Trump Orders Homeless He Passed en route to Golf Course to Leave Washington DC

THE GUARDIAN: President demands unhoused residents leave US capital or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrests

In a social media post on Sunday, Donald Trump has demanded homeless residents of Washington DC leave the country’s capital or face eviction, and again promised to use federal officers to jail criminals, even though violent crime in the city was at a 30-year low when he took office in January.

“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Sunday morning, shortly after being driven from the White House to his golf club in Virginia. “We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.”

The post was illustrated with four photographs, all apparently taken from the president’s motorcade along the route from the White House to his golf course. … » | Robert Mackey | Sunday, August 10, 2025

Trump's Renovation Plans Suggest a Desire to Make the Whitehouse His Permanent Residence

Aug 9, 2025 | Renovations that Trump is conducting in the Whitehouse are of scale hardly seen before. A scale that makes one immediately ask, what is his actual motive? Are these the actions of a man who intends to leave this residence in the near future? The example of autocrats throughout history suggests otherwise.

"This Is Dictatorship, NOT Presidency!" - Jeffrey Sachs Tears Trump Tariffs

Aug 9, 2025 | In this hard-hitting segment, acclaimed economist Jeffrey Sachs calls out Trump’s tariff strategy as “delusional” and economically flawed. Sachs dismantles the myth that trade deficits mean the U.S. is being “ripped off,” and underscores that the real issue is spending, not cheating.

Out of Control - Trump Calls on Military for Drug Enforcement and Threatens to Federalize DC.

Aug 9, 2025 | Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to use the military to carry out law enforcement against foreign drug cartels. The Republican’s decree provides an official basis for undertaking direct military operations on foreign soil and in corresponding territorial waters against organized criminal groups.

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Ukraine Will Not Give Land to ‘Occupiers’, Says Zelenskyy, as Trump and Putin Prepare to Meet

THE GUARDIAN: US president said end to war will involve ‘some swapping of territories’ before announcing meeting

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said early on Saturday that “Ukrainians will not give their land to occupiers” after Donald Trump said he would meet Vladimir Putin next week and that an end to the war must involve “some swapping of territories”.

The Ukrainian president said Kyiv was ready for real solutions that could bring peace but that any solutions without Ukraine would be against peace. “Any decisions against us, any decisions without Ukraine, are also decisions against peace. They will achieve nothing,” he said, adding that the war “cannot be ended without us, without Ukraine”.

Trump said he planned to meet the Russian president next Friday in Alaska. He announced the location in a brief post on his Truth Social site.

Russian state media agency Tass confirmed the date and location of the meeting, citing Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov. » | Andrew Roth in Washington | Saturday, August 9, 2025

LE FIGARO : Guerre en Ukraine : Trump évoque un «échange de territoires», Zelensky promet que les Ukrainiens «n’abandonneront pas leur terre» : «Toute décision qui serait prise contre nous, toute décision qui serait prise sans l’Ukraine, ce serait des décisions contre la paix», estime le président Ukrainien ce samedi, moins d’une semaine avant une rencontre entre Vladimir Poutine et Donald Trump. »

Huge Economic Problems Coming for Republicans and the U.S. | Explainer

Aug 8, 2025 | From Politics Chat, August 7, 2025

Donald Trump exige que les universités américaines communiquent les données sur l’ethnie de leurs candidats

LE FIGARO : Dans sa bataille contre la discrimination positive, le président américain a ordonné aux universités de transmettre davantage de données sur leurs procédures d’admission, afin de déterminer si «la race est utilisée».

Un nouvel acte dans sa lutte contre la discrimination positive. Jeudi 7 août, le président américain Donald Trump a signé un mémorandum disponible sur le site de la Maison Blanche obligeant le ministère de l’Éducation des États-Unis à collecter, en plus des résultats scolaires des candidats aux universités américaines, des données détaillées sur leur ethnie et leur sexe. Cette mesure permettrait selon lui au gouvernement de déterminer si les universités accordent une quelconque préférence aux minorités lors des admissions. «Le manque persistant de données disponibles (...) continue de poser question quant à savoir si la race est en réalité utilisée» lors des choix d’admission, a en ce sens écrit Donald Trump dans un mémo destiné à son ministère de l’Éducation. » | Par Sidonie Rahola-Boyer | vendredi 8 août 2025

Trump's Fake Tariffs Kick In as Economy Slows and the World Holds Its Breath for Recession

Aug 8, 2-25 | On the day that tariffs kick in, Donald Trump called reporters to the Oval Office on Thursday to present fake charts that he claimed show the U.S. economy is solid following a jobs report last week that raised red flags and led to the Republican firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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This is Way Worse Than You Think - America Is in Decline! - Jeffrey Sachs

Aug 6, 2025 | Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned economist, professor, and global development expert known for speaking truth to power. With decades of experience advising governments, the United Nations, and world leaders, Sachs is not afraid to challenge U.S. foreign policy, corporate interests, and global economic injustice.

He served as the Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, a UN advisor under Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon, and has played a major role in shaping international economic policy in Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

In recent years, Sachs has gained attention for his bold criticisms of U.S. military interventions, his warnings about global economic collapse, and his support for multipolar cooperation, including better relations with China, Russia, and the Global South.

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Aug 7, 2025 | Jeffrey Epstein took the fifth about Donald Trump. What else do you need to know?

Anti-Trump Protests Explode across America Raging against the Authoritarian Regime and Its Policies.

Aug 6, 2025 | A National Day of Action, saw peaceful protesters marching across the nation on Saturday to protest the Trump regime as part of "Rage Against the Regime" and organized by the group 50501.

"Coming Up Short": Robert Reich on His Memoir, Rising U.S. Inequality & Fighting Against Bullies

Aug 6, 2025 | We speak with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich about his new memoir, "Coming Up Short," which tells his life story alongside the growth of inequality in America. Reich was born in 1946 as part of the baby-boom generation that enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity and social mobility in the decades after World War II. But he says those conditions were squandered as wealth concentration grew worse, labor unions were gutted and wages stagnated — helping to give rise to Donald Trump's brand of authoritarianism. "We allowed big money to take over," says Reich. "We, the baby boomers, although we did a lot of good things, we took for granted what we were given. … And Donald Trump is kind of the essence of what you do when you take your eyes off the prize."

The American economic system in the western capitalist world is the SHITTIEST economic system of all. It is capitalism heavy, corrupt, and raw. And it shows! — © Mark Alexander

Trump Said He Would Double Tariffs on India as Punishment for Buying Russian Oil.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Trump announced on Wednesday that he would double tariffs on India, to 50 percent, beginning this month as punishment for the country’s continued purchase of Russian oil.

Mr. Trump coupled the new, punishing tariff level with a threat to impose similar penalties on other countries that buy Russian energy as he sought to use trade policies to pressure the Kremlin into resolving the war in Ukraine.

Under a new executive order, India would face a 25 percent tariff starting on Aug. 27 if it continues to buy oil from Russia. That would be in addition to a 25 percent duty that Mr. Trump announced last week, citing unfair trade barriers, which he plans to implement beginning Thursday. » | Tony Romm | Reporting from Washington | Wednesday, August 6, 2025

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Vladimir Putin Meets Trump's US Envoy Steve Witkoff at Kremlin | BBC News

Aug 6, 2025 | A meeting between US envoy Steve Witkoff and Russia's Vladimir Putin is under way at the Kremlin, Russian media has said.

Witkoff arrived in Moscow on Wednesday as President Donald Trump's deadline for Russia to agree a ceasefire in Ukraine looms.

The US president has said Russia could face hefty sanctions or see secondary sanctions imposed against all those who trade with it if it doesn't take steps to end the "horrible war" with Ukraine.


More EMPTY words from Trump. Trump will do precisely NOTHING! Remember when Trump said that he was going to stop the Russo-Ukrainian War within 24 hours? And what became of that promise? Precisely NOTHING! And so it will be with this promise. It's all just hot air. — © Mark Alexander

We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S. | NYT Opinion | Reupload

May 18, 2025 | Legal residents of the United States sent to foreign prisons without due process. Students detained after voicing their opinions. Federal judges threatened with impeachment for ruling against the administration’s priorities.

In this Opinion video, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley, all professors at Yale and experts in authoritarianism, explain why America is especially vulnerable to a democratic backsliding — and why they are leaving the United States to take up positions at the University of Toronto.

Professor Stanley is leaving the United States as an act of protest against the Trump administration’s attacks on civil liberties. “I want Americans to realize that this is a democratic emergency,” he said.

Professor Shore, who has spent two decades writing about the history of authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe, is leaving because of what she sees as the sharp regression of American democracy. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” she said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

She borrows from political and apolitical Slavic motifs and expressions, arguing that the English language does not fully capture the democratic regression in this American moment.

Professor Snyder’s reasons are more complicated. Primarily, he’s leaving to support his wife, Professor Shore, and their children, and to teach at a large public university in Toronto, a place he says can host conversations about freedom. At the same time, he shares the concerns expressed by his colleagues and worries that those kinds of conversations will become ever harder to have in the United States.

“I did not leave Yale because of Donald Trump or because of Columbia or because of threats to Yale — but that would be a reasonable thing to do, and that is a decision that people will make,” he wrote in a Yale Daily News article explaining his decision to leave.

Their motives differ but their analysis is the same: ignoring or downplaying attacks on the rule of law, the courts and universities spells trouble for our democracy.

The EU Is a Colossus. So Why Is It Cowering before Trump Like a Mouse?

THE GUARDIAN: With its woeful trade deal, Europe prostrated itself before the president. We need a leader who will tell him where to shove it

Who remembers the spate of “introduction videos” that emerged during the first Trump administration – a series of tongue-in-cheek clips about European countries to introduce them to Donald Trump? The viral video trend was sparked by the Dutch comedian Arjen Lubach, who ended his segment on the Netherlands with: “We totally understand it’s going to be America first, but can we just say the Netherlands second?” It seems that Europe’s leaders remember the videos all too well; that they internalised the caustic message a little bit too much.

Afraid of rocking the boat during its trade negotiations with Trump, the EU decided to pre-emptively sink itself. Instead of strategic autonomy, it will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on American weapons; in place of future climate goals, it will pour hundreds of billions into US natural gas; instead of a mutual tariff reduction, it will take a huge unilateral hit to EU exporters; instead of self-respect, humiliating prostration.

The new trade “deal” announced by Trump and Ursula von der Leyen last month left a five-year-old’s worth of whys to ponder. Why does the EU, a colossus, think it is a mouse? Why is it content to merely nibble at the edges of power? Will it ever respect itself as much as China, which met Trump tariff for tariff until he backed off? Why don’t its politicians understand that voters want leaders who will defend them, and that, as for Canada’s Mark Carney and Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, there are actually electoral rewards to be reaped by doing so without reserve? Why, even after Brexit, do they ignore the lesson that these same voters prioritise identity and emotion over cold economic rationality? » | Alexander Hurst | Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Trump Is Breaking the Rules to Protect Ghislaine Maxwell

Aug 5, 2025 | The Trump administration’s decision to move convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to the lowest-security prison possible has not only raised eyebrows about her future, but it has also violated the very rules that our prison system has in place. For someone with a conviction like Maxwell’s, they are not allowed to be in the type of minimum-security facility that she now calls home. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what happened.

Trump Wants to Steal Our Elections

Aug 5, 2025 | Donald Trump and his MAGA goons are always looking to manipulate the system but the recent gerrymandering in Texas has gone too far. Steve Schmidt looks at the actions from Greg Abbott in Texas and calls for the restoration of democratic principles.

Donald Trump Goes Full Eugenics Nazi in Morning Interview

Aug 5, 2025

It is a crying shame that Americans didn’t have the courage to incarcerate Trump when he was convicted of his crimes and when they had the chance to do so. The world would be a better, safer place today had they done so. Now, the rest of the world has to pay the high price of his freedom, his freedom to wreak havoc on America and the innocent Americans who didn’t vote for him. — © Mark Alexander