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Terrence Goggin: Trump’s terrible precedent: General Ulysses S. Grant blocks President Andrew Johnson’s attempt to reverse the results of The Civil War
In 1865 with the passage of the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery, the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the succession of Vice President Andrew Johnson, a border State Democrat, to the Presidency, an historic split occurred between the Republican abolitionist Congress and the sitting President. The Congress had just abolished slavery ( see above contemporary ink drawing) but the plantations owned by the southern aristocracy made so wealthy by slavery still existed. If the plantations were not also abolished, the freed slaves would become serfs, tied to the land, with nowhere else to go to sustain themselves. The Congressional policy to accomplish the break up of the Plantation System became known as “Reconstruction”. President Johnson had his version of lenient Reconstruction, the Congress had its own far different version.
This triggered a great proverbial “battle to the death” which ultimately resulted in Johnson’s impeachment. But we are jumping ahead. Before that occurred a titanic struggle between the Commander of the U.S. Army and the sitting President took place.
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TNR: Trump Boat Bombings Take Darker Turn as Top Official Suddenly Resigns
NY Times: U.S. Detains 2 Survivors of Latest Military Strike in Caribbean
Thom Hartmann: When Loyalty Becomes Law: Is Our Military Already in on a Coup?
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – October 17, 2025
On the morning of October 18, 1775, a small fleet of Royal Navy vessels opened fire on … the town then known as Falmouth, Massachusetts …
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Rather than terrorizing the colonists into submission, the burning of Falmouth steeled their resolve. …
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Colonists saw the burning of Falmouth as proof that their government had turned against them, and began to suggest they must declare independence. …
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Robert Reich: The Power Map of the Trump Regime
A formal organization chart of the Trump regime would show Trump on top, his Cabinet officers arrayed underneath him, the White House staff below them, and an assortment of lower-level appointees at the bottom.
The reality is far different.
(Robert Reich more…)Adam Kinzinger: The President in Decline: Trump’s Mind, His Myths, and the Machinery Around Him
He’s 79, impulsive, and increasingly detached from reality — but the people behind him may be the greater danger.
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Al Jazeera: Israel kills 11 Palestinian family members in Gaza’s deadliest truce breach
Strike on civilian vehicle by Israeli military in Gaza City marks deadliest violation of eight-day ceasefire with Hamas.
![Palestinians walk among destroyed buildings in Gaza City, on Thursday, October 16, 2025 [Jehad Alshrafi/AP]](https://kewus.net/yesterday/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/AP25289590203823-1760684385.webp "Palestinians walk among destroyed buildings in Gaza City, on Thursday, October 16, 2025 [Jehad Alshrafi/AP]")
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Dean Blundell: The Astonishing Luck of Trump’s Biggest Donors
It seems that in Donald Trump’s America, good fortune has a price tag, and it’s being paid in multi-million-dollar donations. …
(Dean Blundell more…)Daily Beast: Analysis Questions Depth of Trump’s ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Donor Deals
YOU SCRATCH MY BACK, I’LL…
Good things keep happening to those who donate millions to the president.
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Dean Obeidallah: Where are the massive pro-Trump rallies?! Nowhere and that tells you everything!
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Cut: One Battle After Another Sees America Clearly
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