The Other 98%

31/05/2026

“Nobody is above the law,” said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, “including agents of the federal government.”

“Nobody is above the law,” said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, “including agents of the federal government.”…

30/05/2026

The states that scream loudest about being "pro-life" are the most dangerous places in America to actually be a pregnant woman or a newborn baby. Every year the data comes back and says the same thing, and every year they ignore it.

Picture a young mother in Texas. She does everything she's told. She carries the pregnancy because the state left her no choice.

And then she's nearly twice as likely to die in childbirth as a mother one state over where abortion is still legal.

In Texas, maternal deaths jumped by more than half after the ban took effect. In the states that protected access, mothers started surviving at higher rates.

The difference between those two outcomes is policy. It's a choice somebody made.

Now picture her baby.

In the ban states, hundreds of infants have died who, by every prior trend, should still be here.

Babies born with conditions where the family was given no options, no mercy, no say.
The smallest, most vulnerable lives the movement swears it exists to protect, dying in greater numbers because of the very laws sold as protection.

And here's the part that exposes the whole thing. The same states forcing the births are the ones fighting hardest against the things that keep a child alive after it arrives.

They lead the country in child poverty. They block Medicaid. They cut childcare. They gut school lunches. In Louisiana, a quarter of all children grow up poor.

They demand the baby be born, then abandon it the moment it draws breath.

That is not a pro-life agenda. That is a pro-birth agenda, and there is a vast and deadly difference between the two.

A movement that actually loved life would pour everything into keeping mothers and babies alive. It would look at the states burying more of both and say, never again.

Instead it looks away, because the suffering was never the problem. Control was always the point.

They will tell you they're saving lives. The graves in their own states say otherwise.

30/05/2026

30/05/2026

On day one of his second term, Trump signed an order that didn't make a single headline you saw, and it just helped corporate America vanish $40 billion in taxes onto islands like Malta and Bermuda where these companies have no offices, no workers, and apparently no obligations.

A New York Times review of filings from nearly 500 companies found corporate America dodged at least $40 BILLION in income taxes since the start of 2025 by stashing profits in places like Malta, Bermuda, Cyprus and the Caymans. Money earned here, taxed nowhere.

Forty billion.

This is the same crowd that swears there is no money for childcare, for insulin caps, for fixing one crumbling bridge.

Here is the part they would rather you not connect. On his first day back in office, Trump signed an executive order declaring the global tax deal has "no force or effect" in the United States, pulling out of a 13-year international effort to stop exactly this kind of shell-game accounting.

Then his G7 cut a "side-by-side" deal in June 2025 that fully exempts American multinationals from the global minimum tax every other country agreed to pay.
So the cleanup crew got sent home, and the looting resumed.

Thermo Fisher carved $3.5 billion off its taxes through Malta. Honeywell, which has pulled more than $30 billion in Pentagon contracts over the past decade, used Swiss units to slice its rate by a quarter. Your tax dollars fund their contracts. Their accountants make sure none of it comes back.

Pepsi routed billions through Ireland and Bermuda, even lending itself $26 billion to make the math work. American Express used the island of Jersey to skip $423 million. Crocs, the company that sells you foam clogs, used a Maltese office it does not physically occupy to keep $47 million.

There is money. It is sitting in a filing cabinet on an island none of these executives have ever set foot on, behind a door with nobody behind it.

A teacher in Ohio cannot incorporate herself in Bermuda. A nurse cannot sign her paycheck over to a shell in Cyprus. You follow rules they spent millions rewriting so they would never have to.

They did not get away with it. They were handed it.