Just The Facts

08/11/2025

Don’t ever let anyone convince you it’s wrong to mock, ridicule, or criticize any elected official, especially the President.

08/11/2025

Fascists are obsessed with strength and power. They only want the strongest bloodlines to survive. So they’re letting diseases spread unchecked and anyone who dies was too weak to live.

At the same time, they’re ramping up tracking and surveillance of those who are autistic, those who have miscarriages or abortions and who use birth control. Because in a genocide, those are some of the main groups who are targeted first.

08/11/2025

08/11/2025

This is how fascists take control and take power. Does anybody really expect him to give this up later?

LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/11/us/trump-news

08/10/2025

As innocent people still get abducted and trafficked across the country and across the world, it is worth reminding or teaching everyone how different immigration court really is from regular criminal court. To start with: defendants do still have a right to defense attorneys but they are not provided by the court or state. Defendants in immigration court must pay for their defense or they are on their own.

LINK: https://www.vera.org/news/immigrants-facing-deportation-do-not-have-the-right-to-a-publicly-funded-attorney-heres-how-to-change-that

LINK: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/immigrants-need-federal-defender-system/

08/10/2025

Six years ago today, I started Just The Facts because I was fed up with the empty, shallow, meaningless drivel that too much of the news is saturated with. Gossip and rumors, bickering and infighting, lies and distractions, palace intrigue, mind-numbing White House drama, propaganda and conspiracy theories.

I wanted to create a page that I would want to follow: a page that only reports on actual news, substantive stories about things that matter. I made this page with the hope that:

- It will help at least a few people (but hopefully more) become more educated, more informed and more curious and skeptical about the world around them and where they get their information
- It will also motivate them to do what they can to make the world a better, safer, more just and more equal place for everyone.

Thank you to everyone that follows this page. If you haven’t already, please hit the like button and recommend this page to your friends and family.

08/09/2025

LINK: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2025/08/07/alligator-alcatraz-construction-temporarily-halted-by-florida-judge/85565385007/

08/08/2025

You can praise Jesus and worship God all you want, I don’t care. You just can’t try to force other people to do the same.

If you want to say being white is great, go ahead. You just can’t say that white people are better than any other race.

08/08/2025

Bigoted as***le Republicans in Texas passed their newest version of a hateful, transphobic bathroom bill in the State Senate.

It now moves to the House where it faces much stronger opposition, not to mention the fact that most Democrats in the House left the state to prevent a quorum on the redistricting (see: gerrymandering) attempt.

VIDEO LINK: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNEEHr8Ry-m/?igsh=bTZ6amx1N284dDB6

NEWS LINK: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/texas-senate-transgender-bathroom-bill/ e ses

08/06/2025

Every single person in this country should be terrified and outraged over this.

LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/key-sections-of-the-us-constitution-deleted-from-governments-website/

08/04/2025

Let’s talk about cults. Why are there so many people still so devoted to supporting Trump? After the decades of racism, sexism, misogyny, sexual assault, r**e, pe******ia, every kind of fraud under the sun, multiple bankruptcies and failed businesses, Charlottesville, the babies in cages, family separations, transgender military ban, Middle Eastern travel bans, the impeachment over Ukraine, the extra votes in Georgia, January 6, the impeachment over January 6, the Mar-A-Lago documents and not to mention the entire last six and a half months. Which includes a little item known as the EPSTEIN FILES.

And what’s insane is that even though I’ve listed so much, there’s likely an entire second list of everything I forgot because there’s just too much to remember. But after ALL OF THAT, why do so many people still support him? To better understand how they’re still in the MAGA cult, we need to understand how they get there in the first place.

Cults draw in their numbers by looking appealing to the most vulnerable people, using a variety of outreach techniques including flyers stapled to telephone poles and community boards, self-help conferences, and approaching them directly on the street. Cult leaders and specific members are trained to seek out those who are lost and looking for something. Maybe it’s a place to belong, something or someone to believe in, someone to believe in them, a purpose, a reason for living. Cults can only maintain their numbers by being a place where their members either WANT to stay or they are SCARED to leave or better yet, a mixture of BOTH.

In the case of MAGA, many of the members are staying because they are truly and genuinely willing to accept anything that Trump says or does, as long as it means they get to be as racist as they want to non-white people. They are the truest of true believers. Ardent white supremacists in a death cult ready to go down with the ship, as long as black and brown people get taken down with them. Then there are those who got duped into believing that Trump would fix the economy and make other countries pay higher tariffs, because they have no idea what a tariff is, but it sounds good, and the racism is just a bonus. Higher tariffs actually mean higher taxes/prices for Americans but again, at least they get to be more racist so, a good consolation prize.

Statistically speaking, there are bound to be at least a few who have been supporting him for reasons that have nothing to do with racism. There are many reasons why they (and others) might be staying instead of leaving, aside from “the President hates immigrants as much as I do” which include fear of losing family/friends who also support Trump, fear of violent reprisals from other members, and fear/shame of admitting to themselves or being seen by others as a gullible dupe. There’s also a psychological term called Time Loss Aversion - they don’t want to admit they wasted so much time in this cult.

Here's where it gets tricky. It’s been TEN YEARS since Trump first announced his candidacy in New York City. Ten years of lies, ten years of fraud, ten years of criminal activity, ten years of insane, erratic behavior, ten years of the most anti-American, treasonous acts you could imagine and yet he still has so many followers. Clearly, showing them physical photographic evidence of what Trump has done does not work or they would’ve left long ago. Why is that? It’s because of how cults worm their way into people’s minds and create an impenetrable wall of psychological protection.

Anything that you show them will be seen as an attack on their Dear Leader. To them, trying to convince people that Trump’s name is in the Epstein Files is just further proof of the Deep State’s attempts to discredit him. It’s like a Chinese finger trap – the harder you pull, the tighter it gets. Psychologically speaking, it’s a brilliant design. It is truly a genuine self-reinforcing and self-sustaining system that is powered by the cult members’ needs to stay in the cult and/or their fear of being kicked out of it. However much they need to believe in Trump or however scared they are of leaving, that’s how hard they’ll fight to stay in.

Yes, people are constantly leaving. We’re always hearing stories about “my 70 year old conservative father finally hates Trump” or “my 80 year old neighbor finally took his flag down”. But for the most part, I’m guessing they’ve been leaving on their own. Some random person on the internet telling them they’ve been lied to will do nothing but make them angrier and push them further down the rabbit hole of denial. A family member MIGHT have an effect but there’s no guarantee.

Trump’s worst enemy is himself. He is a nuclear-grade pathological liar and astonishingly narcissistic. He can’t help but push people away and turn allies into enemies. It happens to everyone eventually and letting it progress naturally is the best way to get members out of the cult. The second-best way would be to ask former cult members give some kind of speech or intervention. Unfortunately, that has a 50/50 shot of them either being seen as having credibility by current members or being seen as a sellout to the woke agenda and liberal media.

Deprogramming cult members is a delicate process. It’s like pulling someone out of quicksand – you can’t move too fast or pull too hard because it will just fight you with the same force and pull them back in. Unfortunately, all we can do is let Trump speak, show the MAGA members that it is safe to leave the cult and they should jump ship now before they get dragged down with it.

08/03/2025

LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/admin/darren-beattie-institute-of-peace.html