Frogs Instead of Torches - Portland’s Gentlest Rebellion Since ICE Existed
There are nights when history takes a grotesque turn - and in this case, it takes the shape of frogs. While Washington argues about "uprisings" and "national security," ...
The Price of Peace - and of Anger: How Donald Trump Became a Footnote of History in Oslo
It was to be expected - and yet again a spectacle for the history books. While in Oslo the cameras were focused on a 58-year-old Venezuelan woman receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her unwavering ...
The Paycheck That Never Comes - What Happens When a Country Stops Paying Its Soldiers
Over Montgomery, Alabama, there hangs a strange heaviness these days. It is not the weather - it is the waiting. In a small house not far from Maxwell ...
The President and the Rebellion That Never Happened - Trump’s Troop Surge in Chicago Halted
It is late in the federal courthouse at the Everett McKinley Dirksen building in Chicago. The benches are full, the air is heavy, and the words Judge April M. Perry speaks ...
Journalists Defeat Trump - Court Halts Trump’s Use of Tear Gas Against Citizens and Media Representatives
As the nation watches Chicago, where Donald Trump is having the deployment of the National Guard against demonstrators defended, a decision has just been handed down that reaches far ...
Am I Crazy - or the World?
Sometimes I sit there, read the news, and wonder if maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the last one who missed the memo. Maybe the new reality ...
Hearing Turns Into a Comedy Show - Judge Puzzled by Beard Incident and Government Tactics
What began as a serious legal dispute quickly turned into a farce in a Chicago courtroom, more reminiscent of a political slapstick show than a hearing on the legality of a military ...
The President in the Empire of Absurdity - where CNN dies like a dog
It was a morning like any other in the White House - if you ignore the fact that the President of the United States nearly fell asleep during a two-hour press conference, insulted the press, ...
Voices Against Fear
It was one of those evenings when a city begins to breathe, even though everything looks as if it were holding its breath. At dusk, hundreds of people ...
Pam Bondi’s Open Folder – A Glimpse Into the Shadow Direction of the Justice Department
There are moments when power unintentionally exposes itself. One of those moments occurred during the October 7, 2025 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when Reuters photographer Jonathan ...
Judge Halts Trump’s Arrest Wave – Federal Court Declares ICE Arrests Illegal and Strikes at the President’s Core
A federal judge in Chicago has drawn a line against the Trump administration’s drive for executive dominance. In a ruling that reaches far beyond Illinois, he declared the arrest of 26 people by ...
Trump’s Call to Jail the Governor of Illinois and the Mayor of Chicago
Donald Trump has finally turned the office of the president into a political court of punishment. On Wednesday, he publicly called for the imprisonment of two elected officials – the Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, ...
How Six Supreme Court Justices Brought Back the Spirit of the Third Reich
In hardly any other institution is Donald Trump’s will to power more visible than in the Supreme Court of the United States. With an ultra-conservative six-to-three majority, ...
Lord, Bless Our Lies - When Kristi Noem Prays and Stephen Miller’s Cousin Publicly Breaks with Him
In Portland, a city that in recent months has become the focal point of American constitutional questions, a woman entered the ICE building on October 7 whose public persona has long been draped in a religious myth ...
Chicago Under Federal Command - Trump’s National Guard Marches in From Texas
What is unfolding this Tuesday in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago is more than a show of force - it is a precedent. The first units of the Texas National Guard arrived in the afternoon ...
In the Shadow of Power - How Trump and Thiel Are Building a Digital System of Control - An Investigative Report
The new security state has no pomp. It stands behind manicured hedges, wears glass facades without a nameplate, and works with data we produce voluntarily. In Vienna, Virginia, just a few miles ...
US Attorney General Bondi stands with her back to the wall - and she knows it
October 7, 2025, begins with a promise and ends with a claim. In between lies a hearing in which fewer answers were found than battle lines. Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United ...
A President Who Knows No Limits – A Commentary on the Current Situation
There are moments in history when political power no longer looks outward but turns inward - against its own country, against its own citizens ..
A President Against the Separation of Powers - Trump’s National Guard Deployment and America in a State of Emergency
What is unfolding these days in the United States is more than a political conflict - it is an open stress test for American democracy. Donald Trump has ...
The Tariff That Never Came - Trump's Truck Tactics Between Bluff and Economic Self-Deception
Donald Trump has once again postponed his latest round of tariffs - this time the announced 25 percent on medium and heavy-duty trucks. The import duties were actually supposed to take effect on October 1, together with ...
State of Siege - Illinois Sues to Stop Trump’s Deployment of Troops in Chicago
Chicago, Broadview, Springfield – on this Monday, the legal front line stretched across the Midwest. Hardly had a federal court in Oregon prohibited the deployment of National Guardsmen to Portland ...
The Invasion That Must Not Be: An Investigative Look at How Chicago Is Preparing for Trump’s War
t was a morning like many others in Washington - and yet one in which the very foundations of American democracy trembled. While the venerable Supreme Court opened its new session, in which ...
The Night a Court Defended Democracy - and a President Crossed the Line
It was shortly after midnight when Judge Karin Immergut picked up the phone. Outside in Portland, clouds of tear gas hung over a single city block, while new deployment orders were already being sent out in Washington.
Fire on Edisto Beach - Judge Goodstein’s House Destroyed, Family Injured, Investigation into Possible Arson
A massive fire completely destroyed the beach house of Judge Diane S. Goodstein in the coastal town of Edisto Beach, South Carolina, on Saturday morning. Three family members of the 69-year-old jurist were injured and had to be taken to hospitals ...
A President Against the Constitution – Trump Defies Court Ruling and Sends California’s Soldiers to Oregon
What was still seen as a legal turning point yesterday has already become obsolete today. Barely had a federal judge in Oregon prohibited the federalization of that state’s National Guard when Donald Trump reacted ...
The "Project 2025 Man" Who Is Dismantling the State and the World – An Investigative Report
Anyone walking through the well-kept suburbs of Virginia would hardly suspect that behind a row of pastel-colored houses, built in 1949, in Arlington lies the nerve center of a political radicalization. Russ Vought, ...
Trump’s Campaign Against Chicago
On Saturday morning, an unremarkable intersection in southwest Chicago turned into a reflection of American power politics. Against the backdrop of escalating immigration raids, a federal officer shot a female driver who ...
Boys, you can turn around now - federal judge stops Trump’s Portland deployment
A federal judge has put an end to the grand production: Karin Immergut, Case No. 3:25-cv-01756, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s planned federalization ...
Operation Lawn Care - Kristi Noem and the War on Portland
There are news stories that sound as if they were stolen straight from a parody show. But this is America under Trump: this is where the absurd becomes governance. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ...
Judge Strikes Hard at Trump - The Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the Revenge of the State
Sometimes the political anatomy of a government reveals itself not in grand speeches or international crises but in the quiet, paper-filled rooms of a courtroom. The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
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