Trump’s Already Having A Very Bad Week. And We’re Not Sorry About It.
You’re the reason why I do this work. And I believe that the truth should be affordable. So here’s 25% off for you. Help us flip Congress and fund our fight against Trump by joining as a paid subscriber today: Donald Trump has spent four months suing his own government. Sit with how deranged that is. The sitting president, hauling the United States into court—against itself. Last week he was caught with the scheme. This morning it became real: $1.776 billion of our tax money, into a fund his own people control. You don’t sue the government you run unless you decide the whole thing belongs to you. That’s the whole regime defined in a single move. Hit the ❤️ like button and re-stack this edition right now. The regime got caught, flat-out lost, and had thousands march across the Pettus Bridge to prove the Voting Rights Act fight is far from over. Sharing this truth helps it break through the propaganda. No billionaire writes me checks. No corporation approves my coverage. The funding comes from readers like you—every dollar of it—and right now we need all hands on deck. If you’ve been reading for free, today’s the day to join the fight and keep my reporting independent. Become a paid subscriber today: A TEXAS COUNTY STOOD UP TO TECH BROS
On Tuesday, a place most people have never heard of did something the tech industry never expected—it said no. Hill County, Texas, is about 55 miles south of Fort Worth. Residents learned that a 300-acre data center development was coming for their water and power grid, so they pushed back. The room erupted in cheers as County Judge Shane Brassell cast the deciding vote to put a one-year pause on new data center construction. Pressure to support the data center was enormous. Developers called Commissioner Jim Holcomb the night before the vote, as late as 10pm, to lean on him. When nearby Hood County weighed the same pause, state Sen. Paul Bettencourt ran to AG Ken Paxton to shut it down. Hood County retreated. Holcomb called out the racket: “The data center folks have found a sweet spot in the state that has limited regulations, limited enforcement, limited code, and they’re coming faster than we can keep up with.” Hill County knew the developers and maybe their own state could take them to court. They didn’t care—they voted for the pause anyway. A rural Texas county decided its people’s water mattered more than AG Paxton’s threats and big tech money. Every county in Texas that was afraid to go first just learned they don’t have to be. HOBBS VETOED THEIR GREED
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs looked at a GOP budget that traded children’s meals for billionaire tax cuts and vetoed it the same day it hit her desk. The spending plan read like a hostage note: more than $600 million in breaks for billionaires, data centers, and special interests—to be paid for by throwing an estimated 200,000 Arizonans off Medicaid and food assistance, cutting $16 million from the Department of Child Safety, and walking away from $1.8 million that feeds 640,000 kids over the summer. They passed it on a party-line vote and sent it to Gov. Hobbs—daring her to veto it. She did, without hesitation. The Republicans who built that dumpster fire adjourned until June and drove home. Remember that in November. THEY MARCHED ACROSS THE BRIDGE AGAIN
Last month, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act—a law that for sixty years protected Black voters from racist gerrymandering. Republican-led states responded by rushing to their drawing boards. Tennessee and Florida passed new maps, as Alabama, Louisiana, and Georgia are moving to do the same. On Saturday, thousands of people said they won’t go down without a fight. They came by bus, car, and plane—from all across the country—to Selma, Alabama. People marched in silence across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where the late great John Lewis and hundreds of others were beaten for demanding the right to vote.
Then they filled the plaza in Montgomery where the 1965 Selma marches famously ended. Senators Cory Booker and Raphael Warnock, along with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, were there to speak. Tennessee state Sen. Charlane Oliver—who stood on her desk to protest her state’s gerrymander—laid it out: “They may draw some racist maps, but we are the South. The South belongs to us.” TRUMP GOT CAUGHT
Trump got caught running a massive grift using taxpayer dollars—and the fight to stop him is happening now. Here’s the scheme. In January, Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion, claiming it failed to protect his tax returns from a leak years ago. But look at who’s on each side. Trump’s the one suing—and Trump also has a stranglehold over the DOJ that defends the IRS. He spent months negotiating with himself. This morning, the deal became official. Trump dropped the lawsuit in exchange for the DOJ creating what it’s calling the “Anti-Weaponization Fund”—$1.776 billion of your tax dollars—because looting taxpayers feels more patriotic with a founding-year price tag. As part of the deal, the IRS issued Trump a formal apology. The fund is rotten to the core. The money comes from a pool of tax dollars Congress never gets to vote on. A commission of five hand-picked loyalists—who Trump can fire at will—will hand out the money and never have to tell the public a thing.
Rep. Jamie Raskin called the scheme “a $1,700,000,000 fraud on the American taxpayer.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez brought the fire: “a billion dollars for a ballroom; $1.7 billion for a slush fund for the president’s friends.” Judge Kathleen Williams had ordered Trump to explain by Wednesday how someone can sue a government they run. He didn’t wait—he settled this morning before she could rule. The fund is real. The money is moving. But 93 House Democrats filed papers with the court asking Williams to rule the whole scheme was unconstitutional from the start. They called it “corruption unparalleled in American history.” Trump thought settling this lawsuit would end the fight. It didn’t. PICTURE THISPicture that county courtroom in Texas. Four commissioners, deadlocked two to two. A judge holding the tie-breaking vote. He could’ve folded. He didn’t. That’s what beating the regime looks like. Not just a big thunderclap. A room, a single vote, where someone was supposed to cave—but didn’t. It happened in that courtroom, in a governor’s office, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Saturday—and this morning, when 93 members of Congress refused to let Trump’s grift go unanswered. Our reporting reaches millions of people who would otherwise only hear the regime’s lies and corporate media’s sanewashing of it all. We’ve driven millions of contacts to Congress, and run the largest social media campaign against Trump ever. You read this far. That means you give a damn. Don’t stop there. Join us as a paid subscriber today: And before you go—hit the ❤️ like button and re-stack. A few clicks can help make these stories go viral. Let’s make it happen. Onward! Scott What do you think about Trump’s $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund? What are your thoughts on Hill County passing a one-year pause on new data center construction? Would you support a similar pause in your community? NEW: Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have announced the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Center Moratorium Act, legislation that would enact a reasonable pause to the development of AI to ensure the safety of humanity. Learn more & support this bill in Congress here: https://bit.ly/4twnWMU 🚨 SIX URGENT ACTIONS TODAY Pass Bill to Create 25th Amendment Commission https://tinyurl.com/44afaxvd Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service: https://tinyurl.com/mrx8cvv7 Demand Acting AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files: https://tinyurl.com/2uc9vca9 Defend voting rights! https://tinyurl.com/3f3m728j Stop Trump from deporting people with Temporary Protected Status https://tinyurl.com/yc8rfa7j Vote NO on SAVE Act: https://tinyurl.com/ms977ec6
But how does it get passed with Fascists in office? So true. The fact that our president is attempting to change the constitution and help his billionaire friends, is crazy. How did we get to this place? By re-electing him because too many voters are unwilling to vote for a woman for President. IMO. Agreed. When Obama beat Hillary Clinton, who was inarguably the most qualified person to ever run for president, a friend noted that this was proof that America was more misogynist that it was racist. When Kamala Harris, another indubitably better-qualified candidate, lost to a jacka$$ like Trump, it was further proof that America is deeply misogynist. America will be deeply mature on the day MLK's dream of a Nation where people are judged by the content of their character is fully realized. Then, rather than in the news, history will be the only place for future generations to learn about misogyny and White supremacy. Am I gonna let de-elevator bring me down? Oh no, not me! That's bullshit, because the rest of the world isn't gonna stop development. All this will do is to put the US even more behind the eight-ball. The future of business is all about AI, and it requires huge amounts of capacity to do so. Instead, require developers to add significant energy resources and reduced energy costs as part of every deal, and require these facilities to process and recycle all cooling water used. Bruce you have got to know that the whole point is to have us taxpayers pay for the huge amount of electricity and new power plants that these facilities are going to use. Billionaires never pay their fair share. That is how they stay billionaires. If Dems take back Congress, perhaps we can at least slow them down with environmental lawsuits, while we deal with guardrails on AI itself. The whole issue of using AI for all-purpose surveillance of all of us, has me very concerned. So glad that Bernie and AOL and Elizabeth Warren are keeping a light on AI!!! Absolutely. Let’s start w building the data centers in Palo Alto, Westchester Co, and the Hamptons. Bruce, you've previously shared your lack of FACTS and INFORMATION elsewhere and refuse to READ and post nonsense. POLLUTING GENERATORS are being used where DATA CENTERS provide their own electricity. PUBLIC WATER is used for COOLING...do you understand what that means? WATER is HEATED and run through METAL - changing the water. Has anyone tested it? At what TEMPERATURE is water returned to the SOURCE? What does that do to DRINKING WATER? In addition, look up the information that's posted. Between 40 AND 65% of the water EVAPORATES! WHAT DOES HOT WATER DO TO THE ECOSYSTEM? We had a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT closed - discharged HOT WATER was problematic. These structures suck up land and DO NOT CREATE the JOBS promised! They're given TAX BREAKS - WHY? Before you continue to post you convictions that you determined WITHOUT FACTS, it's time for you to RESEARCH. |
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