Friday, September 25, 2026

Tag: Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s hotel bans press for the inauguration, raising first amendment...

Throughout the 2016 campaign and into the transition, Trump has made his hostility to the press a centerpiece of his political strategy.

The Inauguration of white supremacy

Trump sees Muslim-Americans as Latinos on steroids and so even more threatening to his project of racial hierarchy.

Twelve movies about American demagoguery to watch this weekend

Bored with the transfer of presidential power? Here's an alternative viewing list of great films.

New from Trump University

Election rigging 101

Trump, Betsy DeVos and the plan to end democratic education

Trump’s victory and DeVos’s voucher advocacy could motivate Republican supermajorities to cut further from education in an effort to move public education into the private sector.

Four takeaways from Trump’s latest tweet tantrum

All told, Trump’s tweet tantrum reveals a great deal about the man who’s soon to be president of the United States. None of it inspires confidence.

We can beat back the reign of Trump

It's up to us to stop playing along.

If we’re honest, we all know Trump’s America

Trump articulates ideas that are closer to what is considered “normal” in the United States than many of us are willing to acknowledge.

Even Trump voters are pissed about losing Obamacare

It still isn’t straightforward as to what the Republicans can actually do to Obamacare without some support from the Democrats.

A likely way that Trump would be forced out of office

All that’s needed in order to trigger this nightmare would be Pence plus half of Trump’s Cabinet.

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The Charles R. Huntley Generating Station in Tonawanda, New York. Photo: Andre Carrotflower / CC BY-SA 4.0

EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue

The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Farragutful / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs

A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
The lobby of the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Photo: Daderot (public domain)

7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike

A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
A patient exam room at a U.S. urgent care clinic. Photo: Harrison Keely / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage

Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Demonstrators protest ICE conduct in Minneapolis. Photo: Fibonacci Blue / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run

DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.