Friday, September 11, 2026

Tag: Elon Musk

‘No kings on Presidents Day’ rallies challenge Trump-Musk assault on democracy

Protests in all 50 states send a resounding message against authoritarianism and corporate rule.

Jayapal’s bill to overturn Citizens United targets Musk’s ‘shadow presidency’

As billionaires like Elon Musk reshape American democracy, a new amendment seeks to reverse the Supreme Court ruling that allowed corporate money to dominate politics.

Musk’s double standard: SpaceX wins government contract while public services face...

A $38.85 million contract awarded to Elon Musk’s SpaceX sparks outrage as his government office slashes funding for health care, education, and social programs.

The opposition needs to make Elon Musk’s coup its sole, singular...

This should be the sole, singular focus of the anti-Trump opposition for the foreseeable future.

Shadow government: How Trump’s executive order hands Musk control of the...

An investigation into how a new executive order has enabled an unelected billionaire to oversee federal hiring, dismantle public agencies, and consolidate unchecked power over American democracy.

Elon Musk’s team decimates Education Department arm that tracks national school...

Schools and districts across the country rely on research from the IES and contractors such as the American Institutes for Research to guide best practices in classrooms.

Is Elon Musk staging a coup? Unelected billionaire seizes control at...

Warning: Could Musk be laying the groundwork for major tax cuts Republicans have promised that will disproportionately benefit corporations and wealthy people like him.

Trump’s scare tactics

Take your pick: climate change, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence, pandemic, Elon Musk?

Trump targets FDA with sweeping overhaul led by Musk and RFK...

FDA faces radical changes under Trump, risking public health and regulatory stability.

Citizens United at 15: Landmark ruling helped Elon Musk & other...

About 44 percent of Trump’s election was funded by just 10 megadonors.

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The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Photo: U.S. Navy

25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
The California State Capitol in Sacramento, where SEIU Local 1000 has accused Governor Newsom's administration of bad-faith bargaining. Photo: Steven Pavlov, via Wikimedia Commons

California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration

More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations unit in Los Angeles, June 2025. Photo: DHS

American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast

Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
The US Capitol, where Senator Bernie Sanders has convened a bipartisan briefing on AI risk for September 16. Photo: Martin Falbisoner, via Wikimedia Commons

Sanders brings AI risk researchers to a closed Senate briefing on AI danger

Geoffrey Hinton and two other AI risk researchers, but no tech executives, will address senators on September 16.
Satellite imagery of Lake Mead shows the reservoir's shrinking shoreline amid ongoing Southwest drought. Photo: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, via Wikimedia Commons

US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says

Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.