June 15, 2025

We the People

Unequivocal, courageous veterans who have come out and denounced Trump’s dangerous maneuver deserve our praise

We may disagree on many things, but we stand together on the fundamentals.

Today President Donald J.

Flatbed train cars carrying thousands of tanks rolled into Washington, D.C., yesterday in preparation for the military parade planned for June 14.

It endangers all of us

There is an explanation to the madness we are witnessing — and, once again, the conscience of the country, the Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges, tells us exactly what we don’t want to hear.

Time for non-violent civil disobedience

The tide may be turning

“I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950.

Political scientist Adam Bonica noted last Friday that Trump and the administration suffered a 96% loss rate in federal courts in the month of May.

In such a dark period, signs that give hope are more precious than ever

A new phase of Trump neofascism

I’m going to take an early night tonight, but I want to record three things that jumped out at me today because they seem to tell a story.

If you guessed increased taxation, government regulation, or being deported to El Salvador, you’d be wrong.

Just before 7:00 this morning, the House of Representatives passed the Republicans’ megabill by a vote of 215 to 214.

Of the Anti-Trump, Pro-Democracy Movement

Glad he's finally figured out what he's done to it

They’re corruption.

The Trump administration wants a confrontation with the courts.

Plus... 36 Brand New Portraits of 'Sad Tariff Loser' Donald Trump

Tonight I had the extraordinary privilege of speaking at the anniversary of the lighting of the lanterns in Boston’s Old North Church, which happened 250 years ago tonight.

(And what I said at Berkeley)

Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) posted a picture of himself with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whom the Trump administration says it sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador t...

The Trump regime overreaches

On Tuesday, a federal judge in Maryland, Paula Xinis, took up Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s motion for “additional relief.” The motion asked the Judge to:

A large crowd of protesters calling for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the Trump administration sent to a notorious terrorist prison in El Salvador, milled around the courthouse ...

The American oligarchy is petrified by Trump’s economic chaos but careful not to criticize him directly

This evening, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States,...

Fighting the regime’s cruelty

And another installment of "Michael Moore Presents: PORTRAITS OF POTUS—America's Art Attack for Democracy"

Stocks were up early today as traders put their hopes in Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s suggestion that the Trump administration was open to negotiations for lowering Trump’s proposed tariffs.

Plus — 36 Brand New Even More Perfect Portraits of Donald Trump!

Trump wants to get it over early in his term, so he and his fellow billionaires can buy up everything cheap and then enjoy the ride upward

Why didn’t the nation’s top 20 law firms sign a friend-of-the-court brief against Trump’s vindictive executive orders? What their associates, coming associates, and law school deans ought to do.

Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

Plus — 36 More Devastatingly Perfect Portraits of Donald Trump...

The importance of taking care of yourself

It’s been quite a week.