Donald Trump and his White House have moved to deport green-card holders for espousing pro-Palestinian views, shipped hundreds of migrants to a notorious Salvadoran mega-prison without due process (in defiance of a judge’s order), and are now publicly musing about sending United States citizens to prison in El Salvador. Trump …
Read More »Inside Elon Musk's Gleeful Destruction of the Government
B en Vizzachero had his dream job, working as a wildlife biologist with the Los Padres National Forest in California. He was moving up the ladder, had recently received a positive performance review, and was “making the world a better place,” he says. Yet, over Presidents’ Day weekend in February, …
Read More »'Economically Indefensible': Trump's Bad Tariff Math Was Too Stupid To Implement
Donald Trump blinked, and his massive new trade war has been drastically scaled back. Or, maybe not? Perhaps he’s just tweaking the details during a partial 90-day pause, and he preps other, different, and more magnificent tariffs. Regardless, the president of the United States will continue to hold the American …
Read More »Massive Protests Against Trump Are Just the Beginning
Millions of Americans flooded into the streets Saturday to protest president Donald Trump; his Department of Government Efficiency hatchet man Elon Musk; the GOP’s agenda to pay for tax cuts for the richest with cuts to Medicaid; preposterous cuts to science, health, and education; Trump’s mistreatment of trans kids and …
Read More »Trump and DOGE Are 'Trying to Get Around' Privacy Laws to Gather Your Personal Info
Across the federal government, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gained access to untold volumes of data containing the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans. The data includes information like addresses, tax filings, family members, and medical records for everyone from average citizens receiving Social …
Read More »Trump Admin Exempts Trump's Ads Thanking Himself From DOGE Review
It’s very important to the Trump administration that the government spend huge taxpayer dollars on ads that repeatedly thank Donald Trump while warning immigrants to leave or stay out of America. There was such “an unusual and compelling urgency” for this propaganda campaign that it could not be subject to …
Read More »Trump Is Losing in a Landslide in Canada
TORONTO, ONTARIO — Donald Trump is losing an election in a landslide — in Canada. After a decade under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada was ready to move on from his center-left Liberal Party. It seemed inevitable that my homeland was about to elect a new conservative government and perhaps …
Read More »Anti-Trump Protesters Assemble in Every State and Cities Worldwide
WASHINGTON — From Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, Topeka, Kansas to Chicago and several of its suburbs, in all 50 states and in many cities worldwide, hundreds of thousands of people assembled to protest against Donald Trump and his billionaire financier and adviser Elon Musk on Saturday. The “Hands Off” …
Read More »The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans
On March 27, 2022, on the heels of a weekend marked by dozens of gang-related murders, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and his legislature plunged the country into a régimen de excepción — a state of exception — and declared war against the gangs. The state of exception suspended fundamental …
Read More »'He Wanted the Numbers to Be Huge': Why Trump's Tariffs Are So Insane
The sweeping tariffs Donald Trump announced on Wednesday don’t make a ton of sense — outside of Trump’s compulsion to flex his presidential powers, and his mysterious hatred of trade deficits. The package of steep taxes on all foreign imports predictably caused markets to crater, and is expected to make …
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