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Trump/Musk are pursuing the collapse of the American constitutional model, fundamentally altering the terrain on which the US left operates, requiring an oppositional politics the country has not seen since the time of FDR.

The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches of 2017, but research shows they are far more numerous and frequent — while also shifting to more powerful forms of resistance.

Looking back at our constitutional history to capture Trump's order’s viciousness. Doing so reveals that the order is not merely unconstitutional, but anti-constitutional.

An international team of astronomers unveiled the most compelling evidence to date that dark energy — a mysterious phenomenon pushing our universe to expand ever faster — is not a constant force of nature but one that ebbs and flows through time.

We are at the potential tipping point of a necessary revolution. Right now, capitalism has armed itself — with technology, communication channels, cloud control, artificial intelligence, and weapons. Either we resist now, or it will be too late.

“Withholding the availability of services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgender individuals, is discrimination under New York law."

The Trump administration’s volatility on foreign policy reveals internal divisions within Trumpism. But when threats and populism lose their momentum, the anti-communist hawks may get their way.

Donald Trump is using decades-old laws to expel critics and opponents.

Democratic voters are even angrier than you think.