Thursday, October 8, 2026

Tag: Donald Trump

China? A Rising Imperial Power?

Well, Yes... and Strangely, No

The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure...

If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?

The second worst MAGA Trump calamity – more than equal to...

Robert S. Becker on the deeper, still-unfolding costs of Trumpism beyond its constitutional violations.

That Time the US President threatened, “A Whole Civilization will die...

Tom Engelhardt on Donald Trump’s threats toward Iran, his “no new wars” promise of 2024, and a proposed $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget.

Bank regulator clears a Trump family crypto venture to open a...

The OCC's own decision letter records four commenters raising conflict-of-interest objections involving the president and his family, and the agency placing most of those questions outside the scope of its review.

Welcome to Dawn’s Barbecue: the Epstein files in a time of...

A meditation, part essay and part poem, on what the files show about power, impunity and the ease with which the harm of innocents is absorbed.

Fact-check finds U.S. strikes killed about 115 people before Venezuela raid

PolitiFact says the administration has offered no evidence of drugs aboard the targeted vessels, while analysts and rights groups question the strikes' legality.

Trump announces capture of Maduro after U.S. military strikes on Venezuela,...

As the captured Venezuelan leader was flown to New York to face federal charges, Senate Democrats moved to check what they called an unauthorized march toward another open-ended war.

If winning is everything, why are hardcore MAGA still locked in—blind...

Like the double sucker denying he’s been conned, MAGA says “thank you” after being fleeced. What MAGA got is an emotional escape value and theatrical echo chamber—sans benefits.

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Early voters wait inside a polling place in Florida. Photo: Alex Johnson / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Lawsuits ask courts to bar armed federal agents from polling places before the midterms

New Mexico has already barred them by state law, and the Department of Homeland Security says it has no plans for operations at polls.
A solar farm near Golmud, China, seen from orbit. Photo: Planet Labs, Inc. / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

China? A Rising Imperial Power?

Well, Yes... and Strangely, No
Nursing home workers on strike against HealthBridge in Connecticut, in an earlier dispute. Photo: Dannel Malloy / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Workers at six Chicago-area nursing homes set an October 16 strike date

The union says Landmark pays below the industry standard, and the parent company had not responded when the notice was reported.
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Kjetil Ree / CC BY-SA 3.0

Supreme Court justices send mixed signals as Boulder climate case reaches argument

A ruling for the oil companies could reach more than two dozen similar climate suits, none of which has gone to trial.
A view of Old Sana'a, Yemen. Photo: Ferdinand Reus / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Corporate Media don’t understand the Houthis, and Don’t Want to, Either

A media critique of how Western outlets cover Yemen's Houthi movement, which has governed the capital Sanaa since 2014.