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August 30, 2025

Judge the Actually Existing Trump Economy, Not the Theory

David Dayen The American Prospect

Equity stakes, loophole closures, and protecting domestic industries might make sense in someone else’s hands. Not from a president with no strategy or plan.

August 30, 2025

How Rep. Nicole Collier’s Capitol Protest Sparked Solidarity Among These Texas Women

Leslie Rangel and Olivia Messer The 19th

The Fort Worth Democrat spent the night held hostage in the Texas House in protest. Then four enraged women — many of them mothers — refused to leave her side overnight.

August 29, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | August 29, 2025

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Big Crime | Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts. U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Participating in Combat. 20 Years After Hurricane Katrina. ICE Regrets Stopping This Informed Citizen. Appeals Court Rules Trump's Tariffs Illegal.

August 29, 2025

How Zohran Mamdani Can Win the War

Eric Blanc, Emily Lemmerman, and Wen Zhuang The Nation

Winning in November isn’t enough. A Mayor Mamdani will need a mass movement behind him to overcome an establishment that wants to crush him.

August 29, 2025

When Hospitals Act Like ICE

Liset Cruz Type Investigations

These patients needed long-term care. Instead, the hospitals pushed for them to be deported.

August 29, 2025

How Bad Slavery Was

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect

Donald Trump joins a long line of apologists for America’s peculiar institution, falsifying history in the interest of whitewashing slavery.

August 29, 2025

Humans Aren’t As Special As We Once Thought

Kate Wong Scientific American

Darwin opined that differences between humans and other animals were a matter of degree. New findings show that a wide variety of other species exhibit capabilities that were once thought to be exclusive to Homo sapiens.

Big Crime | Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts

August 29, 2025

Don’t need no fascist rules / Don't want no fascist schools / Don’t want soldiers on our streets / There’s big crime in DC at THE White House

U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Participating in Combat

August 29, 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the new policy today, officially banning all men with names like Jamie, Shannon, and Terry from participating in combat roles effective immediately.

20 Years After Hurricane Katrina

August 29, 2025

Twenty years ago today, on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina roared ashore. Democracy Now! speaks with Academy Award-nominated director, Traci A. Curry.