Monday, August 24, 2026

Tag: Trump administration

What will the Trump mob kill next?

From the start of his White House tenure, the Trumpsters have plotted, stalked and serially killed vibrant members of the English Language.

A pledge to transform the resistance, and America

If today’s resistance is to become a lasting movement, we must decide what we’re for.

Attorney linked to Trump campaign pleads guilty to lying to investigators

The same day that Mueller’s office indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, Alex Van Der Zwaan was criminally charged with lying to federal investigators.

Trump’s National Defense Strategy

The battle between “guns and butter” is still raging in the United States and, if the new NDS is any indicator, the guns are winning.

War preparations against Venezuela as election nears

Is the path to war through border disputes?

Sanders to join grassroots opposition of Republican-backed tax law in Iowa,...

Sanders, who called the tax law "one of the worst pieces of legislation in the modern history of our country," along with many other Democrats, are calling for a repeal.

The 3 choices when it comes to Trump

Democracy is fragile, it requires all of us to protect it.

For the EPA, ‘reform’ means giving industry what it wants

A small-town explosion shows what's at stake in the deregulatory debate.

Trump’s ‘Harvest Box’ delivers an empty promise

The administration and its GOP allies are threatening these Americans with even greater hunger and privation.

The Trump budget’s crushing cruelty

Trump's budget would slash or completely eliminate core anti-poverty programs that form the heart of the U.S. social safety net.

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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 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.
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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.
A Google data center outside Council Bluffs, Iowa. Photo: Chad Davis / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Three-quarters of Americans would oppose a data center near their home, new polling finds

Opposition has swung 33 points in a year as utility bills climb, and more than 530 counties and towns have restricted or banned the facilities.
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.