Loving America and resisting Trump
The new patriotism.
If Donald Trump is the symptom…then what’s the disease?
The Donald caught the spirit of a moment in which both imperial and economic decline, however unacknowledged by the Washington political elite, had indeed begun.
Texas Democrats flee to block GOP gerrymandering as Trump pushes national redistricting blitz
Fleeing the state to break quorum, Texas Democrats are fighting what they call a racist, Trump-backed effort to rig congressional maps ahead of 2026—sparking a broader national confrontation over voting rights.
Judge blocks Biden administration’s order mandating federal employees vaccinate against COVID-19
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown said President Biden didn't have the authority to “mandate that all federal employees consent to vaccination against COVID-19 or lose their jobs.”
What’s love got to do with it? Everything!
America has become Amerika... one big mart of corruption and predatory corporate Capitalism.
A deadly day: Russian ambassador assassinated; 12 dead in Berlin truck crash; Zürich mosque...
Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was assassinated Monday at an art exhibition in Ankara.
The “People’s Fed” and the Oracles of Jackson Hole
As long as the Fed’s organizational culture is dominated by the financial sector, it cannot reflect the American people’s needs, hopes and values.
Two deranged blowhards walk into a bar . . . pontificate like know-it-alls ....
The horror exceeds whether Trump is stupid, ignorant, senile and/or fixated, even locked into failed “instinctual” responses. What matters is the damage done from MAGA recklessness before being defanged, decommissioned, impeached or exiled.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, August 21
Microplastics in beer, CNN "fact check" on Medicare for All is bogus, ZInke caught red handed trying to sell off public lands, and more.
Supreme suppression
Back in the day, nonviolent people power was the only answer to governmental inertia in radically improving U.S. democracy.