To a large swath of the people, it doesn’t matter what Trump does or how many people are harmed by his growing legacy of crimes and moral offenses—they are riding him into the abyss.
Opinions & Commentary
The false concept of white superiority is still firmly epoxied to the minds of various Southern and at least one Northern politician, in particular, who called Nazis and white supremacists "very fine people."
According to DeSantis and his "educators," we had no choice. As the new standards explain, “the rise of cash crops accelerated the growth of the domestic slave trade in the United States.”
It looks like the billionaires who control the MAGA movement have learned from January 6th and won’t make the mistake of having an independent military, FBI, press, or Department of Justice again.
Reagan’s economic policies marked the beginning of the neoliberal experiment, which weakened the middle class and caused inequality to skyrocket in America. Which in turn are driving America’s culture of gun violence and mass shootings.
X might strike you as a weird brand name, and the change may seem to have happened out of the blue, but Elon Musk has long been smitten with the letter.
They made Barbie woke? FUCK! How am I supposed to go about my day knowing my favorite doll isn’t in the Freedom Caucus? I need mom to get me a milk.
Why have we stopped believing these weapons exist—like all weapons—to be used? ‘Oppenheimer’ helps us remember the world in which we live.
"I speak often of the importance of writing truth, no matter who says it, and no matter who we, as journalists, anger with our words. Yet, I didn’t push back forcefully enough when I heard clear and blatant misinformation."
Trump has openly threatened violence: “If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.”
I can’t wait to read the stories about what a secret weapon Casey DeSantis was at the news conference announcing it. Of course there won’t be a lot of staff there because they will have all been long fired.
Governor Abbott wanted people to jump through long, complex, confusing hoops to retain their Medicaid. Many thousands did not, which is explicitly his goal.
Though Americans overwhelmingly oppose U.S.-led foreign wars and the colossal debts incurred by them, the military industrial complex is embedded in every congressional district in the United States.
Republicans are trying to protect their depredations of our rights by preventing people who disagree with them from voting. If fully accomplished this would give them a mandate as fake as Trump's tan.
There are honest and good journalists out there, but most of this media stuff now is just press releases and opinions—all dressed up to draw our attention, break us into camps and fight.
Trump may or may not be the GOP’s nominee this time next year, but, whoever it is, now is the time to harden our democracy against a neofascist MAGA Republican rising to that office.