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“What would it be like to live in a world without Capitalism?” a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) leader asks, before describing her party’s vision of creating a workers’ paradise – where people don’t have to work, because they don’t have bills, and are free to do whatever they like.In an hour-long video laying out DSA’s “Workers Deserve More” program launch published Wednesday, DSA’s National Political Education Chair Michaela Brangan portrays Democratic Socialism as the author of a worry-free society that enables people to do as they please:“What would it be like to live in a world without Capitalism – to live in a world where you can take a day off and you don’t hate your job and you don’t feel like, if you quit it, or, like, wanted to do something else, that you would starve to death or get kicked out of your home or not be able to pay for your medicine?”What’s more, without Capitalism, “bills are no longer a thing,” so people would be free to take time off from work whenever they want to, Brangan claims:“You’re able to take a day off and not have to worry.“And you don’t have to have a job just to pay the bills, because you don’t have a lot of bills, right?“Bills are no longer a thing – because there’s not for-profit businesses that are constantly trying to exploit you and trying to, you know, put you into debt.”“And then you might just have like a normal day, right, like you could you could actually have the freedom to move around,” Brangan says.Brangan claims, without evidence, that Socialism provides “freedom,” enabling people to “flourish,” “thrive,” and “be themselves,” because their basic needs are provided for by others:“And so, part of what we’re trying to do is to dispel the idea that Socialism is just about, like, bureaucracy, meetings, order, or anything like that. It actually is about freedom. It is about people being free to be themselves.“It’s about people being able to actually flourish under a system where they’re not constantly being exploited and where they’re not constantly worried about the basic things it takes to live.“If you don’t have to worry about the basic things it takes to live, then you can thrive, right? And then you can actually lead your life, instead of just survive.”The Democratic Socialists of America has rolled out a new platform calling for sweeping changes, including defunding the Department of War, reparations, wealth taxes, expanding the House of Representatives, and replacing the Supreme Court with a judiciary chosen by Congress,… pic.twitter.com/D45vRPZueG— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 15, 2026 

A former Trump critic from the American liberal billionaire class has come full circle and turned his crosshairs onto the media for being so afflicted with TDS that they have no problem lying to the public about President Donald Trump regardless of the facts.

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Billionaire and All-In Podcast co-host Chamath Palihapitiya joined the July 14 edition of CNBC’s Squawk Box and took a blowtorch to the incessant level of anti-Trump sludge filtering through the media ecosphere like the New York City sewer system. “The reality is that most of us were lied to by the media about President Trump,” Palihapitiya told CNBC co-anchors Andrew Ross Sorkin and Joe Kernen.  When one reviews the incendiary, Trump-hating media “source material” from years past, Palihipitiya stipulated that one comes to two realizations that make for significant redpilling:  One, [Trump] didn’t say half the things he said. And two: Why did these other people just fabricate what they wanted to say so that they could essentially assassinate his character? I think that that second thing is completely unacceptable in America, and there’s still been no repercussions, really.A masterclass in cutting through media noise on @realDonaldTrump was put on by @chamath. Well done sir. pic.twitter.com/0wYlt31vcE— Joe Vazquez (@JV3MRC) July 15, 2026MRC research has shown repeatedly that broadcast and cable news will try to embellish anything into a Trump scandal eclipsing Watergate. For example, NewsBusters Media Editor Bill D’Agostino calculated June 26 that lefty networks ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MS NOW spent almost 10 hours (579 minutes and 31 seconds) of news coverage trying to make the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool algae affair — which has since been linked to criminal vandalization — the political offense of the 21st century. Palihapitiya pointed out that President Trump called him after he publicly admitted he was wrong in his initial perceptions of the media framing of the infamous “Fine People” hoax in Charlottesville. “I got to know him and I put the phone down. I called my wife, and I said, ‘We got it totally, totally wrong. We were lied to.’ And then I got to know him and he is fantastic,” Palihapitiya stated.Sorkin was visibly disturbed by Palihapitya’s dress down of the media and tried to box him into a corner by challenging him to specify where he disagrees with Trump for “the people on the other side of this.” Palihapitiya didn’t take the bait. Aside from mentioning a few areas where he felt could have been handled with more precision — on DOGE cuts, there was “too much glass broken” — he argued that Trump “has been way more right than wrong” on a holistic basis, including the ongoing Iran War, since Iran is a “madman country” that could cause a nuclear war.

For stories published by ProPublica, with support from the Fund, Eli Cahan found that dozens of psychiatric hospitals have turned away patients in crisis, in violation of federal law, but have rarely faced consequences from federal oversight authorities. Cahan identified more than 90 psychiatric hospitals across the country that have turned away patients in crisis […]
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With support from the Fund, Rebecca John obtained documents revealing that, as early as 1974, the plastics industry knew its products could not be recycled. For DeSmog, John assessed the relevance of the documents for current treaty negotiations in which fossil fuel-producing nations and companies that help make plastic have lobbied against limits on plastic […]
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Using thousands of police disciplinary records from across New York State gathered with support from the Fund, Sammy Sussman examined a pattern of police officers who were disciplined, but not criminally charged, after they drank and drove. The investigation for New York Focus and The New York Times, where Sussman is a Local Investigations Fellow, […]
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With support from the Fund, Liset Cruz dug into the practice of hospitals transferring undocumented patients back to their home countries for treatment, sometimes without patients’ consent. People who are uninsured, undocumented and have serious or chronic health conditions are most commonly subjected to these “medical deportations,” Cruz reported, and experts say the practice is […]
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The massacre of more than 1,300 Israelis by Hamas terrorists still outrages most of the world. The focus on Hamas, Hezbollah, and their deep ties to Iran exposes the brutality of all three, and Israel’s fearsome, ongoing response enjoys broad support. But the role played by Iran is complex, deadly, and insidious, as explained by Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers on the most recent episode of The Drill Down.

With the US House of Representatives selecting a new Speaker, Peter Schweizer reminds us that the choice was never about policy. “The speakership is all about money,” Schweizer says on the most recent episode of The Drill Down. “It’s an open secret.”

“The Department of Energy is being weaponized to reward the political supporters of the administration,” Peter Schweizer concludes on the most recent episode of The Drill Down. With the government poised at the brink of a shutdown last week, the Department of Energy (DoE) last week doled out another batch of “green energy” spending on projects in eleven states. This is a portion of a $2.3 billion program the Biden administration created to advance its clean-energy drive, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Count Peter Schweizer among the “doubters” of the Biden administration’s choice of former Commerce Secretary and major Democratic donor Penny Pritzker to lead U.S. efforts to channel private sector reconstruction assistance to Ukraine. Pritzker, the heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune and a real estate mogul herself, was corrupt and self-dealing during her commerce department tenure under President Barack Obama, which Schweizer documented in a 12-page chapter of his book, Secret Empires.