Make Pam Bondi Testify
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Congratulations to Pam Bondi for doing everything the fascist serial predator, convicted felon, and Russian asset wanted, only to be ritually humiliated by Trump anyway. The Epstein cover-up continues. So make Bondi testify–and get asked to leave every restaurant and bar she ever tries to enter, for protecting pedophiles. Come to the Gaslit Nation Salon today at 4pm ET to discuss this and more, including sharing what’s happening in your neck of the woods. Thanks to Patreon for the Mrs. Orwell tote bags, which we will be giving away to supporters at the April 13 book launch at...
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The Plastic Coup: How Big Oil Poisons Our DNA
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As we fight the daily battles of the "Great Disillusionment," corruption and unchecked greed are poisoning our bodies. Sian Sutherland, co-founder of , a group dedicated to helping the world transition away from plastics, joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the systemic corruption wreaking havoc on our environment, our water, and our food. We are now breathing, eating, and drinking a credit card’s worth of plastic every single week. Big Oil, facing a transition away from fossil fuels for energy, financially depends in our dependence on plastic. They have turned our bodies into a landfill to keep...
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“Don’t Let Fascists Steal Your Time”: Andrea’s Tribute to Her Uncle Phil
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“We’re not going to get the liberation we all crave on a soul level without risk.” Andrea reflects on why, now more than ever, we must follow our hearts and refuse to let fear, or Steve Bannon, that Jabba the Hutt of American politics, live rent-free in our heads. Being brave, taking risks: that’s how we win. In this special excerpt from last Monday’s Gaslit Nation Salon, Andrea honors her beloved uncle, . “Uncle Phil” was the founding dean of the University of Virginia School of Data Science, earned more than 100,000 citations on Google Scholar, championed the collaboration...
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Beyond No Kings
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Beyond showing up for No Kings, build power where you live. Join the Good Neighbors Coalition, a vetted decentralized hub linking neighborhoods, groups, and organizers to share support, resources, and strategy, submitted by a longtime Gaslit Nation listener. Check out The Relay, a no-signup start page packed with tools, trainings, and news. And try the simple 2-10 method, submitted by another Gaslit Nation listener: contact two to ten politicians about an issue you care about, then ask two to ten friends to do the same. That ripple effect can turn one voice into hundreds. Movements grow...
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Melania vs. Ivana: Fact Checking the Honeypot Meme - TEASER
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Christopher Steele, who ran the Russia desk at MI6, believes Jeffrey Epstein was a Russian asset. He used girls and young women from Russia and other former Soviet states to lure powerful men into kompromat traps. Michael Wolff made the allegation, which has since been pulled by The Daily Beast, that Epstein introduced Melania and Trump, and that they even had sex for the first time on the Lolita Express. So was Melania a honeypot, trained to keep Trump in their pocket, and prevent an unpredictable influence from marrying Russia’s asset? Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman, of the...
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The Orwellian World Is Here. Now What?
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As we navigate a world of "alternative facts" and corporate-state surveillance, George Orwell’s life, times, and pain, transformed into enduring art, like 1984, show us how to be defiant today. Resistance begins in the mind. This week, we’re joined by British critic Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984, to trace the biography of a nightmare. The Orwellian slogan "2+2=5" was taken from Soviet propaganda. Orwell reviewed Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons, an American reporter who confesses in the chapter “The Press Corps Conceals a...
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Thank You, Afroman
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Thank you, Afroman, for standing up for freedom of speech and expression. Our human rights matter, and artists have always been on the front lines defending them with courage and power. "This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal." --Toni Morrison See you at today's Gaslit Nation Salon at 4pm ET. The Zoom link to join to vent, share what's happening in your neck of the woods and more, has been posted on...
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Trump’s War Against the American People - TEASER
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Across America, people are waking up to the fact that Donald Trump has always been exactly who he said he was: a serial con man propped up by white grievance, impunity, and a media that normalized his crimes. Trump fears accountability. The question is whether we are prepared for what he and his allies may do to avoid it in the 2026 midterms. Trump’s push for the SAVE Act and the broader assault on voting rights should be understood for what it is: a strategy to stay in power by any means necessary. Voter suppression, disinformation, dark money, and foreign interference are ongoing. If...
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Trump and Kushner’s Disastrous Iran War: What Comes Next?
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Trump and Kushner chose a war they don’t understand, thinking they can use 20th-century "shock and awe" to topple a deeply entrenched terrorist state. The Iranian people are caught between two maniacal regimes and deserve our solidarity: an estimated 30,000 Iranians were just killed by their own government, and now they’re being bombed by a Fox News host. Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the surreal hallucinating AI simulation we’ve found ourselves in. Meanwhile, Trump and Vance need to thank Zelensky and Ukraine for their innovative drone-fighting...
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The Chilling Silence of Hollywood’s New McCarthyism
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Despite holding one of the most powerful microphones in the world, the silence from major winners at the Oscars regarding human rights and the rise of fascism was the real star. When artists like Paul Thomas Anderson, whose film One Battle After Another swept the awards, refuse to use their power to address the very real injustices their films capitalize on, they "obey in advance." This silence is the symptom of massive corporate media consolidation. Director David Borenstein, winner of best documentary for Mr. Nobody Against Putin, used his power morally to remind us that this is how...
info_outlineAcross America, people are waking up to the fact that Donald Trump has always been exactly who he said he was: a serial con man propped up by white grievance, impunity, and a media that normalized his crimes.
Trump fears accountability. The question is whether we are prepared for what he and his allies may do to avoid it in the 2026 midterms.
Trump’s push for the SAVE Act and the broader assault on voting rights should be understood for what it is: a strategy to stay in power by any means necessary. Voter suppression, disinformation, dark money, and foreign interference are ongoing. If Romania could challenge a compromised election and protect its democracy, America can stop pretending “moving on” is any sort of plan.
We need election protection infrastructure now. Call your secretary of state. Ask what they are doing to protect the integrity of the 2026 vote.
Stay defiant. Build power. And join us at Gaslit Nation as we keep asking the questions too many in power still refuse to face.
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American Carnage by Sasha Abramsky https://orbooks.com/catalog/american-carnage/
Opening clip: https://bsky.app/profile/andreachalupa.bsky.social/post/3mhc7boslv22w
The Target boycott is still on! Georgia Forts explains the confusion: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVw6K39DtEd/?igsh=MTV6dXE0N3gydTZnYw==
Sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump – a timeline This article is more than 1 year old A list of the accusations made against Donald Trump between the 1980s and 2013, all of which he has denied https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/25/trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-timeline
E. Jean Carroll asks Supreme Court to reject Trump's request to review her $5M defamation case https://abcnews.com/US/jean-carrollasks-supreme-court-reject-trumps-request-review/story?id=129216869