Friday, May 30th, 2025 (schwartzreport.net) Author: Elizabeth Findell, Jack Gillum, Jemal R. Brinson, and Juanje GómezSource: Wall Street JournalPublication Date: May 26, 2025 | 5:30 am ETLink: The Billion-Dollar Business Behind Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Stephan: The fascist coup Trump and the Republican Party are… Continue reading
Share this Post: Max Chernin (center) and the cast of the national touring company of ‘Parade’ (photo: Joan Marcus) The red-white-and-blue bunting and brass band music feel familiar as “Parade” begins with a Memorial Day gathering. But the banners on display suggest an ill wind blowing: They’re Confederate flags. At… Continue reading
The Lever Nov 4, 2024 Master Plan podcast Ever wonder how America became so corrupt? It didn’t have to be this way. Our series begins in 1971, a time when hot pants were hot, bell bottoms were swinging, and campaign cash flowed like… milk. The complete Master Plan series is… Continue reading
Join us this Sunday at 4pm ET when John Bonifaz, one of the country’s leading constitutional scholars, joins us to discuss why it is imperative for all of us who value living in a Constitutional Democratic Republic to demand the impeachment of a President who refuses to operate within… Continue reading
Here’s who the party should tap to take on Trump and refresh the Democratic brand. Illustration by Bill Kuchman/POLITICO (source images via Getty Images and AP) Opinion by BILL SCHER 05/27/2025 (Politico.com) Bill Scher is a contributing writer to Politico Magazine, the politics editor for the Washington Monthly and co-host of… Continue reading
Don’t buy revisionist attempts to rehabilitate it. Instead, push for a bold progressive populism. ROBERT REICH MAY 30, 2025 (robertreich.substack.com) Friends, I rarely ask you to look at charts. Today is an exception. This one is from the Economic Policy Institute. It compares the typical American’s pay starting just after… Continue reading
Elon Musk is pictured at a SpaceX facility in Brownsville, Texas on May 27, 2025. (Photo: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images) “We will have to keep up the pressure, scrutiny, and eventually formal oversight until we finally take back our government from Musk and the entire billionaire class,”… Continue reading
A hearing on alternatives drug policies offers detailed solutions; Supervisor Bilal Mahmood was too busy at the new Nintendo store to show up. Tim Redmond 17 May 2025 — 48hills.org The San Francisco Police Department admitted Thursday that its drug interdiction efforts are displacing dealing from one neighborhood to another. Commander Derrick… Continue reading
A billboard displays a temperature of 118°F during a record heatwave in Phoenix, Arizona on July 18, 2023. (Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images) “These fossil fuel actors should be held accountable to the victims of their lethal conduct, and this wrongful death suit provides a compelling new approach… Continue reading
