Easier to die, harder to vote: The rigged architecture of the Warfare State
Almost two months into Donald Trump’s disastrous, unauthorized war with Iran, the United States is in freefall.
Almost two months into Donald Trump’s disastrous, unauthorized war with Iran, the United States is in freefall.

Gas prices are inching back up, after a few days of cooling off, amid the back-and-forth from the Trump regime over its next steps in Iran.
Donald Trump, the 47th president of the United States, spent the night of April 12 and into the early morning hours unleashing a barrage of AI-generated images, threats and insults.
On April 1, Donald Trump startled the world by publicly declaring that he was “absolutely” considering withdrawing the United States from the 77-year-old NATO alliance.
Donald Trump, in a move no one could have possibly foreseen, has extended the deadline for wiping Iran off the face of the planet for “two weeks.”

Diesel prices are approaching an all-time record, and gas prices are projected to be spiking another 15 to 20 cents a gallon in the coming days.
Iran rejected Donald Trump’s 15-point plan to end the war launched by the U.S. and Israel on Feb. 28 out of hand and has put forward its own plan, which the U.S. will surely reject.
Donald Trump’s address to the nation about the Iran war failed to persuade anyone beyond his devoted base that the war has strengthened America’s national security.
The Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act subsidizes fossil fuels by an average of $3.5 billion each year, according to a new report from Senate Budget Committee Democrats.
VCU was already allowing students at its Qatar campus to switch to remote learning in the wake of the launch of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran last month.
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