Economy

Trump Is Robbing You to Pay for His Dumb…

Not content with launching a costly and disastrous war on Iran, Trump has unveiled a new plan to pay for it by further slashing domestic programs that keep Americans economically afloat. His new 2027 budget document is effectively a political suicide note. With his war on Iran, Donald Trump has already landed a quadruple axel

Capitalism

Donald Trump and the Return of Capitalist Nihilism

The Trump administration is frequently operating outside the logic of capitalist self-interest, powered by an appetite for cruelty and destruction for the sake of cruelty and destruction and an all-consuming resentment. Insurgents and revolutionaries across the political spectrum have sought, in different ways and for different reasons, to smash the state. Until recently, however, few

Dreams of the Rich

It is Elon Musk who is now running the…

It may be Trump, that is, who sits in the Oval Office, and it may be Trump who takes to television every few days to sign yet another executive order seeking to punish and humiliate trans people. But it is Musk who controls government operations and federal spending, and so it is Musk who is

Immigration

US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage…

“Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration” And I thought that the Anti-Robot project was adding noise. The Robot is a silly amateur. All the archived Ice press releases soaring to the top of Google search results were marked with the same

Hate

Christianity has been reduced to just a political identity

Christianity has been reduced to just a political identity, a toxic identity at that. It is merely a hateful political tool, a reactionary brand. Christianity, indeed most religions, are a means of oppression, a means of exclusion, and a primary weapon of spreading hate and fear.

Conservatives

This is Terrifying

Documents show organization’s staffing initiative is going strong as it seeks to replace government employees. Newly leaked training videos confirm how the staffing initiative of Project 2025, the controversial rightwing plan for the next Republican presidency, is gearing up for a major effort to replace non-partisan civil servants with conservative loyalists, and is being led by