Friday, October 23, 2026

Tag: Trump administration

Useful idiots vs. the FBI

Trump himself has led an unrelenting assault on the bureau, with his trademark screeching tweets and verbal outbursts, repeatedly suggesting that the nation's premier law enforcement agency is "tainted."

The GOP a year after Trump

For the new GOP, states’ rights be damned because it’s all about consolidating power in Washington, under Trump.

Women’s March 2018: We shall overcome

"It's not just about winning a few seats, it's about changing a tone in our country, in our world and in our lives."

Trump appointee apologizes and resigns after bigoted comments emerge

Higbie publicly accused 75 percent of PTSD patients of lying in order to gain federal money.

Trump’s roundup of immigrant leaders has begun

In a concerted effort by the Trump administration, ICE is targeting leaders in the immigrant community.

The world according to Trump

“Trump administration’s foolish and self-defeating decision to abdicate the United States’ global influence — something that has taken more than 70 years to build.”

Bannon & Trump deserve each other — divisive, grandstanding demagogues at...

However very similar yet very different, two warring demagogues threaten law, order, civility, trust and the good will still clinging to the American experiment.

War pay

Here is what the coming boom years are likely to look like for the Pentagon, the arms makers, and their weaponry.

North Korea is walking back war—and pundits are strangely disappointed

Pundits seem more concerned about the North driving a "wedge" between the U.S. and the South than about preventing nuclear war.

Trump administration to build ‘road to nowhere’ through Alaska wildlife refuge

“The Trump administration has approved an unprecedented and illegal proposal to sell out Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.”

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Protesters outside the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, the day of the Dobbs decision. Photo: John Brighenti / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Report counts 902 pregnancy-related prosecutions in three years after Dobbs

Pregnancy Justice found that most cases involved child neglect or endangerment charges and that substance use was alleged in 871 of them.
An I Voted sticker. Photo: NMGiovannucci / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

CMS rescinds nursing home voting guidance and issues new memo on coercion

The July 20 memo replaced 2020 and 2024 guidance. Senators asked the agency in August to reinstate the earlier versions.
The Department of Education headquarters in Washington. Photo: G. Edward Johnson / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Education Department drops appeal of ruling that struck down loan forgiveness employer rule

The rule would have let the education secretary disqualify nonprofit and government employers from Public Service Loan Forgiveness. A federal court vacated it on June 30.
The emergency entrance of Shands Starke Regional Medical Center in Starke, Florida. Photo: Michael Rivera / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Trump Dangles Rural Health Dollars To Push States To Change Hospital Laws

The Trump administration has tied billions in rural health funding for states partly to the policy commitments they make, including ending their certificate of need, or CON, laws governing the construction of new hospitals.
A female polar bear with cubs along the Beaufort Sea coast. Photo: Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (public domain)

Fish and Wildlife Service finalizes five-year Arctic oil rule covering polar bear and walrus...

The industry's own estimate counts 123 polar bear harassments and no deaths over the period, while the agency's rule lists how deaths could still occur.