Sunday, May 10, 2026
Trump's War on Science Continues but Mayors and the American People are Pushing Back
While people at the gas pump and grocery store are rightly concerned about Trump's war of choice on Iran that, if it were to end today, would leave the United States and the world less safe, his other war of choice, on science and history, is also weakening this nation and strengthening rivals like China.
Over the last week, Trump and his scientifically illiterate and denying staff fired all the members of the National Science Board.
According to reporting from the Associated Press, "the fired scientists hail from academia and industry and specialize in areas including astronomy, math, chemistry, and aerospace engineering."
The board was in the process of finalizing a report on the state of United States Science.
Guess Mr. Trump and his science-denying cronies did not want to see that published.
Reacting to this mass firing, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly posted:
"Science is how we’ve cured diseases and how we just sent four humans around the Moon. It’s a big reason why we’re the greatest country on Earth, but firing the National Science Board shows just how much Trump doesn’t understand that."
In another move, the Stable Genius and his climate-denying loyalists at the Interior Department have concluded a deal to pay energy companies about a billion dollars to stop building wind farm installations off the New York and North Carolina coasts.
The lease for the wind farms had been finalized during the Biden/Harris Administration.
Think about this. Mr. Trump is sending working and middle-class taxpayers' money to energy companies to turn the clock back on clean power sustainability.
This is the same person who wants the American taxpayer to foot the bill for his illegal White House ballroom, all for the glory of his inflated ego.
In this case, the only people who will get the glory of this move are the Chinese, who are intensifying their clean energy programs.
House Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee reacted strongly against the move, posting:
Equally disturbing is the recent report from the New York Times that shows that "about 1500 biologists, chemists, and other experts at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development have been laid off, reassigned, or pressured to retire."
Now only 124 remain and their future is in doubt.
No job security for government scientists in the Trump Dumb Up Regime.
Even in this time, when Trump's wars against Iran and Science turn the clock back on American security and progress, some positive trends have emerged to counter their misguided efforts.
First, thanks to the rising prices at the gas pump, due to Mr. Trump's war against Iran, there has been a resurgence in the demand for purchasing electric vehicles.
Second, while Mr. Trump and his climate science-denying apostates are doing their best to stop, despite local Republican opposition in some cases, the Biden/Harris era clean energy and sustainability projects, American Mayors are picking up the slack.
For example, Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, in a press release from Climate Mayors, highlighted the efforts of her city to provide solar power to low income residents, writing:
“Here in Tucson, we are taking action. Under my leadership, our council allocated $900,000 to support the installation of solar systems in low-income homes through our Solar Empowerment Program. This investment is about more than clean energy. It is about lowering monthly utility bills for families who need it most and ensuring that the benefits of the energy transition are shared equitably. At the same time, this funding strengthens our local economy. Our nonprofit partners are on the frontlines, working directly with families, guiding them through the process, and installing these systems. As federal funding becomes more limited, these local investments are increasingly critical to sustaining their work and maintaining trusted community relationships. We know that energy policy is economic policy. By expanding access to affordable, clean energy, we are not only reducing costs for residents today, we are building a more resilient, equitable, and locally driven energy future for Tucson.”
America's leaders and people must fight back against Mr. Trump's ill advised war on science.
The people will benefit, and the country will move forward and prosper as a result.
While Children Go Hungry Thanks to Their Budget Cuts, Republicans want Taxpayers to Pay for The White House Ballroom
The White House Ballroom was supposed to be funded by private donations.
Below is a video montage of all the times Donald Trump said so.
Chalk up another in the pile of thousands of lies from the Liar in Chief, along with "Mexico will pay for the wall," "I'll have a health care plan out in a couple of weeks," "They're eatting the dogs," "We're only getting rid of the worst," and "The war (with Iran) will be over in four to five weeks."
While children are going hungry and without health insurance because Mr. Trump and his Plutocratic-Oligarchic-loving Republican allies in Congress robbed the poor and gave it to the wealthy through tax cuts and construction monies to private prision donors to build American Concentration Camps (please click here to watch Representative Adelita Grijalva's visit to one such facilty in Texas) in the Big Billionaires First Act, these same examples of the politically tone deaf and shameless want to spend a billion dollars on the White House Ballroom, that the man who bankrupted a casino said he and his private donors would pay for.
The meme captures the mood of all those who supported Kamala Harris and tried to convince the American People to remember the record during the 2024 Presidential Elections.
Arizona Congressional District Three Representative Yassamin Ansari issued two posts on Trump-MAGA Republican misplaced priorities.
"Add the ballroom to the laundry list of things Trump said someone else would pay for. Ultimately, of course, it’s always the American people footing the bill for his outrageous pet projects.
A $1BN price tag while he rips away your healthcare. Sickening."
Representative Ansari is right.
This is sickening, especially considering Trump regime officials like Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins are openly bragging about millions of people being kicked off food assistance SNAP rolls.
The money should go to funding healthcare and childcare.
It is also sadly predictable, given what Mr. Trump and his loyalists did in his first term and so far in his second.
Hopefully, the political tide that Democrats have fared well in since the Mad King's return will continue in 2026, 2027, and 2028 with voters continuing to realize that Republicans do not support them.
The campaign slogans and ads should really write themselves.
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Watch Steve Rattner Explain How Donald Trump is Hosing the American People With Crypto
Please watch the video below where MS NOW Economic Correspondent Steve Rattner shows how Donald Trump is giving his devoted followers the hosing of a lifetime with the latest economic fad bubble: cryptocurrency.
With the power of the Presidency and the influence that goes with it, this latest scam rivals Trump's other efforts to defraud his customers, like Trump University, Trump Steaks, the USFL, and his casinos.
Must watch.
Representative Ansari and Progressive Congressional Democrats Unveil New Affordability Agenda
- Double pay for working overtime.
- Child Care for $10 a day.
- Two weeks paid vacation.
- Federally produced and cheaper prescription drugs.
- $20,000 in downpayment assistance for new homebuyers.
- Cracking down on grocery stores and AI price gougers.
- Taxing big oil and giving that money to consumers.
- Abolish Super PACs.
These are the proposals contained in the Progressive Caucus's New Affordability Agenda, unveiled yesterday to show the American People that Democrats have proposals designed to make their lives better while also combatting corporate and MAGA Republican greed and the top one percent first policies.
Speaking at the Wednesday unveiling of this new affordability agenda, which will take the form of ten separate legislative bills, Arizona Congressional District Three Yassamin Ansari, fresh off helping to pressure Congressional Republicans to get Pam Bondi to appear before them, and proposing legislation, along with fellow Arizona Representatives Adelita Grijalva and Greg Stanton, designed to restore the 12-hour maximum holding process for detainees, said:
"As we all well know, while Donald Trump is using or trying to use taxpayer dollars to build his ridiculous 400 million dollar ballroom and abuses his office every single day to enrich himself and his family to the tune of billions of dollars, the people in my district and across the country are suffering, forced to decide between paying for groceries or their rent. As the Congressional Progressive Caucus's Lowering Costs Task Force Chair, I am having conversations about costs with real Americans in communities all across the country. And what I am hearing is exactly what the polling that we released today shows.
On our Affordability Across America tour, I'm hearing from people on all sides of the political spectrum and across zip codes about the actual policy changes that they want to see that would lower prices. And what we have heard so far that I really want to emphasize is that people want to see bold, decisive, and quick action, not endless deliberation or perfection. They see that the Trump administration has worked on overdrive to make their lives worse.
We as Democrats, and especially as progressives, need to be just as quick but to improve lives for every single American, not wait for the broadest possible consensus or for legislative perfection. On the first stop of the tour, Congressman Horsford and I heard from service workers in Las Vegas about how ever-rising prices are changing their lives from the inside out and the shame that they associate with no longer being able to afford their basic necessities. But this is a crisis of Donald Trump's making, not a personal failure.
It is he who should be ashamed. The people that we spoke to have worked for decades and often forced to work multiple jobs only to be unable to make rent, pay their car insurance, or God forbid, afford quality health care. People of all backgrounds and ages.
One man said that he saw his rent go up from $900 a month to $1,400 a month. That should never happen. And as the youngest woman in Congress, I know that young people are feeling the affordability crisis in a distinctly hopeless way, wondering if they will ever be able to afford a home, let alone how they will be able to pay for health care or future child care or ever be out from under the thumb of student debt.
We want Americans to thrive, not just to survive. Besides being able to literally make ends meet, when was the last time you or your family could afford to take a real vacation, to celebrate at a dinner or to buy new clothes or spend on anything that wasn't an absolute necessity? This year is America's 250th anniversary, and I know that there is a knee-jerk association that is not necessarily overtly positive during these especially difficult times. But we should want to renew patriotism in this country, to rebuild systems for people that work for people who are not billionaires or the ultra wealthy or massive corporations, to live in an America where your enjoyment of life is not only tied to your income, an America that my parents sought out when they immigrated here to build a better life for me and my brother.
This new affordability agenda includes the bills that we know can build broad support to pass as soon as Democrats take the majority in Congress. This Lowering Cost Task Force is working on a bold suite of bills to put money back in Americans' wallets. We heard this from folks on this tour as well.
We have multiple stops to go, but people are asking us to be specific. They want caps on rent. They want opportunities for home ownership.
They want Medicare for all. They want public free transportation, free child care, and an economy that works for all of us. And as progressives, we need to be the ones to not just think big, but act big.
Not sit around for endless vetting. We know what the solutions are. Change is needed, and we are the ones leading it."
There is a lot to like about the New Affordability Agenda.
Vice President Kamala Harris, for those who were not paying attention during the 2024 campaign, proposed aspects of this agenda along with other items like newborn financial assistance and paid apprenticeship programs.
While some, like Jim Kessler's Third Way, may rightly quibble that the proposals do not address other items like getting rid of the Trump tariffs or regulation reform to make the home-buying process quicker and more affordable while others may wonder why the agenda did not include proposals to raise the national minimum wage, provide paid family and medical leave, making the tax cuts on tips and overtime permanent, and restore clean energy and electric vehicle tax credits, this agenda is a good starting place to provide much needed relief to working and middle class Americans and should attract needd voters in 2026 and 2028.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
-
In a stinging rebuke of the belligerent words and the inept and undoubtedly illegal actions of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, Arizona Senat...
-
Excellent article from the Bill Moyers web site that documents how grass roots organizations like Save our Schools, Desert Progressives, and...
