Kennedy Center's image had 'fallen apart' due to Trump's meddling: analysis

Donald Trump made the surprise announcement over the weekend that the Kennedy Center would be closing down for a years-long renovation project, with an analysis from The New Republic stating that this move came after the center’s prestigious image had “fallen apart” due to his meddling.The president announced in a Truth Social post Sunday evening that the center, which he…Read More

The threats to democracy are real

A week or so ago, I wrote a piece encouraging people to focus more on voting than on the prospects of a stolen or canceled election. I stand by that column. Large voter turnout is the best defense against attempts to rig elections.That said, the threats to our elections are real. In Georgia, the FBI raided the Fulton County Board…Read More

Family of JFK Call BS on Trump Shuttering of Kennedy Center

The descendants of former President John F. Kennedy are denouncing President Donald Trump’s order to shutter the Kennedy Center and calling bullshit on his reasons for doing so.On Sunday, Trump abruptly announced on Truth Social that beginning on July 4, the performing arts center in Washington, DC, which he recently renamed after himself, would shut down for two years for…Read More

‘Melania’, Minneapolis, Moguls, Midterms: Many Battles, One War

Nothing is more important than saving this country.  Certainly not Mark Zuckerberg’s need for still more billions, and not additional yachts forJeff Bezos’s collection.  Yet they and their fellow oligarchs apparently beg to differ and continue to enable Trump so as to win his favor or avoid his wrath.  Zuckerberg’s Meta has been blocking users from sharing links to ICE…Read More

PPI Urges FCC to Approve Amazon Leo’s Constellation Deployment Deadline Extension Request

WASHINGTON — Today, Mary Guenther, Head of Space Policy, and Diana Moss, VP and Director of Competition Policy, at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) issued the following statement regarding Amazon Leo’s request for an extension from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deploy a satellite internet constellation. “PPI urges the FCC to grant the request made today by Amazon Leo to extend the…Read More

Andrea Jenkyns threatens to walk out when asked about Reform’s support for Trump following Epstein files release

Reform mayor Andrea Jenkyns almost walked off the Jeremy Vine show after commentator Marina Purkiss asked her about her party’s support for Donald Trump following the release of the Epstein files. Vine had said that allegations about Trump are “horrific and we can’t even say it on the air”. Jenkyns immediately interjected: “If there’s truth in it that’s a different…Read More

DL Open Thread: Monday, February 2, 2026

Nobody Wants To Perform There?  Close The Kennedy Center for ‘Renovations’.  For two years: President Trump said Sunday he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center performing arts center for two years starting in July for construction, his latest move to upturn the storied venue since returning to the White House. Trump’s announcement on social […] Source linkRead More

Trump Is Making It a Lot Easier for Polluters to Pollute

To the extent that people think about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at all, they likely think of an institution that works to safeguard our health and well-being, and that of our environment. So, The New York Times made quite a splash recently when it reported that the agency had adopted a new policy under which it would stop…Read More

Labour MP takes apart Reform’s DOGE unit in single post

A Labour MP has taken apart Reform’s DOGE unit in a single post on social media, as the party comes under growing scrutiny over its record in local government. Reform’s DOGE unit, modelled on Elon Musk’s equivalent in the U.S., was supposed to be an innovative cost-cutting machine, aimed at reducing what Farage and his cronies had slammed as ‘wasteful…Read More

Peter Mandelson Should Be Stripped of His Peerage

Depraved revelations have been steadily trickling out of the latest Epstein files, released by the US Department of Justice on Friday. The tidal wave of documents – comprising more than three million pages, 180,000 images and 2,000 videos relating to the late paedophile financier Jeffery Epstein – is the final and six-weeks-late release in compliance with Donald Trump’s Epstein Files…Read More