Trump Is Dismantling US Democracy at a Speed ‘Unprecedented in Modern History’: Watchdog
People participate in a “No Kings” national day of protest in Washington, DC, on October 18, 2025.
‘Unprecedented Kleptocracy’: Sanders Slams Trump Family’s Presidential Profiteering
US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during a Fighting Oligarchy Tour rally at the UIC Forum in Chicago on August 24, 2025.
Genocide Doesn’t Happen Without Language to Incite It
This is a lightly edited excerpt from Robin Andersen’s The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, published by OR Books.
‘It’s All About Keeping Wages at Poverty Levels to Overpay Their CEOs’: CounterSpin interview with Sarah Anderson on poverty wages
Janine Jackson interviewed Institute for Policy Studies’ Sarah Anderson about “successful” corporations paying poverty wages for the April 17, 2026, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
The Justice Department Sides With the Ku Klux Klan
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks at a press conference with FBI Director Kash Patel following the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for money laundering, at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.
The administration’s vindictive targeting of the Southern Poverty Law Center is yet another mask-off moment.
Trump’s Morbidly Rich Machine Is Crushing Democracy
Behind the noise is a ruthless, coordinated effort to dismantle the American system and rebuild it for the ultra-wealthy…
Trump is making insane proclamations about Iran again today, sabotaging efforts at peace by his unqualified, incompetent negotiating team. He’s lying to his supporters about obvious things like the price of gasoline. He’s not sleeping, up all night shouting in all-caps at anybody who will listen and, during the day, literally screaming at his aides.
MAY DAY AND NO KINGS 2026
This year May Day will continue the historic mass mobilizations for social and economic justice of recent historic No Kings rallies. The original May Day was designed to remember the May 1, 1886 rally in Chicago for the 8-hour day. At that rally more than 300,000 workers from 13,000 businesses walked off their jobs to demand justice for workers.
Trump Invokes Wartime Law to Fulfill ‘Wish List for Oil, Gas, and Coal Industries’
US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and President Donald Trump appear at an event in Washington, DC on March 4, 2026.
AI Technology Policy
Several months ago, I grabbed a coffee with a source of mine whose expertise is technology policy. We talked about how bonkers it is that the billionaire leaders of AI companies say they aren’t positive their machines won’t eventually harm humans.
A Beacon of Hope for 55 Years
For 55 years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has stood as a beacon of hope, fighting white supremacy and various forms of injustice to help create a multiracial democracy where we can all live and thrive. Today calls for us to maintain our resolve in the face of another fight for justice. We are confident that we will embrace any challenge, and we trust that the many people and organizations who share our commitment to defending civil society will stand with us
Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women
Photographs show Hope and Porsha Ngumezi, left, and Nevaeh Crain. Photos by Danielle Villasana for ProPublica
Iran Says It Won’t Negotiate With ‘Erratic’ Trump After Genocidal Threat to ‘Blow Up’ Whole Country
Jared Kushner and Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff listen as Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news conference after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran, April 12, 2026, in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Israeli Strikes Killed Average of 47 Women and Girls Daily During Gaza War, UN Says
A woman walks with jerrycans loaded with water past the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City, in 2025. Credit: EYAD BABA/AFP
Big oil cashes in as Trump’s Iran war drives $30 million per hour windfall profits
An analysis of global energy markets indicates that the U.S.-led war in Iran has generated substantial financial gains for the world’s largest fossil fuel companies, with the top 100 oil and gas producers collectively earning an estimated $30 million per hour in windfall profits as petroleum prices surged following the outbreak of hostilities.
The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025
In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (established by the Department of Health and Human Services guidelines). The limitations of how the federal government calculates poverty understate how far the minimum wage is from economic security for workers and their families. Click for the complete article
‘Disgusting’: Trump’s Top Economic Adviser Brags About Killing 300,000 ‘High-Paying’ American Jobs
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett appears on Fox Business for an interview with host Maria Bartiromo on April 10, 2026.
Trump Weighs Ultimate Gift to For-Profit Insurance Industry: Medicare Privatization
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz speaks as President Donald Trump looks on during an event on February 5, 2026.
Unemployment has increased for U.S.-born workers in the face of mass deportations
Trump’s draconian immigration enforcement is harming all workers
During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance promised that mass deportations and a crackdown on immigration would open up jobs for unemployed U.S. citizens. The theory was simple: remove immigrant workers, and native-born U.S. citizens would fill those open positions. Well, the results are in, and the opposite is happening.
NYT’s Excuses for Lack of Reporters in Iran Don’t Add Up
The Chilling Role of ChatGPT in Mass Shootings and Other Violence
Several attacks involving OpenAI’s chatbot—including Tumbler Ridge and FSU—raise urgent questions about the technology
Early Voting Schedule ~ Primary Election
2026 Primary Election
A primary election will be held for voters registered in Tippecanoe County.
In-person early voting begins on Tuesday, April 7th, 2026, at the Tippecanoe County Office Building on the 1st floor during regular business hours.
Trump’s Pledge: Cut Medicare and Medicaid to Pay for War
President Donald Trump pretends to aim a sniper rifle while speaking with reporters at the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Warren Slams Trump for Iran War Costing ‘American Taxpayers $11,500 Per Second’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) talks with reporters after a Senate Armed Services Committee closed briefing on the Iran war, in the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday, March 10, 2026.
‘Truly Insane’: Pentagon Threatened Pope After He Condemned Trump’s Military Attacks
Pope Leo XIV leads his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Squarein Vatican City on April 8, 2026.
We have a brand-new lawsuit against the Trump regime to tell you about
.In a nutshell, the Trump regime has told over two dozen countries in Africa and Latin America that if they want even the barest health assistance from the United States, they have to sign exploitative “agreements” to give us access to valuable assets, including sensitive data and natural resources.
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Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.
Trump’s Budget Proposal is a Moral Obscenity
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The White House today released the president’s proposed budget for FY 27. Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, released the following statement:
From The NYTimes, Global Update, April 7, 2026
Mohsen Borhani, a law professor at Tehran University, said that as he read through Mr. Trump’s threats toward those the American president had called the “crazy bastards” running Iran, his first thought was of the founding fathers. In particular, he thought of the writings of Thomas Jefferson, “and the values that America was supposed to lead by,” he said.
Letters from an American - April 5, 2026
At 8:03 this morning, Easter Sunday, President Donald J. Trump’s social media account posted: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F*ckin’ Strait, you crazy b*stards, or you’ll be living in Hell—JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
There are many things that could be going on with this ultimatum, which actually doesn’t sound like Trump’s usual style, in the same way the post of yesterday morning didn’t.
"I Don't Think Billionaires Should Exist": Sanders Proposes Wealth Tax to Slash Fortunes of Ultra-Rich
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, addresses an audience on the campus of the University of Chapel Hill during a campaign rally on September 19, 2019 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Photo: Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)