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Politifact: Did Governor Newsom Cut the Firefighting Budget?
Governor Gavin Newsom has been fighting a two-front war: the devastating fires in Los Angeles and the massive amount of disinformation about the state’s efforts. One widespread rumor is that Governor...
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Simon Rosenberg: Trump Is Responsible for Chaos, Mayhem, Disruption
Simon Rosenberg is a leader of the resistance to Trumpism. He blogs at Substack, where his blog is called Hopium. He wrote today: Morning/Afternoon all. If Donald Trump has a superpower it has been...
View ArticleToday is the Last Day for Federal Employees to Accept Musk’s “Buyout” Offer
As part of the radical overhaul of the federal government, some 2 million employees were asked to resign and accept a leave with pay if they did. But there is no money appropriated to pay for the...
View ArticleTexas: Public Schools Are Imposing Austerity Measures While State Holds Huge...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is holding hostage the more than five million students in public schools while he demands vouchers for kids who are already enrolled in private and religious schools. Abbott...
View ArticleEzra Klein: Don’t Believe Him
Ezra Klein is a columnist for The New York Times. His podcast is wildly popular. He synthesizes events that seem disparate. This is one of his best. He explains succinctly the moment we are in.
View ArticleHeather Cox Richardson: Trump Budget Cuts Will Stifle Cancer Research
Heather Cox Richardson points out that Trump’s desire to cut the federal budgets threatens to undermine cancer research. Cutting cancer research? Yes. Is cancer research a “Marxist radical lunatic” or...
View ArticleDOGE Terminates $900 Million in Contracts at Ed Dept’s Research and Data Unit
DOGE swept into the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education and, following its advice, the Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts. Bear in mind, this is...
View ArticleMusk DOGE Team Is Ransacking Our Government, Pulling It Apart
What exactly is Elon Musk’s DOGE team doing? Who are they? This article in The New York Times seeks to answer those questions. The article was written by Theodore Schleifer, Nicholas Nehamas, Kate...
View ArticleHeather Cox Richardson: Keeping track of Trump’s Assault on the Rule of Law
The far-right forces behind Trump have been planning their assault on democracy and the rule of law for years. Decades even, if you consider ALEC and other rightwing groups, like the Heritage...
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James Fallows: “Defund the Air Traffic Controllers”
James Fallows is a veteran journalist, one of the best. He predicts disaster ahead because of the ignorance of the DOGE team slashing the federal workforce. Screenshot from CNN, credited to John...
View ArticleI Sound Off on the GOP Campaign to Destroy Public Schools
Before the inauguration of Trump, The New York Review of Books invited me to write about his education agenda. I read three important documents in which his views and goal were spelled out: the...
View ArticleYoungest Member of DOGE Team is a Grandson of Soviet Spy
The DOGE story gets weirder by the day. Elon Musk has boasted of saving $65 billion thus far (nowhere near his $2 trillion goal), but various critics have complained that he has produced no evidence...
View ArticleSCIENCE: Ex-Trump Official Warns that Canceled Contracts Will Harm Efforts to...
Science magazine interviewed former leaders of the Institute for Education Sciences, where DOGE canceled scores of contracts. One thought it was great, the others thought it was alarming. Science...
View ArticleDOGE Tackles the Social Security Administration
Elon Musk’s hatchet kids have been at work at the Social Security Administration, firing people, terminating leases. Democrats are worried that service will deteriorate, which will encourage...
View ArticleHeather Cox Richardson: Trump Cozies Up to Putin, Allows Musk to Take Over...
Heather Cox Richardson sums up the dizzying events of the past few days. It’s hard to keep track of the array of court orders, overturned, affirmed, or Elon Musk emails, warning government employees...
View ArticleThom Hartmann: The GOP Plan to Cut Social Security
Despite the multiple pledges by Trump and Republicans that they would never custodial Security, don’t believe them. Republicans opposed Social Security when it was created by FDR, and many still...
View ArticleHeather Cox Richardson: Elon Musk Is Pillaging Our Government
Heather Cox Richardson reports on the depredation of Elon Musk, whom Trump has empowered to destroy government services. This destruction is the prelude to privatization. At the Department of...
View ArticleTrump Cuts School Program to Buy Food from Local Farmers
Trump wants to wipe out any program associated with Biden, no matter who is hurt. He wants to fire every employee hired during the previous four years. The State Department just announced revocation...
View ArticleWhy Does Trump Want to Destroy America’s Biomedical Research Institutions?
Jeff Nesbit, who worked at both the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, wrote this article for The Contrarian. The question is one that I keep asking about many federal...
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Sherrilyn Ifill: Do Not Be Silent!
Sherrilyn Ifill is a law professor at Howard University and former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She writes a blog called Sherrilyn’s Newsletter, where this post...
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