Politics 'Send her back!' chant shows Trump's ugly plan to get reelectedCNN - Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNNWashington (CNN) — In a moment of unrestrained demagoguery, President Donald Trump presided Wednesday over a crowd chanting "Send her back! Send her back!" about an American Muslim congresswoman who he
Politics Media react to 'send her back' chant at Trump rallyCNN - By Oliver Darcy, CNN BusinessNew York (CNN Business) — A version of this article first appeared in the "Reliable Sources" newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. The fact that it was not surprising did not make it any less
Trump Tower The Shadow Cabinet: How a Group of Powerful Business Leaders Drove Trump’s AgendaRolling Stone - Andy Kroll It could have been an episode of The Apprentice. On a summer day in 2016, a group of businessmen and women descended on Trump Tower in Manhattan. They …
American Inequality Creates the Fascism We Fight Againsttruthdig.com - Lee Camp See if you can answer the following if / then statement without the help of a calculator, tape measure or quaaludes: I assume everybody remembers “if …
Critics Lament as 126 House Democrats Join Forces With GOP to Handcommondreams.org Privacy advocates and civil liberties defenders are expressing outrage after the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday night …
Trump's regime is leading America in an insurrectionThe Guardian - Carol AndersonTrump’s regime has ignited the base by conjuring up a vision of whiteness imperiled by ‘illegals’, ‘black identity extremists’ and Muslim terrorists On Friday, Donald Trump praised Robert E Lee. Slaveholder.
Barr Blows Mueller Report: Everything Changed at DOJ and FBI Today.dailykos.com - 4CasandChlo The Trump administration made a huge mistake in overselling the “EXONERATION” thing. That was bad enough. But “bad enough” is never “bad enough” with …
Julian Assange A Land Uncharted: the Persecution of Julian Assangecounterpunch.org “The freedom of the press is not safe. It’s over. And I think our republic is in its last days, because unauthorized disclosures of this kind are the …
Treason Trump’s accusations of ‘treason’ are a hallmark of fascismThinkProgress - Zack Ford Trump uses "treason" to demonize political opponents. It won’t end well. President Donald Trump likes to describe anyone who disagrees with him as …
Liberal View Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of...truthout.org - Michael I. Niman I was blindsided a few weeks ago by a video of the New Zealand mosque massacre showing up on my screen — courtesy of Facebook. I really don’t have …
Play button DHS Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen to Tucker Carlson: Getting Rid of Birthright Citizenship Is ‘on the Table’The Daily Beast - Justin Baragona Hours after President Trump declared he would “100 percent” close America’s southern border if he can’t make a deal with Congress on border security …
Inside the Chaotic Early Days of Trump’s Foreign PolicyPOLITICO - By NAHAL TOOSIFormer top national security officials detail a climate of fear, incompetence and hostility to facts in a White House that wasn't ready to run the world. The day after Donald Trump was elected president
Mass arrest of federal employees outside Sen. McConnell's office: 'Where is Mitch? We want to work!'dailykos.com - Jen Hayden Federal employees are growing increasingly impatient as they stand to miss their third paycheck. Today they took their complaints directly where they …
The Smile of Class Privilegecounterpunch.org Dorothy Counts in classroom at Harry Harding High Schoo, 1957. Photo: Don Sturkey (Public Domain.) There it is again. Recognize it? That smile. A …
Has the Government Legalized Secret Defense Spending?Rolling Stone - Matt Taibbi October 4th, 2018, was a busy news day. The fight over Brett Kavanuagh’s Supreme Court nomination dominated the cycle. The Trump White House received …
AG nominee William Barr: Trump administration can jail reporters who ‘hurt the country’rawstory.com William Barr, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, on Tuesday suggested that journalists could be put in jail if they “hurt the …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Worse than hypocrisy: Americans are living in the shadow of tyrannyalternet.org - Joe Conason, The National Memo Are Americans currently under the rule of law? Not likely.Those old enough to recall the presidential politics of the 1990s may still hear a certain …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDemocrats have imposed a neo-McCarthyite 'loyalty test' to advance corporate interests. Would a new political party savealternet.org - Paul Street, Truthdig When it comes to criticizing the Democratic Party, nothing speaks like experience within the belly of the beast.When it comes to criticizing the …
Steve King Steve King Demands List of Google Staff So He Can Check If They're God-Fearing PatriotsGizmodo - Tom McKay Google CEO Sundar Pichai finally swung by the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday for a real clown show of a hearing which—including a denial that …
Matthew Whitaker: acting attorney general said judges should be ChristianGuardian US - Jon Swaine in New YorkTrump’s replacement for Jeff Sessions to lead the justice department said judges needed a ‘biblical view of justice’ Donald Trump’s new attorney general once said that judges should be Christian and proposed
I served under President Bush: I left the GOP to vote Dem. Trump is a fascist, a danger to our republicnj.com - Star-Ledger Guest Columnist Alan J. Steinberg served as regional administrator of Region 2 EPA during the administration of President George W. Bush and as executive director of …
Trump borrows from the old tricks of fascismThe Guardian - Timothy SnyderThe idea that the powerful are victims who must be coddled arose in a setting that recalls the United States of today The governing principle of the Trump administration is total irresponsibility, a claim
Pittsburgh shooting extends wave of conspiracy-minded rightwing violenceThe Guardian - Jason WilsonAttack on synagogue is part of long history of white supremacist terror against American Jewish communities The mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh comes amid a wave of rightwing
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo “Male Energy,” Authoritarian Whiteness and Creeping Fascism in the Age of Trumpcounterpunch.org - Paul Street Photo Source CNN ScreenShot“You Made a Superman Cape for Me”Who needs dystopian political fiction in the age of the orange-tinted monstrosity that …
Former Bush speechwriter: Trump has legitimized ‘fascist modes of thought in the Republican Party’rawstory.com Former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson doesn’t believe President Donald Trump is a literal fascist — but that doesn’t mean he sees no link …
Yale philosopher gives a frightening explanation of how fascism is seeping into Americarawstory.com A Yale University philosophy professor said the news cycle’s lightning-fast pace in the social media age is helping President Donald Trump blur the …
Key GOP senator: Trump admin has ‘clamped down’ on Khashoggi intelMSNBC - Steve Benen Rep. Eric Swalwell talks with Rachel Maddow about the familiarity of Donald Trump’s and Saudi Arabia’s explanation of the disappearance of Jamal …
Billionaire fascists are coming for your Social Security and MedicareSalon - Thom HartmannDavid Koch; Betsy DeVos (Getty/Dia Dipasupil/Mike Theiler/Photo montage by Salon) The billionaire fascists are coming for your Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And they’re openly bragging about
How Fascism Works review: a vital read for a nation under TrumpGuardian US - Tom McCarthyYale professor Jason Stanley enters a growing literary field with a sober examination of an inflammatory political concept One of the insidious ironies of fascist politics, the philosopher Jason Stanley
