Saturday, November 7, 2026

Augustus Trumpus

As America's working stiffs know, if you're not at the table, you're on the menu.

The unbearable opportunism of right-wing fear-mongering

What evil to bash good elections—while pushing scams and insurrections.

Musk reinstates DOGE staffer who resigned over racist posts after Trump administration defends him

Musk and Trump officials dismiss racist posts as trivial while attacking journalists who exposed them.

Neera Tanden and Antony Blinken personify the ‘moderate’ rot at the top of the...

Wishful thinking aside, on vital issue after vital issue, it’s foreseeable that Biden will not do the right thing unless movements can organize effectively enough to make them do it.

Weaponizing the Trump rout to throttle the Republican scourge

Trump is the disintegrating, self-destructive meteor aimed directly at the heart of the Republican brand.
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The real choice: Social control or social investment

Societies that skimp on social investment end up spending more on social controls that perpetuate violence and oppression. This trend is a deep-seated part of our history.

Top scientists from the National Academy of Sciences condemn the Trump administration’s ‘dismissal of...

“There is no point in being a scientist if you are unwilling to defend the technical work you do, especially when that work is mischaracterized by powerful members of the administration."

What grade should America get for its response to Covid-19?

Actually, it’s not America that should receive a grade for the response to Covid-19. It’s Trump, of course, whose response to this threat has been pathetic and a catastrophe.

History is more or less bunk

The light at the end of the tunnel?

Wells Fargo Had a Bad Day. That’s a Start.

John Stumpf is undoubtedly decompressing somewhere right now, waiting in comfort for the heat to die down.