Monday, August 24, 2026

Tag: Trump administration

Why the American majority despises Trump’s Washington

Why do these doofuses keep trying to shove such wildly unpopular measures down people's throats?

CDC Director resigns amid controversy over tobacco stocks

“You don’t buy tobacco stocks when you are the head of the CDC. It’s ridiculous; it gives a terrible appearance.”

Muslim Ban Rally, 2018: A melting pot of resistance

A new possibility for the resistance has emerged – one that involves the cooperation of groups that you wouldn't normally think of.

What happened to the impeachment march in D.C.?

For the left, controversy in the organization and lead-up to rallies and marches isn't new – but this was something else.

The Pentagon’s plan for never-ending war

We desperately need a new real security strategy, and a revolt against endless war to give it traction.

Senate rejects a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks

The vote played out much like 2015 "signaling that neither Republicans or Democrats are ready to change their minds on the issue."

The useful idiocy of Donald Trump

The inability of the political establishment and the press to moderate or reform Trump’s egregious behavior is rooted in their loss of credibility.

Trump to give surplus military gear to law enforcement to keep...

There have been 11 school shootings this year alone. And Trump's response is to equip law enforcement with more guns.

Trump’s America: Open to global capital, not people

America didn’t become great by global capital seeking higher returns, but by people from all over world seeking better lives.

Six big losers in our ‘booming’ economy

The people in power let the rich grow richer while the poor keep suffering.

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“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.
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The baddest, bloodlust bullies having a very bad year

How goonish egotism backfires, Befouled by self-inflicted quagmires!
Arch Street Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia, a property of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, the lead plaintiff in the case. Photo: ajay_suresh / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court upholds order limiting ICE arrests at Quaker, Sikh and Baptist houses of...

The Justice Department never argued a compelling government interest before the district court, and the Fourth Circuit held that defense waived.