“No one outside the administration knows what a ‘Midterm Surprise’ means, but nothing this administration has done so far has come out of nowhere,” one expert told Common Dreams. With the 2026 midterm elections less than a month away, President Donald Trump keeps teasing that his administration has a “surprise” in store, a message that […]
“The world’s supposedly greatest (or formerly greatest) democracy has arrived at a horrific new moral nadir,” said one columnist of the plan to livestream the killing by firing squad of Nidal Hasan. As rights advocates across the US expressed horror at the Trump administration’s confirmed plans to publicly broadcast the execution of Nidal Hasan, the […]
“JD is the most irritating of Trump’s acolytes because he spouts absurd MAGA bullshit, knowing full well how stupid it is,” said one critic. As Republicans struggle to convince Americans to vote for the party whose policies have made workers’ lives more difficult and expensive, they’ve increasingly invoked the tried-and-true bogeyman of socialism—a word for […]
“This is a sick man who thinks it’s a joke to push over a million Texans into poverty by stealing their hard-earned benefits.” Ken Paxton, the Republican Party’s nominee for the US Senate in Texas, expressed a willingness to cut programs such as Social Security in a leaked recording published by The Texas Tribune on […]