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Instead of Being Down About Trump, People Are Rising Up

2025 Jim Hightower - June 17, 2025 0

If the barrage of MAGA nuttiness and raw meanness is getting you down, ponder this passage from the classic novel, “Don Quixote”: “It is not possible for the bad or the good to last forever … and since the bad has lasted so long, the good is close at hand.” Of course, the good only comes when fed-up people openly rebel against the bad. And, sure enough, President Donald Trump’s awful tyranny is revving up […]

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Trump’s Arrogance, Incompetence Produce Foreign Policy Disasters

2025 Joe Conason - June 14, 2025 0

For a president who has long described himself as a peacemaker (and openly yearns for a Nobel Peace Prize), Donald Trump has proved to be a reliable harbinger of war. His delusional pronouncements and dithering incompetence have failed to resolve the conflagrations in Gaza and Ukraine, despite many promises — and now he bears substantial responsibility for the outbreak of a very dangerous war between Israel and Iran. Ever flattering himself, Trump often boasts that […]

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No Kings

2025 Susan Estrich - June 14, 2025 0

What does it say when Alex Padilla, a sitting member of the United States Senate, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration, is wrestled to the ground and handcuffed like a common criminal? Not a rapist, not a murderer, but a member of the United States Senate. It says no one with brown skin is safe from Kristi Noem’s goons. Is that the message the Trump administration wants to send to Hispanics […]

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