It has begun. The first big-name journalist has been arrested. Why was Don Lemon arrested? Because he was relentlessly anti-Trump. The regime tried twice to get a magistrate and then an appeals court to sign off on a warrant to arrest him for covering a protest in a church. Twice they failed.
Finally, a U.S. attorney was able to convince a low-information grand jury of ignoramuses to grant the Bondi Trump-Epstein Protection Agency an indictment.
That the feds will lose this court case isn’t relevant to what just happened. This is all about intimidation.
This is when the weakest among us will hide in the basement while the whistles blow and pretend none of this is happening. They’ll hope it all blows over.
Those people don’t read Ruminato. I’m thankful for that.
I warned about this in this fictional short story that I originally wrote (and have since edited a few times) in 2016:
Ten fucking years ago. Ten.
It’s about a female journalist who disappears.
Did I mention I originally wrote this ten years ago?
This is your future unless you take action today. I don’t care what kind of action. Anything. You decide. This is the future you face. See those people in a glass cage in the photo below? Those are Russian journalists about to be processed, possibly for a long visit to Siberian prison camps. Why are some of them smiling? Who knows? Maybe somebody told a dark joke. Russians do that. Doesn’t matter. Click the image to see what all this leads to. Repression.
You think the Trump regime is done? You think ICE is the worst of all this? They’re just getting started. Drop everything you’re doing. Leave work if you have to. We are officially in the next stage. All hands on deck.
Here’s the link if the picture link doesn’t work for some reason:
https://cpj.org/2025/12/russias-repression-record/
Stay safe out there while you still can.
Your friend,
~ Charles



“ You think the Trump regime is done? You think ICE is the worst of all this? They’re just getting started. Drop everything you’re doing. Leave work if you have to. We are officially in the next stage. All hands on deck.”
I was thinking that exact same thing this morning. Please, people, stand up and be counted in opposition of this train wreck.