Friday, September 25, 2026

Tag: politics

Credit MAGA Trump for busting up federalism like a piñata, only...

One imagined the durability, if not standing of America, demanded a far stronger, earth-shaking force than a self-mortifying, scamming joke.

Ending republican control will require overcoming the democratic leadership

The last 12 months have shown that Donald Trump’s party is bent on methodically inflicting vast cruelty and injustice while aiming to crush what’s left of democracy and the rule of law.

Trump just keeps on grabbing

Strangely, this garish statement perfectly encapsulates Trump's foreign policy. He sees a country and he wants to grab it, control it, exploit it.

Reflections on a low, dishonest decade

And nearly 100 Essays for TomDispatch.

10 good things that happened in 2025

Let's look back on 2025 as the year movements for peace and justice freed political prisoners, slowed the war machine, and helped turn the public against endless wars.

Trump’s push into nuclear questions economic conflicts of interest, public safety

The Trump family’s investments in nuclear fusion live under a bad cloud that threatens us all.

The dark side of Trump’s moon

A new book sheds light on the "intellectual" underpinnings of the Trump revolution.

Who’s the real outlaw at sea? Trump’s tanker grab vs. the...

U.S. murder and violence against other people and countries does not become lawful simply because officials in the White House wish that it was.

Doin’-the-Right-Thing Rag

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don't Ask Donald Trump!)

Will ambushed voters be so repulsed by MAGA’s war against America—systemic...

Could tycoons not do any better than the farcical, dishonest Keystone Kops klutzes—Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Patel, Noem, Bondi, Ludnick and RFK Jr.?

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The Charles R. Huntley Generating Station in Tonawanda, New York. Photo: Andre Carrotflower / CC BY-SA 4.0

EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue

The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Farragutful / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs

A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
The lobby of the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Photo: Daderot (public domain)

7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike

A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
A patient exam room at a U.S. urgent care clinic. Photo: Harrison Keely / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage

Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Demonstrators protest ICE conduct in Minneapolis. Photo: Fibonacci Blue / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run

DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.