Showing posts with label MAGA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MAGA. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

How MAGA propagandists responded to Trump’s demand to shut up about Epstein

My latest piece for MSNBC.com details how Fox News hosts and other MAGA media elites followed President Donald Trump’s order to move on from coverage of convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, and what that response means for the future of Trump’s coalition: more

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

'It's Very MAGA!' Inflation Ticks Up as Trump Tariffs Push Consumer Prices Higher

"Today's inflation report confirms what we already knew: Trump's tariffs are a tax on working-class Americans and additional tariffs would hurt them even more." more

Thursday, June 12, 2025

'Open Season for Wealthy Tax Cheats' as Republicans Confirm Trump IRS Pick Billy Long

The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee said Long is "knee-deep in tax scams, corruption and cover-ups." more

'This Is INSANE!': Senator Padilla Forcibly Removed From Kristi Noem Press Conference

"This isn't just shocking," said Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.). "It's a threat to the rule of law and democratic accountability." more

Monday, June 9, 2025

How Trump Could Use The Insurrection Act To Deploy Troops In LA

As protests continue to flare in Los Angeles over the Trump administration carrying out immigration raids and deploying National Guard troops to the area, President Donald Trump has floated the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act over objections from California’s governor and the mayor of LA. more

Sunday, June 8, 2025

'This Is What Fascism Looks Like': Beloved Labor Leader David Huerta Arrested

"This is about something much bigger," said the president of SEIU California, still in detention. "This is about how we as a community stand together and resist the injustice." more

Dictators use of Fear

Hitler's soldiers, particularly the SS and the Gestapo, utilize fear as a primary tool for control and repression during the Nazi regime.

Friday, June 6, 2025

How Star Wars Reveals Conservatives’ Authoritarian Fantasies

Republicans are gunning for their own galactic empire. And they’d blow up a planet—or this country—to make it happen. more

Saturday, May 17, 2025

How Star Wars Reveals Conservatives’ Authoritarian Fantasies

Republicans are gunning for their own galactic empire. And they’d blow up a planet—or this country—to make it happen. more

Sunday, May 11, 2025

We should welcome MAGA remorse

Many Trump voters have doubts. There will be a gradual, and then sudden, awakening. We must be ready to help. more

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

US senator says El Salvador denied request to meet Kilmar Ábrego García

Maryland’s Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen says the government of El Salvador has denied his request to visit Kilmar Ábrego García, his constituent who was wrongly deported to the Central American country last month. MORE

Monday, April 7, 2025

The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI

One evening in March 2017, Hoan Ton-That, an Australian coder building a powerful facial recognition system, emailed his American business partners with a plan to deploy their fledgling technology. “Border patrol pitch,” the subject line read. He hoped to persuade the federal government to integrate their product with border surveillance cameras so that their newly formed company, later named Clearview AI, could use “face detection” on immigrants entering the United States. more