Trump has unleashed his inner psychopath and if he wins this election it's going to get uglier here in America than most people today can imagine… TIME magazine reporter Eric Cortellessa spent hours interviewing Donald Trump, producing a shocking cover story this week. Converting one of his opening paragraphs into bullet points for readability, he summarized that Trump fully plans: — "To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. — "He would let red states monitor women's pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. — "He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. — "He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn't carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America's founding. — "He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. — "He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn't paying enough for its own defense. — "He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen."

Why are Great Britain Conservative Members of Parliament welcomed into the Labour Party, but here in the US it's almost impossible for a Republican to successfully become a Democrat? Last week Dan Poulter, a Conservative Party member of Great Britain's Parliament, abandoned the Tories to become a member of the progressive Labour Party. In 2022, Christian Wakeford similarly left the Tories to join Labour, the equivalent of an American Republican member of Congress being welcomed into the Democratic Party. The last time a Republican member of the US Congress became a Democrat was New York's Michael Forbes, who made the switch more than two decades ago in 1999. Democrats in his district overwhelmingly rejected him in the 2000 election: although he raised and spent $1.4 million to hold his seat, he was defeated by a 71-year-old librarian who'd raised and spent a mere $40,000.

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Are Jack Smith's odds for holding Trump accountable shrinking? — Not only do right-wingers have a plan to turn the fed over to Trump .... but wait, there's more! — The German newspaper I used to read when I lived there just took down America's so-called journalism — Without drama or fanfare, Biden advances policies that matter — Crazy Alert! Who else is disgusted that Trump's VP favorite is boasting she shot her puppy instead of training it or finding it another home? Does that show she is a tough decision maker or a heartless psychopath? — Wisdom School Alert! Is the Logic of our "Younger Culture" Harmful to our Planet? — Hunter in a Farmer's World Alert! ADHD: Don't be a "blamer." — Because of climate change, scientists are calling for a new "category 6" for hurricanes

The problem for Republicans is that unions are "democracy in the workplace," and the GOP hates democracy as a matter of principle... The UAW's successful unionization effort last week at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee — the first successful unionization effort at a car factory in the South since the 1940s — is breaking the brains of Republicans in that region. They're truly astonished that workers might not trust their corporate overlords with their working conditions, pay, health, and retirement. Tennessee's Republican Governor Bill Lee — along with Governors Kay Ivey (AL), Brian Kemp (GA), Tate Reeves (MS), Henry McMaster (SC), and Greg Abbott (TX) — issued a joint statement last Tuesday condemning the vote... The problem for Republicans is that unions represent a form of democracy in the workplace, and the GOP hates democracy as a matter of principle. It's why conservatives have opposed every effort to expand voting rights from the Jim Crow era, through fighting woman's suffrage, to opposing voting rights legislation from 1965 to this day.