Wednesday, April 8, 2026

DHS buys two Gulfstream G700 jets for Noem and top officials amid shutdown

Amid one of the longest government shutdowns, records show a $172 million contract for two “used” G700s as Democrats demand answers on funding and oversight.

Victims without victimizers

But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for the basic needs of its people?

Trump-GOP giveaway to Big Pharma will hit taxpayers with $9 billion in higher drug...

The budget office said it now expects the provision of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act to cost $8.8 billion over the next 10 years.

The quandary of contraries in human nature – half problem-solving genius, half destroyer of...

If we do not find common ground, then the ground of being on which we depend will dissolve.

Young Republican scandal forces Vermont senator Sam Douglass to resign after hate-filled group chat...

Leaked messages filled with racist, antisemitic, and violent language have prompted Vermont state Sen. Sam Douglass to resign following mounting pressure from state leaders and public outrage.

Showered with lies

Kennedy, Trump, and a “reckless disregard for science and the truth”

California to phase out ultra-processed food in schools by 2035

The new law was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last week at Belvedere Middle School in Los Angeles and prohibits public schools from serving this type of food in breakfasts and lunches.

On the precipice of authoritarian rule

Is the threat to the rule of law in the United States not just profound but historically unprecedented?

Leaked Young Republicans chats show racist, antisemitic, and violent rhetoric

Politico’s trove of Telegram messages from leaders across multiple states shows slurs, praise for Hitler, and gas-chamber fantasies, triggering condemnations, job fallout, and new questions for Elise Stefanik and the GOP’s pipeline of power.

A huge airbase with a small country attached to It

Our current neo-imperial moment is characterized by the American use of Israel as its base in the Middle East and by the employment of air power to subdue any challengers.