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07/07/2025

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07/07/2025

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Good morning! Trump says he just gave America a “big, beautiful tax cut.” Economist Justin Wolfers would like a word. Because what Trump is actually doing is what he’s always done: handing billions to billionaires while sticking the bill, plus interest, onto working families and calling it freedom.

Take a look around while Trump pats himself on the back. In Texas, families spent the Fourth of July drowning. The Guadalupe River rose twenty-nine feet in forty-five minutes, sweeping away tents, campers, and entire families in the dead of night. No warnings, no sirens, no alerts, because Trump and his Republican pals gutted the National Weather Service to “save money” for their billionaire donors. After all, what’s the point of forecasting flash floods when you can fund another yacht for a campaign donor?

Wolfers points out the simple truth: Trump’s “tax cut” isn’t a cut at all. It’s a time bomb disguised as a gift, one that blows up the deficit while letting the ultra-wealthy stuff their pockets and leaves the rest of us to pay, again and again. How? Because when Trump slashes taxes without cutting spending, he’s not actually cutting taxes, he’s kicking the bill down the road, racking up debt that will have to be paid by someone, someday, with interest. That “someone” isn’t Trump or his billionaire donors, it’s you, your kids, and your grandkids, who will pay in the form of higher taxes later or the quiet theft of higher interest rates now.

Debt like this drives up interest rates, Wolfers explains, because the more a government borrows, the riskier it looks, and the higher lenders push rates to protect themselves. Those higher rates don’t just hit government bonds; they ripple through everything: your mortgage, your car loan, your student debt, your credit card bill, your small business loan. If rates go up half a point because of this debt bomb, that’s thousands of dollars a year sucked from your family budget just to cover interest payments on the same house, the same car, the same groceries you were already scraping to afford.

And about those groceries? Trump’s tariff tantrums are taxes in disguise, slapped onto imports, passed on to you at the checkout lane, draining your wallet while you’re too busy worrying about next week’s bills to notice who’s robbing you. Trump brags about “fighting for the working class,” but the reality is that under his “big, beautiful bill,” the top 0.1% will walk away with an extra $7,000 a year while the poorest 10% lose $2,500 real dollars ripped from families living paycheck to paycheck.

This is a con dressed up as a tax cut, a scam that feeds billionaires while the rest of America foots the bill, with interest, while shopping for eggs that cost 40% more than they did last year.

While families in Texas are left to die in the dark and the working class is left to pay the bills, ICE is staging paramilitary raids in Los Angeles, targeting Hispanic communities with no regard for the Constitution. A federal class action lawsuit against Kristi Noem, DHS, ICE, and Border Patrol lays it bare: no warrants, no due process, just stormtroopers in tactical gear tearing families apart in the dead of night under the banner of “law and order.”

The lawsuit details ICE agents rolling up in unmarked SUVs, blocking cars in traffic to demand papers, pulling people from their vehicles at gunpoint, and detaining them without probable cause simply because they “looked Hispanic.” Agents ransacked homes without warrants, rifling through children’s bedrooms while families were forced to watch, terrified, and powerless. In one case, ICE raided an apartment complex at 5 a.m., banging on doors with rifles drawn, forcing families into the courtyard in their pajamas, refusing to let them call lawyers, and separating children from their parents as agents checked IDs. Guards denied some detainees food and water for hours; they moved others without notice to distant detention centers to prevent legal representation; and many were left in overcrowded, freezing cells, with the lights on 24/7, no blankets, and no phone calls allowed.

The cruelty isn’t incidental; it’s the operating system. Terrorize Hispanic neighborhoods, deport as many people as possible regardless of due process, and call it a “numbers game” to impress the boss in Washington while the cameras roll. The lawsuit makes clear that this is exactly what’s happening: ICE agents are under pressure to meet Stephen Miller’s 3,000 arrests per day quota, a policy goal that values body counts over justice, quotas over human rights, and shattered families over due process.

Agents raid apartment complexes at dawn, rifles drawn, forcing families into courtyards in their pajamas to check papers and split up children from parents. They pull drivers from their cars at gunpoint in traffic, detain them without warrants simply for “looking Hispanic,” and ship them off to overcrowded, freezing detention centers where lights stay on all night and calls to lawyers are denied, because every headcount helps Miller’s spreadsheet and Trump’s campaign rallies.

Fear is useful: it keeps communities quiet, it keeps neighbors from speaking out, it feeds the lie that immigrants are the threat while billionaires loot the country. And all the while, the same politicians cutting lifesaving flood warnings and slashing food aid are feeding billionaires another round of tax breaks to fund yachts and private jets, while selling voters the fantasy that brown families in East LA are the real threat to America.

And if you think the disaster stops there, let’s take a trip to your local food bank. You know, the place people go when they can’t afford groceries because their wages haven’t kept up with the rent, the car payment, and the medical bills. Food banks are bracing for a tsunami of need as Trump’s GOP slashes over a trillion dollars from SNAP and Medicaid. The same people celebrating “fiscal responsibility” are the ones blowing up the deficit and leaving food banks to figure out how to replace six to nine billion lost meals annually. Spoiler: they can’t. As one food bank leader put it, “There is no world in which I can imagine we double ourselves, into perpetuity.” But Republicans can imagine it, because imagining is all they ever do when it comes to hunger. Hunger, after all, is someone else’s problem, preferably someone brown or poor, ideally both.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk, in a burst of messianic delusion, announced on X that he is launching the “America Party,” a third-party venture designed to save the country from, well, Republicans and Democrats, but mostly Republicans, but also maybe Democrats, depending on the hour. It’s hard to say exactly what the America Party stands for beyond “Elon Musk is smarter than you,” but if you squint hard enough, you can see it’s anti-tariff, anti-regulation, pro-business, anti-illegal immigration but pro-high-skilled visas, and mostly pro-Elon. He claims it will apply “extremely concentrated force at a precise location on the battlefield,” which, translated from Muskspeak, means “I will use my billions and my social media platform to annoy Trump, split the MAGA vote, and see what happens.”

Is it a serious threat? Who knows? But remember, Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” passed by a single vote, and in a system already on the brink, even a few percentage points peeled off by a billionaire’s vanity project can change everything.

And let’s be clear: the irony here is rich enough to drown in. This is the same Elon Musk who backed catastrophic cuts to NOAA and USAID, gutting the agencies that track hurricanes, prevent famine, and distribute vaccines worldwide, cuts that have almost certainly led to thousands, if not millions, of unnecessary deaths globally, from floods that no longer carry warnings to cholera outbreaks that no longer receive aid. The man who helped strip the world’s safety nets now wants to brand himself as America’s political savior, riding in on his X app to rescue a democracy he’s spent years destabilizing for clicks and tax cuts.

If nothing else, Musk’s America Party is a perfectly American spectacle: a bored billionaire deciding democracy is his next toy, running on a platform of fixing problems he helped create, while the working class pays the price.

This is what American politics has become: families drowning in Texas while the weather service is defunded; families raided in the middle of the night while ICE expands unchecked; families going hungry while food banks scramble to do the impossible; billionaires celebrating “freedom” while collecting another round of tax cuts they don’t need. And into this chaos comes Elon Musk, ready to save America by throwing a third-party Molotov cocktail into an already burning system.

Trump ran on “personal responsibility.” It’s time he, and the entire Republican apparatus enabling this cruelty, took some. This is a country bleeding out while billionaires toast themselves on yachts, and working people drown, starve, or get deported.

This is the America they are building. It’s up to the rest of us to decide whether we’re going to let them finish. Carpe Momentum!

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05/07/2025

What Fox News isn't telling Americans:

Good morning! Donald Trump really wanted Independence Day to be all about him. And, well, it was. While families in Texas were climbing onto rooftops as floodwaters swallowed entire neighborhoods, while Ukrainians huddled in subway tunnels as Russia unleashed its deadliest assault yet, while “No Kings” protests rippled across the country demanding an end to Trump’s authoritarian fantasy, there he was, dancing to the YMCA on the taxpayer dime, golf club in one hand, social media phone in the other, all under the roar of B-2 bombers that cost millions per flyover.

Trump used the day to promote his latest “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which, in the tradition of Trump’s branding, is neither beautiful nor beneficial to most Americans. He claimed the bill “saves Social Security.” It doesn’t. He claimed it “doesn’t cut Medicaid.” It does, and in ways that will devastate rural hospitals and low-income families while funneling yet more money upward to people who can already afford private jets, Mar-a-Lago memberships, and Trump’s NFT drops.

And here’s the kicker: the bill is about as popular as a wet sparkler. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump’s Megabill is so toxic in polling that Republicans are already preparing to explain to voters in 2026 why gutting Medicaid to fund tax cuts for billionaires was actually good for them, you see, because freedom or something. Internal GOP polling warns that the “cut Medicaid for tax cuts” angle could cost them swing districts by 21 points. But for now, they’re counting on voters not noticing until after the next election, when the bill’s real pain hits.

Meanwhile, in Kerr County, Texas, a catastrophic flood ripped through communities, killing at least 13 people and leaving 23 girls from a Christian summer camp missing. Officials shrugged and said they “didn’t know it would be this bad,” even as Trump’s regime continues to slash funding for FEMA, NOAA, and other agencies tasked with, you know, warning people that a deadly wall of water is coming. You can almost hear the MAGA logic: who needs functioning government when you’ve got a flyover?

On the same day, Russia decided to celebrate America’s birthday by launching the largest drone and missile assault on Ukraine since the invasion began, 539 drones and 11 missiles, a fireworks show from hell that sent families scrambling for shelter in Kyiv and left dozens wounded. Trump, for his part, said he was “very unhappy” about his call with Putin and hinted that sanctions “may be coming.” You know, maybe, at some point, if he feels like it. This, while his administration reduces military aid to Ukraine and leaves Zelensky begging for air defense systems that once came without strings attached.

Oh, and Canada? Canada is quietly doing what competent governments do when faced with the chaos of Trump’s trade tantrums: buffering itself. Under Prime Minister Mark Carney, a technocrat in the best sense of the word, and exactly the kind of leader the U.S. could use right now, Canada is locking down trade deals with Greenland, Europe, and China, working to diversify its markets so it isn’t held hostage to Trump’s threats of 70% tariffs on steel, autos, and agriculture. Carney’s team even made the calculated decision to pause the digital services tax, not out of fear, but as a strategic tradeoff to protect key sectors while navigating the instability of a neighbor who lurches from one trade war to the next with all the finesse of a wrecking ball. It’s a stark contrast to the spectacle south of the border: while Trump dances for the cameras and throws tantrums on tariffs, Canada is quietly, methodically, building resilience.

This is the reality behind the spectacle: a president who spends your tax dollars on a personal propaganda party while ignoring climate disasters, gutting social safety nets, and mumbling half-promises about “maybe sanctions” as the world burns. But hey, at least there were fireworks.

They want you to look at the flags and flyovers, the dancing and the drama, while they loot the public trust, gut Medicaid, ignore the floods, abandon Ukraine, and shove the bill into your hands later.

And that, dear reader, is the state of the American Empire this Independence Day weekend. We deserve better than a regime that turns tragedy into an afterthought and governance into a reality show. We deserve leaders who show up when children go missing in floods, when democracy needs defending, when families are scraping by and told they should be grateful for scraps while billionaires get tax cuts on their fourth yacht.

But that’s not what we’ve got right now. So, let’s keep paying attention, keep telling the truth, and keep reminding each other: they want you distracted, exhausted, and silent. Don’t give them the satisfaction.

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05/07/2025

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Donald Trump’s Iowa State Fairgrounds speech was one of his most unhinged performances yet, a swirling cocktail of lies, grievance, casual bigotry, and carnival-barker delusion, all delivered with the confidence of a man who knows his crowd will cheer no matter what nonsense comes out of his mouth.

He opened by mocking Joe Biden’s speech patterns, repeating the word “existential” over and over in a slurred impression that would have been embarrassing if it wasn’t so childish. Then, with the seriousness of a dictator announcing a new ministry, he promised to host a UFC fight on the White House lawn as part of his “America 250” celebration, bragging about 25,000 people watching blood sport on federal property while Dana White pockets the pay-per-view cut.

It didn’t get better from there. Trump casually dropped an anti-Semitic slur while complaining about bankers, reminding everyone that he has never met a racist dog whistle he wouldn’t blow for applause. He then proudly declared, “I hate them,” referring to Democrats, insisting that they hate the country, and that he hates them right back. It was an open admission of his brand of politics: petty, angry, and rooted in personal vendetta.

He rambled about hydrogen cars, claiming they are dangerous because when they explode, “you can’t find the body, it’s five blocks away.” This, of course, is complete nonsense, but it drew laughs from a crowd that prefers fear over facts. He paired this with a tirade against electric vehicles, calling the push for EVs “insane,” mocking clean energy as some kind of elitist scam, and sneering at the very idea that Americans might want alternatives to gas-guzzling trucks. It was a perfect snapshot of Trump’s worldview: fear the future, ridicule progress, and stoke cultural resentment over any shift that threatens the fossil-fueled status quo.

At one point, Trump claimed his “big beautiful bill” would save “two billion family farms” from the estate tax, despite there being only about two million farms in the United States, most of which do not pay the estate tax at all. The real number might as well have been two billion unicorns for all the accuracy it had.

He bizarrely claimed that Iran called him to ask permission to launch missiles at a U.S. base because, according to Trump, they needed to “save face” after the U.S. bombed them, and that he politely told them, “Go ahead.” In Trump’s telling, Iran, a geopolitical adversary, respectfully asked him for a hall pass to attack American forces so they wouldn’t look weak, and he graciously obliged. This is not how diplomacy works, but it sounded tough in the retelling, which is all that matters to him and the crowd that roared along, eager to believe that foreign policy is just another reality TV flex where Trump is the baddest man in the room.

Trump promised that the bill would eliminate taxes on Social Security, which is simply not true. No such provision exists in the bill, and seniors should not hold their breath waiting for this fantasy to materialize.

Then came his climate denial routine. Trump argued that because it didn’t rain during his “parade” in Washington, climate change must be fake. He added that soldiers were marching down “Fifth Avenue in DC,” a street that does not exist, but this geographical error was the least of his problems. His grasp of climate science remains about as firm as his grasp of reality.

He proudly declared that his bill would fund statues of “great Americans,” joking that the crowd “better choose me.” The prospect of Trump building statues of himself in a taxpayer-funded hero garden sounds like something out of North Korea, but it’s the kind of delusion that plays well in the MAGA ecosystem.

In one of the more chilling moments, Trump suggested that farmers should get to “vouch” for immigrant workers, describing them as people who “bend over all day,” hinting at a system where immigrants’ rights and futures would depend on the personal approval of farm owners. It was plantation logic repackaged for modern authoritarianism. It was, in fact, disgusting!

He capped it all off by claiming he “saved Los Angeles” from being burned down during protests by sending in the National Guard, a statement so detached from reality it’s hard to know where to start. LA was not on the verge of destruction, and the National Guard was not the decisive savior he pretends it was.

He also added that he “saved Los Angeles” by diverting water from Northern to Southern California to stop fires, boasting about ordering water released that “they weren’t letting flow.” The reality: California’s water system is not “plumbed” for a president to heroically turn a valve and flood Los Angeles with water. The water he ordered released bypassed environmental protections and ended up wasted, flowing out to sea while doing nothing to stop fires or save homes. It was another cheap brag in a speech full of them, based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how the state’s water system works.

Throughout, Trump repeated the same lies, boasted about the same imagined victories, and spewed the same conspiracies that have become his political brand. The Iowa crowd roared, not because the words meant anything, but because Trump is a performer and his audience came for the show.

It would all be funny if it wasn’t so dangerous. This speech was a reminder that Trump’s politics are built on cultish grievance, personal vengeance, and the promise of a strongman spectacle that would replace democratic institutions with his personal brand of authoritarian pageantry. It was a speech designed not to inform, but to inflame, to distract, and to keep the faithful loyal as he drags American politics deeper into the mud.

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22/06/2025

We are no longer governed. We are being produced into a reality show.

The collapse of American democratic norms has long ceased to be a backroom affair. It now operates fully in public view, feeding a constant cycle of spectacle designed for cameras, headlines, and social media loops. Governance has become theater, and the performance is accelerating.

This week offered another meticulously staged scene when Vice President JD Vance arrived in Los Angeles. Ostensibly, it was to assess federal immigration enforcement operations. In reality, it was pure theater. Vance’s visit lasted barely four and a half hours, with just over an hour inside the city itself. Local reporters were barred; only select MAGA-aligned national media were invited to the choreographed event. The true audience was never in the room.

Standing before the handpicked press pool, Vance delivered his monologue: California’s governor and mayor were to blame for making Los Angeles “open season” on federal law enforcement. He invoked violence, chaos, lawlessness, the necessary villains for the regime’s ongoing narrative of national disorder. Then, his most revealing slip came when Vance called California Senator Alex Padilla, his former Senate colleague recently detained in a highly public FBI raid, “Jose Padilla.” Jose Padilla was the name of a long-detained ‘enemy combatant’ from the Bush years, accused of terrorism. But more revealing was Vance’s casual use of “Jose” as a stand-in for any Hispanic name, a reflexive act of racial diminishment that laid bare his nativist instincts. In one stroke, Vance seamlessly fused elected officials, immigrants, and terrorism into a single category of threat, tapping into the oldest American habit of reducing brown-skinned people to interchangeable caricatures.

The Khalil case follows the same script. Immigration enforcement detained Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful U.S. resident and graduate student, for months. But his real crime was political: his pro-Palestinian activism made him inconvenient. His release, ordered by a federal judge, was immediately appealed by the Trump administration to preserve the regime’s preferred storyline: that dissent itself constitutes criminality.

The consequences of this narrative aren’t confined to press briefings. In Minnesota, State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were gunned down by a pro-Trump gunman now charged with murder. State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were critically wounded in the same attack. The gunman left behind a hit list naming dozens of Democratic officials. Across the country, elected leaders face escalating death threats, attempted kidnappings, and assassination plots, each grim act another installment in the reality TV horror show of American collapse. This is the dark ecosystem of stochastic terrorism: the regime’s public figures deliver rhetorical cues designed to inflame unstable individuals, knowing full well that violence may follow. Vance’s inflammatory remarks aren’t merely offensive, they are part of a deliberate strategy of indirect incitement, where plausible deniability masks intentional provocation.

There is a second theater playing out. A theater not of power, but of witness. A counter-spectacle that cuts directly through the regime’s carnival of cruelty.

On World Refugee Day, in San Diego, one of the most heavily targeted ICE theaters of operation, a quiet act of human defiance broke the spell. At the direction of Pope Leo XIV, who has become increasingly outspoken in condemning the Trump regime’s brutal crackdown on migrants, Bishop Michael Pham, himself once a Vietnamese refugee, led a coalition of priests and clergy into the federal courthouse where ICE agents had routinely stalked migrants. These agents were notorious for hiding behind pillars and bathrooms, seizing people after court hearings, often in front of terrified families. But on that day, the clergy stood silently beside migrant families called to appear. There was no chanting, no slogans, no violence, just presence. The ICE agents, who had been lurking in corners and waiting outside bathrooms, retreated. No one was detained, no one was tackled. The boot prints on the walls remained, but the agents vanished. A priest described it like Moses parting the Red Sea. The sheer power of moral witness.

This is what authoritarianism fears most: not violence, but visibility.

The Trump regime’s use of force depends on shadows. It relies on secrecy, masked agents, and spectacle unchallenged. Its power thrives when it controls the frame. But when unarmed clergy walk into the shot, the mask slips. The entire apparatus, designed to project overwhelming power, reveals itself as fragile, dependent on intimidation and concealment.

Every authoritarian system understands it must control not only action but narrative. For this reason, Trump dispatches Vance to Los Angeles with handpicked cameras. That is why ICE agents wear masks while pummeling migrants in parking lots. That is why the regime depends on a constant supply of images portraying blue cities as war zones requiring federal occupation.

But moral witness is a different kind of theater, one that does not rely on coercion. The clergy’s silent presence dismantled the ICE spectacle without a single confrontation. Their refusal to participate in the regime’s production turned the scene into something else entirely: an exposure.

The question now is whether more Americans will become witnesses. Not merely spectators. Witnesses.

Authoritarianism is always, ultimately, theater. Its greatest weakness is the presence of those who refuse to play their assigned roles. Who stand, quietly, unarmed, in the middle of the stage and refuse to flinch.

The collapse proceeds. The scripts grow more grotesque. But the possibility of resistance remains, not in louder shouting, but in refusing to exit the frame. In standing beside the vulnerable. In breaking the illusion that power is inevitable.

Carpe Momentum.

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22/06/2025

Good morning! Last night, the United States crossed yet another line. Acting unilaterally, with no congressional authorization, no formal declaration of war, and no meaningful consultation with allies, Donald Trump ordered B-2 bombers and submarine-launched cruise missiles to strike Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Twelve 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs rained down on the mountain facilities; Tomahawks followed. The strikes were announced by Trump himself on Truth Social only after American planes safely cleared Iranian airspace.

Then, in a moment staged for maximum authoritarian theater, Trump delivered a formal address from the White House, flanked by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, a tableau that might as well have been titled “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.” He thanked Netanyahu before his own generals, declared the Iranian facilities “obliterated,” and warned Tehran that if they fail to make peace, future strikes will be “far greater and a lot easier.” At no point did he offer evidence of an imminent threat to the United States. The War Powers threshold remains unmet.

The immediate response was predictable, yet no less dangerous. Iran’s foreign minister declared the strikes a grave violation of the UN Charter, international law, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Tehran now claims full legal justification for retaliatory action “at a time and place of its choosing.” State television is already threatening American civilians and military assets worldwide. U.S. military briefings acknowledge that Iranian proxies and foreign terrorist cells may target American facilities and civilians abroad and at home. Oil tankers are scrambling to exit the Strait of Hormuz amid fears of closure.

Iran, however, had seen this coming. In the days leading up to the attack, it quietly moved sensitive nuclear material out of harm’s way, minimizing the immediate radiological risk. Early assessments from Tehran suggest that the bombings may have inflicted surface damage but failed to significantly degrade deeply fortified enrichment capabilities, especially at Fordow, buried nearly 80 meters underground. What Trump is now selling as a decisive victory may prove to be largely cosmetic.

Then came the development Trump and his dwindling cadre of serious national security advisors feared: Russia signaled that it may move to support Iran directly. If Putin operationalizes this, even modestly, Trump will have transformed what he framed as a limited symbolic strike into a dangerous multi-front confrontation with both Moscow and Tehran aligned against Washington.

Inside the United States, political fallout is immediate. Senator Chris Murphy called the strikes unconstitutional, reckless, and a gift to the permanent war industry. Senator Bernie Sanders called it a gross violation of the Constitution. Representative Ro Khanna and Senator Tim Kaine renewed demands for an immediate War Powers vote. AOC went further, calling for impeachment. Even libertarian Republican Thomas Massie declared flatly: “This is not constitutional.”

What little unity Trump enjoyed inside MAGA is fracturing again. JD Vance reportedly opposed the strike in pre-bombing White House deliberations, yet stood behind Trump during the speech, now fully tethered to this decision. Steve Bannon’s nationalist faction is openly furious. Right-wing influencers who once worshipped Trump are now declaring they will vote Democrat in the midterms to signal disgust at his betrayal of his non-interventionist promises. On the live streams of Trump’s base, comments flooded in: “Why are we fighting for Israel?” and “Trump should have listened to Bannon.” The isolationist right and antiwar left are beginning to overlap in their fury.

Meanwhile, Fox News, fully embracing its role as state propaganda organ, declared that Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for launching the strikes.

Internationally, the G7 summit, already tense after Trump’s disruptive antics, is now in open diplomatic crisis. European leaders are livid. They were neither informed nor consulted. Macron, Scholz, Carney, and Kishida are coordinating responses behind the scenes. For years, diplomats have quietly feared this moment: the day America’s internal authoritarian crisis would break containment and explode onto the global stage. Trump just handed Russia and China a perfect wedge.

And so, as war clouds gather, an unspoken shift has begun: the G7 is now, in reality, a G6+1. The six democratic nations, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Japan, and Italy, are struggling to hold together a framework of international law, climate cooperation, and economic stability, while the United States, under Trump 2.0, lurches into rogue-state behavior. Formal expulsion won’t come. Irrelevance will accumulate. The G6 will move forward; Washington will find itself more isolated, more unstable, more dangerous.

And while bombs fall and alliances fray, the planet itself records our accelerating collapse. Scientists from Oregon State University published their 50,000-year Antarctic ice core study. Tiny bubbles trapped in ancient ice reveal that while natural CO2 levels have risen periodically throughout prehistory, today’s human-driven emissions are surging at ten times the fastest rate previously recorded. The very oceanic systems that once absorbed our excess carbon are beginning to fail under shifting winds and rising temperatures.

Strongmen come and go, authoritarian regimes eventually fall, but the atmosphere remembers.

History will record many things about this weekend. One of them may be that this was the day the G7 quietly became G6+1.

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