🚨 Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have announced the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Center Moratorium Act, legislation that would enact a reasonable pause to the development of AI to ensure the safety of humanity.
The biggest win for me is that independent journalists are reporting the REAL news! Keep it up! Thanks Scott—-amongst all the disgusting things this admin is doing it helps to read there are good things going on! Have a peaceful (hopefully) Memorial Day weekend everyone.
The Denzel Washington in my head wants to get from here into everyone's head repeating a message of the "kind" kind: "At your highest moment … be careful. That’s when the DEVIL comes for you!"
TRUMP OUTDOES HIMSELF IN DETONATING ANOTHER DISTRACTION FROM HIS CORRUPTION AND PERVERSIONS
Yesterday, Trump ordered the deportations of hundreds of thousands of people with jobs, homes and families in the U.S., who are awaiting the processing of their applications for Green Cards, to return to their countries of origin to apply for permanent visas. It is expected that ICE agents will be taking the lead in physically enforcing this order.
As cruel and bizarre as this action may be, it may not necessarily be attributed to Trump’s madness, viciousness and mental instability. On the contrary, it may fit his crafty pattern of creating a crisis as a strategy to deflect the public’s mind off of far more serious misconduct by Trump himself.
Trump’s action today to order his goons to eject hundreds of thousands of residents awaiting green cards appears to fit a pattern that we have been increasingly seeing ever since he first discovered how his initial surprise bombing of Iran almost totally distracted the American people from the utterly humiliating birthday military parade he threw for himself.
Trump thereafter deployed this strategy of distractions on occasions when he was faced with political setbacks, potentially humiliating disclosures, or other occasions when his poll ratings took a deep dive. His most blatant distractions have been during the Epstein hearings and disclosures and included his indiscriminate murders on the high seas of drug smugglers, whom he renamed “narco-terrorists” to make them more target justifiable, his invasion of Venezuela and the arrest of their President, his threats to seize Greenland, his second wave of bombing of Iran and this threats to destroy their civilization unless they submitted to his will.
It is not coincidental that Trump’s order today to eject these hundreds of thousands of residents from the U.S., comes within hours after Trump was thoroughly humiliated by the revelation that his own party has refused to fund his gold encrusted ball room and, more importantly, refused to support the plot he worked out with his Acting Attorney General to divert $1.7 billion dollars in taxpayer money to a slush fund for him to personally control and disburse, including payments to his co-conspirators who who were convicted after trial of storming the Capitol and leaving dead bodies in their wake.
There is, of course, the issue of whether Donald Trump, alone and unilaterally without the consent of Congress, has the sole right to arbitrarily order that these hundreds of thousands of residents awaiting green card be ejected from the United States. It’s inconceivable that Trump has this unilateral right.
For one thing, while not legally applicable, Trump’s order smacks of an ex post facto order or law. An ex post facto law, which is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution, is a law that retroactively makes conduct criminal, increases punishment, or worsens the legal consequences of an act after it was committed. Simply put, the government can’t say, “That thing you did last year was legal then, but we now declare it criminal and punish you for it.” While, this doctrine may not literally apply to Trump’s order today, the principle does. These people have been here legally and awaiting the processing of their green card applications. They have jobs, homes and families here. It is simply unfair, un-American and so alien to our inherent sense of fairness to allow Trump’s unilateral order to be enforced.
But perhaps that is not Trump’s end game. Given Trump’s utter humiliation in being denounced for expecting the American taxpayers to pay $500 million for his gold-encrusted ballroom and another $1.7 billion taxpayer dollars for his personal slush fund to disburse as he pleases, Mr. 3-Card Monte needed an immediate shock-wave to get the American people to look the other way, and that’s what this is really all about.
You hit the nail on the head. And these are tantrums of a wannabe Mafioso. Pretty obvious misguided distractions, I’d say. But he just wants to pass his pain on to someone else. “Hurt people want to hurt people.”
Very, very sad. I wish we could nip it in the bud in the moment because it takes the courts so long to correct the misdeeds.
The general impulses are his, but complex machinations are beyond his short attention span and cognition. The true architect of all this evil is that cabal of Miller, maybe Bannon, Vought, with input from the rest of the Xtian nationalist movement
Totally behind boycotting the 8 SEC states, as well I’m committed to not sending a red cent to my alma maters: UT Austin and UT Knoxville. Texas and Tennessee won’t see another penny from me and I hope other alumni of the 8 states do the same. Let our voices be heard through out bank accounts…
We've been boycotting Florida and all Red States that are extremely gerrymandered. The majority of Americans should boycott these Red States. We'll be heading back to Phillie PA, NJ and NYC next month on vacation. We are going to spend our thousands of vacation dollars in blue states that respect Americans. 🇺🇸🗽💪👍👏
Let’s not forget that it’s not just southern states that have gerrymandered their maps. Ohio has too despite the State Supreme Court declaring the maps unconstitutional 4 times. Ohio State should be included in any efforts to counteract voting rights.
This is a fine smorgasbord of good news from which to choose; however, being from MN I will have to choose Hennipin County attorney Mary Moriarty's charging ICE agent Christian Castro (#4). With two murders yet to be addressed, I am confident he will not be the last ICE agent charged by Ms. Moriarty.
Thank you for starting my weekend on an optimistic note. Kudos to one and all who are resisting the corruption and chaos. Kudos to our independent journalists on Substack, etc. I love that they are working together rather than competing with each other. In Solidarity!
Personally? I’m appalled at the Southern states and the Supreme Court ruling that is completely and blatantly racist. Any win for our Black AMERICAN neighbors, families and friends is the most valuable victory for our country.
🚨 NEW 🚨 Tell Congress: Block Trump's heist of taxpayer money for his felon-to-felon slush fund https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-block-trumps-theft-of-taxpayer-money-for-his-felon-to-felon-slush-fund/
🚨 Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have announced the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Center Moratorium Act, legislation that would enact a reasonable pause to the development of AI to ensure the safety of humanity.
Learn more & support this bill in Congress here: https://bit.ly/4twnWMU
🚨 SIX OTHER URGENT ACTIONS TODAY
Pass Bill to Create 25th Amendment Commission https://tinyurl.com/44afaxvd
Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service: https://tinyurl.com/mrx8cvv7
Demand Acting AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files: https://tinyurl.com/2uc9vca9
Defend voting rights! https://tinyurl.com/3f3m728j
Stop Trump from deporting people with Temporary Protected Status https://tinyurl.com/yc8rfa7j
Vote NO on SAVE Act: https://tinyurl.com/ms977ec6
The biggest win for me is that independent journalists are reporting the REAL news! Keep it up! Thanks Scott—-amongst all the disgusting things this admin is doing it helps to read there are good things going on! Have a peaceful (hopefully) Memorial Day weekend everyone.
The Denzel Washington in my head wants to get from here into everyone's head repeating a message of the "kind" kind: "At your highest moment … be careful. That’s when the DEVIL comes for you!"
lol he’s that in real life too James!
Not surprised, but glad to know.
You rock Tess!
This is a cool format. Fun, easy read. Thanks for the updates!
TRUMP OUTDOES HIMSELF IN DETONATING ANOTHER DISTRACTION FROM HIS CORRUPTION AND PERVERSIONS
Yesterday, Trump ordered the deportations of hundreds of thousands of people with jobs, homes and families in the U.S., who are awaiting the processing of their applications for Green Cards, to return to their countries of origin to apply for permanent visas. It is expected that ICE agents will be taking the lead in physically enforcing this order.
As cruel and bizarre as this action may be, it may not necessarily be attributed to Trump’s madness, viciousness and mental instability. On the contrary, it may fit his crafty pattern of creating a crisis as a strategy to deflect the public’s mind off of far more serious misconduct by Trump himself.
Trump’s action today to order his goons to eject hundreds of thousands of residents awaiting green cards appears to fit a pattern that we have been increasingly seeing ever since he first discovered how his initial surprise bombing of Iran almost totally distracted the American people from the utterly humiliating birthday military parade he threw for himself.
Trump thereafter deployed this strategy of distractions on occasions when he was faced with political setbacks, potentially humiliating disclosures, or other occasions when his poll ratings took a deep dive. His most blatant distractions have been during the Epstein hearings and disclosures and included his indiscriminate murders on the high seas of drug smugglers, whom he renamed “narco-terrorists” to make them more target justifiable, his invasion of Venezuela and the arrest of their President, his threats to seize Greenland, his second wave of bombing of Iran and this threats to destroy their civilization unless they submitted to his will.
It is not coincidental that Trump’s order today to eject these hundreds of thousands of residents from the U.S., comes within hours after Trump was thoroughly humiliated by the revelation that his own party has refused to fund his gold encrusted ball room and, more importantly, refused to support the plot he worked out with his Acting Attorney General to divert $1.7 billion dollars in taxpayer money to a slush fund for him to personally control and disburse, including payments to his co-conspirators who who were convicted after trial of storming the Capitol and leaving dead bodies in their wake.
There is, of course, the issue of whether Donald Trump, alone and unilaterally without the consent of Congress, has the sole right to arbitrarily order that these hundreds of thousands of residents awaiting green card be ejected from the United States. It’s inconceivable that Trump has this unilateral right.
For one thing, while not legally applicable, Trump’s order smacks of an ex post facto order or law. An ex post facto law, which is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution, is a law that retroactively makes conduct criminal, increases punishment, or worsens the legal consequences of an act after it was committed. Simply put, the government can’t say, “That thing you did last year was legal then, but we now declare it criminal and punish you for it.” While, this doctrine may not literally apply to Trump’s order today, the principle does. These people have been here legally and awaiting the processing of their green card applications. They have jobs, homes and families here. It is simply unfair, un-American and so alien to our inherent sense of fairness to allow Trump’s unilateral order to be enforced.
But perhaps that is not Trump’s end game. Given Trump’s utter humiliation in being denounced for expecting the American taxpayers to pay $500 million for his gold-encrusted ballroom and another $1.7 billion taxpayer dollars for his personal slush fund to disburse as he pleases, Mr. 3-Card Monte needed an immediate shock-wave to get the American people to look the other way, and that’s what this is really all about.
You hit the nail on the head. And these are tantrums of a wannabe Mafioso. Pretty obvious misguided distractions, I’d say. But he just wants to pass his pain on to someone else. “Hurt people want to hurt people.”
Very, very sad. I wish we could nip it in the bud in the moment because it takes the courts so long to correct the misdeeds.
The general impulses are his, but complex machinations are beyond his short attention span and cognition. The true architect of all this evil is that cabal of Miller, maybe Bannon, Vought, with input from the rest of the Xtian nationalist movement
Don’t forget Peter Thiel.
I wish I could
Favorite this week: Elizabeth the Parliamentarian!!! Standing strong. AWESOME.
Because contrary to what the conservatives have crowed about and done these past decades, right and wrong are not political.
Hoping this initial pushback on Trumps scandalous “settlement” and slush fund grows and grows until it’s dead in the water!
Totally behind boycotting the 8 SEC states, as well I’m committed to not sending a red cent to my alma maters: UT Austin and UT Knoxville. Texas and Tennessee won’t see another penny from me and I hope other alumni of the 8 states do the same. Let our voices be heard through out bank accounts…
Absolutely. And I will never travel to a red state for any reason whatsoever.
Includes TENNESSEE< very ORANGE
We've been boycotting Florida and all Red States that are extremely gerrymandered. The majority of Americans should boycott these Red States. We'll be heading back to Phillie PA, NJ and NYC next month on vacation. We are going to spend our thousands of vacation dollars in blue states that respect Americans. 🇺🇸🗽💪👍👏
Let’s not forget that it’s not just southern states that have gerrymandered their maps. Ohio has too despite the State Supreme Court declaring the maps unconstitutional 4 times. Ohio State should be included in any efforts to counteract voting rights.
Sweet and succinct news of the week, Scott! I am doing my happy dance!
Hard to pick a favorite because I love them all. But the athletes boycotting the southern colleges surprised and delighted me
This is a fine smorgasbord of good news from which to choose; however, being from MN I will have to choose Hennipin County attorney Mary Moriarty's charging ICE agent Christian Castro (#4). With two murders yet to be addressed, I am confident he will not be the last ICE agent charged by Ms. Moriarty.
Really warms my heart to see it listed out like this. Not a bad week at all! Keep it up, everyone!
Agree!!
Thank you for starting my weekend on an optimistic note. Kudos to one and all who are resisting the corruption and chaos. Kudos to our independent journalists on Substack, etc. I love that they are working together rather than competing with each other. In Solidarity!
Personally? I’m appalled at the Southern states and the Supreme Court ruling that is completely and blatantly racist. Any win for our Black AMERICAN neighbors, families and friends is the most valuable victory for our country.
My glimmer of hope is growing. Thank you, Scott!!
Keep up the awesome work! Love reading your successes! Thank you!