American consumers will be paying a steep, long-term price for the Trump administration's senseless war in the Gulf. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Common Sense Coalition
@cscoalition.substack.com
A bipartisan and non-partisan group of experts, former government officials, former military officers, academics, and scholars. Our goal: To hold the Trump administration accountable for the damage done to our country. https://commonsensecoalition.net
Citizens deserve equal justice, not this. "President Trump quietly denied nearly 6,000 clemency applications this month from people who mostly lacked political connections ... while he awarded pardons and commutations to allies who had skipped the line." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
Trump Rejected Nearly 6,000 Clemency Applications Amid Hope of Pardon Wave
Expectations were raised for a raft of pardons in connection with the country’s 250th birthday but the president granted fewer than 20 on July 3.
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"Cycles of failure in U.S. policy are not new. What is different now is the willful repudiation and rewriting of history, and the celebration of cruelty and ignorance as a matter of policy." open.substack.com/pub/cscoalit...
On Being American: 250 Years On, Our New Self-Evident Truths
The fight for American renewal begins today, writes Kevin Nealer
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Coalition founder Ira Shapiro: "We need to meet the unprecedented authoritarian challenge by building a broad, bipartisan and non-partisan coalition to reject this presidency emphatically." open.substack.com/pub/cscoalit...
How to Face the Fourth: With Resolve, Not Resignation
A note from Common Sense Coalition Founder Ira Shapiro
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LISTEN: Ira Shapiro speaks with political strategist Joe Trippi on That Trippi Show: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id15...
"America didn't vote for this" with Ira Shapiro
Podcast Episode · That Trippi Show · July 3 · 33m
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Coalition member and Brookings Institution scholar Josh Gotbaum speaks with Joan Esposito: omny.fm/shows/joan-e...
Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, July 02 2026 - Joan Esposito: Live, Local & Progressive
On today's show: – Jill Wine-Banks, legal analyst, former general counsel of the U.S. Army, author of “The Watergate Girl,” co-host of #SistersInLaw and host of Just The Facts with Jill Wine-Banks…
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LISTEN: Ira Shapiro on The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen: www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sta...
Arnie Arnesen Attitude July 1 2026
Part 1:We talk with Kelcie Mosely-Morris, who covers reproductive rights for Stateline.We discuss how the administration has defunded the main efforts to prevent teen pregnancies through HHS. Efforts…
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Yet another no-bid contract. This time for $500 million to build the ballroom. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
In a new AP-NORC poll, just 18% of Americans describe America as "great, prosperous, or powerful," while a combined 39% say it's "declining," "struggling," "corrupt," or "embarrassing." apnews.com/projects/pol...
How Americans describe the U.S. ahead of 250th anniversary, according to new AP-NORC poll | AP News
A new survey asked 2,596 American adults to describe the United States using one word. Many used words like “freedom” – but others say the nation is “struggling” or referred to “corruption" to…
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"Prices were up 4.1 percent from a year earlier, the fastest annual inflation in more than three years." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/b...
Inflation Accelerated in May as Iran War Pushed Up Prices
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Trump's promises of a manufacturing "boom" seem to be falling short. www.ft.com/content/fbee...
US manufacturing jobs fall at fastest rate since pandemic
Survey finds company executives struggling with rising costs and shifting policy
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Donald Trump vowed "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER" in launching his war with Iran. That promise has proved too true - for America. Intelligence expert and coalition founding member Kevin Nealer writes about Trump's new deal with Iran: open.substack.com/pub/cscoalit...
Fulfilling Trump's Promise to "Make Iran Great Again"
Trump's war on Iran has accomplished nothing - other than to weaken America, writes Kevin Nealer
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"The renovations were initially estimated to cost $1.8 million. It appears the cost of the project is now up to $14.7 million." www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/p...
Blue material peeling off bottom of Reflecting Pool, days after costly renovation | CNN Politics
Some blue material at the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is peeling off, days after the pool was painted blue and refilled as part of a multi-million dollar renovation ordered by Presi...
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A clarion call for all citizens: Protect the integrity of the vote. substack.com/@oldgoats/no...
Jonathan Alter (@oldgoats)
An all-too-plausible scenario for what Dick Gephardt, David Skaggs and Tim Wirth call a “rolling coup.”
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LISTEN: Founder @irashapiro.bsky.social speaks with Patty Vasquez @heartlandsignal.bsky.social about "Betrayed: America Didn't Vote for This" omny.fm/shows/drivin...
WCPT 820 Interview: Ira Shapiro - Driving It Home with Patti Vasquez
Patti Vasquez is joined by Ira Shapiro, co-author of "Betrayed: America Didn't Vote for This." Ira Shapiro is a lawyer, a long-time senior Senate staffer, and a former U.S. trade official. He is the ...
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The throughline of Trump's second presidency is contempt for the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...
Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right
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Today, on Trump’s 80th birthday, is the perfect present for the Trump -skeptical voter in your life. Co-edited by me and @irashapiro.bsky.social, authored by the experts of @cscoalition.substack.com www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0H2...
Betrayed: America Didn't Vote for This
is a journalist and lawyer. She is the author of (The New Press, 2024) and (The New Press, 2020), winner of the 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice.
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Coalition member and CIA veteran David Kanin joined the Spytalk podcast to talk about the dangers of Bill Pulte’s ill-fated nomination as DNI and about David’s experiences as a founding member of the legendary “red cell.” Listen here: open.spotify.com/show/0vFu51t...
SpyTalk
Podcast · SpyTalk, Jeff Stein · SpyTalk lives at the intersection of intelligence operations, foreign policy, homeland security, and military strategy. Hosted by veteran national security journalists…
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Senate historian and Common Sense Coalition Founder Ira Shapiro: "The Senate has been shameful in its failure to step up to this authoritarian blitz."
Per a Michigan State University survey of CDC researchers: www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...
95% of CDC workers say Americans will die because of federal cuts to the agency
Virtually all staffers (99%) say reductions in staff and lack of leadership have left the agency unprepared to respond to a pandemic or other public health emergency.
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ICYMI: Watch Founder Ira Shapiro on "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" on MSNOW this week www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXXO...
Senate Historian: Senate has been ‘shameful’ in failing to challenge Trump’s ‘authoritarian blitz’
Longtime United States Senate Staffer and co-editor of the book “Betrayed: America Didn't Vote for This” Ira Shapiro joins MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss his “damage assessment” of the second…
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Listen: @irashapiro.bsky.social on Background Briefing @kpfa.org kpfa.org/episode/back...
Background Briefing - June 10, 2026 | KPFA
On today’s briefing: Trump’s Plan to Destroy US Intelligence and Steal the Next Election We begin with Trump’s determination to destroy American Intelligence by placing an ignorant thug in charge of t...
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Founder @irashapiro.bsky.social speaks with @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social about "Betrayed: America Didn't Vote for This" Book available here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2RXHLG2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXXO...
Senate Historian: Senate has been ‘shameful’ in failing to challenge Trump’s ‘authoritarian blitz’
YouTube video by MS NOW
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"Betrayed: America Didn’t Vote For This isn’t a polemic. It’s a powerful recitation of facts that portray a presidency of unparalleled destructiveness." open.substack.com/pub/kentmhar...
Trump's 500 Days: America Didn't Vote For This
The desecration of the White House is not just another Trump travesty. It's a symbol of his destruction of America's power and principles. A new book details the damage done.
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A new twice-yearly HIV prevention injection could transform South Africa's fight against the epidemic — but U.S. aid cuts and limited doses threaten to slow its impact. n.pr/4e0BU37
South Africa rolls out game-changing HIV shot amid funding shortfalls
A new twice-yearly HIV prevention injection could transform South Africa's fight against the epidemic — but U.S. aid cuts and limited doses threaten to slow its impact.
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"There is more doubt among his base than what is generally acknowledged. ... One-third of the voters who approve of the president’s job performance also say they disapprove of his handling of various issues, including the economy, Iran, ... or immigration." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/u...
These Trump Voters Are Starting to Sound Like Skeptics
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