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Saturday, January 31, 2026 ■ The Week in Review
"Make no mistake," said one critic of the MEGA Act, "this egregious power grab is about suppressing turnout, silencing voters, and ensuring minority rule."By Jake Johnson • Jan 30, 2026
"While Trump is weaponizing taxpayer privacy laws for his own benefit, his Treasury Department is flouting those exact same laws to send tens of thousands of individual tax records to his anti-immigrant henchmen at ICE."By Jake Johnson • Jan 30, 2026
"When taking into account predicted downward revisions, the data says we’re losing jobs," said one economic analyst.By Brad Reed • Jan 29, 2026
"With Trump’s ICE murdering our neighbors, kidnapping children, and terrorizing our streets, do Senate Democrats want to be remembered as fighters or as complicit?" asked one advocate.By Jake Johnson • Jan 29, 2026
Sen. Bernie Sanders also demanded "fundamental reforms" to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, saying they are "terrorizing" US communities.By Jake Johnson • Jan 29, 2026
"If we don’t explore more why all of these secret lists exist," one US intelligence officer said, there could be "even more of an environment of paranoia on the ground and more tragic killings.”By Brett Wilkins • Jan 28, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security has denied it has a database of protesters or legal observers, but the agency sent a memo to agents asking them to collect data on dissenters in Minneapolis.By Julia Conley • Jan 28, 2026
"Trump’s authoritarianism, grift, and pro-oligarchy agenda is making our country less healthy, free, and just."By Brad Reed • Jan 28, 2026
Making the film taught Martin that "it is completely undeniable" that the US military "is the greatest threat to all living things on Earth."By Olivia Rosane • Jan 28, 2026
"These private insurer-run plans are more expensive AND lead to worse outcomes for patients," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal. "It’s time to rein in Medicare DisAdvantage and protect traditional Medicare."By Jake Johnson • Jan 28, 2026
"Most of the perpetrators are lodged within large corporations run by white executives with excellent and expensive legal representation," wrote one journalist.By Jake Johnson • Jan 28, 2026
The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry filed a formal complaint with the US Embassy over the attempted incursion "so that acts of this nature are not repeated."By Jake Johnson • Jan 28, 2026
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| | | ■ Opinion
The very decision to elect Trump to the presidency, not once, but twice, should be considered the popular equivalent of preparing an obituary not just for him but for this country, this planet, all of us.By Tom Engelhardt • Jan 29, 2026
The administration’s domestic policies, coupled with aggressive foreign postures, are accelerating disillusionment among Trump’s core supporters.By Inderjeet Parmar • Jan 29, 2026
Good and Pretti weren’t accidents, and they weren’t about immigration: these murders were unambiguous messages as clear as could be: “Get in our way and we will kill you, and nobody will do anything about it."By Thom Hartmann • Jan 26, 2026
The actions of the Trump administration have shown not signs of strength, but of pathetic weakness. This backward, weak, unimaginative, soulless being is not a strongman. Trump is the weakest, most pathetic man this country has ever known.By Emese Ilyés • Jan 26, 2026
Trump is a shameless, arrogant bloviator who is self-indicting daily. As trained attorneys trained in the Constitution and rule of law, his ouster is our sworn duty.By Ralph Nader • Jan 24, 2026
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