We need our own army of outrage that is organized to channel the efforts of the many law firms and liberal non-profits that already exist and are engaged in the fight against Trump’s dictatorship.
The most effective moment of protest when soldiers were used against U.S. citizens was when a protester put a flower in the barrel of a rifle held by a soldier protecting the Pentagon during the anti-war “March on the Pentagon” in 1967.
The fundamentalist Christians who wrote the laws enforcing the Ten Commandments in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas are not confident about their own faith. That’s why they want to force their religion on the rest of us.
The New York Times can cover Russia’s war of aggression as what it is—murderous, outrageous, illegal, and unacceptable—or they can continue to cover the whole thing as if it’s a game of power.
Trump looked impotent standing next to the Russian dictator who had shown the world his power to get a meeting on American soil with an easily manipulated putz of a president.
Trump has surrounded the White House with armed federal agents and National Guard soldiers, and we have no idea what is going on in there, just as we will have no idea what is said when he meets with Putin in Alaska.
Trump's absurd reaction force gambit will cost tens of millions and accomplish nothing, and it might lead to death and disaster on the streets of the United States.
Trump “solved” the case of the Central Park Five with a newspaper ad, and he is solving the non-existent crime explosion in Washington D.C. the way he has solved everything else, with an executive order and a press conference.
The horrors we studied in history class about the abuses of the Soviet Union under brutal dictators like Stalin and Khrushchev have now been embraced by the president of the United States and the government he has appointed to office.
What matters about the Epstein story is that Donald Trump is afraid. That should change everything for the Democrats if they play their hand right, because a Donald Trump who is scared can be beaten.