‘I don’t care what judges think’: Tom Homan doubles down despite deportation ban

Stephan: 

Border czar Tom Homan is a despicable human being. He is also stating out loud what psychopath “king” Trump and his MAGAt servants believe and Project 2025 stated clearly, and which the Supreme Court has ruled is American law. The President is above the law, and immune to any prosecution for his official decisions. By implication, the Court also said if his minions follow his Presidential orders they are doing nothing illegal.

Watch the video below from ABC or at the link. 

Border czar fascist Tom Homan. Credit: Fox News / screen grab

Border czar Tom Homan doubled down after saying he didn’t “care” about U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg’s opinion in a deportation case involving Venezuelan gang members.

Homan was asked about his remarks during a Sunday interview on ABC with host Jonathan Karl.

“You said, I quote, I don’t care what judges think,” Karl pointed out. “Now, I know you have since said that the administration will abide by court orders. We heard Donald Trump say the same thing. So what do you mean when you say, I don’t care what judges think?”

“No, I don’t care what judges think as far as this case, we’re going to continue to arrest public safety threats and national security threats,” Homan replied. “We’re going to continue to deport them from the United States.”

“I understand this case is in litigation through the Alien Enemies Act and we’ll abide by the court order as litigated, but my quote was, despite what he thinks, we’re going to keep targeting the worst of […]

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“Heads should roll”: Congress erupts over stunning Trump admin leak

Stephan: 

When I was in government and held clearances I can’t even name, to get them the government went back and talked with some of my teachers. They were so fussy about security that when I told security that I did not want to have to take the ribbon off my IBM typewriter and lock the ribbon and the little ball with the type on it in a security vault every night, they put a grill on my office window, a combination lock on my door; and when I closed for the day I had to pick up the security phone they had already installed and say, “This is Op-00C, I am securing for the night, and the day’s password is (whatever it was for that day)”. Yet, psychopath “king” Trump’s administration is so sloppy about security that as Atlantic Magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg reported a group meeting on an unsecured internet link, which accidentally included him, revealed ultra-classified war plans. Isee this as an example of the utter incompetence of the Trump administration, and the people he has appointed and the MAGAts in Congress have confirmed.

President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office. Credit: Anna Moneymaker / Getty

Members of Congress in both parties exploded in anger Monday after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic revealed he was inadvertently included in a highly sensitive Trump administration Signal chat on airstrikes in Yemen.

Why it matters: Some Democrats are already calling for an investigation and potential repercussions against the national security officials involved in the lapse.

  • “This is an outrageous national security breach and heads should roll,” Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.), a member of the Armed Services Committee, said in a statement to Axios.
  • He added: “We need a full investigation and hearing into this on the House Armed Services Committee, ASAP.”
  • “We can’t chalk this up to a simple mistake — people should be fired for this,” said Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), another Armed Services Committee member.

Between the lines: People identifying as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Michael Waltz and Vice President Vance were among the 18 people in the Signal chat, per The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg.

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change

Stephan: 

An important part of the psychopath “king” Trump’s coup and strategy to create a kind of neo-medieval society owned and controlled by Trump’s oligarch aristocracy, is to dismantle and disable any attempt to prepare for climate change. This report describes the coup group’s latest move. Why is this happening? The answer is simple: This is being done in order to protect and assure the continued profits of the carbon energy oligarchs who bought Trump his seat in the White House. Unfortunately, it is going to wreak extraordinary misery and death on what the oligarchs and “king” Trump think of as the American peasants.

Aftermath of the Maui wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, in October 2023. The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change. Credit: Mario Tama / Getty

The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

The guidance, which was distributed to several staffers last week, comes on the back of multiple new directives to cut off NIH funding to grants that are focused on subjects that are viewed as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities, such as gender identityLGBTQ+ issuesvaccine hesitancy, and diversity, equity and inclusion.

While it’s unclear whether the climate guidance will impact active grants and lead to funding terminations, the directive appears to halt opportunities for future funding of studies or academic programs focused on the health effects of climate change.

“This is an administration where industry voices rule and prevail,” said Dr. Lisa Patel, executive director of The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, a coalition […]

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There Are Four Things You Must Do to Save America

Stephan: 

As I was researching stories for today’s SR, I did a podcast with a host named Helen Cowan. She asked me what I thought was going on in the United States, and what I thought ordinary people could do to preserve the nation’s democracy and avoid the country being owned by oligarchs. As I answered her I thought that rather than do the usual four trend stories I publish in SR each day, I would put my answers into writing. (I will provide the link to the interview when she posts it.) Please pass this essay on to anyone you think will act on it.

We Americans, whether we want to acknowledge it or not, are undergoing a fascist coup led by a medically determined psychopath funded by oligarchs who want to create a kind of neo-medievalism in which a financial aristocracy owns and controls the government, and imposes its racial, gender, and financial views upon a docile peasantry. So what can an ordinary democracy-loving American without wealth or official office do that can stop this?

For nearly 50 years I have been studying the factual historical evidence that answers that question, and the answers are very clear, and they teach us that you, whoever you are, wherever you are, how rich or poor you are whichever race or gender you are, you can become an agent of change. To begin, realize this: A society and its culture are the creation of collective intentioned consciousness. That is why the Japanese cook eggplant differently than the Italians. Also, realize something else history teaches: When the collective intentioned nonviolent consensus of a society makes fostering wellbeing at every level of Earth’s matrix of life its priority, the social outcome is kinder, happier, more successful, and fairer than any other social option.

So, with that as a factually irrefutable foundation, what can you do to stop what is happening to the United States? There are four things you can do. First, you must be nonviolent. Second, you must associate with some collective organization that seeks to nonviolently demonstrate in public assembly its opposition to what is happening. Third, you must not spend any money at all, ever, buying something produced or sold by anyone or any company, that supports Project 2025 and the oligarchial fascist, racist, genderist coup. (Link to list) Fourth, you must tell at least 10 of your family and friends that you are doing these things as a discipline, and invite them to join you, and for them to ask at least 10 of their family and friends to join them in this commitment.

If just the people who read this will make this commitment we will be able to preserve the America the Founders created and the democracy we have known all our lives. Will you join me?

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Musk PAC offers voters $100 for signing petition against ‘activist judges’

Stephan: 

It is apparently now legal in the United States for oligarchs to openly bribe American voters to vote for the candidate of their choice. Can this possibly be true? I am ashamed to tell you it is, and here is the factual proof.  Psychopath Trump’s Frankenstein co-president Musk, as this report describes, is openly offering bribes to Wisconsin voters in the upcoming state Supreme Court election to vote for fascist Brad Schimel. Attorney General  Pam Bondi seems to have no problem with that. Are Wisconsin voters really that dishonorable? We are about to find out.

Musk PAC offers voters $100 for signing petition against ‘activist judges’

A political action committee associated with Elon Musk is offering Wisconsin voters $100 if they sign a petition “in opposition to activist judges” and another $100 if they refer another person who signs the petition. The petition requires people to provide a name, address, email and phone number — information that will help the group make further contact with voters.

The group, America PAC, has reported spending more than $7 million in support of Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel’s campaign for state Supreme Court. Musk himself has contributed more than $13 million to pro-Schimel efforts.

During the campaign, Schimel’s opponent, Dane County Judge Susan Crawford, has accused Musk of trying to buy a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Musk’s company, Tesla, recently filed a lawsuit against the state seeking to change Wisconsin’s law about who can operate car dealerships within the state.

Schimel himself has portrayed himself as a “support network” for President Donald Trump if elected to the Court.

Derrick Honeyman, a spokesperson for the Crawford campaign, accused Musk of “buying votes.”

“Elon […]

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