Monday, August 24, 2026

Tag: Trump administration

Russiaburger: The Trump-Russia scandal explained

It's now clear that the Russians offered help and members of the Trump campaign accepted. But the real scandal may be money laundering.

Our racial and ethnic roots in all their tangled diversity are...

Trumpian white supremacy has it all wrong.

Exposing our ‘populist’ president as a naked plutocrat

It's not the volume of Trump's fabrications that is so gross, but their enormity.

Donald Trump offers a helping hand to China and Russia

And it's giving American Isolationism new meaning in the twenty-first century.

Trump’s divide-and-conquer strategy

Nothing could be more dangerous to our democracy and society.

Trump voters: One Year in, and he’s broken 20 big promises...

Here are 20 promises he made, but has yet to keep.

Bernie’s statement on Nunes memo: ‘What is the president afraid of?’

While seeking to protect American politics from further Russian intrusions, Bernie Sanders referred to the memo as a “political stunt.”

Pledge to fight against ocean drilling

You can do your part to fight against this expansion of offshore drilling.

Trump’s financial arsonists

The next financial crisis -- not if, but when.

As Trump unfurls infrastructure plan, Iowa bill seeks to criminalize pipeline...

“This latest attempt by Big Oil to silence dissent is no surprise.”

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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.
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.
The Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building in Washington, headquarters of the Office of Personnel Management. Photo: ajay_suresh / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On September 2, federal layoff appeals move from the Merit Systems Protection Board to...

Ninety-nine percent of the 1,252 public comments opposed the change, and employees will no longer be able to take a final decision to federal court.
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.
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.