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Week of May 25th, 2025
""Finally rooting out waste and abuse.", Tim Walz
Ginger
6/1/20256 min read
Here goes...
1. U.S. born citizen with REAL ID was handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released. They wrestled him to the dirt and accused him of having a fake RealID (yes, he even had a RealID) because he LOOKED illegal. And I saw folks online saying, “why do you have a problem, did you miss the part where he was released?” Bloody Hell the racism. As if it is okay to treat people like this, and because he was not sent to a gulag, he’s fine and who cares. It’s pretty obvious that the utter indifference comes from the fact that he is brown. Imagine if they were wrestling white people to the ground and accusing them of having fake credentials.
2. For those continuing to say that due process only applies to citizens, first, you are wrong (just wrong). Second, how do you know if someone is illegal without due process? Three, why would you not want all people to be treated with fairness. And four, from the Judge this week to DHS lawyers“To be clear, the Court recognizes that the class members at issue here have criminal histories. But that does not change due process. “The history of American freedom is, in no small measure, the history of procedure. Malinski v. New York, 324 U.S. 401, 414 (1945) (Frankfurter, J., concurring). It is procedure that spells much of the difference between rule by law and rule by whim or caprice. Steadfast adherence to strict procedural safeguards is our main assurance that there will be equal justice under law.” Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Comm. v. McGrath, 341 U.S. 123, 179 (1951) (Douglas, J., concurring). The Court treats its obligation to these principles with the seriousness that anyone committed to the rule of law should understand.”
3. They knew the people they were deporting were not criminals.
4. Another one of Trump’s inspiring holiday messages.
It was so great how he acknowledged the fallen soldiers and their families….er…
5. Sidenote: More people were shot and killed in America over Memorial Day weekend than are killed by guns in Japan and the UK combined during an average year. It’s not DEI, drag shows, or library books, or mental health that caused that. It’s guns. If you know me, you know I like guns. I have several. I’d like to buy more. But the situation in the US is nothing less than tragic every single day and we have people saying it’s the “price of freedom”. Shot up school kids is the price of freedom. No, it’s the price of rampant greed, political corruption, and weird ideology.
6. Interesting comment from David Attenborough, “There are more empty homes than homeless people. There is enough food to feed everyone. There is enough money to fund healthcare and education. Scarcity isn’t real. It’s manufactured to keep profits high.” When you watch the Republican budget process you see the truth in this. Cutting Medicare, Medicaid, food for the poor and elderly, all while giving massive debt-exploding tax breaks for the super-rich.
7. Trump just pardoned TV personalities Todd and Julie Chrisley who conspired to defraud Atlanta-area banks out of $36 million in fraudulent loans, as well as massive tax evasion. (NYT, MSN, ABC, etc.)
8. The President of the United States of America is now selling a one-on-one meeting with him for a $5 million gift to his MAGA PAC. This is as corrupt as it gets, it’s right out in the open, Republicans in congress will do absolutely nothing. And again, for the billionth time I have to ask, what if Obama or Biden had done this!?!?!?
What do you get? Well (one example) after the “donation” Pilgrim's Pride, a leading poultry manufacturer, got the Trump administration to change a policy that agreed not to increase salmonella testing. (Daily Beast, New Yorker, Yahoo).
He’s not just fundraising; he is shamelessly selling influence. It’s called bribery. And he is creating a loyal oligarchy. Just what our founding fathers hoped for amirite?
9. Trump is melting down because folks on Wall Street are calling him TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out” with regard to his (stupid) tariff wars. “Savvy investors say they’ve figured out how to make a bundle via “TACO” trades.” (Yahoo, YouTube)
When asked by a reporter about it he has a pretty predictable meltdown, “Don’t ever say what you said!”. Trump said. “That’s a nasty question. To me, that’s the nastiest question.”
10. GOOD NEWS ALERT: A federal judge has ruled that 14 states can proceed with a lawsuit against Elon Musk that claims he and DOGE illegally accessed government data systems, canceled government contracts, and fired federal workers. 14 state lawsuits against Musk may now proceed. (US News and World Report, Axios, PBS)
11. Musk is “leaving” government, thank God, but the damage is done. He spent months closing or gutting agencies that had investigations and lawsuits against he and his companies. He deleted data he didn’t like, stole the rest. He used private non-vetted servers. This is not substantiated but he likely installed backdoors and malware into government systems. The U.S. federal government is permanently damaged and compromised thanks to Republicans, Trump, and Musk. A drug addict with a God complex was allowed to do permanent damage to our country for his own selfish reasons. Great.
Don’t think he is a drug addict? Well, there are rumors of course. But Musk showed up with a black eye and appearing high as a kite at the Oval Office. What is going on here?
12. A Boston University mathematician tracks how many deaths will result from cuts to USAID and Medicaid. For anyone saying we should not provide foreign aid until all of our own homeless veterans are taken care of, Republicans don’t want to do that either.
13. Oh, but hey, don’t worry because Rep Joni Ernst, when asked by scared constituents at a town hall about Medicare cuts killing people, said, “Well we are all going to die.” Oh, I feel so much better. (Politico, NYT, WaPo). Congressional Budget Office has found that the bill could lead to 7.6 million people going uninsured. 7.6 million people are not committing fraud. Why do Republicans so desperately want to take away healthcare from people?
14. DOOMSCROLLING BREAK: Brazilian nuns beatboxing made my week.
15. Forbes and Bloomberg estimate that Trump’s net worth has gone up from 1.2 bn to 2.1 bn since inauguration. Here is one way he is accomplishing this: He threatens Vietnam with crushing tariffs, they panic and fast track his new golf course and resort. He is using tariffs to enrich himself (I mean aside from the obvious market manipulation) Illegal, immoral, unethical, but apparently if no one will do anything about it, it’s just fine.
16. Trump on Joe Biden, who recently announced a stage 4 cancer diagnosis: "If you feel sorry for him, don't feel so sorry, because he's vicious ... I really don't feel sorry for him." (Fox News video) If you believe that Biden is “vicious” all I can say is Fox News is poison.
17. Trump administration is now bragging that they will fill daily quotas of 3000 arrests per day and are arresting hundreds of mothers and children. (The Guardian, Bloomberg). THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE THEY HAVE SENT PERMANTLY TO A GULAG IN EL SALVADOR ARE NOT CRIMINALS. (Axios, CNN, PBS, CBS News, 60 Minutes). They are not making us safer. They are pumping up their numbers for political reasons with zero regard for the Constitution or how many lives they ruin.
18. “Peter Thiel’s company, Palantir, is helping the Trump administration build the very thing they claim to be fighting, a centralized surveillance state. And yes, it’s real.” Here is how it works. (Alt National Park)
19. Trump is literally taking credit for Biden’s infrastructure projects by removing Biden’s name on the signs and replacing it with his.
20. Trump shared a post this week that suggested Biden was executed in 2020 and actually a clone or robotic double was installed. No, I’m not kidding. (Yahoo News, Fox News, Times of India).
21. I’ll leave you with a funny. Apparently, it is tradition in Canada that the old House of Commons speaker drags the new speaker, who feigns reluctance, to his seat. Imagine folks just being collegial, accepting the results of an election, and having fun together. Goofy as heck but I love it.
In the words of Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton, “So what did I miss?"
