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The Oligarchs Are Coming!

For real, not joking, listen up: Joe Biden thinks that big money might be in charge. “I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. And this is a dangerous concern. And …

You’re reading the words of a formerly undocumented immigrant. When I fled El Salvador four decades ago, I was 12 years old and alone. I was escaping the country’s civil war, where …

Loosening the GOP’s Grip on Rural America

Trump is president today because the Democratic Party has failed to build a broad enough base to win the presidency or a majority in the U.S. Senate. For those of us focused on environmental justice, …

Ann Arbor — President Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, gave an interview with Fox Cable News. Below I will quote him and present a little commentary with further …

Welcome to the Grifters Ball

Legalized bribery is still bribery — and there is no other way to describe the celebration that marks the second presidential inauguration of Donald Trump. With the menacing manner of a mob …

Sen. Mullin’s Greatest Hits

Last month, during the Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, the junior Republican senator from Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, chastised members of Congress who might have abused women, while …

Trump Wants to Cut Taxes on the Rich. States Can Choose Differently.

As President Trump took office, one of his first agenda items is to slash taxes on corporations and the rich. The results will be more inequality and less revenue for the programs Americans rely …

Rural America Has Enough Problems; Why Create New Ones?

On Jan. 7, the day after Congress certified Donald J. Trump's election as the next president of the United States, the U.S. "Border Patrol conducted unannounced raids throughout Bakersfield [CA] …

Beyond 1.5°C threshold: Deepeningthe climate crisis

The global temperature datasets from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), NASA and the Met Office have revealed a shocking fact that the global average temperature exceeded 1.5° Celsius …

Hegseth’s Thin Line Between Lethality and Legality

The US Department of Defense is the largest government agency in the country. A sprawling and massive bureaucracy, the DOD houses the world’s largest military power, employs nearly 3 million …

Presidential Payola: The Evolution of Political Bribery

Both Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon took cash bribes while in the White House and before. Agnew’s dated back to shakedowns he did as Maryland governor, while Nixon helped Jimmy Hoffa get out of a …

Yes, You Can Fight the Bastards ... and Win!

It’s been my honor to know a few real heroes — people who’ve selflessly dared to fight greed and oppression to advance the common good. Diane Wilson, for example. For 40 years, this fiery …

6 Ways to bring back manufacturing

During hia first term in office, President Trump lost U.S. manufacturing jobs. Outlined below is a roadmap to create jobs in the United States and stop them from leaving. This is the easiest way …

Trump 2.0: The Vulnerable Are In the Crosshairs

Immigration groups have been warning us for months. Things were going to be different during a second Trump administration. They painted a picture of a nation at war, one in which the military …

The Next Financial Crisis: Insurance

The next casualty of the epic Los Angeles fires, appropriately, will be the casualty industry. What has gotten immediate press attention is the impact of the fires on local homeowners and on the …

This story was originally published by ProPublica.

Trump’s Tribe Attacks Earth

Among the many monstrous moves made by F***ing Felon 47 on his first day back in office are aggressively anti-ecological executive orders. We shouldn’t let these terracidal tactics be …

After fierce winds whipped fire out of brush-covered hills on Jan. 7, entire Los Angeles neighborhoods burned down. Within a few days, over 12,000 homes and businesses had been destroyed as flames …

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