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DAILY DOSE OF DEMOCRACY: Trump waves the white flag in HUGE defeat

                   

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump waves the WHITE FLAG in HUGE defeat
Donald Trump's $1.776 billion insurrection slush fund is on thin ice, as acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has all but thrown in the towel on the brazenly appalling grift. In a statement released Monday, the DOJ said that, while they disagree strongly with the decision "put forth by the United States District Court Judge in the Eastern District of Virginia," they will nonetheless abide by its ruling.

Interestingly, US District Judge Leonie Brinkema did not "kill" the MAGA cult leader's slush fund. She simply placed a temporary ban until she could rule later this month on an emergency motion to block it. That our grifter-in-chief is preemptively waving the white flag really tells us all we need to know: the slush fund was so unequivocally unpopular across the board Donald had no choice but to tuck his crooked tail and amble away.

Take Action: Investigate and disbar acting Attorney General Todd Blanche!

Trump says "crazy" Netanyahu has made everyone hate Israel in furious phone call
According to two unnamed officials, the MAGA cult leader had a heated phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where he lambasted the war criminal, screaming, "You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."

"This" being Israel's continued violation of whatever's left of the latest meaningless ceasefire in the Middle East, where IDF strikes have claimed the lives of at least 3,400 Lebanese and injured another 10,000.

In his public remarks after the two leaders spoke, Trump laughably announced that a partial truce had been agreed between Israel and Hezbollah and that the call had been "very productive." How exactly does a "partial truce" work in war, by the way? Half the kablooey, or the same kablooey but somewhat less deadly?

Take Action: Boats are killing endangered right whales — stop Trump’s vessel speed limit rollback!

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Progressive champion Graham Platner SURGES in new polls
Graham Platner for Senate: The battle for Maine's Senate seat held by the perpetually "concerned" MAGA toady Susan Collins could mean the difference between Trump retaining control of the Senate or Democrats being able to put an end to his tyranny. But momentum is on our side! A pair of new polls shows former Marine, oysterman, and progressive champion Graham Platner leading Collins by two and SEVEN points, respectively. While Collins digs herself deeper and deeper into the hole with her votes for Trump's Big Bad Bill, Platner is surging on a message of economic populism, no more wars, and rightfully naming the Epstein class as the culprit for the woes of the American worker. Will you chip in to help us flip this critical Senate seat and make Trump a lame-duck president?

Pete Hegseth personally nixed Black and female officers' promotions
DUI hire threatened by DEI measures declares senior military officers' hard-earned promotions DOA. Can we DTMA?

Take Action: Demand Congress refund working families the money they lost on Trump's tariffs!

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60 Minutes star correspondent accuses CBS chief Bari Weiss of "murdering" the show
A 60 Minutes staff meeting reportedly flew off the rails Monday morning when longtime host Scott Pelley tore into Bari Weiss' new pick to run the news magazine as its new executive producer. Weiss, who was installed as the editor-in-chief of CBS News by Paramount Skydance CEO and longtime Trump ally David Ellison, tapped Nick Bilton, a former Vanity Fair writer with almost zero formal experience in broadcast journalism to lead the venerated program.

The meeting was intended to introduce Bilton to the show’s team, though Weiss herself was conspicuously absent. "Bari loves this institution," Bilton told staffers during the meeting. "She loves 60 Minutes."

Pelley was in no mood, countering, "She’s murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it — and she’s doing exactly that.

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Trump goes on midnight "lawfare" tear demanding past prosecutions be "dismissed"
Always the victim, ever aggrieved, Donald embarked on yet another late-night Truth Social tirade, demanding that criminal and civil convictions he suffered in New York be dismissed. Trump went on to demand that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James be held "criminally responsible for their terrible misdeeds," citing a Substack post Michael Cohen published in January where the ex-felon and former Trump-fixer shared some of his broader concerns on prosecutorial practices and the US justice system in general.

An applicant to Trump's racist South Africa refugee plan is a right-wing politician who admits he's never faced persecution
SJ Du Venage — a right-wing provincial council member and former youth leader of the far-right Conservative Party, which opposed the end of apartheid — has applied for asylum in the United States under Trump's nakedly racist refugee program aimed exclusively at white South Africans, despite admitting that he has never personally experienced any tangible mistreatment in his 56 years in the country. The life coach and former personal trainer explained that his specific refugee claim is based on nebulus fear of future persecution rather than past harm, both of which can qualify an applicant for Trump's program. Color us shocked!

MAGA pollster admits he's "concerned" about GOP turnout in the upcoming midterms: "Not a good sign"
"I am concerned about one thing, and that is Republican turnout. In Georgia, Democrats turned out 150,000 more early voters than Republicans in the state — the red state — of Georgia. That is not a good sign to me," GOP pollster Matt Towery told Fox News bloviator Sean Hannity last night.

On the contrary. It's a very good sign, and a very reasonable collective reaction to a Republican-controlled Congress willfully enabling the most corrupt president in American history.

US hospitals see diseases resurge as vaccinations decline
Transmission accomplished! Great job, Bobby.

AIPAC affiliate has funded lavish trips to Israel for dozens of Congress members since October 7, 2023, filings reveal
Dozens of members of Congress and Capitol Hill staffers have enjoyed lavish gifted travel to Israel funded by an Aipac affiliate since October 7, 2023, amid Israel’s expanding wars on its neighbors and despite plummeting levels of support among Americans for the country’s policies, a Guardian analysis has found.

Congressional ethics filings and other public records show the trips, led by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), revolved around one-sided briefings on Middle East politics and Israeli domestic and foreign policy. Lawmakers and their staffers from both parties met Israeli officials, military contractors and civil society figures, including Benjamin Netanyahu and advocates for the annexation of the West Bank and the displacement of Palestinians from Jerusalem.

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Hi there,

It’s Tuesday. An appeals court ruled the Pentagon illegally banned transgender troops from military service. As striking detainee immigrants in Newark suffer, NYC immigration courts are speeding up deportations.

And CBS Reporter Scott Pelley took aim at Bari Weiss for ‘murdering’ 60 minutes after ousting the show’s executive producer, executive editor and two top correspondents.

For decades, 60 Minutes has held presidents, corporations, and powerful interests accountable. Weakening it weakens the public’s ability to learn the truth. At a moment when Donald Trump and his allies are escalating attacks on the press, dismantling one of the country's premier investigative programs sends a dangerous message: that accountability journalism is expendable.

🖊️ Add your name to thank Scott Pelley for refusing to stay silent and for defending the mission of 60 Minutes when it matters most. News organizations should follow his example by standing up for editorial independence, protecting investigative reporting, and resisting political and corporate pressure - SUBSCRIBE TO JOIN CIVIC SHOUT and SIGN PETITIONS ON SIGNIFICANT ISSUES SUCH AS THIS!

Democracy needs more journalism like 60 Minutes—not less.



Read about this, and more, with today’s stories:

60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley accuses Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ show (The Guardian)

Pentagon policy illegally banned transgender troops from military service, appeals court panel rules (AP News)

Hegseth Personally Nixed Black and Female Officers’ Promotions (The New Republic)

NYC Immigration Courts Speed Deportations as Striking Detainees in Newark Suffer (The American Prospect)

AP report: Trump is reconsidering $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund as DOJ temporarily pauses it (PBS)

Cops Are Spying on People Who Criticize AI Data Centers Online (The Intercept)

Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season (Inside Climate News)

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Judge Kills State-Level SAVE Act, Communities Take Down Data Centers, and Gov. Wes Moore Takes A Sledgehammer To The Regime’s Rising Costs

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WES MOORE FIGHTS FOR AFFORDABILITY

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore

Everything the regime touches gets broken or more expensive—or somehow both. Tariffs at the checkout, climbing prices at the pump, massive cuts to basics like rental assistance and healthcare. All while Republicans shrug and keep blaming former President Joe Biden. It’s beyond pathetic.

Maryland is fighting back. Last week, Gov. Wes Moore signed a law restoring child care help for thousands of families stuck on a year-long waitlist—and shifting payments to a sliding scale, so what you pay is tied to what you earn. For some working parents, that’s hundreds of dollars a month back in the budget.

He also signed the Transit and Housing Opportunity Act, freeing up state land to build more than 7,000 new homes in a state desperately short of them.

Weeks earlier, Moore signed the Utility RELIEF Act, saving families at least $150 a year by forcing utilities and data centers to cover their own costs instead of dumping them on the people. Marylanders, he said, shouldn’t “foot the bill for data centers and utility executives’ bonuses.”

The regime makes everyone poorer except themselves and calls it a “Golden Age.” Maryland just proved Democrats deliver what Trump only promises—a life people can afford. And that’s an argument that flips Congress in November.

70,000 WORKERS MAKE HISTORY

Trump does whatever the billionaires want. He treats unions like the enemy, and has even packed the agencies that are supposed to protect workers with corporate insiders. Uber and Lyft were counting on exactly that when they labeled their drivers “independent contractors”—a fancy word that legally blocked them from forming a union.

Massachusetts blew the doors off the scheme. In 2024, voters there gave drivers the right to organize, and last month it paid off. The App Drivers Union is now official, representing all 70,000 ride-share drivers in the state. It’s the first union for gig workers in American history—and the biggest group of private workers to win a union since Ford autoworkers did it back in 1941.

Last week, thousands rallied to celebrate on the State House steps, as Gov. Maura Healey called it “a historic day for the state, for the country.”

Massachusetts just gave these drivers a seat at the table—and the days of taking home as little as 20 cents on every dollar a rider pays are numbered.

COMMUNITIES BEAT BIG TECH

Your electric bill is climbing so a giant tech company can run AI. That’s the “deal” the regime cut for you. Trump signed an executive order to rush data centers—massive warehouses packed with computers—into towns across the country. They guzzle enormous amounts of electricity and water, and they push everyone’s utility bills up. You get the costs. Big Tech gets the profits.

People have been pushing back hard. Last week in Andover, New Jersey, residents packed a town meeting and demanded their leaders say no to a proposed AI data center. When the officials voted to ban data centers outright, the room erupted in a standing ovation. That’s what the resistance looks like—neighbors coming together, refusing to hand over their town.

Andover isn’t alone. In Florida, one county just froze all new data center projects for a year. And in Minnesota, a judge blocked Google from building a plant that would have eaten more electricity than the state’s biggest power plant can produce.

At least sixty-nine communities across the country have now hit pause—and the regime’s plan to quietly blanket America in data centers is running into a wall.

A JUDGE KILLS VOTER SUPPRESSION LAW

US District Judge Samantha Elliott

Trump’s actively trying to rig the midterms, and most Republicans are going along with it.

New Hampshire’s version of the SAVE Act—a law requiring proof of citizenship to vote—was the first big test of a national GOP push. Show a passport or birth certificate to register, or get turned away. It was built to quietly purge college kids, married women who’d changed their names, and anyone born out of state from the voter rolls.

On May 29, US District Judge Samantha Elliott killed the law in a 98-page decision. One fact sealed it: across 8.3 million ballots over 26 years, there were 47 cases of wrongful voting—and only eight by noncitizens. The judge’s verdict: that kind of fraud “is essentially nonexistent.”

The ACLU’s Henry Klementowicz didn’t mince words, saying it belongs “in the dustbin of history.” It sure does.

Trump’s nowhere near as strong as he wants us to believe. The regime knows it too—that’s why they’re so desperate to fix the November election in their favor. They never expected Democrats to fight back this hard, and it’s costing them—as it should.

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Wes Moore just signed real cost-of-living relief into law. Should this be the Democratic playbook everywhere?

Republicans are passing voter-suppression laws state by state. Has one shown up where you live? Let me know in the comments!


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Signed a few days ago! Even if it doesn't actually work, it will be a stain on Roberts' legacy.


Roberts needs to answer questions about several things, including his wife's job of placing lawyers in companies that have been before the Supreme Court. Which is a rather lucrative job.


Praise to judge Samantha Elliot for spelling out the problems with the SAVE act.

And Wes Moore should be sainted! His acts to protect the citizens of his state should be the Dems’ playbook!



The single case of VOTER FRAUD in NEW HAMPSHIRE that I recall is a REPUBLICAN who voted in both MASSACHUSETTS and NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

NEW HAMPSHIRE doesn't want COLLEGE STUDENTS voting, among others. 

I did VOTER CANVASSING in New Hampshire. Lots of INDEPENDENTS registered, but someone told me that you can't do business with the state if you're 'partisan' - registered with a PARTY. 

New Hampshire funds public education with REAL ESTATE TAXES with predictable results. I was sent into REPUBLICAN VOTING areas and the educational disparities were stunning!  


All of these huge state victories give me hope. There are way too many of us—running their businesses and cities, teaching their kids, powering the labor movement. They’ll never be as powerful as they pretend to be!


Exactly, Ms. Jonington. Trump and his regime are NOISE. We are ACTION!


I think it’s safe to say Trump STILL has no idea how powerful our resistance movement is. That’s ok—he’s about to find out!


Well said, Sam! When you live in a bubble where everyone shields you from reality, it eventually catches up to you. It is snowballing in Trump's direction.


That stupid image he put out, with him dumping bags of sh## on cities in the US from a jet says it all about his ignorance of who we are.


From your post to God's ears Sam. This has to stop already. I'm so tired of his deranged posts and interviews. He has late stage dementia and people listen to his ranting. He has wars happening all over the world one of which he started and he only can talk about himself, his ballroom, the reflecting pool and putting his face on everything. I can't wait till he is gone and I never have to hear from him again.


Gov. Moore is doing what ALL states-at least those blue states, need to do. We are all sick & tired of being robbed blind & unable to care for ourselves & families.

I haven't seen any evidence-yet-of voter suppression here in NJ. I live in a red zone of a blue state, so we'll see.

Thanks for the smile this morning. I do believe we are seeing the degeneration of the regime!


Good morning, Scott! I'm charged up again, thanks to your news today.

Wes Moore just signed real cost-of-living relief into law. Should this be the Democratic playbook everywhere? Yes BUT they need to drive home that the reason the DEMS are fixing these problems is because the GOP willfully created them, and will do so again if given a chance.

Republicans are passing voter-suppression laws state by state. Has one shown up where you live? Not as far as I know. I am in a Blue state and track each of my ballots. It works very well and I haven't notice any suspicious activity; though I wouldn't be surprised if there were some surreptitious activity out there.


We will be fighting to keep our mail in ballots here in Washington state. We have had it for years with almost no fraudulent voting. Like less than 10 in any presidential election. And most of those were relatives filing dead relative's ballots. We have to show 3 pieces of proof of residency including either a drivers license or a state id, a utility bill, and either a rental agreement or home ownership record. Of course such things as birth certificates and passports are accepted, too. We are also fighting this administration to keep our state's voters role out of their hands!


Say YES to Wes everywhere. Since NC is largely Red, I am not aware of voter suppression.


Yes, absolutely, what Gov. Wes Moore did in Maryland should be a blueprint for every state! If the federal government takes away funds for child-care help, the states can give them back to their citizens! If the federal government tries to buy up land in any state for their stupid data centers, the states can put forth the Transit and Housing Opportunity Act to help their citizens with housing. If the CEOs and the federal government think they can make consumers pay for their 'costs' for running utilities and data centers, the states can pass the Utility Relief Act forcing them to pay their own costs instead of trying to pass it on to the consumer. WooHoo! Way to go, Gov. Moore! Since I live in Florida, I am certain there will be plenty of issues about voting. It is a deeply red state and the magas outnumber the Democrats and Independents. That will not stop me from fighting and resisting every single day! Keep fighting, America! Stay strong and stay safe!


Scott, I live in Florida so of course DeSantis has attempted to suppress the vote.


I live in NJ so I have not heard of any voter suppression going on here, but the Delaney Hall stuff is horrific. This regime won't stop until we stop them. They are feeding people moldy and putrid food. And some of the people they put in there are kids. These people are just sick. Our governor needs to do MUCH more. Hell they pepper sprayed one of our Senators, Andy Kim, the other day.

I am just waiting for the day the pendulum swings and these people get what they deserve. A vacation to prison.

MAGA support Trump b/c they love the hate other Trump supporters are wealthy & love the $$ he throws at them

Illiteracy is a huge problem in America & it harms not only the illiterate citizen but country - many, many MAGA are functionally illiterate

Half or more of the country is illiterate - can't read at a high enough level to develop critical analysis skills - if you can't read you can't think & fall prey to hate and fear and MAGA appeals to you


YES! And it's the RED STATES that are worse - lack of education creates malleable masses! 

They're the states that believe posting the TEN COMMANDMENTS in classrooms will compensate for their PISS POOR EDUCATION....or that distributing TRUMP'S OVERPRICED BIBLES printed in CHINA will conceal their failures. 

A friend was sent to teach CALCULUS to high school seniors in a RED STATE. 

Billboard at entrance to community: 

FREE PAP SMEARS 

WOMEN ONLY  


Her class of HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS were unable to do ARITHMETIC - ADDITION, SUBTRACTION,MULTIPLICATION, DIVISION. 


If the inability to READ is harmful, how do you function if you can't do ARITHMETIC? 


This article is from 2014:

The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the "dumbing down" of America

https://www.sott.net/article/313177-The-cult-of-ignorance-in-the-United-States-Anti-intellectualism-and-the-dumbing-down-of-America 



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