Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Decisive, literally defining ‘midterm’ for the ages

Does not this heart-warming stunner/ Fortify the winners as front-runner?

‘Democracy is not out of the woods yet’: Trump announces 2024 White House run

"To protect our democracy and our freedoms, we must make sure he never sets foot in the Oval Office again."
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Big midterm victories that give me hope for the future

Friends, regardless of the overall outcome of the midterms, have no doubt: progressives are the future.

Court bars Biden’s student debt relief program leaving program in legal limbo

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruling came after six states claimed that the debt relief plan "threatens their future tax revenues and circumvents congressional authority."

Congressional amendment opens floodgates for war profiteers and a major ground war on Russia

After the catastrophic wars and ballooning U.S. military budgets of the past 25 years, we should be wise by now to the escalatory nature of the vicious spiral in which we are caught.

This one thing may stop Trump from running for re-election

Far-right politicians are dragging America back to the 19th century.

Democrats didn’t win—they simply held the line 

Yes, it was a relief that increasingly fascist Republicans didn’t sweep the midterms. But our democratic standards cannot fall so low as to accept a split Congress.

Treading water, Biden needs what energizes progressives: vision

Rethugs corrupt politics as war,/ Sucker punching with doom, gloom and gore.

DOJ appeals as Trump judge blocks student debt cancellation with ‘farcical’ ruling

"A federal judge conspired with right-wing politicians and corrupt corporations to block life-changing student debt relief for tens of millions of families," said one campaigner.

Biden made it harder for Democrats to win. He’d be an albatross on the...

He’s a drag on the party, a boon to Republicans, and—if he runs again—he’d be a weak candidate against the GOP nominee in the 2024 presidential campaign.