Monday, August 24, 2026

Tag: Trump administration

Pardon me!

High crimes and demeanors in the Age of Trump.

Waiting for a grown-up in the White House

Donald Trump is turning the presidency into a day care center for his troubled inner child.

Trump’s new FERC commissioner Rob Powelson accepted gifts from energy industry...

Opponents of fossil fuel infrastructure are protesting Powelson and Chatterjee’s nominations.

Making America hate again

Let’s pray the leveler heads in our society prevent the civil war Trump and Bannon want to instigate in America.  

A former EPA adviser on how to push for environmental justice...

“In our country there are two things that move policy. One is money. The other is the power of people.”

Don’t let our ‘hair-trigger president’ start a nuclear war

The U.S. nuclear system was already dangerous, irresponsible, insane. It can only get worse with Trump holding his finger on the trigger.

Can the Pentagon win when putsch comes to shove?

A rare pentagon “success” story.

Sessions DOJ says it’s OK to purge infrequent voters from Ohio...

The Obama administration was against the state's practice of purging inactive voters from the rolls, but this week, the Trump administration reversed course.

Trump called for acting FBI director’s removal the same day agents...

The news was confirmed by Manafort’s spokesman via Twitter.

House Democrats investigate federal payments to Trump businesses

“There may be other expenditures of American taxpayer funds at Trump properties that are not yet publicly known.”

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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 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.
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 west front of the United States Capitol. Photo: Noclip (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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.