Sunday, August 23, 2026

Tag: Trump administration

A sliver of hope in the Syrian cease-fire

The American military may enjoy the blank check given to them by the Trump Administration, but they may come to regret it when he shifts all of the blame onto their shoulders the moment something goes wrong. 

Steve Bannon misreports $2 million debt in financial disclosure

Top Trump adviser to amend filing after Center for Public Integrity questions.

Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz threatens stranger in emails: ‘Watch your back,...

After hearing Rachel Maddow discuss our recent story about Kasowitz, a man emailed the attorney urging him to resign. Kasowitz responded with threats and profanity.

Should we entrust our schoolchildren to corporate profiteers?

The DeVos couple are pushing plutocratic policies that reject our country's one-for-all, all-for-one egalitarianism.

Trump Jr.’s emails reveal intent to potentially commit conspiracy

“This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump."

Ethics chief announces resignation due to Trump’s dubious conduct

Walter Shaub Jr. is not the first member of Trump's administration to resign due to ethics flaws.

Forty-four states refuse to release private voter info to Trump commission

Instead of protecting the privacy of voters or the integrity of fair elections, Trump continues to waste time and resources on a fiction that he has failed to prove time and again.

On July fourth, a message for patriots

On this holiday, and every day, that flag and the promise it symbolizes are not Trump’s supporters to abuse, but belong to a nation that will uphold and someday vindicate them.

The Supreme Court’s ‘Muslim ban’ decision is terrifying

If the war on terror has taught us one thing, it's that harsh laws targeting non-citizens will eventually be extended to citizens, too.

EPA chief met with Dow Chemical CEO before deciding not to...

This is just the latest in a long list of examples of the Trump administration working with corporate polluters before reversing public safeguards

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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.
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The baddest, bloodlust bullies having a very bad year

How goonish egotism backfires, Befouled by self-inflicted quagmires!
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.
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.