Issue 26 Aug 24 – Aug 30, 2026
Week of Aug 24
Iran hit US and allied bases across the Gulf as the war ground on, Karoline Leavitt quit, and Trump's government kept renaming lakes instead of governing. Dolly Parton died at 80.
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Issue 25 Aug 17 – Aug 23, 2026
Week of Aug 17
Trump has no answer on housing, farmers, or the economy, and keeps antagonizing allies while his base bleeds away. The left keeps winning primaries, Israel keeps striking allies and children, and food safety collapses recall by recall.
Read the week →Issue 24 Aug 10 – Aug 16, 2026
Week of Aug 10
The Iran war ground to a halt over drained missiles and fuel, but Trump still floated annexing the Strait of Hormuz while his economy contradicts every promise he made. Local Democrats delivered real results in NYC and Michigan as ICE, surveillance, and military conditions all got uglier.
Read the week →Issue 23 Aug 3 – Aug 9, 2026
Week of Aug 3
Trump backed off the Iran confrontation without a nuke deal, and Tehran promptly raised its price. Michigan's Democratic primaries handed the left real wins as AIPAC spent $32 million to bury El-Sayed and lost the argument anyway.
Read the week →Issue 22 Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026
Week of Jul 27
The Ceuta migrant surge is being framed as coordinated retaliation against Spain for its Palestine stance, with Morocco doing the pushing and US money behind it. RFK Jr keeps dodging accountability on his way to running US health policy, and Republicans finally turned on domestic-abuse-accused Max Miller.
Read the week →Issue 21 Jul 20 – Jul 26, 2026
Week of Jul 20
The Iran escalation collapsed on logistics, not principle: the Pentagon ran out of interceptors and Trump is fabricating regime collapses that never happened. Congress voted to merge the US and Israeli militaries while Trump publicly floated a fourth term.
Read the week →Issue 20 Jul 13 – Jul 19, 2026
Week of Jul 13
McConnell died and the Iran war kept escalating with strikes on US Gulf bases. Trump's own declassified docs proved Russia, not China, helped him win, and the Tate brothers were finally arrested in Miami facing UK extradition.
Read the week →Issue 19 Jul 6 – Jul 12, 2026
Week of Jul 6
The US moved from threats to open war on Iran, carpet-bombing infrastructure while Trump raged incoherently and confused Iran with Japan. Lindsey Graham died, American Jews and Democrats broke with Israel, and Netanyahu's own son erased his name.
Read the week →Issue 18 Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2026
Week of Jun 29
Trump turned July 4th into a wire-fraud grift and an AI-hallucination clown show, hallucinating dead presidents and joking about threesomes with his sons. Israel escalated the Lebanon land grab and Gaza camps while McConnell's death gets quietly managed offstage.
Read the week →Issue 17 Jun 22 – Jun 28, 2026
Week of Jun 22
Israel signed the Lebanon ceasefire and bombed within hours, handing over 60+ villages while Beirut erupts. Trump's circus turned into a pool-vandalism meltdown as oil, silver, and crypto all cratered.
Read the week →Issue 16 Jun 15 – Jun 21, 2026
Week of Jun 15
The Iran war produced a signed deal that was pure capitulation dressed as victory, then Israel ignored it and Iran closed Hormuz again anyway. Starmer resigned, Trump feuded with every European ally, and the Israeli government openly ordered ethnic cleansing in Lebanon.
Read the week →Issue 15 Jun 8 – Jun 14, 2026
Week of Jun 8
Trump's Iran "deal" is a fiction Iran keeps denying, even as Netanyahu's own security establishment calls the war a catastrophe. The US government force-disabled Anthropic's best models on Amazon's say-so, while Trump's public appearances turned into wall-to-wall booing.
Read the week →Issue 14 Jun 1 – Jun 7, 2026
Week of Jun 1
Iran hit the Fifth Fleet's own HQ in Bahrain as Trump lost the plot on live TV, and Democrats crushed their own antiwar members to keep the Lebanon war rolling. AIPAC bragged about writing the defense budget while the FBI admitted surveilling Americans who criticize Israel.
Read the week →Issue 13 May 25 – May 31, 2026
Week of May 25
The Iran war lurched toward an off-ramp: a peace framework and $300B in reconstruction money surfaced even as Israel's extremists tried to torch it. Meanwhile Trump gilded horse statues, funneled his son $620M, and the family grift stopped bothering to hide.
Read the week →Issue 12 May 18 – May 24, 2026
Week of May 18
AIPAC bought a Kentucky seat by purging Massie for questioning Israel, while another domestic terror wave hit mosques. The war machine keeps grinding as Trump's family openly launders trades and mines contracts, and Europe pulls further ahead.
Read the week →Issue 11 May 11 – May 17, 2026
Week of May 11
Trump's China trip was a full diplomatic humiliation, the domestic oil crunch went from headline to shortage timeline, and the military started visibly repositioning out of the Middle East and Europe. Israel's own admissions piled up while US media looked away.
Read the week →Issue 10 May 4 – May 10, 2026
Week of May 4
The war entered its next phase with Iran hitting Gulf infrastructure and declaring the UAE an enemy, while Trump claimed victories on wars he never fought and Congress kept surgically erasing Black districts. The whole apparatus now runs on empty branding, buried autopsies, and grift dressed up as governance.
Read the week →Issue 9 Apr 27 – May 3, 2026
Week of Apr 27
The Iran war narration turned into a domestic threat as Trump called critical coverage sedition while allies and even his own generals treat him as a liability. Meanwhile the empire runs on cartel gold, Pokemon cards, and a passport with his face on it.
Read the week →Issue 8 Apr 20 – Apr 26, 2026
Week of Apr 20
Shots were fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and Trump turned the scare into a Lincoln comparison and a ballroom demand. The Iran war ground on with Hormuz still shut, Netanyahu disclosed cancer, and the profiteering, pardons, and grift kept piling up.
Read the week →Issue 7 Apr 13 – Apr 19, 2026
Week of Apr 13
Trump blockaded Hormuz with zero allied support, Iran closed it anyway and mocked him on emergency radio, and traders shorted oil minutes before his announcement. Allies openly organized against Washington while Swalwell imploded in 72 hours at home.
Read the week →Issue 6 Apr 6 – Apr 12, 2026
Week of Apr 6
The Iran war flipped from ceasefire theater to Trump unilaterally blockading Hormuz, with allies openly organizing against him. Iranian Jews in the rubble of their bombed synagogue demolished the war's justification, and Spain became Europe's loudest defector.
Read the week →Issue 5 Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2026
Week of Mar 30
The Iran rescue op turned into a hardware bloodbath, with two C-130s and a helicopter lost pulling out one pilot the US still calls a win. Trump declared victory on Easter while allies slammed doors, the missile stockpile ran dry, and the government blacked out the satellites so nobody could watch.
Read the week →Issue 4 Mar 23 – Mar 29, 2026
Week of Mar 23
The Iran war hit week five with US planes shot down by their own Patriots, Marines reportedly captured, and the northern front cracking open as Hezbollah pushed into the Galilee. Meanwhile the oil shock went global, the home front broke on both sides, and the White House launched a farming website called OnlyFarms.
Read the week →Issue 3 Mar 16 – Mar 22, 2026
Week of Mar 16
Week five of the Iran war and the justification has fully collapsed: plagiarized, sourced to a real estate guy, contradicted by intel insiders, while Trump threatens Iran's power grid and his own voters bail. Every ally said no, the coalition is gone, and the propaganda keeps getting caught.
Read the week →Issue 2 Mar 9 – Mar 15, 2026
Week of Mar 9
The Iran war ground into its second month, the Netanyahu death rumor swallowed the feed, and the US kept losing allies faster than it could bomb targets. Nobody can confirm who's dead, who's lying, or how any of this ends.
Read the week →Issue 1 Mar 2 – Mar 8, 2026
Week of Mar 2
The US and Israel dragged Iran into open war, hitting schools and water plants while Trump ran a victory lap mid-negotiation. The costs are already landing at home in record gas prices, and nobody in charge has a plan.
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