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  Dispatches of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. Because silence is not an option. We may read and write alone, but we drive change together. Snapshot: Poor Elon Can’t Understand the Anger Tesla owner Elon Musk says he's "shocked" by the "hatred and violence" from the left and claims he's "never done anything harmful" Steven Beschloss Mar 19 Elon Musk and a chainsaw: “I’ve only done productive things,” he said yesterday. (Photo by Andrew Harnik via Getty Images) Elon Musk went on Fox News   last night and cried a river. He’s apparently shocked that his illegal violations of our constitutional government, his stripping away funding that’s causing grave damage, his strutting around our Oval Office, his false attacks on Social Security, his Nazi salutes while standing behind the presidential seal, his platforming of Nazis on his abusive social media site, his endorsing neo-Nazis in Germany, his increasingly hostile rheto...

  Yesterday, I voted NO on a terrible Continuing Resolution bill - written by right-wing Republicans in the House with no input from anybody but themselves. This bill moves our country toward authoritarianism by usurping Congress‘s constitutional responsibility to determine how federal funds are spent, and creates a slush fund for Elon Musk and Donald Trump to continue their war against the working families of our country. This bill puts more and more power into the hands of the White House. In order to pass this bill the Republicans needed 60 votes - which meant they had to have seven votes from Democrats – and they got them. Actually they got ten. That is sad and a real failure on the part of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill. But that’s only part of what’s going on right now. As I’m sure you know Trump, Musk and the Republican Party are going after Social Security, cutting thousands of jobs at the Social Security administration...

  House Republicans narrowly passed their far-right funding bill  – which would undermine Medicaid and Social Security and do NOTHING to stop Trump and Musk's illegal cuts to our public services. [1] We must act NOW to demand the Senate reject any funding legislation that gives Musk and Trump a blank check to shut down any part of the government they don't like. Contact your senators >> TAKE ACTION It’s a simple demand:  when Elon Musk is already taking money out of your pocket to make billionaires like him richer, Congress needs to do whatever it takes to stop him. But instead of putting up guardrails to protect disaster relief, cancer research, and Social Security  – congressional Republicans want to write the worst parts of Musk’s slash-and-burn agenda into law.    The good news is, they can’t do that on their own.   They will need 7 Senate Democrats to sign on to pass this far-right bill into law. That makes this funding bill the most importa...

  Watch now   Sen. Adam Schiff Takes On Trump Chaos in New Meidas Interview The senator calls out Trump’s reckless tariffs, attacks on veterans, and fealty to foreign dictators. Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network Mar 8 I spoke with Senator Adam Schiff again this week, and he made one thing crystal clear: Donald Trump is running this country like one of his failed businesses—erratic, reckless, and headed straight for disaster. “One thing businesses will consistently tell you is what they need most from the government is certainty, stability—not chaos.” Schiff said. “And what Donald Trump is doing with these on-again, off-again tariffs is just creating turmoil.” Farmers in the Central Valley are  still  trying to recover from the economic damage Trump caused during his first term, and now he’s doing it all over again. He imposes tariffs, the markets tank, he panics and pulls back, then does it again. It’s the kind of instability that wrecks economies—and th...

  100 Straight Minutes of Lying 3.5.25 Ally Sammarco Mar 6   Happy Wednesday and welcome back to  Today’s American News , your source for news and analysis on the circus that is American politics and entertainment. Fact checkers call out Trump for no-truth SOTU…   We’ll spare you a lot of details from Trump’s State of the Union speech last evening, but we wanted to offer some fact-checking ammo in case it’s helpful. It’s the same old Trump. Here’s  CBS News , breaking down five False and three Misleading Trump claims.   Factcheck.org   took on Trump’s lies on autism and his fairy-tale invention of 37,000 American deaths in the building of the Panama Canal. Totally normal stuff, right?  Politifact   disappointed with a no-ratings recap.  NPR  did an annotated fact check, earning points for innovation. The  Associated Press  took on multiple false and misleading Trump claims, including made-up nonsense about Americans older ...