Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Tag: Donald Trump

Ivanka—Silence is Betrayal…and Judaism is More than Keeping Kosher

Consider Rabbi Heschel’s humble words on his return from the civil rights march on Selma; “I felt my legs were praying.”

Make tax return disclosure a requirement for presidential elections

Sign the petition to make tax return disclosure a requirement for presidential elections.

Manifesting the Worst Old Norms

“Leave Trump to his own devices. Let his poor values wither on his patriarchal bully vine.”

Trump: Soundly Defeated, Humiliated; He and His Supporters Remain Unfazed

“How can so many millions of Americans not see that this guy is like a time bomb ready to explode at any time, whenever someone dares to confront or criticize him?”

Trump Economic Adviser “Pushing” for Climate Denier and Fossil Fuel Apologist...

If Trump wins in November, will his climate and energy team wipe out any U.S. progress on the ever-worsening global climate crisis?

The Lady and the Trump Impressions on the 1st Presidential Debate

Maybe the lesson that should be taken from this debate is that if these two deeply flawed candidates were really the best the two party system could muster, it’s about time the American left started building better options.

Madoff in the White House?

How Trump’s conflicts of interest could become ours.

Scott Walker’s Political Magic

Corporate cash — flowing from Home Depot to Donald Trump — funded the governor's campaign to victory, despite public opinion.

In the First Debate, The People’s Issues Came Second

We got a show. But not the answers we deserve.

The Presidential Debate That Did Not Really Happen

It was not a debate so much as an opportunity to display Trump’s ability to weave an alternate reality for his acolytes.

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The General James M. Gavin coal-fired power plant in Cheshire, Ohio, one of the largest in the country. Photo: Analogue Kid / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate...

Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage at Landing Zone 1. Photo: SpaceX (CC0)

The first trillionaire – no big deal?

Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
A polling place on election day. Photo: Tony Webster

NAACP sues Trump administration over armed agents at the polls

The suit cites a fatal Minneapolis shooting by federal agents as evidence of the fear such deployments can create.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, which serves Jackson, Mississippi. Photo: Sabrina Dalton, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water

A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
A satellite view of Tehran, Iran. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Trump says he is in ‘deciding mode’ on destroying Iran

The Pentagon's own death count is undercounting US troops killed in the seven-month war, the Washington Post has reported.