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Legacy media elites think you’re a “village idiot” — and this week they went ahead and said it out loud. CBS’s new Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil posted a video promising to stop leaning on “advocates” and “academics or elites” and instead put the average American at the center of the broadcast, and the very people he was talking about instantly proved his point.
Bari Weiss CBS wasn’t supposed to matter this fast—but within weeks of taking over as editor-in-chief, the new boss yanked a 60 Minutes Trump deportation hit piece just hours before airtime and sent a shockwave through legacy media.
A segment built around sympathetic Venezuelan deportees inside El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison went from heavily promoted to “postponed” after Weiss ordered more reporting, more on-the-record Trump administration voices, and tougher scrutiny of a narrative that had all the fingerprints of activist television, not journalism.
President ‘Toast’ headlines the latest implosion in MAGA-land, as Trump demands blind loyalty from all—even when he’s wrong, lying, or caught flip-flopping on core promises. MTG, much like Jennifer Lopez’s iconic character in “Enough,” has declared she won’t stand for it anymore, exposing Trump’s true colors right when cracks in his party can least be hidden.
Where Faith Meets Power — America’s messy experiment with personal faith and politics has hit new heights with Christian Nationalism leading the parade into MAGA territory. Nowhere has this become more obvious—or more unsettling—than after the J.D. Vance controversy, where MAGA, Trump Cult Syndrome (TCS), and Hindu-phobia seem joined at the hip, and Christian Nationalism stands unmasked as the MAIN agenda.
Christian Nationalism, once a whispered motive at the margins, now dominates the MAGA brand — shaping the rhetoric, the support, and the push for exclusion dressed up as patriotism.
Russia has spent decades as America’s persistent adversary—arming North Korea and Vietnam against U.S. troops, forming military and strategic pacts with China and Iran, and now threatening global order alongside a hostile bloc. Yet today, as Ukraine fights for its survival, Washington hesitates; Trump delays Ukraine Aid, echoing lessons the U.S. seems doomed to repeat.