians have always wrapped repression in the language of patriotism. Today, with talk of "domestic enemies," "rapid reaction forces," and "nuclear demonstrations," the groundwork is being laid again, not to protect America, but to control it. Why is it that dictators and wannabe dictators " both historic and now Trump " always attack their own countries' people while saber-rattling about war against other countries? Back in 1964, Americans were worried that…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago (462+ words) And yet, to the American people, Fox hosts said the opposite, relentlessly, and kept at it until the manufactured outrage crescendoed in the J6 attack. Fox is normalizing and selling Trump's police state In 2025, Fox is at it again, this time parroting Trump's false claims about immigrants, crime, and ICE. As Trump's masked agents commit widely documented atrocities in Democrat-run cities, Fox hosts call ICE protesters "domestic terrorists," while platforming false claims that ICE officers have "federal immunity" for their crimes. By ignoring (or encouraging) ICE brutality, while overstating threats against federal agents, Fox News is, once again, radicalizing viewers with falsehoods. Fox has an outsize megaphone Fox News is the most-watched news channel in the US. It has consistently led the charts in both total viewers and key demographics, over competitors like MSNBC, CNN, and broadcast networks such as ABC…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago (751+ words) The MAGA movement that brought President Donald Trump back to the White House for a second term is "splintered on numerous fronts," as "an openly antisemitic, racist and misogynistic current is gaining ground around [neo-Nazi] Nick Fuentes," according to French newspaper Le Monde's Washington correspondent Piotr Smolar. "The MAGA world is devouring itself," Smolar writes. "The euphoria of Donald Trump's return to power has faded, and internal divisions, both ideological and personal, are now threatening the coalition that made his success possible." As the battle for the future of the movement Trump himself created begins, "those who know his authority is beginning to crack," he says, are looking to seize the reins. "This battle does not concern the diehard Trumpist faithful, who repeat his words like liturgy. It is not unfolding within traditional political circles, such as Congress. Rather, it…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago (504+ words) I'll tell you right, as God as my witness, if we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison," Bannon told the crowd Wednesday at an awards event hosted by the Conservative Partnership Academy. This group offers training and certifications to aspiring right-wing ideologues working in politics and government. Bannon, who has already served time in prison for refusing to submit to a congressional subpoena related to his role as a top aide to Trump during his first term, included himself among those who might be targeted if Republicans lost power. In his remarks, Bannon said Tuesday's election results in New York City, Virginia, New Jersey, and elsewhere'where Democrats swept the GOP'should be seen as a warning to Trump's MAGA base, but called for an intensification of the agenda, not a retreat. Trump's opponents,…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago (504+ words) I'll tell you right, as God as my witness, if we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison," Bannon told the crowd Wednesday at an awards event hosted by the Conservative Partnership Academy. This group offers training and certifications to aspiring right-wing ideologues working in politics and government. Bannon, who has already served time in prison for refusing to submit to a congressional subpoena related to his role as a top aide to Trump during his first term, included himself among those who might be targeted if Republicans lost power. In his remarks, Bannon said Tuesday's election results in New York City, Virginia, New Jersey, and elsewhere'where Democrats swept the GOP'should be seen as a warning to Trump's MAGA base, but called for an intensification of the agenda, not a retreat. Trump's opponents,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (432+ words) Just a day after President Donald Trump suggested that six congressional Democrats should be hanged for reminding members of the US military and intelligence community of their duty not to obey illegal orders, one of those lawmakers was the target of multiple bomb threats. A spokesperson for US Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) said Friday afternoon that his "district offices in Carnegie and Beaver County were both the targets of bomb threats this afternoon. The congressman and congressional staff are safe, and thank law enforcement for swiftly responding. Political violence and threats like this are unacceptable." On Tuesday, the former US Navy officer had joined Democratic Reps. Jason Crow (Colo.), Maggie Goodlander (NH), and Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.), along with Sens. Mark Kelly (Ariz.) and Elissa Slotkin (Mich.), for the 90-second video. Trump'who notably incited the deadly January 6, 2021 attack on the US…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago (414+ words) Latinos for Trump at 2016 RNC, Image via Wikimedia Commons / Picryl. A new Pew Research Center poll shows that 70 percent of Latinos disapprove of President Donald Trump's job performance, sending a loud warning to Trump and Republicans ahead of next year's much-anticipated midterm elections, The Daily Beast reports. "The Pew poll is a damning indicator of how voters could turn on Trump in his turbulent second term as immigration raids and inflation play out across the country," The Daily Beast notes. Mark Lopez, director of Pew's Race and Ethnicity Research, says this poll portends major red flags for Republicans. "There's no doubt that if people draw the connections to a particular administration or political party, this could have some political implications in coming elections," Lopez tells Reuters. Latinos comprise roughly one in five Americans " approximately 20 percent of the U.S. population, and their…...