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Great News That’s Terrible For Trump: His Map Died and That Wasn’t Even The Best Part

The regime can’t stop losing

Scott Dworkin Sep 12

Come sit down with me, grab your coffee or whatever you’re drinking. I’ve got great news for you today. I’m not here to walk you through all of the terrible things Trump did this week. I’m here to focus on big wins against him and his regime.

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The Librarian Got Paid

Patty Hector told the Saline County quorum court—the county’s legislature—there was nothing wrong with the books they wanted out of the children’s section. In August 2023 the quorum court handed the power to fire library staff to the county judge, and that October he fired her. Days before a jury was set to hear the case, the county settled for $275,000, paid out of a statewide county risk fund.

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He Walked Back Into His Own Country

Brian José Morales García told federal agents he was born in Denver and that his birth certificate was at his house in Austin. They deported him to Mexico anyway, in April, after a trooper stopped the crew he installs air conditioners with. His lawyers presented that same birth certificate, and Brian walked back into his own country on August 30. His damages case is now moving forward.

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A Judge Slammed The Door And Locked It

The Trump regime wanted ICE to operate out of New Jersey’s state buildings. Gov. Mikie Sherrill said no, so they sued 12 days later. Judge Georgette Castner tore apart the regime’s arguments and threw the case out with prejudice. They can’t file it again.

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Trump Bragged About This Permit. It’s Gone.

New Jersey rejected the Raritan Bay pipeline twice. When the state reversed itself last November, Trump’s Energy Department claimed credit in writing, saying he and his energy council “worked across party lines to secure the necessary permits.” On Tuesday, the Third Circuit tore that permit up.

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New York Got Him

On Jan 6 Thomas Sibick attacked DC police officer Michael Fanone, stole his badge, and buried it in his backyard. Trump pardoned him, which let him walk out 18 months into a 50-month sentence. This month in Erie County, New York, Sibick pleaded guilty to a state weapons felony. A president can’t pardon that. Sibick faces up to seven years.

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The Ballots Are Going Out The Old Way

On September 4, Judge Indira Talwani blocked Trump’s order directing the Postal Service to deliver mail ballots only in states that first handed over their voter files. This week, a federal appeals court backed Talwani up, finding “no record evidence of past fraud” anywhere in the case. States already started mailing ballots under the old rules.

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Eight Months In, He Opened The Boxes

New Yorkers demanded answers from City Hall for 25 years about the air quality downtown after 9/11. On Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani put 170,000 pages online. Sick responders and their families now hold the city’s own paperwork, including a 2001 memo laying out ways to limit what New York could be made to pay.

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They Beat It With A Petition

Trump wanted Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City district gone, so Missouri Republicans redrew the map. More than 300,000 Missourians filed a referendum petition two days before the new lines could take effect, and the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously the map never became law. Republicans went to the Supreme Court twice this week to save it and lost both times. November runs on the old lines, and voters get the map on the ballot.

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COMMENTS: 

For anyone sitting on the fence, the article from COMMON DREAMS explained the MEDICARE ADVANTAGE SCAM that will kick SENIORS off HEALTHCARE (FOR PROFIT HEALTHCARE SUCKS!): 

To Boost Profits, Medicare Advantage Giants Move to Kick Over a Million Seniors Off Their Plans

Humana said it is exiting plans covering roughly 600,000 seniors to “drive the intended margin expansion.”

excerpt - don't miss this: 

The companies laid out their profit-boosting strategies months after the Trump administration provided a substantial payment increase to Medicare Advantage plans, which are run by private companies and funded by taxpayer dollars. MA companies are notorious for denying necessary care and overbilling the federal government through practices such as upcoding, whereby patients are made to appear sicker than they are to reap a larger federal payment.

“President Trump, Dr. Oz, and leaders in Congress have talked a big game for two years about reining in waste, fraud, and abuse, but instead they increased insurer payment by multiple times more than what the administration originally proposed,” Anthony Wright, executive director of Families USA, said in response to the April payment hike.

During his remarks to the GOP midterm convention on Wednesday, President Donald Trump vowed to “stop all government payments to big insurance companies”—an apparently inadvertent call for the elimination of privately run Medicare Advantage plans, which received over $534 billion from the federal government last year.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/medicare-advantage-benefit-cuts?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=edd78c1cfb-Week+in+Review+%7C+Sun.+8%2F15%2F26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-e45aa92678-600713157&mc_cid=edd78c1cfb&mc_eid=766c895bd8

MASSACHUSETTS has a WEALTHY tRumper running for GOVERNOR, MIKE MINOGUE promoting tRump's LIES, DISINFORMATION and DISTORTIONS carefully crafted to MISLEAD....especially about CLEAN, RENEWABLE ENERGY and current state policies. 

Note also that he is NOT an ECONOMIST, never includes FACTS or STATISTICS. 

Donald Trump Is Laughing All the Way to the Bank... at the End of the World

By embracing fossil fuels and shutting down renewable energy, “our” president is making a fortune off end-of-the-world policies. Think of him, in fact, not figuratively, but all too literally, as the president from hell.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-profit-climate-crisis?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=edd78c1cfb-Week+in+Review+%7C+Sun.+8%2F15%2F26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-e45aa92678-600713157&mc_cid=edd78c1cfb&mc_eid=766c895bd8

Say no to unqualified cronies on the postal board

 

Donald Trump is once again trying to sell off one of our most essential public institutions -- the U.S. Postal Service. His latest move? Nominating two of his ultra-wealthy megadonors, Anthony Lomangino and John LaValle, to the USPS Board of Governors. These men have no background in postal operations or public service -- but they do have a clear mission: help Trump push privatization and turn mail delivery into a profit-driven enterprise. That’s not just wrong -- it’s a direct threat to the communities who rely on USPS the most. Rural areas, Indigenous nations, and underserved neighborhoods could lose critical access to mail delivery, prescription medications, vote-by-mail ballots, and other basic services if a private corporation takes control. For many of these communities, there’s not much profit to be made -- only a public responsibility that must not be abandoned. Lomangino is a Mar-a-Lago donor who poured nearly $9 million into a Trump super PAC and even paid legal bills for Trump allies under federal investigation. LaValle is a long-time GOP party boss with deep ties to MAGA politics. Neither was nominated for their qualifications. They were nominated to rubber-stamp Trump’s plan to dismantle the Postal Service’s public mission, declare it “failing,” and hand it over to corporations that will raise prices, slash routes, and abandon communities that aren’t considered profitable. Send a direct message to your Senators: reject Trump’s USPS Board nominees. Say no to corruption and inequality -- and yes to a Postal Service that serves everyone, not just the wealthy and well-connected. Sign and Send Let’s be clear: privatizing the Postal Service would devastate the people who depend on it most. In rural and Indigenous communities, USPS is often the only delivery option -- for medicine, bill payments, business supplies, and everyday communication. No private company will serve every address if there’s no money to be made. That’s why this is not just a policy issue -- it’s a question of equity, justice, and even our national identity. The Postal Service doesn’t exist to turn a profit. It exists to serve everyone, in every ZIP code, regardless of income or geography. That’s what sets it apart from private industry -- and that’s what Trump’s nominees threaten to destroy. Instead of selling it off, we should be modernizing the USPS: expanding services like postal banking for the unbanked, deploying electric vehicle charging stations, and supporting government efforts like the Census. No other agency has the infrastructure or reach to serve every corner of the country as fairly and affordably as the Postal Service. If Lomangino and LaValle are confirmed, Republicans would take a 4–2 majority on the USPS Board, with two more seats left to fill. The path to full privatization -- and massive service cuts -- would be wide open. Tell your Senators to reject Trump’s USPS Board nominees. Say no to privatization and cronyism, and keep the post office as a valued public service. Thank you for standing up for the public good -- and for defending the right of all communities to be seen, served, and respected. - LeeAnn LeeAnn Hall Director, National Campaign for Justice SUPPORT OUR WORK PAID FOR AND AUTHORIZED BY JUST STRATEGY, JUSTSTRATEGY.ORG.

FedEx Exec soon to be Postmaster General

 

Donald Trump and his billionaire allies like Elon Musk want to break up and sell off the Postal Service, one of America’s most trusted public institutions, to the highest bidder. Wall Street is already licking its lips. They don’t care that veterans won’t get medications on time. That seniors will pay more just to get mail and packages. Or that the most rural areas including hundreds of Indigenous communities will be left behind, without access to affordable postal services. Wall Street sees profit margins. We see people. And we refuse to let them win. FedEx and UPS already slap surcharges on 62% of ZIP codes. And if the USPS is privatized, these hidden fees will skyrocket, with working-class families, rural communities, and small towns left paying the price. Now, the USPS Board of Governors has installed Donald Trump’s pick as the next Postmaster General: FedEx’s David Steiner. That’s right, Steiner currently serves on the FedEx board, holds 34,438 shares of FedEx common stock, currently worth $7.4 million, and owns FedEx stock options worth millions more. Now, he’s set to hold the top position at the United States Postal Service where he can sabotage from within and fast-track Trump’s privatization plans. We must stop him. Contribute whatever you can – $5, $25, $2500 – whatever you can afford and rush the resources we need to protect the post office now. RUSH A DONATION >> This is terrible news, but this fight isn’t over. Not even close. Thanks to public outcry and our relentless coalition organizing, Trump’s original privatization plan was an executive order to fire the Postal Board and move the agency under the control of the Commerce Department and we stopped it dead in its tracks. Now, we’ve delivered over 300,000 letters to Congress demanding they pass H.Res.70 and S.Res.147 to block privatization. With over 200 co-sponsors, we have bipartisan support from Republicans representing dark red districts to Democrats in dark blue ones and everywhere in between. The only way to kill Trump’s privatization plan for good is to keep applying pressure. Rush a donation to help us crush Trump’s privatization plan and keep the Postal Service public, protected, and powerful for every ZIP code in America now. We will succeed, but only if we don’t give up. Thank you for being a critical part of this team. - Annie and the Save the Post Office Coalition Team P.S. For more information, please see my message from yesterday below. --- Original Message --- Thanks to reporting by The Washington Post, we found out with almost no time to mobilize that the USPS Board of Governors was considering installing FedEx official David Steiner as the next Postmaster General. Our nationwide network immediately took action, sending an incredible 22,277 direct messages to the postal board in less than 24 hours. Thank you. Unfortunately, we still have to deal with the reality of a FedEx guy running USPS: According to the most recent FedEx proxy statement, Steiner holds 34,438 shares of FedEx common stock, currently worth $7.4 million. He also owns FedEx stock options worth millions more. Put another way: he has a monetary interest in slowing or destroying the Postal Service. We can’t sugarcoat it. This is worse than when Trump installed DeJoy, much worse. DeJoy was a disaster, but at least he wasn’t on the board of a company that would actively profit from USPS’s destruction. Installing Steiner opens the door for corporate sabotage from within, handing control of one of our most beloved public institutions over to someone whose financial interests are directly opposed to the USPS’s success. This is a disaster, but we can’t give up. Instead, we must redouble our efforts and fight to win. We often stopped the worst impacts of Louis DeJoy’s failed leadership, we can – and will – do it again. But we need your support in this fight. Please rush a contribution now. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your secure donation will go through immediately: Chip in $25 now   Chip in $75 now Chip in $150 now   Chip in $300 now Chip in $500 now   other amount This fight isn’t over. We will not let the Trump administration, FedEx, or the postal board of governors privatize the post office. Not now. Not ever. Rush a contribution to fund our work leading the Save the Post Office Coalition and together we’ll stop Trump’s privatization plan now. - Annie Annie Norman (she/her) Campaign Director Save the Post Office Coalition Americans for Financial Reform Support This Campaign Paid for by Americans for Financial Reform

Trump’s funding freeze violated separation of powers, judge rules

 

Thursday, March 6 Trump’s funding freeze violated separation of powers, judge rules In the challenge brought by 23 Democratic attorneys general, a federal judge said the Trump administration’s freezing of congressionally allocated federal funds is unconstitutional and violates Congress’s power of the purse. And, Trump violated federal law in removing labor board chair A D.C. federal judge ruled President Donald Trump’s firing of Gwynne Wilcox, chair of the National Labor Relations Board, was illegal. This marks the most recent ruling against Trump's unlawful terminations. A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSOR The Trump administration is giving DOGE unrestricted access to Americans’ personal data, including our finances, health records, and social security data. This leaves every one of us vulnerable to data breaches, mass surveillance, politically motivated attacks, and worse. Join the ACLU in demanding that Congress act now to stop DOGE from violating our privacy. Federal watchdog head drops lawsuit challenging his dismissal Hampton Dellinger, the head of a federal watchdog agency, dropped the lawsuit challenging his removal by Trump. A lower court ruled last week that Trump unlawfully fired Dellinger, but yesterday, an appeals court allowed the termination to move forward. One of the smallest U.S. agencies sues to block DOGE from shutting it down The U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) filed a lawsuit with Democracy Forward to block the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from shutting it down. The lawsuit alleged DOGE staffers first gained access to USADF under the false pretenses of updating the agency’s computer systems. After USADF learned DOGE instead intended to shut down the agency, it cut the agency’s access to its headquarters. A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSOR The so called Department of Government Efficiency is composed of unvetted outsiders who have forced their way into the government’s most protected systems without care or consideration for the safeguards created by Congress to keep our data safe. Join the ACLU in calling on Congress to step up and check the president’s violations of our rights. Arizona court revives RNC challenge to election procedures manual The Arizona Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision dismissing a Republican attempt to invalidate the 2023 Election Procedures Manual (EPM), which governs how elections are run in the state. The case now returns to the trial court for further proceedings. Trump plans order to take over USPS, threatening mail voting Trump is considering an executive order to dissolve the leadership of the United States Postal Service and absorb the independent agency into his administration. Marc Elias explains in a new video why, as Democracy Docket has reported, this would be a major threat to mail-in voting.