Tidbits – Feb.27 – Reader Comments: Fighting the Coup; Support for Public Employees Rising; Trump’s Tax Proposals; Texas Measles Outbreak Was ‘Inevitable’; Trump/Netanyahu Crime of the Century; ‘Stand Up for Science’ Rallies March 7; Lots More;

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Reader Comments: Fighting the Coup; Support for Public Employees Rising; Trump’s Tax Proposals; Texas Measles Outbreak Was ‘Inevitable’; Trump/Netanyahu Crime of the Century; ‘Stand Up for Science’ Rallies March 7; lots more and Cartoons;

Not So Fast on Ukraine

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Trump’s pitiful pivot to Putin has awakened two sleeping giants—Republican opposition and European unity.

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A Sad Moment in American History. The Town Elon Musk Took Hostage. No Other Land | Oscar-Nominated Movie. Trump Gets Bad News from Judge in Major Federal Case. Clean Slate | Prime Video.

Trump’s Doubly Flawed “Invasion” Theory

Elizabeth Goitein and Katherine Yon Ebright Just Security
The President claims unprecedented authority to ignore and override Congress and the Constitution whenever he proclaims an “invasion,” real or metaphorical. He is wrong about what an invasion is—and what powers it triggers.

A Sad Moment in American History

In aligning himself with the dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin, Trump is not only undermining the independence of Ukraine and its democracy, but showing us the kind of corrupt, oligarchic society he wants the United States to be. 

How To Organize Our Way out of the Trump-Musk Putsch

Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg The Nation
A plan to harness grassroots energy—and to hold Democratic leaders accountable. Our predecessors deposed a brain-addled king; crushed the violent insurrectionists of a slaveholding confederacy; they forced the robber barons to contend with workers.
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