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As Trump Throws Himself a Parade, Watch Protesters Across America Say, No Kings

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On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the United States Army. In 1916 on that same date, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring the day Flag Day, which Congress made an official holiday in 1949. On June 14, 1946, Fred and Mary Anne Trump welcomed the birth of their second son Donald […]

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How MAGA Took Over America’s 250th Birthday

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Tanks, armored personnel carriers, and howitzers will roll through the streets of Washington, DC, on Saturday—coming to a halt just steps from where President Donald Trump once exhorted his supporters to “fight like hell” and march on the US Capitol. But the president’s grand military parade has something else in common with the “election integrity” […]

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Military Crackdown on LA Protests Portends Further Erosion of Everyone’s Rights

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Governments at all levels from both parties have paved the way to an authoritarian response to dissent.

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As Trump Sets Military Against Civilians, Service Members Have Duty to Disobey

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The Marines are trained in combat, not crowd control. People are likely to get hurt.

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Trump Makes It Clear: His Military Response in Los Angeles Is Just the Start

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President Donald Trump’s war on dissent is ramping up. As protests continue to unfold in Los Angeles over workplace raids conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the president on Tuesday threatened any protesters planning to attend Saturday’s military parade in Washington, DC with “very big force.” (Saturday is also Trump’s 79th birthday.) “We’re celebrating […]

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Observers Say Noem’s Leaked Letter Portends “Grave Escalation” Amid Protests

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The DHS secretary reportedly requested to have the military arrest protesters in Los Angeles.

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These Veterans Fought for the US. Now They’re Fighting Trump’s VA Cuts

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On Friday afternoon, thousands of veterans who fought wars on behalf of the United States descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to fight something else: cuts proposed by the Trump administration. Since his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump has moved to slash and burn the federal workforce—and the Department of Veterans Affairs […]

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How the Legacy of the “Bonus Army” Inspired a Modern Protest Movement of Military Veterans

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This story first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. When the promises politicians made went unkept, when they were left without any reasonable alternatives, American veterans took to the streets by the thousands, forced to become their own advocates. The year […]

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As GOP Slashes Medicaid, Trump Boasts He’s “Not Cutting 10 Cents” From Pentagon

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Trump also touted his push for an annual $1 trillion military budget during a West Point commencement address.

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Inside the Curious, and Dangerous, World of US Military Museums

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It’s Memorial Day weekend, and I’m hung over in the hull gunner of an M36 Jackson tank. This green, mean fighting machine once killed its fair share of Nazis. Decades later, its engine still roars with a fresh ferocity, though its cannon is a couple of firing pins short of battle-ready. That’s fine by me. […]

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Trump Unleashes Bizarre Commencement Speech at West Point

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You may assume that derision of drag shows would not come up in a commencement address at the prestigious US Military Academy known as West Point—but you would be wrong. In a nearly hour-long speech by President Donald Trump on Saturday at the academy in New York—his second time speaking there—Trump also trashed diversity, equity, […]

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Every President Since Lyndon Johnson Has Recognized the Security Risks of Climate Change. Then Came Trump.

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This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For more than half a century, US intelligence agencies and the armed forces have analyzed threats to national security from a range of environmental angles, including dependence on fossil fuels, competition for scarce water resources and […]

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