Evening Roundup, April 10
Featuring Jess Piper & Jen Rubin; Shalise Manza Young; Mimi Rocah; Meredith Blake; Frederic Fromer; RJ Matson; David Bernell and Thomas Graham; and the Democracy Movement
Rural America fights back! Jess Piper on Trump's impact in red states
Folks in rural America are being disproportionality effected by the Trump Administration’s policies. Contestation over issues such as protections for veterans, school curriculums, social security benefits, and especially tariffs effecting farmers, are all playing out in the countryside. Jen is joined by Jess Piper to explain what it all means.
Why are the anti-Trump/Musk protests so white?
By Shalise Manza Young
Black people know the laws of this country, including the First Amendment, still don’t apply to all its citizens.
Trump’s twisted world: Where criminals are victims and public servants are villains
By Mimi Rocah
His dangerous use of executive power to target perceived enemies comes with the weight of DOJ loyalists.
Patrick Schwarzenegger is a nepo baby I can endorse
Here is a sentence I never expected to write: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son just delivered one of the most moving TV performances of the year in The White Lotus.
80 years ago, FDR’s death ended one of nation’s most consequential presidencies
By Frederic J. Frommer
Roosevelt led the nation through the Depression and World War II through a record 12 years in office.
Off the cliff
RJ draws several editorial cartoons each week for his substack, e pluribus cartoonum, and for Roll Call, the newspaper of Congress and Capitol Hill. His work is widely syndicated to print newspapers by Cagle Cartoons.
80 years of good work gone in 80 days
By David Bernell and Thomas Graham
The United States has demonstrated to the world that it cannot fully be trusted.
The Contrarian covers the Democracy Movement
Every day (Monday-Friday), we’ll update this space with protests, signs and other public demonstrations against the actions of the administration. Keep checking to see how Americans all across the country are protecting and defending democracy.
I would appreciate a serious look at what women can do to protect our voting right. I kept my maiden name as my middle name and husbands name as last name. Marcie Eyer Weiler on my driver's license, tax forms, checking account and credit card (A separate account from husband), all medical forms. SSI, medicare, and expired passport. thank you
A question for Norm
Can reparations be handed down to victims of Musk and Trump firings from federal agencies, and those erroneously detained and deported etc..and any one they have unlawfully attacked.
The lives of individuals and families emotionally and economically decimated by these soulless unempathetic protoplasmic creatures is inhumane.They should pay.🤞