My Nation column on the totalitarian implications of Trump demanding of AG Bondi that she prosecute his political opponents NOW and of Bondi not immediately resigning in response. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Kristof's extraordinary, deeply reported article today on the deadly cuts to USAID is a must-read. Trump's administration is directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and the likely deaths of millions more. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

This move effectively kills, in practice if not name, H1B program. All those skilled workers who came to US will now park their skills in other countries. Who loses? Not those other countries. America loses, by forfeiting access to a wealth of talent. Truly insane. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Glad that Gov. Gavin Newsom is up for the fight and understands the danger.

For those of you who have never seen Edward R. Murrow's takedown of McCarthy, here is the clip. This should be mandatory watching for every craven executive at ABC/Disney who made disgraceful decision to take Kimmel off air -- and for every politician defending Trump. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMgo...

ABC's decision to take Kimmel off the air is an absolute disgrace. Such a contrast to how CBS stood up to McCarthy with Murrow's denunciation of demagoguery. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...

In interests of historical accuracy, as Trump's regime plans crackdown on progressive movements in wake of Kirk murder, my Nation column recaps times in recent past when rightwingers, led by Trump, have goaded people to violence and/or supported it after the fact. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Off the rails.... 👇

My latest Nation column -- on Trump's desire to stomp on the civil liberties of evermore people as his authoritarian project intensifies. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

American Carnage: How Trump, Musk and DOGE Butchered the US Government by @sashaabramsky.bsky.social is now available for pre-order! Following fired federal workers, the book charts the fallout of Trump's war on the “deep state.” Co-published with @thenation.com www.orbooks.com/catalog/amer...

My latest Santa Fe Reporter column. On Trump threatening to wage war on Chicago. sfreporter.com/columns/lett...

I am delighted to announce that my new book American Carnage: How Trump, Musk and DOGE Butchered the US Government is now available for pre-order on publisher's website. This is the first book that captures the stories and voices of federal workers fired in the purges. orbooks.com/catalog/amer...

Seriously, GOP, this isn't even remotely normal. The president is explicitly saying he will declare war on Chicago and says "I love the smell of deportations in the morning." This is both fascist and insane. History is watching. You are presiding over a rolling coup. www.cnn.com/2025/09/06/p...

Broadcasters have been instructed not to air Bronx cheers likely to rain down on Trump tomorrow at US Open. Not sure how you filter out sound of tens of thousands of people booing, but I'm sure you can't stop people wearing their opinions on their tee shirts. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

More and more these days, I think the real news has actually been captured by The Onion. This from CNN... one hopes the headline writer at least had some sense of the grotesque irony here. www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...

Column on how California legislators are looking to fight back against the behavior of Trump's secret police. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I am not in favor of unfettered gun ownership. BUT, reported moves by Administration to specifically single out Transgender Americans and remove their gun-owning rights is truly terrifying. Singling out a group like this is always the first step to something much worse. www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

My colleague Elie Mystal's powerful piece on the insane dangers of militarizing the court hearings for immigrants. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u... Trump's people have targeted for assassination a boatload of people who may or may not be drug smugglers. We are being asked to take on face value that they are smugglers -- and then being asked to acquiesce in their killing.

Background Briefing radio interview I did yesterday on the use of National Guard in cities and the escalating ICE raids. www.backgroundbriefing.org

We are joined by The Nation’s @sashaabramsky.bsky.social to discuss the terror and cruelty of the ICE deportation machine, with a Federal Judge ruling today, “President Trump [is]….creating a national police force with the President as its chief.” soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

NOW at backgroundbriefing.org | @sashaabramsky.bsky.social - Court Rules Trump is Creating a National Police Force With Himself as Chief | Orville Schell - Xi Jinping Commands the World Stage Because of Trump's Blundering | @ericblanc.bsky.social - Mamdani VS. an Establishment Out to Crush Him

Trump mused about wanting to get into Heaven -- then his administration tried to deport 600 unaccompanied minors to Guatemala. My Nation take on this monstrous effort. Please contact your elected representatives and get them to talk out on this deportation plan. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

My Truthout column on the huge dangers the country faces because of cuts to FEMA. I spoke with several of the signatories to the Katrina Declaration. truthout.org/articles/fem...

Today's column. Excerpt: "It [cabinet meeting] was so fawning, so lickspittle-y, so grotesquely despotic that one can only hope every participant in this charade spends the rest of their miserable lives having nightmares about those three hours on August 26, 2025." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Are they f***ing kidding: the immigrant-hunters go into a fire zone and arrest people actually fighting fires? This is sheer insanity. www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/u...

If I were the democratic leadership, or their donors, I would be setting up shadow everything. Shadow congress. Shadow CDC. The overwhelming message being: here is where you come for facts. Here is what science really says. Here is what polling really says. Why aren’t they doing this?

My Santa Fe Reporter column on Trump's use of the military in Democratic-run cities and his retribution campaign against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. When will the MAGA supporters have the courage and the decency to say "Enough?" to these authoritarian tactics? sfreporter.com/columns/lett...

Washington Post story about the Katrina Declaration [Gift link] wapo.st/4mu7HfL 1/4

Clip number two from the interview about Trump and fascism/totalitarianism. www.youtube.com/shorts/ArVt7...

A video clip excerpt from an interview I did explaining why what is happening in Trump's America should be understood as being quintessentially fascist. www.youtube.com/shorts/XP5dR...

My latest Nation column, on how a 20 year old with no criminal record and a qualification as a nurse's assistant has spent the past six months in immigration detention. And what this says about the moral character of those in charge of the country right now. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Because, after all, who wants the most powerful law enforcement agency in the country to be staffed by educated recruits?! We live in the era of idiocracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

This week on the pod @sashaabramsky.bsky.social returns to discuss human decency in the age of Trump + the power of accurate diagnosis of the threat we face Listen: refusefascism.org/refuse-fasci... Appreciate the show? Wanna help us reach more listeners? Review the show & give us all the stars

Trump's attack on Smithsonian for focusing on how bad slavery was is not just historically illiterate, it's also rampantly totalitarian. In Trumplandia, vanish a system of almost unimaginable cruelty from the historical record and... problem solved! The man's a moron. www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...

My Truthout article on the new FEMA priorities: defund disaster preparation and response programs, and redirect money into building detention centers to hold immigrants. truthout.org/articles/tru...

One would think the FBI and the Secret Service might have better things to do than rousting vulnerable homeless people in DC from encampments. Just saying... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

Well, this is a lawsuit ready to happen!! www.cnn.com/politics/pra...

My latest Hiding In Plain Sight column for the Nation: on the ongoing ICE raids in LA and the impacts on residents. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Masked Border Patrol and ICE GOONS violently kidnapping an elderly man in Southern California

My latest Santa Fe Reporter column. sfreporter.com/columns/lett...

What’s happening in Texas right now can only be described as a power grab. Unabashed, unembarrassed, happening right in front of our eyes. Voting rights legislation cannot wait. The time is now.

What kind of vile people put this much effort into reducing racial, economic and cultural diversity on campuses? What kind of people think it's bad to make an effort to include underrepresented people in higher ed? Their vision of America is truly that of AmeriKKKa. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

My Nation column on another immigration-detention outrage. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Trump fired the BLS chief for publishing statistics that make him "look bad." Funnily enough, I don't think he needs other people's help in making him look bad; the man who paved over the WH Rose Garden with concrete is doing a pretty good job of that all by himself.

Firing people for delivering objective economic data is perhaps scariest thing the Trump administration has done. It means that, in future, no economic data will be trustworthy because officials know that to keep their jobs they have to make Trump look good. Fascism... www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/b...

The White House spokesperson's comments on "improper" history and only exhibiting "American greatness" would be truly at home in a news story by, say, TASS circa 1950. There's nothing even remotely cognizant of how complex democracy is here. Authoritarian gibberish. www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/p...

My Nation column. It was a hard piece to write, but I felt it was necessary to say. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

My latest Santa Fe Reporter column, on the inversion of right and wrong, moral and immoral in Trumplandia. sfreporter.com/columns/lett...