Friday, September 11, 2026

Tag: The Constitution

Brainwashed nation part I: Assault and battery upon the American brain

An ongoing visitation on the issue of propaganda in the current political environment.

Ripping up constitutions

But Trump doesn’t care what’s in the U.S. constitution any more than he cares what trees make up his toilet paper.

House passes Laken Riley Act, critics warn it dismantles constitutional rights...

A political tragedy: GOP uses personal grief to justify sweeping anti-immigrant crackdown.

How the Constitution fails to protect the environment

The absence of clear and broad constitutional authority to protect the environment limits the scope of federal environmental law.

The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act and the battle...

The FANFSA, passed with a 219-199 vote, garnered support from both sides of the aisle, with 96 Democrats and 123 Republicans backing the bill.

Confederate-style states’ rights tantrums rise again—and will fall again to enlightened...

Either federalism determines “self-evident” human rights, or the Constitutional republic model turns farce, with 50 different state law clusters.

The Constitution as free-for-all, a la carte buffet

If this be not the worst subversion,/ Where's real career-ending perversion?

‘Lawless and reckless’: Warren condemns Fifth Circuit attack on CFPB

"If it stands, it will go down in history as one of the most anti-consumer court rulings in history."

A Constitutional crisis of immense proportions has descended upon our nation’s...

There is no question, but that this modern day dictator wants to take full control of this government and control the direction of this country with no one to challenge him. We cannot allow that to happen.

Spring stirrings and misgivings

Of autocrats and uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa

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The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Photo: U.S. Navy

25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
The California State Capitol in Sacramento, where SEIU Local 1000 has accused Governor Newsom's administration of bad-faith bargaining. Photo: Steven Pavlov, via Wikimedia Commons

California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration

More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations unit in Los Angeles, June 2025. Photo: DHS

American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast

Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
A grocery store aisle. Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

AFL-CIO report warns digital shelf labels could cost retail workers billions in wages

Maryland and New Jersey have already moved to restrict the technology, betting its pricing infrastructure poses as much risk to shoppers as to store staff.
Satellite imagery of Lake Mead shows the reservoir's shrinking shoreline amid ongoing Southwest drought. Photo: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, via Wikimedia Commons

US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says

Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.