Enough already with the Democrats’ confused disarray in responding to Tyrant Trump’s vicious, illegal destruction of critical federal programs for all Americans so as to favor the insatiable greed and power of the Super-rich and giant corporations. The plutocrats are demanding more tax escapes, corporate welfare, and green lights for lawlessness.

Tents atop rubble in Jabalia in northern Gaza, February 18, 2025. Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images.

Since October 7, 2023, Soliman Hijjy, a 37-year-old freelance visual journalist, has regularly spent hours trekking through the bombed-out landscape of the Gaza Strip, carrying a black safe of hard drives.

In The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow note that the Western notion of freedom derives from the Roman legal tradition, in which freedom was conceived as “the power of the male household head in ancient Rome, who could do whatever he liked with his chattels and possessions, including his children and slaves.”

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Elon Musk, billionaire CEO and head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is once again pushing right-wing disinformation—this time targeting Social Security. During a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Musk falsely claimed that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme” and suggested widespread fraud within the program.

Donald Trump is celebrating his administration’s move to ignore a law that targeted money laundering.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Md., on Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Iowa’s Republican Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill ending civil rights protections based on gender identity, becoming the first state to repeal civil rights protections for transgender people. Last week, protesters flooded the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines to defend trans rights as lawmakers voted to curtail them.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invoked “emergency authorities” to bypass Congress and send $4 billion in weapons to Israel, the second time in a month that the Trump administration has skirted the process of congressional approval for sending arms to the country.

•  Trump and Zelensky: A meeting between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine turned into an angry shouting match at the Oval Office. Here are the key excerpts.

Chair Walberg, Ranking Member Scott, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today.

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Janine Jackson interviewed Color of Change’s Portia Allen-Kyle about predatory tax preparers for the February 21, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

Jeff Bezos at the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025.

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An unvaccinated child is dead amid a rapidly growing measles outbreak in West Texas, marking the first death from the disease in the US in a decade. Confirmed cases in the area are now at 124 with 18 people—all unvaccinated—hospitalized.

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You can ignore Trump slyly hinting to the Lord’s chosen that he just might call off the next election.

Janine Jackson interviewed the University of Guelph-Humber’s Gregory Shupak about the ethnic cleansing of Palestine for the February 21, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

Trump reportedly intends to fire the entire independent board that oversees the United States Postal Service and park the USPS under the control of a MAGA diehard who just took over as secretary of commerce.

Last week, I had separate lunches with two women I know, and the conversations in both revolved around anxieties produced by Trump’s coup.  Both of my companions focused on the same question: what can an individual do? Both women seemed to think that–because I’m a political policy blogger– I would have an answer, or at the very least, a suggestion.

If only!

If you are younger than 30, you probably don’t remember there was a time in the United States when we were practically ordered to hate France.

Shortly after President Donald Trump's inauguration, rumors of ICE agents in Massachusetts schools led students to stay home. Mother Jones illustration; LM Otero/AP

Are the corporate media outlets reporting on Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s authoritarian takeover smarter than a fifth grader? Recent coverage of the president and his henchman’s blatantly unconstitutional dismembering of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) would suggest some are not.

A screenshot from the White House’s video showing the deportation of an unidentified immigrant.

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