Making a negative into a positive

The Trump/Nixon comparison is inescapable. Even if the GOP is trying to rewrite history to obscure the present.

A Wall Street lawyer now runs AI policy, AOC and Sanders want to defund surveillance cameras, Mamdani fights for the American Dream, and a poverty program is funding data centers

At 6:22 tonight, at the Pinnacle Bank Expo Center in Grand Island, Nebraska, the room filled with red hats and shirts suddenly went quiet. A minute later, the President of the United States of America...

October 6, 2026

For ninety years Americans fought to keep the government from building one master file on each of us. This week Trump and Scott Bessent started one for every child in the country...

We must not allow our Constitution to be shredded by those we elect to power. It is our Constitution. Protect and defend it. Insist on accountability. We must learn from our mistakes.

October 5, 2026

A Reason To Smile

And why it resonates with me, especially now

At 2:24 this afternoon, Donald Trump flipped through the pages of his ringed binder, looked at what he had been told to say, and began speaking from his desk in the Oval Office. Standing on both sides...

September 29, 2026

The Department of Health and Human Services has noticed a forthcoming rule on the OMB regulatory information site to redefine what undue influence means for vulnerable human research subjects

Looking toward November 3

Zoom today, Sunday, Noon PT / 3PM ET

September 27, 2026

September 28, 2026

The Nor’easter That Won’t Leave

Understanding it is one matter. Knowing what to say and do is another.

Matthew D. Taylor contrasts the politics of Jesus with the hierarchies of empire and the power claims of Christian nationalism.

In Conversation with Rep. Jared Huffman

Melania Trump is selling a story about lifting women up. I’m the mother of two she tried to frighten into submission.

Recording at the end

Week 88

Blood splattered across the jagged concrete, each crimson arc marking where the man’s teeth exploded under the relentless assault.

September 26, 2026

September 25, 2026

U.S. troops on their knees, winter gloves at 63 degrees, and a dying president ducking like a scared child from his own B-1 while Xi stared straight ahead. Welcome to the end of America’s reputation.

On mobilizing righteous anger over the next six weeks

September 24, 2026