Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I argued when Trump was sworn in that his regime represented a new form of government, psychopathocracy— a government without a conscience run by people with no scruples or empathy. Trump continues to govern in this psychopathic way. Just as criminal gang bosses and dictators take hostages and threaten or […]
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US politics
US Uses Migrant Children as ‘Bait’ to Catch Sponsors: Lawsuit
Some 10,000 migrant children being held in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters are being denied due process rights as asylum seekers, the lawsuit argues. “We have over 10,000 children in custody right now because this administration is using them as bait. This deplorable, deliberate policy means that these children are languishing in detention for […]
The Stupidity of Evil: Teens Shouting ‘Build that Wall’ at Native American Vet
How stupid do you have to be to chant “build the wall” at a Native American whose people were here at least 13,000 years ago
Trump Gov’t Separated ‘Thousands’ More Immigrant Children Than Originally Reported
The Agency had identified many more children in addition to the 2,737 that were included as part of a class action lawsuit
Top 6 Things Wrong with Trump denying Pelosi Gov’t Transport
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s petty cancellation of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s trip on military transport to Brussels and Afghanistan was clearly his revenge for her cancellation of his State of the Union message until he ends the shutdown of the government. Here are the top 5 things wrong with this step: […]
GOP must reject Trump’s Wall to really Repudiate Rep. Steve King’s Racism
Trump was the first Republican presidential candidate to cross over from a more subtle sort of dog whistle
If Trump declares an Emergency, Can Congress or Courts Strike it Down?
Under Jackson’s test, presidents are on the strongest possible footing when acting with congressional approval.
How Not to Build a “Great, Great Wall:” A Timeline of Border Fortification
Led by the 27-year-old David Duke, the Ku Klux Klan set up a “border watch” in 1977 at the San Ysidro point of entry
Who’s Running John Bolton to Start a war with Iran? He worried even Mad Dog Mattis
Ironically, when Mattis first met Bolton, he joked that he had heard that he was “the Devil.”
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