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The “Mini-Trump” Attacking Lisa Cook Had Paperwork Problems of His Own

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Donald Trump is attempting to seize control of the historically independent Federal Reserve by firing one of its leaders. Not the chair, Jerome Powell—at least not yet. Instead, the president has set his sights on another member of the Fed’s board: economist Lisa Cook, who Trump claimed in a Monday night social media post had […]

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“The Most Transparent Administration In History” Refuses to Say Who’s Behind Their Batshit Social Media

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The way the U.S. government communicates online has shifted dramatically since Donald Trump returned to power on January 20. Before then, for instance, it wasn’t likely that the official White House Twitter/X account would tweet “Go woke, go broke” over a cartoon of the president meant to look like the (original, newly restored) Cracker Barrel […]

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LaMonica McIver and the “Lock Her Up” President

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Depending on whom you ask, the United States is either sliding into fascism or smack in the middle of it. Either way, it’s not good. But should future historians attempt to identify when this fascist crackdown kicked off in earnest, they may settle on Rep. LaMonica McIver. In May, the Justice Department charged the New […]

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LaMonica McIver and the “Lock Her Up” President

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Depending on whom you ask, the United States is either sliding into fascism or smack in the middle of it. Either way, it’s not good. But should future historians attempt to identify when this fascist crackdown kicked off in earnest, they may settle on Rep. LaMonica McIver. In May, the Justice Department charged the New […]

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This Artist Painted Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Now She’s Documenting His Immigration Crackdown.

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In June, Isabelle Brourman took a sketch board and her press pass to immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City. She’d heard that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were arresting people after their hearings, and she wanted to document it. Court security wouldn’t let her inside. Brourman, a 32-year-old mixed-media […]

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They Survived Katrina and Started to Rebuild. Now Trump’s Cuts May Flood Them Out Again.

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After Hurricane Katrina and its related flooding inundated much of New Orleans in 2005, residents of a large Vietnamese community in the Algiers neighborhood were some of the first to return and rebuild. But 20 years later, their neighborhood is still prone to flooding, especially during hurricane season. And, like much of the city, the […]

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Breaking Down the White House’s Lies and Distortions About Crime in DC

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This story was originally published by The Watch, Radley Balko’s substack publication, to which you can subscribe here. So let’s get this out of the way first: As I wrote in a previous post, Donald Trump’s “takeover” of Washington, DC, is authoritarian thuggery. It’s a projection of power, driven by retrograde racism. It has nothing to […]

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Kristi Noem Waives Environmental Laws to Build Trump’s Wall Through a Wildlife Refuge

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday that Secretary Kristi Noem has waived the protections of the Endangered Species Act and other federal statutes to “ensure the expeditious construction” of the border wall through the Lower Rio […]

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Trump Administration Suspends Staff Who Pled to Save FEMA

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Several employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been placed on administrative leave just a day after signing a public letter accusing the Trump administration of politically motivated firings and “uninformed cost-cutting,” multiple media outlets reported Tuesday. As I wrote yesterday: In an urgent letter to Congress on Monday, more than 180 current and former […]

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Donald Trump Revs Up His Revenge Goons

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The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. Toward the end of The Godfather, Michael Corleone, who has risen to […]

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Octavia Butler Predicted Our Dystopian Present. What Can a Futurist Learn From Her Chilling Accuracy? 

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When the Los Angeles fires began last January, the designer and futurist Tracee Worley was re-reading Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler’s chillingly prescient novel, written in 1993 but set in the 2020s. In the book, climate change has devastated the world, an increasingly dangerous and inequitable society has resulted in many people living in […]

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Slouching Into Fascism

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This column originally appeared on author Garrett Graff’s site Doomsday Scenario, which you can subscribe to here. The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism. In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here. The precise moment when and where in […]

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