April 11, 2026

No writer imagining a fictional foe hellbent on sabotaging the U.S. could have come up with a plot as devastating.

Motives of psychopaths may be beyond the understanding of those of us who are sane, but the effects of every action -- every single action -- is sabotage.

Sabotage the rule of law, on which all else depends. Corruption of the DOJ, openly violating the law and the constitution, openly violating civil rights, to the point of murdering people, open corruption and abuse of public offices across the executive branch, and on, and on.

Sabotage entire economic sectors with the imposition of illegal tariffs.

Sabotage research and scientific progress. Cuts and unlawful impounding of NIH and NSF funds, arbitrary restrictions on international students, and political targeting of entire areas of research has created an unprecedented crisis. Over 95,000 employees left federal science agencies by 2025. According to a poll by Nature, over 75% of scientists were considering leaving the U.S.

Sabotage health by directly attacking a public health infrastructure that needed bolstering, not destruction, making health insurance -- already far too expensive -- impossible for millions, cutting Medicaid, corrupting Medicare, cutting CHIP, cutting WIC, SNAP, and school nutrition programs (with the added benefit of putting farmers out of business), attacking life saving vaccinations, and more.

Sabotage national well-being and identity by seeking to destroy the most basic truth of America -- that we (with the exception of Native Americans) are a nation of immigrants. Immigration is a massive driving force in our economy and the contributions of immigrants widens our horizons. Our congress failed to enact the sort of immigration reform that we have needed for decades, including a path to citizenship for the undocumented who have been here for years, a truly robust asylum system, and more legal paths that would undermine the kind of exploitation of undocumented labor this nation has become addicted to. But as broken as the immigration system has been, the current insanity is horrific. Seeking to end birthright citizenship and purge immigrants -- whether they are here legally seeking asylum under system so backlogged it is no system at all, under TPS status, or undocumented -- is an act of sabotage.

Sabotage agriculture, with trade wars that are closing overseas markets, ending food bank and school nutrition markets, decimation of the workforce through the cruel and insane attack on both documented and undocumented immigrants, criminal war of aggression on Iran disrupting fertilizer supplies, and on and on.

Sabotage the security and prosperity made possible by more than 75 years of values-based alliances with nations that have a common interest in safeguarding democracy, individual liberty, and a rules-based international order. We have never been more vulnerable as the principle source of our security, intelligence from allied nations, has been cut off (you can bet we are getting no warnings from those the felon has told to go to hell).

Sabotage international security, by withdrawing support for Ukraine against Russian aggression -- aggression that will extend to the whole of Europe should Ukraine fail, and intentionally alienating nations with whom we share common interests while giving aid and comfort to the illiberal forces and nations that seek to destroy us and our growing list of former allies.

Sabotage everything AI touches (and that is pretty much everything) by dismantling the nascent regulatory framework that could have protected us against the frightening consequences we are now vulnerable to.

Sabotage and corrupt the national information environment by promoting propaganda and lies, taking over major media outlets, protecting social media conglomerates from liability for the damage done by failure to moderate, and on and on.

Sabotage education at all levels with direct attacks on universities, illegally dismantling the Department of Education, diverting funds from public education to privatized and Christian Nationalist schools.

Sabotage everything we stand for by starting a criminal war of aggression, targeting schools and hospitals in densely populated neighborhoods (see NYTimes) and unleashing all the terrible consequences of attempting to destroy a country that has more that twice the population of California and more than four times the land mass of that state. The world, and as the aggressor, our nation in particular, will be suffering consequences of this for decades.

And so much more. The sabotage in one area has tentacles of destruction that reach into others, compounding the damage in those areas, and beyond.

April 10, 2026

The Next Phase of the Immigration Crackdown Is Quieter -- and More Destabilizing

Source: NYTimes

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Gone for now are the concentrated surges into American cities leading to dramatic — and sometimes deadly — clashes between immigration agents and protesters. Mass raids of Home Depot parking lots in search of undocumented day laborers are no longer routine. Immigration enforcement officials continue to deport nearly 1,000 people a day, many of them with no criminal record. But the Trump administration is also ramping up another strategy: to take apart immigrants’ lives, piece by piece, until they decide to leave the country altogether.

In February, the Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed a new federal rule blocking “mixed status” families from living in publicly subsidized housing, which could cause an estimated 80,000 people to lose their homes, including about 37,000 children, nearly all of them U.S. citizens. March, roughly 200,000 immigrants began losing their commercial driver’s licenses, under a new ban on truckers who are asylum seekers, refugees or undocumented immigrants who arrived as children. The Trump administration has reportedly weighed an order that would require banks to verify their customers’ citizenship status. Access to capital has already been curtailed. Starting last month, noncitizens can no longer obtain small business loans through the federal government, even if they are here legally.

Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s anti-immigration agenda, is lobbying Republican-led states to cut off services. In a meeting last month in Washington, he asked Texas lawmakers why they had not already passed a bill ending public education funding for undocumented children.
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As the Trump administration shifts its strategy away from audacious, citywide raids, it seeks to apply pressure at every point of contact between immigrants and the government, using the country’s vast bureaucracy. But the most important tool for encouraging self-deportation today is the same as it was more than a century ago: fear.


Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/magazine/self-deportation-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z1A._Gx1.4tLPBgBOFHIE&smid=url-share

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My heart is sinking. I fear the cruelty of these "quieter" tactics is failing to motivate the powerful opposition needed. Lives are being devastated. And not just those of the immigrants that are having their lives torn apart and their legal status stripped.

April 7, 2026

To Republicans in the House and Senate:

Get back to DC, pass Articles of Impeachment and send for an immediate, overwhelming Vote to Convict

March 29, 2026

Seattle No Kings: Images

Seattle No Kings 3/28/26: Cal Anderson Park (0:40)
https://youtube.com/shorts/BYxJshSx4is

Seattle No Kings 3/28/26: E Pine and Harvard (1:15)
https://youtube.com/shorts/U6qZV2BSN3M

Seattle No Kings 3/28/26: E Pine and Harvard (1:50)
https://youtube.com/shorts/uAzBjl16CCU

March 6, 2026

Deputized for Disaster: How President Trump's 287(g) Deportation Force is a Powder Keg for our Communities

https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2026/02/Deputized-for-Disaster_260227.pdf

This is a must read.



If your state or local law enforcement agencies are participating, this is a tool for organizing and lobbying lawmakers to STOP.

Participation is a disaster as law enforcement resources are drained and redirected, not to mention the costs of being sued and held liable for civil rights abuses under the program.

In addition, blurring the lines between immigration enforcement and community policing seriously undermines public safety as distrust leads to non-cooperation with law enforcement and non-reporting of crime.

If your state or local government is contemplating participation, use this as a tool for organizing and informing lawmakers that doing so would be disastrous.

And if your state and local governments are refusing to participate, use the key findings to inform people who think refusing to participate is a poke in the eye to law and order. The truth is, refusing to participate preserves local law enforcement resources and keeps them focused where they should be: protecting the public safety

February 28, 2026

The Felon's "whatever it takes" path forward. We MUST defend against this!!

We cannot not simply denounce and comment on the hellish path the felon is hellbent on forging. We need to find ways to Defend Ourselves and Defend Our Elections.

As Simon Rosenberg notes today:

We cannot allow ourselves to be overwhelmed and immobilized by the "whatever it takes" onslaught they are putting in motion (the go-to-war/billions of dollars of corruptly & oligarch funded mid-term SuperPACs/mafia-like media and tech takeover/unending AI slop/unprecedented foreign active measures on his behalf/end free and fair elections/).

We can, and MUST act to defend ourselves.

It may not sound like much, but pouring whatever dollars you can into strengthening State Democratic Parties is a CRITICAL starting place. Every dollar given now can be put to work NOW -- and that's worth a hell of a lot more than dollars given to campaigns months from now.

Support Marc Elias's efforts. They have been in high gear, but for the onslaught that is coming, it's time to go all out.

There are other ways to mobilize, with the most immediate being lobbying your Rep and Senators to support the War Powers Resolution next week and calling on others to do the same. Help flood phone lines -- particularly if you are in a Red state. If they have a FAX number, send faxes, they get noticed more than email. If you can, gather a small group together, contact the scheduler to set up a meeting with staff at the local office.

If you are dealing with a regime apologist, write a couple simple questions about why they have, and appear to be continuing to, surrender their power; why they are failing to take a stand for the nation. Get answers. Word the questions in a way that exposes how shameful their position is. Take note of the shameful rationalizations and post those on social media -- and call on others to call/write/visit to denounce the position.

House Massie-Khanna war powers resolution (H.Con.Res.38) targeting Iran.

Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Rand Paul (R-KY) War Powers Resolution in the Senate (S.J.Res.59),

February 27, 2026

American Prospect tracks the ICE reign of terror: 27 killed & 28 injured; 46 deaths in custody

They update the list regularly. Last update 2/24.

Names, dates, circumstances included.

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured
https://prospect.org/2026/01/29/ice-trump-killed-injured-list-dhs-cbp-border-patrol-renee-good-alex-pretti/

January 29, 2026

The title "Homeland" was an intentional embrace of ethnic nationalism and white supremacy.

All bullshit rationalizations to the contrary, the word "homeland" framed the United States not as a nation founded on universal ideals, but as a "white homeland."

When we either break up or remake that agency into one that strives to promote the safety and well-being of a diverse populous while protecting the civil rights of everyone living within our borders, we've got to drop that vile name.

November 19, 2025

Come on Dems! Draft articles of impeachment against 47, Vance, the cabinet, and the 6 black-robed traitors.

They are ALL violating the constitution and multiple laws in plain sight. Impeachment and removal is the remedy.

Draft the articles and make the case in the court of public opinion.

This is a moral imperative. To accuse them of crimes against both the spirit and the letter of the law WITHOUT seeking to impeach is a statement that the crimes do not rise to that level.

We need (1) Sweeping articles of impeachment and (2) A declaration stating the nature of the crimes in SIMPLE language that becomes the foundation for hammering them on their crimes and making the case that impeachment and removal of ALL the perpetrators is the ONLY remedy that meets the magnitude, depth, and breadth of the violations.

When it comes to high crimes, it is CONGRESS, not the courts that pass judgment.

And it starts in the people's house for a reason.

The high crimes are being committed against We the People. Our representatives have a DUTY to act.

November 18, 2025

The Epstein scandal could be the match that sparks unprecedented transformation

Epstein is SOOO much bigger than "who's on the list."

It is a decades long obscenity and corrupt, knee jerk protection of the rich and powerful over multiple administrations.

It is the embodiment of the corrosive effect the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the many has on any society that allows it.

The blowback could transform the adoration of wealth and power so many have held onto into a recognition of the magnitude with which such power inevitably corrupts.

It could be the match that starts a firestorm that burns down resistance to reversing the current flow of dollars from the many to the few.

It could be the wake up call that we must end the obscene accumulation of wealth and its corruption of our society, and the beginning of transformational laws: minimum wage that reflects the increase of worker productivity over the last five decades, inheritance tax, wealth tax, progressive tax on income, higher tax on capital gains than earned income.

As we advocate for these things, we MUST do more than cite vague benefits, like strengthening safety nets, blah, blah. In addition to Universal Health Care, we need to be levying these taxes for something truly transformative -- something like Piketty-style "Inheritance for all"

I think Piketty's Inheritance for All is a tangible benefit that we need to start calling on our electeds to start the drumbeat for now. That would put us on the path to achieving it -- or something even better -- before the youth of today are our age.

We will never build the political will for such transformative change if no one is advocating for it.

Silence and surrendering in advance on anything the Democratic consultant class deems "unwinnable" helped bring us to this point.

I know many object to using AI summaries, but this one on inheritance for all does a better job of summarizing than I could: