The Mainstream Media is reactive. I will continue being proactive.

The mainstream media acknowledges that Donald Trump — and the right-wing echo chamber — manipulates them. Yet, their reporting is still guided by said manipulation.

Yesterday was infuriatingly difficult as I monitored many of the mainstream media cable news channels. The channels were hyperventilating over the FBI search of former Trump national security adviser John Bolton. We all know that this is a part of Trump’s retribution tour.

Over the entire wall-to-wall coverage of b-roll running on Bolton, there was no new information. However, there are many stories that these networks could have covered to fulfill their duties as our fourth estate, which is supposed to be our unbiased source of truth.

• The Enhanced ACA Subsidies expire in December. As such, many will see sky-high health insurance premiums in two months when they visit the health exchange to purchase or renew their health insurance.

• The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) will significantly affect Medicare Advantage (MA) recipients in the short term—particularly through automatic Medicare cuts and changes to eligibility and Medicare Savings programs. The losses are immense, and they occur before the 2026 midterm.

• The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), crucial for hurricane forecasting and other severe weather modeling, is set to have all its data ingestion, processing, and distribution terminated.

• Budget revisions have removed air and ocean pollution sensors from NOAA’s next-generation GeoXO weather satellites. That means future satellites will no longer track key environmental pollutants.

• The NIH has cut funding for many research projects on diseases.

• The administration shuttered USAID’s PREDICT zoonotic disease surveillance program—designed to detect novel viruses with pandemic potential.

I could go on and on for hundreds of topics that will affect us all negatively. While the mainstream media continues b-rolling Bolton, now sometimes Epstein, and other stories that will do little to affect the personal finances and health well-being of most, the multiple tsunamis continue to get closer for the several attacks we are about to have to endure.

The mainstream media is reactive. They are not proactively engaging us to prepare for the impending challenges we are about to face. They have become members of the Bread & Circus regime — keep the eyeballs entertained and the bellies satisfied with cheap, unhealthy foods for the profit of the mainstream media and the corporations that fund their existence.

And that is where you come in. The mainstream media is reactive and, of course, many times compromised because of their advertisers.

I must be reactive. Let me give one example. The mainstream media and their pundits continue to provide the cabal that controls Trump, Trump, and his sycophants either a pass or they dismiss their actions with less seriousness than they should. Let me walk you through a scenario we'd better start exploring.

• Trump extorted a luxury Boeing 747 from the Qataris. The Air Force is using funds allocated initially for the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) modernization program—specifically, from fiscal year 2024—to retrofit the Qatari jet, which could take up to the end of Trump’s 2nd term to complete.

• The new huge $200 million White House ballroom will not be completed until near the end of Trump’s 2nd term.

• The President muses with President Zolinski about holding no elections in the event of war. Trump tested militarizing Los Angeles. He is now doing the same in DC and has stated that it is coming to other cities.

• Attorney General Pam Bondi terminated the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and left the head of the Elections Threats Task Force unfilled. These bodies were vital for identifying and responding to foreign threats—including disinformation and cyber operations—targeting U.S. elections.

• FEMA reclassified or halted grant support for programs countering domestic violent extremism (DVE)—such as white supremacist or far-right threats—redirecting focus to soft target protection, cybersecurity, and border control.

• The ICE infrastructure exceeds that of all but three military budgets around the world. Their concentration camps and kidnapping of immigrants— and citizens — are being normalized.

Americans are getting used to these tactics. There is a long-standing myth and some historical precedent of people attempting to build tolerance to poisons by ingesting them in small doses over time. While this may work in limited ways for specific toxins, for fast-acting poisons like cyanide, it is neither effective nor safe, as the lethal dose is only slightly higher than a so-called ‘training dose.’ Trump is giving us the training dose, and most of the mainstream media are derelict in reporting that reality. When the training dose is tantamount to cyanide, it will be too late.

I hope you see my point. Our freedom and well-being cannot be delegated to our politicians, corporations, or mainstream media. We must be active participants in every form. Though not reported by the mainstream media as such, we have not seen the numbers or the consistency of protest in this country ever. People are waking up, and only the independent media is covering these realities in the proper context, your context. The deep pockets of the corporate and wealthy class ensure your information is sanitized for your eventual subjugation. I won’t do that. And in that light, I hope you would support this platform, which is much more than a newsletter. I invest in getting our progressive message and truthful information on all platforms. I am fortunate to have thorough access, including on-air FM and AM channels, social media (TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Telegram, etc.), and I contribute to many progressive independent news websites, among other platforms. I do this all because I understand how critical it is, as ‘the system’ depends on our ignorance. This is time-consuming and relatively expensive for a small entity like this. And that is why your support is vital and appreciated. This newsletter subsidizes the entire work. In that light, please consider becoming a paid subscriber today. We cannot do this without you.