Tag: Donald Trump
Trump moves to slash $9.5 billion in foreign aid and public...
Trump moves to slash $9.5 billion in foreign aid and public media funding as humanitarian crises deepen.
The war on trans people
And his executive actions are only the spear tip of a significantly larger legislative attempt to target and scapegoat transgender people, who make up just over one percent of the U.S. population.
The most valuable lesson Democrats could actually learn from Biden
Democrats can shake off old ways of thinking by standing on their visions for the future even in conservative areas by passing the baton to the next generation to ensure the work of creating a better society for everyone can continue.
When do the ‘primal, profit-driven forces of nature’—racked with buyer’s remorse—dethrone...
If you credit mass buyers’ remorse by hoodwinked MAGA voters, that goes double for flabbergasted tycoons once open to disruption (and donor payoffs) but now bullied by the allegedly pro-business browbeater.
MAPPED: 70 percent of Trump’s cabinet tied to Project 2025 groups
An analysis found that more than 50 high-level Trump administration officials have links to groups behind the Heritage Foundation-backed plan.
Federal judge orders 1,300 fired employees of Education Department reinstated
District Court Judge Myong J. Joun in Massachusetts reinstated 1,300 Education Department employees and restored "the Department to the status quo."
Is Trump’s axis of the plutocrats marginalizing Israel?
President Trump managed to realign U.S. Middle Eastern policy to center on—and yes, it should be capitalized!—an Axis of the Plutocrats, Gulf sheikhs who are using their galactic fortunes to reshape the region.
Elon Musk leaves Trump administration after gutting government services and dodging...
Musk’s chaotic 130-day tenure ends with lasting damage to federal agencies, threats to global aid, and deep conflicts of interest that watchdogs say will haunt public institutions for years.
Trump pledged to ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ then cut a program...
The USDA has ended a program that dozens of tribal food banks say has helped them provide fresh, locally produced food that is important to their traditions and cultures.
The country Trump seems dead set on imitating
The Trump administration has begun offering wealthy foreigners the chance to emigrate to the U.S. if they fork over $5 million for a so-called gold card—an alternative to the “green card.”
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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
Suicide is never painless—yet right-wing implosions bring positive changes
The dread now transcends democracy,/ But what survives kakistocracy?
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.
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.