On Indigenous People’s Day: No Kings
It’s a federal holiday today. Our not-so-illustrious President has declared that it is no longer a day to celebrate Indigenous People, but rather, a day to admire “the original American hero,” Columbus. The truth is, the name of the federal holiday has never been changed from the Columbo one (and that confused navigator was Italian, … Read more
Elect a New Generation of Democratic Leaders
By David Hogg, Co-founder of Leaders We Deserve, a grassroots organization dedicated to electing young progressives. This is life in America today — where military raids against our own people are routine and Black and Brown communities are terrorized. What’s happening in Chicago right now should horrify everyone in this country — and every elected official … Read more
“These Mother F-ers Are Crazy”: Using the Project 2025 Playbook to Dismantle Special Ed and Cripple the CDC
Using their own created shutdown as an excuse, the American Duce Wannabe and his Project 2025-American Mein Kampf-White Christian Nationalist Partner Russell Vought have, as promised, instituted a series of federal government layoffs that they have targeted as “Democrat-oriented.” Unfortunately, these layoffs are nothing more than a continuation of the federal workforce cuts, outlined in … Read more
Mike Johnson’s Holy War Against Democracy: The Coward Who Fears Adelita Grijalva
There are moments in political life so morally bankrupt, so cynically calculated, and with such disregard for the voice of the people that they demand to be inscribed in History. Some people’s lives may best serve only as an example to others. Such is Mike Johnson. Let History take note. Speaker Johnson refuses to seat … Read more
Where are the Shutdown Congressional Republicans While the Nation’s Bravest Have to Go on Food Lines Thanks to Them and Trump
Must be nice to be a MAGA House Republican not having a worry in the world and being able to stay home for another week getting paid while many of their constituents are about to see their health insurance rates spike up and members of the military, who are charged with protecting these same Congressmen, … Read more
ICE Spy Vans are on U.S. Streets, Using Cell‑Tower Vehicles for Mass Phone Surveillance
In a contract quietly awarded earlier this year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) purchased a fleet of vehicles equipped with cell‑site simulators — devices that work as cellphone towers to intercept and track phones in their vicinity. ICE has used the surveillance technology to locate, arrest, and deport undocumented immigrants in the US in … Read more
Another Week, Another Sham Prosecution by the Twice Impeached-Felon in Chief’s Injustice Department
Donald Trump’s Injustice Department is at it again, doing their masters bidding in conducting his national retribution tour against the people that investigated him for the various crimes he has been convicted 34 times and impeached twice for. This week it is New York Attorney General Letitia James who Mr. Trump’s handpicked and personal insurance … Read more
