Wednesday, April 8, 2026

How Iran won the Iran War

It is a pyrrhic victory in many ways, since Iran has new enemies among its neighbors and it has lost industrial capacity. But it is a victory of sorts.

Trump budget expands domestic surveillance powers alongside record $1.5 trillion military request

New budget documents reveal expanded FBI authority to monitor domestic extremism while the White House seeks historic increases in Pentagon spending and significant cuts to social programs.

The American Medical Association has an obligation it’s failing on.

Our government is killing people in cold blood, and the institutions meant to advocate for us remain silent even when it is their peers being forced into tanks, handcuffed, and locked away and tortured.

Higher cancer rates tied to factory farm counties as new study deepens scrutiny of...

Yale researchers found elevated cancer rates in heavily concentrated CAFO counties in California, Iowa, and Texas, adding urgency to concerns about manure waste, nitrate contamination, and rural drinking water safety.

Trump threatens destruction of Iran’s ‘whole civilization’ as calls grow for removal from office

Lawmakers, legal scholars, and advocacy groups say the president’s public threat against Iran’s civilian population raises urgent questions of genocide, war crimes, and presidential fitness.

POPULAR

While distancing from AIPAC, most 2028 Democratic hopefuls are still embracing Israel

“The unbreakable U.S.-Israel bond” continues to take a horrific toll as the U.S.-Israel military alliance rampages through the region.

Exposing discredited ‘alpha male’ dominance myths driving the worst toxic MAGA Trump masculinity

The crackbrained, suicidal Make America Grim Again carnival impedes the next alpha male wannabee from crawling from the swampy ooze, bellowing toxic masculinity and gaining public office.

The leadership team from hell on a hell of a planet

How Trump’s incompetence and looming global catastrophes may intersect.

Trump threatens destruction of Iran’s ‘whole civilization’ as calls grow for removal from office

Lawmakers, legal scholars, and advocacy groups say the president’s public threat against Iran’s civilian population raises urgent questions of genocide, war crimes, and presidential fitness.

Higher cancer rates tied to factory farm counties as new study deepens scrutiny of...

Yale researchers found elevated cancer rates in heavily concentrated CAFO counties in California, Iowa, and Texas, adding urgency to concerns about manure waste, nitrate contamination, and rural drinking water safety.

ACTIVISM

Biden's approval plummets as key demographic support wavers: staffers voice concern over Gaza policy.
Calls to remove President Donald Trump intensified after he warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” but constitutional requirements and political alignment within the executive branch make immediate removal highly unlikely.
It’s a massive subsidy to Equinor, the Norwegian oil company behind the Bay du Nord offshore oil project.