Recap of this week in the revolution: Colorado writes voter protections into law, DHS caught in lies about OK raid, and Trump surrenders to China while pandering to Qatar. Trump regime rolls out red carpet for white immigrants while 'actively looking' to suspend rights of immigrants of other races. Join the resistance and protest with us on June 14, No King's Day!
The Good...
Colorado Governor Jared Polis
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Colorado recently passed the Colorado Voting Rights Act (COVRA) and it was signed into law this week by Governor Jared Polis. The new law empowers the Colorado Attorney General to enforce protections for voting rights at state and local levels without relying on federal courts.
With the Trump regime focused on disenfranchising as many voters as they possibly can, legislation like this sends a clear message that Colorado will not allow the hard-won rights of voters to be lost, and provides a blueprint for similar legislation in other states.
Colorado is a leading state in providing safe, open, and accessible elections. This new law offers strong voter protections, including requiring multilingual ballots, protecting Black voters from voter suppression, establishing a statewide election database to provide transparency in election demographics, and protecting the right to vote for LGBTQ+, disabled, and (eligible) incarcerated voters.
The Bad...
Donny Two-Dolls has claimed that he has made a deal with China thanks to his brilliant tariff scheme. Let's take a look at this brilliance:
Trump raised the tariffs to a ridiculously high 145%, prompting China to impose reciprocal tariffs of 125%. Trump then backed down and dropped the tariffs down to the level he originally threatened, and China removed their reciprocal tariffs. That's his great deal...he threatened China, they threatened back, and he caved. Trump lost, China won.
But don't get your hopes up...Trump only dropped the ridiculously high tariffs...he still has a completely unreasonable 30% tariff on Chinese imports, which will be enough to ensure that Americans will be paying more for their goods, small businesses will fail, and stores will see empty shelves.
In short, Donny Two-Dolls' stupidity is still greater than his cowardice.
On April 25, DHS agents broke into a home in the early morning darkness and forced the family living in the home at gunpoint to stand outside in their underwear while agents vandalized the home and confiscated the family's cash and personal property. They had a warrant to enter the home and seize certain items, but the family living in the home were not the people the warrant targeted.
It turns out that DHS had falsely claimed that one of the targets of the raid owned the home, but public records clearly show that the house had been sold more than a week before the warrant was signed. The government is now seeking forfeiture of the property as part of the investigation into the former owner. The legal filing seeking that forfeiture neglects to mention that the home belongs to a new owner not connected to the case, and is being rented by the family that was traumatized during the raid.
The cash and other belongings of the family raided have not been returned. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem refused to answer members of Congress asking when the property will be returned.
Donnie Two-Dolls plans to accept the gift of a $400 million 747 that he will use as Air Force One while in office and then take with him when he leaves office.
Keep in mind this is the same dictator told the American people that, because of his mishandling of the economy and disastrous and pointless trade war, has told the American people that families would only be able to afford "one or two" dolls for their children. Meanwhile, he will be flying around in an airborne palace built for a king.
I wonder what the founders of our country would have to say about this?
"No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
Oh, yeah, that's what they would say.
The Ugly...
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In a move "as subtle as an air raid," the Donny Two-Dolls is offering citizenship to a group of white South African immigrants after spending his entire first term, his four-year between-terms campaign, and the whole of his second term to date trying desperately to rid this country of immigrants. I guess he only meant the non-white immigrants.
The current Trump regime has shut down refugee admissions into the United States and pulled funding that was to be used to re-settle those who were already here, leaving them stranded in limbo waiting for the ICE Gestapo to pluck them off the streets and send them to a foreign prison for the rest of their lives.
But now, the same anti-immigrant regime is rolling out the red carpet for a group of South Africans who are fleeing what they are calling a genocide. While South Africa is a violent country, there is no evidence that whites are more targeted than any other race, and there's certainly no justification to the use of the term genocide.
"This is an unequivocal affirmation of this administration’s commitment to white nationalism, and it should be read as such."—Kali Holloway, The Nation
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller announced that the Trump regime is "actively looking at" suspending the constitutionally-guaranteed human right to challenge the legality of a person's detention in court.
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Last week, Ferreira de Oliveira was detained by ICE/Gestapo agents in Worcester, Massachusetts, despite attempts by neighbors to protect her. New details this week show that the agents lured her out of her home using her children and grandchild as bait.
21-year old Clara, de Oliveira's daughter, was told she needed to sign paperwork for her partner, who had been arrested the day before. When she left the house to sign the paperwork, she was accompanied by her 17-year old sister and her 3-month old son. She was stopped by ICE agents and was told she was being arrested. The arresting agents told her that she needed to call someone to take her child, since her sister was a minor. So Clara called her mother to come take the baby. As soon as de Oliveira left the house, she was arrested by ICE thugs who suddenly lost their interest in Clara.
Angry community members on the scene tried to prevent de Oliveira's arrest, leading to the arrest of de Oliveira's teenage daughter and local school board candidate Ashley Springs. Local law enforcement was on the scene to assist the ICE agents in violation of a state law prohibiting local law enforcement from assisting ICE.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has proposed a reality TV show where migrants would be forced to compete for the right to become citizens of the United States of America.
Noem has already been heavily criticized for turning immigration issues into tasteless photo ops.
"We'll join in the laughter, tears, frustration, and joy—hearing their backstories—as we are reminded how amazing it is to be American, through they eyes of 12 wonderful people who want nothing more than to have what we have"—TV show pitch
Contestants would have to prove their skills at "American" activities like mining for gold, building rockets, building a Model T Ford, and balancing on logs. You know, things that all Americans do every day. Obviously, anyone who can perform these feats deserves to be here.
The winner will be granted citizenship without following any legal pathway to citizenship. And the losers will be allowed to apply for citizenship the legal way...if the ICE Gestapo doesn't catch them first.
What did I/we do last week?
This week, our pet chihuahua, Lulu, passed away after fifteen wonderful years. I've spent my time mourning her loss with my family.
What can you do this week?
Clear your schedules, make a sign (or buy one), and get yourself ready. We really need everyone to take a stand against the Trump regime on June 14.
Seriously, we need to end this madness. Right now, the best way to do that is to mobilize a large enough portion of the population to send a clear message that Trump's regime has no place in the United States of America.
There's a lot more we need to do than to protest. We need to get anyone who opposes to Donald Trump and is registered as a Republican to change their voter registration immediately, we need to cut off funding for Trump's supporters like we are doing with the Tesla Takedown events nationwide, we need to abolish ICE forever, and we need to pressure our state legislatures to take action to protect us at the state level from the most egregious nationwide offenses from the Trump regime. That's what we have to do now, and the longer this regime continues, the more we are going to have to do to remove it.
If you have never protested before, make this one your first. And if you have protested before, make sure you don't miss out on this one.
Keeping you informed...
On the lighter side...
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— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) May 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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