Blog / Week in Review: April 5, 2026

Doug Lockwood

Sunday, April 5, 2026

 

Recap of this week in the revolution: Americans say 'No Kings' and Pam Bondi fired. Trump threatens to commit war crimes while Hegseth fires Army Chief of Staff. Trump orders creation of national voter list, legal immigrants face deportations to unknown countries, and DOJ drops legitimate investigations to focus on immigration.

 

Impeach. Convict. Remove.

Recap of this week in the revolution: Americans say 'No Kings' and Pam Bondi fired. Trump threatens to commit war crimes while Hegseth fires Army Chief of Staff. Trump orders creation of national voter list, legal immigrants face deportations to unknown countries, and DOJ drops legitimate investigations to focus on immigration.

The good...

No Kings #3 [Link]

On March 28, No Kings Day #3, 8 million protesters in the United States and Europe took to the streets to protest the war in Iran and the Trump regime. The flagship No Kings protest took place in Minnesota, headlining Bruce Springsteen, to commemorate Minnesota's resistance to the surge of ICE agents deployed to the state earlier this winter, leading to the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

In all, more than 3,000 individual protests were scheduled that day, mostly in the United States, but also around the world. The protests were overwhelmingly peaceful, though there were a few instances where protesters failed to disperse after the events were over, or gathered without permits and were dispersed by police.

Saturday broke the record for the largest number of protests in a single day in US history, breaking the previous record set last year by the second No Kings day protest in October, 2025. Half of the scheduled events were held in Republican-leaning states. and more than two-thirds of participants came from "outside of major urban centers."

Despite breaking records, the event may not have drawn quite as many people as organizers were hoping for initially. The goal has been to draw 11.5 million protesters in an attempt to show that 3.5 percent of the population opposes the current regime. This is based off of research over the past century that indicates that when 3.5 percent of the population actively and nonviolently resists an authoritarian government, that government is likely to fall from power. This is known as the 3.5% rule, although it is not a actually a rule, just a likelihood.


Pam Bondi sold her soul to Donald Trump. He fired her anyway. [Link]
Pam Bondi's disgraceful performance at House Judiciary Committee hearing in February

Pam Bondi's disgraceful performance at House Judiciary Committee hearing in February

Pam Bondi is one of the biggest and most vocal suck-ups to Donald Trump the world has ever seen. He repaid her loyalty by firing her. Not because she failed to follow the law demanding the release of all of the Epstein Files to the public. Not because she mishandled the files by illegally redacting the names of pedophiles and failing to redact the names of victims. Not because she transformed the Department of Justice from one of three co-equal branches of government to Donald Trump's personal weapon against his political and personal enemies. Not because she is an utter disgrace to her position and to her country. Nope. He fired her because she wasn't able to make people stop caring about the Epstein Files or push through criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James.

Like Noem, Trump didn't come out and say Bondi was fired, but made non-committal remarks about her transitioning to an "important new job in the private sector." Noem was given a title and transferred into a made-up position for a non-existent government agency. Obviously, both were fired, but Trump at least made an attempt to soften the blow for Noem, which he did not do for Bondi.

Bondi's position will be temporarily filled by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as the acting attorney general until a new appointment can be made. I guess this officially makes Pam Bondi a "washed up loser-lawyer."

Pam Bondi oversaw an unprecedented weaponization of the Justice Department that brought our nation’s rule of law to its knees.


The bad...

Trump regime threatens to destroy desalination plants [Link]
Bandar Abbas desalination plant, Iran

Bandar Abbas desalination plant, Iran. Image by Farshid Daryanous from Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Donny 2-Dolls has renewed his threats to destroy Iran's energy infrastructure, and is now including the country's desalination plants. Such actions, particularly the destruction of desalination plants, could lead to the death or suffering of countless civilians, not only in Iran, but in many countries in the region that depend on water from Iranian desalination plants.

These threats are being made even while Trump is claiming that the war is winding down and the U.S. will complete their mission (whatever that may be) within the next few weeks. Meanwhile, thousands of U.S. ground forces have already been deployed to the region, ready at a moment's notice to begin a ground assault in Iran.

So, while Trump claims that peace talks are underway and progressing, every action he's taking says that he has no plans for peace. Iranian officials are denying that peace talks are taking place at all.

Threatening to obliterate a nation’s power grid, oil infrastructure and water supply to coerce its government is not a negotiating tactic; it is textbook collective punishment and a war crime.


Hegseth fires three generals, including Army Chief of Staff Randy George, without explanation [Link]
Fire your Army Chief in the middle of a War -Don Tzu

Fire your Army Chief in the middle of a War

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Army chief of staff to retire early—just halfway through his term—without providing a reason. Since taking office last year, Hegseth has fired more than a dozen top generals and admirals as he reshapes the United States military into the president's personal goon squad.

Firing the Army chief of staff in the middle of a war is highly unusual and raises serious concerns about the judgment of Hegseth and the Trump regime. George is being replaced by a man who was only a two-star general two years ago, which is a questionably rapid rise for any Army officer.

In addition to George, Hegseth also fired General David Hodne, head of the Army Transformation and Training Command, and Major General William Green, the Army's Chief of Chaplains.


The ugly...

Trump signs order to create national voter list [Link]
No Vote

Modified from images by Amber from Pixabay and Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay.

Donny 2-Dolls signed an executive order this week to create a nationwide list of eligible voters and put restrictions on mail-in voting. This blatantly illegal order is already facing lawsuits. The Constitution is quite clear on this: Elections are run by the states, and the president has no authority to dictate how they are conducted. Congress has some authority to make nationwide laws regarding elections, but the president has no such authority.

The order prohibits the U.S. Postal Service from sending mail-in ballots to anyone who is not on the federal list. That is also an illegal order, as the president has no authority to tell the Postal Service what mail it can and cannot deliver.

This order does nothing to increase the security of our elections. Instead, it will only disenfranchise legitimate voters. Trump has openly proclaimed that he wants to "take over" elections in states that have large Democratic populations. The Trump regime has already illegally seized voter records from Georgia and is suing any state that refuses to hand over their voter registration data to the federal government.


13,000 legal U.S. residents seeking asylum deported to countries they've never seen [Link]

Afghan refugees deported to Uganda, Cuban refugees deported to Ecuador, Ecuadorians deported to Honduras. These aren't mistakes. The Trump regime's latest way of dehumanizing immigrants is to send them to countries they've never been to. This is not for the safety and security of the United States. It's an act of absolute cruelty.

More than 13,000 immigrants residing legally in the United States while waiting for their asylum cases to be processed are suddenly being threatened with deportation orders that would take them to countries they have no ties to. These individuals, who came here legally and are following our laws, are now stuck in limbo. They could be snatched up at any time by masked men who may or may not be working for the United States government and imprisoned or deported, abandoned in a foreign land not of their choosing.

While Honduras, Ecuador, and Uganda are the most common targets for these third-country deportations, there are nearly three dozen possible destinations for victims of the Trump regime's cruelty.


DOJ drops 23,000 criminal investigations to focus on immigration [Link]
Illustration of the scales of justice and a man being smashed by a gavel

Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay.

From the moment Pam Bondi was appointed to her position as the attorney general, her department closed down pending criminal investigations into terrorism, fraud, abuse, drugs, embezzlement, investment scams, and other federal crimes. In just six months, the Justice Department closed tens of thousands of criminal cases without prosecution.

While it's not unusual for the department to close some cases without investigation, the number of closed cases and the speed at which they were closed set new records, even nearly doubling the previous record set during Trump's first term.

The Department of Justice has abandoned its mission to impartially uphold the rule of law, and instead has weaponized its staff to ruthlessly pursue immigration and drug enforcement cases and to try to paint diversity, equity, and inclusion as federal crimes. Investigators were ordered to abandon their normal cases in order to generate cases that fit the new priorities, even though most of those cases did not even merit a federal investigation. In one such example last February, Donny 2-Dolls issued an executive order to pause investigations of citizens and companies bribing foreign entities to advance their own business interests to "preserve Presidential foreign policy prerogatives."


Keeping you informed...

This week in the Iran war
Operation Epstein Fury

Modification of an image by StockSnap from Pixabay.

  • Iran threatens US universities
  • Gulf allies want U.S. to continue war until Iran is decisively defeated
  • Trump renews threats against civilian energy infrastructure
  • Trump's address to the nation doesn't address upcoming deadline to open Strait of Hormuz, use of US ground troops, or timeline for ending the war
  • Trump calls NATO "very bad allies"
  • Austria closes its airspace to US military operations related to Iran
  • Trump says he will open the Strait of Hormuz, take the oil and make a fortune

Sounds of the revolution...

PDF File ("American Pie" Donald Trump song parody)
Patrick Fitzgerald [Link]

Not My President - From Opposite Sides, Same Conclusion | Powerful Anti-Trump Protest Duet
The Resistance [Link]

View the full Protest Music playlist (Updated weekly).

On the lighter side...



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