The Fake Free Speech President Has Unleashed ICE On Its Critics
Drawing on Wall Street Journal reporting, the author argues ICE runs a round-the-clock digital dragnet monitoring, intimidating, and silencing online critics, undercutting the administration's own free-speech claims.
Posted on Aug 14, 2026
| Above the Law
Trump Grift vs. the "Biden Crime Family"
Dean Baker argues Trump and his family have used the presidency to generate financial gains that dwarf the corruption Republicans accused Joe Biden's family of, with zero evidence Biden ever profited directly from his son's or brothers' business dealings.
Posted on Aug 13, 2026
| CounterPunch
Trump is corruptly turning the White House into his billion dollar dream home
Argues the White House ballroom renovation, with a price tag approaching $900 million and taxpayers covering the bulk of it, is self-dealing dressed up as restoration.
Posted on Aug 13, 2026
| MS NOW
Crime in DC isn't an 'emergency,' but normalizing troops in US streets is
Argues Trump's yearlong, open-ended National Guard deployment in Washington was never really about crime, and is designed instead to normalize using the military as a domestic police force.
Posted on Aug 12, 2026
| The Hill
Trump's "National Socialism" Agenda
Robert Reich argues the administration's growing equity stakes in private companies, including a 10 percent stake in Intel and becoming rare-earth miner MP Materials' largest shareholder, socialize the downside risk while directing the upside to government insiders and top executives.
Posted on Aug 12, 2026
| CounterPunch (Robert Reich)
We Predicted the Executive Order. He Signed It Four Days Later.
Trump signed an executive order cutting the recommended childhood vaccine schedule from 17 diseases to 11 and splitting the MMR shot into three, citing autism claims decades of research have already closed the book on. AAP's own attorney says it defies the federal injunction his organization already won. This publication said the order was coming on Thursday. It landed the following Monday.
Posted on Aug 11, 2026
| The Enemy Within
Why Trump's defenders use old leaders to mask current failures
Argues Trump's allies deflect accountability for his administration's failures by pointing to the real or exaggerated shortcomings of past presidents instead of defending his record directly.
Posted on Aug 11, 2026
| The Hill
What 100-plus federal actions reveal about the Trump administration's campaign against the press
Poynter's Press Freedom Watch project tallies more than 100 federal actions against journalists and news outlets, from raids and detentions of individual reporters to lawsuits and funding cuts aimed at disfavored newsrooms.
Posted on Aug 10, 2026
| Poynter
They Told the Truth. This Administration Made Them Pay for It.
From an NSA contractor to a three-star general to two attorneys inside HUD, the pattern repeats: disclose something true and inconvenient, and face firing, investigation, or prosecution. The Philadelphia Inquirer has counted more than 470 targets of retribution since January 2025. These are eight of them.
Posted on Aug 9, 2026
| The Enemy Within
The Justice Department Is Now Trump's Personal Law Firm
Todd Blanche spent a career keeping Donald Trump out of prison. Now he runs the agency built to put people like Trump in it, and everything he has done since taking over proves he never actually changed jobs.
Posted on Aug 8, 2026
| The Enemy Within