Background Briefing with Ian Masters

The Strategy Behind Trump's War on the So-Called Legacy Media | An Assessment of How the Senate Democrats Might Extricate Themselves From the Government Shutdown Trap | Having Decided Chuck Schumer Is No Longer Jewish, Trump's Conflation of Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Americanism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

With Trump Attacking Free Speech on Campuses, Expect Patel and Bongino to Order the FBI to Round Up Trump's Critics and Those on Patel's Enemies List? | The Dilemma Senate Democrats Face Whether to Vote For a Bad Bill or Stand up to Trump and Musk and Risk a Government Shutdown | Trump's Losing Strategy of Wooing Putin Away From Xi and Musk's Outsized Influence Over China Policy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump's Escalating Trade War Against Canada Has the Business Roundtable He's Meeting With Nervous | Trump Tries to Deport a Student Protester With a Green Card He Labels as "Pro-Terrorist, Anti-Semitic and Anti-American | As Tesla Stock Plunges by 40%, the World's Richest Man is Beginning to Feel a Reversal of Fortune backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Courts are the Only Remaining Barrier to MAGA Fascism | The Threat to the Dollar and the Brazen Corruption of Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve | Trump's War on Education will Create an American Idiocracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump's March 6 Executive Order Signals His Revenge Tour in Underway With Bondi, Patel, Bongino, Ratcliffe and Gabbard as the Executioners | An Update on How Ukraine is Surviving After Trump Cuts Off Intelligence And Arms | As Trump Eyes Canada, Greenland and Gaza, Climate Change Will Lead to Land and Resource Grabs

The Similarities Between Trump and Musk Tearing America Apart and What Mao Did to China in the Cultural Revolution | An Assessment on How Much the Musk Assault on Government is Performative as Our Reality TV President Governs By Stunt backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump and Musk's Blitzkrieg Coup Underway to Replace American Democracy With a Plutocracy | Trump Laid the Groundwork to Destroy Social Security With Last Night's Deliberate Demonization | Will the People Wake Up and Boot Out the Wrecking Crew Before Our Electoral System is Rigged? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Trump's Assault On Our Friends and Neighbors As He Rewards Our Enemies | How the Tariffs Will Hit Working and Middle Class Americans With a $3,000 Tax Hike | What Will the Democrats Do Tonight at the SOTU in the Face of a Blizzard of Trump Lies? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

The Trump White House Follows the Kremlin Model Elevating Conspiracy Theorists, Propagandists and Far Right Influencers to Deliver the News | The Grift and Corruption at the Heart of Trump's Sellout to Putin | The Republicans Have Decided to Sacrifice the House in 2026 to Give Away the Store to the Plutocracy Music: Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rich Exuma – Subway Bound For Hell backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

Zelensky, Who Wants to Make Peace, Gets Steamrolled By Trump Who Wants to Make a Deal | Will Trump's Capitulation to Putin Improve Ties or Give Putin a Second Wind to Cause More Mayhem? | Can Ukraine's NATO Allies Fill the Gap as Trump Abandons Ukraine to Putin? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia