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Dress rehearsals for a showdown

Unprecedented wealth concentration – and the unbridled power that comes with it – distorts our democracy and drives societal and economic tensions. The Five & Dime tax would would break up concentrated wealth and generate substantial new revenue.

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Basically, U.S. policy in the Middle East is a stepchild of Israeli policy, and Netanyahu keeps playing Trump for a fool (which is not hard). Netanyahu played the same games when Democrats were in power, with minor limits.

Trump claimed there is a rebellion, but Judge Breyer said that obviously no such rebellion exists. Breyer held that a handful of individuals toppling a Waymo does not in fact strip thousands of peaceful protesters of their First Amendment rights.

While most Americans instinctively understand the threat U.S. militarism poses to democracy, the times call for more explicit links between militarism and rising fascism and a blueprint for reversing this threat.

As Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the brass failed to speak out in the Army’s defense. He led soldiers in a display of behavior that ran contrary to everything the founder of the U.S. Army strove to imbue in the armed forces.

ICE’s primary targets under Trump: non-citizens involved in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza and non-citizens who are Hispanic or Latino. ICE is also targeting immigrants of other ethnic backgrounds...who inflame the racist American imagination.