So far 90 people and counting are dead in Texas, including children—swept away by catastrophic flooding. But don’t blame the weather. Blame the politics. Blame Donald Trump’s DOGE cuts, which gutted the National Weather Service just as the nation entered hurricane season. Blame the willful dismantling of public safety in service of militarization, wealth hoarding, and unchecked authoritarianism.
In April, veteran meteorologists at the NWS were forced into early retirement. Forecasters warned at the time that their absence would “cost lives.” They were right. With no one to read the models, sound the alarms, or coordinate warnings at the necessary scale, the people of Texas were left vulnerable. Nature played its part, yes—but policy turned a crisis into a mass casualty event.
And while families bury children and communities try to recover without federal support, Trump has diverted over $100 billion to expand his private military network, increase ICE raids, and build what some are already calling detention camps for mass incarceration—priorities that feed MAGA’s appetite for control, not compassion.
This is Trump’s America: safety nets dismantled, warnings silenced, and lives treated as disposable—especially the poor, the Brown, the disabled, the vulnerable.
But that’s not the only truth being buried this week.
The Epstein Files: A “Nothing to Share” Lie
For months, we’ve been told bombshells were coming. That Pam Bondi’s DOJ and her office in Florida—the same one that gave Jeffrey Epstein his sweetheart deal—had uncovered damning new information. That the files would connect powerful men to Epstein’s horrific crimes. That finally, we’d get the truth.
Today, the DOJ and FBI say there’s nothing to release. Nothing to share. Case closed.
That’s funny—if by funny you mean deeply suspicious and morally obscene. Because we know that Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump weren’t just acquaintances. They were close. Publicly close.
In Fire and Fury, journalist Michael Wolff captured a chilling moment on tape: Epstein speaking about Trump’s first White House. He described the chaos, the rumors, the chaos-as-strategy ethos Trump fostered—and he said something else. That he was Trump’s closest friend.
We’ve all seen the video where Trump jokes about his “shared taste” with Epstein in young women. The photos. The parties. The lawsuits. The sworn testimony. The pattern.
Now the DOJ claims it has nothing? Not one redacted page? Not one name?
This isn’t transparency. It’s protection. It’s a system guarding itself.
A Nation That Kills Its Warnings—and Its Truth
So here we are: children dying in floods while the government dismantles the agencies meant to warn them. Known predators being shielded while survivors scream into a void. The rich protected, the rest of us abandoned. This isn’t a glitch—it’s the design.
We are ruled by a class of people who hoard both money and secrets. Who privatize safety and nationalize suffering. Who will let your children drown if it means one less billionaire’s name makes the headlines.
But if there’s any hope in this moment, it’s this: the lies are cracking. The cruelty is becoming impossible to ignore. The people are watching—and many are waking up.
We Deserve the Truth. We Deserve to Live.
This is not a time for despair. It’s a time for clarity.
If our government can’t warn us, we must warn each other.
If our courts won’t prosecute predators, we must never stop naming them.
If billionaires write the laws, then we must write a new future.
Because what’s happening isn’t inevitable—it’s intentional.
But so is resistance. So is truth-telling. So is solidarity.
Let the storm wake us. Let it tear away the veils of normalcy.
And let us build what comes next—not for the powerful, but for all of us.
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