Trump’s Legal Defense: The President Is Allowed To Violate The Constitut...

Trump Sinks America’s Overseas Reputation Back To Bush-Era Numbers

The Hacker Who Cared Too Much

When a programmer shut down a hospital website to defend a sick girl, he raised a crucial question: What are the bounds of protest in the digital age?

One afternoon in a modest, hilltop home in West Hartford, Connecticut, Linda Pelletier, a sandy-blond mother of four, opened a greeting card from her 15-year-old daughter, Justina. To her surprise, a small, intricately folded piece of paper slipped out from inside. It was an origami fortune teller. Pelletier poked her thumbs and forefingers under the flaps, spread them apart, then unfolded the flap that faced her. A chill shot through her as she read the message, written as tiny as her daughter's handwriting would allow: "I'm being tortured."  More

Rolling Stone By David Kushner

Justina Pelletier, before severe symptoms landed her in Boston Children's Hospital.

HOW TO LOVE THIS FREAKY COUNTRY

The Intercept By Jon Schwarz
AMERICAN PROGRESSIVES CAN’T ever match conservatives in displays of febrile patriotism, and for good reason. What Jesus told his followers about prayer is also good advice about loving a country: “Thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.”   More

Jennifer Burbank of the Georgetown volunteer fire department, decorates a firetruck with a 48-star U.S. flag donated by longtime Georgetown resident Bernice Plass before the start of the Fourth of July Parade in downtown Georgetown on Friday July, 4, 2003.

Photo: Glenn Asakawa/The Denver Post/Getty Images

Narcissistic Donald Trump desecrates Fourth of July with campaign song in place of National Anthem

By Bill Palmer

For a moment there today, it almost seemed Donald Trump had tweeted something presidential. After five consecutive mornings of Twitter posts that were so grotesque and unhinged as to bring universal condemnation and widespread calls for invoking the 25th Amendment, this morning Trump simply tweeted “#HappyIndependenceDay #July4 #USA” along with what initially appeared to be a video of a chorus singing a patriotic American song. But upon hearing the song… oh dear Lord.  More

#HappyIndependenceDay #July4 #USA🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/NsFslPEFrp

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2017

Trump Losing Support From Key Republican Demographic: Millionaires

Corporate Crime Watchdog Resigns From DOJ Because Trump Made Her Job Impossible

A former top corporate crime watchdog at the U.S. Department of Justice resigned in June, and after weeks of silence, she finally came forward to explain why she left.  According to the official, her job had become too difficult under Donald Trump because she was supposed to be investigating companies who were guilty of the same alleged crimes that her boss was clearly committing. Click to see Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discuss this.