Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Tag: President Donald Trump

Trump touts long-shot, can’t-lose gambit: ‘How to overcome a rigged, corrupt...

Honor is due: Time to Make Elections Fair Again. MEFA! Won’t be any harder than building that friggin’ wall.

If America doesn’t reverse its current course, we are headed for...

We have to get all sides involved on the same page, talking to each other about how these crises can be brought to an end.

What will it take to defeat Trumpism?

Learning lessons from the end of the Confederacy, Nazi Germany, and Saddam’s Iraq...

Watch: Voting by mail is patriotic—no matter what lies Trump tells

Call out the hypocrisy. Remember, if your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be trying to stop it.

Top 6 reasons Trump’s racist attack on Ilhan Omar at empty...

African Muslims have been central to American history and American success. Ilhan Omar has been an American citizen longer than Melania Trump, and stands in a tradition of contributing to this country.

Did Trumpers have a clue what presidential chaos meant? Worse still:...

Holding up that Bible with extreme awkwardness gave away the game: was ever his scheming, stupid crassness more visible?

Remembering Ball Four

So we can forget you-know-who...

From Hurricane Maria to Covid, gas lobbyist-turned-Trump energy lawyer uses crises...

“This rule change would be a massive giveaway to polluters, so it's no surprise to see it being pushed by a fossil fuel lobbyist who's now part of the Trump administration.”

The deadly Fox News-Trump syndicate

It’s easy to feel outraged and defeated by Fox News. But it’s important to understand its formula for misleading Americans, particularly in the crisis we’re in.

“I can’t speak negatively about the president,” says official charged with...

President Donald Trump’s purge of watchdogs is on the mind of one of the newly hired officials charged with overseeing the more than $2 trillion CARES Act.

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Candace Owens speaking in 2018. Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

These women don’t trust politicians. They do trust Candace Owens.

The 19th interviewed half a dozen of her listeners, after a Media Matters report found her platforms grew 80 percent between January 2025 and March 2026 to roughly 10.9 million new followers.
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A week after Eastport banned data centers for 180 days, federal regulators accepted the...

The developer cut the plan from 400 acres to 27 and from 51 megawatts to 15 after FERC found four deficiencies, and comments close October 19.
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U.S. Threatens New Economic War on Iran by Targeting China & Tehran’s Other Top...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent named the plan Operation Economic Outcast on Monday and set no timeline or list of countries, and sanctions historian Nicholas Mulder says the reach into Iran's oil buyers puts the U.S.-China trade truce at risk.
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Joint Economic Committee Democrats put Trump’s 2026 oil and gas stock gains at up...

The same report totals $71.5 billion in extra gasoline spending since February 28, an average of $604 a family, and the White House says independent managers control the portfolio.