Category Archives: government

This is Fascism 

Posted on July 4, 2025 by Arlen Grossman

Trump’s Big Ugly Bill is fascist — not only in what it does and authorizes, but in how it got enacted By Robert Reich/ robertreich.com.substack/ July 3, 3025 Friends, Trump’s 940-page Big Ugly Bill was passed today by the House … Continue reading →

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The Rich Got Richer

Posted on June 29, 2025 by Arlen Grossman

World’s richest 1% raised their wealth by $33.9 trillion in 10 years By Heather Miller/ Fox26Houston.com/ June 26, 2025 The wealth of just 3,000 people could “eliminate annual poverty 22 times over,” a new paper says, but global goals are … Continue reading →

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US strikes set Iran’s nuclear program back a few months, Pentagon assessment says

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Arlen Grossman

But we know Trump and his stooges will deny the result was anything less than perfect, and will never back down, despite all the evidence {TBPR editor} By Cybele Mayes-Osterman, Tom Vanden Brook, Josh Meyer and Zac Anderson, USA Today/ … Continue reading →

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Bernie and Elizabeth Warren Expose How GOP Budget Bill Helps the Wealthy And Hurts Poor People

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Arlen Grossman
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The Dogs of War

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Arlen Grossman

By Robert Reich/ RobertReich.substack.com/ June 22, 2025 Friends, The United States is now at war with Iran.  A single person — Donald J. Trump — has released the dogs of war on one of the most dangerous countries in the … Continue reading →

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Hear Us Now!

Posted on June 15, 2025 by Arlen Grossman
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Who Owns America? Musk and Trump Are Fighting Over the Deed

Posted on June 7, 2025 by Arlen Grossman

A Supreme Court justice handed the keys of our democracy to billionaires — and now they’re crashing it in public… By Thom Hartmann / ThomHartmann.com/ June 6, 2025 The alpha-male dick-measuring contest between Trump and Musk isn’t entertainment: it’s the … Continue reading →

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Who Can Fix This Country?

Posted on June 4, 2025 by Arlen Grossman

Hal Ginsberg, the host of the YouTube videocast, Halitics, and I (on my weekly guest appearance) share the frustration of making sense of what is going on in the political world. The Trump Administration doesn’t seem to have a clue … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk Calls Trump’s Big Bill ‘Disgusting Abomination’

Posted on June 4, 2025 by Arlen Grossman

By Amanda Castro/ Newsweek/ June 3, 2025 Elon Musk launched a scathing attack on President Donald Trump‘s marquee spending proposal Tuesday, calling the so-called “big, beautiful bill” a “disgusting abomination” in a series of posts on X. Musk, who leads the … Continue reading →

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“Big Beautiful Bill” Adds to National Debt

Posted on May 30, 2025 by Arlen Grossman

Karoline Leavitt: “President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill “does not add to the deficit.” By Louis Jacobson/ PolitiFact/ May 21, 2025 As House Republicans continued their efforts to advance what President Donald Trump calls his “big, beautiful bill” of … Continue reading →

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