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The president’s top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself. Source link

(And Not Just the Paper) Tom Engelhardt Substack Let me try to tell you what an old man I really am. As a start, imagine this: I still read the New York Times every day on paper. Yes, the paper New York Times still exists! Yikes! And the other day, at the very bottom of page seven of the first section of the Times, I noticed an article by Rebecca Dzombak with this headline: “2025 Wildfires Were World’s Costliest Ever, Study Says, With Populated Areas Hit.” Really? The costliest fires ever? Doesn’t that catch your attention? It certainly did mine! In fact, wouldn’t it catch your attention more than “President…

Image Library of Congress. As I close out another school year as a US History and Government teacher on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on our nation’s founding ideals within the context of where we are as a country politically. The 13 colonies revolted against a monarchy, with the aspiration to establish a government devoted to Enlightenment principles of human rights. This fledgling country was founded on the ideals of protecting “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Essential to this ideal, the framers based the…

The U.S. bombed Iran Wednesday for the second consecutive evening, and Iran again retaliated against U.S. bases in Gulf countries overnight, as the Iran War entered its 104th day. President Donald Trump said he will escalate with more strikes tonight. In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump on Thursday morning vowed that “at some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United…

It’s hard to think of a better illustration of the dramatic changes that our President has wrought in the world of law and lawyering than the (still-very-much-unfinished) Todd Blanche story.  Blanche’s actions since being named Acting A.G. – the risible Comey indictment (“SeashellGate”?)[1], the “Anti-Weaponization” slush fund for Trump’s cronies and January 6 insurrectionists that even Trump’s long-time supporters couldn’t stomach,[2] the waiver of claims against the President of the United States (his boss) that he forgot to include in the Settlement Agreement the DOJ had negotiated[3](!) – would surely, in earlier times, have gotten him fired, and possibly sanctioned…

This is Part Two of a special four-part series by Jeffery Wernick for ScheerPost: How We Got Here. Episode 2: The Anti-Federalists Were Right ► Part 1: James Madison► Part 2: The Anti-Federalists► Part 3: Paine, Spooner & Money► Part 4: What It Means Today How We Got Here is a ScheerPost series examining the relationship between constitutional power, monetary authority, and the evolution of the modern American state. How We Got Here — Episode 2 A Cleaned and Edited Transcript of Jeffery Wernick’s ScheerPost Series Editor’s Note:The transcript below has been lightly edited for readability, grammar, punctuation, and…

Democrats Have Rolled the Dice in Maine. Will It Work? Source link

For several weeks now, I have been surprised that the major newspapers have not covered the Judge Ross scandal. In particular, I was shocked to see nothing from the New York Times and the Washington Post. I even noted how Bloomberg Law was winning the coverage. Well, it seems the Times was working on something big. Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Mattathias Schwartz published a story this morning about Judge Ross. And we learn a lot. They got three law clerks to speak, plus they got a copy of the “apology” letter. The New York Times confirmed it was Judge Ross through interviews with…

Judge Johnson so rigged the trial of anti-genocide activists that 1000s of legal professionals have urged him to step down from the sentencing hearing. But Johnson’s dirty work is not yet complete Jonathan Cook Substack The trial of the Filton Four reaches its climax on Friday. Judge Jeremy Johnson will decide the sentences of four Palestine Action activists found guilty of criminal damage – after two juries refused to convict them of far more serious charges brought by the British government, via the Crown Prosecution Service. Keir Starmer’s government failed to secure the convictions for aggravated burglary and violent…

In the words of Morgan State University Journalism and Communications Professor, Dr. Jared Ball: “How do you know what you know? And, why do you like what you like?” This necessitates a discussion of how the empire’s propaganda functions from a materialist standpoint. Two models have been established in media studies, the Hypodermic Needle–developed by Harold Lasswell in the 1920s, and the Two-step Flow of Communication–instituted by Paul Lazarsfeld et al., and further elucidated in 1955 in collaboration with Elihu Katz. Lasswell’s theory postulates that media messaging is “injected” into the populace in the manner of a simultaneous mass inoculation.…