Natasha Lennard (Intercept (5/20/25): “News organizations should…have long ago stopped affording the Trump administration such credulous coverage.”A FAIR post (5/22/25) on New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger’s selective defense of [...]
As Republicans in Washington pass a historically damaging budget bill that will hurt millions of Americans, they are losing special elections and the support of voters across the country. WASHINGTON— [...]
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On the long list of people from Donald Trump’s inner circle who are personally benefiting from his second-term agenda, Richard Grenell might be flying under your radar.Grenell — the former [...]
President Trump's administration has forged ahead with a plane to accept a luxury jet from Qatar—despite concerns about its constitutionality.Samuel Corum/Pool/CNP/ZUMA Get your news from a source that’s not owned [...]
House Republicans are working on legislation dubbed “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” to finance a permanent extension of President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax giveaway to the rich by slashing Medicaid, which [...]
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. A hundred years ago today, on May 19th, [...]
Former Vice President Mike Pence said it was disheartening to see President Donald Trump revert to the same kind of rhetoric in his second term that had contributed to the [...]
In the House, Republicans are working on what will probably be the only large piece of legislation of Donald Trump’s second term—and that’s if it passes at all. This week [...]
On April 14, 2025, President Donald Trump hosted Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House. During the meeting, members of the press sought answers from both [...]
If they prevailed, Kagan explained, that could lead to a scenario where the Supreme Court never gets to review the merits at all. “If you win this challenge and say [...]
Janine Jackson interviewed Public Citizen’s Bartlett Naylor about Trump’s crypto grift for the May 9, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250509Naylor.mp3 Common Dreams (5/6/25)Janine Jackson: I [...]
Oh no, I'm agreeing with Ben Shapiro. Well, a broken clock, etc. Shapiro spent quite a bit of airtime blasting Donald J. Trump for not putting "America first." Jinkies, Ben, [...]
During an interview with the MeidasTouch Podcast, Spanberger emphasized that the Trump Administration’s firing of federal workers has an outsized impact on Virginians, and it threatens Virginia’s overall economic security. Just [...]
If you’re anything like me, following the news makes it feel like the world is on the verge of collapse. There are wars on multiple continents, millions are dying because [...]
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.Pope Leo XIV's longtime friend: 'I can't believe this is happening to Bob!'08:02'The line has been [...]
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Despite his public falling out with President Donald Trump, Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp will soon meet with him at the White House to discuss next year's pivotal Senate race [...]
But Kliger had committed a big no-no at the CFPB. His financial records indicated that he owned up to $365,000 in stock in companies that the CFPB was charged with [...]
Watch the digital ad here This year alone, Democrats have won five majority-deciding special elections, flipped 2 seats Trump won by double digits, and defended Wisconsin’s liberal Supreme Court majority [...]
For six long months, Jefferson Griffin and his Republican allies have attacked lawful North Carolina voters through baseless lawsuit after baseless lawsuit, in an attempt to steal a Supreme Court [...]
President Donald Trump said he could extend the deadline for a deal to spin off TikTok's U.S. assets because he has a "warm spot" in his heart for the social [...]
Former VA Lt. Governor Bill Bolling is a conservative Republican and Trump voter, yet unlike Glenn Youngkin, Winsome Earle-Sears, Jason Miyares, Rob Wittman, Jen Kiggans, Ben Cline, Morgan Griffith, John [...]
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.Red line defeat! See Trump’s 7-2 Supreme Court loss decoded in LEGAL SPECIAL (Weissman, Melber)18:37Now PlayingSCOTUS [...]
"Trump and his billionaire profiteers are trying to create a race to the bottom—on wages, on benefits, on dignity itself," the coalition said. "This May Day we are fighting back. [...]
South African centibillionaire Elon Musk may soon be replaced as CEO of Tesla after nearly 20 years, according to a new report.The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the electric [...]
As my colleague Emine Yücel reported yesterday, President Trump’s plan for a rescissions package — which many presidents have successfully used since the 1970s to send unspent funding back to [...]
I’ve been taking stock of the possible firebreaks against Trump’s illegal marauding. One is the Supreme Court, the ultimate guardian of the rule of law. The high court has belatedly [...]
If you open Google Earth and zoom in on the Gaza Strip, it may be difficult at first to detect anything amiss. But focus in on neighborhoods, blocks, or individual [...]
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it—well, two or three other times, at least: Democrats have found themselves in a content-creation war with the Trumpian right. And this pitched [...]
Janine Jackson interviewed the Institute for Policy Studies’ Khury Petersen-Smith about Yemen distortions for the April 18, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250418Petersen-Smith.mp3 PBS (3/15/25)Janine Jackson: [...]
Today, a U.S. District Court judge blocked key parts of Trump’s illegal executive order that attempts to suppress voters, upend voter registration systems and hand over sensitive information to DOGE, stop states [...]
Say goodbye to the pause put in place by the Biden administration on student debt collection. Student Loan Update: Trump Gives New Deadline for Garnishing Wages: The Department of Education [...]
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New York Mayor Eric Adams owes millions of dollars in legal fees and has no obvious means of paying it off, but he says that’s none of his constituents' business. The [...]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a meeting with El Salvador's Minister of National Defense Rene Merino Monroy at the Pentagon, last Wednesday.Nathan Howard/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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." [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]