Saturday, May 31, 2025

KNOWLEDGE: THIS WEEK'S INSIGHTS into TYRANNY 5.31.25

 THIS WEEK'S RANDOM INSIGHTS


MAY 31, 2025

It is difficult to keep up with the news since Jan 2th and that is by design.  The white House wants everyone yo give up, be discouraged and let them set up a money-maming, corrupt dicatorsgip of the kind never before imaginged in our country.


May 30, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson

Read on Substack

Friday, May 23, 2025

KNOWLEDGE: TRUMP and GOP's Budget Bill rewards the richest and steals from everyone else

 TRUMP and GOP reward the richest and steal from everyone else


BUDGET BILL 
Poorest among us will be impoverished by 13.6% whereas the super-richest will get almost all the beenfits from the GOP- Project 2025 Trump-VOUGHT budget.


Reich and Lofthouse, from minute 5:50 in their analysis of this week's developments in tyranny and fascism. 




from Strengh in Numbers by G. Elliot Morris 

Let this graph sink in.  
The poorest in our country are being robbed in order to give MASSIVE tax breaks to the super and ultra-richest in the country.  That means MUSK, BEZOS, Zuckerberg, and all the cronies swarm around the White House.

Robert Reich calls this "reverse robin-hood" .  That is too polite.





The rich have become richer and richer and paid less and less since of their fair share of taxes since about 1950.   When one has plenty it is the just, fair, normal, and moral thing to pay more taxes.  

In 2018, the richest among us had the lowest tax rate of any group of taxpayers!!!!!!









Taxing the rich used to be normal, and most other countires do it as a matter of course.  In the USA rich donors and corporations have captured congress and been able to stop paying their fair share.  This started with Reagan. Images below let us study the current situation.  

The Richest pay less as a percentage than some with much less wealth, and they surely can afford to pay taxes at the 1965 tax rates.  

MUSK became super rich because of federal money.  Doubt it?  Google it and check out this blog.







 


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Thursday, May 22, 2025

KNOWLEDGE: Musk is enriching himself at your expense

 Musk is enriching himself at YOUR expense


SNIP FROM a congressional hearing in FEB 2025.  

MORE DETAIL BELOW 


IT HAS ONLY GOTTEN MUCH MUCH WORSE 

AND DOGE and MUSK attacks on federal workers IS COSTING EXTRA MONEY.


HOW MUCH?


$2,000,000,000 

EXTRA EVERY DAY RELATIVE TO 2024


Rep. Melanie Stansbu










 

ALERT: civil service at risk-act today friday deadline

 ALERT: civil service at risk-act today friday deadline


LINK FOR ACTION ABOUT CIVIL SERVICE RULE CHANGE-URGENT DO IT TODAY OR FRIDAY DEADLINE.


KNOWLEDGE & ALERT: DOGE ORDERED MASSIVE CUTS TO SCIENCE that HURT EVERYONE

 

DOGE ORDERED 

MASSIVE CUTS TO SCIENCE 

THAT

HURT EVERYONE


UPDATED IMAGE



GIFTED ARTICLES FROM THE NYTIMES

some key figures.  There is much more in the article.













Tuesday, May 20, 2025

KNOWLEDGE: "Billionaires-steal-from-you-and-me-bill" NOT BBB

 Actual effect and better name of BBB: "billionaires-steal-from-you-and-me-bill"



Trump’s grossly misnamed “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about many trillion dollars in tax benefits being gifted to the wealthy donors of our GOP lawmakers and to cronies of the president and his family. It also raises our debt massively and could create a very poor economy in the


The bill also slashes 1 trillion dollars from our health care and food. Many hospital will be forced to close, many people will suffer and die, mostly children and the sickest and oldest in our country will be tossed off their health care or be denied vital services, and little money will be saved.


How can we say this? This has been tried before and it failed. See Georgia and Arkansas. The upshot: no money is saved but people suffer and die.


"Work requirements" are a dishonest and disguised way to cut care. "Sending it back to states" is a way to cut care. "Saving the money for the really sick" is a way to cut your care and hurt the entire community. This bill shows very clearly that the GOP does not care about ordinary people or its voters.

Monday, May 19, 2025

KNOWLEDGE & ALERT: MORE ATTACKS ON SCIENCE

MORE ATTACKS ON SCIENCE RESEARCH

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COSTS ARE ENORMOUS 
CUTS ARE COMPLETELY ILLEGAL


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PROTEST RULE CHANGES FOR FEDERAL WORKFORCE

World cloud of the most common words in the project titles of terminated grants, with size proportional to word frequency.


Over 700 and $1.7 billion in previously undisclosed grant terminations published by NIH
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726 additional additional terminated grants were reported by NIH this week, amounting to over $1.70 billion in total grant value, with $780 million remaining unspent. This brings the total number of terminations in our NIH database to over 1500 and $7.5 billion in total value.
Thanks to scientists self-reporting these terminations, we know these are not all recent terminations. 58 of the 726 were previously reported by scientists to Grant Watch, with dates as early as 2025-03-21.
The list of publicly reported terminations is likely still far from complete. Grant Watch has reports of over 40 additional terminations reported by researchers that still do not appear in any official public site or list, also reported as far back as early March. Nor does the current list include many grants to Harvard University terminated last week. This suggests that even with this new batch, NIH and HHS’s public reporting is not up to date, and the full scope of terminated grants is unreported and will grow.
Approximately 500 terminations were added to NIH’s RePORTER database on Sunday May 18, then more were also published to the HHS TAGGS website today. As has been the case previously, the two sources have significant discrepancies, with approximately 300 terminated grants only published in one of the two sources. In the past three weeks, HHS had stopped posting new terminations to the TAGGS list, actually removing some.
Terminations in the RePORTER database are not searchable and not included in the site’s programmatic API. Grant Watch tracks this designation by regular scraping of the RePORTER website.
These new terminations also do not appear to have been part of releases on doge.gov. DOGE’s website claims that 1,951 grants have been cancelled across all of HHS, totaling $47 billion in value, but provides no details or reference numbers beyond the recipient institution, which is also missing in many cases. Nonetheless, more grants to Harvard, UC San Francisco, and other institutions appear in the new RePORTER terminations than are listed by DOGE.


 

KNOWLEDGE & ALERT: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT has been weaponized: JUDGES, Congress people, former FBI directors are targets

 JUSTICE DEPARTMENT is weaponized TO SILENCE CRITICS AND ALL OF US: 

BIG TIME


PLEASE follow Olga Lautmann's Trump Tyranny Tracker. Substack.com

Every dat at 2 pm she covers highlights in a video with Zev Shalev

Snips from Day 120

Trump Tyranny Tracker Day 120 Recap

A recording from Olga Lautman's live video

We've really seen how they're weaponizing the Department of Justice against critics. We've seen how they're compromising media independence at CBS, the deliberate weakening of our critical national security infrastructure, the nuclear facilities. We've heard about all the corruption and the insider trading. We are really seeing authoritarianism take hold in the United States of America.
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⚖️ In Weaponization of Institutions News

Rep. McIver Charged With “Assault Over Clash” Outside Newark ICE Center

What Happened: The DOJ charged Rep. LaMonica McIver with “assaulting” ICE agents during a May 9 protest outside a Newark detention center, while dropping a trespassing charge against Mayor Ras Baraka. McIver denies wrongdoing, calling the charges politically motivated.

Why It Matters: Rep. McIver was simply performing her Congressional oversight duties—Trump is weaponizing federal agencies to criminalize dissent, a common tactic in Russia. It’s a warning that checks and balances are treated as crimes.

Source: New York Times
NOTES ADDED BY WTP.CV
Some important information that is not being REPORTED mainstream media.  ICE PUSHED and shoved ALL three Congress persons AND the MAYOR in an act of deliberate intimidation

ICE started the scuffle, shoving and harassing the oversight team from Congress.  You can hear McIvors repeatedly protesting and saying "do not touch me" before the alleged incident happened.  

ONE OF MANY NEARLY IDENTICAL REPORTS: 

Transcription from interview with New Jersey Congressman Robert Menendez after the scuffle, shoving by ICE during unfounded arrest of Mayor Barack.  Link goes to the entire interview. Listen to the interview from about 5 min onward.  

We copy text from 6 min onward for this critical insight.

Summary and rephrasing:
The scuffle was an act of intimidation started by 20 arms and masked ICE thugs who were violating the personal space of everyone, on public ground at the direction of a higher up on the phone.  THIS part of the event is not being shown on selectively edited video in the main stream media.

The ice officials intimidated and shoved all three of the congress people and the mayor, clearly and on purpose and the shoving was most aggressive toward Congresswoman McIvors (the younger black Congress persons).  A large man shoved her with both hands.  She said "do not touch me" and she tried to get them to stop touching her.  

 In response to that violation of personal space, on public ground, after waiting for 60-90 minutes to be able to do their oversight tour, there was a physical scuffle that was started deliberately by ICE as the congresspeople circled the Mayor to protect him from an illegal arrest.  

The trespassing charge was dropped, of course, because it was outrageous.

The shoving all started when the ~20 masked ICE OFFICIALS followed directions from someone on the phone.  They streamed out of the ICE facility to surround and try to arrest the Mayor for "trespassing" as he was standing on public ground.  He had left the ice facility when he was asked to do so. They also roughed up congress people.

Sadly these consistent reports of ICE instigating the scuffle, these vital facts have been "forgotten" by the media. 

Justice Department to investigate Chicago after mayor's remarks about hiring Black officials

What Happened: Trump’s DOJ has opened a civil rights investigation into the city of Chicago after Mayor Brandon Johnson praised his administration’s hiring of Black officials. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon claimed the remarks raise concerns about racial discrimination in hiring.

Why It Matters: This politically charged probe fits a broader pattern of the Trump regime targeting cities and officials who promote racial equity—while dismantling DEI programs and punishing perceived opponents of Trump’s agenda. Trump’s attacks on Democrats are only the beginning—and will escalate as he tightens his grip on power.

Source: NBC News

FBI director confirms federal probe into New York attorney general

What Happened: Kash Patel confirmed a federal investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James over alleged “mortgage fraud.”

Why It Matters: James led several high-profile cases against Trump and won. Now, Trump’s DOJ is carrying out his promised retribution—launching a politically motivated investigation aimed at prosecuting her on the taxpayers’ dime.

Source: CNN

Trump Justice Dept. Considers Removing Key Check on Lawmaker Prosecutions

What Happened: Trump is weighing a proposal to strip the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section of its oversight role in prosecuting elected officials. This would allow U.S. attorneys, many politically appointed, to pursue indictments without review from the department’s internal experts.

Why It Matters: Created post-Watergate to prevent political prosecutions, the Public Integrity Section ensures cases are legally sound and evenly applied. This change opens the door to partisan abuse, as Pam Bondi carries out Trump’s political agenda.

Source: Washington Post