Current Events – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:31:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Current Events – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 How the First Amendment Is Being Hollowed Out in Plain Sight https://brewminate.com/how-the-first-amendment-is-being-hollowed-out-in-plain-sight/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:26:42 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=268981 Dissent labeled disruptive, reframed as dangerous, institutionalized as a threat, enforced through executive power, and finally normalized as

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]]> How the Fourth Amendment Is Being Eroded in Real Time https://brewminate.com/how-the-fourth-amendment-is-being-eroded-in-real-time/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:24:07 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=268994 The Fourth Amendment was designed as a structural restraint on power, not a negotiable privilege contingent on circumstance,

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]]> Politics Has Always Been a Game, So Why Does It Feel Like We’re Being Cheated Now? https://brewminate.com/politics-has-always-been-a-game-so-why-does-it-feel-like-were-being-cheated-now/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:03:13 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=268902 From golf course antics to constitutional power grabs, Donald Trump’s rule-bending reveals how narcissistic politics risks breaking democracy

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]]> Political Gambling: Legalities, Ethics, and Bias in Betting on Elections https://brewminate.com/political-gambling-legalities-ethics-and-bias-in-betting-on-elections/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:02:04 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=268909 Polymarket in its present state is representative of the United States at large: rooted in populist ideals, but

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]]> Classroom Crusades: When Public Schools Become Instruments of Religious Ideology https://brewminate.com/classroom-crusades-when-public-schools-become-instruments-of-religious-ideology/ Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:20:27 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=268858 The Cy-Fair election stands as a reminder that democratic mechanisms still function when citizens recognize what is at

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]]> Trump’s Plan to Overhaul (Destroy) Public Education https://brewminate.com/trumps-plan-to-overhaul-destroy-public-education/ Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:19:27 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=268850 Explaining how McMahon and her advisers are reenvisioning the nation’s educational system and what that could mean for

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]]> Groomed: Trump Is Acting Exactly as a Russian Asset Would https://brewminate.com/groomed-trump-is-acting-exactly-as-a-russian-asset-would/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:17:08 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=268451 As Eastern Europe slides into a new era of fear and uncertainty, the White House steadfastly follows a

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]]> Greenland, NATO, and the Politics of Strategic Disruption https://brewminate.com/greenland-nato-and-the-politics-of-strategic-disruption/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:16:06 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=268458 The question is not whether Greenland will ever change hands. It is whether the alliances that structure global

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]]> Destruction from Within: Trump and the Suicide of the American Republic https://brewminate.com/destruction-from-within-trump-and-the-suicide-of-the-american-republic/ Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:01:40 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267550 When Abraham Lincoln warned that the republic could die by suicide, he was not speaking about foreign enemies,

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]]> Trump’s Coup Matures: The Destruction of the Legislative Process https://brewminate.com/trumps-coup-matures-the-destruction-of-the-legislative-process/ Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:00:54 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267503 By undermining core constitutional legislative processes, authoritarianism supplants democracy, thereby clearing a path to fascism. By Tim KippRetired

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