Musk to Force Pentagon to Build and Then Pay Him to Use Network of Ki…
This is a two day old article. But with so much else going on I hadn’t seen it. If you haven’t really must read it. It’s one of growing number [...]
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Corporate Right to Rip You Off
For the last two years, many Americans could file their taxes with a government-run software program, for free. For the last 15 years, all Americans have had their financial transactions [...]
Trump’s Surprise Tax Bill: No More Free Filing for 30 Million Ameri…
After skipping out on paying taxes for a decade, Donald Trump wants to make it more expensive for over 30 million Americans to pay their taxes next year by eliminating [...]
Trump Tries To Distance Himself From PA Arsonist
During Donald Trump's presser with the El Salvador's president yesterday, he claimed Cody Balmer, the man who set fire to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's residence was "no fan of his." [...]
Trump vs Harvard: What the administration demanded
This story appeared in the Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here.Welcome to The [...]
Tariffs, Pundits, and Democrats – The American Prospect
Trump’s insane trade war has pushed a solid economy toward inflation and recession, roiled financial markets, and united other nations against the United States. Worse is yet to come in [...]
Trump’s Dangerous War on Information
As an economist, I know that information is key to our free-market system. If a business makes a good product sold at a fair price, it makes a profit. If [...]
What’s Behind DHS’s Abuses : Democracy Journal
The Trump Administration has fulfilled Project 2025’s promise to shut down the Department of Homeland Security’s internal oversight offices, including its civil rights office. The entire staff of those offices [...]
Even Eric Bolling Bashes Trump’s Tariffs
Eric Bolling got fired from Fox News because of inappropriate texting to colleagues. Plenty of room for him, though, on Real America's Voice. Bolling told White House Deputy Press Secretary [...]
If You Love Donald Trump, Wear His Head On Your Lapel. Or A Golden Tr…
FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s Trump pin (L) and a classic Mao accessory (R). Please don’t squeeze the Chairman! Are today’s hip Republicans still wearing American Flag lapel pins? So passé. [...]
Trump’s 90-day tariff pause, explained
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here.Welcome to The [...]
New PBS documentary ‘We Want the Funk!‘ explores funk music’s revolut…
With President Donald Trump waging war on the arts, via his control of the Kennedy Center and his ongoing attacks on museums nationwide, the power of artistic resistance has been [...]
A Whistleblower Says Trump Sent the US Marshals to Try to “Intimidate…
Members of the US Marshals Service confer in South Abington Township, Pennsylvania, in 2018. Butch Comegys/The Times-Tribune via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter [...]
“An Attack on Labor”: Washington Farmworker Organizer “Lelo” Detained…
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. We look now at how the crackdown on [...]
Donald Lashes Out After Fed Chair Says Tariffs Will Raise Inflation
On Friday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he expects Trump’s tariffs will raise inflation and lower growth. Powell suggested that the central bank won't move on interest rates. “We [...]
Trump’s “Liberation Day” Comes at Great Cost to Taxpayers
From our Budget Breakdown series highlighting problems in fiscal policy to inform the 2025 tax and budget debate. This week, Donald Trump unilaterally enacted a sweeping array of policies to [...]
‘Appalled’: Ex-prosecutors reveal how this Trump official has ‘butche…
Former federal prosecutors are up in arms over the nomination of Ed Martin for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Martin, who is currently serving as interim U.S. attorney [...]
Two Thoughts on Trump’s Inferno Tariffs
Two thoughts on today’s tariffs. I could get into the substance of the decision. But I think that goes without saying. Point one is that we should remember that Presidents [...]
Trump’s and MAGA’s Own Identity Politics: White, Preferably Racist
Donald Trump is giving whitewashing a bad name. His executive order of last Thursday directed Vice President Vance, who’s a member of the Smithsonian’s board, and budget director Russell Vought [...]
A Cowardly Attack on Disabled Students
When Republicans like the squatter currently occupying the White House try to cut popular public support and civil rights programs, they do so in cowardly fashion, like a bully who [...]
Signalgate Can Teach Democrats How to Take Down Elon Musk
The second Trump era is something of an exercise in natural consequences. What happens if you put the most flamboyantly stupid goons in charge of everything? The results will neither [...]
POLL: Americans Overwhelmingly Reject Trump and His Failing Economic…
The American people have had enough of Donald Trump and his unaffordable, dangerous agenda. As inflation persists and Americans overwhelmingly expect Trump’s reckless agenda to raise prices even higher, it’s [...]
DCCC Statement on the Withdrawal of Rep. Stefanik’s Nomination to U.N…
Thursday, March 27, 2025 Today, DCCC Communications Director Courtney Rice sent the following statement in response to the White House pulling Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be U.S. Ambassador to the [...]
Signalgate Bozos Also Confessed To A War Crime In Chat
Along with raising alarm about a massive national security breach—and questions about the competence of top officials in the Trump administration who "inadvertently" added a journalist to a Signal group [...]
Nice Time! PA Democrats Flip Seat In District They Have NEVER Won
Josh Parsons, loser, left, and James Malone, winner (campaign photos)Wowzers, Democrats flipped a deep red seat in a special election for the Pennsylvania state Senate on Tuesday night, with East [...]
The deep divide lurking in Trump officials’ leaked group chat
The biggest story in America is, and should remain, the Trump administration’s accidental inclusion of Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on a Signal group chat about planning airstrikes in Yemen.This is [...]
Kahlenberg in The New York Times: Affirmative Action Is Gone. Can Cla…
If there is one lesson that centrist Democrats have taken from Donald Trump’s startlingly broad-based victory in November, it is that their party will never return to majority status unless [...]
Trump’s firing of FTC commissioners speaks volumes about his love for…
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.Now PlayingTrump's firing of FTC commissioners speaks volumes about his love for billionaires06:14UP NEXT'Chuck Schumer's gotta [...]
Trump Declares War on “Frivolous” Lawsuits – Mother Jones
President Donald Trump signs an executive order to start the elimination of the Department of Education Andrew Leyden/ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily [...]
‘Null and void’: Ex-DOJ prosecutor reveals ‘big problem’ Trump now ha…
President Donald Trump recently invoked a centuries-old law to justify the deportations of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum security mega-prison in El Salvador without due process. But one [...]
Elon Gives House GOP A Little Incentive For Helping The Executive Def…
House Republicans can have $6,600 for supporting Elon Musk’s drive to impeach judges who place checks on President Trump’s lawless executive actions, as a treat. Musk has been championing talk [...]
Fascism’s Feeble Firebreaks – The American Prospect
The Wall Street Journal editorial page, home of fact-bending and scorn directed at liberals, has been doing some soul-searching lately. The Tuesday page had four pieces that could have run [...]
David Perry on MAGA & Disability, Kehsi Iman Wilson (2023) on ADA — F…
Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250314.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). This week on CounterSpin: In early February, when Rep. Maxwell Frost tweeted that he and Rep. Maxine Waters were [...]
ON THE AIRWAVES: Minnesota Special Election Winner Joins MSNBC’s The …
This majority-deciding victory builds on the DLCC’s streak of overperformance in special elections in 2025 WASHINGTON— Last night, DLCC Spotlight Candidate and Rep.-elect David Gottfried joined MSNBC’s The Last Word [...]
REALITY CHECK: Economists Warning of a “Serious Trump Recession” – Wh…
Americans’ 401(k)s are plummeting, unemployment is rising, and consumer sentiment is tumbling – all while Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary is desperately trying to downplay dire economic numbers by claiming he’s [...]
Welcome To The Find Out Part, President Elmo
President Elmo had spent millions and millions of dollars to buy a presidency for his special pal, Felonia. He thought, literally, that he was king of the world. But now, [...]
Chuck Schumer avoided a shutdown and made it harder to stop Trump
The Senate voted on Friday afternoon to move forward with a Republican short-term funding bill and avoid a federal government shutdown. Ten Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, voted [...]
Tesla Takedown: Protests Grow Across the U.S. as Trump & Musk Brand A…
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. “Elon Musk targeted me over Tesla protests. That [...]
‘Universal revulsion’: CEOs of top American companies are ‘privately’…
Several top corporate CEOs recently confided that despite their public shows of fealty to President Donald Trump, they are less than flattering of him behind closed doors.According to the Wall [...]
Johnson, Trump Succeed At Shoving Their Funding Bill Through House
The House passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) continuing resolution 217-213, getting one step closer to avoiding a shutdown just days before the government is set to run out of funding. The [...]
The Coherence in Trump’s Incoherence
In past few days, Trump has reversed himself on tariffs twice, warned Putin to lighten up on Ukraine, and reined in Elon Musk. This is in addition to countless lesser [...]
SHOT/CHASER: After Promising “Golden Age,” Trump Now REFUSES to Rule …
SHOT: Donald Trump spent his campaign lying to the American people about a new “golden age” and promising to “rapidly defeat” inflation on Day One… NBC: “President Donald Trump declared [...]
“Tragedy” of a One-Sided Biden Critique : Democracy Journal
Donald Trump’s victory has prompted significant soul-searching among Democrats about the future of the party’s economic policy. The right and healthy response at a moment like this is humility, evidence-based [...]
Trump Complains: Harder To Deal With Ukraine As Russia Pummels Them W…
Trump tells the press it's easier for him to deal with Russia to strike a peace deal as bombs rain down on Ukraine. Demented Don still says he trusts Putin [...]
Trump’s new limits on Elon Musk’s role, explained
President Donald Trump made the surprising announcement Thursday that his Cabinet secretaries do in fact run the government agencies they head — and that Elon Musk doesn’t. And though the [...]
These private companies seem eager to aid Trump’s mass deportation pl…
Private companies hope to make a fortune off the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans. Last Thursday, a day after the Trump administration announced plans for a massive new immigrant detention [...]
I Think We’re Being Lied to About DEI – Mother Jones
Joe Raedle/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. “DEI is dead.” At least that’s what the headlines scream. I [...]
‘They were prepared’: GOP lawmaker says the quiet part out loud about…
The fact that President Donald Trump moved with lightning speed in signing dozens of executive orders and naming members of his Cabinet was no surprise to one House Republican, who [...]
To Cozy Up to Trump, Bezos Banishes Dissent From WaPo — FAIR
Elon Musk (X, 2/26/25) gives his seal of approval to the new univocal Washington Post.“Bravo, Jeff Bezos!”That was the congratulatory message Elon Musk posted on X, the platform he bought [...]
Fox’s Tarlov Hits Trump For Putin Love: ‘Are They Buddies?’
The reaction on Fox to Trump and Vance's disastrous, dangerous, embarrassing shitshow with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has, as expected, been mainly glowing towards Trump and Vance, pretending Zelensky had [...]