Trump’s ICE just attacked the First Amendment

When President Donald Trump’s acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Todd Lyons, received an angry email from a man named David Streever, they personally confronted him to give a warning.“A picture showed up on his phone from the door camera,” wrote Syracuse.com’s Mic…

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Trump’s ‘lost cause’ is a threat to democracy

President Donald Trump’s attempts to celebrate America’s 250th birthday as a referendum honoring himself, and simultaneously plastering memorials to himself all over Washington, D.C., is a literal “lost cause” that threatens democracy.“That’s some food for thought here in 2026, as an ailing, flailin…

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Inside Trump’s most pernicious legacy

Jimmy Carter’s campaign motto in 1976 was “Why Not the Best!” declaring everywhere he went: “I want to see us once again have a nation that’s as good and honest and decent and truthful and competent and compassionate and filled with love as are the American people.”Dictator Donald Trump wants the op…

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