Background Briefing (5am)

05.02.25 - 5:00am

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Trump’s Reality TV Reshuffle of His National Security Team
SCOTUS Appears Poised to Smash Through the Wall Separating Church and State to Force Taxpayers to Subsidize Religious Indoctrination
On This May Day, How Unions Would Be the Only Way Reindustrialized American Factory Workers Could Make a Living Wage to Support a Family

05.01.25 - 5:00am

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Two Nuclear Powers — India and Pakistan — are Poised to Go To War
Trump’s 100th Day and the Record-Breaking Collapse of His Poll Numbers
Today’s 50th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, Which Trump is Boycotting While Slapping 46% Tariffs on Vietnam

04.30.25 - 5:00am

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Thanks to Trump’s Bullying, Bluster, and Bombast the Liberals Won In Canada
A Presidential Historian on Trump’s 100-Day Reign of Ruin
The Intertwined Two Americas, as the Colossus of the North Exports State Terror to the South

04.29.25 - 5:00am

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Governor Pritzker Wows Democrats in the Key New Hampshire Primary State
Thiel, Musk, and Vance’s Pro-Natalist Movement Wants More Superior White Children
The Historical Comparisons Between Hitler’s Rapid Extinction of German Democracy and Trump’s First 100 Days

04.25.25 - 5:00am

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Why Should Putin Accept Trump’s Peace Deal When He Can Wait for Him to Walk Away as Promised?
One-By-One News Organizations are Caving to Trump’s Extortion
Inside Project 2025 and the Right-Wing Zealots and Culture Warriors Who Crafted the Roadmap For Trump

04.24.25 - 5:00am

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The Incredible Shrinking Billionaire Who is Destroying Our Government Blames Tesla’s Sales Slump on “Paid” Demonstrators
Vance Announces a Shameful Sellout Of Ukraine, Allowing Russia to Conquer and Subjugate What Putin Could Not Win on the Battlefield

04.23.25 - 5:00am

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Trump’s Self-Inflicted Wound on Our Economy, as Overseas Investors Retreat From Treasuries and the Dollar
An Update From Rome on the Conclave with Cardinals From the Global South in the Mix for a New Pope
On This Earth Day, Strategies for Collective Political Action to Make Climate Change the Unifying Crisis of Our Time

04.22.25 - 5:00am

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Sadness Around the World at the Death of a Good Man, Pope Francis
A Tolerant and Empathetic Pope and the Reactionary Male-Dominated Institution He Headed
Another Scandal From the White Nationalist TV Host Heading the Pentagon

04.18.25 - 5:00am

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The Looming Constitutional Crisis, as Trump Continues to Defy the Supreme Court and Federal District Courts With “The Dog Ate My Homework” Excuses
A Little-Noticed FEC Ruling Opens the Door for the Next Frontier of Plutocracy
The Tariff War Trump has Launched Against China That He Will Surely Lose

04.17.25 - 5:00am

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Trump Appoints Another Unqualified Hack, as the Deliberate Destruction of the IRS Continues
The Deliberate Destruction of Social Security, With Biden the Wrong Person to Lead the Effort to Save It
An Assessment of Rumors about Witkoff’s Ties To Russian Money-launderers