Thursday, August 14, 2025

Tag: GOP

‘Look for power in the shadows’: Watch Sheldon Whitehouse shine light...

“Something is not right around the court. And dark money has a lot to do with it. Special interests have a lot to do with it.”

The public, the personal, and the utter hypocrisy of the GOP

The underlying issue is the common good, what we owe each other as members of the same society.

What you need to know about the GOP takeover of the...

We must see the GOP’s exercise of raw power for what it is and meet it with even greater force.

Showing 76% of Coney Barrett rulings put corporate interests over people,...

Trump's selection of Barrett to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg represents an agenda to favor corporations and the wealthy.

Where did the GOP go?

The Republican platform — and the Republican Party itself — has been reduced to one word: Trump.

‘Silence is complicity’: GOP condemned for doing nothing as Trump openly...

“Donald Trump knows that if the people are heard in November, he and Republicans up and down the ballot will lose,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. “This is what we’re up against—and this is why we have to fight back with all we’ve got.”

Sen Bernie Sanders calls out GOP for inadequately addressing police violence...

“Now is not the time to think small or respond with superficial, bureaucratic proposals.”

In age of unrest and economic decline, critics cry foul as...

"Hanging their political lives on a jobs report with errors is a hell of a position to take."

‘How dare you put our lives at risk’: Pennsylvania Democrat Brian...

Sims notes that the Republicans did not let the Democrats know that they had been exposed to the virus, arguing that such a revelation would hurt their argument to reopen the state.

GOP ‘plot to gut social security behind closed doors’ gains steam...

"Obviously this is a way to push in cuts to Social Security and Medicare without leaving fingerprints, or not many fingerprints."

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Pentagon plan reveals standing military force for rapid deployment in US cities

Leaked documents show Trump administration proposal to create a permanent National Guard “quick reaction force” to quell domestic unrest, raising concerns over legality, militarization, and civil liberties.

Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...

Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.

Current nitrate level EPA deems safe fails to reflect birth outcomes, other potential health...

The study said the current level of nitrate that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deems safe fails to reflect birth outcomes and other potential health risks.

Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime

President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.

UK surgeon says Israeli forces using Gaza children as ‘target practice’ as starvation crisis...

A British doctor and major humanitarian groups accuse Israeli soldiers of intentionally targeting children near aid sites, as reports show more than 100 children have died from hunger during Israel’s siege of Gaza.