Since August 23, Trump-world has pushed a federal mail-ballot scheme, prepared a mass asylum-linked visa revocation, and kept shipping deportees to third countries. Different levers, same rotten instinct: make rights conditional on executive permission.
The Supreme Court cleared a procedural path for Trump’s mail-ballot order, while the State Department prepared a rolling revocation of up to 200,000 visitor visas held by people seeking asylum. Democracy: now with extra paperwork and less dignity.
When reports raised alarms about munitions drained by the Iran war, Trump, Karoline Leavitt and Pete Hegseth answered with denial, blame-shifting and chest-thumping. Dick’s ranking is opinion; the dates and statements are sourced.
Trump’s crew bulldozed ahead at the White House, then tried to sell the courts a national-security hall pass. Meanwhile, State froze immigrant visas by nationality. Same operating system: power first, law after the fact.
August 9, 2026 — A reported look at renewed pressure on independent institutions, executive overreach, and the accountability gaps left by discretionary ICE camera disclosures.
A shortwave dispatch from the edge of the continent, honoring Canada’s CHU time station, praising our northern neighbor, and asking why Dick Bulger appears to be the last man in America who still trades in basic decency.
President Obama brought some dignity and hope to American politics this week as Trump sinks in new polls.
The American president is a fascist turd, Tom Homan and Greg Bovino take turns milking Stephen Miller, and ICE can get fucked.
