Saturday, August 29, 2026

Gov. Newsom signs legislation to prohibit use of algorithms to artificially raise prices on...

Advocates of the law called AB 325 "groundbreaking" and said it's a "critical step in addressing California's affordability crisis by cracking down on tech-enabled price manipulation."

What if every American entering the government had to take a lie detector and...

Let's explore a fictitious scenario in which every person who wanted to be considered for a government job would have to take both a lie detector and a mental test, and pass them, to be accepted.

MAGA men, rage, and the road to nowhere

And no less unfortunately, we’re speeding down it quickly with a maniac in the driver’s seat, and it lacks the guardrails of a law-abiding Supreme Court and a constitutionally aware secretary of defense.

Hegseth: The gathering, post-mortem: ‘No more dudes in dresses…No more beardos’

Trump and his minions do not deal with history or reality, only a mish-mash of self-serving fantasies.

Judge halts Trump’s Portland troop plan as governors warn of martial law

Federal judge Karin Immergut blocks National Guard deployments to Oregon and beyond as the White House escalates rhetoric and appeals the ruling.

The Kimmel fight revealed the anti-Trump opposition’s secret weapon

The people have more power than we realize. And the people in power are terrified of it.

In the Autumn of America’s Empire

How Trump is demolishing U.S. global power and its world order.

Organizers plan massive Oct. 18 ‘No Kings’ protests as Trump escalates attacks on dissent

Organizers say more than 2,110 protests across all 50 states will build on June’s nationwide actions, as Trump expands National Guard deployments, ICE raids, and rhetoric about cities as “training grounds.”

Children died waiting after Trump freeze of USAID stranded lifesaving drugs

A Washington Post investigation found that Trump’s suspension of USAID operations disrupted a $900 million global health pipeline, leaving malaria and HIV medications stuck in warehouses while children in the Democratic Republic of Congo died just miles from supplies.

Twenty years after Katrina, the city’s all-charter schools system is failing many families

Despite claims by reform advocates of achieving success, Black children and parents continue to endure a punitive, impersonal, and undemocratic system.