Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Triumph of the shills

It's beginning to seem like history is simultaneously repeating itself as both tragedy and farce.

Trump and DeJoy’s main objective: To incapacitate the US Postal Service

What we need now is to see a plethora of other states joining in these lawsuits that are charging Trump and DeJoy with deliberate voter suppression.

Convention? What convention? It’s a coronation

We are in the midst of an existential political crisis, one that too many Americans blithely shrug off because they do not—or cannot—believe the kind of power seizures, purges, and police-state repression that has happened in many other countries can ever happen here.

Tennessee signs bill increasing penalties related to political protests to felonies, which could revoke...

Tennessee signs bill increasing penalties related to political protests to felonies, which could revoke right to vote

Dow drops its oldest member, Exxon, after nearly a century

“Big Oil has fallen. Our job is to make sure they don't take us down with them.”
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Trump’s 40 biggest broken promises

He’s made his rich friends richer, increased the political power of big corporations and the wealthy, and harmed working Americans.

Science is objective—but are all scientists objective?

Science might be objective—but that doesn’t mean all scientists are.

Mailing sorting machines still being dismantled despite Postmaster’s promises to suspend all radical changes...

“We have to fight back to protect the U.S. postal system. This is about our election at the end of the day, and we’ve got to ensure that every vote gets counted.”

Trump’s most catastrophic error: Running every election as if a wingnut GOP primary

That Trump cannot shift tactics (indeed worsen as desperation grows) against a different foe in different times will do him in.

Trump fiddles while America burns and the world turns away

It’s up to all of us to do what we can to end this Dark Age. And to vote like America’s life depends on it. Because it does.