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Trump’s Worst Week Yet

A humiliating surrender, a wind ban in ruins, and a GOP power grab collapses in Georgia

Jun 19

Happy Juneteenth to all. On June 19, 1865, the last enslaved Americans finally learned they were free. However you’re marking it, I hope it’s a good one.

Now, to the news—and this week, the regime is losing. Some of it we won outright. Some of it they did to themselves. All of it is good news for us.

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SIX TRANS IDAHOANS JUST WON IN FEDERAL COURT

Chief US District Judge Amanda Brailsford

Idaho Republicans wrote a law to throw transgender people in prison—up to five years—for using the public restroom that matches who they are. Gov. Brad Little signed it in March.

Six transgender Idahoans sued to stop it. On June 16, Chief US District Judge Amanda Brailsford ruled the law likely unconstitutional, finding it “invites arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.” Even Idaho’s own officers had warned there was no practical way to check a person’s sex without invasive searches.

The judge blocked its cruelest reach: Idaho can no longer jail someone for using a bathroom when they have nowhere private to go. And it shields every transgender person in the state, not just the six who sued.

Idaho’s attorney general is appealing, and part of the law takes effect July 1. But right now, no transgender Idahoan can be jailed for using a public restroom.

EIGHTEEN STATES JUST BEAT TRUMP’S WIND BAN

Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings

On his first day back in office, Trump signed an order blocking new wind power projects across the country. It put thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at risk, as well as the cheap, clean power that helps lower electricity costs.

Eighteen states refused to bend and took the regime to court. They won—a federal judge threw out the freeze as illegal. The regime appealed, then quietly gave up.

On June 15, the court made it final: the freeze was dead, and the wind projects, enough to power more than a million homes, could finally move ahead. Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings called it “a win for the rule of law.”

Trump tried to freeze the country’s wind power with a single signature. Eighteen states took him to court—and beat him.

TRUMP’S TOUGH-GUY ACT JUST FELL APART

For years, Trump sold himself as the tough guy who always wins. This week, the act fell apart.

He marched America into an illegal war with Iran, swearing he’d destroy its missiles and shut down its nuclear program. Instead, thirteen Americans were killed, gas and grocery prices jumped, and he agreed to give Iran—a regime that funds terrorists—everything it wanted: its missiles, its nuclear program, and up to $300 billion in sanctions relief. Then he called it a win.

Nobody’s buying it. Within two days the deal was falling apart, and even Republicans called it a surrender. Sen. Jon Ossoff said it plainly: “He is a disgraced president, humiliated on the world stage by his failed war.”

Here’s the good news. The strongman we were all told to fear just lost—badly, in front of the whole world, to one of the worst regimes on earth. A man who loses like that isn’t invincible. He’s beatable. And in November, we’re going to prove it.

GEORGIA REPUBLICANS FOLDED

When you’re afraid you’ll lose an election, you can try to win it—or you can try to rig it. In Georgia, Republicans went looking for the second option, and this week their plan collapsed.

Gov. Brian Kemp called a special session to redraw Georgia’s voting maps—part of Trump’s push across the South to weaken the Black vote before the midterms.

In response, fired up Democrats and civil rights groups packed the state Capitol, vowing to protest every day of the session. House Speaker Jon Burns told Kemp they wouldn’t redraw a single line this session.

“John Lewis never backed down from getting into good trouble,” Sen. Raphael Warnock wrote, “and I won’t either.”

In the very week America marks the end of slavery, the plan to weaken the Black vote in Georgia didn’t move an inch.

THE FIGHT CONTINUES

After fighting Republicans for decades, I’ve learned that hope isn’t something you sit and wait to receive. It’s a muscle. You build it by showing up and winning—one fight, then the next—until the regime that bet you’d give up is the one explaining how it lost.

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Onward!

Scott

Trump’s tough-guy act just cracked this week. Do you feel it too—that he can be beaten again?

Six people beat one of the reddest states in America. Who’s an everyday hero giving you hope right now?

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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

COMMENTS:

Those six Idahoans who sued and won, plus everyone who showed up day after day at the Georgia Capitol—these are the everyday heroes giving me real hope right now.

As a teacher, it hits different knowing that in the same week we honor Juneteenth, ordinary people refused to let votes get weakened and refused to let fear win.

Outrageous! How do these people look in the mirror every single day and not want to crawl in a hole for the horrific things they are doing to our country??? Where are the people who swore to uphold the constitution? Where are the real Americans? I want our America back, the one I’ve known for 71 years. It wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t the shameful, blatantly outrageous and illegal, heartless disaster it is now.

I can't think of a word that describes the psychological equivalent of AIDS or COVID,

but to me that is close to the extent of decimation this administration has inflicted on

not only our country but also on the entire world, like the spreading of a catastrophic medical epidemic. People like Scott and the other long-lived workers on Substack are working along several different lines of approach in search of 'the cure' to the malady these selfish purveyors of hate and division have concocted.

My apologies to any who have suffered directly or otherwise from

AIDS or COVID. My comparison meant no insult.

Thank you, Scott!

Absolutely feeling it. The Idaho Six winning in federal court, eighteen states forcing Trump to drop his wind ban, and Georgia’s power grab collapsing under packed protests in the same week as Juneteenth—these aren’t random. They’re proof the tough-guy act is cracking and he’s beatable.

Who else is fired up and ready to keep stacking these victories? 💪

YES, we are all in this together!!!

It bothers me whenever a story mentions the 13 Americans killed in Trump's Iran war but fails to mention the 3400+ other people killed by Trump in the war, including the 168 at the girls' school.

Agreed!!! Also, I think that more than 13 Americans were killed. They are lying about that, too.

It was reported elsewhere that additional schools were bombed as well as a gymnasium where kids were playing.

Also reported that RUSSIAN provided the INTELLIGENCE.

A new meme says that he’s the first man in history to go to war and defeat himself.

LOVE IT!

Thanks for the HEADS UP!

Do a SEARCH for TRUMP IRAN MEMES - HYSTERICAL~

Abandoned JCPOA because the Black Dude did it!

(It took years to negotiate!)

Embraced 2 MAD MEN (DAFFY DON & BIBI) who encouraged this FIASCO!

Smart folks did lots of military planning, knew STRAIT OF HORMUZ was an issue....

fired them ALL!

Poppy Trump had DEMENTIA and thought he was still running the business, They got him a secretary and put him in a ROOM!

It's time to do the same with DEMENTIA DON!

Abandoned JCPOA because the Black Dude did it!

(It took years to negotiate!)

Embraced 2 MAD MEN (DAFFY DON & BIBI) who encouraged this FIASCO!

Smart folks did lots of military planning, knew STRAIT OF HORMUZ was an issue....

TRUMP fired them ALL!

Poppy Trump had DEMENTIA and thought he was still running the business, They got him a secretary and put him in a ROOM!

It's time to do the same with DEMENTIA DON!

You know, I've been with you since Kickstarter and the thing I like best about you is that you back up the hope you give us with action!!! Thank you, Scott!!!

"Sen. Jon Ossoff said it plainly: “He is a disgraced president, humiliated on the world stage by his failed war", weak policy, not ethics, no compassion and on the day that The Obama Presidential Center opened - poetic justice!

Funny how every week the “unstoppable regime” keeps running into courts, voters, facts, and occasionally its own incompetence. The wind ban got blown away, the bathroom law got flushed, and Georgia’s map-drawing scheme couldn’t even get out of the driveway. At this rate, their biggest policy success might be creating work for judges.

Happy Juneteenth—and cheers to watching bullies discover that reality has a veto.

The history of Trump regime will be written with emphasis on his raping, pillaging and plundering where violent and non- violent crimes were institutionalized and often condoned. His only needs to stay out of jail and keep the cash flowing. His bootlickers’ jobs protect him at all costs and wreak havoc.

Has everyone noticed Liddle Marco lately: he looks exhausted, defeated, tired 'n wrinkly. That bootlicker job takes a toll, and those folks can get tossed under the bus in a nanosecond - and they all know that. JD already has tire tracks on his back. Next?

I call him micro Rubio

Rubio looks like he sold his soul to the devil - which he absolutely did.

It’s palpable, yes, and the Obama Presidential Center’s opening was glorious!!

My everyday heroes are Michelle and Barak Obama... Their speeches yesterday reminded me of the promise of democracy, the way life can be and how to treat each other... Luv it that, of course, Don-Old was not invited to the Presidential Library opening!!!

Right now, I feel like Mandami is an everyday hero.

Yes, Trump can be beaten again by pretty much any strong dictator. He is the weakest president we have ever had, and he has systematically deconstructed our government that was working toward its ideals to take it back to a time when division and depression reigned.

I love my country and I despise its president 😣💙🦅🇺🇸🦅

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Learn more & support this bill in Congress here: https://bit.ly/4twnWMU

🚨 SIX OTHER 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

IDAHO....REPUBLICANS are successful in uniting people for HATE!

HITLER targeted groups...history repeats itself!

We lived and traveled in Europe....maybe I wasn't paying attention, but it was never an issue.

Guess these people don't travel.

Recently, we've been in numerous buildings, not new construction, but lots of single stall bathrooms, some with changing tables, and some Unisex.

REPUBLICANS created an ISSUE!

This is the kind of crap that discourages investment - who wants to invest with such primitive attitudes?

REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED states lag so far behind that President Biden targeted them in his funding. NO CABLE! NO INTERNET! POOR LIBRARY AVAILABILITY! KEEP 'EM STUPID!
POOR EDUCATION creates MALLEABLE MASSES!
(What are they afraid of? It's not contagious.)