I’ll share right here some articles this previous week that make clear America and the occasions through which we live.
In a quick put up on X, Alex Jacquez remarked that 20 million folks noticed their well being care premiums double as a result of they had been informed, it will price $30 billion to maintain the service going. However now we’re concerned in a struggle costing $1 billion per day and the president needs $200 billion extra from Congress to pay to maintain his struggle of alternative going whereas asserting we’ve already received it.
In a brand new listing of the happiest nations on earth, America now ranks at 24. On the prime are Finland, Denmark and Iceland.
Of 23 cupboard members, 20 have given direct funds totaling $30 million to President Trump or his pet tasks. “This isn’t regular—it’s corruption in plain sight,” remarks CREW. “Rich folks ought to NOT be capable to purchase affect inside the administration and put their pursuits above these of the American folks. Interval.” *
Schooling Secretary Linda McMahon gave over $20 million; Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over $10 million; and Small Enterprise Secretary Kelly Loeffler and husband over $3 million. As well as, McMahon and Bessent donated to the Trump Inauguration Fund which raised $251.4 million—“greater than double every other earlier inauguration on document.” Bessent additionally contributed to Trump’s $400 million greenback ballroom undertaking.
Robert Reich studies that “Paramount is on the verge of turning into the most important pro-Trump media monopoly in America.” Two of America’s largest information organizations—CBS and CNN—together with CBS Leisure (dwelling to Stephen Colbert who has been expelled starting in Could) and Comedy Central (Jon Stewart) and HBO (John Oliver) and TikTok (the place 1 out of 5 People now get their information) “are all about to change into one large mega-media monopoly” managed by father/son Trump sycophants, multi-billionaire Larry and David Ellison.
This merger “might make Rupert Murdoch’s media empire of Fox Information, the Wall Road Journal, and the New York Submit look scrupulous by comparability.”
Thus, Trump, who spends a lot of his day and evening watching Fox Information and hiring their workers (having made a part-time Fox host head of the Protection Division) “is on the verge of getting efficient management over a big media monopoly.” **
Residents can do one thing about this gigantic media monopoly, nevertheless. State attorneys normal maintain the ability to implement antitrust legal guidelines, and 9 states are suing to cease this merger. Whereas the DOJ won’t oppose it, Rob Bonta, the Legal professional Basic of California, is main the antitrust struggle in court docket. Reich urges “everybody to induce their state lawyer normal to hitch California’s lawsuit or launch a separate lawsuit.” The American folks have the ability to intervene with this merger, however should act shortly.
One other company media merger looms: Nexstar with Tegna. Rob Bonta can also be suing them and warns that if these two firms merge, they’ll consolidate their energy right into a behemoth that covers greater than 80% of TV households within the nation. It is a clear violation of federal antitrust legal guidelines and FCC guidelines. It could represent a “intestine punch to our democracy that depends on an knowledgeable inhabitants.” Donald Trump is pushing the merger. It could swallow up native information and “considerably reduce competitors….It’s unlawful, plain and easy.” ***
Amidst the barrage of stories in regards to the struggle in Iran, Epstein recordsdata, corruption in excessive authorities locations and media monopolies, we dare not lose sight of the calamity of local weather change and the struggling of Mom Earth, a disaster that guarantees disaster for tens of millions of people and different species as this century unfolds.
To be continued.
* Gabrielle Corporal and Honora Overby, 20 White Home cupboard members have directed a minimum of $30 million to learn Trump, Residents for Accountability and Ethics in Washington (CREW), March 10, 2026.
** Robert Reich, The Greatest Professional-Trump Media Monopoly Ever, Substack, March 6, 2026.
*** Rob Bonta, Legal professional Basic Bonta Recordsdata Lawsuit Looking for to Block $6.2 Billion Nexstar/Tegna Broadcasting Merger, State of California Division of Justice, March 18, 2026.
To learn the transcript of Matthew Fox’s video meditation, click on HERE.
Banner Picture: Trump’s second cupboard, August 2025. Photograph by the White Home. Wikimedia Commons.
Queries for Contemplation
How are you staying grounded whereas praying the information and listening to the stark realities of our occasions? How are you interfering and discovering allies to intervene with the dangerous information of our occasions?
Associated Readings by Matthew Fox
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice.
Sins of the Spirit, Blessing of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul & Society.
Trump & the MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ.
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth.
Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient For a New Technology.
Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jen Listug, Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Imaginative and prescient of Love and Motion.
Unique Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.
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