A military law that allows prosecution against ex-generals and retired senior military officers who speak out with "contemptuous" statements against President Donald Trump has rendered many silent, according to a report in the San Antonio Express News. www.rawstory.com/scared-ex-ge...

Trump pardoned Binance cofounder Changpeng Zhao after Binance made a $2 billion investment in his family’s crypto venture. Now Trump is claiming he has no idea who Zhao is. Hello?

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Trump and his fellow fascists are flooding us with abusive propaganda intended to crush our will. This is a preview of a possible future and one that will come to pass unless we wrestle with the reality of our crisis and fight for a different future. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-possible...

That's the authoritarian dream

Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more hospitable for insects. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump attempts to politicize the Justice Department and effectively uses it as his personal law firm by stacking it with political loyalists. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🚨Trump is gutting disability funding so critical to disabled kids like my son. Trump admin cuts funding to Oregon disability programs Organizations across Oregon received notice from the U.S. Department of Education that they’d lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. www.opb.org/article/2025...

In a universe not so very long ago, a schmuck named Richard Spencer argued he could mainstream hate as long as he wrote a coat and tie and history has proven him correct.

I’d like to see the judge dismiss and grant rule 11 sanctions. That’s not a stretch here. We do, after all, have a 1st Amendment and a constitutional republic, not a monarchy/dictatorship.

“Donald J Trump loves making history. So on Wednesday Channel 4 will do just that: we’ll show what we believe to be the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television” www.huffpost.com/entry/channe...

A monthslong NBC News data investigation finds that much of the U.S. doesn't have the protection needed to stop the spread of deadly diseases. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

"This is a good time to remind ourselves of the two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers who were shot just a few months ago. And Trump didn't lower the flags for them or any school shooting." www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1...

It's impossible to see all of this and not conclude that it doesn't matter what happens or who it happens to, there is a contingent of people who are looking for any reason to set off a mass campaign of violence against political enemies. I've seen it for years, but it is simply escalating.

I can’t tell you what happened with the murder of Charlie Kirk, but there’s a larger issue not being discussed. In moments of authoritarian crisis, the environment is ripe for accelerationists to inflame tensions for their own purposes. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-opport...

Trump is not just feeding and entertaining his base, he’s simultaneously trying to goad Democrats — racial minorities in particular — into violence. He’s deliberately trying to incite race riots in the streets, with looting and mayhem, as predicate to martial law. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Do Donald Trump and his family “actually give a fuck” about appearing to profit from his presidency? Evidence is mounting that they don’t. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

President Donald Trump reportedly regrets that he didn't capitalize more on his first term in office, and he's not letting opportunities to cash in pass him by the second time around. www.rawstory.com/trump-cashes...

What we’re seeing is not a conflict of interest, but a congruence of interests. Trump has merged the US government with his business. It’s a cavalcade of corruption. It’s out in the open. It’s brazen and blatant. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday voted along party lines to advance legislation that includes a measure which seeks to cut Medicaid funding for the abortion and healthcare provider Planned Parenthood. www.rawstory.com/planned-pare...

GOP House Ways and Means Committee Advances Bill to Give Billions Away to Billionaires, Paid for by Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP www.commondreams.org/newswire/gop...

Kristi Noem scraps protection for thousands of Afghans who helped US against Taliban www.rawstory.com/noem-immigra...

The so-called gift could end up costing American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, “You’d basically have to tear the plane down to the studs and rebuild it to meet all the survivability, security and communications requirements of Air Force One" www.rawstory.com/trump-air-fo...

Stephen Miller, Trump's top policy adviser, said Friday the White House is exploring the option of suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional provision that protects from unlawful detainment. www.axios.com/2025/05/09/h...

Trump’s DOJ Stripped Lifeline Legal Services From the Most Vulnerable Detained Immigrants “Without a lawyer, people don’t have a prayer. They don’t have a chance in hell.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“'If you take every asymmetric American advantage'—our universities, our science, our reputation for attracting the world’s smartest young people—'we’re going after each of them in a fit of cultural Maoism.'" www.rawstory.com/maga-maoism/

The United States is requiring businesses and government offices in Stockholm, Sweden, to comply with the Trump administration's anti-DEI policies The U.S. embassy demands this in a letter with a contract that they expect the city to sign. www.rawstory.com/trump-dei-26...

Trump Keeps Doing Sh*t Nobody Voted For, Like Eliminating 'PBS Kids' www.wonkette.com/p/trump-keep... By Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social

One America News , a hard-right, Trump-supporting US news network that perpetuated conspiracy theories about the 2020 election will nowprovide news coverage for Voice of America (VoA), the Trump administration said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump cut funding to develop heart pump for babies born with heart defects. www.rawstory.com/trump-fundin...

Last week, Republicans pushed through over $350 billion in funding cuts for programs that Americans rely on to pay for education at every level, paving the way for tax cuts for themselves, billionaire donors, and corporations. www.commondreams.org/newswire/rep...

Trump is bending the law so that he can twist and reinterpret our laws to make political opponents and disfavored groups into a military enemy of the state. www.rawstory.com/trump-war-26...

After years of progress in reducing the number of babies that succumb to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the National Institutes of Health has terminated its participation in the Safe to Sleep program. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump Quietly Took Away a Living Wage From Thousands of Federal Workers Companies can now illegally pay federal contractors less than the current minimum wage and face no consequences. truthout.org/articles/tru...

The Trump administration is shutting down a Department of Justice unit that has long been at the center of dismantling transnational organized crime networks, drug cartels and human trafficking rings. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

When the media points out Trump’s “potential conflicts of interest,” as it has in recent days when describing Trump’s growing crypto enterprise, it doesn’t come close to telling the public what’s really going on. The correct word is corruption. www.rawstory.com/conflict-of-...

Hey Siri show me insanity... Trump has announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff on all movies 'produced in Foreign Lands'. "What they've done is the other nations have been stealing the movies, the movie-making capabilities from the United States." www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...

Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary Ignorance no barrier as president begins to put out approved version of history that ignores American failures www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump is using a bizarre legal loophole to allow the military to perform domestic law enforcement activity on U.S. soil, an escalation of his already ultra-aggressive immigration and border security policies. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This week, the National Science Foundation (NSF), a government agency that funds research across the country, told staffers that “until further notice,” it will stop payments on grants it has already awarded for studies—and stop awarding new ones. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Trump Administration Thinks You Should Be OK With Being Poor As the country's economic outlook bleakens, Trump officials are trying to convince us that actually, being poor is a good thing. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Republicans in Congress are scrambling to defund Medicaid, food assistance, and other vital programs that millions of Americans depend on during economic downturns so the GOP can pass another round of tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy www.commondreams.org/newswire/tru...

This week, Trump signed an executive order, laying down a host of authoritarian diktats intended to make police officers more brutal, more loyal to him, and less accountable to anyone other than him. theintercept.com/2025/05/02/t...

The US administration is not only attacking the media at home, but it is also withdrawing from the fight for free information overseas. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Education, health, climate and more on chopping block and 13% rise – to over $1tn to Pentagon – in ‘skinny budget’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Trump administration has ordered the closure of 25 scientific centers that monitor US waters for flooding and drought, and manage supply levels to ensure communities around the country don’t run out of water. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

rsf.org/en/one-month... Trump, his administration, and his political allies have conducted a rapid series of attacks on press freedom that amount to a monumental assault on freedom of information.

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that's designed to cut funding to NPR and PBS. www.axios.com/2025/05/02/t...