Tag: Donald Trump
Federal agents face protests after Trump orders unprecedented takeover of DC...
Residents denounce checkpoints and expanded federal presence as civil liberties advocates warn of authoritarian overreach.
America first is America alone
Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power.
Will Trump-Putin summit leave Ukraine and Europe out in the cold?
If he repeats his past performances at summits with Putin and appears to back the Russian leader over his country’s closest allies, it is likely to cause a dangerous rift in the western alliance.
Free DC models effective resistance to Trump’s takeover
Washington, D.C. residents’ rapid response to Trump's National Guard deployment is a masterclass in how to prepare for crises and fight authoritarianism.
Trump federalizes DC police as protests grow and White House signals...
As National Guard deployment grows and Section 740 takeover faces legal tests, residents report civil liberties concerns while officials defend public safety rationale.
Sanders bill seeks to reverse Trump cuts to Social Security and...
Ahead of Social Security’s 90th anniversary, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act to restore staff and services, add $5 billion for operations, and remove DOGE’s access to sensitive data while probing politicization at the agency.
Pentagon plan reveals standing military force for rapid deployment in US...
Leaked documents show Trump administration proposal to create a permanent National Guard “quick reaction force” to quell domestic unrest, raising concerns over legality, militarization, and civil liberties.
Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low...
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
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Trump-backed PAC took $5 million from tobacco giant before FDA opened door to flavored...
A multimillion-dollar contribution from Reynolds American was disclosed days before tobacco executives met with President Trump and less than a week before federal regulators issued guidance that could expand flavored vape sales and benefit major cigarette manufacturers.
Suicide is never painless—yet right-wing implosions bring positive changes
The dread now transcends democracy,/ But what survives kakistocracy?
States introduce temporary moratoriums, strict conditional restrictions pausing new construction of data centers
At least 12 states have introduced measures to temporarily ban or strictly regulate large-scale data center development
Alex Saab and the fragility of the solidarity movement
It’s difficult not to see the renewed imprisonment of Alex Saab as a disappointing capitulation to U.S. coercion after so many of us fought for his freedom, but we cannot forget the task at hand.
Democrats hid their 2024 election autopsy. Its most glaring omission may be Gaza
After months of pressure from activists and party members, the Democratic National Committee released a previously withheld 192-page review of its 2024 defeat. The document sheds light on the party’s internal postmortem while raising new questions about transparency, accountability, and the complete absence of any discussion of Gaza.