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Saturday, May 31, 2025
KNOWLEDGE: THIS WEEK'S INSIGHTS into TYRANNY 5.31.25
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
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.
PAST EVENT: Fliers to advertise monthly rally and weekly vigil
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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
KNOWLEDGE & ALERT: DOGE ORDERED MASSIVE CUTS TO SCIENCE that HURT EVERYONE
DOGE ORDERED
MASSIVE CUTS TO SCIENCE
THAT
HURT EVERYONE
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
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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
Trump Tyranny Tracker Day 120 Recap
⚖️ 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
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