Unless Trump backs down to avoid the Gov shutdown, healthcare premiums for many will skyrocket. Sen Dem Leadership have chosen a good strategy to pushback and highlight Trump incompetence and cruelty. See Paul Krugman: Understanding the Coming Premium Apocalypse open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

When government intimidation and corporate cowardice meet, free speech dies. Boycott ABC and Disney until they stand up to Brendan Carr’s censorship. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

"Give us your tired, your poor..." and we'll detain them in cruelest and most inhumane way so they decide to self deport.

Democratic leaders, do something! Here is an idea......

Latest from Alexandra Petri. So on target!

Pritzker stands up to Trump. He points out that the claimed "crime emergency" is just a ruse for putting Federal troops in place in Democratic cities for the 2026 elections to intimidate voters and influence the vote.

Bravo, Lisa Cook and Susan Monarez, for refusing to go quietly into the night. Fed Governor Cook is suing Trump for her illegal firing. CDC Director Monarez has refused to resign and has accused RFK, Jr of the weaponization of public health.

The Gladstone.ai report, "America's Superintelligence Project' commissioned by the US State Dept, discusses the urgent need for better security in AI HW & SW supply chain, infrastructure, and development. It also discusses alignment: How do we control AI to ensure it serves human interests?

MAGA (Morons Are Governing America) strikes again. Yet another tragic decision that the world will need to endure.

Nice explanation of the recent CP violation observed in baryons that may have cosmological implications regarding matter vs anti-matter in the universe.

Trump's DOJ is beginning to encroach on the upcoming elections. They are contemplating prosecuting state and local officials if election security is not "up to standards"

Bill Moyers, rest in peace

"As Americans, we have a constitutionally protected right to protest. As Angelenos, we have a moral obligation to protest the Ice raids on members of our community," Alex Berg, 42-year old resident of Los Angeles

Senator Alex Padilla was forced to the ground and handcuffed by federal agents while questioning Kristi Noem at her LA news conference. Trump is cynically inciting violence in LA and elsewhere by federalizing Nat'l Guard and deploying US troops while rounding up immigrants to meet his daily quotas.

LA protestors are on the front lines against the threat of a police state by Trump. They are walking a thin line while Trump is itching for violence that will give him an excuse to crack down and declare martial law.

The proposed Medicaid work requirements are a cynical tool for denying people healthcare to pay for the tax cut. 92% of the targeted recipients already work, are in school, have family caregiving responsibilities or have disabilities. Folks will be thrown off trying to navigate the red tape.

AOC explains how Medicare Advantage makes its subscribers appear sicker than they really are and then denies them proper care in order to maximize private insurance company profits. Senators Bill Cassidy and Jeff Merkley have introduced the No Upcode Bill to address this.

The cruelty and recklessness of the Trump regime is obscene.

Another man is deported to El Salvador in violation of court order.

Do you feel more secure? CBO projects that the Dept of Homeland Security will add $67B to the deficit including $45B for detention facilities and $300M for FEMA protection of Trump's residences. In addition, an increase in immigration fees will provide $73B to fund more immigration enforcement.

A provision in the proposed GOP budget bill takes away the Judiciary’s only tool to pressure a defiant Executive branch into complying with the law.

Effect of 2018 Medicaid Work Requirements in Arkansas 13.2% of respondents targeted with work requirements lost Medicaid compared to those not targeted relative to those in the control states. >95% of them already met work requirements/were exempted! Losses were primarily due to onerous reporting.

Hang tough, Harvard. You have all of academia on your shoulders.

The illegal deportations keep piling up: 3/5/25: Guatemalan deported to Mexico "in error" 3/15/25: 238 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador - no hearing (including Abrego Garcia) 5/7/25: Restraining order on deportation of Asians to Libya 5/20/25: Immigrants deported to S. Sudan - inadequate notice

In apparent defiance of a court order, the Trump administration has deported Myanmar and Vietnamese citizens to South Sudan in violation of their due process rights.

The truth will out. Here is Josh Hawley sounding like a Democrat!

Is this is in preparation for dealing with the increased popular uprisings when tariff price increases, Medicaid cuts, and huge deficit caused interest rate increases start affecting people's daily lives?

A survey of the effects of Trump's withdrawal of the US from the world stage.

Harvard, you’re a beacon for the resistance. Tragically, scholarship will be badly battered these next few years. Stand strong against the howling wind.

Authors argue that you know you are in an authoritarian regime when citizens are afraid to criticize their government. So yeah, we are there.

Large tariffs on Chinese active pharmaceutical ingredients will greatly affect the price and availability of many common drugs. China globally supplies: - 90% of Ibuprofen - 70% of Acetaminophen - 80% of key antibiotics such as Amoxicillin - 80% of Metformin for diabetes management

Robert Reich’s dire warning seems right.

Your local City Council is about to take the Trump Test: Are you a sanctuary city? I am hoping mine fares better than some law firms.

Republicans who are threatening Trump's tax & spending bill are identified in the below WSJ article.

Great article by Steven Rattner detailing Trump's extensive corruption.

Three books seem to form a framework for understanding our current political nightmare: 1. Capital by Piketty shows how rising income inequality is a natural consequence of capitalism. The post war period, though, was a period of relatively low inequality which benefitted the upward mobility of

Beware Trump admin workers! Step out of line and the DOJ will come after you. On April 9, Trump issued Presidential Memos naming Miles Taylor, former staff assistant at DHS, who wrote a book about his experiences, and Chris Krebs, head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency,

Another insightful, disturbing article by Tim Snyder. Trump has weakened US defenses against a terrorist attack through the DOGE purges and the appointment of incompetents. If one occurs, Trump will respond by trying to take away more rights and freedoms. We must be prepared to resist this.

California has stood up and filed a lawsuit against Trump’s tariffs, targeting the validity of the International Economic Powers Act similar to suit by the New Civil Liberties Alliance.

Maher’s dinner was honest, informative but terribly naive. More importantly, we all wanted to hear about a declining, ranting Trump. Instead, his charm offensive on Maher just makes him more evil and insidious.

Trump’s defiance of the Supreme Court is plain for all to see. Republican silence in the face of this obvious injustice is deafening.

An American Version of the Cultural Revolution? Our current politics originated with and are being driven by the cult-like following of one man. Disastrous economic policies forced on the population. Widespread attacks on universities and generally accepted expertise. Pervasive fear.

Know your vulnerable Republican Congressmen! Cook PVI of D+2 means that in the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, the district performed 2 points more Democratic than the nation as a whole.

Trump is pressuring Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates. Powell is asserting increased risk of both higher inflation and slower growth. We are watching for you to stick to your guns, Mr. Chairman, and be guided by the data!

In response to yesterday's disastrous executive order imposing tariffs, the New Civil Liberties Alliance today filed a lawsuit in the US District Court of Northern Florida challenging the use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to justify the tariffs. May this be the first of many!

Nice article about the great Martha Argerich

Go Marc! In reading the executive order, what jumped out at me was "the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with the DOGE Administrator, shall review each State’s publicly available voter registration list ... for consistency with Federal requirements. "

Ask your favorite AI app the following: "Alice has two sisters and a brother, George. How many sisters does George have?" Perplexity got it wrong.

Thousands of noncitizens remain locked up for weeks, months, and even years without any hearing due to the Supreme Court's refusal to address the due process dimensions of immigration detention.

The coming brain drain. Trump is destroying basic research in the US. He has cut funding levels and paused new and existing grants at NIH. He is threatening to cut funding for academic research to force MAGA policies at our Universities. He is cutting important funding for basic research at