The Truth About the C. I. A.

[BTW: CENSORHIP IS REAL NOW]: 

Apologies to the author, I copied the text from a FB post but the author information had disappeared when I tried to get his name...I did not verify his assertions but present them here as I saw them. 

'The CIA wasn’t built by military intelligence professionals. It was built by Wall Street lawyers and bankers whose firms trace directly to the Rothschild network. 

Every connection below is documented.

1875: The Rothschilds, acting through their New York banking partner Jacob Schiff at Kuhn, Loeb & Co., begin financing John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, Edward Harriman’s railroad empire, and Andrew Carnegie’s steel empire. Kuhn Loeb becomes the Rothschilds’ primary American representative. Schiff is later described in Congressional testimony as “the financial minister to the great impersonal power known as Standard Oil.”

1885: Paul Warburg marries Nina Loeb, daughter of Kuhn Loeb’s founding partner. His brother Felix Warburg marries Frieda Schiff, the only daughter of Jacob Schiff — Kuhn Loeb’s senior partner and the Rothschilds’ point man in America. Both Warburg brothers join as partners at Kuhn Loeb. Before coming to New York, both trained at N.M. Rothschild & Son in London. The two families — Warburg and Schiff — now control the Rothschilds’ American bank through marriage.

1911: The Dulles brothers — Allen and John Foster — are working at Sullivan & Cromwell, the most powerful corporate law firm on Wall Street. Sullivan & Cromwell’s most important client is Rockefeller’s Standard Oil — the company Kuhn Loeb financed with Rothschild money. John Foster Dulles’s wife is Janet Pomeroy Avery — a first cousin of John D. Rockefeller Jr. The CIA’s future architect is married into the family that the Rothschilds’ bank built.

1920s-1930s: Sullivan & Cromwell represents IG Farben — the chemical conglomerate that will later supply Zyklon B to Nazi death camps — and Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steelworks). Allen Dulles becomes a director of J. Henry Schroder Bank, which sits directly on the connection line between N.M. Rothschild London and the New York banking network. He also becomes a director of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1927. The future CIA director is simultaneously embedded in Rothschild-connected banking and the policy organization that will shape American foreign affairs for the next century.

1927: Eric Warburg — son of Max Warburg of the Hamburg banking dynasty — does business with Sullivan & Cromwell. He has previously apprenticed at N.M. Rothschild & Son in London. The Dulles brothers and the Warburgs now operate in the same transatlantic financial network, connected through the same law firm, the same banks, and the same family marriages.

1933: Allen Dulles meets Adolf Hitler in Berlin on State Department duty. He writes to his brother John Foster reassuring him that conditions under Hitler’s regime “are not quite as bad” as feared. Sullivan & Cromwell continues representing German corporations well into the Nazi period. The firm is profiting from both sides of what will become the deadliest war in human history.

1942: Allen Dulles joins the Office of Strategic Services as station chief in Bern, Switzerland. He uses his position to protect Sullivan & Cromwell clients on both sides of the war, smuggling their money through Swiss, Austrian, and Italian banks. He recruits the psychologist Carl Jung into the OSS. His mistress, Mary Bancroft, is simultaneously an OSS spy and a patient of Jung’s.

1945: Dulles offers SS General Karl Wolff protection from prosecution at Nuremberg in exchange for cooperation. Operation Paperclip begins importing 1,600 Nazi scientists — including men who used concentration camp slave labor and experimented on prisoners — into American weapons programs. The moral framework is established early: the CIA will protect war criminals when it serves strategic interests.

1946: General Vandenberg recruits Allen Dulles — now back at Sullivan & Cromwell — to draft proposals for a permanent intelligence agency. Dulles forms an advisory group of six men. All but one are Wall Street investment bankers or lawyers. They include Kingman Douglas and Paul Nitze from Dillon, Read & Co. — a firm whose founder socialized directly with John M. Schiff, senior partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Meanwhile, Dulles and Donovan create the World Commerce Corporation — a private intelligence front — with British intelligence chief William Stephenson and Nelson Rockefeller. A private spy network funded by the banking elite, operating before the CIA even exists.

1947: The National Security Act creates the CIA. Dulles has been closely involved in its design from the beginning. All seven known deputy directors of the early CIA come from the same New York legal and financial circles. Six are listed in the New York Social Register. The CIA is a Wall Street creation wearing a government badge.

1950: Lewis L. Strauss — a partner at Kuhn, Loeb & Co. for two decades — becomes financial adviser to the Rockefeller family. He later heads the Atomic Energy Commission, controlling America’s nuclear policy. A Kuhn Loeb partner overseeing American nuclear weapons. Kuhn Loeb is the Rothschilds’ American bank. The same network that built the CIA now controls the bomb.

1953: Allen Dulles becomes the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence. His brother John Foster Dulles is simultaneously Secretary of State — having served 15 years on the Rockefeller Foundation board and as its chairman. The National Security Council includes both Dulles brothers alongside Lewis Strauss of Kuhn Loeb. Two brothers from one law firm and a Rothschild-network banker running American foreign policy, intelligence, and nuclear weapons simultaneously.

1953: The CIA’s first major operation — overthrowing Iran’s democratic government in Operation Ajax. MI6 murdered Iran’s chief of police and dumped his body publicly as a warning. CIA-paid agents bribed politicians, clerics, military officers, and journalists. After the coup, Sullivan & Cromwell — Dulles’s own law firm — negotiated the redivision of Iran’s oil. BP retained 40%. American oil companies got significant shares. The CIA director’s law firm collected fees on the oil deal his agency made possible.

1953: The CIA creates MKUltra under Dulles’s direction. Sidney Gottlieb oversees 149 sub-projects across 80 institutions. The CIA operates brothels in San Francisco and New York where agents dose unwitting men with LSD and watch through one-way mirrors. At McGill University, Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron drugs patients into weeks-long comas, plays recorded messages on loop, and administers massive electroshock — many suffer permanent brain damage. The CIA pays $375,000 to build a wing at Georgetown University Hospital in exchange for access to “human patients and volunteers for experimental use.”

1954: The CIA overthrows Guatemala’s democratic government in Operation PBSuccess. The coup protects United Fruit Company’s land holdings. Sullivan & Cromwell had represented United Fruit. The CIA director’s law firm’s client gets to keep its land because the CIA director overthrew the government that threatened it. Guatemala descends into a 36-year civil war. 200,000 people die. The UN later determines the military committed genocide against the Mayan indigenous population.

1960: The CIA allocates $100,000 to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the Congo’s first democratically elected Prime Minister. A CIA officer is dispatched with poison. Lumumba is tortured and killed. Mobutu takes power, ruling as a brutal dictator for 32 years while Western mining companies extract the Congo’s cobalt, copper, and uranium.

1961: The Bay of Pigs invasion fails. Kennedy fires Dulles. Kennedy reportedly says he wants to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” Two years later, Kennedy is assassinated. Dulles is appointed to the Warren Commission investigating the killing — the man Kennedy fired now investigating the death of the man who fired him. Despite knowing about multiple CIA assassination plots against Castro that could implicate Cuban retaliation, Dulles never mentions them during the investigation.

1962: The Joint Chiefs of Staff approve Operation Northwoods — a plan to stage terrorist attacks on American soil, bomb American cities, and sink refugee boats, all to be blamed on Cuba to justify invasion. Kennedy rejects it. The document is declassified in 1997.

1964-1973: The CIA runs a secret war in Laos without Congressional knowledge. Air America — a CIA front airline — flies weapons in and, according to multiple investigations, opium out. Laos becomes the most heavily bombed country per capita in history. 270 million cluster bombs are dropped. 80 million remain unexploded today, still killing farmers and children.

1965: The CIA provides the Indonesian military with kill lists of suspected communists. The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta checks off names as people are executed. Between 500,000 and 1 million people are killed in the purge.

1973: CIA Director Richard Helms orders the destruction of all MKUltra files. Sidney Gottlieb personally oversees the shredding. The program is only discovered because a small cache of financial records survives in a different filing system.

1973: The CIA helps overthrow Chile’s democratically elected President Salvador Allende. Pinochet takes power. 3,000 people are killed. 30,000 are tortured. 200,000 go into exile. Operation Condor — a CIA-supported coordination of six South American dictatorships — kills an estimated 60,000-80,000 people across the continent.

1980s: The CIA funds Afghan mujahideen through Pakistan’s ISI in the largest covert operation in Agency history — $630 million per year by 1987. Resources flow to the most radical Islamist factions. The program creates the networks that later produce the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

1980s: The CIA arms Contra rebels in Nicaragua. When Congress bans funding, the Reagan administration secretly sells weapons to Iran and funnels proceeds to the Contras. CIA-backed Contras traffic cocaine into American cities. Journalist Gary Webb documents the connection to the crack epidemic devastating Black communities. Webb is professionally destroyed by the same media outlets with documented Mockingbird-era CIA relationships. He later dies of two gunshot wounds to the head, ruled a suicide.

2001: Despite tracking two future hijackers to a meeting in Malaysia in January 2000, the CIA fails to notify the FBI or add them to watchlists. The August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Brief is titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.” September 11 happens. The CIA’s Afghan blowback comes home.

2002-2009: The CIA operates black site prisons across multiple countries. Abu Zubaydah is waterboarded 83 times. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is waterboarded 183 times. Detainees are subjected to sleep deprivation for up to 180 hours, confined in coffin-sized boxes, slammed into walls, and subjected to rectal feeding. The 2014 Senate Torture Report concludes the program produced no unique intelligence and the CIA systematically lied about its effectiveness. The only person imprisoned is John Kiriakou — the whistleblower who exposed it. The torturers are never charged.

2003: CIA Director George Tenet tells President Bush the case for Iraqi WMDs is a “slam dunk.” The intelligence is fabricated. The key source, “Curveball,” later admits he made it all up. The Iraq War kills over 4,400 Americans and an estimated 200,000+ Iraqi civilians. Cost: over $2 trillion.

The chain:

N.M. Rothschild (London) trained the Warburgs. The Warburgs married into Kuhn Loeb (New York). Kuhn Loeb financed Rockefeller. Rockefeller’s law firm was Sullivan & Cromwell. Sullivan & Cromwell’s partners were the Dulles brothers. The Dulles brothers built the CIA. Allen Dulles sat on the board of J. Henry Schroder Bank — directly connected to Rothschild on every banking chart. The advisory group that designed the CIA included partners from Dillon Read — who socialized and did business with the Schiffs of Kuhn Loeb. The head of the Atomic Energy Commission was a Kuhn Loeb partner. They all sat together on the National Security Council.

Rothschild to Warburg to Kuhn Loeb to Rockefeller to Sullivan & Cromwell to CIA.

That’s not six degrees of separation. That’s a direct pipeline. And once it was built, the CIA overthrew democracies, protected Nazi war criminals, dosed civilians with LSD, operated brothels for blackmail research, provided kill lists for mass murder, trafficked drugs into American cities, armed the networks that became al-Qaeda, tortured prisoners in secret prisons, fabricated evidence for a war that killed hundreds of thousands, and prosecuted the one man who told the truth about it.

Every name above is real. Every date is documented. Every connection is in the public record. The question was never whether a shadow government exists. The question is whose interests it was built to serve — and the banking records answer that question.

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Want to read more about the Rothschild family? I wrote a 6000 word Facebook post last week and you can find it on my profile.'

 

Measuring Humanity: We kept our head down and did the work

It seems that my generation is dying out. We have a reputation as those who were focused on daily living, but we were more than that.

I am part of the Silent Generation in the United States of America and proud to be so.

'The Silent Generation refers to the demographic cohort born between 1928 and 1945. Positioned between the "Greatest Generation" and the "Baby Boomers," they are often characterized by their upbringing during the Great Depression and World War II...While the "Silent" label suggests a generation that kept its head down, their actual contributions to the mid-20th century were transformative. They didn't just witness history; they provided the intellectual and artistic backbone for the most significant shifts in modern society.' from Gemini AI

Most of us fought on two fronts: victory over Fascism and Communist/Socialism abroad and racism at home.

Both were actively trying to kill us, 24/7. We were their enemy.

Fascism offered stability, but delivered chaos and death. Socialism offered consideration for the well being of individual people more that did Free Market Capitalism which did not. But Socialism failed to provide the benefits it promised and collapsed in about 1990. Now we recognize that Capitalism and Free Market economies are better for most people, even though there are real problems in Capitalist free market societies: inequality, corruption and resulting policies favoring the ultra rich and wage market failure to provide decent livings for many.

Racism turned into Jim Crow tactics including lynching and church bombings, but we fought them as hard as we could. Some of us died. We were able to expand voting rights and we felt good about that. 

We kept our head down and did methodical work to create better lives for most. The stakes were very high. And, the efforts took whatever we had to offer and then asked for more. At least our kids had safety at home even though we had to live through the duck and cover drills in case of the Bomb. 

My focus has been on the economics of Communism and Socialism before and during the Cold War. The promise of Socialism enticed the populations of many countries to try that model as offered by the Soviet Union instead of the Free Market Capitalism model the United States offered. Both sides were aggressive in offering their model; that aggression killed many people on both sides. Finally the Socialist model in Russia collapsed in the late 1980's; that collapse left no doubt about the superiority of the Free Market model for most of the world's population. However, in Russia, governance turned away from offering Socialism as good for all the people and turned instead into a kleptocratic dictatorship. 

The United States of America has morphed into a nascent kleptocratic dictatorship similar to Russia under Putin. I hope we can end that and then restore our Democratic Republic.

Today in 2026 and in order to install the popular appeal of Socialism into a Free Market Capitalistic system, I have suggested installing an empathetic economic system to make most people's lives better. That system has detailed policy and practice proscriptions centered on the concept of creating the most jobs in a country as a means toward the end of creating better lives for people. 

My detailed suggestions are presented in my book EMPATHY IN ECONOMICS: THEORY, PRACTICE AND POLICY, Mike P. McKeever author, 2026, Amazon Kindle books.

 

The 'Silent' Generation Was Too Loud

According to Gemini, we produced some of the most influential figures in modern history, particularly within the Civil Rights Movement and the arts.

The Silent Generation refers to the demographic cohort born between 1928 and 1945. Positioned between the "Greatest Generation" and the "Baby Boomers," they are often characterized by their upbringing during the Great Depression and World War II.

Size: It is one of the smallest generations of the 20th century, largely due to the economic hardships of the 1930s and the uncertainty of the war years, which led to lower birth rates.

The "Silent" Moniker: The term was popularized by a 1951 Time magazine article. It suggests a generation that focused on working hard, playing by the rules, and keeping their heads down rather than leading mass protests or seeking the spotlight.

Economic Context: Many entered the workforce during the post-WWII economic boom, benefiting from the rise of the middle class, the GI Bill, and the expansion of the suburbs.

Notable Contributions

Despite their "silent" reputation, this generation produced some of the most influential figures in modern history, particularly within the Civil Rights Movement and the arts:

Civil Rights Leaders: Figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Gloria Steinem were all part of this cohort.

Cultural Icons: They shaped the mid-century cultural landscape, including Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and most of the original Beatles.

Political Impact: While they are the only generation in modern U.S. history not to have produced a President until much later (Joe Biden is a member of the Silent Generation), they have held significant institutional power for decades.

Contributions to social change, cold war, civil rights, popular music, protests, literature, jazz, pop music,

While the "Silent" label suggests a generation that kept its head down, their actual contributions to the mid-20th century were transformative. They didn't just witness history; they provided the intellectual and artistic backbone for the most significant shifts in modern society.

1. Civil Rights and Social Change

Members of the Silent Generation were the primary architects and foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement. Growing up during the Jim Crow era and WWII, they applied the "double victory" (victory over fascism abroad and racism at home) to the U.S. legal and social landscape.

Leadership: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and John Lewis were all "Silents."

The Strategy: They utilized highly organized, disciplined non-violence and legal challenges to dismantle segregation.

Feminism: The "Second Wave" of feminism was led by women of this era, such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan, who questioned the domestic constraints of the 1950s.

2. The Cold War and Geopolitics

This cohort came of age as the Iron Curtain fell across Europe. They were the young soldiers in the Korean War and the early advisors and officers in the Vietnam War.

Technological Race: They were the engineers and astronauts behind the Space Race. Figures like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (both born in 1930) represented the peak of this generation's technical discipline and bravery.

Political Stability: They were known for valuing institutional stability, often working within the system to manage the nuclear tensions of the era.

3. Literature and The "Beat" Movement

The Silent Generation produced a literary rebellion against the perceived blandness of post-war life.

The Beat Generation: Writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg provided the "cool" counterpoint to the era's conformity, exploring Eastern philosophy and spontaneous prose.

The New Journalism: Authors like Joan Didion and Truman Capote revolutionized non-fiction, bringing a deeply personal and stylistic lens to reporting.

4. Music: From Jazz to the Birth of Rock

The transition from big-band swing to the raw energy of rock and roll was navigated entirely by the Silent Generation.

The Evolution of Jazz: The move from dance-hall swing to the complex, intellectual sounds of Bebop and Cool Jazz was led by innovators like Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

Pop and Rock Pioneers: While Boomers were the primary consumers of 1960s rock, the creators were almost all Silents. Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and all four of The Beatles belonged to this cohort.

Folk and Protest: Bob Dylan and Joan Baez used music as a vehicle for social commentary, bridging the gap between traditional folk and the burgeoning protest culture.

Key Comparisons

Field Notable Silent Generation Figures

Civil Rights Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, John Lewis

Literature Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath

Music Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin

Science/Tech Carl Sagan, Jane Goodall, Buzz Aldrin

 

Evil and Darkness Descend

We are entering a period wherein the forces of Evil and cruelty descend onto our lives. It will get worse.

We did not ask for them and we do not want them. But, Evil and cruelty are here. My life, the lives of the people I love and the lives of most people will be impacted with death, pain, suffering, disease and torment.

I will feel both despair and anger most of the day, every day until they are both gone.

Until we can collectively inflict real justice and retribution on those who create the Evil and pain, I will try to protect my loved ones and myself by recognizing that the feelings are real and valid. I promise to make any decisions after the anger and despair have subsided so I can make any decision rationally and coldly toward ensuring those responsible suffer retribution equal to the misery they bring to others.  

Buckle. The fuck. Up.

Michael Parisi - Anti-fascist and proud

Iran has just ordered Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE to evacuate their energy facilities. The missiles are coming. They named the fucking targets on live television.

This is what 5D chess looks like when Donald Trump plays it. The guy walked up to the board, threw his queen straight into the middle, and got taken by a fucking pawn. And now he's sitting there telling everyone he's winning while the board is on fire and the table is collapsing.

Israel, with full US backing, bombed Iran's South Pars gas field today. The largest gas field on Earth. 70% of Iran's domestic gas supply. Shared with Qatar. All burning. And Iran's response? Cool, we're going to blow up every refinery from Riyadh to Doha. Here's the list. You've got a few hours. Run.

Now let's talk about oil. Because you're being lied to.

The headlines say Brent crude is at $103, $108. That is not the real fucking price. That's one benchmark. The actual aggregate global oil price, what people are really paying for crude right now, is sitting between $120 and $130 a barrel. That's the number they don't put on the front page because it would start a fucking panic.

Iranian officials have said openly they will push oil to $200. An Iranian economics professor said $300. Three weeks ago that sounded insane. Today it sounds like a fucking calendar reminder.

The IEA just confirmed this is the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. The largest. Ever. Gulf production has been cut by 10 million barrels a day. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. A fifth of all the world's oil used to flow through there. Used to.

And here's what $200 oil means for you personally.

97% of everything you touch, eat, wear, and use involves crude oil. Your food. Your medicine. Your plastic. Your fertiliser. Your transport. Your heating. Even your tomatoes from the farmers market. Grown with petroleum fertiliser. Picked by blokes who drove there in trucks made from crude oil. Delivered on diesel. Wrapped in petroleum packaging. That little sticker on the tomato? Petroleum.

When oil doubles, everything doubles. When it triples, civilisation starts to wobble. This isn't a recession. This is a fucking seizure.

You know what caused the Great Depression? Tariffs. Stock markets at all time highs. Reckless speculation. Sound familiar? We've got all of that. Plus an oil crisis that 1929 didn't have. This is the Great Depression with a turbocharger bolted to it.

And the slow-motion part is what kills you. This is one of those disaster movies where you see the shockwave rolling outward in slow motion. Glass shattering. Faces changing from confusion to terror. Everything stretching out in this surreal, horrible, beautiful slow-motion moment. That's right now. On every trading floor, every petrol station, every supermarket supply chain on Earth. The shockwave is moving. You can see it. And nobody can stop it.

Today alone, Israel ass@ssinated Iran's intelligence minister. Third senior official in two days. Iran fired multi-warhead missiles and cluster munitions at Tel Aviv. Two dead. The Bushehr nuclear plant took a hit. Dubai Airport got hit. The Australian base in the UAE got hit. Expats are fleeing Dubai on $250,000 private jets and abandoning their dogs in the fucking street.

Iran has spent 25 years digging tunnels, building underground drone factories, hiding missile launchers in caves along the entire coastline. America is dropping 5,000 pound bunker busters and Iran is still firing hundreds of drones and missiles every single day. You're not winning. You're punching a hornets' nest and bragging that the nest has a dent in it.

Meanwhile the Fed meets today and they're completely fucked. Can't cut rates because inflation is about to go nuclear. Can't raise rates because the economy is already cracking. Gold is at $5,000 an ounce. American petrol prices have jumped 86 cents in 18 days. That's not a spike. That's a vertical fucking line.

And we're only on Day 19.

This is what happens when 77 million people look at a convicted felon, an adjudicated r@pist, a twice-impeached insurrectionist who hid classified documents next to the shitter, and say yeah, give him the nuclear codes. What's the worst that could happen?

This. This is the worst that could happen.

Donald Trump didn't play 5D chess. He didn't even play checkers. He walked into the room, knocked the board off the table, shit on the floor, and declared victory. And now 8 billion people who never got a vote are going to pay for it at the petrol pump, at the supermarket, in their heating bills, and in their fucking retirement savings.

The wheels of disaster grind slowly. The bombs make the news but the economics make the history books. $200 oil doesn't kill you in a fireball. It kills you at the checkout.

Buckle. The fuck. Up.

Stop Measuring Growth. Start Measuring Humanity

 

 

Stop Measuring Growth. Start Measuring Humanity️

My new book: Empathy In Economics

Mainstream economics has a blind spot. We’ve focused so much on "Aggregate Supply" and "Capital Efficiency" that we’ve ended up with a world of stagnant wages, vanishing unions, and a political imbalance that favors the few over the many.

My new book, EMPATHY IN ECONOMICS, is the result of a 65-year journey to fix this broken lens.

Inside the book:

·         The 35-Policy Framework: A checklist for empathy in any political structure.

·         Global Analysis: Deep dives into the economic performance of 50+ nations.

·         The Jobs Theory of Growth: Why GDP is a hollow metric if it doesn’t create dignified work.

It’s time to move past the "Great Depression" mindset and build an economy that actually works for the people living in it.

 

Artificial Intelligence Retirement (AIR) Benefit

Seems the Billionaire rich boys want to replace educated working folks with a computer program. After all, the program does work for pennies, and those workers are really expensive. So, they'll lay off all of the pricey workers and make a lot more profits. It's the American way - lower labour costs and pocket the savings. 

As to what happens to the laid off workers, well, they'll just have to find their own way. It's a free market after all; they have lots of choices. It's not our problem.

BUT: That is NOT the American way.

We can do better, for the workers and for everybody. We all hurt when any large group hurts.

Let’s do this to balance the scale:

Congress passes a law which requires that every employee who is laid off and replaced by AI will receive 100% of his or her salary and benefits for a time equal to their time on the job up to a maximum of two years. During that time, they will be free to make any other plans they can. Any non-compete agreement is nullified. They are not required to come to the workplace for more than one day per week, and then, only if they agree to a request.

Call your Congressperson.............

EVIL Is Here. Call It Out. Resist It.

 

 Today in the United States of America we experience chaos and confusion and violence directed at us by our own government. Every day we experience historical and perhaps Biblical levels of EVIL. Somehow we are confused and/or afraid to call it for what it is. It is EVIL.

 

And, it is real; both LOVE and EVIL are real things in the world.

 

EVIL is like pornography in that it is hard to define, but we recognize it easily when we see it. We see and experience it every day. And, yet we hesitate to call it what it is. That hesitation is a mistake.

 

When we recognize EVIL, but we do not call it out and resist it, then we enable EVIL to spread.

Our duty is then clear – call out and resist EVIL whenever and wherever we see it.

 

About HATE: is HATE EVIL? I do not think that HATE is anything but a feeling which is not EVIL inherently but only becomes EVIL when a person who holds the HATE acts upon it to harm the person or persons who are the objects of the feeling.

 

Mankind has faced and resisted EVIL since the beginning of time. Today EVIL is still hard to define although it is easy to recognize.

 

One of the better definitions of EVIL is from a US Army Psychologist assigned to study what we could learn from the former Nazis at the Nuremberg trials after World War II. Here is what he said: 'In my work with the defendants [at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949] I was searching for the nature of evil, and now I think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think is the absence of empathy.'  Captain G. M. Gilbert, the army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials.

 

As a guide to further study, below are short discussions of some of the major religions characterizations of EVIL.

THE BIBLE:

Here’s what the Bible says about EVIL from Gemini, ‘Since the Bible was originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, "exact" wording can vary by translation. For these quotes, I have used the New International Version (NIV), as it balances modern scholarship with readability.’

 

1. The Fall of Humanity

 

Genesis 3:4–5 - "“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”"

 

 

2. The Nature of the Adversary

 

Job 1:7 - "The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, ”From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”"

 

3. The Corruption of the Human Heart

 

 

Jeremiah 17:9 - "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?"

 

4. The Prosperity of the Wicked

 

Psalm 73:12 - "This is what the wicked are like—always free of care, they go on amassing wealth."

 

5. The Strategy Against Evil

 

Romans 12:21 - "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."

 

 

6. The Spiritual Dimension

 

Ephesians 6:12 - "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."

 

7. The Progression of Temptation

 

James 1:14–15 - "But each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death."

 

8. The Groaning of Creation

 

Romans 8:22 - "We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time."

 

 

9. Victory Amidst Trouble

 

John 16:33 - "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

 

10. The Ultimate End of Evil

 

 

Revelation 21:4 - "‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."

 

The Quran

 

 

Here’s what the Quran says per Gemini: ‘In the Quran, the nature of evil is not viewed as an independent power or a "dark side" of the divine. Instead, it is framed as a functional part of the world's design—a tool for testing, a consequence of free will, or a lack of good. Here is a breakdown of how the Quran defines and explains evil:

 

 

1. Evil as a Test (Fitnah) - The Quran suggests that life is a deliberate "testing ground" where both good and bad are used to refine the human soul.

 

The Verse: "Every soul will taste death. And We test you with evil and with good as a trial; and to Us you will be returned." (Quran 21:35)

 

The Concept: Evil (pain, loss, or temptation) serves as a means for humans to demonstrate patience (Sabr) and reliance on God.

 

 

 

2. The Choice of the Soul (Nafs)

 

Evil is often portrayed as something "self-inflicted" or chosen by the human ego (Nafs). The Verse: "Whatever of good reaches you is from Allah, but whatever of evil befalls you is from yourself." (Quran 4:79)

 

The Concept: While God creates all possibilities, the choice to commit an evil act belongs to the individual. In this sense, evil is the result of misusing the gift of free will.

 

 

 

3. The Role of the Accuser (Shaitan) - Unlike the "fallen angel" narrative in some traditions, the Quran identifies Iblis (Satan) as a Jinn who was created with free will and chose to disobey God out of pride.

 

The Verse: "He [Satan] said, 'Because You have put me in error, I will surely sit in wait for them on Your straight path.'" (Quran 7:16) - The Concept: Satan has no power to force humans to do evil; he can only suggest, whisper, and tempt. The Quran emphasizes that he has "no authority" over those who remain mindful of God.

 

4. Responding to Evil with Good - One of the most distinct Quranic ethics is the instruction to break the cycle of evil rather than retaliating.

 

The Verse: "And not equal are the good deed and the bad. Repel [evil] by that [deed] which is better; and thereupon the one whom between you and him is enmity [will become] as though he was a devoted friend." (Quran 41:34) - The Concept: Evil is seen as something that can be neutralized by proactive virtue.

 

 

5. The "Privation" of Good

 

 

Many Islamic theologians, drawing from the Quran, describe evil not as a "thing" that God creates, but as a "lack" of something—much like darkness is simply the absence of light.

 

The Concept: For example, a lie is the "absence" of truth; cruelty is the "absence" of mercy. In this view, God is the source of all "being" (which is good), and evil arises where humans distance themselves from that source.

 

 

Buddhism

 

 

 

Per Gemini: ‘In Buddhism, the concept of "evil" is viewed differently than in Western monotheistic religions. Instead of a cosmic battle between a Creator and a Devil, the Buddha focused on Akusala (unwholesome actions) and Avijja (ignorance). To the Buddha, evil isn't an external entity—it is a psychological state that leads to suffering.’

 

1. The Three Roots of Evil (The Three Poisons) - The Buddha taught that all harmful actions spring from three specific "poisons" in the human mind. If you remove these, "evil" ceases to exist.

 

 

Greed (Lobha): Attachment, craving, and the desire to possess.

 

Hatred (Dosa): Anger, ill-will, and the desire to destroy.

 

Delusion (Moha): Ignorance or a clouded mind that cannot see the true nature of reality.

 

 

2. Evil as "Unskillfulness" (Akusala)

 

The Buddha often used the word Kusala (skillful) or Akusala (unskillful) instead of "good" and "evil."

 

The Concept: An "evil" act is simply an "unskillful" one. It is a mistake made by someone who doesn't understand that their actions will cause future pain for themselves and others. The Quote: "An evil deed is better left undone, for a misdeed torments one later." (Dhammapada, 312)

 

 

3. The Internal Origin

 

The Buddha was firm that no one can "make" another person evil, nor can they "purify" another.

 

The Verse: "By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one purified." (Dhammapada, 165) - The Meaning: Responsibility is 100% internal. You are not a "sinner" by nature; you are a person who chooses actions that either lead to peace or lead to turmoil.

 

 

4. Mara: The Personification of Temptation

 

While Buddhism doesn't have a "Satan," it does have Mara.

 

The Role: Mara is a celestial being who represents the distractions of the senses and the fear of death. - The Nature: Mara isn't trying to "win" a soul for hell; he is trying to keep the mind trapped in Samsara (the cycle of birth and death) by tempting it with temporary pleasures.

 

 

5. The Law of Karma

 

In the Buddha’s teaching, "evil" isn't punished by a judge. It is "punished" by the natural law of cause and effect. - The Analogy: If you walk in the mud, your feet get dirty. If you think or act with a "dirty" (hateful) mind, suffering follows you just as the wheel of a cart follows the hoof of the ox.

 

 

Red Book of Mao

 

Per Gemini: ‘In the Little Red Book (officially Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung), the concept of "evil" is not framed in religious, moral, or metaphysical terms. Mao does not speak of "sin" or "demons." Instead, "evil" is defined strictly through the lens of Class Struggle and Political Obstruction. To Mao, anything that hinders the progress of the Proletarian Revolution or harms the interests of "the masses" is what a Westerner might categorize as "evil."’

 

 

1. Evil as "The Enemy" - Mao simplifies the world into two camps: the people and the enemies of the people. Evil is personified by specific political classes.

 

The Concept: Evil is identified as Imperialism, Feudalism, and Bureaucratic-Capitalism. These are the "Three Great Mountains" that oppressed the Chinese people. - The Quote: "Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution." (Chapter 1)

 

 

2. Evil as "Reactionary" Forces - Mao characterizes "evil" as a stubborn, regressive force that refuses to give way to the new socialist order. He famously argues that these forces will not disappear on their own; they must be actively swept away.

 

The Quote: "Everything reactionary is the same; if you don't hit it, it won't fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish of itself." (Chapter 2)

 

 

3. Evil as Internal "Liberalism" - Mao also identifies "evil" within the revolutionary movement itself. He calls this Liberalism, which he views as a "corrosive" that eats away at unity and discipline.

 

The Concept: Acts like "failing to report someone's wrongdoing because they are a friend" or "working half-heartedly" are viewed as moral failings against the state. - The Quote: "Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension." (Chapter 24)

 

 

4. The "Paper Tiger" Nature of Evil- A core theme in Mao’s thought is that while evil forces (like Imperialism) appear terrifying and powerful, they are fundamentally weak because they lack the support of the masses.

 

 

The Quote: "All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful." (Chapter 6)

 

5. The Removal of Evil through "Purification"

 

Mao believed that "evil" thoughts (Bourgeois tendencies) could be cured through "rectification" and "criticism/self-criticism." He used a medical metaphor for dealing with ideological "evil":

 

The Quote: "Our aim in exposing errors and criticizing shortcomings is like that of a doctor curing a sickness; the whole purpose is to save the patient, not to doctor him to death." (Chapter 27)

 

 

Hinduism

 

 

Per Gemini: ‘In Hinduism, the concept of "evil" is not viewed as a singular, cosmic rebellion against God. Instead, it is understood through the lenses of Dharma (cosmic order), Karma (cause and effect), and Maya (illusion). Because Hinduism is a vast family of traditions, its explanation for evil ranges from the psychological to the mythological.’

 

 

1. Adharma: The Violation of Order - The closest Sanskrit equivalent to "evil" is Adharma. While Dharma is that which sustains the universe (righteousness, duty, and natural law), Adharma is that which unbalances or destroys it.

 

The Concept: Evil is not an independent "thing," but rather a state of being out of alignment with the divine order. The Verse: "Whenever there is a decline in righteousness (Dharma) and an increase in unrighteousness (Adharma), O Arjuna, then I manifest myself." (Bhagavad Gita 4:7)

 

 

2. The Three Gunas (Qualities of Nature) - Hindu philosophy explains human behavior through three fundamental "strands" or qualities called Gunas. "Evil" behavior is usually the result of an imbalance of these qualities.

 

Sattva: Light, purity, and wisdom.

 

Rajas: Passion, activity, and ego.

 

Tamas: Darkness, ignorance, and inertia.

 

The Application: Destructive or "evil" acts are seen as the result of a mind dominated by Tamas (delusion and laziness) or distorted Rajas (greedy ambition).

 

 

3. Evil as "Avidya" (Ignorance) - Like Buddhism, many Hindu schools (especially Advaita Vedanta) argue that "evil" stems from a lack of knowledge.

 

The Concept: We commit harmful acts because we suffer from Maya (illusion). We incorrectly believe we are separate from others and the Divine. This "ego-sense" leads to desire, fear, and eventually, violence. - The Solution: Evil is "cured" by Jnana (spiritual wisdom/realization of the Self).

 

4. Karma: The Self-Correcting System

 

In Hinduism, there is no eternal "Hell" overseen by a Devil. Instead, the universe is governed by Karma. - The Mechanism: Every action (Karma) produces a fruit (Phala). An evil act is essentially a "bad investment"—it creates suffering for the doer in this life or the next. - The View: Evil is seen as a temporary deviation. Eventually, through the cycle of Samsara (rebirth), every soul is expected to learn, exhaust its bad karma, and return to its source.

 

 

5. Asuras: The "Demons" of Myth - Hindu mythology features Asuras, often translated as "demons." However, unlike Western demons, Asuras are not inherently "fallen" or irredeemable.

 

The Nature: Many Asuras are depicted as powerful, highly intelligent, and even devout. Their "evil" is usually their unbridled ego and their attempt to seize power from the Devas (gods). - The Lesson: The battle between Devas and Asuras is often interpreted as an allegory for the battle within the human heart between our higher and lower impulses.

 

 

 

To The Troops: Stand Down

United States military forces are the most effective in the world. To reach his goals, Trump relies on obedience from all the individual members of the Armed forces from the top to the bottom of the Command structure. He has and will continue to use your valor, skills and courage to achieve his goals. If you stand down then he cannot do what he wants.

Here's why you should disobey orders from the Trump Administration:

His orders are Unconstitutional 

It is highly likely that Presidential orders from him will be unconstitutional since he has said explicitly that he does not recognize the Constitution and instead insists that all subordinates, like you, obey only his orders and not the Constitution.

You have a Duty to Disobey

You have a duty to disobey an unconstitutional order as you agreed to do when you swore your oath to the Constitution. It's highly likely that Trump orders will be unconstitutional.

You have no protection if you commit a crime.

If you follow all his orders there is a high probability you will commit crimes. Some of the crimes you may commit will not be protected under the law or from his pardon, if he decides to grant you a pardon. Any presidential pardon for an illegal act can protect you from only Federal crimes. All other crimes are not subject to his pardon power. If you kill anyone due to your following his orders, you are not immune from charges of murder; and, murder charges do not have a statute of limitations - they will follow you for the rest of your life.

Trump orders will be unconstitutional

When you follow his orders, you are committing treason against the Constitution of the United States. You are liable personally for any act you commit against that Constitution. Already Democrats are organizing a Nuremberg style panel of judges to try and convict persons who commit crimes against the Constitution.

Trump is an agent of Vladimir Putin and a Traitor to the United States

DO NOT trust President Trump; he is a traitor and an agent of Vladimir Putin. As a Putin agent, his job is to destroy the institutions which uphold our system of laws. 

This administration is filled with child predators

In addition to Trump's job as Putin's agent, he is an integral part of a wide-ranging system of child abuse. That Evil group has routinely raped, beaten, tortured, killed and then eaten children. See the photo below:

Finally, you will become an enemy of the People of The United States of America when you follow his orders.

Just in case that you are not convinced to disobey orders from this evil and corrupt administration; you must know this:

Know this as you deliberate whether to or not to obey an illegal order: IF YOU CHOOSE TO FOLLOW AN ILLEGAL ORDER AND YOUR ACTIONS RESULT IN AMERICAN CITIZENS BEING HURT OR KILLED, I AND OTHERS WILL BECOME YOUR PERSONAL MORTAL ENEMY EVEN THOUGH WE ARE NON-VIOLENT. ONCE YOU CROSS THAT LINE, OUR DUTY TO OUR CONSTITUTION AND OUR COUNTRY WILL BE TO KILL EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU REGARDLESS OR WHERE YOU ARE AND WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE IN UNIFORM.

If I die, I will do so defending my home and my family against YOU.  

Our Very Own 'differently abled blitheringly incompetent' Child

 

He, Trump, is now the 'differently-abled blitheringly incompetent' child we let mow the grass outside all day.

He can't run things anymore; so, now our very critical job is to take back our country by neutralizing all the EVIL Hitler-worshipping traitors who call the shots and dictate policy today, including but not limited to: Miller, Vought, Vance, Musk, Suckerberg, Bezos, Ellison, Palantir, Thiel and all the other unelected Fascist thugs. 

Here's the background from: It's a Lovely Life 

by Heather Delaney Reese, February 22. 2026

'Just after 6:30 p.m. tonight, the President of the United States stood before a room of governors at a formal White House dinner and opened his remarks by confessing that he believes his own Cabinet or maybe others in the room want to overthrow him.

“Every time they look in the mirror, every time they wake up or go to sleep, they look at that mirror, and they say, ‘I should be president, not him.’” 

And he said it with a slight smile. But there was nothing funny about it. It was raw paranoia on display for the world to see. And whether the fear was real or imagined, most presidents would have known how dangerous it is to say those words out loud. He didn’t. And the spectacle of what he said then, and the rest of his extended ramblings, deepened the sense that something is profoundly wrong.

It was also on display when he entered the room to the sound of “Pomp and Circumstance,” walking down the red carpet lined with military members and flags, where Melania had to hold his hand tightly, smiling widely to distract from his physical and mental decline. She subtly guided his pace, aligning his path and direction, steadying him when his body seemed stiff and unsure. Her grip was firm in contrast to his careful, almost hobbling movements.

When they reached the table, she was the one who greeted the governors. She shook hands. She carried the conversation. He lingered half a step behind her, his left hand pressed against the small of her back, his right hanging motionless at his side. He looked diminished and smaller than usual. And more than once, you could see concern in the eyes of the people watching him.

As Melania sat down, he made his way over to the podium, where he made that fateful Cabinet remark before continuing with the rest of his speech. In it, he recited the same propaganda lines he’s been repeating for weeks, almost word for word. Which makes sense, since it appears he’s just reading whatever was placed in front of him, instead of acting as the true leader of policy and decision-making.

And what was placed in front of him was embarrassing. Not just for him, but for the country.

He called Melania his “movie star wife,” “You know, now I can say my movie star wife; you believe this. I have to live with now another title.” An overplayed nod to her $40 million Amazon documentary.

He launched into a story about the Great Salt Lake that sounded like a man trying to work out, in real time, where a major body of water was located, despite the fact that it shares its name with the city right next to it. “We’re going to save the Great Salt Lake. You know that, right? We’ve got a problem,” he said. “He came in to see me today. These are the kind of things he said, sir: we have to save the Great Salt Lake. I said, ‘Explain this to me, please.’ In that city called Salt Lake City, somebody said, ‘Where is it located?’ I said, ‘It’s located in Salt Lake City, right?’” That was the President of the United States, standing in front of a camera, openly questioning the location of one of the most well-known landmarks in the American West.

Then came the 2020 election. Again. Because it always comes back to that. “When the election was rigged and I missed my normal second term,” he said. “I was the one that got the Olympics, and I was the one that got the World Cup. The problem was I was gonna be president for another four years, and this was going to take place.” And then, with what appeared to be genuine frustration: “I took credit for the Olympics. I took credit for the World Cup, and I’m trying to take credit for the 250 years, but I’m not getting away with it. I’m getting hammered. I’m getting hammered.” He was talking about the founding of the United States. Not just the anniversary. The founding. And he sounded genuinely frustrated that no one would let him take personal credit for something that happened 250 years ago.

Then he turned to the press. “Now we’re with some very special reporters tonight. It’s… I often say the fake news, but I will not say that tonight, even though I’m on live television. I will not call you fake news, okay, as the cameras are roaring.” And he pressed on. “The press has been relatively fair to me over the last year, meaning they’ve been bad but not horrible.” Then he floated a strange idea: that the governors should vote on whether to allow the press to stay for the musical performance planned later in the evening. “If you’d like, should we, by vote, allow the press to watch the great finale that we have planned tonight with the musicians?” It was extremely odd, and the room went quiet as it shifted uncomfortably. No one seemed to know whether to raise their hand, respond, or simply look away.

Much like his presidency, the speech was confused, unsettling, and deeply chaotic.

And when you watch that speech, and see how he is given the same talking points over and over again, at nearly all of his public appearances, and he seems fine with it, it begs the question, what if he doesn’t even know that he’s being fed the same topics because nobody in his inner circle believes he can handle more than that? And what if he truly doesn’t understand the extent of his own decline, or what they are doing?

We’ve all seen those moments, like when he turned to his doctors on camera, not too long ago in the Oval Office, and said, “Real fast,” turning to the doctors in the room. “Is my health perfect?” And his doctor, Jones, replied: “Your health is excellent, sir.”

What if Stephen Miller, or whoever is really pulling the strings, has convinced the people around him to keep the truth from him? What if the cover-up isn’t just for us? What if it’s for him, too? We might be giving Trump too much credit by assuming he’s actively hiding his condition. He may not know. And the people who do know have every reason to keep it that way, because the moment the performance ends, so does their grip on power and their pipeline to profit.

So that raises the harder question: how does this end?

Not in the broad sense of Democrats taking back Congress. I mean: how does this chapter close? When does this era get its last entry? Because the truth is, history tells us that the ideology behind what we’re living through doesn’t just go away when one man leaves office. There will always be people who are drawn to cruelty and power.

This chapter ends when we make it end. It ends when Democrats take back control AND when every single person who enabled this regime is held accountable. Not with a slap on the wrist. Not with a “let’s move forward and heal.” With trials. Real ones. The kind we haven’t seen since the Nuremberg trials that were conducted by serious people with the moral clarity and legal authority to match the scale of what has been done.

And that means every layer. It means investigating how Trump’s family increased their wealth while in office. It means asking real questions about Melania’s $40 million Amazon documentary, which looks less like a film deal and more like a bribe. It means asking how Cabinet members like Kristi Noem are affording extensive cosmetic work, designer clothing, and lifestyles their government salaries could never support. Where is that money coming from? And if it’s coming from their positions of power, from the public dollar, then it’s not just unethical. It could be criminal. This is why we need hearings. It all must come to light.

That includes every agency head and every ICE officer who carried out raids that violated people’s rights. Every single one of them must face accountability under the law.

We also need to make sure that convicted felons can never again hold the highest office in the land. That should not be a controversial statement. But here we are.

The pendulum is going to swing. And this time it’s going to swing farther than we’ve ever seen. And when it does, we cannot waste it. We must hold every enabler accountable. We must make changes to the systems that allowed this to happen.

Because part of the reason we’re here is that we never fully dealt with the darkest chapters of our own history. We never truly reckoned with slavery, Japanese internment camps, the genocide of Native American communities, and the systemic theft of their land. We’ve acknowledged them. And we’ve halfheartedly apologized decades later. But we never did the deep structural work to make sure the systems that allowed those atrocities couldn’t be reactivated. And now they have been. ICE detention centers. Family separations. Government-sanctioned cruelty carried out in our name. This is not new evil. It’s old evil in new uniforms. And it will keep coming back until we pull it out by the root.

I think about that a lot. Especially from my time as a travel writer. When I was on location in Germany, I asked people how they live with the history, how they carry it. And the answer was always the same: it’s a burden they bear to make sure it never happens again. They carry it so they don’t repeat it. It’s in the architecture. It’s in the memorials. It’s in the education system. It’s not something they got over. It’s something they committed to never looking away from.

I also think about a moment in Austria that I’ve never forgotten. I was walking down the street to quickly grab a coffee when I saw that someone had just put up Nazi propaganda on a wall. I was stunned. When I came back, maybe six minutes later, every single piece of it had been torn down, shredded, and thrown in a trash can. Six minutes. That’s all it took. Not because the police showed up, or a government agency intervened. But because ordinary people saw it and refused to let it stand.

That’s how this ends. Not with one election or one trial. It ends in the actions we take every single day and our refusal to normalize what is happening. It ends with ordinary people choosing, again and again, to tear down the hatred the moment it appears. This is the commitment each of us must make for the rest of our lives to truly end this dark chapter.

And that brings me to what we can do right now.

Support the attorneys and the legal professionals who are breaking down every executive order, every tariff maneuver, every constitutional violation so the rest of us can understand what’s happening. I spent over 8 hours today trying to understand the tariff situation alone: the legalities, what he can and can’t do, the 150-day limits, the acts he’s invoking. And I was only able to have the deeper understanding I do today because there are brilliant legal minds out there doing that work and explaining it in depth. They need our support. If you can, subscribe to them. Share their work. Make sure they can keep going.

Protect the truth. Support independent media. With the continued collapse of corporate newsrooms to Trump’s demands, it is on us to keep the truth alive. I keep my own work free so everyone can access it, and that’s only possible because of those who support it through paid memberships. Those who are able to offer support in this way are how I’m able to keep all of my posts and videos free of paywalls. But beyond my work, find the voices you trust and invest in them. Subscribe. Share. Amplify. That is how we win the war against propaganda.

Support each other. The real work begins at home, and by home, I mean in your community. Check on your neighbors. Make sure the people around you aren’t so desperate that they become easy to control, because desperate people are easier to manipulate, and they’ll vote against their own long-term interests just to meet an immediate need. That’s what this regime is counting on. Don’t let it happen.

I think back to whoever tore down those posters when I was in Austria, and I know that can be each of us. We can be the people who refuse to look away. Who act in the moment. Who tear it down before it takes root. That’s why I still have hope for America. And you should, too.

I’ll see you tomorrow,

Heather'

How Will Trump Die: Assassination, Execution, Suicide or Illness?

He wants to be a dictator for life. 

IF he stays in office, Gemini suggests four possibilities for his death:

'It’s a fascinating, if somewhat grim, corner of history. Since 1850, the "career path" of a dictator has generally ended in one of four ways: natural causes (often while still in power), execution, suicide, or dying in exile.

As the world shifted from absolute monarchies to ideological autocracies, the stakes—and the exits—became much more dramatic.

1. Natural Causes (The "Successful" Exit)

Surprisingly, many of history's most notorious figures died in bed, often surrounded by the very people who feared them.

·         Joseph Stalin (1953): Died of a cerebral hemorrhage. His inner circle was famously so terrified of him that they hesitated to call for a doctor for hours after he was found.

·         Francisco Franco (1975): After decades of rule in Spain, he died of heart failure and Parkinson’s-related complications at age 82.

·         Mao Zedong (1976): Died following a series of heart attacks.

·         Kim Il-sung (1994) & Kim Jong-il (2011): Both died of heart attacks while holding absolute power in North Korea.

2. Execution and Assassination

When regimes collapse or public anger boils over, the end is rarely peaceful.

·         Benito Mussolini (1945): Captured by Italian partisans while trying to flee to Switzerland. He was shot, and his body was famously hung upside down in a Milan square.

·         Nicolae Ceaușescu (1989): Following a brief show trial during the Romanian Revolution, he and his wife were executed by firing squad on Christmas Day.

·         Saddam Hussein (2006): Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, he was captured, tried by an Iraqi special tribunal, and executed by hanging.

·         Muammar Gaddafi (2011): Captured by rebel forces in a drainage pipe in Sirte; he was killed shortly thereafter in a chaotic scene caught on camera.

3. Suicide (The "No Escape" Exit)

When the walls literally close in, some choose to take their own lives rather than face capture or trial.

·         Adolf Hitler (1945): As Soviet forces entered Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker.

·         Getúlio Vargas (1954): The Brazilian dictator committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart after being pressured by the military to resign.

4. Death in Exile

Sometimes, a dictator is allowed to leave the country to prevent further bloodshed, living out their final days in a gilded cage elsewhere.

·         Idi Amin (2003): The "Butcher of Uganda" fled to Libya and then Saudi Arabia, where he lived comfortably for over 20 years before dying of kidney failure.

·         Baby Doc Duvalier (2014): The Haitian dictator fled to France in 1986 and lived in exile for decades before returning to Haiti, where he died of a heart attack while awaiting trial for human rights abuses.'

Gemini