Tag: Donald Trump
Why Trump won’t bring jobs
Every signal suggests that Trump will pursue the same plutocratic approach favored by all presidents of his party.
Hillary Clinton’s Inaugural Address
Here’s what we’d like to hear her say before Donald Trump takes office — a call for a shadow government that will watchdog everything he and Congress do.
Presidential elector says he will reject Trump, cites foreign payments prohibited...
A few more like this and Trump has a problem.
Trump advisors plan to privatize native lands to tap into oil...
The incoming president has picked climate change deniers and pro-fossil fuel bigwigs for cabinet positions.
Trump’s treasury pick is a Goldman Sachs banker who foreclosed on...
Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s choice to head the US Treasury, has a dark past working with Goldman Sachs and later heading OneWest Bank, which foreclosed the homes of thousands of Americans after 2008.
The election from hell has ended; now America’s nightmare begins
The American people are going to be living in a period in this nation’s history that will determine what kind of a nation and society this will be.
The Gettysburg Address, slightly updated
Now we are engaged in a great democratic battle, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can tolerate four years of Trumpery.
Cornel West on Donald Trump: This is what neo-fascism looks like
"I think he’s already betrayed working people in terms of making sure, in his view, that Wall Street is in the driver’s seat."
Bush’s Iraq lies, uncontested, will haunt us under Trump
There is no decision more grave than taking your nation to war. There is nothing more criminal than basing that war on lies.
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Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Trump’s repression of dissent is backfiring
In response to the Trump administration’s attempts to quell dissent and tilt the playing field, people are not shrinking in fear, but getting more bold in their resistance.
UN inquiry says Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza
A new UN Commission report details more than 20,000 children killed, tens of thousands injured, attacks on hospitals and schools, and evidence that Palestinian children were treated not as collateral damage, but as targets.
Supreme Court gives Trump administration more power over green card holders
The 6-3 ruling allows border officials to treat some lawful permanent residents accused of crimes as applicants for admission, raising new fears of detention, deportation, and years of legal limbo.