# trumps america (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover trumps america. Page: Feed: --- ## [🌎 How Democracies Fight Back, Part Two: What a Court's "No" Is Actually Worth Under Trump](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/how-democracies-fight-back-part-two) _2026-08-23 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ Judges are still ruling against Trump. Whether those rulings survive the appeal is the harder question. ## [How Democracies Fight Back, Part One: What Institutional Resistance Looks Like Under Trump](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/how-democracies-fight-back-part-one) _2026-08-16 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ A president who treats court rulings as suggestions, and an attorney general who treats independence as a talking point. ## [How Trump's America Is Engineering a System That Cannot Lose](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/how-trumps-america-is-engineering) _2026-08-10 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ How Marcos, Franco, and Lukashenko tried to design their own permanence, and why Trump’s America is engineering the same system ## [In Trump's America, Independent Institutions Are Learning What Happens When They Resist.](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/in-trumps-america-independent-institutions) _2026-08-02 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ Part 9 of The Strongman's Playbook: strangle civil society, and the citizens who disagree have no institutions through which to act on that disagreement. ## [In Trump's America, Loyalty Is Being Made Profitable. History Shows Where That Leads.](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/in-trumps-america-loyalty-is-being) _2026-07-26 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ Strongmen do not survive on fear alone. They create supporters with a financial stake in the regime's survival. Self-interest is more durable than conviction. ## [🎙️ Watch: "They're Eating the Dogs." Trump's Manufactured Enemy — and What History Says Comes Next.](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/watch-theyre-eating-the-dogs-trumps) _2026-07-23 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ 🎙️ Morning Comments — The Planet, The Strongman's Playbook Part 7 [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208228455/46b09ba056d7cb0168552a6b2c7f1a90.mp3) ## [Trump Called Democrats Communists 81 Times in Two Weeks. History Knows This Technique.](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/trump-called-democrats-communists) _2026-07-22 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ How Orbán manufactured Hungary’s enemies, and Bolsonaro built a communist conspiracy — and why Trump is following the same script ## [How Trump's America Is Using History the Way Every Strongman Uses It: As a Weapon](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/how-trumps-america-is-using-history) _2026-07-12 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ Orbán spent fifteen years rewriting Hungarian history through schools, museums, and public space. Trump is doing it faster and more visibly — but the technique is identical. ## [How Trump Is Using the Law the Way Peru's and South Korea's Strongmen Did. They Both Received Life Sentences.](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/how-trump-is-using-the-law-the-way) _2026-07-05 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ Part 5 of The Strongman's Playbook: The system does not need to convict everyone. It needs only to make clear that the law applies differently depending on where you stand in relation to power. ## [I Have Loved America Since I Was a Boy. That Makes This Harder to Write.](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/i-have-loved-america-since-i-was) _2026-07-04 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ The country I have admired since my childhood in Europe is rewriting its own story. Here is what I see. ## [One Cloud, Every AI Layer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LBL3fGJAMlJz) _2026-07-04 · **Sponsored**_ Run agents, inference, and infrastructure on one stack — economics improve as you scale. ## ["You're Fired." Trump Can Now Say That to the People Who Protect You From Fraud, Nuclear Risk, and Unsafe Products.](https://theplanet.substack.com/p/youre-fired-trump-can-now-say-that) _2026-06-29 · Alexander Verbeek · The Planet 🌎_ How step 1 of the Strongman's Playbook made today's ruling possible, what I wrote yesterday, and what Morning Compass reported this morning. ## [The Three Faces of Trump's Immigration Terror Campaign](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/the-three-faces-of-trumps-immigration) _2026-03-12 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ When ICE agents told Elaine Miles her Tribal ID looked "fake," they revealed the truth about who this crackdown actually targets. ## [We Don't Need a Trumped-Up Fairy Tale.](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/we-dont-need-a-trumped-up-fairy-tale) _2026-02-10 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ From erased slavery exhibits to silenced climate science, our National Parks are being forced to tell a comfortable story instead of the real one. ## [The State of America's Natural Resources: 2025 Was a Disaster. Here's What's Coming.](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/the-state-of-americas-natural-resources) _2026-01-09 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ Clean energy. The Roadless Rule. Climate exhibits at national parks. All under attack in Trump's America. Our year-end report on the state of America's natural resources—and how Democrats fought back. ## [What If You Couldn't Stop a Pipeline — Even After Proving It Would Poison Your Water?](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/what-if-you-couldnt-stop-a-pipeline) _2025-12-17 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ Under a Republican proposal, a project can be proven illegal, dangerous, and based on lies. Republicans are saying build it anyway. ## [Broken Promises: How Trump's America Eroded Tribal Lands, Traditions, and Self-Governance](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/broken-promises-how-trumps-america) _2025-11-28 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ Indigenous peoples are fundamental to the history of the United States. Yet, this Native American Heritage Month, the promise of respect and the guarantee of treaties feel more precarious than ever. ## [He built a ballroom for billionaires and sold off the Arctic.](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/he-built-a-ballroom-for-billionaires) _2025-11-10 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ The Arctic is the latest chapter in Trump’s shutdown playbook to feed Big Oil and corporate polluters while starving American workers. ## [It’s Polluters’ Payday While Americans Suffer in Trump’s Shutdown](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/its-polluters-payday-while-americans) _2025-10-28 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ Millions of Americans will miss their paychecks. Trump is making sure Big Oil doesn’t miss theirs. ## [The Bigger Burn of the Trump Shutdown](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/the-bigger-burn-of-the-trump-shutdown) _2025-10-16 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ Each day Republicans keeps the government shut down, America loses another chance to prevent the next wildfire disaster. ## [Shuttered and Sacrificed: The Price of Trump’s Shutdown to Parks and People](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/shuttered-and-sacrificed-the-price) _2025-10-01 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ Why America’s parks and people are collateral damage in the Republican shutdown ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ii3I3VP0VP1d) _2025-10-01 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [Welcome to Field Notes!](https://naturalresourcesdemocrats.substack.com/p/welcome-to-field-notes) _2025-09-29 · Natural Resources Democrats · Field Notes_ A Democratic voice for strong communities, public lands, and clean air & water