So let me ask you the same question now, while there is still time to change your answer. Where were you when it happened? How does a nation that clawed its way through a civil war, dragged itself out of the Great Depression, stormed

Zainul Abedin, Bengal Famine Sketches, 1943. Every famine begins long before the cupboards empty. Societies seldom stumble into catastrophe. Catastrophe grows from decisions defended, excess rewarded, and dangers ignored.

Byron Allen has officially stepped over the corpse of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, and the stench of his corporate complicity is overpowering. In a deeply cynical broadcast debut,

Imagine If This Had Happened 70 Years Ago Imagine if politicians had been allowed to veto research into vaccines because it wasn’t politically fashionable. Imagine if bureaucrats loyal to a president…had blocked funding for early cancer research…

Today, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche sat before a House appropriations subcommittee and made two things official. The $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” he helped engineer is dead. “We are not moving forward with the fund, period,” he told lawmakers.

No, he’s not over over. I wish he were. But something important has changed. Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to direct him to withdraw U.S. forces from Iran or win approval from Congress to continue the war. It was a remarkable rebuke. Four Republicans sided with Democrats.

A recording has surfaced that directly contradicts one of the most repeated stories in Trump world. Amanda Ungaro, a 41-year-old former Brazilian model who once rang in the New Year alongside Donald and Melania Trump at Mar-a-Lago, posted a WhatsApp audio clip to social

From a post by Tony Pentimalli: CBS did not just lose its courage. It sold it, wrapped it in corporate language, and handed it to the same rich and powerful people 60 Minutes was supposed to expose. The show was not canceled because canceling it would have been too obvious.

Why do Trump’s minions keep using legal tricks and lies to impose tariffs? There is, after all, no reason they couldn’t simply ask Congress to impose tariffs through normal legislation. But doing so would run into three problems, from

And the reason Trump is behaving like he is with increasing desperation is because the same day that the President of the United States was attacking a journalist and her network, the House of Representatives passed a war powers

The authoritarian machine of the Trump regime just suffered a humiliating defeat in federal court. In a desperate bid to crush visible dissent, the National Park Service and Secret Service attempted to ban a protest flag near the National Mall.

Part 3 Neoliberals save their real venom for people to their left. By Oliver Kornetze And the methods are always the same, every single time, without variation, because the playbook has never needed updating:

Part 2 Neoliberals save their real venom for people to their left. By Oliver Kornetze 13.) They will debate the conservative. They will try to destroy the leftist. The difference in response tells you everything about which one actually scared them.

Part 1 Neoliberals save their real venom for people to their left. By Oliver Kornetze Here’s why that makes complete sense if you think about it: 1.) The MAGA guy they can dismiss. The leftist who knows exactly where the bodies are buried is an existential threat to the whole performance.

A framework is not protection: Just days before kickoff, FIFA has adopted a general safeguarding policy, but according to several organizations the child protection concept promised for the 2026 tournament across all host cities is still missing!

My comment: We all owe Heather Cox Richardson a tremendous debt of gratitude for her tireless effort to document these chaotic times in which we live. She is truly a national treasure! I have no doubt her efforts will go down in the history books!

Mitch McConnell has joined the ranks in calling Pulte the wrong person for DNI #USDemocracy www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

We cannot allow the Epstein files narrative to just fade away. This reading room is brilliant and what they have done here ensures that. #BelieveTheSurvivors

This is eye opening and deeply troubling. I needed the reminder that most members of hate groups didn't necessarily start out with the goal of being hateful. It's much more insidious and alarming. #Pinks #ProudBlue open.substack.com/pub/michaelf...

Meanwhile the donor class, the fascist child-fucking billionaires funding both parties, and the professional neoliberal apparatus that has been enabling them and extracting from every community in this conversation for decades watched that exchange and absolutely loved every second of it.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the court’s conservative majority for a ruling that “debases the democratic process” by allowing Alabama to use a congressional map that the justices had previously found intentionally discriminated against Black voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The U.S. Supreme Court erased all doubts about the sweeping nature of its recent voting rights jurisprudence Tuesday night with a shadow docket ruling that effectively reverses the Court’s own decision in the same matter just three years ago. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Metro Atlanta district attorneys sued to block a new Georgia law that would strip party labels from district attorney and other local races in five Democratic-leaning counties, arguing the measure is an unconstitutional attack on Black and Democratic voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In “The Waste Land,” T.S. Eliot describes April as “the cruelest month.” With all due respect, the renowned poet was clearly not a lawyer awaiting Supreme Court decisions that may define democracy for a generation. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/for-...

Republican's can't be okay with the appointment of Bill Pulte as acting directer of national intelligence. He is totally unqualified and probably doesn't even know how many agencies are under his direction. What a depravity!

🗽Robert Reich Someone I didn’t know approached me early this morning on my way to breakfast. He looked about 60 years old, with dark hair graying at the temples. He was dressed in a tie and jacket.... Read: robertreich.substack.com/p/youre-not-...

America deserves a 250th Anniversary celebration that is about us, not about Trump and his authoritarian government. I stopped hoping for any effort on his part to bring us together on July 4th. What a sad state of affairs, "We need to make America, America again."

🗽Frida Ghitis How the Iran War Went off the Rails The world's most powerful military and the Middle East's mightiest army stumbled when it mattered most, mostly due to the ineptness of politicians. READ: fridainsight.substack.com/p/how-the-ir...

#ChaosRecap for June 3, 2026

Breaking News! NO DICTATORS! NO KINGS just announced a massive nationwide protest on Trump’s 80th birthday, June 14th. The same day he’s throwing himself a UFC fight party on the White House lawn. The group already put 8 million people in the streets earlier this year & they’re just getting started!

No Kings June 14th Protest Trump’s Birthday All are needed! #NoKings #USDemocracy #NoKingsADA #TrumpBD #Freedom250

"No Kings" announces major nationwide protest for June 14, President Trump's 80th birthday.

Mike Brock retraction on his statement that Trump was dead www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/it-appears...

It’s beyond time for some good-old-fashioned truth telling. There’s a singular cancer at the core of our democracy and it shows up in dozens of ways that don’t seem related to most Americans. It’s tearing our country apart, paralyzed our

This was post by Mike Brock on June 2, 2026 and I am just seeing his post now. I have no reason to doubt what he is alleging. He stands to incur serious reputational damage if this is not true. He states:

America seems to be failing, both at home and around the world. But why? David French published a thoughtful op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times titled The Fire of Stupidity Can’t Be

We will do one key for each governor here, to show what this process looks like. Start with Spanberger, and start with SEIU Virginia. It endorsed her, it ran the collective bargaining fight, and it has already broken with her in the open, calling on her to sign the

Ask yourself one question. Who do you want holding the most classified intelligence in the United States? On Tuesday, June 2, 2026, Donald Trump answered for you. He is appointing the job of Acting Director of National Intelligence to Bill Pulte.