‘One-Way Ticket to Extinction’: Trump Admin Again Guts Endangered Species Act
manatee swims in the Haulover Canal waterway on June 4, 2024, in Mims, Florida.
Climate Crisis-Denying Trump Threatens Canada With New Tariffs Over Wildfire Smoke
Smoke from massive wildfires in Canada engulfed the New York City skyline on July 16, 2026.
U.S. bombs civilian infrastructure in Iran; Israeli attacks in Gaza at highest level since “ceasefire”; Rubio urges crackdown on “far-left terrorists”
‘This War Was Illegal, Period, Full Stop’:
Janine Jackson interviewed the Institute for Policy Studies’ Phyllis Bennis about the costs of the Iran War for the July 10, 2026, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
Trump’s Primetime Speech Was a Dud. He Could Still Use it to Interfere in the Midterms.
President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House, July 16, 2026, in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)
I laughed when Trump…
I laughed when Trump announced that the Chinese “hacked” a hundred million US voter files — voter’s address, party preference etc. If China spent money to hack this info, they overspent because THIS INFORMATION IS PUBLIC, available to anyone on request — tho’ some states simply post a big fat DOWNLOAD LIST button.
ICE Killing in Maine
On Monday, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in the town of Biddeford, Maine, shot into a car and killed the driver, a man named Joan Sebastian Guerrero.
Transcript: GOPers Fume at Trump as Midterm Woes Grow: “He’s a Bully”
Trump Era Repression Trickles Down to Student Press Censorship
The Wingspan ran a cartoon in January by Aidan McClaren, comparing modern-day actions of ICE with the Palmer Raids against American radicals in the 1920s and the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans.
One Year In, Trump’s ‘Big, Ugly Bill’ Is the Kick In the Face Worker Advocates Warned About
As Republicans rammed their so-called One Big Beautiful Bill through Congress last year on the way to President Donald Trump’s desk, opponents of the legislation sounded the alarm over the pain it would inflict upon working families for the benefit of the wealthiest Americans. One year in, those warnings have borne out—and experts say the worst is yet to come.
Announcement from Public Citizen, 7/2/26:
Just moments ago, a federal judge ruled that the Trump regime’s attempt to weaponize the United States Postal Service — and prevent eligible voters from casting their ballots — violates the settlement in a lawsuit Public Citizen brought on behalf of the NAACP during Trump’s first term.
In other words, Trump cannot enlist the USPS in his campaign to disenfranchise Americans who rely on mail-in voting.
THE NEXT 250TH: A New Patriotism based on Democracy not Piracy
It seems like progressive patriots are still stuck in the rut of responding 1x1 to Trump’s daily outrages – from a failed war to a botched pool renovation – even as he tries to kidnap this week’s Semiquincentiennal. Yet there’s no modern Tom Paine – at least not until presidential aspirants speak up post-Fall – with a unifying theory-of-the-case to renew an unpopular Democratic party. Not for enactment now but in case a Blue Backlash provides it with a working majority.
Here’s one possible framework…in case:
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