THE LAKE OF AMERICA....

 

The Great SHAME

Mary L Trump Aug 27

Donald rushed the White House press corps into the Oval Office saying he had a big announcement, which is that, effective immediately, he is going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.

One of his flunkies, when asked, “Do you have anything to say about it, Ben?” said, “Yes, sir,” before explaining that this was a straightforward but important executive order. It directs Secretary Burgum and the Department of the Interior to update the Geographic Names Information System to reflect that the lake once known as Lake Ontario will from this time forward be known as Lake America. According to him, this is a lake that has most of its volume in the United States and the deepest parts of the lake sit in United States territory, so this will reflect that this is an American lake. Thankfully, all of the necessary papers and documents were filed to make this official.

In case you were thinking, “Oh, well, okay, maybe he’s finally done renaming bodies of water,” you would be wrong.

This is what Donald said:

The lake change, Lake of America, was something I’ve been thinking about for a long time, actually. As you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico. We changed it, and now it’s very routinely the Gulf of America. So if you think about it, we have a Gulf and we have a lake. Now all we need is an ocean. So maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both.

That’s the President of the United States of America who currently has us involved in an illegal, unconstitutional war of choice, who is currently engaged in an unprovoked trade war with our closest ally and second largest trading partner, which will wreak havoc on both the economies of Canada and the United States of America, creating even more hardship for Americans given the fact that the economy, thanks to Donald’s completely stupid economic policies and the aforementioned war of choice, is in shambles.

American farmers are going bankrupt by the score, up to 77 per day. America is divided. America’s reputation across the world is cratering. America is a shadow of its once relatively respectable self, all because of that man and the fascist Republican Party that continues to enable him.

And it’s not because they don’t know what’s going on. They can see clearly that he is in serious, serious cognitive decline. There is overwhelming evidence of this.

They see clearly his toddler like levels of self involvement, his delusions of godhood, and his grasping need for attention. They see that his only priority is his wealth, his power, his megalomania, and yet Republicans continue to go along with his demands, which are increasingly insane, detached from reality, and utterly humiliating.

It’s not an accident, or maybe it is an accident, but it’s a convenient one, that by renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, the acronym for the Great Lakes, Superior, Huron, America, Michigan, and Erie, is now SHAME.

And I have begun to wonder if America will ever, ever be able to get out from under the weight of the shame Donald Trump and the Republicans have heaped upon us.

It is clear to any sentient being who isn’t lying to him or herself that Donald is increasingly unfit, increasingly just a prisoner to his psychopathologies. And now so too are we because not only has there been no pushback, he continues to be enabled. He continues to be told that he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants to, because he’s him.

As you may have heard, Donald had wanted to close the Kennedy Center for two years because it needed such extensive renovations, according to him. Howard Lutnick is claiming that Donald is the only person in the world great enough to renovate the Kennedy Center. He also said that when the renovation project started, Donald, the great master builder, should be the project manager because being President is just another part time job.

We’ve also learned recently that Donald wants to make the midterms about himself. So here’s what holier than thou, sick of it Speaker of the House Mike Johnson had to say about it.

This is what Mike Johnson said:

The president is going to look right into the camera and say, I am on the ballot, okay? Because even though his name isn’t, it’s his administration, his legacy.

No, that isn’t how any of this works.

By continuing to enable him, by continuing to spread the wild, unhinged, untethered from reality narratives, Donald is trapped with it. They continue to act as if it is normal for a president at war to spend his time giving tours of the White House construction projects, to spend millions of dollars renovating a reflecting pool and then arresting people because the job was done so incompetently it made him look bad.

This is the President of the United States spending his time changing the names of bodies of water. First the Gulf of Mexico becomes the Gulf of America. Now Lake Ontario becomes Lake America. And apparently, having secured a gulf and a lake, Donald is considering moving on to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans because, as he explained, “Now all we need is an ocean.”

This is happening while America is at war. It is happening while farmers are going bankrupt. It is happening while we are engaged in a trade war with Canada. It is happening while the economy is in shambles and America’s reputation around the world continues to crater.

Yet the people surrounding Donald continue to treat his increasingly bizarre demands as if they are perfectly normal acts of presidential leadership. Nobody apparently has the courage to tell him that changing the name of Lake Ontario is not an important presidential accomplishment, just as nobody seems willing to tell him that being President of the United States is not a part time job that leaves plenty of room for managing the renovation of the Kennedy Center.

Instead, they flatter him. They indulge him. They tell him that he is the only person in the world capable of doing things that have absolutely nothing to do with the job the American people elected him to perform.

As long as we have people like Mike Johnson and everybody else in Donald’s inner circle trying to normalize this deviance, we are all part of this psychopathological system that will lead inevitably to our destruction.

To which I say, is there not one sane adult who knows where this is going to lead? Is there not one person in the Trump regime who can send up the signal flare to the rest of us that some of them are willing to start speaking out against this insanity?

Because this isn’t simply about renaming Lake Ontario. It isn’t simply about whether Donald decides tomorrow that the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean needs to have America stamped across its name, too. It is about the fact that there seems to be nobody around him willing to say no. There is nobody willing to stop indulging his grasping need for attention, his delusions of godhood, his megalomania, and his increasingly insane demands.

The Republican Party sees what the rest of us see. They know what is happening. They see the same behavior. They hear the same words. They watch him make the same increasingly detached demands, and rather than push back, they continue enabling him. They continue pretending that this is normal because Donald is Donald and therefore, apparently, he gets to do whatever he wants whenever he wants.

And that is how we get here. We have a President of the United States involved in an illegal and unconstitutional war of choice, an unprovoked trade war with one of our closest allies, and an economy that is creating extraordinary hardship for Americans, while he summons the White House press corps to announce that Lake Ontario is now Lake America.

And everybody around him plays along.

Donald said that now that America has a gulf and a lake, all we need is an ocean. Maybe he’ll change the Atlantic. Maybe he’ll change the Pacific. Maybe he’ll change both.

Meanwhile, the Great Lakes are now, conveniently enough, Superior, Huron, America, Michigan, and Erie.

SHAME.

That may be the most appropriate thing Donald has named yet.

This is unsustainable. He is unsustainable. And the sooner somebody is willing to stand up against the depredations that continue to be made against the American people by Donald and those who are perpetuating this, the better.

As received by email, from Mary Trump, the president's niece, a psychologist herself, and constant critic of Mr. Trump, this latest development of one of America's conflicts with our neighbors and the world, is psychologically well explained through these few lines, it is a situation Americans are going through but most cannot really grasp nor comprehend. 

As always, my many thanks to all. 

AN EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD.....

 

The Icelandic method: the only nation to have condemned its elites after the 2008 crash

Following the collapse of its three main banks in 2008, Iceland took a radically different path from the rest of the Western world. Rather than bailing out the banks with public money ("Too big to fail"), the country went bankrupt, protected its citizens, and cracked down on white-collar crime.

Key facts about this exemplary justice system:

The unprecedented trial of a Prime Minister: An exceptional court, the Landsdómur, was created to try the then Prime Minister, Geir Haarde. Found guilty in 2012 of negligence for failing to hold adequate cabinet meetings in the face of the crisis, he avoided a prison sentence due to his age and the absence of personal enrichment.

Prison sentences for executives: The justice system has been uncompromising with those managing the economy. More than 30 top executives (CEOs and major shareholders of Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir banks) have received prison sentences (ranging from 1 to 7 years) for market manipulation, fraud, and insider trading, as have regulators and central bank directors.

A successful economic recovery: By letting corrupt banks collapse and appointing an independent special prosecutor, Iceland enabled its economy to recover much faster than its European neighbors.

A historic model of financial and political responsibility that continues to be a benchmark.

A good report copied from the very little known site screen news, it struck me as indeed against the general trend of Western countries and many others, like Lebanon and other Middle-Eastern countries, whereby cover up is always the way to cover and not recover, Iceland example is indeed an exemplary model to adopt in top industrialized and developing smaller countries...

As always, my many thanks to all.

ISLAMOPHOBIA......

 

Israel is betting on Islamophobia to save its standing in the West

Netanyahu’s government is using anti-Muslim fear to rally a Western right increasingly receptive to its message.

By Josh Paul

 20 Aug 2026.

It had been a lengthy and productive meeting with the chief of staff to a Republican member of Congress. We had discussed United States policy towards Israel, and the skepticism of many of the Grand Old Party members towards the relationship and the challenge they face in saying anything about it given President Donald Trump’s iron grip on it. But there was one final agenda item I needed to raise: the member’s participation in the newly created “Sharia-Free America Caucus”, a group of US representatives standing against what one founding member described as “a religion of violence, abuse of women, and ruthless political conquest. Its laws and practices have no place in American society.”

“Oh, don’t worry about that,” the staffer said, with a wave of his hand. “Muslims are just the low-hanging fruit. Really it is about Indians. And brown people in general. And the Jews, too. It won’t get in the way of putting America first. Really the only Member [of the Caucus] who believes all the bullshit about Israel is Randy Fine.”

The whipping up of Islamophobia in the US has become visible and visceral, to the extent that many in the Muslim community now look back almost wistfully to the days of George W Bush, who made a point, in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, of visiting a mosque and declaring that “Islam is peace”. Such efforts at inclusivity have almost vanished entirely from the Republican Party, replaced by an outright bigotry that has inspired a spike in anti-Muslim attacks, such as the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego in May that killed two worshippers and a security guard. A recent proposal by Dallas Fort Worth international airport to add unobtrusive foot-washing stations for Muslims wishing to perform wudu (and presumably anyone else with dirty feet) was swiftly abandoned in the face of condemnation by Texas Governor Greg Abbott that the installation of such stations would be unconstitutional.

Where is all this coming from? To be sure, some of it is a reflection of the politics that Trump has promoted since his very first day of presidential campaigning in 2015 to divide Americans by suggesting that the country’s White majority and its historic place atop the social hierarchy are at risk; in this context it is not only Muslims who are under attack, but all minorities, as demonstrated by his administration’s attacks on Black history or Hispanic culture. But when it comes to Islamophobia, there is a more targeted driver of the trend.

In January this year, the government of Israel hosted an anti-Semitism conference in Jerusalem. This, by itself, is rather unremarkable. But what is noteworthy is who attended: leaders from across the European far right, including representatives from Poland’s PiS, Spain’s Vox, Hungary’s Fidesz, and France’s Rassemblement National. The event was, perhaps, the largest gathering of European right-wingers to discuss anti-Semitism since the US-led umerziehung (re-education) process in post-war Germany.

But the far right are now allies, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told them, in the fight against the “invasion of radical Islam”. Since January, Netanyahu has continued on this theme, recently warning that “the first Islamic republic with nuclear weapons will be the Islamic republic of Britain”, and campaigning for re-election under a billboard titled “Don’t let them win” that features the faces of Hezbollah and Iranian leaders alongside those of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Israel’s promotion of Islamophobia is not limited to Netanyahu, nor does it end at its own shores. As Israel’s own reputation has cratered, rather than examining its actions (particularly in Gaza), it has decided its salvation rests in more effective public relations and propaganda campaigns. Some of this has materialized in an effort to prop up its own reputation: “The US-Israel relationship promotes stability”, explained an automated text message that millions of other Americans and I recently received via Israeli-contracted Clock Tower X. But Israel is also going on the offensive by trying to knock down and delegitimize its critics and by rallying the right through a purposeful campaign of Islamophobia.

The strategy may have been informed by a leaked study solicited by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs from US public relations firm Stagwell Global, which found that the most effective tactic in shifting public opinion would be to drive fear of “Radical Islam” and “Jihadism” but, in the absence of any compelling reason why the US should continue to back his country, Netanyahu has increasingly leaned into the argument that Israel is, as he claims foreign leaders have told him, the “model in the struggle against radical Islam which threatens the entire civilised world”.

This has manifested itself in Israel’s leveraging of increasingly virulent Islamophobia as part of its hasbara strategy, for instance in Canada in 2024, when an Israeli-government-funded influence operation using the name United Citizens for Canada conducted social media campaigns claiming that Muslim immigrants to the country posed a threat to society and were trying to impose Islamic law.

In many cases, Americans and Europeans have seen through such efforts. Recent primary wins for prominent Muslim congressional candidates such as Abdul El-Sayed have demonstrated a cross-communal rejection of Islamophobic rhetoric. But in other areas, Muslim communities increasingly feel under siege.

Israeli society is premised on Jewish supremacy and the pursuit of demographic homogeneity, but Western countries are increasingly diverse in both their demographics and their leadership. While the path to peace for Israel may be one that makes Israel look more like the West – a country with equality for all its people – at the core of its current propaganda campaign is the desire to make the West look more like Israel. That poses a test for Western pluralism, but even if the West fails that test, Israel should not assume that such a failure would inherently lead to an embrace of Zionism.

Fear and hatred are powerful tools, and the current Islamophobic campaign is likely to unleash further and deeper harms. But even on its primary objective, to stem the loss of support in Israel’s last bastion of Western far-right opinion, it is far from clear that it will succeed. In the meantime, Europeans and Americans would be wise to see it for what it is: a desperate foreign influence operation driven by a state that is increasingly running out of options.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.

Josh Paul

Josh Paul is co-founder of A New Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan lobbying and political organization focused on shifting US policy towards Palestine and Israel. He previously served in various US national security roles until resigning from the State Department in 2023 over Gaza.

As received by email from Al Jazeera, by this talented and well versed writer, political analyzer and until recently an official of the State Department, his remarks hit a lively chord being actively elevated in the US, and the Western world in general, against Muslims and the populations behind them, obviously to only serve a narrow agenda and ideology with a colonial and global supremacy intent. Divide, hate and conquer. 

As always, my many thanks to all.  

Published On 20 Aug 2026

PUNISHING AMERICAN JEWS.....

 

J Street

Dear Omar,

The Jewish tradition teaches us to stand up for justice. To not stand idly by while others suffer.

Now, Netanyahu is punishing American Jews for living out those values.

His far-right government is denying American Jews entry into Israel for taking part in protective presence work in support of Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

I participated in this work last fall, when I joined a delegation organized by two groups, T’ruah and Rabbis for Human Rights, to bear witness to settler violence – serving as a human barrier in hopes that the presence of other Jews would deter extremists from deadly attacks.

These violent settlers regularly attack Palestinians in the West Bank, burn their homes and prevent them from reaching and harvesting their olive trees – a vital part of the community’s economy and culture.

I know what this violence looks like because I experienced it firsthand. During my experience helping farmers in the West Bank amid the olive harvest, we were attacked by settlers. I vividly remember two men in IDF uniforms aiming M-16 guns at our group, and I’ll never forget the fear I felt when one fired live ammunition into the air just to intimidate us.

Before you read further, please join me in sending an urgent message to Congress: Don’t let Netanyahu punish American Jews for standing with Palestinians.

In synagogues, Hebrew schools and at our dinner tables, we instill in our children the long-held values that bind our community together. We teach them about their obligation of Tikkun Olam – to make the world a better place – and to have the courage to act when others are suffering.

Today, a new generation of Jewish Americans is seeing the horrors of settler violence with their own eyes in real time. They’re also watching the Israeli government enable that violence, and they know they can’t be silent about it.

The painful truth is that the image of Israel many of us grew up with is not the nation that younger generations now know. But that doesn’t mean they’ve given up on Israel. Instead, they are finding different ways to stay connected, through fighting for a better future for Palestinians and Israelis alike.

For many young Jews, showing up, bearing witness and standing with vulnerable communities is what meaningful engagement with Israel looks like. That should be celebrated, not discouraged.

In barring these activists from not only entering the West Bank but Israel altogether, the Netanyahu government isn’t just opening the door for more settler attacks – it risks turning the next generation of American Jews away from any sort of relationship with Israel.

Congress must pressure the Netanyahu government now to stop punishing American citizens peacefully engaging in protective presence work. Time is of the essence, as we expect attacks to escalate with the approaching olive harvest.

This fall, J Street and T’ruah will be working together to support protective presence work, ensuring that Palestinian farmers are not left to face this violence alone.

I took part in this work because I believe that standing with Palestinians in the face of violence is part of how I live my out Jewish values. I beseech Congress to make clear that Americans should not be punished for doing the same.

Tell Congress: Let them in. Add your name to our petition now »

In solidarity,

Rabbi Suzanne Singer

Temple Beth El, Riverside California.

Received by email, It depicts a true and sad situation, here in America, among Jewish youth mostly, refusing to accept what's happening in Israel and the policies of its actual regime, settlers, army and militias, toward Palestinian populations under Israeli occupation. Why am I receiving it from this organization I'm not sure, but forwarding it through our blog will give our readers a better understanding of the situation, here in America and over there in the Middle-East, including the occupied Palestinian territories, Lebanon and the continuing absurd wars between Israel and all its neighbors, close ones and the not so close. 

As always, my many thanks to all.        

A BRILLIANT AND PLAUSIBLE ANALYSIS .....

 
 A brilliant analysis by Chinese professor #Jiang_Xue_Chen on Mr. Trump's policies.

He writes;
When an average observer watches the actions of the current US administration under Donald Trump, from creating trade crises with neighboring allies like Canada and Mexico, to the direct military threat to annex Greenland, to pushing the region towards the brink of a war that is not traditionally winnable with Iran, the scenario of "political confusion or recklessness" immediately comes to mind.

In a realistic geopolitical reading by Professor Jiang Xue, based on numbers and the movement of material resources, a terrifying hypothesis is revealed that goes beyond media superficiality: What if this systematic destruction and demolition of the old world order is the literal and deliberate objective of a “master plan” being cooked up in the dark rooms of Washington?

The fundamental premise of the analysis stems from the fact that the entire world today is geographically dependent on the Strait of Hormuz and Middle Eastern oil. The data confirms that:

Japan imports 75% of its oil needs from the Middle East.

India relies on the same source for 60% of its needs.

Europe and China rely on supply lines from the Gulf for 20% of their needs.

Herein lies the core of the diabolical plan: if Trump leads the region into open military confrontation with Iran, the first inevitable consequence will be the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and a complete halt to the flow of Middle Eastern oil. At that moment, the global economy will collapse, energy prices in Europe and Asia will skyrocket to unprecedented levels, and factories and cities there will be brought to a complete standstill.

But where does North America fit into this collapse? Herein lies the dark strategic genius. North America doesn't need Middle Eastern oil; the United States has enormous reserves, Canada sits atop vast oil reserves, and Venezuela, which Trump threatens to seize, possesses the largest oil reserves on the planet.

It doesn't stop at oil and gas; it extends to nitrogen and fertilizers essential for global food production.

The Middle East is the primary supplier of this material, and once supplies are cut off, the world (especially Europe and Asia) will find no place to source food and energy except from two sources: North America and Russia.

Thus, Trump transforms from a president who "destroys his country" into an engineer who monopolizes the basic necessities of human life and makes the entire world subservient and subject to the resources he controls.

The most dangerous and daring part of the professor's analysis is the answer to the question: How will America protect itself from financial collapse when its sovereign debt is $39 trillion?

The traditional system has always feared that creditor countries (such as Japan, China, Taiwan, South Korea, and the European Union) would abandon US bonds and flee to gold or the Swiss franc, which would mean the collapse of America’s financial “Ponzi scheme.”

However, with the implementation of the plan to burn the world in terms of energy and food, these creditor countries find themselves trapped; they have a desperate and continuous need to buy American energy and food in order to survive.

And where will it get the money to pay for these resources? It will pay for them by recycling its money and bonds within the American economy itself.

According to this premise, Trump succeeded in turning America’s greatest historical weakness (debt) into the greatest weapon of subjugation; he besieged the creditors and made them unable to give up the dollar because they are simply trapped inside the fortress.

The geopolitical conclusion is that the "new world order" based on globalization, free trade, and free protection of allies is dead and buried.

What Trump is doing is establishing what is known as "The Technate"; which is transforming the North American continent (the United States, Canada, Mexico, and rare earth-rich Greenland) into a closed economic and military fortress, possessing absolute self-sufficiency and controlling global supply chains.

Trump is not acting recklessly; rather, he is implementing a cold strategy to end the “old global American empire” that drains the American taxpayer, and rebuild it as a “crude monopoly” that leaves the world burning in chaos and wars, while Washington sits on the throne of resources, dictating its terms and forcing everyone to kneel in humiliation to continue living.

It is not a stupid system, but a brutal new world order run with the mentality of a real estate tycoon and a major monopolist.
This was not the professor's first prediction; he had previously mapped out with mathematical precision the course of previous geopolitical collapses, warned of American plans to seize oil resources in Latin America months before they happened, and accurately predicted how the dollar would turn from a global trading tool into a punitive whip to clip the wings of rising powers.
When this man speaks, the language of numbers guides the conclusion, and what he presents today represents a deconstruction of a terrifying scenario that has begun to be translated into reality.

A good report, while it still is an opinion of the author, many points are valid and worthy of serious considerations. got it by email, translated and arranged to fit our blog to the benefit of our readers.

As always, my many thanks to all. 

A COOL MESSAGE FROM A WINNER......

Abdul for US Senate

We won.

Sixteen months ago we kicked off a campaign that all the pundits and politicians, the very serious people, said could never succeed.

Well, the votes have been counted. And guess what we just showed them?

That a movement of the people, by the people, and for the people can never lose. Not in Michigan. Not in these United States of America.

We beat $70 million of spending. We beat the cynicism of a politics that says people won't think for themselves. We beat Washington insiders. And we beat the hell out of AIPAC.

I did not do this. We did this. Everyone who knocked on a door, made a call, sent a dollar, posted a story. The UAW. The AFT. The Nurses. Volunteers who canvassed in the heat instead of writing checks. People who gave $10 they did not have.

If you're reading this, you built it.

So let's be honest about what happens now. The general election starts now, and we begin as the underdog.

Mike Rogers is Trump's handpicked candidate, a 30-year career politician with statewide name recognition. He has been running unopposed for 16 months, and Republicans have already spent more than $45 million building him up.

We just fought through the most expensive Democratic Senate primary in history, and we spent everything we had to win it. We start the general election on empty. Rogers starts it loaded.

I like being an underdog. Let's keep that energy.

The next 48 hours are the first test of this general election. What we raise right now gets read by every politician and pundit in this country as the measure of how strong we are heading into November.

Please become one of the very first donors of our general election campaign and rush $10 or any amount in the next 48 hours.

Donate $10 ››

Over the next few days, you are going to hear the press try to decide what this election is about. Three questions, on repeat:

→ Can a message like ours win a swing state? Money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for All.

→ Can we survive the money? More than $70 million from AIPAC and corporate interests has already come at this campaign, and more is on the way.

→ Will Michigan decide the Senate majority? We have the opportunity to be the 51st vote.

That's what they think this election is about. Here's what we think it's about:

Whether working people in Michigan get a government that answers to them, instead of one that answers to whoever writes the biggest campaign checks.

Every one of those key questions resolves our way only if we make it about that.

It just shouldn't be this hard, in the richest country in the world, to see a doctor, to afford your groceries, to know your kid will have it a little better than you did.

That's what we've been saying across 90 cities and in 350 public events, and it's what we'll say every day between now and November 3rd.

Now, let’s talk about the man on the other side of this.

I was in high school when Mike Rogers introduced the National Pain Care Policy Act. It set Big Pharma loose to deal opioids like candy. By the time I got to medical school, his legislation was why my classmates and I were taught that pain was a “vital sign” and that opioids were the most important medicine we had to offer our patients. A decade after that, as a health director, I watched the worst of the epidemic he helped create come into full view. It's why we put free Narcan vending machines in 100 locations across Wayne County.

More than 600,000 Americans died. Here in Michigan, 17,000 moms, dads, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, daughters and sons. I bet you know someone, and I do too.

He never apologized. He took over $400,000 from the drug companies that profited. He spent 30 years in Washington, came out up to $14 million richer working for the very corporations he used to regulate, then moved to Florida. He still can't explain that money. He says he made it golfing with his buddies.

I don't take corporate money. Never have, never will. Which means the only people I answer to are you.

That's the choice in November. Someone who works for working people, or someone who has already shown you exactly who he works for.

The next 48 hours decide whether we spend the fall chasing MAGA Mike, or whether he wakes up Thursday looking at an avalanche of grassroots money he can't match. He has the corporations. We have each other, and there are a lot more of us.

Make a contribution of $10 or whatever you can right now so we start this general election on offense instead of catching up.

Donate $10 ››

If now isn't the right time for you financially, I understand, and I'm grateful you read this far. Tell one person what we just did instead. And if you know someone who hasn't joined us yet, there's plenty of room for them here too. We've got 13 weeks, and we are looking forward to welcoming as many people into this campaign as possible.

For those 13 weeks, this is going to be a movement of joy, and hope, and honesty, and will. Out of an indelible love for our state and our country, this America of ours.

Thank you for this. Truly.

Your friend in the fight,

Abdul.

A primary democratic election in Michigan, and taking place in many other different cities and States, where a great battle between two major political ideologies stands to win, one from the old establishment and big money and AIPAC, and the other from a center left leaning line of thought, obviously represented and funded by the masses. it will define America's internal and foreign politics in the future. A big battle on the American scene and surely a new direction for American politics and policies.

As always, my many thanks to all.

WEALTH INEQUALITY IN AMERICA TODAY......

 

where things stand in this country.

The richest people in America have never had it so good. And the American working class has never been under more savage attack.

Today, the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%. One man, Elon Musk, is worth close to $800 billion. That is more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households combined. Last year alone, after receiving the largest tax break in American history from Donald Trump, 938 billionaires became $1.5 trillion richer.

At the same time, 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. The average American worker is making almost $20 a week less today, in real terms, than 53 years ago. Nearly 85 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured.

And last year, after Trump gave corporate America a tax break of more than $900 billion, Tesla, SpaceX, Palantir and Ticketmaster paid zero in federal income taxes. These companies combined are worth $3.5 trillion. They made over $17 billion in profits and paid nothing. 

 The American people are catching on.

In California, by a 2‑to‑1 margin, voters support a tax on billionaires to protect healthcare for millions of people.

In New York City, over 62% of residents support Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed surtax on millionaires and billionaires.

Nationally, more than 6 in 10 Americans say the wealthy pay too little in taxes.

The bottom line is this: We can continue to allow a handful of billionaires to buy our political system and rig the economy in their favor. Or we can fight back and build a government that works for all of us, not just the 1%. That is the choice before us.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC is working to elect progressives who will choose democracy over oligarchy — who will demand that the wealthiest people in this country finally start paying their fair share.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

the Progressive Caucus!

We elect bold Progressives to Congress who will:

FIGHT FOR WORKING FAMILIES,

COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE,

EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY,

PASS MEDICARE FOR ALL, 

AND SO MUCH MORE!

Got this message by email, signed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, a leading politician with the new congressional progressives, a group of newly aspiring politicians trying to change the ugly statue-co reigning in the US, and creating a dangerous and an unwanted wealth inequality that threatens the peaceful existence of the country. Unfortunately it is happening in many parts of the world as well, Europe and Asia among others are witnessing similar dangerous cases. I'm forwarding the message to our blog readers for better understanding of this ugly phenomenon. 

As always, my many thanks to all.