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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
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After a few false starts that rattled the markets and U.S. trade partners, Donald Trump on April 2 ordered tariffs on more than 180 countries and territories, igniting a trade war that turned …
"Trump really hit his stride on Jan. 24, when he fired 17 inspectors general, who are responsible for investigating waste, fraud and abuse, and instead put Elon Musk’s Department of Govern Efficiency in charge of those tasks." - JMC
An AI Bot Won’t Take Your Job. Will It?
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We Are Stooges for a Bamboozler

Ramiswamy and the Myth of Moderation

By Don Rollins -- Ohio’s status as the bellwether for presidential elections is long retired, but not the myth that it’s citizens go for “moderate” Republicans when choosing their governor...

Town Halls are Getting Even Uglier for Republican Lawmakers

Emily Singer | Daily Kos

Trump Official Threatens To Shut Down Social Security Over DOGE Ruling

By Jessica Corbett -- "Rather than comply with a lawful court order, he wants to see millions of families, retirees, and disabled individuals go hungry, suffer, and potentially lose their homes all to curry favor with anti-worker billionaires,” a plaintiff said.
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Dispatches

‘REPUBLICANS ARE GEARING UP FOR CLASS WAR,’ DEMOCRAT WARNS, AS R’S PUSH FOR HUGE MEDICAID CUTS.

‘REPUBLICANS ARE GEARING UP FOR CLASS WAR,’ DEMOCRAT WARNS, AS R’S PUSH FOR HUGE MEDICAID CUTS. Policy analysts and Democratic lawmakers raised alarm over the weekend at a leaked document …

TRUMP FIRES JOINT CHIEFS CHAIR, NAVAL CHIEF AND JAG CHIEFS IN DEFENSE SHAKEUP.

President Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Manifest Destiny Revisited: Greenlanders Should Scream ‘No’

In his zeal to wrest Greenland from Denmark, President Trump has resurrected Manifest Destiny. Ages ago we grew our footprint, seizing Texas from Texas, much of the Southwest from Mexico, as well as …

National Nature Assessment Cancelled

By Frank Lingo A first-of-its-kind report on the state of nature in the United States authorized by President Joe Biden has been canceled by order of President Donald Trump. A Feb. 10 New York Times article covered the coverup.

A Coup Attempt Against American Taxpayers

By Karen Dolan - Trump’s attempt to freeze federal funds for government services was an effort to steal our tax dollars to enrich billionaires. And he’ll try again.

The Billionaire Coup is Almost Complete and No One Stopped It — Can We Return to Democracy?

How America’s ultra-rich dismantled democracy, one Supreme Court ruling at a time. By Thom Hartman

Columnists
Suffering Amid Disaster? Enter the Scorn Chasers
In recent weeks we’ve seen a new breed of first responders when disaster hits. Not the fire department. Not the EMTs. Not the cops. No, even faster are politicians misrepresenting facts and …
Piketty’s ‘Nature, Culture and Inequality’ Follows Up on ‘Capital in the Twenty- First Century’
Thomas Piketty’s “Nature, Culture and Inequality,” weighing in at a slim 82 pages, packs quite a wallop for its size. Originally presented as a series of lectures, this “comparative and …
Whiplash 2.0: Split personality, now the most powerful man in the world
SOMEWHERE IN DIXIELAND – Six inches of snow covers Audubon Park in New Orleans, something no one alive has ever seen. The Santa Ana winds are still whipping up the uncontrollable wildfires around …
It’s Getting a Little Dark at the Washington Post
There have been many political cartoonists – the political cartoonist was as much a staple of newspapers as the crossword puzzle. Thomas Nast is considered the “Father of the American Cartoon,” …

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May 1, 2025

Letters to the Editor
Racism and Hatred On the Loose
We are living in darkly historic times and it is no exaggeration to say that the evil forces of racism and hatred have been unleashed in a calculated, premeditated and predatory fashion. And these …
Trump’s Task Force to Protect Christians
Donald Trump is creating a task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias in government. The first order of business of this task force should be to defend and protect Right Reverend Mariann Budde, the …
Aye on the Ball
Thank you for Wayne O’Leary’s excellent column “Billionaire’s Ball” [2/15/25 TPP] on Donald’s coterie of billionaires and their retrograde agenda for the …
Waste of Tax Money at the White House
President Trump has signed many executive orders this past month to allegedly eliminate fraud, waste and abuse in the Federal government. He appears to have appointed Elon Musk to head this project. …
The Trump Takeover
If Sinclair Lewis were alive today, its easy to believe that the title of his book, “It Can’t Happen Here,” would change to “It Has Happened Here”: If this isn’t a …
Protecting Our Money
As W.C.Fields one said, “It’s time to take the bull by the horns and face the situation.” Now that most of the dust has settled over the election, the pearl-clutching, bed-wetting …
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