Defeating the bully is the first step: after that, we will need detrumpification of the nonelected officials of the US government. To do this will require a substantial progressive victory and the will to do the job.

One part of this process must be to increase the size of the Supreme Court so as to dilute away the influence of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.

Global heating effects in the Arctic are already disastrous.

Global heating in the Arctic may already have passed tipping points so that it would be difficult to stop.

The Republicans' next attack against the poor: a scheme to underestimate the poverty line even more in the future.

Facebook pressures political organizations to show ads only to people that Facebook believes support them. It charges extra to show the ads to anyone else.

This has the effect of encouraging twofaced campaigning.

Nonprogressive US legislators gave the Pentagon even more than the war-lover asked for, and didn't raise the question of "how will we pay for it"

That question is raised whenever progressives propose to protect non-rich Americans from the bigger dangers — hunger, homelessness, mounting debt, surprise medical expenses, and global heating disaster — because the wealthy believe they can cope with those problems on their own, by abandoning the rest of their country.

They may be right, in regard to most of those dangers. Rich people are not likely to lack money for food, shelter, or medical care. But they can't save themselves from global heating disaster alone.