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Trump's Tax Plan Is a Confidence Scam
Trump's tax plan is the essential confidence scam: he's peddling a plan that does not yet exist on paper, using populist bluster to sell what will be a one-percenter's dream. The only question is if Americans are gullible enough to buy it.
Our President, the White Supremacist
The President of the United States is a white supremacist. He is not just a defender or apologist for bigots and hatemongers. He is one of them, and no one who’s been paying attention can be shocked to learn this. Here's what that means.
Progressive Breakfast
Mexico Offers Support to Hurricane Victims Mexico says nope to Trump's wall but offers Harvey disaster relief 'as good neighbors do'. DailyKOS: "Mexico has reasserted that their nation 'will not pay, under any circumstances and under any circumstances, a wall or...
Grow Up and Apologize, Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz is a champion hypocrite. He leads Texas Republicans' call for federal disaster aid, yet insists they were right to try to deny aid to those in need after Hurricane Sandy. It's time for Cruz to grow up, and admit he was wrong.
Progressive Breakfast
UN Issues Warning on Rise of US Racism U.N. issues warning on U.S. Racism. UN News Centre: "The United Nations body monitoring implementation of the global convention on prohibiting racial discrimination has called on high-level politicians and public officials of the...
The Destruction Left By Hurricane Trump
The Trump presidency, like a monster hurricane, is doing unprecedented damage to our democracy and to our progress toward being a nation that is more equitable and fair.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Pardons Arpaio Arpaio pardon dangerously accelerates Trump’s assault on the rule of law. New Yorker: "Since Watergate and the release, in 1976, of the Church Committee report, which detailed wider executive-branch abuses, this vast federal bureaucracy has...
Wisconsin's Foxconn Deal Enriches Billionaires With Taxpayer Cash
Who benefits most from Wisconsin’s huge new tax subsidy for Foxconn, the Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing giant? Not workers, or the taxpayers who will foot the bill. Meet billionaire Terry Gou.
Wanted: Strong Candidates Who Believe in Public Schools
Many political leaders would rather impose ideological "solutions" from the bag of mirrors known as "choice" – or more accurately "privatization" – than provide the resources we know it takes to ensure high-quality schools.
Progressive Breakfast
Arpaio's Shadow Pardon or not, the fight against Joe Arpaio's legacy is far from over. Splinter: "Outside the convention center, immigrant rights activists set up giant, inflated figures of the ousted Maricopa County sheriff, Joe Arpaio, and President Trump. Arpaio in...
