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Once again, Trump exposed his weakness and ‘got played’ by Putin

Once again, Trump exposed his weakness and ‘got played’ by Putin

Peter Baker writes: On the flight to Alaska, President Trump declared that if he did not secure a cease-fire in Ukraine during talks with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, “I’m not going to be happy,” and there would be “severe consequences.” Just hours later, he got back on Air Force One and departed Alaska without the cease-fire he deemed so critical. Yet he had imposed no consequences, and had pronounced himself so happy with how things went with Mr….

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Trump cuts off medical visas from Gaza as he bows to pressure from Laura Loomer

Trump cuts off medical visas from Gaza as he bows to pressure from Laura Loomer

Rolling Stone reports: Donald Trump’s administration stopped all visitor visas from Gaza — including those for humanitarian and medical aid — on Saturday after far-right provocateur and Trump friend Laura Loomer posted about several Palestinian children being allowed into the U.S. for medical care amid Israel’s relentless siege and blockade. The State Department said it will “conduct a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas in recent days,”…

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In DC, Trump’s masked thugs voice their contempt for the people who pay their salaries

In DC, Trump’s masked thugs voice their contempt for the people who pay their salaries

Marisa Kabas writes: A delivery worker was tased, punched and kicked by multiple federal agents in the middle of the street outside a popular brunch spot in Northwest DC on Saturday morning, a video shared with The Handbasket shows. While customers sitting outside at the Logan Circle cafe munched on avocado smash and matcha pancakes, two and then an additional four masked agents beat the shit out of the man in broad daylight. This is America.   America’s largest cities…

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How mediocre white men and their fragility are destroying America

How mediocre white men and their fragility are destroying America

  The Trump Administration & corporate media are Affirmative Action for the world’s most fragile, mediocre, white men who see equality as oppression & would rather burn the country down than share it. In this blunt as F conversation with the great Joy-Ann Reid, we connect the dots and explain how the Trump Administration is populated by the world’s most mediocre conservative Affirmative Action hires who would rather burn America down than share the country with the rest of us.

How tribal radio stations are preparing for a future without the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

How tribal radio stations are preparing for a future without the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Nieman Lab reports: In the most remote parts of Alaska, staying in touch can involve a bit more effort than sending a text. Cell service is spotty, highways are nonexistent, and the postal service remains a vital lifeline, delivering supplies and mail by plane. But for anyone who wants to broadcast a different kind of message — a reminder to pick up milk, for example, or birthday wishes — there’s always the Muktuk Telegram. Named for a traditional food of…

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‘Sponge city’: How Copenhagen is adapting to a wetter future

‘Sponge city’: How Copenhagen is adapting to a wetter future

E360 reports: In just two hours on July 2, 2011, a torrential, once-in-a-millennium storm battered and flooded Copenhagen, pounding parts of Denmark’s capital with more than 5 inches of rain. Critical infrastructure at the city’s largest hospital was swamped, as were major roads, basements, and businesses. The city that had been engaged with advanced sustainability planning for decades, it turned out, was woefully unprepared for the fierce rainfall, which caused $1.8 billion in damages. Shaken by the calamity, the city…

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Nakba 2.0: Israel in talks with multiple countries to which it could send Gaza Palestinians

Nakba 2.0: Israel in talks with multiple countries to which it could send Gaza Palestinians

The Times of Israel reports: Israel is in talks with five countries or territories — Indonesia, Somaliland, Uganda, South Sudan and Libya — about potentially accepting resettled Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, Channel 12 reported Wednesday. “Some of the countries are showing greater openness than before to accepting voluntary immigration from the Gaza Strip,” a diplomatic source told the outlet, naming Indonesia and Somaliland as particularly open to the idea. However, no concrete decisions have reportedly been made. Somaliland is…

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With chaotic airdrops, Israel’s engineered starvation of Gaza enters new phase

With chaotic airdrops, Israel’s engineered starvation of Gaza enters new phase

+972 reports: From his displacement tent in western Deir al-Balah, Tayseer Obeid has spent the past week scanning the skies over central Gaza, noting the time and direction of aircraft dropping aid. His family of 12 hasn’t received proper humanitarian assistance in six months. To feed them, he planted small patches of molokhia, eggplant, and pumpkin around his and his relatives’ tent. But the crops have been repeatedly destroyed — including at the end of July, when the Israeli army…

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Bondi’s illegal order exacerbates the crisis in D.C. and teaches all the wrong lessons

Bondi’s illegal order exacerbates the crisis in D.C. and teaches all the wrong lessons

Austin Sarat writes: What is happening in Washington, D.C., should alarm every American. The Founders of this country imagined that the federal government would play a small and secondary role, backstopping state and local government and carrying out functions (such as negotiating with foreign powers) that they could not. The sight of the National Guard and Drug Enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and other federal law enforcement agents on the streets of the nation’s capital would have shocked and horrified…

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The Supreme Court is poised to kill the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court is poised to kill the Voting Rights Act

  Paul Blumenthal reports: The march for voting rights from Selma, Alabama, to the capital of Montgomery in 1965 wasn’t meant to lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. But then came the horror of the scenes on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where police fractured the late John Lewis’ skull and beat organizer Amelia Boynton unconscious, with much of the violence caught on camera. It swayed public opinion: President Lyndon Johnson delivered the voting rights bill to Congress…

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Four out of five U.S. troops surveyed understand their duty to disobey illegal orders

Four out of five U.S. troops surveyed understand their duty to disobey illegal orders

National Guard members arrive at the Guard’s headquarters at D.C. Armory on Aug. 12, 2025 in Washington. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images By Charli Carpenter, UMass Amherst and Geraldine Santoso, UMass Amherst With his Aug. 11, 2025, announcement that he was sending the National Guard – along with federal law enforcement – into Washington, D.C. to fight crime, President Donald Trump edged U.S. troops closer to the kind of military-civilian confrontations that can cross ethical and legal lines. Indeed, since Trump returned…

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Justice Department opens the door to domestic terrorism

Justice Department opens the door to domestic terrorism

Jeff Stein, Michael Isikoff, and Karen J. Greenberg report: A top official in the Justice Department unit assigned to combat domestic terrorism has resigned in frustration after watching his office effectively gutted with much of its funding cut off and its lawyers reassigned to immigration enforcement and other matters. “I no longer had a functioning job. There was nothing for me to do anymore,” said Thomas Brzozowski, who had served as the unit’s senior counsel for the last 10 years,…

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The tiny group of Trump loyalists making major national-security decisions

The tiny group of Trump loyalists making major national-security decisions

Missy Ryan, Jonathan Lemire, Nancy A. Youssef, and Michael Scherer report: During Donald Trump’s first term, his top advisers attempted to run a traditional process for shaping foreign policy, tapping experts from the White House’s National Security Council, debating recommendations from across the government, and steering the president away from decisions that they feared would damage America’s interests. But Trump was deeply mistrustful of the NSC, which he saw as too big, too cumbersome, and too attached to Republican orthodoxy….

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Federal agents in LA gather outside Gov. Newsom press conference in apparent attempt at intimidation

Federal agents in LA gather outside Gov. Newsom press conference in apparent attempt at intimidation

TRUMP’S PRIVATE ARMY IS ILLEGALLY ON PRIVATE PROPERTY!!!! WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED BY THIS WEAK LITTLE MAN!!! https://t.co/13nJL6JRvG — Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) August 14, 2025 Democracy Docket reports: Masked and armed federal agents made arrests outside of a Los Angeles museum in which Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) Thursday was announcing plans to redraw the state’s congressional map to offset the GOP’s redistricting efforts in Texas. The aggressive police operation directly outside the press conference appeared to be…

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