Here’s One Big Way You’ll Know if We’re in a Presidential Dictatorship

BY FRANK BOWMAN FEB 13, 2025 (Slate.com) TWEETSHARECOMMENT Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The legal counteroffensive against the Trump–Musk deconstruction of the federal government has begun. State attorneys general, unions, and other groups have already obtained… Continue reading

Thousands March to US Embassy in London With Message for Trump: ‘Hands Off Gaza’

Thousands of protesters take part in a demonstration expressing support for Palestinian rights in London on February 15, 2025.  (Photo: Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images) An 87-year-old Holocaust survivor called the U.S. president’s plan to permanently force Palestinians out of Gaza “completely immoral and illegal, and also impractical and… Continue reading

QUOTING NAPOLEON, TRUMP OPENLY DECLARES HE’S ABOVE THE LAW

People protest U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk outside the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Michigan on February 5, 2025.  (Photo: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images) “The single most un-American and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an American president.” COMMON DREAMS STAFF Feb 16, 2025 (CommonDreams.org) Fears that the United… Continue reading

MURDER OF GAY SOUTH AFRICAN IMAM MUHSIN HENDRICKS REIGNITES QUEER MUSLIM DEBATE

Academic rigour, journalistic flair Muhsin Hendricks in 2024 in one of the many documentaries about his life and work. USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture/Screengrab/YouTube Published: February 17, 2025 (theconversation.com) Author Disclosure statement Amanullah De Sondy does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company… Continue reading

CSU says its ‘AI-powered university’ is good for higher education. But is it?

CSU says its ‘AI-powered university’ is good for higher education. But is it?

By Martha Lincoln, Martha Kenney Feb 13, 2025 (SFChronicle.com) The California State University system plans to integrate artificial intelligence technology into training, teaching and learning at Cal State East Bay in Hayward and its 22 other campuses.Brontë Wittpenn/The Chronicle 2024 Last week, the California State University system announced a landmark initiative to make it “the nation’s first and… Continue reading

Labor strikes planned at all UC campuses and medical centers, union officials say

Labor strikes planned at all UC campuses and medical centers, union officials say

By Catherine Ho, Health Care Reporter Feb 14, 2025 (SFChronicle.com) The entrance to the main hospital at the UCSF Parnassus campus in San Francisco. Unionized University of California workers are poised to strike late this month across all 10 UC campuses and five medical centers over what the unions say are unfair labor… Continue reading

Even more Profiles of Courage, Patriotism and Resistance to Trump

Even more Profiles of Courage, Patriotism and Resistance to Trump

These people refuse to submit to Trump DEAN OBEIDALLAH FEB 15, 2025 For the past two weeks I have highlighted profiles in courage, patriotism and resistance to Donald Trump. These ranged from a reverend who confronted Trump to his face about the need for compassion to Democratic members of Congress demanding Elon Musk being… Continue reading