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Regime Hit From All Sides: $265 Million Pulled From Bank Financing Trump’s Detention Machine, Montana Forced A Vote To Ban Dark Money, and Two Judges Blocked Him Cold
Plus, DOJ lawyers got caught lying in court again
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JERSEY CITY PULLS $265 MILLION
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Jersey City Mayor James Solomon just made history. His city pulled $265 million from Citizens Bank—$150 million of it in a single day—in a direct rebuke of the bank’s financing of Trump’s detention machine. The city council voted unanimously to back the move.
Councilman Joel Brooks put it plainly: “What is happening at these facilities is not immigration enforcement. It is state-sponsored cruelty, bankrolled by institutions like Citizens Bank. We are done pretending that is acceptable.”
Citizens Bank has provided more than $2.5 billion in loans and financing to CoreCivic and GEO Group—the two companies that hold more than half the people ICE has locked up in America. Most major banks cut ties with them in 2019. Citizens Bank kept going—adding $100 million in new credit to the companies just this past January.
The Greater Boston Interfaith Organization pulled $3 million after the bank’s CEO agreed to meet with faith leaders at his own shareholder meeting—then refused to. More than 50 unions, faith groups, and community organizations have filed a petition to the board demanding Citizens cut ties entirely.
Pastors, union workers, and a unanimous city council all said the same thing this week: not with our money.
MONTANA FORCES CITIZENS UNITED VOTE
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Five hundred volunteers in Montana just did what most thought was impossible—they forced a vote on banning dark money in state elections onto the November ballot.
Initiative I-194 is the breakthrough. It works like this: states create corporations, and states decide what powers those corporations get. Montana voters will now decide whether spending in elections is one of them.
The volunteer campaign fanned out across all 56 Montana counties in 13 weeks and came back with nearly 50,000 signatures—they only needed 30,121. Jeff Mangan, who led the campaign, didn’t mince words: “To the out-of-state corporate interests trying to spread disinformation: look at the power of this volunteer army. That is what grassroots democracy looks like.”
Seventy-four percent of Montana voters support I-194—including majorities of Republicans and independents. Hawaii already showed it can be done by passing a similar measure last month. Now Montana gets to vote.
The Chamber of Commerce is already organizing against it. They’re scared. They should be.
COURT BLOCKS LATEST TRY TO GUT WATCHDOG
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For over a year, Trump has been trying to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)—the federal agency that has returned more than $21 billion to Americans scammed by financial predators. But the courts are blocking him cold.
On June 19, a federal appeals court halted Trump’s latest attempt to gut the agency, upholding an injunction issued by US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson that shields up to 1,400 employees from being fired.
Judge Jackson—who has been holding the line from the start—previously found that regime lawyers lied in her courtroom, leaving her with “little confidence that the defense can be trusted to tell the truth about anything.”
COURTS KEEP DISMANTLING TRUMP’S PLAYBOOK
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Trump’s lawyers admitted in federal court that the voter list the regime is building to decide who gets a mail ballot—the centerpiece of his plan to control the midterms—will be incomplete and inaccurate. They said it themselves, in open court, under oath. Think about that.
Trump signed the order in March, directing the Post Office to refuse mail ballots to anyone not on the federal government’s list and threatening states that refused to comply with losing their funding.
On Thursday, US District Judge Indira Talwani rejected the regime’s attempt to throw out a lawsuit challenging Trump’s voter suppression executive order. The legal fight will now move forward, with the November midterms just five months away.
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A city just pulled $265 million from a bank that finances ICE detention. Would you pull your money too? Tell me in the comments.
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JUST A FEW INFORMED COMMENTS:
Yes, I would. Because, if the government did what it promised only 1-2 facilities would be needed. After all they were only supposed to pick up violent criminals not just anyone with brown skin on a whim.
What gives me real hope is seeing regular people actually winning. A city council standing up to a major bank. Volunteers across Montana forcing dark money onto the ballot.
Judges refusing to let the regime steamroll people’s rights. It reminds me that we’re not powerless — we just have to keep showing up.
Keep on kickin' those flabby white R-butts!
A yanked $265 million from a bank funding Trump’s detention machine. Montana just forced dark money onto the ballot. And two federal judges shut the regime down in the same week. Ten years in, and the cracks are finally showing. Keep the pressure on.
100%! Now, if we can just freeze Trump and his family's assets..
t-RUMP should also be held accountable for demolishing the West Wing of America's White House. He should be charged with the willful destruction of historical public property and fined $120 million; $400 million to rebuild the wing back exactly the way it was before he took a wrecking ball to it. The balance of the money should be awarded as punitive damages and should be paid out to the American people for the distress of seeing their beloved White House partially destroyed. All banks, domestic and foreign that hold t-RUMP's funds should immediately freeze the accounts. All the money he and his family have made illegally by making a profit from the office of the presidency should be deposited in the treasury department to be used to restore the programs that his regime has demolished. Finally, they all should be imprisoned in a dark and nasty prison.
I couldn't agree with you more, except to add that all who have been traumatized and brutally, illegal taken to those concentration camps should also get reparations from Trump's grifting ways.
Your question: A city just pulled $265 million from a bank that finances ICE detention. Would you pull your money too?
My answer: Not only would I pull my money out, but I already have stopped patronizing many of the companies supporting DJT's immoral, unlawful, and MAGAt supported establishments. I am only one person who, by myself, won't make a even a ripple in DJT's cesspool of corruption, but a million "me" boycotting can and does make a difference.
YES! There were several local businesses that promoted POLITICAL VIEWS - NOT APPROPRIATE!
YOUR POLITICS may be your business, but your political choices don't belong in BUSINESS!
After posting and criticizing, they stopped their promotions.
You're in business to fill a need, NOT TO PROMOTE YOUR POLITICAL BELIEFS!
I live in a small, conservative town, ironically with a high percentage of public assistance recipients. I bank at our credit union. Early in my relationship with the CU, I received a blast email from them supporting some conservative person or idea, but I can't recall what it was. I made a fuss, saying that partisan politics doesn't belong in anything coming from the CU. They never did it again... and yes, I'm still on their email list. Bottom line... MAKE NOISE.
BRAVO! Sometimes a single voice MATTERS! Thank you!
In answer to your question, of COURSE I would.
Overall, at least from the news sources I read (NYT, you, Scott, some other substacks, wash post headlines, Newsweek headlines and others), trump is in so much trouble and is beyond desperate to rig, alter, hell: *cancel* the midterms because there’s no honest and legal way he could win… But is that what everyone sees?
What is the legacy press reporting? What is fox reporting?
Is anyone giving credence to his blatant lies anymore? The reflecting pool is an ideal metaphor… does even one person believe its ruination is due to vandals and not trump’s corruption and the simple, foreseeable scientific inevitability of algae in shallow warm water further heated with a dark background?
Ridiculous. Thanks for the rundown of bad news for trump, Scott!
Scott thank you for trusting yourself and us when you started this newsletter 10 years ago!!!! We need to know what is working!!!! Love how the states are figuring it out! How to get corporate money out of their elections is HUGE! Now we need all of the states to follow what states like Hawaii and Montana are doing.
AND thank you for reporting on the judges who are sticking to the law and calling foul when lawyers try to flim-flam their presentations and answers. Nobody puts a gun to any of these lawyers heads to force them to work for this administration. It is a crime that so many take DJT's bait.
Jersey City mayor James Solomon deserves a medal for pulling his city’s money from the bank that was financing Trump’s detention centers, which he accurately described as having nothing to do with immigration enforcement.
All states must follow Hawaii and Montana's lead on Citizen's United. Come on, Colorado, do what's right!!
CFPB is good for democracy. Let's go Judge Jackson and more.
Would I pull my money? The second I read that, I checked to see if Citizens Bank is the same as Citibank, which it is not. Don't have money with them but do have a credit card. Would have stopped using it if that was the case.
Granted, I pay off bills every month, so I'm not feeding them that way to begin with, but I wouldn't have completely closed a credit card account because that would have hurt only my credit score and not them.
Happy to hear all of this, especially "Trump’s lawyers admitted in federal court that the voter list the regime is building to decide who gets a mail ballot—the centerpiece of his plan to control the midterms—will be incomplete and inaccurate. They said it themselves, in open court, under oath."
How did anyone manage to get them under oath? His slimy toadies are slippery little suckers.
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