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MAGA Political Hatred Has Moved From Talk to Action, With the Assassination of Democratic Lawmakers in Minnesota
Raining on Trump’s Parade, as Our Fuhrer Takes the Stand to Review the Troops Like the Dictators He Admires
Trump on the Sidelines as Israel Wages War on Iran, With Netanyahu Promising Regime Change
More Tabloid Headlines From a Tabloid Presidency, As the Marriage of Wealth and Power Between Two Infantile Ego-Maniacs Heads For Divorce
Political Activism Versus Centrist Pragmatism: The Choices Facing the Moribund Democratic Party in New York City’s Mayoral Race
Trump Claims Putin is “Tapping Him Along,” But is Trump Stringing Us All Along?
President TACO Zig-Zags on Tariffs, as the Senate Takes Up His “Big, Beautiful Bill,” Which Some Republicans Want to Cut More and Others Cut Less
Trump Calls Leonard Leo a “Sleazebag” and Regrets Following the Advice of the Federalist Society
The Growing Possibility Our Next President Will Be J.D. Vance Before Trump’s Term is Up
Netanyahu Blames the Leaders of the UK, France, and Canada For the Murders of Young Israeli Diplomats in DC
A Path Forward For Those Who Want to Stop the Killing of Innocents
The Ongoing Humanitarian Nightmare in Gaza
Putin Plays Trump Again by Not Showing Up For Farcical “Peace” Talks in Istanbul
A Report From Kyiv on How Much Ukrainians Want Peace, But Not Surrender on Putin’s Terms
The Death Toll In Gaza Reaches 53,272, As Trump Plans to Send a Million Gazans to War-torn Libya
Manhandling Congresswomen and Arresting a Mayor Makes it Clear We Already Have an Authoritarian Government
As Stephen Miller Talks of Suspending Habeas Corpus, Justices Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson Warn it is Time to Stand Up
The Law is Being Put to the Test by a Lawless President Who Has Been Given Immunity by a Supreme Court Captured by Right Wing Billionaires
Trump’s Budget Cuts the Well-Being of American People While Boosting Exclusion, Retribution, and Destruction
Trump Defunds PBS and NPR in His War Against the Truth and Facts
The World Turns Against Us, as First Canadians and Now Australians Vote Against Pro-Trump Candidates
On the Sidelines of the Pope’s Funeral, Zelensky Meets With Trump to Discuss the White House’s Charade of a Peace Plan/Giveaway to Putin
Trump Orders the DOJ to Investigate Act Blue to Get Private Data on 15 Million Democratic Donors
Opus Dei and “Traditionalist” Forces Inside the Catholic Church Maneuver to Replace a Pope They Hated With a Reactionary
Putin’s Brief Easter Ceasefire and Trump’s Warning he Might “Take a Pass” if a Russia/Ukraine Peace Deal Can’t be Made
Trump Threatens To Fire the Chairman of the Fed, Which He Can’t Do, But That Won’t Stop Him From Trying
In Picking a Trade War With China, Trump Might End Up With a Real War
How to Ruin a Country
From a Nation of Immigrants to a Nation of Hate, Xenophobia, Exclusion, and Cruelty
An Inside Look Into the Fateful Campaign That Brought Back Trump to Finish Off America
