They’re not hiding the lies anymore. The White House announced that there have been ZERO illegal border crossings for six months while their own DHS reports over 30,000 encounters in October alone. And how would they know if there was a successful illegal crossing anyway? They’re calling it affordability when a 50-year mortgage will create … Read more
The shutdown in the Republican-controlled federal government continues to expose systemic problems, including millions of hungry people missing food aid and a severely compromised air transportation system. Systems crack, splinter, then fall apart, and we’re somewhere in the middle of that. Justice Jackson stood on formality and allowed an appeals court to fully consider whether … Read more
JD Vance called a federal judge’s order absurd tonight. That judge had ordered SNAP payments be sent to 42 million Americans who receive food aid. The White House said it would fund partial payments, and the judge countered today that his order wasn’t optional. The White House has chosen to appeal rather than comply by … Read more
Our biggest challenge is to bear witness to the suffering around us. World Central Kitchen is feeding unpaid government workers in DC as they might people in a war zone or disaster area. The government’s partial funding for SNAP this month means that five million Americans who are food insecure will receive nothing. Judges are … Read more
Trump continues governing like an emperor even as today’s election returns show Americans are unhappy with him. Democrats flipped Virginia’s governorship with the state’s first woman governor, held New Jersey despite his meddling, and won New York City where a democratic socialist defeated Andrew Cuomo, whom Trump endorsed over the Republican nominee. A federal judge … Read more
Tuesday is Election Day and our chance to begin restoring the norms we once lived under. In the less than ten months since he’s taken office, Donald Trump ordered attacks on 16 unarmed boats near South America that killed dozens of people. He has threatened Venezuela, Nigeria, Panama, Greenland, and Canada. The self-dealing and grift … Read more
Expect Trump to continue using multiple distractions to avoid the humanitarian crisis we face. One of every eight people has lost federal food aid while 5.9 million households are losing home heating aid just as we reach November. And the government said today that anyone traveling during this month’s busy Thanksgiving week can expect extensive … Read more
Donors and power grabs take precedence in Donald Trump’s world. Just one day after the UN condemned the US for attacking boats and killing people, the Trump administration announced a brand new attack. They even had an attorney tell Congress that it didn’t need their authority to do so. They also acknowledged that dozens of … Read more
The United Nations condemned the U.S. today for 14 separate boat attacks that have killed 61 people. The High Commissioner for Human Rights made that announcement before SNAP’s food aid benefits for one of every 8 Americans were set to go unfunded by the federal government. Two federal judges ordered Trump to restart the funds … Read more
Trump isn’t hiding the machine being built. Military orders today established a unit of nearly 25,000 troops to deploy as Quick Reaction Forces with a presence in each state for supposed unrest. The military has also attacked 14 boats in international waters while killing 61 people, but the Defense Department didn’t send attorneys to brief … Read more
