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Wolves in White Coats: How Hospitals Profited from Turning Children into Lifelong Medical Patients

For years, parents were told that “gender-affirming care” for minors was compassionate, evidence-based medicine. A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reveals a far darker reality: a system of financial incentives, questionable billing practices, ideological capture, and inadequate safeguards that funneled distressed children onto irreversible medical pathways while generating steady revenue for hospitals and clinics.

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Lawrence O’Donnell Calls Trump a “Deeply Cowardly Man.” The Record Says Otherwise.

Lawrence O’Donnell has spent years trafficking in the word “coward” when it comes to Donald Trump. On the August 11–12, 2026 edition of The Last Word, he took the charge further than usual. Reacting to a Washington Post report about a Secret Service deception operation in Turkey, O’Donnell declared that “no president has ever done more than Donald Trump to reveal himself to be a deeply cowardly man.” He insisted Trump measures heroism by Hollywood movies rather than real life, that the president wants the world to see him as “the physically bravest president ever” while being “the laziest,” and that Trump failed his own “Hollywood Hero Test” by not personally killing Iranian assassins the way Harrison Ford’s character does in Air Force One.

August 13, 20264 min read
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Hasan Piker’s Radical Record: Extreme Statements and the Progressive Democrats Who Embrace Him

Hasan Piker (HasanAbi) has built one of the largest audiences on the American left through long Twitch streams that blend gaming, lifestyle content, and socialist politics. With millions of followers, he has become an influential voice and campaign surrogate for parts of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. His record, however, includes a series of extreme statements on terrorism, political violence, America, and Israel.

August 10, 20265 min read
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The Truth About Socialism: What It Is, Why It Fails, and Why It Matters

Socialism is the public or collective ownership and control of the means of production—factories, land, capital, and natural resources—typically directed by the state or central planning rather than private owners and market prices. Its classical aim is production for use and more equal distribution of wealth, in explicit contrast to capitalism’s private property, voluntary exchange, and profit-and-loss signals.

August 10, 20268 min read

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