Friday, September 25, 2026

Tag: Republicans

Why some US Republicans want to punish Australia over new charges...

Australia is being called a ‘loser country’ over the News Bargaining Incentive.

5 lessons from 20 years of climate surveys: Political party matters,...

Those patterns may go against the partisan rhetoric of our times, but they reflect the reality that Americans do not sort neatly into simple camps on climate change.

Double whammy explodes soul-sucking GOP deal with devil Don

Caught by gangland-style squeeze play,/ Damned if they do, damned if they betray.

More than 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits after...

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.

Trump’s tax refund promises collapse under weight of Iran war and...

Republicans promoted the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” as an affordability lifeline for working Americans, but economists, retailers, and budget analysts say rising fuel costs tied to the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and ongoing tariff pressures are rapidly wiping out much of the financial relief.

Like the WH ballroom, MAGA Trump is in ruins, stuck in...

Either America the once beautiful (now shabby) is done for—or we all have front row seats to the greatest public train wreck since Richard Nixon.

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.

Do special election results spell doom for Republicans in 2026?

And with the 2026 midterm elections less than nine months away, analysts are already scrambling for indications of the likely outcome.

The bottomless, MAGA Trump indecency swamp

But what reforms come without great pains?/The status quo sneers at balls and chains.

America at a crossroads. What if MAGA Trump bloodlust sets the...

Losing the House (and Senate) will induce a 2020 replay but this time desperate Chicken Little will implode when repeating the same pathetic, “rigged” trickery again.

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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.