Trump and McMahon do not know how federal and state governments are integral to public education. This system supports about 50 million students in K-12 and more than 13 million in public colleges.

President Jimmy Carter’s administration helped establish the Federal Department of Education. Ever since conservative politicians have gone out of their way to dismantle it. Ronald Reagan was the first to go after it. Now, we have Donald Trump and his crony Linda McMahon, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment. Trump signed an executive order to “begin eliminating” the Department of Education.

In Volker Ullrich’s book, Germany 1923, he focuses on an “intoxicating time” in the year 1923. He points out that there were constant calls for a strongman. A savior was needed to lift Germany out of misery and desperation. This began after the collapse of...

I received this letter from the American Civil Liberties Union, addressed to Mr. Trump. As America’s anti-democratic turn imperils the free world, the ACLU will be a crucial defender.

Note: This is a copy of a letter. I sent it to colleagues and friends in Australia, England, Europe, Russia, and the United States. I am writing to apologize for what America has allowed to happen. Americans made a conscious...

The 100th Monkey and The 3.5% Rule—What’s in common? Tomorrow’s post will compare these ideas. They will be applied to the protests that are emerging after a month long attack on American democracy.

Tonight the press is going bonkers over the idiot’s showtime to the Congress, the Supreme Court, and others. The press has relinquished its responsibility to report on Trump. They have neglected to give context about his criminal past. They also don’t challenge him on...

This post is a fact sheet for climate change. I wrote this post during Trump’s first term. I’m revising it and reposting today.
Donald Trump’s 2.0 administration shows no interest in dealing with climate change, other than sticking their heads in oil-rich sand. They also refuse to understand some elementary concepts of climate change. If they did, they would stand with most Americans. Americans believe climate change is as much a local problem as a global one.
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Trump stacks the deck for Putin, and against democracy I republished this from theframelab.org with their acknowledgment. This newsletter is paywall-free thanks to the generous contributions of paid subscribers. If you can, please join hundreds of FrameLab readers in...

America is under the rule of an autocracy led by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. The past month has seen the erosion of democratic safeguards as never before. The Republicans in Congress have been mute. They have looked the other way at how Musk and Trump are destroying...

At times I can communicate with a young person from the future. Her name is Skyler Fusaro. She lives in Atlanta, in a high rise apartment on Peachtree Street. It is a mile north of the Realto Theater, on the campus of Georgia State University.

In the year 2025, America was fractured amidst the return of Donald Trump, advanced technology and social upheaval. About a month after Trump took office, Skyler transmitted a letter to me by Techno-teleport. She was furious that Americans reelected Trump. He was convicted on 34 felony charges linked to trying to interfere with the 2016 election. He was also found liable for sexual assault and rape of E. Jean Carroll. He had to pay her about $90 million. Furthermore, a judge found Trump and his foundation and family guilty of fraud and fined $500 million. She said that the laws had been changed preventing anyone like Trump from being allowed to run for public office. She reminded me that we had multiple chances to avoid letting a criminal from being in the Oval Office.

The letter she wrote is quite powerful. She pointed out to me that millions of Americans are up in arms, and enraged that

Trump said he didn’t know about the Heritage Foundation’s Project 25, yet he is tracking its game plan. The mass layoffs were a shock to her, and she said that the American people won’t stand for it.

It Starts With You and Me

In a land where the lights flicker, voices clash,

Three figures rise with cruel ambition and a dash,

From towers to rockets, they’re making their mark,

But let’s peel back the layers and spark a real talk.

Donald’s got the spotlight, like a TV showman,

Promises like confetti, flipping pages of rage.

He built an empire on the backs of the brave,

But what’s left in the wake of the paths that he stole?

Discover the alarming truth behind the drastic measures taken by President Donald Trump and VP Elon Musk, threatening the very fabric of our public services, the lives of American citizens, and federal government.Under the current administration, sweeping budget cuts...

On a pivotal winter day in Washington, D.C., Musk, X, and Trump met in the Oval Office, claiming they were ridding the Executive Branch of fraud by firing people and closing down organizations such as USAID. Odd that the two who have criminally defrauded others claim...

The first two weeks of felon Trump’s term has been horrendous. If you haven’t read any thing by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, I hope this article by her will give you some solace. Her work is crucial for understanding autocratic and fascist dynamics in the United States. Her Substack site, Lucid, and her recent book, Strongmen, are especially valuable. What follows is today’s Substack post.

I don’t know about you. Washington Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde’s sermon moved me. It was delivered at the Washington National Cathedral’s Service of Prayer for the Nation.

She directed the words spoken at the end of her sermon to Donald Trump. We call it the “Seeking Mercy Semon.”