The Burb Report

01/05/2026

2026 brings new tax rules that strategically swipe at charitable giving and nonprofit organizations.

Since 2022, far-right voices like Christopher Rufo have bragged about their goals to dismantle nonprofit organizations and put their employees out of work.

Weaponizing the concept of “welfare” and nonprofits is also evident in the Minnesota child care propaganda. As we’ve observed, they find one reason to pull funding from an entire category. They also widen the messaging to make ANY form of “taxpayer” giving sound wasteful.

Now, citizen donors to nonprofits will have a higher giving floor to receive tax deductions, which will dissuade small-figure donors.

12/09/2025

The latest manufactured transphobic crisis intends to bolster far-right politicians. Instead, the publicity stunt highlights how Trump’s restrictive Title IX rule is the real concern for girls and women eveywhere who remain unprotected from legitimate sexual harassment and assault.

Propaganda, politicians, and grifters manufactured a crisis involving a high school volleyball player, but the publicity stunt hurts everyone. What the facts show is that the real danger to women’s sports is a complex and very restrictive Title IX policy that leaves K-12 girls and college women vu...

11/05/2025

Five reasons why MAGA lost on election night. The reality is, life in the burbs and rural communities isn’t matching the chest-beating vibe from Washington D.C.

Voters are slowly clearing their way through propaganda, disinformation, and memes to realized they’ve been duped and don’t like Project 2025.

Democrats swept the November 2025 election, leaving Conservatives asking what went wrong. Project 2025 intended to solidify the government's control. Instead, it exposed the danger of designing a movement around resentment and White Christian Nationalism instead of results.

10/14/2025

The Cruel Kids, indeed. POLITICO published the exclusive story detailing the new leaked chat from young Republican organizers.

They joke about ethnic and racial slurs, and how cruel they’re being.

The magazine cover below is from a post-inauguration story.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146

10/14/2025

Cuts to the Department of Education and staff overseeing Special Education are triggering alarm bells nationwide. As families explain the devastating impact, the Trump administration is banking on these cuts to advance the dark agenda within Project 2025.

Slashing Special Education bolsters the Project 2025 agenda to phase out support for students with disabilities or who require supplementary resources.

10/13/2025

Taylor Swift’s latest album release has sparked a wave of disinformation, from “trad wife” narratives and accusations of racism to troll-driven outrage.

The coordinated chaos aims to divide her fan base and diminish her cultural influence. Political operatives have a growing number of tools and tactics to achieve their goal.

Taylor Swift’s latest album release has sparked a wave of “trad wife” narratives, accusations of racism, and troll-driven outrage. The coordinated chaos aims to divide her fan base and diminish her cultural influence. Some Swifties attribute the divisive discourse to right-wing political strat...

04/14/2025

The First Amendment protects the right to publish information and ideas. The same freedoms that allow citizens to post opinions, memes, information and critiques across social media are the same that protect American Freedom of the Press.

Signaling a shift toward fascist autocracy and control of our media platforms, the national and local press are being continually threatened by the Trump Administration.

Situation:
National and local media are under attack, jeopardizing the existence of local TV news, newspapers, and online websites. Trump is implementing funding cuts, revoking media access from government buildings, initiating lawsuits, and sowing harmful disinformation about the media to grow distrust. Social media founders from platforms like Meta and X have eliminated fact-checking resources, causing a drastic uptick in widespread foreign-originating disinformation, memes, and user profiles.

Latest Examples:
Donald Trump is calling on FCC Chair Brendan Carr to revoke CBS’s broadcast license following a 60 Minutes episode critical of him. “They should lose their license!” Trump wrote, adding that he hopes the Federal Communications Commission will “impose the maximum fines and punishment, which is substantial.”

The Trump administration is also urging a federal appeals court to block an order requiring the Associated Press to be reinstated into the Oval Office press pool rotation—unless the White House can provide a nondiscriminatory reason for excluding them.

15 percent of X accounts that praise President Trump and criticize President Biden are fake.

75% of Facebook users do not read below a news headline.

What to Do:
Contact your federal representatives in the Senate and Congress to demand they protect the First Amendment for all Americans, including Freedom of the Press. Allow truthful reporting, information sharing, and access to government buildings and meetings.

Support and subscribe to your local news sources, including TV, radio, newspaper, and online sites.

Share about rampant, intentional disinformation exploding online and efforts to trample the First Amendment. Use AdFontes media bias charts to share centered information. https://adfontesmedia.com/

Sources:

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/donald-trump-launches-major-attack

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/meta-says-it-will-follow-x-replace-fact-checking-with-community-notes

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-trump-biden-disinformation-335ed5bf57996b66bc387497a7efdbb9

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4683952-fake-x-accounts-posting-about-presidential-election-are-proliferating-says-new-research/

02/16/2025

Inciting violence isn’t limited to insurrections. Rhetoric by our administration and the architects of Project 2025 are making targets of transgender individuals, and washing away the ability to distinguish these murders as hate crimes.

Manufactured culture wars are killing real people and costing us billions.

New York State Police have charged five people with murder in the killing of a missing man who authorities said died following repeated acts of violence and torture for more than a month by multiple individuals who later discarded his body in a field.

02/16/2025

This is why corporate DEI rollbacks are so disturbing.

In 2021, Business Insider explained that Russ Vought and Citizens for Renewing America called critical race theory a radical theology that will "socially replace" and lead to discrimination against white people.

"In other words, because people of color were discriminated against in the past, white people, including children in schools, need to be discriminated against now in order to make up for it and let African Americans catch up.

Telling white Christian suburban mothers to “fight for the survival of America” with these school and DEI attacks is truly making them fear being socially replaced by Black Americans.

CEO’s, are you playing into Great Replacement Theory fearmongering?

Citizens for Renewing America believes critical race theory will "socially replace" white people.

02/13/2025

We’re keeping an eye on Target’s performance in more ways than one. The retailer is arguably the most shocking brand among those to drop their DEI commitments. For years, they’ve been a vocal advocate for marginalized communities.

As anti-DEI activists cheer the move and progressive and diverse shoppers boycott, where does this leave Target?

https://www.theburbreport.com/post/the-dark-reality-of-corporate-dei-rollbacks

02/09/2025

Calls to protect girls and women overlook a troubling reality: our new administration just made them more vulnerable than ever before.

Here's how "operation manipulation" convinces people to advance billionaires' goals at their own expense.

Conservative billionaires and President Trump are banking on the vilification of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, Black Americans, and 1.6 million transgender individuals to clear the path for privatization—a goal they have pursued for 60 years.

02/09/2025

Corporate DEI rollbacks have dark intentions that prompt essential questions for the executives announcing them. How much more of Project 2025 do they support?

Corporate DEI rollbacks are prompting boycotts but CEOs owe us answers about how many rights they support rolling back.