More on DOGE’s Fraud and Destruction
An update on DOGE’s rampage through government functions.
Read more...Category Archives: Banana republic
Who Will Pay the Highest Price for Trump’s Postal Service Privatization Push?
“Without competition from our public Postal Service, for-profit firms would jack up delivery fees on as many customers as possible.”
Read more...7 Truths About Trump’s Tariffs — And the High-Stakes Future They Shape
What is Trump trying to achieve on the economic front? Despite all the bobbing and weaving, he does have some core aims.
Read more...Coffee Break – Across the Pond : Lights Out Edition
Democracy is dying in Europe as governments become more authoritarian and a new cold war comes into being.
Read more...More Trump Punishment of the Poors: HHS Eliminates Office That Sets Poverty Levels Tied to Benefits for 80 Million People
Yet another Trump gutting of a whole swathe of programs, here by eliminating the experts who knew how to determine poverty thresholds.
Read more...Top Trade Expert Says Trump Tariff Pause Lays Bare ‘Just One More Con on Working People’
Do Trump’s trade flip flops, destructive to everyone save perhaps insider traders, show that he has entered a Mad Ludwig phase?
Read more...Trump’s Additional 50% Tariff Against China and China’s Tit for Tat Retaliation: Trump Own-Goals Himself Into Where China Would Want Him
Some further thoughts on the radical US-destructiveness of the Trump tariff regime.
Read more...Coffee Break: Across the Pond With the Starmer Government
Britain really needs a new government as the current Starmer government appears to be leading the country off a cliff with their policie
Read more...Trump’s Tariffs Are Extremely Dumb, Just Not For The Reasons You Might Think
The massive Trump tariffs are a con on a global scale. Trump is not rejecting the corporate trade model. He’s weaponizing it.
Read more...Medicare Advantage Is Covering More and More Americans − Some Because They Don’t Get to Choose
Another layer of the ongoing campaign to get more Americans to use private and generally inferior Medicare Advantage over Traditional Medicare
Read more...Trump Deploys His Tariff Wrecking Ball; How Much Will the US Suffer Along with Most of the Rest of the World?
The latest Trump tariffs kick up the destructiveness of his administration up to a whole new level.
Read more...New Gallup Poll Finds Health Care Affordability Falling: One-Third Cannot Afford Care
More bad, if predictable, news on the US health care front.
Read more...GOP Lawmakers Eye SNAP Cuts, Reducing Benefits for the Low Income at a Time of High Food Prices
The GOP again has SNAP food assistance benefits in their crosshairs. How might they make cuts? Can they muster the votes?
Read more...Bracing for the Fallout from Trump Tariff Delusions
Trump is about to drop another big tariff shoe, and pretty much no one but very hard core ideologues is on board.
Read more...Coffee Break: Across the Pond and the Online Safety Act
The UK is attempting to set the rules for what and how information is served across the whole internet through the Online Safety Act.
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