Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Uncle Sam wants… your social security check

A Texas Republican, who's ready to retire with a nice pension, wants to cut Social Security benefits for everyone else by up to 69 percent.

Trump’s Supreme Court pageant: a silly show to fill a stolen seat

Republicans stole the seat from the president who was elected to fill it – and, more importantly, from the voters who elected him.

The Trump regime’s war on language

Who needs facts when we’ve got Kellyanne?

Billionaires arrive on private jets to solve inequality, while African children eat ashes

To really help the poorest countries, we need to do less: less military, less debt, and less corporate farming.

Will the Senate’s “good republicans” reject a dishonest nominee?

Have the “good Republicans” become so partisan that they’re no longer willing to speak up against dishonesty, apparent lawbreaking, or contempt toward the Senate itself?

American psychosis

We are entering a period of national psychological trauma.

It’s not an immigrant tsunami we should fear, it’s a climate change one

It would make much more sense to take all that money that Trump wants to waste on walling off Mexico and apply it to at least pushing back the demise of America’s great coastal cities.

The public’s viewpoint: Regulations are protections

When you hear Regulations are Protections for the Public, think of the details and the consequences. Go beyond the words. Act positively.

Five groups of Americans who’ll get shafted under Trump’s hiring freeze

This freeze is a bad idea, but there will be more where this came from.