Sunday, October 25, 2026

What blind Lord of Misrule keeps showing he can’t avoid wrack and ruin, leans hard on dumb Big Lies, and expects different outcomes? 

“Trump’s self-love, not Iran, is global enemy No 1. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction.”
The South Lawn of the White House. Photo: Daniel Schwen / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The sadistic MAGA Trump Death Spiral twists and turns – a fierce test for...

Motto for the Trump gang could well be J. Robert Oppenheimer’s chilling admission, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

What will it take to end Trump’s ICE raids?

Our reliance on armed agents of the state has led to fascism. The only way out is to abolish policing and militarism.
The dome of the United States Capitol

When War with Iran Is No Longer a Washington Consensus

The Iran debate is increasingly about the limits and costs of war—and the relationship between Washington’s interests and Israel’s priorities.

Trump’s power and control is slipping through his fingers—and he knows it

All of this should serve as evidence that Trump’s grip on power is quickly slipping through his fingers, and he knows it.

Musk’s $10 million Senate donation reignites debate over billionaire influence in elections

Elon Musk’s $10 million super PAC donation to a MAGA challenger seeking Mitch McConnell’s seat renews scrutiny of campaign finance law and billionaire influence in U.S. elections.
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Watch the Must-See Newest Ad for Bernie Sanders

A new moving ad by a Bernie Sanders' supporter has everything needed to convince people to vote for the Vermont Senator.
An 1865 world map using the Mercator projection, which shrinks Africa relative to its true size. Photo: Alvin Jewett Johnson, public domain

UN Wants to Right-Size Maps; Would it have Saved Trump from Iran Catastrophe?

Juan Cole argues that map projections which shrink Africa and the Middle East help explain why Washington keeps misjudging the size of the countries it goes to war with.

A cruel hoax: The political economy of anti-immigration

The deep contradictions of anti-immigration—and other projects—are not overcome by hiding them under the veneer of slogans like “America First.”

An ‘Extremist’ in the United States

“When conventional politics has failed to deal with pressing problems, we have no choice but to think beyond the conventions, sometimes in ways that may seem extreme.”