Welcome to the New "This is Satire?"
In the Ongoing Battle to Expose Corruption and Injustice, We Introduce Our New Streamlined Sections
We are often asked whether what we write is satire. we say yes. When asked whether it is journalism, we also say yes. How can that be?
Journalism is the activity of gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting news and information. It is also the product of these activities.
Satire is a literary form where wit, irony, or sarcasm is used to expose and discredit vice or folly.
Both elements are indispensable to democratic societies. The more open a society is, the more robust the marketplace of information and idea it tends to have.
Our aim is to expose corruption and injustice by presenting information about lies, hypocrisy, graft, malfeasance, and all forms of shadiness. We use wit, irony, and sarcasm to do these things. Many stories are about the machinery of government and those who have taken public oaths.
What you read and see here draws substantial elements from classic investigative journalism and satire, but it is a genre all its own. At its core, it is a politically expressive approach.
Accordingly, we have divided our investigative and creative product into several lines, each of which has its own email subscription. You can subscribe to some or all, given your area of interest.
This is Satire?
A call to all Thought Criminals. This remains our central brand focused on exposing corruption, oathbreakers, gaslighting, and censorship. We will continue to provide a wide range of stories on these topics. You will receive all articles with this subscription, including about Corruption, the Courts, NXIVM (courtesy of Frank Report, the authority on the issue), Political Satire, and Guest Opinion.
Luthmann's War
Richard Luthmann exposes truth while fighting oathbreakers, institutional injustice, and corruption through free expression. He also searches for the good. What you read and see here draws substantial elements from classic investigative journalism and satire, but it is a genre all its own. At its core, it is a politically expressive approach aimed at commentary on hypocrisy in all its forms. Topics here include corrupt courts, prisons, and governmental figures, and also the exact opposite - individuals and groups fighting for the good.
The Fake Facebook Case
Receive emails related to People v. Luthmann, its origins, and its aftermath, including the latest news on the case. Will Judge Ronald Castorina lose his black robe because of perjury? Will Deadbeat NYC Councilwoman Kamillah Hanks and her Millionaire Sugar Daddy Kevin Barry Love go down? Will Special Prosecutor Eric Nelson's dishonesty and felonious misconduct be punished? What is Judy and Mike McMahon's role in all of this? And will Luthmann get vindicated? Subscribe to stay up to date.
Family Court Corruption
We shine a light on corruption in Family Courts. Subscribe for the latest news. more than in any other arena, we find stories about how money and power, graft, corruption, and pseudo-science, destroy families. Here, the vulnerable are most often children with little recourse, laden with a lifetime of pain.
Pay Walls
We will begin instituting paywalls on some of our content. This is a matter of practicality and fairness. Investigative and creative work requires resources, and we must be fair to those who have subscribed. We also believe that information should be available for all to consume. The general policy is that paywalls will remain up for 72 hours after publication. This will give our paying supporters exclusive, first-look access…potentially before the authorities start breaking down doors.
The “Why?”
Our constitutional republic is at a time of crossroads and crisis. We are compelled to label this work both “journalism” and “satire” to receive protections the Bill of Rights affords for both newsgathering and free expression.
Oathbreakers who control the machinery of government have weaponized justice to their own ends. Freedom of speech and the press are under assault like no time before in American history. We have seen the corrupting effects of a hazardous partnership between Establishment Governmental interests and a “Corporate Media.” More and more, dissent is becoming stifled.
We are Minuteman standing on the front lines defending the fundamental rights of our constitutional republic to collect information, disseminate that information, and opine and express uncensored and “unauthorized” narratives about these topics without fear of pretextual governmental retribution.
An authoritarian would label us Though Criminals. And by entering this arena in today’s America, you may become one as well.
"Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.” (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, more obscure than public opinion, and more deceptive than the whole political system.)
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The news media is a critical check on the powerful, serving as a watchdog to hold elected officials and other public figures accountable for their actions. The media was first called the fourth estate in 1821 by Edmund Burke, who wanted to point out the power of the press. The press plays a crucial role in providing citizens with access to information about what is happening in government and by shining a light on corruption, abuse of power, and other forms of wrongdoing.
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