This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 97 … Bradley Bartell does not regret voting for Trump despite the fact that his wife from Peru is now in ICE custody after she was detained at the airport coming back from their honeymoon in Puerto Rico.

This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 97. This is a big one, packed with everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Trump Wants to Be President for Life—and He’s Already Preparing for It No, he’s not “joking” when he portrays himself as a king and muses about staying in office past 2028. Just look at everything he’s done this month.

There’s no one around to stop Trump from declaring martial law and suspending the Constitution or even an election.

Mike Johnson kicking out a member for "decorum" after half his caucus supported rioters invading the same chamber they're all sitting in

"I could find a cure to the most devastating diseases" and Democrats still wouldn't be happy, Trump says.

Trump has frozen all government research into cures for cancer and Alzheimer's.

Costs are up, consumer sentiment is down, the Supreme Court just said companies can put more SHIT in our water,

So tell us Don what exactly are we supposed to be clapping for??

Trump promised lower prices on day one, but so far all we’ve seen is chaos and confusion. His actions have done nothing to lower costs and have already hurt our economy.

Just going to leave this here...

"Efficiency."

ALL of the Republicans are standing up and cheering for DOGE, Elon Musk, and Trump’s “policies.”

Remember that when you’re unemployed and can’t afford your basic necessities because of Trump’s tariffs.

This current Social Security riff by Trump is completely debunked 100% total made-up BS. No president has EVER lied this baldly from the podium. And Vance, Johnson, and the whole GOP just nod and go along with it.

Trump on “Truth Social”: “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

Trump tonight: “I brought back free speech in America. It’s back.”

Trump this morning:

Folks, #Trump is lying. He just said his plan calls for “no tax on tips, OT, or Social Security.” But the Tax Bill the House GOP just passed has absolutely none of this. Zero. Nada. Nothing.

But it does have trillions in new tax cuts for billionaires.

#TrumpSpeech #SOTU

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

2016: GOP dilutes party platform regarding aid to Ukraine under Trump

2019: Trump tries to withhold military aid until Zelensky “announces” an investigation into the Bidens

2025: Trump and Vance openly side with Putin

It’s been the play the whole time, now it’s just out in the open

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Yup.

No Amazon. No Walmart. No Target. No Disney. No Google. No Apple. No Visa or Mastercard. And especially no Facebook or Twitter. Buy essentials such as medicine, food, and emergency supplies, of course, but make those purchases at small, local businesses and use cash. The purpose of today’s economic blackout is to send a clear message: We have the power.

#EconomicBlackout

A 4-Year-Old Boy Dies of Ebola in Uganda as U.S. Pulls Back on Help (Gift Article) The Trump administration has canceled at least four of the five contracts with organizations that helped manage the outbreak in Uganda.

SCOOP: The Ebola outbreak in Uganda, which had seemed to be in retreat, has claimed a new victim: a four-year-old boy who died on Monday, according to a State Department cable viewed by The New York Times.

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“Half my students were gone”: How Trump’s immigration agenda is disrupting education In Boston-area schools, more than 1,000 students stayed home fearing deportation. Their teachers want to know what to tell them.

Trump loves terrorizing children. He rapes young girls, trafficked babies that have been separated from parents as he did in his first term, or taking parents away while children are away at school as part of mass deportations. Congrats MAGA Christians!

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🚨 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) dropped five major legal cases, including a major lawsuit against Capital One. This is a change in direction from CFPB's aggressive stance in recent years. Here's what happened.

Don’t buy today. Give the greedheads a taste of their own medicine.

Happening right in front of us

University of Cincinnati Protests Lead to "Biological" Bathroom Signs Reversal “Deny, delay, fight back.”

1. Major news: Remember those "Biological men"/"Biological Women" signs at University of Cincinnati?

They have come down thanks to MASSIVE student protests at the college, which have continued.

The latest from S. Baum.

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They can't eliminate the diversity of this country. It was always here and it always will be here in these places, whether or not the USA itself endures. They can create hierarchy and repression, and we can oppose it by embracing equality and diversity. Si se puede and sic semper tyrannis.

If you’re a Dem elected and you’re not mentioning the massive cuts to cancer cure and social security funding in every public appearance you’re just not doing your job.

Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.

Who is House Speaker Mike Johnson's new roommate in Washington D.C.? An evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as “a delusional lie” and called multinational institutions “demonic." @propublica.org scoop:

A constant sense of danger

The goal is to terrorize federal workers into quitting. That’s it. Constant changes. Canceling work from home then closing offices. Laying off probationary employees. It’s designed to break the government. Then privatize it for profit. It’s not efficiency. It’s collapse. Only peasants will suffer.

The richest man in the world calls people who get help from government programs the “parasite class.”

But Medicaid’s beneficiaries aren’t parasites. Half of them are children.

If we’re talking about people who depend on government, Elon Musk is the biggest “parasite” of all.

The last time we lost a child to measles in this country was 2003. My heart goes out to all the families affected by the ongoing outbreak.

This terrible disease making a comeback is NOT normal. We need and deserve leaders who understand the urgency of this moment.