.. and the search for illegal voters goes on. Pretty damn negligible so far, considering the amount of effort and expense put into the investigations so far! Today, Heather Cox Richardson enumerates all the many ways the Trump admin is trying to undermine the election! And the facts keep refusing to cooperate! https://substack.com/inbox/post/222291379?utm_source=email&redirect=app-store-no-desktop&inbox=true&utm_campaign=email-read-in-app&triedRedirect=true

Heather Cox Richardson reports on an article published Thursday in the New York Times that Trump is rushing into a deal that benefits a Russian company currently under U.S. sanctions. This, just two days before the Graham Act sanctions bill recently passed by Congress is due to take effect. It’s so counter to American interests that the CEO of Polar LNG, a company involved in the deal, resigned in protest. Some of the individuals who will benefit include Trump’s son-in law Ja

The Washington Post reported today that OpenAI, Anthropic and Elon Musk have pledged an estimated $300 billion to philanthropic projects. They acknowledge that their technology can be disruptive - job loss due to automation, creation of new national security threats, etc. They say they are attempting to soften the blow with this massive donation. Unacknowledged is probably the biggest reason: they hope to buy a continuation of the government’s hands-off AI policy. That way th

Today on substack Paul Krugman zeroes in on Trump’s increasing support of thugs like Putin, and his disdain for democracy and international heroes like Zelensky. Every day it becomes more and more overt. Why has Trump chosen this moment to switch from covert, deniable support for Putin to obviously, explicitly taking his side? Read on. https://substack.com/inbox/post/221292682?utm_source=email&redirect=app-store-no-desktop&inbox=true&utm_campaign=email-read-in-app&triedRedire

Trump just put it on steroids — and has completely demolished the traditional values of the Republican party. So writes Robert Reich on substack today. https://substack.com/inbox/post/221053130?utm_source=email&redirect=app-store-no-desktop&inbox=true&utm_campaign=email-read-in-app&triedRedirect=true

On substack today, Robert Reich writes about how Elon Musk and Donald Trump have corrupted our system of government - especially with regards to our relationship with Ukraine. It’s no wonder both are desperate to retain control of Congress! https://substack.com/inbox/post/220284137?utm_source=email&redirect=app-store-no-desktop&inbox=true&utm_campaign=email-read-in-app&triedRedirect=true

Paul Krugman reports that Trump is buying 300,000 tons of Russian diesel in spite of internationally agreed-to sanctions meant to reduce Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. He goes on: “But being a nerdy economist, my first printable reaction to the announcement was, 300,000 tons??? That’s a bit over 2 million barrels. America consumes approximately 4 million barrels of distillates — diesel (mostly) and heating oil — every day. “So Trump is betraying an embattled democracy,

“Since the 1980s, an increasing amount of wealth has been siphoned off to the top — which has given those at the top enormous power to alter laws and rules, and thereby siphon off even more. It’s been a vicious cycle of compounding riches for a privileged few accompanied by compounding anxieties for almost everyone else, especially working Americans without college degrees. “Trump has channeled their anger into rage at carefully selected scapegoats — immigrants, trans people,

The Lt. Governor’s office carries more raw power over what happens to Texans than a Senate seat carries over anything Texas-specific, full stop, says Michelle H. Davis, of Lonestar Left “A US Senate seat gets national coverage because it’s counted on a national scoreboard. Fifty-one seats, fifty-two seats, who’s got the gavel in DC. That scoreboard exists. It matters for judges and the farm bill and whether Texas gets steamrolled on federal funding fights, and I’m not telling

Ever wonder why so many social media posts repeat the same lies and grievances? Roughly 99 percent of the largest right-wing influencers are compensated in some form ($$$$), most of it locked behind nondisclosure agreements so airtight that anyone who tries to talk about it will get buried under litigation they can’t afford. It’s a deliberately constructed fog of lies and grievance, and it has one purpose: to keep us screaming at each other about bathrooms and brown-skinned

Trump is trying to blame No Kings rally for assassination attempt at Correspondent’s dinner last Saturday night. On today’s Popular Information, Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims write, “The truth is that the No Kings rallies have been some of the largest and most peaceful protests in history.” Of the 8 million who demonstrated on March 28, there were under a hundred arrests reported, and most of these were people who didn’t want to go home after the rally ended. Compare this wit

Thoughts from NSD member Jim Gallagher on a recent substack piece by Paul Krugman. “Step number one in building a cult, identify the non-believers. In Hegseth's ‘military-cult’ it's the little things, like a vaccine shot, that can hurt your military career. “How do you destroy the greatest fighting force on the planet? Hire Hegseth to lead it. “Does anyone really think Hegseth can lead a crusade? He sure is trying.” To read the piece that inspired these comments, click here:

Writes Heather Cox Richardson, Senate Republican leaders are pushing through funding of ICE and the Border Patrol for the next three years using budget reconciliation, a process which does not require any Democratic votes. This would end chances to reform rules for agents’ behavior, and leave in place authorization for them to continue to wear masks and to break into someone’s home without a judge-signed warrant. She also reports that Senate majority leader John Thune (R-SD)

In substack yesterday, Robert Reich writes, “The moral purpose of civilized society is to prevent the stronger from attacking and exploiting the weaker. Otherwise, we’d be permanently immersed in a brutish war in which only the fittest and most powerful could survive.” Since taking office, Trump’s actions have been that of a classic bully. Domestically and abroad he has used his position, threats, and U.S. economic and military power to try and get his way. Recently these tac

Great article on our militarism. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opinion/graham-platner-forever-war-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c1A.s9ag.9tyB7GlW4wuF&smid=url-share Photo credit: Mark Peterson for The New York Times

The impact could be devastating if the government doesn’t take steps to control and regulate it. On April 14 at the Sanders Institute, Senator Bernie Sanders, U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, and author Naomi Klein gathered to talk about the current and future consequences of AI. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, rapid expansion of unregulated AI would lead to wholesale loss of privacy and massive job loss. There are already unmanned 18-wheelers being tested on American highways, and th

A town of 130,000, Abilene has been overrun and stretched to the limit by the influx of thousands of workers there to build a massive new data center, reports Michelle H. Davis on LoneStarLeft. Rents are sky-rocketing, shelters stretched thin, traffic is a nightmare, and for what? Writes Davis, “The Stargate-linked development in Abilene is tied to a property tax abatement of up to 85%, approved as part of the deal to bring this project to town.” So the city and its residents

The President’s son-in-law is raking in millions from the Saudis while leading diplomacy efforts with Iran - a clear conflict of interest that has been largely ignored by major news outlets. Since 2021, Kushner has raised $2 billion from the Saudi government for his private equity fund and collected more than $110 million in management fees. The Saudis’ position on the war with Iran is no secret - they lobbied Trump extensively both to initiate and continue the war. Yet the

In yesterday’s piece on substack, Dan Rather recounts the slew of broken promises made by our con man in chief, from ending “forever wars” to making America more affordable. Today, Paul Krugman reports that consumer confidence has just hit the lowest point ever recorded in the long-running University of Michigan index of consumer sentiment. It’s not hard to see the relationship between the two. https://substack.com/home/post/p-194458477 https://substack.com/home/post/p-19445

Trump rarely backs down, but he did this time. This image was posted to his Truth Social account on Sunday, then was taken down on Monday. Reprinted from The Washington Post , April 13, 2026 Why the AI-generated meme — which the president posted on his social media platform, then removed — is offensive even to nonbelievers. column by Philip Kennicott There is a frightening urgency in the clumsy, AI-generated image of President Donald Trump posing as a saintly figure, perhaps