Politics

A clear north star to adopt online. The work of democracy happens online and in person on ground, long before Election Day.

The concept of truth feels particularly bleak in 2025. Government leaders deploy up-is-down narratives at an exhausting clip. Online worlds drip with artificial intelligence-generated slop that incites rage. Chatbots answer questions with fabricated information, and the government folds it into a report card on America’s health.

In December 1902, the U.S. struck a deal with Cuba to cut tariffs on Cuban imports by 20%. Backed by U.S. sugar refiners, the deal guaranteed cheap sugar for Americans, but deepened Cuba's economic reliance on the U.S. This dependence later helped spark the Cuban Revolution. Today, Trump tariffs have caused an economic hazard, while he says affordability is a HOAX.

Eileen Higgins defeats Trump-backed Emilio González In Miami. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article3135…

Has the Republican Party leadership put its foot in its own mouth too many times?

The party lines have been drawn and the message may have been written on the wall many years ago but nobody noticed because it was the flip side of back in the USA. This week’s Tennessee's special US House election sets stage for affordability focused 2026 midterms.

Was the desecration of the Oval Office decorated with the gaudy, tasteless decor that inhabits a real estate mind of Donald Trump the scene of a strange meeting between the mayor-elect of New York City and President Trump’s “be nice” to a spirit that looks exactly like a living person, or someone who looks exactly like someone else but who is not related?

While visiting The Bronx neighborhoods she represents and giving Turkeys to her constituents, #AOC meets #RETUMBA.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aka AOC says “MTG is carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars from insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. She is saying a lot, but her actions have not backed up her rhetoric. For all her talk, she's STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes.”

The Associated Press and Reuters news and information services are subscription-based and used by other media sources (TV news, newspapers, blogs, etc). AP and Reuters are responsible for reporting facts and writing up basic stories, which they send to those other media sources, who can either publish as-is or use them as a reliable source for their own stories. It means those other media sources don't need to send their own reporters, but can still get the story. Will these polls lead to the Republican Party dumping GOP President Donald Trump?