FBI warning on Russian interference, Trump’s “herd immunity” doctor, William Barr goes full-Nazi, + more

By Robert A. Vella In congressional testimony, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned the nation that Russia is actively interfering in Continue reading →

Trump deploys paramilitary secret police to trigger urban violence as a reelection strategy

By Robert A. Vella This is what all authoritarians do.  This is what fascists especially do.  This is what Donald Continue reading →

SCOTUS rulings, Trouble in Trumpland, COVID-19’s revenge, and Police kill another black man

By Robert A. Vella SCOTUS rulings The U.S. Supreme Court issued one surprising ruling today and refused to consider three Continue reading →

Republicans adrift, youth voter surge, House of Rep. news, lawsuit targets racists, CA blackout, int’l news

By Robert A. Vella We’ll kickoff this week with the stubbornly evolving story of Senate Republicans who are caught uncomfortably Continue reading →

Tuesday Topics: Impeachment, Syria, right-wing extremism, trade war, policeman arrested, other news

By Robert A. Vella Topics for this Tuesday include congressional testimony in the impeachment inquiry by former NSC advisor Fiona Continue reading →

Sunday Topics: Kavanaugh accusation, Newsom veto, LAPD spies, Sackler scandal, Border Patrol morale

By Robert A. Vella News topics for this Sunday include a previously unreported accusation of sexual misconduct against U.S. Supreme Continue reading →

Turks reject any U.S. “legal favor” to ease pressure on Saudis over Khashoggi

LONDON — If the Trump administration had hoped to take some pressure off its close ally the Saudi Crown Prince Continue reading →

Trump Administration Eyes Defining Transgender Out of Existence

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, Continue reading →