Monday, August 24, 2026

Tag: Trump administration

Trump’s pick for CIA Director ran black site torture program

CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel, nominated to lead the agency, is responsible for running a secret CIA black site prison in Thailand and overseeing the torture of at least two terror suspects.

Electing Trump ‘elected’ seven deadly sins – plus scoffing at Five...

By any religious training since year one, we have an icon of moral depravity in the White House.

Legalizing tyranny

We have built a terrifying legal and policing apparatus that has placed the poor of our nation in bondage – an American tyranny.

Trump’s brand is Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand became the intellectual godmother of modern-day American conservatism and her win-at-any-cost mentality is eroding American life.

Using fake facts to make us afraid

On immigration and terrorism, the Trump Administration misleads about Its own misleading data.

Kushner’s unconscionable conflicts

Kushner is doing his own bit to destroy American democracy – actions almost as treasonous as if he colluded with Russians to make his father-in-law president.

A food stamp indignity worthy of Dickens

Behind the White House's demeaning "food box" idea is a plan to eliminate food aid for poor people completely.

The ultimate blow back universe

In other words, President Donald Trump has dedicated himself to nailing humanity to a cross of coal.

Emails reveal Trump admin mulling Big Oil plan to transfer public...

This revelation comes from emails and documents obtained by the Western Values Project through the Freedom of Information Act.

Why we need rise-up economics, not trickle-down

The only real way to build the economy is through “rise-up” economics: Investments in our people.

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The west front of the United States Capitol. Photo: Architect of the Capitol, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The single, greatest MAGA Trump threat: Constitutional nullification

The horror of MAGA Trumpism is both the speed and ease by which corruption reigns PLUS the dearth of popular resistance.
A group running together in a park. Photo: David Hawgood / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The physical activity paradox: not all forms of exercise lower your dementia risk –...

Pooling 74 studies of more than 4.2 million people in 30 countries, researchers found leisure exercise cut dementia risk while active commuting was linked to a 10 percent higher risk.
Command Sgt. Maj. John Sparks delivers copies of Stars and Stripes to U.S. Marines from Weapons Platoon, 3-2 India Company, on April 4, 2003. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps photo by 1st Sgt. David K. Dismukes (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Pentagon fires three at Stars and Stripes, seven months after taking the paper’s rules...

The regulation governing the newspaper was struck from the books in January and its terms moved into a Defense Department directive. Three senators have asked Hegseth for answers by August 28.
Abdul El-Sayed talking with voters at a campaign meet-and-greet

“Moderates” Support Extreme Injustice

The label goes to candidates who back endless war and block Medicare for All, while a CNN poll now finds a third of Democrats calling themselves socialists. Scolding them as interlopers plays well with donors and nowhere else.
The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, where Judge Indira Talwani sits. Photo: Scott LaPierre / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Postal Service issued its mail ballot rule on Friday night while a court...

Judge Indira Talwani has given the government until 8 a.m. Tuesday to respond, or take a restraining order that stops the rule reaching the Federal Register on Wednesday.