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Congress unanimously passed (minus 1 vote) the Epstein Files Transparency Act that mandates the DOJ to release records related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell while protecting victim identities. Sen. John Husted was the only “no” vote for the release of the Epstein files because he accepted a $116,892 campaign donation from Les Wexner – who is in the files. Trump signed the bill into law although the passage was veto proof. He had no choice. The DOJ has not only not complied with the law, they have redacted names of rapists, sex traffickers, and pedophiles while releasing names, contact information, and pictures of victims. The victim’s names were released to intimidate them and to prevent other victims from testifying. The DOJ has also withheld millions of documents. They have neither indicted a single person nor interviewed any of the victims. Attorney General Pam Bondi is protecting rapists, sex traffickers, and pedophiles because the release of the files in accordance with...

Trump’s method of operation when events don’t go his way is to attack, counter-attack, never apologize, and never admit defeat. Trump was raised by his racist, slum-lord father Fred, who kept Trump from bankruptcy multiple times. Trump’s later tactics were learned from Roy Cohn, a ruthless New York lawyer who was disbarred for “unethical and unprofessional conduct, including misappropriation of clients' funds, lying on a bar application, and falsifying a change to a will.” After his death in 1986, most of Cohn’s assets were seized by the IRS for tax fraud. Trump is a racist as shown by his recent social media post of the Obamas. He is a Nazi as shown by his collaborations with self-proclaimed Nazi Elon Musk. Trump has the support of the rich because of his tax cuts. He essentially bought their support because they are spineless sycophants who surrender morals and ethics over profits. If you support Trump, you would have supported Hitler and you would have supported slavery and the ...

Trump's creation of an undertrained and over funded army of rabid masked federal agents has nothing to do with deportations. I.C.E. was changed into his personal police force to instill fear in any area he decides that needs to be punished for not supporting him enough. It has little to do with immigration and customs enforcement. In Minneapolis, two peaceful protestors were murdered by Trump's I.C.E. gestapo. Regardless of multiple angles of videos showing the executions, the Trump administration claimed that the two protestors were domestic terrorists, in direct opposition to the video evidence and analysis by multiple independent agencies. Three Trump agents must be charged with the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. As a reminder to Fox “News”, Noem, Vance and others spreading lies – remember Julius Streicher. He was a Nazi propagandist who was aware of murders by the Nazis but continued the vile rhetoric. He was the first Nazi hanged for his actions. We know what we sa...

Trump recently mentioned that many people call him a dictator then added “sometimes you need a dictator.” Trump's history shows that he incubates insane ideas and gradually builds on them unless stopped. His obsession with Greenland – one of many – started during his first term. Trump wants to remain in office to avoid prison, and to do this he must become a dictator, another insane idea. His methods parallel those of Hitler: attack journalists and media, create a personal police force (I.C.E.), use the “Justice” department to attack perceived political opponents, deny election results unless favorable, attack peaceful protesters, and use violence to further his agenda to impose martial law to cancel elections. Cruelty in their actions is the point. Trump and his fellow traitors – including his entire administration and many members of Congress – should drop the pretense and don brown shirts with swastikas. John L. Ferri Towanda Daily Review, Letter to Editor, January 29, 2026

“Timeless” is a time travel science fiction series currently streaming on Prime. Its premise is that a terrorist has stolen a time machine and traveled into the past to alter the history of the United States and possibly the world. One of three protagonists is a black male computer specialist and time machine pilot. Their first mission in a prototype of the stolen time machine is to 1937. When the pilot is told that he is essential and must go, he replies, “I am black. There is literally no place in American history that would be awesome for me.” “Awesome” would be at the bottom of a list that describes conditions in the United States for minorities and women since its founding. The founders were humans and knew that what they created was not “awesome” for all – especially Native Americans, Blacks, women, or anyone not considered white – but did strive to improve the union to be “more perfect”. Conditions were improving. Then along comes Trump. Trump and his cult don’t have a time ma...

To the editor: In a recent “ Letter from an American ” (March 15), Historian Heather Cox Richardson recounted the motivating factors that created the Republican Party. Southern landowners (whose wealth was based on free slave labor) were pushing Congress to pass laws that would permit the spread of slavery in the West to gain leverage over the North. A group of Northern politicians from different parties joined together “to stop the Slave Power that was turning the government into an oligarchy.” In 1856, the Republican Party was founded, and in 1859 Abraham Lincoln defined the party as one of “ordinary Americans standing together against the oligarchs of slavery.” Bradford County has many good “ordinary Americans” who consider themselves ‘conservative’ and are registered Republicans. They believe in the once-accepted platform of limited government, fiscal responsibility, law and order, support for veterans. Many of them believed that Trump, master salesman and liar, had their backs. To...

Every order from the Trump Administration is on behalf of Trump's handler, Vladimir Putin. Every order hurts the United States and helps Russia. A few examples follow: -- Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded the Foreign Influence Task Force which investigated violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. -- Bondi disbanded Task Force KleptoCapture which monitored sanctions against Russia. -- Bondi disbanded the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force. -- Elon Musk gave a 19-year-old with ties to Russia and cybercrime full access to systems and data at the U.S. Government Cybercrime Agency. -- Trump's CIA director sent a list of CIA employees to the White House in an unclassified email. Trump is also giving out security clearances without background checks. -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. Cyber Command to halt offensive operations against Russia. -- Trump is shutting down U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that supports programs for health, ...

I have been a lifelong Republican. As a Vietnam combat veteran and former law enforcement officer, I have been a proud American all my life. Watching the spectacle that took place in the White House on Feb. 28 has made me ashamed to be a Republican and an American. When Ukraine was attacked, and it appeared Russia would overtake their country, we Americans stepped up and vowed to help the Ukrainians, which rallied their people to fight on. Because we Americans promised to support them until Putin was defeated, they sacrificed hundreds of thousands of their soldiers and civilians. Our country’s loudest supporters were our Republican leaders. They encouraged the Ukrainian people to fight on and to sacrifice. These Republican leaders in the House of Representatives and the Senate as well as the governors now are silent, afraid to stand as proud men and women, cowards to position and power. Because we change presidents should not change our country’s promises. I, for one, will change my po...

Dear Editor Keeler, Your editorial last week about the re-renaming of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, contains historical errors and misunderstanding. As a grad student of history at the University of Alabama, I learned that Confederate place names and statues across the South had absolutely nothing to do with “an effort to ease tensions between the North and South, heal wounds and reunite the country,” as you stated. This is far from the truth. Fort Bragg was named in 1918 (as you pointed out). The Civil War ended in 1865 and none of the efforts to honor the Confederacy took place until after most of its’ veterans (on both sides) had died. The elevation of Confederate “heroes” was part of white southern efforts to reassert domination. It’s not a coincidence that the Confederate statues, names and romanticism about “the lost cause,” took place right along with Jim Crow laws, the rise of the KKK and the scourge of lynching. All of them were designed to scare and oppress the blac...