Elizabeth Warren initiates a “DeVos Watch” on her web sit to make visible her oversight of the Dept of Ed and make clear just who is driving the Dept in so radical an attempted overhaul.
Democratic senators on each committee should be similarly underscoring the who, what, when, where, and why of every department and department head installed by Trump and the GOP.
Why do we permit our government, presiding over the richest country in the history of the world, to continue to allow the rationing and denial of health care to its citizens–in other words, we the people?
Ralph Nader asks on Common Dreams: “When are we going to break out of this taxpayer-subsidized prison built by the giant insurance companies, drug goliaths and monopolizing hospital chains?”
Now he intends sending the species over the cliff by abandoning the Paris accord and further degrading our remaining environmental regulations.
Steve Bannon is showing his populist bona fides by urging the President to liquidate the existence of populations here and everywhere. If anyone needed persuading that Bannon is an apocalyptic, ignorant, delusional fraud, it’s QED time.
Will we play Gadarene swine and follow Trump and his genocidal bunch right along?
Jen Sorenson nails the way the right wing has inculcated liberal self-hated in the media and out.
Congressman Adam Schiff distills White House, Inc. on ABC.
“This is an administration that takes in people with good credibility and chews them out and spits out their credibility at the same time. . . . Anyone within the Trump orbit is at risk of being used.”
It’s not working. We need a new approach.
Amid the escalating civilian and children’s casualties, the “war on terrorism” is functioning as recruiting tool for terrorists, while Trump does everything he can to weaken our national security, fully supported by the now seditious Republican Party.
Public Citizen calls out Mulvaney for what he is, and Senator Sanders confronts him head on.
Deidre Fulton at Common Dreams reports on the mounting outrage.
Ruchi Kamar in Truthoout describes the juvenile toll of the endless war.
2017 was a record year for children’s casualties there.
After the fiasco of the Rizzoli demolition–there is now almost nothing left on 57th Street to indicate that this was once the premier neighborhood of luxurious private homes in Manhattan–the Borough President announced she was going to propose new landmark designation procedures to forestall another loss to the city like that one.
What are the new guidelines her office is drafting?
His tortured perversion of morality and linguistics truly suggests the placards at the concentration camps exhorting the value of work.
Since Mulvaney now redefines “compassion” to mean sadism, why don’t we all redefine “salary” in his case to mean debit, and start a monthly withdrawal from his bank account in lieu of remuneration?
