Trump Went After Your Phone, Your Vote, and Your Paycheck. It Did Not Go Well. SPEAK OUT! REPUBLICANS ARE SILENT!
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Good morning, friend. Pour the coffee and sit with me a second, because I have great news for you today. Before you jump in, tap the like button and restack this edition. Social media platforms are designed to smother these wins with propaganda and lies. Every restack flips that switch, dragging the truth in front of people they’re trying to keep in the dark. And if you haven’t yet, become a paid subscriber today. Because we don’t just report on the fight, we organize and help lead it. The same readers who fund this newsroom have flooded Congress with letters, jammed the phone lines, and turned outrage into pressure not even the regime can ignore. Subscribing isn’t just buying a newsletter, it’s backing the fight to flip the House and the Senate. Join us today. CITIZENS KILL THE BIGGEST DATA CENTER ON EARTH
For years, the people of Prince William County, Virginia, lived under the shadow of a plan to bulldoze 2,000 acres next to the Manassas battlefield. In its place: the largest data center campus on the planet—22 million square feet of humming servers, beside ground where men died in the Civil War. Defending it had already cost the county nearly $2 million. Last Thursday, QTS—the last developer standing after Compass and the county had already backed out—pulled its appeal at the Virginia Supreme Court. The project didn’t stall. It died. This was never a fair fight on paper. QTS’s owner, Blackstone, is a private-equity giant run by Stephen Schwarzman—who poured $40 million into electing Republicans last cycle. A small cluster of residents with petitions and a preservation trust stared him down anyway. Their attorney, Chap Petersen, didn’t mince words: “Since they opted to appeal, we have known QTS was prolonging the inevitable.” The Coalition to Protect Prince William made it clear: “The rule of law and the common man have prevailed.” The company had the money. The neighbors had the law, and each other. The neighbors won. A JUDGE KILLS TRUMP’S NH VOTER DATA GRAB
The regime went hunting for your voter file. It sued 30 states and DC, demanding every voter’s private data—confidential information states are legally barred from sharing with anyone. In New Hampshire, they dressed the demand up as a routine check on whether the state kept clean voter rolls. But under questioning in a Rhode Island courtroom, a DOJ lawyer admitted the plan: get the files and screen the names for citizenship. The voter roll review wasn’t about clean elections. It was a way to pull the private data of millions of citizens straight into Trump’s deportation machine. On Monday, Judge Joseph LaPlante shut the door. “The demand does not identify any factual anomalies in New Hampshire’s voter registration data,” he wrote—rejecting the far-reaching access sought by Acting AG Todd Blanche. Even New Hampshire’s Republican Secretary of State, David Scanlan, wouldn’t go along: he’d upheld state law “safeguarding your private information from disclosure.” That makes the regime 0-11. Every court to rule has said no and told them to keep their hands off the voter rolls. THE SUPREME COURT JUST REINED IN A SPY TOOL
Here’s a win for every cellphone user in America. For years, the government leaned on the geofence warrant—an order to a company like Google to hand over the data about every device in a defined area during a specific window of time. The practice flipped policing on its head: instead of finding a suspect and getting a warrant, agents cast a net over everyone and hunted for a suspect inside it. When the case reached the Supreme Court, the DOJ picked a side—and it wasn’t yours. The regime’s lawyers argued you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in your own location data. On June 29, the Court rejected that argument, 6-3. Justice Elena Kagan named exactly what that data exposes—your visits to “the psychiatrist, the plastic surgeon, the abortion clinic”—and ruled that police “intrude on that constitutionally protected interest when they demand the information.” The regime went to the highest court to track you without cause. It came out with less power than it had. TRUMP PUNISHED BLUE STATES. A JUDGE STOPPED IT.
The Gateway tunnel is the biggest federal rail project in modern history—a new line dug under the Hudson River to link New Jersey and New York, with a thousand workers on the job. The regime cut off all its money and blamed a review of “DEI” in hiring. That was never the real reason. Then Trump said the quiet part into a microphone, bragging that he killed the funding to punish Democrats: “It’s terminated because the Democrats are so foolish. Right now, there is no funding—because it’s up to me.” The regime went colder still. The state commission running the project proved it had followed the law, wrote back, followed up—and got nothing but silence, until the work site was forced to shut down. Judge Jeannette Vargas saw it plainly: the regime, she wrote, “do[es] not dispute that the suspension of federal grants flagrantly violates federal law.” It never tried to defend what it did—it argued only that no court could stop it. She barred them from freezing the money again, for good. The regime tried to hold a tunnel hostage. A judge cut it loose. KEEPING IT MOVINGThat tunnel is moving again because somebody refused to let the regime kill it in the dark. That’s the whole game now—not one grand rescue, but a thousand small refusals that keep beating a regime counting on you not to notice. Silence is how they win. A judge rules, a town wins, a scheme collapses—and the regime’s whole machine is built to make sure you never hear about it. That’s where we come in. We drag those wins into the light, then put them to work—more than 785,000 letters into Congress since Trump took power, millions of eyes on the truth every month. And we don’t leave you standing there wondering what to do about it. We put the moment in your hands—the vote that needs a call, the lie that needs answering, the message worth spreading—and the social media network to carry it further than any of us could alone. That’s the work: not just reporting the resistance, but building it, together. And it lives or dies on readers like you. Become a paid subscriber and keep this machine running all the way to November—and beyond. Then tap the ❤️ like button and restack this edition. A judge just saved a $16 billion tunnel from Trump’s revenge—make sure the next person who’s been told the regime always wins sees that it absolutely does not. Onward! Scott Which of these stories hits home hardest for you—and why? For me it’s the phone-privacy ruling. The idea that the regime could look up everywhere I’ve been without cause always chilled me, and the Court just shut that down. Also, has the regime frozen, cut, or come after anything you care about? A project, program, paycheck—that people are fighting to get back? Let me know in the comments. I read them! Thanks for your support! Another way to help us out is by gifting subscriptions to friends and family! You can get yours by clicking the link. For all contact Congress links, or to volunteer, you can go here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-up-for-the-watchdog-coalition Tell your Senators to vote NO on Todd Blanche. Click and send: 👇 https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-senators-oppose-todd-blanche-for-attorney-general/ 🚨 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 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 COMMENTS: A quick note for readers: every one of these stories started with someone refusing to let a bad decision happen quietly. An official who wouldn’t sign off, a judge who wouldn’t look away, a neighborhood that wouldn’t be steamrolled. None of these wins were inevitable—they were built by people who kept showing up even when the odds looked lopsided. If you’re new here, this is why we track these cases so closely. The regime counts on silence. We count on each other. The Prince William County story really stuck with me. A handful of neighbors staring down a private‑equity titan and winning—that’s the kind of thing we don’t hear enough about. It’s easy to forget how often ordinary people stop extraordinary damage before it ever becomes national news. I appreciate you sharing these wins. It makes the day brighter. Power to the People! HE has to be going crazier with all of these embarrassing flops! That’s how it’s done, people of Prince William County! May this provide some insight, a roadmap on how to take these down. FROM DAILY DOSE OF DEMOCRACYl The AI industry is losing Ed Zitron, Where's Your Ed At: "In April of last year, I outlined how the failure of one model lab, OpenAI, would have seismic effects down its supply chain, delivering body blow after body blow to NVIDIA, Oracle, Microsoft, and the various Neoclouds that serve its compute. And Oracle, as I’ve noted previously, is a company that, even before the AI bubble, was massively indebted. It just so happens that, as a result of its tryst with OpenAI, Larry Ellison saw fit to twist the debt knob to eleven. Oracle’s spending has already pushed its free cash flow into negative territory — minus $23.7 billion, as of the end of FY 2026 — and at the end of May, it had $129.5 billion in outstanding debt. This doesn’t include its various lease commitments, which add up to nearly $38 billion , nor the additional $260 billion in lease commitments that have been signed, but haven’t actually started yet. All of this is to say that Oracle has massively leveraged itself for the benefit of one company, OpenAI, and if that company can’t pay its bills, it’s fucked. Oracle’s existence — and Larry Ellison’s personal wealth — hinges on whether OpenAI can make good on its promise to spend $300bn in compute. This is both the most-obvious and under-discussed part of the AI bubble — that the trillion-plus dollars of hyperscaler capex [capital expenditure] is feeding a massive semiconductor boom based on, at best, the very small likelihood that large language models will turn into something completely different. I need to state how fucking silly it is that anybody considered said semiconductor boom anything other than a brief chance to fill their boots before a global equity catastrophe so severe that the Futurum Group will be on suicide watch. There is no cogent or rational argument in favor of continued capital expenditures, at least not one without a tacit acceptance that much of the current spend has been a waste outside of pumping equities and incubating two different large, unprofitable AI labs. Those millions of H100 and B200 and B300 GPUs are not going to usher in a digital God, they are not going to create recursive self-improvement, they are not going to be the fulcrum to adding $600 billion or more in brand new revenue to current services, and the only revenue they’re generating is compute spend from Anthropic and OpenAI, which I estimate makes up 20% or more of cloud revenues for Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Anyone investing in data centers is building speculative capacity for demand that does not exist outside of Anthropic and OpenAI. Let me put it even simpler: those hundreds of billions of dollars of data centers are being built for no-one, and the only companies that can “afford” to pay for even a fraction of the compute are unprofitable AI companies propped up by hyperscalers." Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At |
So let's review. donald "packed to the brim with shitty pants" trump promised a 250th blowout and served a half-empty fairground so goddamn shoddy his OWN cultists were grumbling in the heat — one told a reporter, and I swear this is real, "I'm mad at Trump." at Trump's own heated fuck fair.
The stage literally tried to MURDER its dancers when a panel dropped. eleven people hauled off with heatstroke. MAGA sheltering from the storm inside the National Museum of African American History. you can't write this shit (and I just did).
The real crime? sixty-eight million taxpayer dollars laundered through a shady "non-profit" with ZERO oversight. a slush fund. a cool mil bought face time with the fat orange grifter, whose family shitcoin helped pocket the TWO BILLION he's grabbed since crawling back in. Reminder: the founders fought a war over a king who did EXACTLY this kind of bullsht.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-fire-went-out-and-shit-trumps-pants-something-truer-kept-burning
Given that it is nearly impossible for foreign born people to vote here as they won’t have the right paperwork to register, I believe they want the voter rolls to know what party we vote and punish us when they cross reference it to our application for benefits or if we are ever dealing with federal agencies. My mom gets generous charitable private funding for her eye shots to not go blind because Trump cut off Medicaid funds to Illinois. They may calculate my social security differently if they cross reference my voting record. No way he should ever have this information given he punishes whole states knowing how we vote as a body. Illinois pays in more taxes than we get back and now our people suffer with poorer healthcare bc of politics.
Unfortunately I believe the federal government can still buy our location data.
Oh I'm sure they will weasel around it sometimes Dorothy!
Or you can have a governor like mine, Dorothy, who willingly gives the orange man anything he wants!
Every time a judge votes to uphold the law gives me a smile. Every time We the People fight and win gives me a smile. Trump is pretending he doesn't hear the truth but he is seeing it in real time. I know the evil haters are terrified of the mid-terms and that is why they are fighting so hard to stop it. But they can't and if they try more, I hope this keeps them up at night.
Phone privacy is for sure the biggest deal for me, although it's challenging to choose just one sometimes given that the Occupier is so determined to control everything. Grateful for justices willing to strike down his facist attempts.
Thanks, Scott & team.
Thank you for your terrific reporting, Scott! The phone privacy is such a 1st Amendment intrusion! Look at the Streever case where he sent an email and is now being investigated by the ICE INTERNAL investigation unit-- for a simple email. They should be looking into the Goode or Pretti murders! 7/20 now for Trumpstein files! More pressure needed!
Great post Scott! Yes, democracy is bad for authoritarian wish-lists and billion dollar bulldozer plans.
Keep chipping away at the poor foundation of this administration. It will crumble.
My main concern now is that they will try to sabotage the mid-terms. I'm sure musk had his hand in the 2024 election. How can we secure our elections so they cannot sabotage them in some way. Martial law, satellites, so many ways.
This is a huge concern for all of us. If Musk can turn on/off all data via Starlink (ie..Ukraine and Russia) at anytime at his discretion as we've witnessed in the past, it's naive to think that he hasn't done so for various situations in the past, or won't do it in the future! We've witnessed his continued purchasing of Trump’s graces for both forgiveness of legal cases against his companies and monumental government contracts for years now...
A foreigner, here initially illegally; using our countries resources to obtain unfathomable wealth who comes from apartied South Africa who doesn't give a shit about our country or its citizens. Gee...what could go wrong?! 🤯😱☠
I agree with you that the phone piracy is the worst although fighting back the data centers is also good.
I was very encouraged to read about the residents of Prince William County shutting down the 2000 acre data center. I live in Bedford County Virginia. Residents in adjoining Botetourt County have been struggling to stop one there, but county officials will not listen. Now the residents of Franklin County are fighting a data center even larger than the one planned for Prince William County. News reports indicate county officials are refusing to share any information with residents who do not want this data center in their county. These data centers are becoming a huge concern for voters, residents, but county governments are determined to ignore the concerns of the people in their districts.
See also Washington Co, MD regarding the ICE prison and a data center. The county commissioners are trying to keep the residents in the dark. The state is fighting, a group of residents is fighting, but too many idiotic racist people are in favor.
This regime has threatened my sense of the safety within our democracy where laws must be followed and the citizens (ALL of them) are protected. Now there are constant threats and challenges - and the winner seems to be whomever has the most money and/or influence in Congress, not to mention a power-hungry President who seems to think he’s king. Considering this is real and not a fairytale threat, I am very worried. We must protect our democracy!
Thank you for being a very bright spot in my mornings. My husband and I called the mainline to oppose Todd Blanche.
I wasn’t surprised when I saw BLACKSTONE listed as an environmental destroyer. I guess destroying single family housing opportunities got boring? Or something…
ICYMI.…⚽️😂
Belgium mock Donald Trump after knocking USA out of World Cup: ‘Overturn this’
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/usa-belgium-world-cup-result-donald-trump-fifa-gianni-infantino-balogun-b3010178.html
What an embarrassment 🍊has made of himself and the US. Now I’m rooting for Belgium🇧🇪!
What an embarrassment 🍊has made of himself and the US. Now I’m rooting for Belgium🇧🇪!
The phone privacy was the gut wrenching one for me as well. Although I haven’t experienced a negative impact personally, my joy is fighting back and speaking up because it matters!
The news you bring is good. Our biggest problem is the propaganda of fascism has found a home in the Whitehouse.
The 80 year old 2 year old...........LIE - CHEAT - STEAL - RIG - RIP OFF ALL THE TIME!!!
Thank You For This News This AM I Needed It 👊👍👏🔥💪✌️✌️♥️🌻💙💛
Violations of privacy are of the utmost concern to me. Everyone has a cell phone these days, and cell phone spying would me the most efficient way to eliminate any opposition. In the eyes of the regime, no one should be able to parlez the truth about any actions contrary to the regime’s illegal agenda. If anyone thinks that the regime could never come after them “just” for exercising their first amendment rights in a phone conversation thought to be private, think again. They simply do not care one whit about the law. I hope the upstate New York folks who criticized ICE online and subsequently had federal agents appear at their homes and who were also labeled as a threat, see a big win in their lawsuits against the regime for its violation of their first amendment rights.
Scott, if you yourself don't know how magnificent these are (I suspect you do), you have your readers to tell you.
It seems that Chap Peterson is more effective as an ex state Senator than he was while in office.
Thanks for that Chap!
SICK OF THIS MF!!!🤬
Thank you Scott for finding and sharing each of these Wins for The People!!!! Your work is appreciated!!!! It also takes a lot of work and money by the people of this country to stop this crazy time, but WE are doing what can be done to stop these mean spirited crooks!! I hear you on loving the judge's ruling to stop phone monitoring as a form of surveillance. I am guessing ICE has been using that? I have worried that someone like Musk might still be able to do this with his satellites for other countries, for a price! UGH! .... Still, I am very happy for the people of Virginia who stopped that Data Center!!!! That is Great!!! :-)
ICE is going after people who are legally residing in Gallatin County Montana. One example is a man who has been here for many years who was the sole caregiver for his relative who is fighting cancer, They don’t tell us where the detainees are, of course.
Ohio’s AG tripped over his own feet in his hurry to release Ohio voter rolls as soon as DJT demanded them. Par for the course. Ever the butt-kisser….
Scott, for me it’s the attempt of the maladministration to get voter data. To me, it’s another way to suppress voters and rig the election 🤓🖖🏻
YES! Just as in GEORGIA, there is a potential of phony VOTER PURGES that voters are unaware of!
The ruling that I feel was the most important was the go ahead of the gateway tunnel. The traffic on any given day between NJ and NYC is a giant disaster. The numbers of vehicles pumping toxins into our atmosphere is exacerbated by the stop and go traffic. If traffic could move smoothly, it would cut emissions, and make travel better for hundreds of thousands of drivers.
As a former NEW YORKER, this solution has been carefully planned and considered endlessly as a solution.
Daffy Don punishes for childish retribution.
It's the phone privacy for me, too. I use every security measure available to keep my data as private as possible. I rarely use "location" when out, always opt out of every cookies when I can, my browser is Duck Duck Go not Google, etc etc. The thought that this fascist government could access whatever it wanted on my phone was bone-chilling. I didn't see this reported anywhere other than your report, Scott. Was it a shadow docket ruling?
If you're using Duck Duck Go, you know how much TRACKING is going on - it's astounding!
Just log on and there are 1,000 TRACKERS!
Mostly tracking nonsense and trivia, but also PERSONAL INFORMATION like BANK ACCOUNTS and CREDIT CARD numbers.
Too much IDENTITY THEFT going on, never mind government snooping!