Thursday, July 9, 2026

Attorney linked to Trump campaign pleads guilty to lying to investigators

The same day that Mueller’s office indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, Alex Van Der Zwaan was criminally charged with lying to federal investigators.

Sanders to join grassroots opposition of Republican-backed tax law in Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan

Sanders, who called the tax law "one of the worst pieces of legislation in the modern history of our country," along with many other Democrats, are calling for a repeal.
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The 3 choices when it comes to Trump

Democracy is fragile, it requires all of us to protect it.

The meaning of America

We are forgetting the real meaning of America – the ideals on which our nation was built. We are losing our sense of the common good. 

Trump proposes replacing food stamps

Several activists and critics are opposed to the idea and are skeptical of the issues that could rise by changing a current stab;-working food stamp system.

Canceling student debt could be the answer to growing the economy

Overall, if these 44 million Americans were debt free, it would promote consumer spending and grow every sector of the U.S. economy.

Elizabeth Warren derides Trump while addressing his Pocahontas slurs

“But now we have a president who can’t make it through a ceremony honoring Native American war heroes without reducing Native history, Native culture, Native people to the butt of a joke."

Trump’s proposed budget slashes SNAP funding and ends recipients’ ability to choose food

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, will no longer be in monetary form and instead recipients will receive "USDA Foods package."

$45 billion: The cost of the war in Afghanistan in 2018

2018 will mark the 17th year of the Afghanistan war.

Trump’s big buyback bamboozle

We’re just going to have more buybacks and more inequality.