I live in Austin, tx. We have been hearing about ICE’s ramped up arrests. I was a technology facilitator for our public school district and am very aware of the possible locations of this increased “enforcement.” The fear that these hardworking families must feel is enormous and scary. It feels like the gestapo has invaded and we are back to Nazi Germany of the 1930’s and 1940’s. How could we have fallen so far into this horrifying abyss?
Agreed 111%. Very well thought out yet with feeling. From, perhaps, one of the most detested figures of American history:
“The [Roman] Republic had in reality ceased to exist long before the establishment of the Empire. The interval was filled by ferocious, corrupt, and bloody factions. There was, indeed, a small but patriotic body of eminent individuals who struggled in vain to correct abuses and to restore the government to its . . . purity, and who sacrificed their lives in their endeavors to accomplish an object so virtuous and noble.”
--John C. Calhoun, ‘A Disquisition on Government’; 1848.
Their efforts to limit and suppress the vote will simply redouble our resolve to be sure not only that we vote and that our vote is counted but also that ten of our friends, family, and neighbors vote as well. We will not be intimidated.
Under Trump, as with any authoritarian, especially one who is falling deeper into his own fantasy world in which he expects everyone to believe that he is never wrong and always wins, we have no law or order. What we have is Trump's rules. He decides who gets to go free, be pardoned, or get prosecuted. The DOJ does his bidding, and the new AG who follows orders just got confirmed by a Senate that has been totally complicit with all of the corruption and illegal acts.
The Supreme Court, supposedly an independent branch of government, only gives Trump what he wants 90% of the time. When it does so, it usually does it without an explanation.
Everything Trump, and now the entire Republican Party, touches is corrupted and fails.
It is being abused and ignored, and used only when it benefits the abusers. It's up to us to support and protect it. We do that by voting, and helping everyone else to vote, and making certain the results are accepted, and following the law in the process.
When you truly believe you are God on earth and the most important "human being (I use that term loosely here)" to ever walk the earth, you can do whatever you want.
I've asked those 1M times, but if Putin were writing a script, what would be different? Getting rid of shell company registration so he can pay off his stooges without accountability? Check.
Is there no way to stop what ICE is doing? ICE is outright inhumane and deeply cruel. Their behavior has moved far beyond horrible. His is really Naziism all over again- thugs taking people deemed undesirable by force under orders from Trump/Hitler, and depositing them in deportation/concentration camps. The stories that slip out leave me angry and heartsick.
I'm getting the sense that we are depending somewhat too heavily on the courts and the law to make all this right. Meanwhile, I have the urgent and growing feeling that it's time for us to go back to the streets en masse. I will march tomorrow even if I'm by myself.
I think you are right! Remember the masses of people early days of protesting? Where have they all gone. I deeply appreciate the people on the bridges, and they are out there dependably. But we need a show of multiple thousands or how do we demonstrate we care enormously?
Thank you! I, in no way, minimize the efforts and the effects of those who faithfully man our bridges and crosswalks and overpasses week after week and month after month! I respect them enormously. But I need to get out there. Now.
I truly believe that the masses have either got their heads so far up their asses or they are terrified to get out to the street in a crowd. I’m ready to go! Am I nervous? Yes. Am I going to let them scare me? HELL, NO!
He is also in may instance ignoring the courts.. Though I still advocate for and greatly appreciate our judiciary.. Many are actually very brave in standing by our actual laws..
If felon tRump and his Goebbels, Stephen Miller could gas them, they would. That is how wickedly insane this regime is.
It is only getting worse with this illegal Iran war tRump was eager to participate in with Bibi, thinking he would win and come out a world's hero, but has now lost and no way to get out of it except total surrender. The world will never be the same. Worse yet is a pending recession/depression because of oil shortages, reserves at historic lows and other vital commodities being cut off. Economic collapse is imminent due to felon tRump's malignant psychopathy and delusions of grandeur, not to mention his other psychotic ideations. And yet his fascist sociopathic regime supports this pathetic fool hoping to stay in power and grift off their political positions.
Watching in rel time as Trump disassembles the rule of.law and our federal government before our eyes while Republicans in Congress and the US Supreme Court allow it to happen..
TRump's naked criminality is something beyond what I could have ever imagined.
It reminds me of how aghast I was when terrorists hijacked commercial airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center towers. Who could have imagined such PURE EVIL?
Who could have thought we could some day have a president so corrupt, SO EVIL, he would set up Cryptocurrancy and actively take actions to debase and destabilize the US Dollar, he would create a Meme coin in his own name and likeness, set it up in such a way to guarantee he and his insiders would make Billions and his followers would lose b
Billions. That he would take Billions of dollars from a Communist oligarch, Vladimir Putin and use it to build TRump Towers, Launder Money thru hundreds of CitiBank accounts, weekly announce peace deals and war escalations timed to enhance insider trading of oil stocks. That he would purposely launch a huge global recession by announcing extremely large and illegal tariffs to drive bribes into his crypto currency accounts from countries and companies all over the world and call it "consulting income", A US President that would file frivolous litigation against companies as a means of gathering settlements as bribes. A US President that would have his sons set up companies manufacturing weapon systems they know nothing about and force the Pentagon to give them huge contracts.
Now, he was able to plant the most corrupt personal attorney ever to be the Attorney General, in charge of the entire Justice Department, now devoid of Justice entirely. His first action, to make tracking dirty, illegal money nearly impossible to track and prosecute.
Who would have believed this US President would file a fraudulent $10 Billion lawsuit against himself for releasing a copy of his own tax return. Then he told his personal attorney to settle his own lawsuit with himself for just under $2 Billion of Taxpayer money to be given away frivolously to criminals who were justly convicted, or pled guilty.
Then this US President had his personal Attorney draw up a fraudulent order declaring all of his tax returns, tax frauds, his family tax frauds his company tax and other fraudulent activities could never be audited, prosecuted, or even investigated.
Donald John TRump will forever be known as the Osama bin Laden who tried to destroy the United States by crashing the Justice Department into the Pentagon.
TRump's crimes are so numerous, it is a real challenge to attempt to catalog them? From selling pardons, to selling reduced tariff rates, bribery to stop investigations, insider trading, no bid contracts, self dealing, money laundering, foreign government entanglement, sex trafficking, war crimes, rape, child molestation, fraud, TReason, I scarcely think there is a single category of crime that TRump has not violated multiple times.
Everything this man had ever done was to line his pockets with money, that's it. All of us collectively and indeed the entire world are just a mark to be had.
Thank you, Professor. They are totally usurping the law, plain, and simple. With no thoughts of repercussions or consequences. Total power through fear and they’re enjoying it. As the person pointed out above, it’s the same as Nazi Germany. Peace everybody. Stay True Blue we can make changes and we will. ☮️❤️🌻
It seems to me there should be a legitimate basis in jurisprudence that after 95% of verdicts or rulings are against the prosecution for filing repeated charges without evidence and for failing to follow court orders, should suffer serious consequences mandated by federal law.
I’ve been wanting to ask this about the Prairieland defendants. It seems crazy that they got as much time as they did since “antifa” isn’t even a terrorist group. Are there any issues that might be successfully raised on appeal?
Unfortunately, it isn't even the least bit shocking that Don Trump wants to enable money laundering; especially given the recent reporting about Capital One closing his accounts. Like with his IRS immunity deal, this lets future investigators know that there is something worth looking into in regard to him.
One of the great tradgedies of our time is the relentless assault by MAGA on America's dream of the "melting pot" society. For so many Republicans, hatred, fear and exclusion have overcome optimism and a belief in the better angels of our free society.
Our immediate mission is to push back and defang the assault. Return our America to the one we love.
I live in Austin, tx. We have been hearing about ICE’s ramped up arrests. I was a technology facilitator for our public school district and am very aware of the possible locations of this increased “enforcement.” The fear that these hardworking families must feel is enormous and scary. It feels like the gestapo has invaded and we are back to Nazi Germany of the 1930’s and 1940’s. How could we have fallen so far into this horrifying abyss?
Look no further than churches right wing political activity and big money as laying the foundation for the erosion of our democratic ideals.
Agreed 111%. Very well thought out yet with feeling. From, perhaps, one of the most detested figures of American history:
“The [Roman] Republic had in reality ceased to exist long before the establishment of the Empire. The interval was filled by ferocious, corrupt, and bloody factions. There was, indeed, a small but patriotic body of eminent individuals who struggled in vain to correct abuses and to restore the government to its . . . purity, and who sacrificed their lives in their endeavors to accomplish an object so virtuous and noble.”
--John C. Calhoun, ‘A Disquisition on Government’; 1848.
Their efforts to limit and suppress the vote will simply redouble our resolve to be sure not only that we vote and that our vote is counted but also that ten of our friends, family, and neighbors vote as well. We will not be intimidated.
What’s the deal? Does this administration - and its DoJ - only follow court orders when it suits them? The rule of law is not arbitrary.
Under Trump, as with any authoritarian, especially one who is falling deeper into his own fantasy world in which he expects everyone to believe that he is never wrong and always wins, we have no law or order. What we have is Trump's rules. He decides who gets to go free, be pardoned, or get prosecuted. The DOJ does his bidding, and the new AG who follows orders just got confirmed by a Senate that has been totally complicit with all of the corruption and illegal acts.
The Supreme Court, supposedly an independent branch of government, only gives Trump what he wants 90% of the time. When it does so, it usually does it without an explanation.
Everything Trump, and now the entire Republican Party, touches is corrupted and fails.
at least the Extremes told him nay on his motion to reconsider in the E Jean Carroll case
Small mercies … the Roberts Court upholds at least one lower court decision.
I am really beginning to freak out.
You're in good company.
It is being abused and ignored, and used only when it benefits the abusers. It's up to us to support and protect it. We do that by voting, and helping everyone else to vote, and making certain the results are accepted, and following the law in the process.
You are correct. Pedophiles act like that. If you confront them they threaten to kill you. Sometimes they do.
David, the Administration only follows court orders when it suits them. Essentially, they believe that rules only apply to Democrats (i.e., peasants).
When you truly believe you are God on earth and the most important "human being (I use that term loosely here)" to ever walk the earth, you can do whatever you want.
I've asked those 1M times, but if Putin were writing a script, what would be different? Getting rid of shell company registration so he can pay off his stooges without accountability? Check.
Tax-dodging as well as money laundering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/business/economy/offshore-tax-havens-trump.html
Is there no way to stop what ICE is doing? ICE is outright inhumane and deeply cruel. Their behavior has moved far beyond horrible. His is really Naziism all over again- thugs taking people deemed undesirable by force under orders from Trump/Hitler, and depositing them in deportation/concentration camps. The stories that slip out leave me angry and heartsick.
I'm getting the sense that we are depending somewhat too heavily on the courts and the law to make all this right. Meanwhile, I have the urgent and growing feeling that it's time for us to go back to the streets en masse. I will march tomorrow even if I'm by myself.
I think you are right! Remember the masses of people early days of protesting? Where have they all gone. I deeply appreciate the people on the bridges, and they are out there dependably. But we need a show of multiple thousands or how do we demonstrate we care enormously?
National strike
For a week.
Thank you! I, in no way, minimize the efforts and the effects of those who faithfully man our bridges and crosswalks and overpasses week after week and month after month! I respect them enormously. But I need to get out there. Now.
I truly believe that the masses have either got their heads so far up their asses or they are terrified to get out to the street in a crowd. I’m ready to go! Am I nervous? Yes. Am I going to let them scare me? HELL, NO!
"Depending too heavily on the courts"?
The courts are holding this republic together.
Indeed they are! But they cannot fight this battle alone.
He is also in may instance ignoring the courts.. Though I still advocate for and greatly appreciate our judiciary.. Many are actually very brave in standing by our actual laws..
If felon tRump and his Goebbels, Stephen Miller could gas them, they would. That is how wickedly insane this regime is.
It is only getting worse with this illegal Iran war tRump was eager to participate in with Bibi, thinking he would win and come out a world's hero, but has now lost and no way to get out of it except total surrender. The world will never be the same. Worse yet is a pending recession/depression because of oil shortages, reserves at historic lows and other vital commodities being cut off. Economic collapse is imminent due to felon tRump's malignant psychopathy and delusions of grandeur, not to mention his other psychotic ideations. And yet his fascist sociopathic regime supports this pathetic fool hoping to stay in power and grift off their political positions.
Watching in rel time as Trump disassembles the rule of.law and our federal government before our eyes while Republicans in Congress and the US Supreme Court allow it to happen..
They are enabling it.
help it to happen
TRump's naked criminality is something beyond what I could have ever imagined.
It reminds me of how aghast I was when terrorists hijacked commercial airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center towers. Who could have imagined such PURE EVIL?
Who could have thought we could some day have a president so corrupt, SO EVIL, he would set up Cryptocurrancy and actively take actions to debase and destabilize the US Dollar, he would create a Meme coin in his own name and likeness, set it up in such a way to guarantee he and his insiders would make Billions and his followers would lose b
Billions. That he would take Billions of dollars from a Communist oligarch, Vladimir Putin and use it to build TRump Towers, Launder Money thru hundreds of CitiBank accounts, weekly announce peace deals and war escalations timed to enhance insider trading of oil stocks. That he would purposely launch a huge global recession by announcing extremely large and illegal tariffs to drive bribes into his crypto currency accounts from countries and companies all over the world and call it "consulting income", A US President that would file frivolous litigation against companies as a means of gathering settlements as bribes. A US President that would have his sons set up companies manufacturing weapon systems they know nothing about and force the Pentagon to give them huge contracts.
Now, he was able to plant the most corrupt personal attorney ever to be the Attorney General, in charge of the entire Justice Department, now devoid of Justice entirely. His first action, to make tracking dirty, illegal money nearly impossible to track and prosecute.
Who would have believed this US President would file a fraudulent $10 Billion lawsuit against himself for releasing a copy of his own tax return. Then he told his personal attorney to settle his own lawsuit with himself for just under $2 Billion of Taxpayer money to be given away frivolously to criminals who were justly convicted, or pled guilty.
Then this US President had his personal Attorney draw up a fraudulent order declaring all of his tax returns, tax frauds, his family tax frauds his company tax and other fraudulent activities could never be audited, prosecuted, or even investigated.
Donald John TRump will forever be known as the Osama bin Laden who tried to destroy the United States by crashing the Justice Department into the Pentagon.
TRump's crimes are so numerous, it is a real challenge to attempt to catalog them? From selling pardons, to selling reduced tariff rates, bribery to stop investigations, insider trading, no bid contracts, self dealing, money laundering, foreign government entanglement, sex trafficking, war crimes, rape, child molestation, fraud, TReason, I scarcely think there is a single category of crime that TRump has not violated multiple times.
Can’t think one single thing that you left out. 🙌
Everything this man had ever done was to line his pockets with money, that's it. All of us collectively and indeed the entire world are just a mark to be had.
My God, you summed it up perfectly.
We need to get out the vote like never before, like in Hungary last year. We must end this nightmare.
Thank you, Professor. They are totally usurping the law, plain, and simple. With no thoughts of repercussions or consequences. Total power through fear and they’re enjoying it. As the person pointed out above, it’s the same as Nazi Germany. Peace everybody. Stay True Blue we can make changes and we will. ☮️❤️🌻
It seems to me there should be a legitimate basis in jurisprudence that after 95% of verdicts or rulings are against the prosecution for filing repeated charges without evidence and for failing to follow court orders, should suffer serious consequences mandated by federal law.
I’ve been wanting to ask this about the Prairieland defendants. It seems crazy that they got as much time as they did since “antifa” isn’t even a terrorist group. Are there any issues that might be successfully raised on appeal?
Unfortunately, it isn't even the least bit shocking that Don Trump wants to enable money laundering; especially given the recent reporting about Capital One closing his accounts. Like with his IRS immunity deal, this lets future investigators know that there is something worth looking into in regard to him.
As always Joyce, thanks for keeping us informed on the week ahead .. it helps me to not go completely insane when I hear the news!!
One of the great tradgedies of our time is the relentless assault by MAGA on America's dream of the "melting pot" society. For so many Republicans, hatred, fear and exclusion have overcome optimism and a belief in the better angels of our free society.
Our immediate mission is to push back and defang the assault. Return our America to the one we love.
Joyce,
Big week ahead. Thank you for the highlights to focus more attention on.
We are in this together. No Kings.
Peace.
Christopher and family in Upstate SC.
Thank you for tirelessness and fortitude in keeping us informed. It’s exactly what we need.
Trump planing ahead in plain sight for future business ventures in money laundering.