Tag: Donald Trump
Strike! Barbara Ehrenreich calls on TSA workers to walk off job...
As 800,000 workers continue to go without pay, federal employees around the country are rising up to demand an end to the shutdown.
Elizabeth Warren calls for investigation into Trump’s Chief of Staff
Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently called for an investigation into whether Mulvaney violated federal ethics laws governing negotiations over post-government employment.
Trump punts on Syria
It’s ludicrous to paint Donald Trump as a peace president. The man is only selectively anti-war. He just doesn’t like the wars that other presidents started.
President Chicken Little goes medieval, channels dead presidents
Like Chicken Little, the dishonored Trump name looks to go down as the icon of self-destructive over-reach, puffed up, then deflated by its own arrogance. Are we not learning “nothing to lose” could be the worst Trump delusion?
The Trump dictatorship
Democracy is about means, while dictatorship is about ends. Trump uses any means available to achieve his own ends.
As gov’t shutdown drags on, IRS continues to aid the rich...
As 800,000 federal workers remain furloughed or working without pay in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, we look at how the Trump administration has restarted a division of the Internal Revenue Service to help corporate lenders.
Durbin calls for Senate hearings to probe ‘serious questions’ about why...
"When he takes the interpreter's notes and wants to destroy them so no one can see what was said, and the written transcript... it raises serious questions about the relationship between this president and Putin."
The House must hold impeachment hearings on Trump’s constitutional crimes
The best way to do that is to start subjecting presidents who abuse their power to public impeachment hearings. That process should begin with the impeachment of President Trump.
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Israel linked to majority of global civilian deaths from explosive weapons in 2025
A new international monitoring report found that more than 22,600 civilians were killed by explosive weapons last year, with Israeli armed forces accounting for 56 percent of recorded fatalities worldwide.
Decades of research link pesticide use around homes, farms to childhood cancer
A new comprehensive meta-analysis published last month in the International Journal of Cancer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln analyzed findings from 88 epidemiological studies spanning more than 40 years.
Questions grow after analysis links US strike to water facilities serving 20,000 Iranians
Satellite imagery, bomb fragment analysis, and damage assessments have intensified scrutiny over whether U.S. forces struck civilian water infrastructure near the Strait of Hormuz, raising concerns about potential violations of international law.
The Trump administration aims to penalize disabled adults who live with their families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients.
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And not just the paper.