Sunday, May 19, 2024

Michael Moore to GOP electors: Vote against Trump and I will pay your state...

"Republican Electors – If you vote your conscience at noon and your state fines you for this, I will pay your fine."

Why America cannot afford to let the US Postal Service go bankrupt

The agency’s importance is growing. Come November, American democracy may depend on it.

Secretive right-wing nonprofit plays role in COVID-19 organizing

Steve Moore and FreedomWorks have been helping coordinate on-the-ground lockdown protests.

The caliphate of Trump

This particular cult did not come from nowhere, but from a land of growing extremity, a country that now, it seems, may be willing to preside over not just cities in ruin but a planet in ruin, too.

American psychosis

We are entering a period of national psychological trauma.

Trump’s Supreme Court strikes blow to government workers, good paying jobs

“This is a concerted, corporate-funded effort to get rid of public employee unions."

Puzder withdraws nomination for Secretary of Labor

At least 12 Republican senators reportedly refused to support Puzder’s upcoming nomination along with all of the Senate Democrats.

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.

Critically important for Mueller to present ‘a’ report by Sept. 1

Here is why there is such a great need for Mueller to publish some kind of report well before the November elections.

Musk, Trump, and the second Gilded Age

Will their audacity and excesses usher in a second progressive era?