Four U.S, soldiers died during a NATO training mission. When asked about it, Commander-in-Chief Trump said he had not been briefed. He has a history of no respect for service and today is gutting veterans benefits. Niece Mary Trump looks at Uncle Donald's upbringing where serving the country took time away from making money.

David Pepper began his "Trump Tracker"--a day-by-day accounting of Trump 2.0--on Dec. 1, 2024 before Trump officially became President again. Here is a recap of the 100 days since then.

Sam Stein, Managing Editor of The Bulwark, is joined by two Bulwark contributors in reacting to the shouting match at the White House meeting between Trump and the President of Ukraine. It began when V-P Vance accused Zelenskyy of being ungrateful. One of The Bulwark analysts concludes that "The United States has crossed the line from the good guys to the bad guys."

John Oliver takes a frightening and infuriating (but hilarious) look at the destructive chaos of Trump's first month in the Oval Office for the 2nd time. BE WARNED--ADULT LANGUAGE.

Brian Tyler Cohen talks with Rep. Jamie Raskin about Musk profiting off the federal government while slashing programs for working class Americans. And the strategy to fight back.

DOGE is in charge now.

It may not fit the dictionary definition, but Elon Musk with Trump's blessing is staging "a new kind of coup" against the American government.

The world's richest man took control of the federal checkbook at the Treasury Dept and shuttered USAID, the international food assistance agency founded by President Kennedy. After a round of golf, Trump said "Elon is doing a good job."

To see if Trump will actually lower the price of eggs, David Pepper begins a quarterly accounting of the prices of 30 grocery items found at his local Kroger.

Ohioan Alexander Sheppard who was released from federal prison after serving time for his part in the Capitol riot, believes all the Jan 6 insurrectionists should be pardoned; but an OSU sociologist says it's a bad idea and would vindicate the rioters' actions.

Jack Smith and his team believed they could have secured a conviction according to the 130-page report. You can read it for yourself.

Convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records, President-Elect Trump is now a sentenced felon.

Mary Trump writes about her experience on Jan 6, 2021 and the failure of American Democracy.

As Project 2025 calls for terminating the Dept. of Education, Trump has nominated former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon to head the Department. The NEA is opposed to her confirmation.

Attorney Joyce Vance reminds us that George Orwell's "1984" is "a warning, not just an instruction manual for would-be dictators." And she also reports on the letter two Senators wrote to President Biden urging him to issue a directive clarifying the deployment of the military under the Insurrection Act, concerned that Trump would follow through on his comments to invoke the Act "on his first day in office." FREE SUBSTACK SUBSCRIPTION TO "CIVIL DISCOURSE WITH JOYCE VANCE."

Several months ago, David Pepper wrote a fictional story about a Trump presidency in 2025 when an anti-vaxxer replaced a CDC expert during a bird flu outbreak.
Now in reality, there's a rise in bird flu infections coupled with the possibility that anti-vaxxer RFK will play a leading role in health decisions in Trump's administration.
What other fictional worst case scenarios of David's Project 2025 book could come true? FREE SUBSTACK SUBSCRIPTION TO "PEPPERSPECTIVES."

As he begins to analyze what happened with the election, David Pepper looks at it from a historical perspective...and calls attention to the issue on which the right wing "got absolutely destroyed." FREE SUBSTACK SUBSCRIPTION TO "PEPPERSPECTIVES."

Click the button and scroll down the page to the Table of Contents to read "The Conservative Promise to save our republic." Candidate Trump denied having anything to do with it, but as President will Trump embrace Project 2025?