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Winter in America: Navigating the Chilling Effects of Trump's Second Term
Winter’s here, and you can feel it. Short days. Cold nights. Holiday music is trying to warm a world where many still feel iced out. ’Cause like my favorite wordsmith, Gil Scott-Heron, once reminded us — It’s “Winter in America.”

DJ Ten
Nov 175 min read


Revealed: Pentagon orders states’ national guards to form ‘quick reaction forces’ for ‘crowd control’
Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 National Guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest

The Guardian
Oct 303 min read


Trump: Is He the Thief in the Ballroom?
Trump is now trying to extract a quarter-billion dollars from the American treasury — our tax dollars — to compensate himself for the troubles he faced when Merrick Garland belatedly tried to hold him to account for criminally stealing classified documents, trying to overthrow the 2020 election, and his explicit, public outreach to Putin to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails and make them public that helped him win the 2016 election

Thom Hartmann
Oct 254 min read


‘A Pretext to Take Over American Cities’: JD Vance Sparks Alarm With Comments on Insurrection Act
Vice President JD Vance sparked alarm on Sunday when he said that President Donald Trump was considering invoking the Insurrection Act under the pretenses of combating violent crime in US cities.

Common Dreams
Oct 143 min read


BET Gutted, DEI Killed, Media Bought—Trump’s Playbook in Action
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — From purging diversity programs to steamrolling media independence, Trump has unleashed a blitzkrieg of white nationalist policymaking under the guise of federal power.

BlackPress USA
Aug 104 min read


Trump budget would slash rental aid by 40% — and let states fill the gap if they want
President Trump has repeatedly promised to "make America affordable again." But for those Americans most in need, his administration's latest budget plan would dramatically shrink the federal rental aid that helps keep millions of people housed.

NPR
May 86 min read


What It Means to Tell the Truth About America
Elizabeth Hays, a white woman from central North Carolina, had never been to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. But earlier this month, after she read about Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the museum and others throughout the Smithsonian system, she made the nearly five-hour drive up to Washington, D.C., to visit. She was worried that if she waited any longer, she might encounter a sanitized version of the museum, or no museum at all.

The Atlantic
Apr 269 min read


America's Mad King
The president has grown more impulsive, more vindictive, and more anarchic

The Atlantic
Apr 229 min read


Rachel Maddow Explains the ‘Ridiculous’ True Story That Inspired Trump’s Tariffs Plan | Video
To say the origins of Trump’s sweeping international tariffs are dubious is an understatement, Rachel Maddow said on her MSNBC show.
Stephanie Kaloi
Apr 63 min read


BLACK HISTORY MOMENT: How Super Bowl VI is a Pivotal Moment in Black History and a Defining Moment for DEI Efforts
As we celebrate Black History Month today, it's essential to recognize how moments like Fitzgerald's halftime show remind us of the ongoing

Walter Sundiata
Feb 24 min read


Trump’s shameful DEI smears are bigger than one plane crash
Donald Trump has tied diversity to unearned advancement and Thursday’s bizarre press conference — with the entire world watching — advanced

MSNBC
Jan 316 min read


How Can We Apply Dr. Martin Luther King's Ideals to the Challenges of Today?
I refuse to accept the idea that the 'isness' of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching the 'oughtness' that f

Walter Sundiata
Jan 305 min read


Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won
Trump lost. That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote and all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost.

Greg Palast
Jan 2816 min read


Trump Inauguration Dubbed 'A Coronation of Our Country's Descent Into Oligarchy'
"Today marks the beginning of an administration dominated by billionaires and corporate interests."

Common Dreams
Jan 213 min read


‘Has the world gone mad? It has’: foreign reporters share a view of Trump from abroad
Journalists from countries that have seen challenges to democracy give their views on the second Trump presidency

The Guardian
Jan 206 min read


Opinion | Don’t let Republican politicians claim credit
His whole life, Trump has taken credit for things he simply inherited.

Robert Reich
Jan 133 min read


The Guardian View on Elon Musk’s Disinformation: Escalating Hate and Threatening Democracy
The UK prime minister calls out the reckless amplification of conspiracy theories by the world’s richest man on child sexual abuse. Good

The Guardian
Jan 63 min read


The American Oligarchy: A Closer Look at Wealth, Power, and Influence in the 2024 Election
As Donald Trump prepares for his second term, a concerning and significant trend has emerged within the landscape of American politics.

Walter Sundiata
Jan 412 min read


From the Robber Barons to Elon Musk: Will History Repeat Itself?
Ultra-wealthy elites. Political corruption. Corporate monopolies. Anti-immigrant nativism. Vast inequality. These problems aren’t new.

Robert Reich
Jan 34 min read


President-elect Trump's Legal Efforts Against the Media and the Impact on Freedom of the Press
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. Walter Cronkite

DJ Ten
Dec 21, 20244 min read
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