Browsing Category
USA
The theater of cruelty: America’s immigration shame
On a sweltering July afternoon in the Florida Everglades, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Kristi Noem stood before a newly constructed immigration detention center newly built with…
Read More...
Read More...
86 – 47
The term "86 47" refers to a message posted on social media by James Comey, where he arranged shells on a beach to spell "86 47". The "47" is understood to mean President Trump, the…
Read More...
Read More...
Marco Rubio impersonator contacted officials using AI voice deepfakes
By The Conversation
Someone used artificial intelligence technology to produce a voice clone, or deepfake, of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and used it to leave voice messages for…
Read More...
Read More...
Masked agents snatching people off the street in Trump’s America
“I must say,” Donald Trump commented, “I wish we had an occupying force.” It was June 1, 2020. The president, then in his first term in office, was having a phone call with the nation’s…
Read More...
Read More...
‘These deaths are on Trump’s hands’
Deadly flooding caused by torrential rain in central Texas late last week called attention to U.S. President Donald Trump's full-scale assault on the climate research and monitoring…
Read More...
Read More...
We didn’t fight a revolution for a king
The Fourth of July marks the day America declared our independence from the idea that one man should hold unchecked power over an entire people and from a system that placed loyalty to…
Read More...
Read More...
Billionaire oligarchs are dancing in the street
The reconciliation bill that Republicans passed in the U.S. Senate by one vote on Tuesday will give the top 1% a trillion dollars in tax breaks.
Read More...
Read More...
‘Cruel betrayal’: Educators furious
The Trump administration informed state education agencies on Monday that it would not release over $6 billion in previously approved federal funding for schools—sparking outcry from…
Read More...
Read More...
That “damned” immigration
Not even Adolf Hitler had the bad taste to celebrate the opening of a prison publicly. Such a practice has become increasingly fashionable in contemporary politics. Nayib Bukele did it…
Read More...
Read More...
Trump’s senseless positions on Cuba
Here is a quick summary of the reasons provided by at least one enabler of President Donald Trump’s approach to Cuba policy, based on recent statements and official memos.
The main…
Read More...
Read More...