ICYMI: The Week the Constitution Cried
5 Stories You May Have Missed, But Definitely Shouldn't Have
Hey fam, welcome back to ICYMI, where we take the week’s jaw-dropping political horrors and stitch them together into a quilt of "holy sh*t." Buckle up. This one’s got missiles, silencers, deported toddlers, and one very sanctimonious bureaucrat with a god complex. Let’s roll.
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THE THREE BRANCHES & THE ONE THEY’RE TRYING TO DELETE
The Civics crisis isn’t new. But this week, The Coffman Chronicle broke down exactly how Trump 2.0 is finishing the job — dismantling the balance of powers one shrug at a time. Congress? Neutered. The presidency? Swollen with executive orders. The courts? A partisan sledgehammer. And the public? Left out — not by accident, but by design.
The forgotten “Fourth Branch” is us. If we don’t wake up, the blueprint will become a tombstone.
The Three Branches & the Forgotten Fourth: Why Civics is the Battle for Our Democracy
Most Americans can’t name the three branches of government. Fewer can explain what they actually do. That’s not a dig; it’s by design. Civics has been stripped from classrooms, drowned in cable news brawls, and buried under decades of distraction.
THE SILENCERS AREN’T METAPHORICAL ANYMORE
We’re now living in a country where the federal government is fighting harder to protect silencers than students. Trump’s budget slashes food aid, but gives a $1B tax break to sound-muffling gun accessories. He also cut deals to legalize rapid-fire trigger mods. Add a DOJ that’s ghosting background checks and an ATF told to look the other way, and you’ve got a recipe for silent massacres.
This isn’t gun policy. It’s a death pact.
Trump 2.0’s Quiet War on Gun Safety
In 2024, America averaged more than one mass shooting per day. That year alone saw 586 mass shootings, resulting in 711 deaths and over 2,300 injuries, according to the Gun Violence Archive. These weren’t isolated tragedies. They were a steady drumbeat of trauma that bled through schools, grocery stores, churches, and public gatherings.
GOLDEN DOME, BRASS BALLS
While folks are rationing insulin, Trump is pitching a $500 billion “Golden Dome” missile shield in space, a vanity project with no plan, no working tech, and no justification beyond the fact that it makes him feel like a god-king.
Meanwhile, Medicaid is on the chopping block. Again. Because in this dystopia, security means a space laser before safe housing.
Trump's Golden Dome: Vanity at the Expense of the Vulnerable
While families across the U.S. struggle to afford groceries, housing, and life-saving medication, the federal government is preparing to spend up to $500 billion on a missile defense system in space, a project President Trump has dubbed the “Golden Dome.” It’s being sold as national security. In truth, it’s national theater. A vanity project cloaked in …
DEPORTED TO NOWHERE
This one should have broken the news cycle: Trump’s deportation machine is now sending migrants to third countries they’ve never been to. Ukraine, South Sudan, Panama — even if you’re from Laos or Cuba. Some are legal residents. Some are children. Some are U.S. citizens.
It’s not enforcement. It’s erasure. Bureaucratic vanishing acts for the vulnerable. A paid global network of exile.
THE CLEAN SERMON OF ROGER SEVERINO
He doesn’t scream. He purifies. Trump’s former HHS civil rights chief, Roger Severino, is back — and he’s armed with a 900-page plan to replace healthcare with holy water. Under Project 2025, Severino wants to strip civil rights protections, gut reproductive access, and declare moral objections a license to deny care.
He calls it “conscience.” We call it theocracy with a stethoscope.
Part of our ongoing series on the people and institutions behind the madness.
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We don’t have golden domes.
We have each other.
And the truth still matters.
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