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Thom Hartmann in Wednesday's Chimp: "When historians look back on this era, they’ll inevitably ask how a nation built on...
23/07/2025

Thom Hartmann in Wednesday's Chimp: "When historians look back on this era, they’ll inevitably ask how a nation built on principles of democracy, justice, and equality allowed one man to commit such a broad range of crimes and abuses, and whether Donald Trump is indeed the most dangerous criminal in American history. To fully grasp the gravity of Trump’s actions, consider the extensive categories of his criminal and potentially criminal conduct, each more disturbing than the last."

When historians look back on this era, they’ll inevitably ask how a nation built on principles of democracy, justice, and equality allowed one man to commit such a broad range of crimes and abuses, and whether Donald Trump is indeed the most dangerous criminal in American history.

Ailia Zehra in Wednesday's Chimp: "Rep. Thomas Massie (R‑Ky.), a prominent libertarian and sometimes lone GOP dissenter ...
23/07/2025

Ailia Zehra in Wednesday's Chimp: "Rep. Thomas Massie (R‑Ky.), a prominent libertarian and sometimes lone GOP dissenter in the House of Representatives, reacted strongly to President Donald Trump’s vow to recruit and back a challenger in the 2026 Republican primary, saying that the president's move will cost Republicans the House majority. 'They are wasting millions of dollars against me, and they are gonna lose the [House] majority because of that,' he told reporter Sahil Kapur outside Capitol Hill Tuesday."

Rep. Thomas Massie (R‑Ky.), a prominent libertarian and sometimes lone GOP dissenter in the House of Representatives, reacted strongly to President Donald Trump’s vow to recruit and back a challenger in the 2026 Republican primary, saying that the president's move will cost Republicans the House...

Robert Reich in Wednesday's Chimp: "Trump is shafting his base economically in three ways most Trump voters don’t see or...
23/07/2025

Robert Reich in Wednesday's Chimp: "Trump is shafting his base economically in three ways most Trump voters don’t see or know. It’s important that they do. The Consumer Price Index has risen 2.7 percent from a year earlier. That’s the fastest pace since February. The trend is worrying, especially for working-class consumers who have to sacrifice a larger portion of their paychecks to buy what they bought before."

Trump is shafting his base economically in three ways most Trump voters don’t see or know. It’s important that they do.

Lawrence Wittner in Wednesday's Chimp: "The fervent resistance of these governments to international authority is illust...
23/07/2025

Lawrence Wittner in Wednesday's Chimp: "The fervent resistance of these governments to international authority is illustrated by their vehement responses to the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a global juridical entity endorsed by 125 nations. In Russia, the government opened criminal cases against the prosecutor and judges of the court, while former President Dmitry Medvedev publicly threatened to target the court with missile strikes. In Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu fiercely denounced the ICC warrant for his arrest as an 'antisemitic act' by a corrupt prosecutor and biased judges. In the United States, President Trump issued an executive order in early February 2025 imposing economic and travel sanctions against the ICC prosecutor, establishing a framework for imposing additional sanctions on ICC officials, and directing the U.S. officials to submit the names of other individuals to be targeted."

At a time when international cooperation provides the key to preventing a variety of global calamities―including nuclear war, climate catastrophe, and massive starvation―it’s tragic that major nations, ruled by nationalist, rightwing parties, are on a collision course with the organizations th...

Rivera Sun in Wednesday's Chimp: "After spending months firing federal workers, slashing public services, gutting health...
23/07/2025

Rivera Sun in Wednesday's Chimp: "After spending months firing federal workers, slashing public services, gutting healthcare, and raising taxes for everyone but the rich, our country just wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on a detention center in Florida. Dubbed Alligator Alcatraz, it’s nothing more than a collection of tents on an old airstrip in a swamp. It has already flooded. It cost $450 million. For reference, that’s what it costs to build a skyscraper in New York City. While the State of Florida paid out for it, they plan to get refunded from FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security. In other words: you’re paying for it."

After spending months firing federal workers, slashing public services, gutting healthcare, and raising taxes for everyone but the rich, our country just wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on a detention center in Florida.

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back in Wednesday's Chimp: "There are Christians who are preaching and practic...
23/07/2025

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back in Wednesday's Chimp: "There are Christians who are preaching and practicing the ministry of Jesus, the son of God, who himself was unhoused and undocumented and sided with the poor, the sick, the indebted, the incarcerated, and the immigrant, while decrying the idolatry of tyrants. And then there are Christian nationalists, whose religion of empire is more akin to the worship of Caesar than the Jesus of the scriptures."

Most days, in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Bible Belt, the old sanctuary at Christ Lutheran Church sits empty. Decades ago, it was home to a congregation of 3,000 people. By the late 1990s, that number had dwindled to seven. At the turn of the millennium, Jody Silliker, a young minister fresh out o...

The Daily Chimp for Wednesday, 23 July 2025: links to all of today's front page posts
23/07/2025

The Daily Chimp for Wednesday, 23 July 2025: links to all of today's front page posts

Thom Hartmann | Trump Is the Most Dangerous Criminal in US History When historians look back on this era, they’ll inevitably ask how a nation built on principles of democracy, justice, and equality allowed one man to commit such a broad range of crimes and abuses, and whether Donald Trump is indee...

Robert Reich in Tuesday's Chimp: "Trump is using the word 'socialism' to slam everything the public needs and to justify...
22/07/2025

Robert Reich in Tuesday's Chimp: "Trump is using the word 'socialism' to slam everything the public needs and to justify cruel cuts in the nation’s safety net Trump’s just-enacted Big Ugly Bill will push more than 11 million Americans off Medicaid. Another 2 million Americans will lose food stamps. The savings will help finance a big tax cut for the wealthiest Americans. But the next time they’re up for election, Republican lawmakers may be shocked to discover how many Americans prefer the 'socialism' of Medicaid and food stamps to the socialism-for-the-rich tax cuts in the Big Ugly."

When Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem unleashed her ICE shock troops on Los Angeles last month, she said: “We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate this city from the socialist” leaders.

Ailia Zehra in Tuesday's Chimp: "Maria Farmer, one of the earliest accusers of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, cl...
22/07/2025

Ailia Zehra in Tuesday's Chimp: "Maria Farmer, one of the earliest accusers of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, claimed Monday that Epstein once said he and Trump were 'best friends.' In her first television interview since filing her lawsuit, she told CNN Epstein said he 'inherited' Trump in his divorce."

Maria Farmer, one of the earliest accusers of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, claimed Monday that Epstein once said he and Trump were “best friends.” In her first television interview since filing her lawsuit, she told CNN Epstein said he "inherited" Trump in his divorce.

Steven Harper in Tuesday's Chimp: "Timing is everything. The news that 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' will end in ...
22/07/2025

Steven Harper in Tuesday's Chimp: "Timing is everything. The news that 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' will end in May 2026 has focused on whether his termination was part of a 'deal' (implicit or explicit) to get Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval of the pending merger between CBS’ parent company Paramount and Skydance Media. If so, it was another 'bend-the-knee' moment in the media’s ongoing capitulation to U.S. President Donald Trump’s attack on democracy’s foundational institutions."

The news that “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” will end in May 2026 has focused on whether his termination was part of a “deal” (implicit or explicit) to get Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval of the pending merger between CBS’ parent company Paramount and Skydance Media....

Amanda Marcotte in Tuesday's Chimp: "My initial reaction when I saw right-wing media conduct its all-too-predictable tan...
22/07/2025

Amanda Marcotte in Tuesday's Chimp: "My initial reaction when I saw right-wing media conduct its all-too-predictable tantrum over the new 'Superman' movie was that it’s just more of the same: Claim it’s 'woke' propaganda, work the audience into a tizzy of boycott threats and reap the reward of alienating their base further from the rest of society so that the MAGA cult is all they have left. Which, to be fair, is bad enough. But the actual content of the complaints made this whole exercise even more sinister. The attacks on 'Superman' are part of a larger effort by the right to completely rewrite history, so they can pretend that being a patriotic American means embracing authoritarian values."

At this point, the right-wing grift is predictable to the point of tedium. Every time there’s a pop cultural phenomenon — a blockbuster movie, a chart-topping single, a hot new fashion trend — conservative media and MAGA influencers rush to denounce it as anti-American, anti-family or even dem...

Thom Hartmann in Tuesday's Chimp: "The problem for Murdoch and other facilitators of the Fox 'News' Viewer cult that Tru...
22/07/2025

Thom Hartmann in Tuesday's Chimp: "The problem for Murdoch and other facilitators of the Fox 'News' Viewer cult that Trump now leads is who will fill the vacuum that’ll be created when Trump is gone, whether it’s from natural causes or an impeachment or 25th Amendment action that Murdoch and Fox could provoke. Who will continue to defend the interests of the morbidly rich and the monopolistic parts of corporate America and become the next leader of the GOP?"

Elon Musk is probably chuckling as Trump flails; today’s firestorm around the Epstein documents arguably started when he tweeted that Trump was in the files. Which has led to some significant changes in the Trump/media/politics/deep-state landscape that it’s important to review. They include que...

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