Under Trump’s neofascist worldview, the only “legal” act is obedience, while defiance of his whims and illegal orders is a crime. I’ve been feeling something unusual these past few weeks: optimism. Not naïve optimism or the kind that ignores danger, but the real kind that arrives when you see people waking up, standing up, and […]
The power struggles that animate this shutdown are meant to outlast it, leveraging legal ambiguities, executive fiat, and congressional paralysis to redefine “essential” as that which survives unchallenged. What is it about an insidious, long-term plan that causes commercial media to ignore what’s lying in plain sight? With Congress at a standstill, the Republican-led House refusing to return […]
Given his behavior, it could very well be that the President of the United States is going nuts Over the weekend, on his Truth Social, Trump shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News — it wasn’t — in which an AI-generated, deepfaked version of himself sat in the White House and […]
Alaska faces unique energy challenges – from the railbelt to remote fish camps. In rural Alaska, where families face the highest energy costs in the country, the stakes are the difference between a thriving community and decline. Across more than 200 communities off the Railbelt, electricity costs $0.50 to $1.00 per kilowatt-hour, compared to a […]