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Five Ways the World Quickly Turned Against the Worst of Trump This Week 📱
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1:02:00Now PlayingLIVE today with author Shane Almgren (Trumpland Diary) — we unpack a week that feels like it fell out of a dystopian novel: militarized police in Minnesota, deranged propaganda around the Renee Good shooting, a quiet Five-Alarm Fire at the White House involving Big Oil, a sitting U.S. Senator suing the Secretary of Defense, and a full-scale political revolt inside the GOP over Trump’s criminal probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
These five stories, taken together, tell us something essential about the moment we’re in: the erosion of democratic guardrails, the normalization of political sadism and disinformation, the slow death of institutional independence, and how authoritarian politics turns ordinary governance into existential crises.
But it also tells us something about the growing wave of resistance and pushback that may represent a bright spot ahead.
Topics in this stream:
🔹 Minnesota’s new “police state” moment — escalating militarization and a creeping acceptance of force as political control (based on my piece: “This Is Actually Happening”)
🔹 The deranged and sadistic lies about the Renee Good shooting — how bad-faith propaganda redefines reality in real time (“Does the Trump Crowd Actually Get Off On This?”)
🔹 White House “Five-Alarm Fire” with Oil Executives — what the meeting signals about the Trump administration’s energy priorities and the petro-state future
🔹 Sen. Mark Kelly sues Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — an unprecedented confrontation over military rank, constitutional protections, and speech-and-debate immunity
🔹 Republican revolt over Trump’s criminal probe into Jerome Powell — why Fed independence suddenly matters to GOP senators, Wall Street, and global markets more than ever
Throughout, we’ll connect these stories to the bigger structural theme: authoritarian governance is not just about strongmen — it’s about institutional capture, normalized cruelty, and the slow corrosion of the boring bureaucratic functions that make modern societies work.
About today’s guest:
Shane Almgren is the author of The Trumpland Diary on Substack, one of the most vivid first-person accounts of living inside the Trump-era informational and political distortion field.
Referenced articles from today’s stream:
📌 This Is Actually Happening →
📌 Does the Trump Crowd Actually Get Off On This? →
📌 A FiveAlarm Fire at the White House →
📌 The Trumpland Diary →
If you care about politics, democracy, the Fed, authoritarian creep, and the increasingly surreal gap between the news and reality, this is a stream you’ll want to watch.
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