Trump’s lawless and unconstitutional actions against migrants are likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court—packed with his own appointees.
The actions taken by the Trump administration since Friday night are a crossing of the Rubicon in terms of the assertion of unlimited presidential authority.
The speech, while largely a rehash of his address to Congress two weeks ago, added new threats of criminal prosecution of critics and opponents.
On the same day as the arrest of members of Jewish Voice for Peace, Columbia University moved to expel or suspend nearly two dozen students for participating in protests against the Gaza genocide.
The Palestinian activist, a green card holder married to a US citizen, was seized by ICE agents Saturday in New York and taken to a private detention facility in Louisiana.
The House Freedom Caucus, the most right-wing faction of the House Republicans, announced it would propose a resolution to strip Green of his committee assignments and bring it to the floor of the House next week.
The Democratic Party has only one significant conflict with Trump—over continuing the war with Russia in Ukraine.
In response to Trump’s public humiliation of the Ukraine president at the White House, congressional Democrats are reaffirming their support for escalating the US-NATO war with Russia.
The Amazon boss decreed that the newspaper’s editorial pages should exclude any opinion hostile to “free markets,” i.e., capitalism.
The budget resolution mandates $880 billion in cuts in healthcare and $230 billion in cuts in food stamps over the next 10 years, helping finance more tax cuts for the wealthy.
The unprecedented firing of a half-dozen top generals and admirals is aimed at ensuring military obedience to unconstitutional and dictatorial orders.
The order is an assertion of the fascistic theory of the “unitary executive,” which has no constitutional basis but is likely to be supported by the ultra-right majority on the Supreme Court.
The world’s richest man is systematically seeking to build the world’s largest database to direct benefit cutoffs and mass political repression.
Major newspapers and television networks are restructuring their coverage and their personnel in line with the demands of the new administration.
The criminal in the White House has reached out to the criminal in Gracie Mansion in order to make common cause against migrant workers and their families.
As Trump and Musk push forward their agenda of social destruction and executive dictatorship, the Democratic Party remains paralyzed.
The world’s richest man has been named by President Donald Trump to slash federal spending on social benefits for poor and working people.
Trump has also given the unelected billionaire control of a Treasury Department unit that carries out 90 percent of all federal payments, including Social Security checks and Medicare reimbursement.
Democratic congressional leaders have claimed falsely that they are “powerless” to fight Trump and in “shock” over the speed of his actions.
The mass pardoning of those who attacked the Capitol sets the stage for widespread violent attacks on those who oppose the policies of the Trump administration.
