These major stories dominated the news… but have since gone quiet. In the interest of staying on top of the stories behind the stories, here's an update you might have missed.
Another topic that the mainstream media (MSM) has gone quiet on is "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise," also known as Project 2025. This initiative involves several significant actions, including shutting down USAID, stopping federal funding for NPR and PBS, dismantling the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s (USAGM) journalism firewall to align its reporting with the president's aims, and rolling back student loan forgiveness and income-driven repayment plans, among others. The project is currently about 50% complete.
Some actions are still in progress, such as the elimination of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, banning mixed-status families (those with both U.S. citizens and noncitizens) from residing in federally assisted housing, and adopting a "hemisphere-centered approach to industry and energy." This includes statements from Trump regarding the U.S. control over Venezuela’s oil.
These initiatives reflect a broader agenda and have raised significant discussions and concerns about the implications for various sectors of society.
Other proposed changes that have yet to begin include making Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option, relaxing child labor regulations to allow "teenage workers" to take on "inherently dangerous jobs," and eliminating the Head Start program, to name a few.
Additionally, an important issue that has not remained in the public eye is what Senator Mark Warner wrote in an opinion piece for The New York Times on March 31, 2026: "Trump Is Trying to Override Our Voting System." He recently appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss this topic further. “Report Exposes a Trump Scheme to Override Midterm Vote with Bogus Crisis”, which can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak__tRF8PnM.
I’m apolitical. The Trump regime has been evolving into an authoritarian regime similar to that of Viktor Orban in Hungary. Orban, Hungary’s former autocratic leader, collaborated with the Heritage Foundation (the crafters of Project 2025) to formulate a plan to keep Trump or Christian Nationalist in power. Since Orban has been voted out of office, it appears there has been a regime change, which has given people hope that a similar outcome could occur here. We’ll see.
These stories are left behind because they are psyops. Any of these stories left out in the open for too long will be torn to shreds with the slightest scrutiny. The ICE raids for example where supposedly two civilians were killed, were staged events, no one died, they were all crisis actors. When you finally wake up to the fact that this is all a production meant distract, enrage, divide and conquer, then you are free. Stop participating in the charade.
I find it strange how these news stories have been de-emphasized in the perpetual sensationalist news cycle. I don't know who is directing what the public is allowed to see these days, and why. It seems like another form of subtle manipulation mostly hidden from view and I have to wonder who controls it and if it's deliberate or just a function of journalistic funding and advertising.
Canada's public safety deputy minister has recently declared "alternate media" a top concern for the liberals and lauded the Emergencies Act to quash freedom convoy protesters in a speech in Stockholm.
They want to create and control the narrative unimpeded, and are brazenly condoning censorship and lawfare while using taxpayer money to fund the state sponsored news: (CBC).
They must be really afraid of the unfavorable and damning news that might come out and having to be accountable I guess.
The strange thing that I can't get my head around is how many people are still blind to this reality, perfectly content to suck up the propaganda they spew.
I disagree. People are not content to suck up the propaganda. They actively search out propaganda that confirms their biases. Rather than the idea of information silos, I look at it as information cocoons that people wrap themselves in.
The public's media consumption is not like Malcolm McDowell strapped in a chair with his eyes forced open in A Clockwork Orange. Our media consumption is self directed. We choose what we click on. We choose what channel we watch. We choose what newspaper or magazine we buy. we set the station on the radio. It is the drug that gives us the dopamine hit when our viewpoints are confirmed.
The stranglehold that the media had has been gone for decades now.
So do you think our choices are only a reflection of our inate bias? Maybe we've been led here like a herd of lemmings following the leader over a cliff.
Maybe we're suseptible to information warfare, and not taught critical thinking so we choose the easiest (dopamine fueled) path.
The thing about being biased, is that we're not seeing the alternate views that don't jive with our bias. We prefer not to see those things, there's no dopamine hit in that.
I can understand that, but my own bias is to be skeptical and critical, even if it doesn't feel good.
It seems like you both might be seeing the same coin from two different sides.
The point, ultimately, is that while we may think we "choose" what we click on (David Kirtley’s point), algorithms are specifically designed to feed us content that mimics our existing biases to keep us engaged. In that sense, "choice" is a bit of an illusion because the menu is curated to trigger our specific responses.
Apparently (from what I learned in grad school in Linguistics), there’s a brief window of opportunity during human brain development to become a “critical thinker.” This window of opportunity roughly corresponds to the same age range for developing native proficiency in a language, especially native pronunciation - pretty much slammed shut pre-adolescence, 10-12 or thereabouts.
Another way to make sense of “closed mindedness” is to understand it as conveying an evolutionary advantage (to the closed minded). Briefly, & taking the long view of these past 5,000-10,000+ years of Intensive Agricultural Civilization, the Western Christian Enlightenment period egalitarian idealism is a **modern miracle**, and a USA style Bill of Rights, again a modern miracle.
It’s a common, everyday miracle that we non-millionaire working people intuitively sense that slavery is wrong, & that the subjugation of women is wrong, & that exploiting labor is wrong - again, such 16th-19th century egalitarian idealism is new, revolutionary thinking, & a modern miracle in the context of the Agrarian Revolution, from the New Stone Age to present. (But we take it for granted in the USA 😂.)
It’s a modern miracle because we, today, are the descendants of 5,000-10,000+ years of intolerable living conditions:
• chronic overwork
• chronic malnutrition & ill health & disease
• short brutal lives
• perpetual deprivation of what we, modern Western Christian Enlightenment civilization would consider basic human rights,
which is definitive of agricultural civilization since the Dawn of Agriculture in the New Stone Age.
In brief, turning your mind off, & your heart off, & turning your Mother Natural human sensibilities off would convey an advantage to reproductive success on down through the millennia of civilized intensive plant-centered dieting socioeconomic systems (aka farming).
It’s a miracle that any one of us still retains his Natural ability for “critical thinking.” After 5,000-10,000+ years of mind crushing & soul sucking slavery & serfdom, it’s a **miracle**.
that “critical thinking” hasn’t been bred entirely bred out of us yet (like sheep & chickens, for example).
Some of us didn’t take the clot shot. Some of us risked **all** to preserve our Natural freedom that Western Christian Enlightenment talks about, like the US Bill of Rights for example.
We are like pigs & horses, who readily go feral & thrive in Nature (reproductive success as feral farm animals!) despite millennia of domestication.
… I interpret this a hopeful sign for humanity. All is not lost (yet 😂). If “critical thinking” can be awakened in some of us later in life, and even if we forever ‘speak’ it as a second language & with an accent (because we missed Mother Nature’s window of opportunity for brain development), then maybe many of our fellow sheep & chickens can graduate to pig & horse someday.
And I have hope that the internet will be the technology that wakes people up 👍🙂❤️ … just like our sociopathic Ruling Class once tried to but lost control of the printing press … but this time those sociopaths will fail on an even grander scale, globally!, and with farther reaching consequences 👍🙂❤️
That may help keep us locked-in but all media sources are playing the same game, and rightly so. The engagement of the viewer is the real metric that keeps the lights on for journalism. Journalists need to eat, too.
The only real solution is to create content that adds value to people's lives. It doesn't really matter that we have our own "Pravda" that is feeding the narrative. The Soviet's were not buying it either.
It is a tricky thing to suss out. Most news sources are quite accurate most of the time. That makes the lies more believable. Whether it is Pravda, the New York Times, Fox news, PBS, or independent media, the reporting is mostly accurate, but it just has enough spin on it to make it veer where people want it to go.
The current media insanity is a new phenomenon where they have gone off the deep end with their Trump Derangement Syndrome. Yes, he is flawed, but not everything he does is wrong. As they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day. That's the way democracy works. You don't always get the person you prefer elected. If you want a better person in power, provide a more electable candidate. Every President in my lifetime has done things that are bad.
Another topic that the mainstream media (MSM) has gone quiet on is "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise," also known as Project 2025. This initiative involves several significant actions, including shutting down USAID, stopping federal funding for NPR and PBS, dismantling the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s (USAGM) journalism firewall to align its reporting with the president's aims, and rolling back student loan forgiveness and income-driven repayment plans, among others. The project is currently about 50% complete.
Some actions are still in progress, such as the elimination of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, banning mixed-status families (those with both U.S. citizens and noncitizens) from residing in federally assisted housing, and adopting a "hemisphere-centered approach to industry and energy." This includes statements from Trump regarding the U.S. control over Venezuela’s oil.
These initiatives reflect a broader agenda and have raised significant discussions and concerns about the implications for various sectors of society.
Other proposed changes that have yet to begin include making Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option, relaxing child labor regulations to allow "teenage workers" to take on "inherently dangerous jobs," and eliminating the Head Start program, to name a few.
Additionally, an important issue that has not remained in the public eye is what Senator Mark Warner wrote in an opinion piece for The New York Times on March 31, 2026: "Trump Is Trying to Override Our Voting System." He recently appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss this topic further. “Report Exposes a Trump Scheme to Override Midterm Vote with Bogus Crisis”, which can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak__tRF8PnM.
I’m apolitical. The Trump regime has been evolving into an authoritarian regime similar to that of Viktor Orban in Hungary. Orban, Hungary’s former autocratic leader, collaborated with the Heritage Foundation (the crafters of Project 2025) to formulate a plan to keep Trump or Christian Nationalist in power. Since Orban has been voted out of office, it appears there has been a regime change, which has given people hope that a similar outcome could occur here. We’ll see.
These stories are left behind because they are psyops. Any of these stories left out in the open for too long will be torn to shreds with the slightest scrutiny. The ICE raids for example where supposedly two civilians were killed, were staged events, no one died, they were all crisis actors. When you finally wake up to the fact that this is all a production meant distract, enrage, divide and conquer, then you are free. Stop participating in the charade.
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I find it strange how these news stories have been de-emphasized in the perpetual sensationalist news cycle. I don't know who is directing what the public is allowed to see these days, and why. It seems like another form of subtle manipulation mostly hidden from view and I have to wonder who controls it and if it's deliberate or just a function of journalistic funding and advertising.
Canada's public safety deputy minister has recently declared "alternate media" a top concern for the liberals and lauded the Emergencies Act to quash freedom convoy protesters in a speech in Stockholm.
They want to create and control the narrative unimpeded, and are brazenly condoning censorship and lawfare while using taxpayer money to fund the state sponsored news: (CBC).
They must be really afraid of the unfavorable and damning news that might come out and having to be accountable I guess.
The strange thing that I can't get my head around is how many people are still blind to this reality, perfectly content to suck up the propaganda they spew.
I disagree. People are not content to suck up the propaganda. They actively search out propaganda that confirms their biases. Rather than the idea of information silos, I look at it as information cocoons that people wrap themselves in.
The public's media consumption is not like Malcolm McDowell strapped in a chair with his eyes forced open in A Clockwork Orange. Our media consumption is self directed. We choose what we click on. We choose what channel we watch. We choose what newspaper or magazine we buy. we set the station on the radio. It is the drug that gives us the dopamine hit when our viewpoints are confirmed.
The stranglehold that the media had has been gone for decades now.
Good point. We choose the news, so to speak.
So do you think our choices are only a reflection of our inate bias? Maybe we've been led here like a herd of lemmings following the leader over a cliff.
Maybe we're suseptible to information warfare, and not taught critical thinking so we choose the easiest (dopamine fueled) path.
The thing about being biased, is that we're not seeing the alternate views that don't jive with our bias. We prefer not to see those things, there's no dopamine hit in that.
I can understand that, but my own bias is to be skeptical and critical, even if it doesn't feel good.
It seems like you both might be seeing the same coin from two different sides.
The point, ultimately, is that while we may think we "choose" what we click on (David Kirtley’s point), algorithms are specifically designed to feed us content that mimics our existing biases to keep us engaged. In that sense, "choice" is a bit of an illusion because the menu is curated to trigger our specific responses.
Apparently (from what I learned in grad school in Linguistics), there’s a brief window of opportunity during human brain development to become a “critical thinker.” This window of opportunity roughly corresponds to the same age range for developing native proficiency in a language, especially native pronunciation - pretty much slammed shut pre-adolescence, 10-12 or thereabouts.
Another way to make sense of “closed mindedness” is to understand it as conveying an evolutionary advantage (to the closed minded). Briefly, & taking the long view of these past 5,000-10,000+ years of Intensive Agricultural Civilization, the Western Christian Enlightenment period egalitarian idealism is a **modern miracle**, and a USA style Bill of Rights, again a modern miracle.
It’s a common, everyday miracle that we non-millionaire working people intuitively sense that slavery is wrong, & that the subjugation of women is wrong, & that exploiting labor is wrong - again, such 16th-19th century egalitarian idealism is new, revolutionary thinking, & a modern miracle in the context of the Agrarian Revolution, from the New Stone Age to present. (But we take it for granted in the USA 😂.)
It’s a modern miracle because we, today, are the descendants of 5,000-10,000+ years of intolerable living conditions:
• chronic overwork
• chronic malnutrition & ill health & disease
• short brutal lives
• perpetual deprivation of what we, modern Western Christian Enlightenment civilization would consider basic human rights,
which is definitive of agricultural civilization since the Dawn of Agriculture in the New Stone Age.
In brief, turning your mind off, & your heart off, & turning your Mother Natural human sensibilities off would convey an advantage to reproductive success on down through the millennia of civilized intensive plant-centered dieting socioeconomic systems (aka farming).
It’s a miracle that any one of us still retains his Natural ability for “critical thinking.” After 5,000-10,000+ years of mind crushing & soul sucking slavery & serfdom, it’s a **miracle**.
that “critical thinking” hasn’t been bred entirely bred out of us yet (like sheep & chickens, for example).
Some of us didn’t take the clot shot. Some of us risked **all** to preserve our Natural freedom that Western Christian Enlightenment talks about, like the US Bill of Rights for example.
We are like pigs & horses, who readily go feral & thrive in Nature (reproductive success as feral farm animals!) despite millennia of domestication.
… I interpret this a hopeful sign for humanity. All is not lost (yet 😂). If “critical thinking” can be awakened in some of us later in life, and even if we forever ‘speak’ it as a second language & with an accent (because we missed Mother Nature’s window of opportunity for brain development), then maybe many of our fellow sheep & chickens can graduate to pig & horse someday.
And I have hope that the internet will be the technology that wakes people up 👍🙂❤️ … just like our sociopathic Ruling Class once tried to but lost control of the printing press … but this time those sociopaths will fail on an even grander scale, globally!, and with farther reaching consequences 👍🙂❤️
That may help keep us locked-in but all media sources are playing the same game, and rightly so. The engagement of the viewer is the real metric that keeps the lights on for journalism. Journalists need to eat, too.
The only real solution is to create content that adds value to people's lives. It doesn't really matter that we have our own "Pravda" that is feeding the narrative. The Soviet's were not buying it either.
It is a tricky thing to suss out. Most news sources are quite accurate most of the time. That makes the lies more believable. Whether it is Pravda, the New York Times, Fox news, PBS, or independent media, the reporting is mostly accurate, but it just has enough spin on it to make it veer where people want it to go.
The current media insanity is a new phenomenon where they have gone off the deep end with their Trump Derangement Syndrome. Yes, he is flawed, but not everything he does is wrong. As they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day. That's the way democracy works. You don't always get the person you prefer elected. If you want a better person in power, provide a more electable candidate. Every President in my lifetime has done things that are bad.