T-Paine 07-30-2025 No Seriously, We All Need to Shut Up and Talk About Gaza Already I remember 9/11 in the same way I remember most of the second grade: sweat shops. Keep Reading... T-Paine 07-23-2025 Trump touts “biggest trade deal ever” - but who really wins? This week, Donald Trump announced what he called a “massive trade deal” with Japan: a 15% reciprocal tariff and $550 billion in promised investments. Headlines flew. Markets jumped. And yet again, the working class was nowhere in the fine print. Keep Reading... T-Paine 07-23-2025 We Stan Marge: MTG Breaks Ranks Over Israel with Rare Truth-Telling Yes, you read that right. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene—yep, MTG on the House floor—did something absolutely unthinkable: she called out U.S. policy on Israel by name. Keep Reading... T-Paine 07-17-2025 The Lawsuit That Disappeared: The Allegations Against Trump and Epstein You Were Never Meant to Hear In 2016, a federal lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of New York by a woman using the pseudonym Katie Johnson. The complaint alleged that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted her in 1994 — when she was just thirteen years old. Keep Reading... T-Paine 07-16-2025 The Fixer: Pam Bondi’s Career of Corruption Comes Full Circle When news broke that Attorney General Pam Bondi was sitting on the Epstein client list, conspiracy theorists rejoiced. Finally — justice, they said. Finally, the names. Keep Reading... T-Paine 07-12-2025 "Arrest These Slimeballs:" ICE Given Authroity to Crush Protests Donald Trump has just ordered ICE and federal agents to arrest anyone protesting immigration raids —"using whatever means necessary." That includes rock‑throwing, brick‑throwing, even spitting. Like always, his message is clear: protest = rebellion, and rebellion must be quashed. Keep Reading... T-Paine 07-07-2025 Storm Warning: They Knew, But They Cut Anyway When nearly 100 people drowned during the July 4th floods in Central Texas, the storm wasn’t the only thing that had been forecast. For years, meteorologists and emergency planners had warned: the National Weather Service is crumbling. Keep Reading... T-Paine 07-07-2025 Big Beautiful Bill, Small Ugly Republicans: How Trump's Budget Sells Your Health to the Rich They called it "big" and "beautiful." We call it what it is: a plan to rip over $1 trillion from Medicaid and Medicare - programs you, your parents, and your kids rely on - and hand it over to the richest Americans through new tax breaks. Keep Reading... T-Paine 07-04-2025 The Long Coup: A Timeline of Sabotage Happy Independence Day, America. You're not free. This Fourth of July, while the grills fire and the flags wave, the machine of authoritarianism grinds forward- built in Trump's first term, empowered under Biden's failed watch, and unleashed fully under Trump 45. Keep Reading... T-Paine 06-20-2025 Trump Threatens to Arrest Governor Newsom This week brought an authoritarian escalation: President Trump publicly endorsed the idea of arresting California Governor Gavin Newsom amid the crackdown in Los Angeles. Keep Reading... T-Paine 06-19-2025 Ohio Republicans Move to Undermine Voter-Legalized Marijuana In November 2023, the people of Ohio made themselves perfectly clear. With 57% of the vote, they chose to legalize adult-use marijuana under Issue 2. But predictably Ohio’s Republican lawmakers signaled they had no intention of letting the will of the people stand unchallenged. Keep Reading... T-Paine 06-18-2025 The Bonfire Starts at Home In 2025 America, the book burnings start small. Portage County's own Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski has now publicly encouraged his supporters to burn copies of The Portager, one of the county's only independent newspapers. Keep Reading... T-Paine 06-17-2025 The Walls Close In It's not paranoia. It's pattern recognition. In the span of just a few days, three deeply troubling events unfolded across America- each a signpost along the road to something darker. Keep Reading... T-Paine 06-09-2025 Resistance Is Always Possible Los Angeles burned first. But this time not literally, but politically. Protests are erupting, spreading like fire through the streets, against the Trump administration's deployment of federal troops. Keep Reading... T-Paine 06-01-2025 A Short History Of Modern Ohio Let's get this out of the way: Ohio didn't always wear jackboots. But you wouldn't know that from what it's become. Keep Reading... T-Paine 05-31-2025 What Is Fascism, Really? Forget the clean textbook definitions or the way high school teachers lump it into things that happened in Europe before the good guys won. Keep Reading...