Lindsey Reiser reports on oral arguments before the Supreme Court on President Trump’s tariffs, and the upcoming reduction in U. S. air traffic. Continue reading 11/5: The Daily Report
Pentagon handovers the baton of managing Donald Trump’s reputation to Laura Loomer Continue reading Pentagon handovers the baton of managing Donald Trump’s reputation to Laura Loomer
The BBC has been accused by a “whistleblower” of selectively editing Donald Trump’s January 6 speech to make it appear as if the president was encouraging the 2021 Capitol riot. A former external adviser to the BBC board took issue with a 2024 episode of Panorama, in which edits were made to Trump’s remarks without [.]. Continue reading BBC Sparks MAGA Fury After Being Accused Of “Doctoring” Donald Trump’s Jan 6 Speech
President Donald Trump moved Monday to blunt the pain Democrats are inflicting on food-stamp families with their government shutdown, which will be the longest ever if it continues through Wednesday. Continue reading Democrats’ big shutdown ‘win’ is only going to be setting a new record for ‘longest’ — and most futile
It was a simple question from President Donald Trump to CBS 60 Minutes interviewer Norah O’Donnell. Don’t you feel safer in Washington, D. C., where crime plummeted after the National Guard was called in to help clean up crime-filled neighborhoods? But instead of answering yes or no, she bobbed and weaved to avoid giving Trump any [.]. Continue reading Norah O’Donnell just can’t give Trump any credit: Liberal Media Scream
President Donald Trump briefly addressed the New York City mayoral election in the “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday night. Continue reading Trump Attacks Democrat Candidates As Election Day Looms
President Donald Trump on Saturday said he’s ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria as he stepped up his criticism that the government is failing to rein in the persecution of Christians in the West African country. “If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U. S. A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump posted on social media. “I am hereby instructing our Department of. Continue reading Trump Warns Nigeria: US ‘Guns-a-Blazing’ if Christian Killings Continue
This week, the Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the Republican president has overstepped federal law with many of his tariffs. Continue reading Tariffs are Trump’s favorite foreign policy tool. The Supreme Court could change how he uses them
President Trump met with President Xi on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit last week. APEC’s host, South Korea, is carefully balancing its relations with the U. S. and China. Continue reading How U.S.-China tensions leave countries like South Korea stuck in the middle
Trump is incapable of allowing tensions and stresses to ease without creating new ones. Case in point: After meeting with China’s president Xi Jinping this past week, he announces that China and the United States the largest and second-largest economies in the world will de-escalate the trade war. Sounds good, I suppose (until you realize that the two nations are now back to where they were before Trump created the trade war in the first place). Not content to calm any waters, Trump also announces that the United States will immediately restart nuclear weapons testing, after not doing so for more than 30 years. Why? He doesn’t explain except to say “other nations” are doing so. (None of the world’s three major military powers has conducted a nuclear weapons test since 1996, but they will if the U. S. resumes.)The mad would-be king cannot abide even a moment of calm. He thrives on crises, emergencies, chaos, disarray all of which give him more power, if we let them. He refuses to fund SNAP (food stamps) during this government shutdown, although Congress set aside funds to do just that. He won’t extend Obamacare subsidies. His tariffs are killing farmers and small businesses. To say nothing of his violent ICE raids, his criminal prosecutions of political foes, his “war” on Venezuela. In every sphere of our lives, he is ramping up the stress. How should we cope with this Trump chaos? Not by ignoring the news. This only plays into Trump’s playbook: He figures he can cause even more mayhem if we’re not paying attention. Not by pretending that none of this matters. It does matter. Denial only weakens our resolve. Certainly not by falling into despair or hopelessness. That’s what Trump and his ilk want more than anything. Hopelessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy. Then he wins it all. We cope by becoming stronger. We demonstrate, as we did October 18 in record numbers and as we’ll do again in even larger numbers. We call our members of Congress. Appear at their town halls. Protect vulnerable people in our community. Organize for the midterms. We also pace ourselves. Stay abreast of the news but don’t try to read everything that’s coming at us. Take a break from time to time. We keep ourselves and others apprised of positive things that are happening: the likelihood that California’s Proposition 50 will pass on Tuesday, that Zohran Mamdani will become mayor of New York, that Virginia and New Jersey will elect Democrats. We’re grateful for the courage and resolve of our nation’s judges (including some who were appointed by Trump) in stopping his vicious and illegal rampages. We note the downward lurch in Trump’s poll numbers, largely as a result of his insane economic policies. Even Trump voters are turning on him. We keep the faith in America’s ideals. We stay as close as we can to our loved ones and dearest friends. And we celebrate small and noble acts of decency, wherever they occur. Robert Reich is a professor of public policy at Berkeley and former secretary of labor. His writings can be found at. Continue reading The way to cope with Trump’s chaos