Great News Trump Doesn’t Want You To See (But We Do)
Texas teens marched, Ossoff preached fire, Newsom delivered, and Colbert defied censorship
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TEXAS STUDENTS STAND UP TO FASCISM
On Presidents Day, Texas students took to the streets—marching peacefully, and standing up for their rights, and demanding better on their day off.
In San Antonio, hundreds of students and parents hiked to the Alamo, where state troopers in riot gear were waiting for them.
High school junior Daniel Perez spoke out loudly for his generation: “We are not here because we hate America, but because we love it enough to demand better … We love it enough to say that no government should rule by intimidation, and no community should live in constant fear.”
In Austin, students marched from City Hall to the Texas Capitol, chanting against ICE and demanding accountability for the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Similar protests took place recently in Dallas, Fort Worth, Pflugerville, Waco, and beyond.
Texas officials responded with a disturbing display of Trump-style authoritarianism. Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to arrest students. Attorney General Ken Paxton launched investigations into four school districts, demanding emails, attendance records, and falsely alleging that teachers and principals were behind the protests.
A teenager protesting peacefully on their day off is not a threat to democracy. If Abbott and Paxton want to see that, they just have to look in the mirror.
OSSOFF DELIVERS SCATHING SERMON
On Sunday morning, Sen. Jon Ossoff walked up to the pulpit at Big Bethel A.M.E. Church in Atlanta and delivered a blistering speech to a packed room.
Ossoff didn’t hold back. He called out Trump’s masked federal agents for “profiling, brutalizing, and killing American citizens,” and roasted Trump for being “a spiritually broken president who digs the moral pit deeper and deeper.”
Then Ossoff called out “today’s false prophets ... the election deniers who indulge this president’s obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this—they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing to tell, that the act of telling it proves the teller’s total and humiliating submission.”
Ossoff’s not running scared. With $25 million in his war chest, he’s on offense—spitting fire and putting Republicans on their heels.
NEWSOM LEADS AS TRUMP’S DUMPSTER FIRE BURNS
While Trump was busy ranting on social media, Gov. Gavin Newsom was in London doing what American presidents are supposed to do. He was building alliances, advancing real climate policy, and bringing home tangible investments from abroad.
Newsom and the UK Energy Secretary signed a memorandum of understanding on clean energy—offshore wind, carbon removal, and research partnerships to increase cooperation and investment between California and the UK.
Newsom then met with senior executives at Octopus Energy, where the company announced nearly $1 billion in new investments in California. Trump had a tantrum over the announcement, calling it “inappropriate.”
Actually, inappropriate is being in the Epstein files a million times. Trump’s just mad Newsom can close a billion-dollar deal without threatening to invade anybody.
YOU CAN’T SILENCE COLBERT
And Trump’s tantrums aren’t limited to Newsom. Stephen Colbert said CBS lawyers told him not to air his interview with State Rep. James Talarico, who is running for US Senate.
Standing in front of his audience, Colbert explained that the network’s legal team was enforcing an “equal time” rule for candidates that late-night shows have traditionally been exempt from for decades.
“Let’s just call this what it is,” Colbert said. “Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV.” Then Colbert posted the interview on YouTube anyway.
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Today I have two questions for you:
If you were Colbert, how would you have responded to those CBS lawyers?
You’re a Texas parent whose kid marched on Presidents Day. What would you say to Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton?
If we stick together through this, and maintain this energy, Congress is ours for the taking! Keep it up, folks.
I see you brought your own bit of fire this morning. Great work!