Great News, Unless You’re Trump
Protests against the big evil bill, Key West stands up to the Trump regime, and more
With Trump still trying to steal our healthcare, I’m happy to have another edition of Great News for you today. I hope it lifts your spirits and gives you a break from the madness—even if just for a moment.
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In the House, Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries is stalling a vote on Trump’s big evil bill by utilizing something called the “Magic Minute.” He’s using the rule—which allows leadership unlimited time to speak—to delay the vote as long as possible. As of now, he’s been speaking for more than 8 hours straight.
The California Nurses Association helped organize a protest outside of GOP Rep. Young Kim’s Anaheim field office. Folks were demanding she vote no on Trump’s big evil bill, chanting “Shame!” Well deserved, Rep. Kim.
Folks also gathered for a candlelight vigil held outside of GOP Rep. Claudia Tinney’s Canandaigua, NY, office. Speakers shared their personal stories, and spoke about how losing their healthcare would impact their families.
Last week in Carlinville, IL, some bad actors parked a dumpster and a truck—both full of manure—outside the regular anti-Trump protest spot. In response, around five times as many people showed up to this week’s protest. That’s what I call backlash.
Nearly all of the members of the City Commission in Key West, FL, voted to cancel the agreement between the city’s police and ICE. This would mean that the Key West Police Department will no longer hold detainees for ICE, or share arrest data with them. DeSantis threatened retaliation, but they aren’t backing down.
DeSantis has other things to worry about right now anyway, as his abomination of a detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” flooded, due to a regular rainstorm.
The good news is that this new evidence can be added to the lawsuit aimed at shutting the facility down. It’s a colossal disaster in the making, from all angles—one that DeSantis, Trump, and Noem all deserve the blame for.
In the courts, a federal judge halted Trump’s attempt to ban immigrants from claiming asylum at the US-Mexico border. A lawsuit was filed against the Trump regime for violating privacy laws by releasing Medicaid data on undocumented immigrants to ICE.
Dem Rep. Debbie Dingell took nearly 15,000 letters from folks in Michigan—all who would be negatively impacted by the big evil bill—and entered them into the Congressional record. Dingell said she wanted to make it clear “exactly what Republicans are doing if they support this bill.”
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We should rename “Alligator Alcatraz.” What do you think we should call it?
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They love fear.
They cheer for pain.
They laugh at cruelty.
They worship inhumanity.
This is MAGA.
This is evil.
Stop this bill.