Saturday, March 21, 2026

Tag: violence

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From personal power to autocracy in Donald Trump's America

Minneapolis is giving Americans the model for fighting a fascist regime

The day when they can turn their resistance against the regime into electoral power, take back control of the legislative branch, and start using the powers of Congress to hold this criminal regime accountable.

We found more than 40 cases of immigration agents using banned...

DHS policy bars using chokeholds and carotid restraints just because someone is resisting arrest. Agents are doing it anyway.

In-Tim-I-Dation—brutality drives ‘domestic ICE terrorism’ to shut down mass, anti-MAGA resistance 

Corruptly, stupidly defending massively excess force against a made-up "terrorist" reinforces the ultimate criminality ofMAGA Trump government-driven terrorism, lying the unarmed, unaggressive Good “deserved what she got.”

‘Riots raging’: The misleading story Fox News told about Portland before...

ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.

MAGA men, rage, and the road to nowhere

And no less unfortunately, we’re speeding down it quickly with a maniac in the driver’s seat, and it lacks the guardrails of a law-abiding Supreme Court and a constitutionally aware secretary of defense.

Exploring the high rates of social violence in the Americas

For decades, the Americas have been the most violent part of the world outside active war zones. Many factors contribute to this, but long-term solutions remain difficult to achieve.

Illegitimate power, illegitimate violence: How nations are built on the backs...

True justice begins at birth, not in systems that mask inequality with the language of freedom and hide civil erasure behind institutional power.

How fascist misinformation and violence are fueling a national crisis in...

Fascist mobs fueled by misinformation are wreaking havoc across the UK, exposing deep-seated issues of racism and political extremism.

The party that embraces political violence is now reaping what it...

Was the attempt on Trump’s life the direct result of the Republican Party’s decision to exploit violence for political gain?

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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back

Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.

Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...

The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.

Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails

The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.

State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring

Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.

The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace

Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.