Inland Empire Progressive

As Inlanders already know, this isn’t just politics as usual. President Trump is actively using the government to shakedown shady foreign governments, crypto bros, and Wall Street billionaires. Qatar has "gifted" Donald Trump a $400 million Boeing 747 jumbo jet with luxury bath and golden toilet "to serve" as Air Force One and then be handed over to the Trump presidential library after his term.  Crony conservatives will claim: “It’s a gift to the Department of Defense, not to him personally.” But here’s the trick: retrofitting that plane, wiring it with security systems, customizing it for presidential use that’s going to cost American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. And once the work is done, guess whose personal plane it becomes. Accepting a foreign gift of that magnitude is unconstitutional under the Emoluments Clause. But given a rubber stamp congress and a corrupt Supreme Court it's likely Trump will fly off free in the friendly skies while taxp...

Every time violence occurs in a Black community, Fox News and One America News seize the moment like vultures circling a carcass. They trot out their favorite talking point “Black-on-Black crime” as if it’s some profound revelation instead of a tired, misleading dog whistle. But when white communities are ravaged by violence, from domestic disputes to mass shootings, these same outlets fall eerily silent. You’ll never hear them say “white-on-white crime,” even though the numbers are nearly identical. Fox and OAN don’t report  crime  statistics, they weaponize them. They paint Black communities as inherently lawless, while portraying white violence as the work of isolated “troubled individuals.” When a Black teen is caught in a drive-by, it’s treated as proof of cultural decay. When a white man shoots up a school, it’s framed as a tragic anomaly, usually softened with sympathetic backstories about depression, bullying, or video games. “White-on-white crime” doesn’t generate out...