Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’

Voters in this country twice elected a president with no ethics, no empathy and no end to his narcissism.

There Is a Contest Trump Is Winning www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Video: Opinion | Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’ Hope for a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine is preventing the world from reckoning with the “one-state reality” of the present, the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein argues.

We need to reckon with the fact that Israel is an apartheid state.

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He Looked for Ways to Stop Mass Violence

Trump admin stops research on mass violence because fear enhances authoritarian power.

He Looked for Ways to Stop Mass Violence www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/s...

Trump Will Participate in a Marathon Bible Reading

#NottheOnion

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...

Trump and Meloni Split Amid Growing Dispute Over Pope and Iran

Even his far right cronies are waking up.

Trump and Meloni Split Amid Growing Dispute Over Pope and Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/w...

A Progressive Group Rolls Out a Campus Competitor to Turning Point

More, please!

A Progressive Group Rolls Out a Campus Competitor to Turning Point www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

Orbán’s defeat holds lessons for US: ‘Autocrats may rise, but are not invincible’

Stunning loss of rightwing populist in Hungary carries symbolic and psychological significance for US politics

More, please!

Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate

Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

Artemis shone a light [and] made me believe we might make meaningful progress on putting an end to that other, dark half of America: the Confederates, fascists, Christian nationalists, and all who hate all that is good not just about this country, but about humanity itself (Liberal Currents).

Looks like he’s healing Epstein.

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

The federal government that serves us is being starved while the federal government that serves the Trump agenda and the oligarchy is glutting itself on taxpayer money.

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Hungary’s Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election

Best news we've had in a long time. May this be a harbinger.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

To Fill Air Traffic Controller Shortage, F.A.A. Turns to Gamers

#NotTheOnion

To Fill Air Traffic Controller Shortage, F.A.A. Turns to Gamers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/u...

State Judges Turn to Guns in New Era of Judicial Threats

SIgn of democracy in crisis.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/u...

The Constant Work to Keep a Family Connected Has a Name (Published 2024)

The Constant Work to Keep a Family Connected Has a Name www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/w...

No, Britain Is Not Having a Christian Revival

No, Britain Is Not Having a Christian Revival www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/w...

Hoping sanity prevails

Vance Visits Hungary to Boost Orban Before Election

Brothers in fascism

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/w...

Heroes!

Why Fascists Hate Sociology (opinion) The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power.

Sociology makes human variation fascinating, not threatening. This lesson upsets fascists, who would rather their followers adopt an us-versus-them mentality, seeing difference as something to fear, something to stamp out.

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Opinion | Don’t Blame College Students for Feeling Adrift. I’m Right There With Them.

What many college faculty are feeling right now.

Don’t Blame College Students for Feeling Adrift. I’m Right There With Them. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

It would be laughable if it weren’t so perilously dangerous.

@nytimes.com must stop sanewashing Trump!

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Here are three ways we can turn anti-Trump solidarity into political power | Robert Reich The No Kings protests affirmed widespread opposition to Trump’s actions. As the midterms approach, we have an opportunity

Begin organizing and mobilizing now to get out the vote for November’s midterm elections – aiming for Democratic takeovers of both chambers of Congress by wide margins, which will severely limit what Trump can do after January 2027.

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Trump’s mass deportation plan breaks the quiet of small US towns: ‘We have to take care of each other’ Immigration agents have spread into rural western Wisconsin, taking dozens of people from towns in more politically conservative areas

In Baldwin, Wisconsin, a town of about 4,000 people, local residents estimate more than 50 people were taken by federal agents, peaking in January and February.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

‘Vegas hotel meets aerospace bling’: Trump’s presidential library plan is a gaudy, self-glorifying monstrosity From JFK’s modernist concrete to Obama’s ‘Tatooine sandcrawler’, the presidential library is where egos burnish their legacies. But the brash, bookless vibe of Trump’s, complete with giant golden stat...

At the heart of the proposed 47-storey skyscraper on Miami’s waterfront – 47 floors for the 47th President – is a giant golden statue of Trump giving off dictator-for-life vibes, his gilded fist triumphantly raised.
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Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees.

Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

Demonstrators Arrested After Sit-In In Idaho Protesting Extreme Felony Trans Bathroom Ban 9 Idaho demonstrators were arrested after refusing to leave the Governor's office.

Heroes!

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