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1 week ago | democraticunderground.com | Neil Vigdor |Hannah Ziegler

"Heavily Armed Man at 'No Kings' Protest Had 13 Bombs at Home, Police Say" By Neil Vigdor and Hannah ZieglerJune 17, 2025, 7:36 p.m. ETA Pennsylvania man who was arrested on weapons charges at a “No Kings" protest against the Trump administration on Saturday is facing more than two dozen additional charges after investigators said they found a cache of homemade bombs at his home outside Philadelphia.

2 weeks ago | democraticunderground.com | Jim Hightower

Call Them What They Are: Corporate Mobsters By Jim Hightower How sweet it is to be a corporate criminal these days!I don't mean common price gougers, polluters and such, but full-fledged, executive-suite mobsters. They run huge corporate syndicates, treating fraud and even murder as necessary business tools. For example, Boeing Incorporated. In 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX passenger jet suddenly nose-dived into the Java Sea, killing all 189 people on board.

1 month ago | democraticunderground.com | Jim Hightower

What Starlings Could Teach Trump's Mean Government By Jim Hightower There is a species of birds named "superb starlings," and I propose that we elect one of them to be our next president. These wise creatures have figured out how to make egalitarianism central to their society, with a diversity of birds actively supporting each other. When bringing food back to their chicks, for example, adult starlings commonly share some with hatchlings of an unrelated flock.

1 month ago | democraticunderground.com | Joe Conason

How Kennedy's Hypocrisy Endangers Children's Health By Joe Conason Nobody should have trusted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to "make America healthy again," especially after he sold that slogan to President Donald Trump for a cabinet position. But the events of recent days have exposed the cynicism and contradictions behind that sonorous pledge.

1 month ago | democraticunderground.com | Joe Conason

Stopping Trump's Qatar Airliner Scam By Joe Conason Eager to accept a luxury airliner from the government of Qatar, President Donald Trump is testing the limits of Republicans on Capitol Hill. Usually eager to behave like the servile puppies that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) once described with scorn (before becoming one himself), at least a handful of GOP elected officials seem worried that this "gift" is too obviously an unconstitutional bribe and a threat to national security.