Saturday, May 18, 2024

Trump’s presidency: a thunderous WAKE UP call for all Americans

This Trump presidency should generate a thunderous wake-up call for all Americans who truly love their country and do not want to see it continue on this twisted path.

Data defies Trump’s claims that refugees and asylees burden taxpayers

What is the economic impact of refugees in the near and long term (transition time between needing assistance and adding to the economy)?

Senate Democrats Introduce We The People Act Seeking to Reverse Citizens United

“We all have a right to know who’s behind the microphone.”

Displaying ‘inhuman disdain’ for working families, Manchin said child tax credit would be used...

“Sen. Joe Manchin—who is a multimillionaire—doesn’t think his poor constituents can be trusted with a little help.”

If Trump is impeached, it will look like this

Although two presidents have been impeached by the House, both avoided being removed from office by the Senate. What would happen to Trump?

Congress loves socialized health care — for itself

For $3.5 trillion a year, shouldn’t we Americans have a world-class health care system? Yet while we spend the most of any advanced nation...

As Schumer tees up vote to codify Roe, Progressives urge elimination of filibuster

"If Republicans can end the filibuster to install right-wing judges nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote in order to overturn Roe v. Wade," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, "Democrats can and must end the filibuster to keep abortion legal and safe."

If Donald Trump Had a Selfie Stick, We’d All Be in the Picture

A psychoanalyst concludes that Trump is the modern incarnation of Narcissus — an intrusive, omnipresent and terrible-to-behold mirror image of America’s worst public face.

Trump’s contempt for working-class expressed in new expanded public charge rule

It is unimaginable that Congress would classify so many working-class and middle-class Americans as undesirable public charges.

Why a Single-Payer Healthcare System is Inevitable

If this weren’t enough to convince rational people to do what most other advanced nations have done – create a single-payer system that insures everyone, funded by taxpayers – consider that America’s giant health insurers are now busily consolidating into ever-larger behemoths.