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🚨 NEW Charlatan Story Today: ♻️ Blue State, Red Flags: Even Our ‘Climate Leaders’ Aren’t Leading — Read More in What Matters

🔎 What’s an Idiot? What’s a Charlatan?

Idiots are distractions — people or stories that steal attention from the issues that truly matter. Whether intentional or ignorant, they’re always off-track.

Charlatans are worse. They deceive, manipulate, or exploit others to erode democracy, dignity, truth, or justice — what we call our nonnegotiables.

This website exposes the Idiots so we can stay focused on the Charlatans — the ones doing the lasting harm.

Charlatans (What Matters)

  • ♻️ Blue State, Red Flags: Even Our ‘Climate Leaders’ Aren’t Leading
  • ⚖️ Venezuela’s Resource Wealth May Be Real Target of Trump Chokehold
  • 🤝 UN Says Israeli Ops in Gaza Meet Genocide Criteria; Gov. in Turmoil Over Leaked Abuse Video
  • ♻️ Environmental Orgs Sue Trump Admin to Reinstate Restrictions on Toxic Air Emissions

Idiots (Ignore These)

  • Trump’s $2,000 Tariff Bonus Wouldn’t Even Pay Back the Price Hikes He Already Triggered
  • DT: “Get Back to Work, NOW!!!” —  Air-Traffic Controllers Who Took Even One Day Off Will Be “Substantially ‘Docked”
  • Floating a Third Term
  • Trump’s Golden Ballroom: Champagne Taste on a Shutdown Budget

Courage

  • ♻️ Small Island Leader Not Afraid to Slam Trump’s Eco-Denial
  • ♻️ Al Gore Slams Climate Inaction at UN’s COP30: “Literally Insane That We Are Letting This Continue”
  • 📢 ProPublica Shines a Light on Border-Czar Conflicts — and Forces an Ethics Look

Boo These Cowards

  • ♻️ Bill Gates Pivots on Climate ‘While the World Burns’: Innovation More Important Than Emissions
  • 🤝 SC Rep Mace Flips Out in Airport Tirade at Unpaid TSA Agents and Airport Police
  • 🗳️ Best Reason for NYC Not to Vote Cuomo: He’s Flaunting a Trump Endorsement

ActNow

  • 🗽 November UU Action Hour: Dignity Not Deportations Teach-In
  • ⚖️ Remove the Regime” National Protest — Peaceful mass protest to demand an end to attacks on democracy and the rule of law
  • ♻️ Rally at the Capitol: Stop Clean Energy Bans and Polluter Giveaways, Washington D.C.

Support These Groups

  • 🗽 League of Women Voters
  • 🗽 LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of Massachusetts
  • 🗽 Democracy without Borders
  • 📢 Reporters without Borders
  • 📢 ACLU Free Speech Project
  • 📢 PEN America
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