Donald Trump

  • More of the Trump Teams Incompetence in 2017

    Trump administration stopped working on rules that would have prepared for pandemic’s like COVID-19. Continue reading

    More of the Trump Teams Incompetence in 2017
  • Julián Castro 2020 

    Julian Castro, Secretary of HUD in the Obama administration and a former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, …vowed to introduce universal pre-kindergarten for American children by expanding a program he introduced as mayor of San Antonio. He also promised to… Continue reading

    Julián Castro 2020 
  • Escape From the Trump Cult

    Millions of Americans are blindly devoted to their Dear Leader. What will it take for them to snap out of it? …manipulating the media, Trump tore pages from the us-against-them playbook of the European far right and presented them to… Continue reading

    Escape From the Trump Cult
  • We need to understand that disaster is slow

    Defining a disaster as an “event” has a history extending to the 1960s, when federal funds were spent to model the social impact of a nuclear attack. To do this, Civil Defense officials commissioned studies of proxies of an attack,… Continue reading

  • This Changes Everything | Vanity Fair

    Hollywood’s most powerful women appear in the Geena Davis-produced documentary This Changes Everything, which draws a direct line between the president and the industry’s sea change. — Read on www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/this-changes-everything-toronto-film-festival-documentary-weinstein-trump-me-too “Hours after This Changes Everything concluded to a standing ovation,… Continue reading

  • Richest administration in modern American history

    Billionaires and millionaires meeting with president elect inside the Trump Tower: “What kind of government have you made for us?” Donald the Trumpeter to elite followers: “An unabashedly open plutocracy if you can ravage it!” How can anyone still believe that… Continue reading

  • Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy

    Every demagogue needs an enemy. Trump’s was the ruling elite, and his charge was that they were not only failing to solve the greatest problems facing Americans, they were trying to stop anyone from even talking about those problems. “The… Continue reading

  • Trump supporters are not the wretched of the earth

    It’s about race, culture, and identity — not economics. …The press has gotten extremely comfortable with describing a Trump electorate that simply doesn’t exist. Cottle describes his supporters as “white voters living on the edges of the economy.” This is,… Continue reading

  • The conversation about Trump can’t end at outrage and condemnation — Quartz

    Tonglen is a Tibetan meditation practice of giving and receiving, where a person can sit mindfully and imagine absorbing the fear and anger of another person, while sending that person their own love and compassion in return. While tonglen may… Continue reading

  • It’s come to this: 2016 is the Rape Election – The Washington Post

    It would be nice if this election could contain zero people who sexually assault. Source: It’s come to this: 2016 is the Rape Election – The Washington Post Continue reading

  • The Donald as unifier

    Here’s what Donald Trump is not: He is not us. He is not all of us. He is not the best of us. He is not inevitable. Let us take Trump at his word. Let him be our Unifier. Source:… Continue reading

  • #Trumpdacity

    I mean, folks are still going to be voting for this schmuck because his populism completely outstrips the need to tell anything even resembling the truth. This speech basically performs a hearty fuck-you to the world, a dance of shameless audacity… Continue reading

    #Trumpdacity
  • Trump and American #authoritarianism

    Take activated authoritarians from across the partisan spectrum and the growing cadre of threatened non-authoritarians, then add them to the base of Republican general election voters, and the potential electoral path to a Trump presidency becomes clearer. Source: Donald Trump… Continue reading

  • @tavissmiley critiques #CorporateMedia  coverage of #RacialArsonist #DonaldTrump

    The broadcaster Tavis Smiley made headlines this week for an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” when he called out Donald Trump for being an “unrepentant, irascible religious and racial arsonist.” Trump responded by calling Smiley a “hater and racist.” Smiley… Continue reading

    @tavissmiley critiques #CorporateMedia  coverage of #RacialArsonist #DonaldTrump
  • How Uber and the Gig Economy Are Making Voters as Disposable as Temp Workers

    Temp politics is an outgrowth of the sweeping transformation of economic, social and political life over the past 35 years to fit the demands of global capital for “flexible,” nonunion labor markets that fuel growth in monopoly profits, irrespective of… Continue reading