Shockingly Underreported News and Commentary for the Week of 27 September

News items and commentary that need some serious public exposure

This is the ninth post in the ongoing weekly feature that highlights news and commentary on important geopolitical, cultural, and economic issues that the Democrat-media complex buries because they expose the hypocrisies associated with the continuing Marxist-Democrat narrative. Everything is properly sourced and linked for follow-up reading, whether from legacy media, independent sources, or social media.

Here we go!

TDS-afflicted Wisconsin Brewery Could Close. Let’s start out with some humor this week. Trump Derangement Syndrome is a pejorative, not a clinical diagnosis: it names what critics of intense anti-Trump opposition call an obsessive reaction in which dislike of Donald Trump overrides evidence, proportion, and ordinary political disagreement. Users of the term point to predictions, coverage, and policies they say are driven more by animus toward him than by the merits of the issue. The term applies to individuals, organizations, and business. For example, Minocqua Brewing Co., with taprooms in Minocqua and Madison, Wisconsin, posted on Facebook on 22 January that it would give away free beer the day President Trump dies (at the Madison taproom if that falls in summer) and had also offered half-price beer when Sen. Mitch McConnell dies.

Enter Trumpenfreude. Retired journalist Don Surber defines the term as the satisfaction Trump supporters feel when someone who tried to take down Donald Trump ends up worse off for the fight: “that feeling you get when you watch someone fall who tried to bring President Donald John Trump down.” There could be some Trumpenfreude in the air for Minocqua Brewing, as the below linked article reported that the company could be forced to close after the Wisconsin Department of Revenue revoked its alcohol permits. Read more about it at the article linked below:

The image depicts a red-brick Minoqua Brewery with a sign indicating a promotion of free beer upon Trump's death, which may lead to the closure of the establishment due to a lost alcohol license. AI-generated content may be incorrect.

The IRGC Encourages Americans to Vote for Democrats in November. One could argue that this next one is fairly humorous, too. The political allies of the Democrat-media complex in Iran pulled their own embarrassing DSA-like stunt this past week. As reported in the below-linked article, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps published a 25-page letter addressed to Americans urging them to punish President Trump in the 3 November midterm elections and to reject his support for Israel, which the IRGC blames for the war. Spokesman Hossein Mohebbi called Trump a liar motivated by wealth, claimed Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful, denied any verified IRGC violence against civilians, and warned that fuel prices from the fighting will collapse the U.S. economy. The article contrasts those claims with IAEA findings of uranium enrichment beyond power-plant needs, estimates of 7,000 to 30,000 protesters killed in a January crackdown, the rial at record lows under the U.S. blockade and Operation Economic Outcast, and Kpler data showing more than 7 million barrels a day still moving through Hormuz, with Persian Gulf crude exports at about 72% of prewar levels (now up to 92% since the article was published). Somehow, methinks only Americans suffering from TDS (i.e., most of the Democrat Party and a few others) will take the advice of the IRGC and mullahs.

Read more about the IRGC letter here:

California Welfare for Illegal Immigrants. The standard Republican and conservative view is that government welfare is a temporary safety net for American citizens who cannot support themselves – the disabled, the elderly, and those in short-term hardship – not a permanent income. Its purpose is to relieve genuine need while pushing recipients back toward work, family, and self-reliance, because open-ended aid is said to create dependency and crowd out private charity. That’s not the position of California Democrats who are driving the state into ruin by awarding taxpayer-funded welfare and other benefits to illegal aliens.

The article below reports that California runs a parallel, state- and locally funded welfare system for illegal immigrants that sidesteps the federal ban on using federal dollars for that purpose at a cost of at least $11 billion in the last fiscal year. Reporters who visited four Southern California public-services offices say staff confirmed that noncitizens can enroll themselves or collect benefits for U.S.-born children, including Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants payments, full-scope Medi-Cal (about 1.7 million enrollees, near $10 billion a year), CalWORKs for citizen children, tax credits, and other aid such as subsidized auto insurance and, under a 2025 law, LifeLine phones without a Social Security number. A hypothetical household of two illegal-immigrant parents, an illegal-immigrant grandparent, and two U.S.-born children could draw more than $100,000 a year in combined benefits, and Governor Gavin Newsom has publicly defended extending Medi-Cal to illegal immigrants.

Read more about this ongoing travesty here:

The image depicts a city street scene with buildings, a parked car, and a sign discussing California's welfare system for illegal immigrants. AI-generated content may be incorrect.

The Socialist Indoctrination Machine. Americans are split and increasingly polarized on socialism: a September 2026 Gallup poll found a record 43% view it positively — about 65% of Democrats, 45% of independents, and 14% of Republicans — while capitalism still leads at 55% and free enterprise and small business remain far more popular. The article linked below explains this increasingly frightening trend, particular among Americans under the age of 40. The article notes that rising youth support for socialism is the product of schools that teach capitalism as immoral and socialism as benign. There are faculty and student surveys in which liberals outnumber conservatives on campus, nearly 40% of students say college worsened their view of capitalism, and 46% of Americans ages 18–34 view socialism favorably. Schools are also very weak on K–12 history and civics – Including a 2016 finding that a third of millennial and Gen Z students thought George W. Bush killed more people than Stalin, and a 2019 Victims of Communism poll in which most said they were never taught about communist regimes – and contrasts that with estimates of roughly 100 million deaths under 20th-century communist and socialist systems.

Read more about how schools are turning out budding socialists here, and don’t forget that teachers’ unions overwhelmingly support the Democrat Party:

Biden Regime Solicited Private Donations for Illegal Aliens in Custody. Democrats and their legacy medial allies are footloose and fancy-free in taking care of illegal aliens (their electoral hope for the future). I doubt that Americans knew of the nonsense finally ended as described in the below-linked article.

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott issued a memo this week formally ending a Biden-era policy that let CBP solicit and accept private donations for illegal immigrants in custody. Deputy Homeland Security Secretary John Tien started the practice in May 2022, under a delegation titled “Solicitation of Gifts Related to the Care of Undocumented Noncitizens in CBP and ICE Custody,” citing high numbers of people held in facilities. Scott said the order is no longer needed because encounters and apprehensions have fallen sharply, and that it conflicts with the Trump administration’s border posture; he withdrew CBP from DHS Delegation 07107 immediately.

Read more about it here:

The diagram shows China restricting exports, as the U.S. seeks to counter China's control of critical minerals. AI-generated content may be incorrect.

Ending the Democrats’ Climate Lawfare. The Democrat-media complex has been funding and supporting climate lawfare against hydrocarbon fuel-producing companies for years. They aggressively pursue lawsuits and state “climate superfund” statutes to make oil and gas companies pay for alleged climate damages and the costs of adaptation, and by doing so to raise the legal and financial cost of producing hydrocarbon fuels enough to force a shift away from them. The underlying “looming climate catastrophe” that has been motivating these actions has been proven to be a lie through simple observation, as pointed out here. To counter climate lawfare, as described in the article below, the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026 (S.4340) has been introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) that would bar climate-liability lawsuits and state “energy penalty” laws aimed at oil and gas producers. The bill responds to climate-superfund statutes already enacted in Vermont and New York and to similar proposals or suits in Democrat-run California, Hawaii, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Virginia. It would prohibit retroactive climate liability proceedings, dismiss pending cases, void state energy-penalty laws, and affirm exclusive federal authority over greenhouse-gas emissions and other interstate environmental standards. Industry groups API and AFPM endorsed it as a check on state efforts to penalize companies for lawfully supplying fuels consumers demanded.

Read more about the proposed legislation here, which is a stake in the heart of the Democrats’ green nonsense:

Iran Has Been Beaten. Despite Iran’s stated policy of “Death to America” for 47 years, as well as to develop nuclear weapons, Democratic leaders have treated Operation Epic Fury and the later Treasury sanctions drive Operation Economic Outcast as an illegal, open-ended war: they have called the strikes unconstitutional, demanded a war-powers vote, warned of a “forever war,” and emphasized civilian deaths, American casualties, and the lack of a defined end state. Their media allies have been cheering Democrats on, frequently be repeating claims by Iranians officials as factual (which provides them aid and comfort while Americans are under arms). Almost all of their IRGC claims were later debunked, and the U.S., not Iran, controls the strategic straight of Hormuz. In the midst of the continuing barrage of Democrat-media claims, it is refreshing to read an article that comes to a very different conclusion.

The below-linked article argues that President Trump and the U.S. military, with Israel and Gulf partners, have broken Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz. It cites Swiss analyst Alexander Stahel’s account of a “Hormuz shuttle”: the UAE, then Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and Iraq, moving crude along an Oman-coast lane protected by U.S. forces, with about 116 hulls active, so Gulf exporters are back to roughly 80–90% of January export flows while Iran is not. The article further says the September oil-price drop showed the shuttle works, that Tehran has stopped testing the U.S. and Israel, and that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s tighter sanctions are smothering what is left of the regime’s economy. The article concludes Trump should not trade that leverage for talks unless Iran opens its nuclear sites, including Pickaxe Mountain, to inspectors and abandons its nuclear and missile programs.

Read the whole thing here:

The Largest Steel Mill in U.S. History to be Built in Southeast Iowa. The Democrat-media complex narrative is that Trump’s tariffs, tax cuts, and deregulation have failed: prices and borrowing costs remain high, the Iran war spiked energy costs, and advertised factory jobs have not offset a wider affordability squeeze. And they bury every bit of good economic news for political reasons. It comes as not surprise they are silent on the below-linked article, too. On Tuesday, President Trump announced that Mesabi Metallics will build what the White House calls the largest steel mill in U.S. history in Iowa, a $15 billion project expected to create 1,750 jobs. Spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said the plant delivers on promises to rebuild industry, reshore manufacturing, strengthen supply chains, and protect national security after decades of decline in American steel.

Watch the White House signing ceremony here:

The Biden Afghan Refugee Scandal Is Exposed. Operation Allies Welcome was the Biden regime’s whole-of-government program, directed by the president on August 29, 2021, and led by the Department of Homeland Security, to bring vulnerable Afghans to the United States and resettle them after the withdrawal. Officials said that group included Afghans who had worked with the United States over the previous two decades. The stated work covered immigration processing, medical and COVID screening, temporary housing, and placement support, with a promise to protect both the arrivals and the American public.

It turns out, the last part of the purpose (“protect the American public”) was another lie of the Biden regime in favor of “refugees”, as noted in the below-linked article. A DHS inspector general review publicized on Tuesday found a 40% error rate in asylum adjudications under the program for Afghans. The program required U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to interview applicants within 45 days, and a 2023 settlement in Ahmed v. DHS pushed the agency to decide 90% of those cases within 150 days. The report said people with convictions including sexual offenses against a minor, sexual battery, hit-and-run, drug possession, and kidnapping were released into the country, and it cited an Afghan national admitted through the program who was later arrested in Oklahoma over an alleged Election Day terror plot.

Naturally, the Democrat-media complex have tried to bury this scandal. Read more about it here:

Homeland Security's 3801 NEBRASKA AVENUE NW reports Biden refugee program had a 40% error rate. AI-generated content may be incorrect.

Highly Partisan Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s Record is Laid Bare. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith special counsel on 18 November 2022, three days after Donald Trump announced his 2024 campaign. In retrospect, this was no coincidence but rather the Democrat-media complex’s latest attempt to “get Trump.” Garland assigned him two ongoing investigations and authority to prosecute any federal crimes that arose from them: whether any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power after the 2020 election or with the certification of the Electoral College vote on 6 January 2021, and the handling of classified documents and other presidential records, including possible obstruction of that inquiry.

During his congressional testimony this past week, the disreputable Smith stated that he would prosecute President Trump again despite highly questionable disclosures of his actions. The linked article below notes that Smith’s work grew out of the FBI’s Operation Arctic Frost and included 197 subpoenas covering at least 430 Republican individuals and organizations, plus donor records and contacts with conservative media. His August 2023 Trump indictment and a push for an early trial, including a 165-page filing in September 2024, were clearly election interference as intended. It also notes Judge Aileen Cannon’s July 2024 ruling that Smith’s appointment by Attorney General Merrick Garland violated the Appointments Clause, which dismissed the classified-documents case, and later disclosures that his team reviewed texts involving 44 members of Congress and subpoenaed phone records of at least 20 Republican lawmakers.

Read other details that the Democrat-media complex seek to hide from ordinary Americans here:

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60 Million Trump Accounts Opened. Let us end on a high note – one that the Democrat-media complex have disparaged since the program was signed into law on 4 July last year. Trump Accounts were created in the 2025 tax law Republicans called the Working Families Tax Cut and that was also branded the One Big Beautiful Bill. Treasury’s stated purpose is to give American children a tax-advantaged investment account so early savings can compound into long-term wealth.

The below-linked article reports that the Treasury Department on Thursday completed automatic enrollment for Trump Accounts, the tax-advantaged investment accounts for American children under 18 created last year. Every eligible child with a valid Social Security number now has an account, though a parent or guardian must claim it before the one-time $1,000 Treasury seed can be used and before family, friends, or employers can contribute. Secretary Scott Bessent said millions had already enrolled and that automatic enrollment added more than 60 million accounts ready to be claimed, bringing the total to about 70 million from roughly 7 to 8 million earlier in the year. Another excellent – but woefully underreported – accomplishment of the Trump administration.

News items and commentary that need some serious public exposure

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