Masked federal agents handcuffed and detained yet another Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday, this time in New York City. Brad Lander, a mayoral candidate and New York City’s current comptroller, was arrested by federal agents, many of them masked, while accompanying another individual out of an immigration hearing at a courtroom …
Read More »Trump Mobile Is the First Family's Latest Effort to Cash In on the White House
President Donald Trump’s family has launched yet another unscrupulous cash grab attempting to profit off the current president’s name and public image: Trump Mobile, a wireless phone service. If the crypto companies, branded bibles, social media platforms, colognes, sneakers, and other grifty products branded with the face of President Donald …
Read More »Tear Gas, Human Stampedes, and ICE Raids: 100 Hours in L.A.
Have you ever been caught up in a human stampede? You’d remember it. But let’s back up to calmer times. Even social unrest has an internal clock. It is the eighth day of protests in downtown Los Angeles since Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began grabbing immigrants from …
Read More »'Chicago Is Next': Team Trump Plots Another Militarized Crackdown
As President Donald Trump calls on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to ramp up arrests and deportations in America’s biggest cities, because they are the “Democrat Power Center,” he and his administration are eyeing Illinois for the next militarized crackdown. “Chicago is next, if they go too far,” a senior …
Read More »Trump Parade Turnout Swamped by Millions Who Protested at 'No Kings' Rallies
Saturday’s “No Kings” protests drew millions of Americans out into the streets to voice their opposition to President Donald Trump’s increasingly autocratic, authoritarian governance. On Monday, the ACLU declared that over five million people had assembled across 2,000 demonstrations. That number was echoed by other organizations partnered with “No Kings,” …
Read More »Trump Nixed Israeli Plan to Assassinate Iran's Supreme Leader: Report
Donald Trump vetoed an Israeli plan to kill Iran‘s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, U.S. officials told Reuters and The Associated Press (AP). The Israeli government discussed the proposed plan with the Trump administration in recent days, and the president balked at it, an anonymous U.S. official told the AP. …
Read More »What You've Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
L ike many people alive today, I have no desire to live on Mars. It is, by all accounts, a pretty shitty place for human habitation. Heat escapes its atmosphere so quickly that, were one to stand at its equator at noon with skin exposed — not a great idea! …
Read More »Trump's Actions Have Sparked a Call for a Black Wall Street
Nathan Daye, 30, remembers the Ku Klux Klan parading through the streets of his hometown of Roxboro, North Carolina, in 2016 when Donald Trump won his first election. He wasn’t surprised; every few years there would be a caravan of Klan members escorted by law enforcement, but Daye couldn’t help …
Read More »Trump's Military Birthday Parade Was a Gross Failure
WASHINGTON — On Saturday, President Donald Trump held a hideously expensive military parade in Washington, D.C., on his birthday. Trump and his top officials stood on a stage at the National Mall behind two tanks, before two large digital American flags. Military bands and troops, some on horses, some in …
Read More »Pussy Riot at L.A. 'No Kings' March: 'It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Russia'
Pussy Riot showed solidarity on “No Kings” Day, participating in the march in Los Angeles on Saturday. They joined the demonstration while displaying a red banner that read, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Russia.” The march in downtown Los Angeles drew about 20,000 people, and was one of …
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