Has the Media Normalized the GOP’s Voter Suppression Right Before Our Very Eyes?
For over 50 years, our media has been covering up Republican voter suppression efforts. This year, though, they’re getting so obvious that it’ll be interesting to see if they continue to whitewash the practice.
Germany’s Far-Right and Trump’s Billionaires Are Proving FDR’s Darkest Warning Was Right
While Americans were celebrating this Labor Day weekend, in Magdenburg, Germany a 35-year-old neofascist, Ulrich Siegmund, told a cheering crowd that his rightwing Alternative für Deutschland party was “taking our country back.” They’d just pulled 44 percent
A Brazilian Meat Billionaire Walked Into Trump’s Oval Office. What Happened Next Should Terrify Us All…
In Monday’s New York Times, Eric Schlosser — the guy who freaked out a nation with his book Fast Food Nation a quarter century ago — published an article that kicks off with a simple observation: if you buy a T-shirt at the Gap, federal law requires a label that tells you where it was made and what it’s made of.
The Old America Is Dying. Who Will Build the New One?
“The old order is dying and the new cannot yet be born; in this interregnum, monsters appear.” —paraphrase of Italian anti-fascist Antonio Gramsci
9/11: America Can’t Let the War Lies Go Down the Memory Hole Again
Twenty-five years and the smoke still rises
When a Physicist Follows the Data Somewhere He Didn’t Want to Go
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Saturday Report 9/12/26 — Trump Snaps at Black Female Reporter as Questions Grow About His Combative Behavior
— The for-profit Medicare Advantage giants are doing exactly what for-profit companies do, and a million or so seniors are about to find out what “advantage” actually means. Republicans have hated government run programs like Social Security and Medicare — and consistently worked to gut or harm them — since their introduction in 1935 and 1965 respectively. This is why the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress pushed through the creation of the Medicare Advantage scam in 2003, which is neither Medicare nor an advantage. It’s simply a corporate alternative to real Medicare that actually costs us taxpayers more but generates hundreds of billions in profits every year for the companies that run it, who then share some of that profit with GOP (and some Democratic) politicians. And, because it’s all about making profits rather than delivering healthcare, while
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Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887. The Book That Launched a Movement (Chapters 8 through 14)
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America’s favorite political tradition may be pretending every scam is brand new. Voter suppression, billionaire influence, privatized Medicare, war lies… apparently if you wait long enough and change the logo, the country will buy the reboot.