Politics

Trump’s War on Science Continues: NASA to Face Budget Cuts of Up to 50 Percent

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration, led by Elon’s Musk’s DOGE team of hackers and aided by complicit Republicans in Congress, is engaged in a war on science like nothing anyone has ever seen in American history. The administration is threatening to cut the federal budget for the National Aeronautics and…

Trump Threatens to Cut $1 Billion From National Park Service Budget

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He’s still mad about the Inauguration crowd size photos showing Obama’s crowd much larger – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Still furious with the National Park Service for releasing photos showing his inauguration crowd size to be half the crowd who showed up in 2009 for President Barack Obama’s inauguration, President Donald Trump…

One Hundred Days in Trumpville: The People Must Act to Stop This Madness

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rather than changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, if Trump is allowed to continue transforming this country as he has tried to do in his first 100 days back in the White House, we might as well…

Once More Into the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More…

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On My Return to Washington One More Time – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. BOUND – This little detour back to the American South for the past six months has been interesting, to say the least, presenting some fascinating opportunities I never envisioned. Covering politics and the disastrous 2024 election…

A New Red Scare Threatens American Democracy From Within the White House

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Can factual reporting diligently investigated and brilliantly written still make a difference? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – A new Red Scare threatens American democracy. This time, it’s not a deranged Senator from Wisconsin making all the noise and ruining lives. It’s the president himself, seemingly serving the interests of the new…

Spider Martin Photography Exhibit Opens on the 60th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

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ON THE RADIO – APR, NPR – “Bloody Sunday” through the lens of Spider Martin By Glynn Wilson – MONTGOMERY, Ala. – As people get ready to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts just…

Trump’s Kingship of America Will Hopefully Be Short Lived

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EDITOR’S NOTE – This will be my last political editorial column for awhile, as it appears I may be doing some reporting for Alabama Public Radio and maybe even NPR soon. The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Well, I hope you are happy now, the half of America that voted…

Elon Musk Security Breach Must Be Stopped: Who Can Stop It?

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He has the power of the presidency now, complete with Supreme Court Presidential Immunity, and a guaranteed pardon for any crimes he commits with this massive breach of privacy and imminent threat to national security – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – BREAKING NEWS – Get ready for the worst. Do not assume…

Whiplash 2.0: A Split-Personality, Now the Most Powerful Man in the World

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The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – SOMEWHERE IN DIXIELAND – (Jan. 2, 2021) – Six inches of snow covers Audubon Park in New Orleans, something no one alive has ever seen. The Santa Ana winds are still whipping up the uncontrollable wildfires around Los Angeles, and it’s not even fire season. In Washington,…

President Biden Delivers Farewell Address to the Nation With A Warning About the Future of Democracy

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By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden delivered his last political speech on Wednesday evening in his last address to the nation from the Oval Office, issuing a dire warning about the state of the country with an “oligarchy” of the ultrawealthy on the verge of taking over and destroying American democracy in a “dangerous…

A Failure of Justice: Special Prosecutor Drops Case Against Trump for Jan. 6 Insurrection

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Jack Smith’s Final Report Justifies the Charges and Dropping the Case Against Trump – By Glynn Wilson – The complete failure of the American justice system to stop Donald Trump from hijacking the United States government with profound and corrupt lies and deceit does not bode well for the future of American democracy and places…

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight

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By Daniel Rothberg for ProPublica and Dayvid Figler, City Cast Las Vegas – Elon Musk’s Boring Company spent years pitching cities on a novel solution to traffic, an underground transportation system to whisk passengers through tunnels in electric vehicles. Proposals in Illinois and California fizzled after officials and the public began scrutinizing details of the…

The 2024 Year In Review: Hope Fails, Human Brain Rot Wins the Prize

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Editor’s Note: The year 2024 could have ended differently, and there could have been hope for democracy delivered by voters in November. Instead, American voters expressed their political preferences for dictatorship over democracy, and the consequences will be profound. By Glynn Wilson – President Joe Biden powerfully framed the election debate in January as a…

Liz Cheney, Law Enforcement Officials, Respond to Trump’s Threats on NBC

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Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who helped lead a Congressional investigation into the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, called President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to imprison her and other members of the select House committee an “assault on the rule of law and the foundations…

How To Face the End of the World as the Republicans Win the House Too

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By Glynn Wilson – If this is not the end of the world, as we know it, I can’t wait to see the real thing. Oh wait, this can’t be it. It’s nothing like the dream. America is fooled again, and he probably won’t even have me killed for saying this. Donald Trump is the…

Clinging to the Last Vestiges of Hope for Democracy in the Mark Twain National Forest

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“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and hard it is to undo that work again!” – Mark Twain Tales From the MoJo Road – By Glynn Wilson – SOMEWHERE IN THE MARK TWAIN NATIONAL FOREST, Missouri – While Democrats and sane people all over the country are freaking out on social…

Trump Rocks the Free World, Stunning the American Establishment Again in Apparent Electoral College Win

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By Glynn Wilson – LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Welcome to four more years of chaos, confusion and the fall of the American empire. Donald Trump defied the odds again and managed to convince an astounding number of people that in spite of his criminal conviction, his business and first term failures and smash-mouth rhetoric against…

Kamala Harris Delivers Closing Argument Against Trump

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News Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – Democrats have tried to frame Donald Trump as an aberration of the country’s democratic norms and political traditions for years. It worked for Joe Biden in 2020, when he argued that as president, Trump “eroded the soul of the nation.” It did not work for Hillary Clinton in…

Here’s a Little Secret for Donald Trump and Mike Johnson

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The Democrats will retake control of the House in January – Election Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – There’s almost no way the Democrats can lose the House in 2024. At a race baiting rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Trump hinted at “a little secret” he had with House Speaker Mike Johnson, who…

Liz Cheney: Helping Kamala Harris Make the Closing Argument Against Trump

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By Glynn Wilson – No matter how this election turns out, my retirement from political news and journalism is imminent. Social media has made news, journalism and facts irrelevant, even as Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are making the first big social media program Facebook irrelevant, by ignoring and downplaying news and politics. No matter that…