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Trump’s Lawless Unleashing of the Military, as He Threatens Americans Not to Protest His Strongman Military Parade
Finally Governor Newsom Steps Up to Challenge Trump
Trump is Asking For $45 Billion More for Private Prisons, Where 90% of Immigrants Are Detained
Like All Dictators, Trump Now Controls the Security Services Via His Obedient Flunkies
A Young Latino Journalist Who Has Covered the LA Protests Since Friday
Is Trump’s Triumphant Announcement of a Trade Deal With China and ‘EXCELLENT’ Relations With Xi Jinping Warranted?
The Escalating War of Words Between President Trump and Governor Newsom
In Sending in the Marines Against Protesters in LA, is Trump Stoking a Possible Civil War?
Trump Offers Up His Tesla For $69, Trashing His Former Best Buddy and Biggest Donor Who Bought Him the Presidency
An Eyewitness to Trump’s Dictatorial Dream of Crushing Blue State Opposition on His Way to Becoming An American Fuhrer
With Trump Itching to Provoke an Insurrection to Justify a Dictatorship, Has Los Angeles Played Into His Hands?
Trump’s Dual Strategies of Scaring Off Protests and Instigating Provocations to Enact Fascism
What it is Like to Be An American Citizen Targeted by the Most Powerful Person in the World, Who is Accusing You of Treason For Speaking the Truth
Trump’s America: The United States of Cruelty
Trump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Richest
Trump Sells Out Ukraine Again in His Call Today With Putin
Trump Pressures Iran to Sign or Get Bombed, Making a War That Will Not Be a Cakewalk More Likely
The Pentagon’s Slow Learning Curve on Asymmetrical Warfare, Which Ukraine’s Attacks on Russian Bombers and the Kerch Bridge Just Demonstrated
The Latest Attacks on Jewish Americans As Our President, who Weaponizes Antisemitism, Continues to Signal his Antisemitic Leanings
A Former FBI Counterintelligence Whistleblower on the Wrecking of the FBI by Patel and Bongino
The Smallest Man With The Biggest Job in America Calls Out China in a Hegemonic Showdown
Trump and Musk’s Refugees From an Imaginary White Genocide
Part 2 of George Packer’s Atlantic Article on Our Next President: “The Talented Mr. Vance”
How the Trump Wrecking Crew is Destroying Our Defense and National Security
The Media Falls for Trump’s Theatre While Ukraine Burns
A Pulitzer Prize-Winning NYT ME Bureau Chief and Veteran War Correspondent on Gaza
Trump Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About How He Protects Putin
Musk, JD Vance, and Rubio Praise the German Neo-Nazi AfD Party, While the Trump Administration Weaponizes Anti-Semitism
The Impact of the U.S. Senate’s Republicans Revoking California’s Electric Car Mandate
