The mafia state
America’s Snopes-like elites have no external or internal constraints. They are barbarians. We will remove them from power or enter a new dark age.
Trump’s labor pick, fast-food CEO Andrew Puzder, opposes minimum wage increase & paid sick...
Andrew Puzder is a longtime Republican donor who’s been a vocal critic of raising the minimum wage, the Fight for 15, expansion of overtime pay, paid sick leave and the Affordable Care Act.
Why Donald Trump’s ‘leadership’ is the real COVID-19 hoax
Trump’s arrogance and failures compound a crisis that’s already damaged the economy and put thousands of Americans in early graves.
Full speed ahead on the global Titanic
Going along with the utter madness of nuclear weapons.
Exposing the wealth defense industry
New book examines the hidden world of wealth managers to the ultra-rich driving today’s offshore tax sheltering.
National Park service’s tweets on climate facts mysteriously disappear
Despite Trump's gag order, the National Parks Service is refusing to be silenced.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 6, 2018
Scott Pruitt resigns from the EPA, grassroots groups demand tech companies cut ties with ICE, a 20-foot-tall Trump blimp gets the okay in London, and more.
Back off, doom and gloomers. Offset grief by embracing looming, if chance Trump blessings
In a world no single force can control, one can still imagine the range of theoretical positives from Trumpism 2.0
American troops as migrants
What the MAGA crowd don’t recognize: the troops they plan to rely on to carry out the deportations of potentially millions of people are, in their own way, also migrants.
Trump administration sets out to create an America its people have never experienced—one without...
In the meantime, the resulting chaos is preventing the government from carrying out its everyday functions.