Slotkin Moves To Block Troops At The Polls, Obama Leaves Trump Off The Guest List, and Public Pressure Forces The Regime To Abandon Its Attack On Ocean Science
Plus, what are Trump’s 22 doctors hiding? Rep. Raskin demands answers
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TRUMP WASN’T INVITED
I stood next to Barack Obama the day he was sworn in back in 2009. So watching him open his presidential center on Thursday meant something special to me. Every living former president was there—Clinton, Bush, Biden. Donald Trump wasn’t invited.
Obama never said Trump’s name—he didn’t have to. He spoke instead of the values that hold a democracy together. Among them, that “our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our Constitution.”
He warned against a government that treats itself as “a way to divvy up the spoils, and punish enemies, and keep those who are different in their place.”
Michelle Obama drove it home: “Failing to see the humanity in people puts us all on a slippery slope.” And no one, she said, gets to decide who is “American enough.”
The center is a library, a basketball court, a garden where kids will play. Built to outlast Trump.
SLOTKIN DRAWS THE LINE AT THE BALLOT BOX
Trump won’t rule out putting soldiers at your polling place. But this week, Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan moved to make sure he can never do it.
Her bill is called the Protect Our Polls Act. It exists because Trump keeps telling us, out loud, what he intends to do. Last month, asked directly whether he’d send troops to the polls for the midterms, he wouldn’t rule it out. “I’d do anything necessary,” he said. He’s already sent agents to seize ballots and voter records in Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan.
Since the Civil War, no president has put armed troops between you and your ballot. Slotkin is making sure it stays that way. Because Trump only wants soldiers at your polling place for one reason—he’s terrified of losing Congress. He should be.
22 DOCTORS CAN’T MAKE TRUMP HEALTHY
It took 22 doctors to certify that Trump is in “excellent health.” Twenty-two—enough to fill a hospital ward, for one annual checkup, on a man the White House swears has never felt better.
On Thursday, Rep. Jamie Raskin asked the obvious question: who are these 22 doctors, and what exactly are they treating? The White House won’t say. Not their names, not their specialties, nothing.
Here’s what we do know, because Trump said it himself. He takes four times the recommended dose of aspirin—against his own doctors’ advice. His hands bruise so badly they’re often covered in makeup. His legs regularly swell. “That does not sound like a patient in ‘excellent health,’” Raskin wrote.
Raskin demanded the records be released, under oath—because no one needs 22 doctors and a wall of silence to prove they’re healthy.
THEY TRIED TO BLIND US. WE SAID NO.
The regime tried to rip 900 scientific instruments out of the ocean—sensors that track flooding, hurricanes, and the currents that drive Earth’s weather. This week, after massive public pressure, they were forced to back down.
In May, the regime’s National Science Foundation announced it would tear apart the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million network designed to run for 25 years—and it’s only a decade old. The excuse? Saving money. The cost? Blinding the country to dangers that hit everyone in the path of destructive weather.
Then the backlash hit. Scientists, fishermen, and coastal towns refused to let the regime wreck a program we paid for. They raised so much hell that the Senate passed a bill to stop it—every senator, Democrats and Republicans.
By Thursday, the regime caved—and the gear they’d already torn out is going back in the water.
They may be in power, but we have the numbers—and November is coming.
This week the regime got mocked, cornered, and beaten. That’s not luck. That’s what happens when people refuse to stay quiet.
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Onward!
Scott
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My own dad, a World War II veteran, as he put it, just a grunt. But a grunt who earned a bronze star as an army guy in the Pacific and some of the worst fighting on some of those islands. It wasn’t very big but he was tough, except he had a heart so big he would often cry!