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Trump and Musk’s War on Workers

Joseph A. McCartin Dissent Magazine - Online Article
Organized labor and its allies can and must do much more to respond to the crisis created by DOGE and the Trump administration. As the nation’s largest employer, the federal government’s labor relations policies inevitably ripple across the economy.

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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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. 

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