Thursday, March 5, 2026

Tag: Sean Spicer

The secret Republican history of Sean Spicer’s Holocaust, in 7 steps

Get used to the moral outrage – and the corporate lingo. Welcome to Republican America, circa 2017.

Trump’s war on the truth tellers

Trump is actively destroying the truth-telling institutions our democracy depends on.

The problem goes way beyond Kellyanne Conway: Trump’s team of TV...

Have we ever had a modern-day press secretary who put so many substantial lies up on the board in just a few short weeks?

Trump’s press secretary attacks media’s coverage of inauguration

Aerial photos of the event show a lot of open space, but Spicer believes photos were “intentionally framed” in a way to downplay the crowd-size.

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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues

"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”

A First Lady in a New York Cell

One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.

Why guns?

From personal power to autocracy in Donald Trump's America

Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs

The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.

Homer nails uncivilized, all-devouring MAGA Trump brutality – and strategic aikido to return fire

As Polyphemus falls to the aikido of seeming weaklings, Trump underestimates top experts, battling Democrats, anti-oligarchy citizens and committed activists promoting prosperity for the many, even (yikes!) sharing the wealth.