Tag: Donald Trump
Trump and Russia: Shortest reset ever
In Trump, the Kremlin got what it wanted – an America paralyzed by an incompetent administration at odds with more than half the country’s population.
Trump proposes cutting Great Lakes funding by 97%
Every Senator needs to do the right thing for those living by the Great Lakes and reject these dangerous cuts.
Congressional energy and climate committees are loaded with ex-fossil fuel lobbyists
Ex-lobbyists-turned-congressional-staffers get bonuses from their old employers as a parting gift as they step through the reverse revolving door.
Magical thinking on health care
Trump promised to magically repeal and replace Obamacare. Now he's learning that magicians do tricks, not magic.
Chris Hedges discusses resistance in the Age of Trump with Kevin...
“It’s all about building power. That has to be our goal: to build power, to take office, and to create a movement that can’t be ignored.”
No cloture for Gorsuch
There are strong reasons for liberals as well as progressives to oppose Gorsuch.
Where’s the pre-emptive, super majority impeachment trigger?
Time to test whether indisputable majority rule will make us great again.
Why Trump’s revised executive order is still a racist Muslim ban
It is shameful, and will cost America in science, medicine, engineering and entrepreneurship.
Find the adults and get them in the room
If democracy isn’t participatory it isn’t decent democracy.
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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.
Police kill 1-year-old in Mississippi, then tear gas protesters demanding answers
The fatal shooting of Kohen Wiley after an alleged shoplifting call has ignited protests in Senatobia, where residents say years of police escalation and mistrust reached a breaking point.
Trump threatens Iran as peace talks advance despite Israel’s Lebanon escalation
As mediators report a 60-day roadmap toward a final deal, Trump’s threats, Iran’s Hormuz warning, and Israel’s refusal to withdraw from Lebanon are testing whether diplomacy can survive another push toward regional war.
ICE weakens detention rules as private prison firms stand to gain
New standards allow broader AI use, lock in $1-a-day labor limits, and give detention operators more flexibility as ICE expands under Trump’s mass enforcement agenda.
Iran: Progress on sanctions relief at Swiss talks with US
As U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland move toward sanctions relief, frozen assets, and a Hormuz hotline, the unresolved war in Lebanon remains the central obstacle to turning a fragile memorandum into peace.