Trump’s Racist Garbage Comments Spark Protests in Somalia While Duckworth Blasts His Abuse Of Power and AOC Exposes His Tariffs As Cover For Greedy Corporate Price Gouging

Onward!

Scott Dworkin Dec 8

Before we start another week of Trump’s mayhem, I’m glad to have more great news for you today. I hope it gives you some relief from this regime’s madness—even if only for a moment.

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MARCHING IN THE RAIN

Recently, in New Orleans, folks marched downtown in the pouring rain against ICE’s expanded operations in the community. The weather failed to dampen the fired-up crowd, who held a banner that read “ICE/Border Patrol Out Of NOLA!” while chanting “No ICE, no fear, immigrants are welcome here.”

Demonstrators made it clear they would keep pushing back as long as the Trump regime’s bogus operation continues there. One attendee said: “The rain doesn’t stop ICE, and the rain is not going to stop us.” You got that right!

PROTEST AGAINST NOEM

On Saturday, failing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem went to Chicago for a photo op at a holiday charity event, where she was “welcomed” by protesters. Holding signs that read “Santa’s watching” and “Hands off Chicago,” folks did not appreciate Noem and her goons making a mockery of the occasion.

They also did some caroling to spread cheer, singing: “Oh Kristi Noem, oh Kristi Noem, we’re going to fight until we win.”

RALLY AGAINST TRUMP IN AFRICA

On Friday, a large crowd of people in Mogadishu, Somalia, protested against Trump. They were rallying to reject Trump’s racist comments about the Somali community, including one in which he called immigrants from the country “garbage.” One attendee responded: “We are not garbage. He is the one who is trash.”

Meanwhile, Dem Rep. Ilhan Omar—who is Somali-American—blasted Trump’s hate in a scathing op-ed in The New York Times. “[Trump] knows he is failing,” she wrote. “And so he is reverting to what he knows best: trying to divert attention by stoking bigotry.” Omar added: “We will not let Mr. Trump intimidate or debilitate us. We are not afraid. After all, Minnesotans not only welcome refugees, they also sent one to Congress.”

AOC PROTECTS AMERICANS

Trump’s reckless tariffs are a tax on Americans—plain and simple. But they’re also being used as an excuse for greedy corporations to excessively raise their prices on working folks. To fight back, Dem Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the No GOUGE Act to “protect consumers and small businesses from corporations that use tariffs as cover to price gouge everyday Americans.”

AOC said: “Trump campaigned on lowering costs for consumers, but his policies in office are having the opposite effect: squeezing consumers and small businesses who can’t afford to keep up—while large corporations that make billions in profits pass higher prices on to working people.”

DUCKWORTH LAYS DOWN THE LAW

During an interview aired Sunday, Dem Sen. Tammy Duckworth slammed Trump and Hegseth over their military strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.

Duckworth said: “Everything that they’ve done has been illegal. It’s illegal under international law. It’s illegal under the Geneva Convention. And it certainly is illegal even under domestic law. It was essentially murder.”

And Duckworth added: “It is a war crime … I’ve been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war … you are supposed to help render aid … you’re not allowed to go back in and kill them.”

Duckworth isn’t afraid to speak the truth and neither are we. For the last decade, we’ve stood up to Trump and his goons—refusing to let them rewrite history or bury their crimes. We deliver the facts that others are too scared to print, while mobilizing a massive resistance to hold them all accountable.

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Onward!

Scott

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