Source: CounterPunch
by Kary Love

“When Trump ran for president of America, and swore his oath, he was telling the world he would preserve and defend ‘due process of law,’ against all enemies foreign and domestic. Due process of law was one critical principle the great American rebels died and bled and fought to establish as a foundation of America itself. Mr. Trump is engaged in a scheme to be ‘judge in his own case’ against the IRS and you (because you pay the IRS, any dollars awarded in the case are your dollars.) Because the IRS and the DOJ ‘representing’ the IRS in the case both work for the President, Mr. Trump ‘decides’ his own case.” (05/18/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/18/trump-sues-the-irs-and-you-and-the-constitution/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Alex J Pollock & Edward J Pinto

“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are huge, with $7.8 trillion in assets and $7.6 trillion in liabilities. They are an essential part of the finances of the US government. But we do not find them as part of the government’s consolidated financial statements. We should.” (05/18/26)

https://lawliberty.org/fannie-freddie-and-the-national-debt/

Source: Antiwar.com
by Lawrence Wittner

“Although Donald Trump has never been modest about his abilities or reluctant to exercise personal power, during his second term in office he has shown clear signs of megalomania.” (05/18/260

https://original.antiwar.com/lawrence-wittner/2026/05/17/the-man-who-seeks-to-rule-the-world

Source: The Bulwark
by Lauren Egan

“The president is aging. He’s wearing hand makeup. Why aren’t Democrats making a bigger deal of his health?” (05/17/26)

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-trump-aging-elderly-very-old-hands-makeup

Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen

“Many people are writing about why Americans have lost trust in universities. There are, of course, financial reasons, including — at least plausibly — the now higher unemployment rates of recent college grads and the ever-increasing cost of tuition. I leave these to the side. I’ve written about this before but here quickly lay out what I see as a major reason for the loss of trust. Start with the fact that many universities have stopped providing the service they were meant to — and historically did — provide. That service? Providing a system of education that creates well rounded individuals capable of independent critical thinking applicable to anything and which expands the intellectual abilities. Those universities have switched to providing career-specific education. Or what they think is career-specific education.” (05/17/26)

https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/hucksters-amongst-us

Source: Fox News
by Jonathan Alpert

“As a psychotherapist, I increasingly see people interpreting political disagreement through a framework usually reserved for emotional threat and psychological harm. Opponents are no longer simply viewed as wrong. They’re experienced as toxic, dangerous, unsafe, narcissistic or morally beyond redemption. Once that shift happens, the emotional intensity rises quickly. People stop feeling like fellow citizens with different ideas and start feeling like threats. … Concepts like ‘trauma,’ ‘safety,’ ‘validation,’ ‘triggering’ and ‘boundaries’ can be useful in the right context. But when applied too broadly, they begin subtly transforming disagreement itself into something psychologically destabilizing. That shift has enormous consequences.” (05/17/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/therapy-culture-turning-politics-national-nervous-breakdown