Organizers of the protests are calling for June 14 to be a "nationwide day of defiance. "From city blocks to small towns, from courthouse steps to community parks, we're taking action to reject authoritarianism"and show the world what democracy really looks like," organizers say on the "No Kings" website. "We're not gathering to feed his ego. We're building a movement that leaves him behind. The flag doesn't belong to Donald Trump. It belongs to us. We're not watching history happen. We're making it." They add that protesters will be "showing up everywhere he isn't"to say no thrones, no crowns, no kings." read more
"Bernie Sanders warned of the US's slide into authoritarianism following Donald Trump's decision to deploy the national guard to Los Angeles over the city's protests against federal immigration raids. Speaking to CNN on Sunday, the leftwing Vermont senator said: read more
A former employee of the Department of Government Efficiency says that he found that the federal waste, fraud and abuse that his agency was supposed to uncover were "relatively nonexistent" during his short time embedded within the Department of Veterans Affairs. read more
The ruling, a win for the Trump administration, means that DOGE will be able to access data on millions of Americans as part of what it has described as an effort to rout out fraud and "modernize outdated systems," but that critics say appears to be a fishing expedition. read more
Donald Trump has said it may be better to let Ukraine and Russia "fight for a while" rather than pursue peace immediately, as the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, urged him to increase pressure on Russia. read more
Nice peaceful protest... we need more like it all over the country.
That's how we kicked Nixon out of Office and stopped the War.