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The Great Distractor: Auditioning for Trump’s Spectacle

California Gov. Newsom said Trump sent in the National Guard, “Because they want a spectacle.” Exactly.Trump's getting killed on the economy, so the Distractor-in-Chief changes the ... READ MORE

The Great American Tariff Scam: Starring Donald Trump as the Savior Who Sells You OutIt’s not just bad economics. It’s a calculated con that’s costing us jobs, factories, and our future…

Trump just doubled tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50%, and it’s steelworkers who will pay with their jobs. Stay with me, and I’ll explain these weird, weird... READ MORE

Trump’s Tariff Terrorism Leads to Steel Layoffs

He did it again. Today, President Donald Trump doubled  the tariff on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50%.And it’s the steelworkers who will pay with their jobs. Stay with me, and I’ll explain these weird, weird... READ MORE

TRUMP IS TURNING JAPANESE, I really think so

Trump’s tariff terrorism leads to steelworker layoffs.Stay with me, and I’ll explain these weird, weird facts: ... READ MORE

Jake Tapper — A Journalist? (That’s News to Me!)

Jake Tapper is a gossipmonger and a putz, not a journalist. In 2001, Tapper was assigned by Salon to work with me to develop a ... READ MORE

Marching Backwards? 60 years after Bloody Sunday

We cannot take progress for granted. Indeed, 60 years after Bloody Sunday, I feel like we are marching backwards. With new laws allowing the return of Ku Klux Klan voter challenges, how do we defeat the forces that would watch democracy bleed to death and applaud? ... READ MORE

60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday: Selma’s Youngest Marcher Speaks

This Sunday marks the 60th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where John Lewis was beaten close to death marching for the right for Black people to vote in America. Here is Lynda Blackmon Lowery, the youngest marcher, beaten so badly by cops that ... READ MORE

My Vietnam, and My Dad’s

In 1995, in Chicago, veterans of Silver Post No. 282 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their victory over Japan, marching around a catering hall wearing their old service caps, pins, ribbons and medals. My father sat at his table, silent. He did not wear his medals. He had given them to me thirty years earlier. I can figure it exactly: March 8, 1965. ... READ MORE

Pope Found Dead After Meeting With Vance

Pope Francis I, a leader of the so-called "resistance" to #TheRealDonaldJTrump, was found dead after meeting with Vice-President JD Vance in Rome following the Easter vacation period.The Vice-President was in Rome to dress down the Pontiff for encouraging ... READ MORE

Trump Orders States to Open Voter Files to MuskExec Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote

No joke. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access to the voter files of every state for the purpose of ... READ MORE