How to harness your citizen power, Trump's coming 'downfall'
09/03/2025
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Margaret Sullivan to citizens: Here's how to harness your power
She’s encouraging us to do more to create change and make a difference.
So with the help of her brother, a voting rights lawyer and organizer, Sullivan has put together a list of some organizations to support.
Robert Reich on Trump’s coming ‘downfall’
“If nothing else brings him down, his authoritarian control over the economy surely will,” former Labor secretary Reich says in a post on ways “Trump is taking personal control of the U.S. economy.”
Fix the News helps us see the big picture
You and I have talked before about the benefits of expanding our perspective in difficult times.
So — among the items behind the paywall in this edition of Fix the News:
A newly discovered interstellar object likely is the oldest comet ever seen, possibly more than seven billion years old.
This "water ice-rich" visitor, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third known object from beyond our solar system ever spotted in our cosmic neighborhood and the first to reach us from a completely different region of our Milky Way galaxy, says Britain’s Royal Astronomical Society.
The comet should be visible through a "reasonably-sized amateur telescope" later this year and early in 2026.
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International Association of Genocide Scholars says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
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Investigation of John Bolton eyes emails obtained by foreign government
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Trump’s move to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook and why the Fed historically has been independent of White House
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Some FEMA staff put on leave after signing public letter of dissent
Former congressional budget staffers weigh in against Trump’s ‘pocket rescissions’
Social Security’s Chief Data Officer Charles Borges resigns after his whistleblower complaint over DOGE data access
PBS, NPR stations struggling with Trump-fueled government funding cuts
What Ghislaine Maxwell told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche: Highlights, full transcript, audio
House Oversight Committee posts batch of Epstein files, as Massie presses for larger release
Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Ernst announces she won’t seek reelection in 2026
Democrat Catelin Drey wins Iowa Senate special election, breaking GOP supermajority
Trump administration's use of federal troops in Los Angeles to conduct law enforcement operations is unlawful, judge rules
Judge orders search-engine shakeup in Google monopoly case but rejects sale of Chrome and allows default deals
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