Thank you for your leadership in the chaos of all that is happening in the country today. It is unbelievable as the attacks on our democracy by the president continues. My favorite time is coffee with the Contrarians on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 9:13 AM. (Close to it). I loved listening during Passover. My matzo Brie tastes increased as I made it with all of you. With my family scattered throughout the world this year during Passover being able to celebrate with you and the Contrarians gave new meaning to this Jewish holiday. Shabbat Shalom. 💙
The People, the protectors of Democracy, are out and about. What "people," out where, about what--and why? First, millions said "Hand Off"to Trump/Musk et al, then on the 19th via 50501" (50 protests, 5o states, 1 Movement) millions more protested the mess in WDC. Also on the 19th we celebrated the "the shot heard around the world at Lexington and Concord, starting the Revolution and our country. On the 22nd protectors of the environment cleaned up a different kind of mess on Earth Day.
As important as the participants in environmental mess cleanup and American history are, this post is dedicated to the named and unnamed protestors fighting the Trump/Musk Washington, DC, tyrannical mess. Or as Susan Grymes calls it: "Protectors" of democracy, and so shall I in this post.
Who are the Protectors of democracy on April 5, 19th, May 1st--or all the everydays in between and into the future?? We will never know the names of each individual marcher, sign holder (or just standing together in solidarity). But we do know by name some people, advocacy groups, judges and law firms, and other entities who have not been cowed, and have fought back publicly--sometimes under threat of death.. Some, such as Sen. Cory Booker, with his 25 hour righteous speech on ethics, morality, and American democracy,have become an inspiration. Here then, in no particular order of noteworthy (except the first three), are the names of many of the army of protectors of democracy--and remember Courage is Contagious:
(Of course, the list is imperfect, Additions are welcomed. Also re-posting is permitted and encouraged.
PROTECTORS OF DEMOCRACY (By pen, voice, sign, or act)
(Updated April 25, 2025 Individuals
Heather Cox Richardson/"Letters from an American,"
Jess Piper/"View from Rural Missouri,"
Joyce Vance/"Civil Discourse,"
Rep. AOC,
AGs, 23 Blue States,
Aaron Parnas,
Adam Kinzinger,
Sen. Adam Schiff,
Adam Smith,
Alex Wagner,
Alexander Vindman,
Ali Velshi,
Alison Gill
Alvin Bragg (and the unnamed Manhattan jurors),
Amb. Susan Rice,
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales/Democracy Now,
Anand Giridharadas,
Anat Shenker-Osario,
Andrew Weissmann,
Andy Borowitz,
Ann Telnaes,
Anne Applebaum,
Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation),
Ari Melber,
August Flentje,
Ben Meiselas,
Beth Benike,
Brett Meiselas,
Brian Tyler Cohen,
Cassidy Hutchinson,
Charlotte Clymer,
Chris Hayes,
Chris Krebs,
Col. Susannah Meyers,
Congressman Jim Himes,
D. Earl Stevens,
Dan Barker, FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation)
Dan Pfeiffer,
Dan Rather,
Daniel Berulis,
Daniel Morton-Bentley,
David Hogg,
Dean Obeidallah,
Delia Ramirez,
Sen. Elizabeth Warren,
Sen. Elyssa Slotkin,
Erez Reuveni,
Rep. Eric Swalwell,
Francie Garber Pepper (1940-2025),
Garrison Keillor,
Garry Kasparov,
George Conway,
Glenn Kirschner,
Gov. Beshear,
Gov. Janet Mills,
Gov. Kathy Hochul,
Gov. Maura Healey (MA),
Gov. Tim Walz (MN),
Gov. Tony Evers (WI),
Greg Olear,
Harry Litman,
J.B. Pritzker,
Jake Auchincloss,
Rep. Jamie Rankin,
Rep. Jasmine Crockett,
Jay Kou,
Jeff Danziger,
Sen. Jeff Merkley,
Jeff Stein,
Jeff Tiedrich,
Jen Rubin And the Contrarians,
,Jeremy Seahill,
Jessica Craven,
Jessica Yellin,
Jim Acosta,
Jim Hightower,
Jimmy Kimmel,
J-L Cauvin,
John Cusack,
John Larson
Sen. Jon Ossoff,
Jonathan Bernstein,
Jordy Meiselas,
Josh Johnson (stand-up comedian),
Josh Marshall/TPM,
Joy Reid,
Judd Legum (Popular Information),
Julie Roginsky,
Katie Phang,
Ken Harbaugh,
Lawrence O'Donnell,
Liz Cheney,
Lucian Truscott IV,
Marianne Williamson,
Mark Fiore,
Marvin Kalb,
Mary L. Trump,
Maxwell Frost,
Mayor Michelle Wu,
Mehdi Hasan,
Melvin Gurai,
Michael Bennett,
Michael Cohn,
Michel Zeitgeist,
Miles Taylor,
Nicolle Wallllace,
Noel Casler (former and current staff of the Inter-American Foundation, a small but mighty federal agency for Latin America)
Olga Lautman,
Oliva Troye,
Paul Krugman,
Prof. Lawrence Tribe,
Qasim Rachid,
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman,
Rachel Cohen,
Rachel Maddow,
Rebecca Solnit,
Rep. Andrew Egger,
Rep. Emily Randall,
Rep. Jessica Denson,
Rep. Jonathan V. Last,
Rep. Noe Casler,
Rep. Pramila Jayapal,
Rep. Sarah Longwell,
Rep. Al Green,
Rep. Don Beyer,
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde,
Rev. William J. Barber II,
Rez Reuveni (acting deputy director for the Office of Immigration Litigation, and his supervisor),
Rich Wilson,
Robert B. Hubbell,
Robert Reich,
Roger Parloff,
Ron Filipkowski,
Ruth Ben-Ghait,
Sarah Inama,
Scott Dworkin,
Sen. Amy Klobuchar,
Sen. Andy Kim,
Sen. Bernie Sanders,
Sen. Chris Murphy,
Sen. Chris Van Hollen,
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand,
Sen. Lisa Murkowski,
Sen. Maria Cantwell,
Sen. Patty Murray,
Sen. Ron Wyden,
Sharon McMahon,
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse,
Simon Rosenberg,
Stacey Abrams,
Stephanie Miller,
Stephen King,
Steve Brodner,
Steve Schmidt,
Sue Nethercott,
Sen. Tammy Duckworth,
Tennessee Brandon,
Thom Hartmann,
Tim Snyder,
Timothy Snyder
Tristan Snell,
Will Bunch,
Zev Shalev,
ADVOCACY GROUPS, MEDIA NETWORKS
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union),
AICN (North Carolina),
American Oversight,
Bill Kristol/all NeverTrumpers,
Blue Future,
Blue Missouri,
Blue Wave,
Bluesky,
Bulwark Media,
CODEPINK,
CREW,
DemCast,
Democracy Forward,
Democracy Index,
DemocracyLabs,
Every State Blue,
Feathers of Hope,
Field Team 6 (North Carolina),
FiftyFifty one (50501),
Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF),
Fred Wellman/On Democracy,
"Hands Off,"
Indivisible,
Jessica Valenti/Abortion Everyday,
Lambda Legal,
League of Women Voters,
Marc Elias/Democracy Docket,
MeidasTouch Network,
MoveOn,
MSNBC (an exception to corporate news, and their suppressing news0,
No Kings,
Olivia Troye,
Protect Democracy,
Public Citizen/Co-president Robert Weissman,
Run for Something,
Seneca Project,
Substack,
The 19th/Errin Haines,
The American Manifesto,
The Bulwark,
The Civic Center,
The Dean's List/ Dean Obeidallah,
The Dr. Martin Luther King Center
The Lincoln Project,
The Politics Girl,
The States Project (North Carolina),
The Union (North Carolina)
Third Act,,
Thomas Zimmer/Democracy Americana,
We the People Dissent,
Working Families Party,
LAW FIRMS/ORGANIZATIONS, LAWYERS, COURTS, ACADEMIA
American Bar Association,
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer,
Big Ten Universities,
Brenna Trout Frey
David Pepper,
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services),
Harvard/President Alan M. Garber,
Hogan Lovells (seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-affirming medical care),
Jenner & Block (also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding),
Judge Hannah Dugan,
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III,
(former) Judge J. Michael Luttig,
Judge James Boasberg,
Judge Paula Xinis,
Judge Royce Lamberth,
Justice Elena Kagan,
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson,
Justices Sonia Sotomayer,
Northwestern University,
Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling (have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams& Connolly),
Presidents of 328 U.S. colleges and universities who have signed a letter condemning “government overreach" (including St. Louis University),
Ropes & Gray (seeking to block cuts to medical research funding), Susman Godfrey law firm,
UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky,
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (per the ABA Journal, representing fired inspectors general),
Wilmer Hale Keker, Van Nest & Peters,
Southern Poverty Law Center,
Letter signed by 500 law firms joined a court brief supporting Perkins Coie lawsuit against the Trump Administration),
To paraphrase Churchill: We shall fight them in the streets, we shall fight them on the sidewalks, we shall fight them on the internet, we shall fight them in the courts, we shall fight them in the Congress, we shall fight them in the voting booth--We shall never surrender. YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. SOLIDARITY..
Trump & Kash Patel [ U.S.A. ] vs Wisconsin County Judge Dugan:
At 1:01 AM Eastern, MSNBC's diligent reporter RYAN REILLY reported a major escalation in efforts to catch & deport targeted suspects & attack any person who impedes ICE.
Kash Patel's FBI arrested a Milwaukee County Judge Dugan & indicted the Judge by claiming she "impeded" ICE efforts to arrest the suspect at the Courthouse where the suspect was appearing with his attorney on another matter.
Apparently, Kash Patel's overt actors did not like the Judge's lack of enthusiasm of the Wehrmacht's tactics nor her referral to the County Presiding Judge. A criminal complaint has been filed presumably in the Eastern U.S. District of Wisconsin
LET ME REPEAT: A criminal complaint has been filed against Judge Dugan. Furthermore, I note Kash Patel deleted his "X" post "alleging the Judge was "allowing the subject-- an illegal alien -- evade arrest". Nope, FALSE.
The suspect was in fact arrested after a foot race that the suspect lost. No word on the suspect's attorney and/or his ability to run.
Jen has said, many times, that profits from paid subscriptions help support pro-democracy litigation. Does The Contrarian contribute to State Democracy Defenders Fund or other organizations that help plantiffs and amici prepare and submit their filings? If not that, what does Jen mean?
I'm a paid Contrarian and am happy to support litigation. But I want somebody to tell me how I can do it MORE, through DIRECT donations to the organizations that do it AND donations that are restricted for that purpose. Democracy Docket, Elias Law Group and ACLU don't seem interested in my money!!!
There is no enforcement of the rulings against this barrage of tRumpsky assaults. What is the point? 3 and a half more years of this? Millions spent on infighting. Great way to eliminate waste. PINO! WHEN will those near the middle left or right wake up! Woke, actually. That's what it really means.
I start to wonder whether this platform is really fighting for democracy. The situation is catastrophic, cannot be more dramatic - the fascism is at the door of the US, if it has not already entered. The persecutions are escalating, now even a judge is being persecuted by the FBI - they are coming for you and me. And yet, there has never been enough outcry here, far from that. It seems to me more ad more that people leading this have no experience with fascism, have not been studying it seriously, are never bringing up experiences of other countries that had to go through such a tragedy. For example, Hungary in recent years went through a very similar process now taking place here - under the pretext of defending white Christians as a threatened social group. This is a text book example of how fascism operates, by proclaiming that whites are endangered social group. It is imperative that we study that and other examples to know how to fight back.
The time is dangerously running out, every day they take away more and more liberties and human rights - unless one faces the gravity of it, tomorrow will be late. This is not the time to talk about the pets of the week - the claims that this is done for the sake of one mental's health is simply an excuse to ignore the drama. The US is not immune to fascism, and it is dangerously close to turning into autocracy - after all, the man who organised the insurrection and pardoned the criminals that violently stormed the Capitol has become the president. Moreover, the fascist movement called the GOP has now taken over all public institutions - this is how fascism in Italy and nazism in Germany started, and we know how that ended. Let us please accept the fact that there is a political cancer spreading out in the US - it should have been dealt with years ago, but better late than never.
Norm, legal question that I would love to hear answered at a morning coffee. There are two themes that emerge from multiple federal and supreme court rulings- overreach of executive power and non-compliance. Can all these rulings be bundled and brought before the supreme court to make clear there is no king and he must comply- i.e. civil servants fired and ordered reinstated were not; immigrants in cecot without due process- yet ordered to do that; Kilmar and other ordered to be returned; DOGE not complying with rulings. Help me understand the process. Under normal processes- this would be done via impeachment, which is not on option with non-independence of GOP.
Thank you for your leadership in the chaos of all that is happening in the country today. It is unbelievable as the attacks on our democracy by the president continues. My favorite time is coffee with the Contrarians on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 9:13 AM. (Close to it). I loved listening during Passover. My matzo Brie tastes increased as I made it with all of you. With my family scattered throughout the world this year during Passover being able to celebrate with you and the Contrarians gave new meaning to this Jewish holiday. Shabbat Shalom. 💙
We the People at Work
The People, the protectors of Democracy, are out and about. What "people," out where, about what--and why? First, millions said "Hand Off"to Trump/Musk et al, then on the 19th via 50501" (50 protests, 5o states, 1 Movement) millions more protested the mess in WDC. Also on the 19th we celebrated the "the shot heard around the world at Lexington and Concord, starting the Revolution and our country. On the 22nd protectors of the environment cleaned up a different kind of mess on Earth Day.
As important as the participants in environmental mess cleanup and American history are, this post is dedicated to the named and unnamed protestors fighting the Trump/Musk Washington, DC, tyrannical mess. Or as Susan Grymes calls it: "Protectors" of democracy, and so shall I in this post.
Who are the Protectors of democracy on April 5, 19th, May 1st--or all the everydays in between and into the future?? We will never know the names of each individual marcher, sign holder (or just standing together in solidarity). But we do know by name some people, advocacy groups, judges and law firms, and other entities who have not been cowed, and have fought back publicly--sometimes under threat of death.. Some, such as Sen. Cory Booker, with his 25 hour righteous speech on ethics, morality, and American democracy,have become an inspiration. Here then, in no particular order of noteworthy (except the first three), are the names of many of the army of protectors of democracy--and remember Courage is Contagious:
(Of course, the list is imperfect, Additions are welcomed. Also re-posting is permitted and encouraged.
PROTECTORS OF DEMOCRACY (By pen, voice, sign, or act)
(Updated April 25, 2025 Individuals
Heather Cox Richardson/"Letters from an American,"
Jess Piper/"View from Rural Missouri,"
Joyce Vance/"Civil Discourse,"
Rep. AOC,
AGs, 23 Blue States,
Aaron Parnas,
Adam Kinzinger,
Sen. Adam Schiff,
Adam Smith,
Alex Wagner,
Alexander Vindman,
Ali Velshi,
Alison Gill
Alvin Bragg (and the unnamed Manhattan jurors),
Amb. Susan Rice,
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales/Democracy Now,
Anand Giridharadas,
Anat Shenker-Osario,
Andrew Weissmann,
Andy Borowitz,
Ann Telnaes,
Anne Applebaum,
Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation),
Ari Melber,
August Flentje,
Ben Meiselas,
Beth Benike,
Brett Meiselas,
Brian Tyler Cohen,
Cassidy Hutchinson,
Charlotte Clymer,
Chris Hayes,
Chris Krebs,
Col. Susannah Meyers,
Congressman Jim Himes,
D. Earl Stevens,
Dan Barker, FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation)
Dan Pfeiffer,
Dan Rather,
Daniel Berulis,
Daniel Morton-Bentley,
David Hogg,
Dean Obeidallah,
Delia Ramirez,
Sen. Elizabeth Warren,
Sen. Elyssa Slotkin,
Erez Reuveni,
Rep. Eric Swalwell,
Francie Garber Pepper (1940-2025),
Garrison Keillor,
Garry Kasparov,
George Conway,
Glenn Kirschner,
Gov. Beshear,
Gov. Janet Mills,
Gov. Kathy Hochul,
Gov. Maura Healey (MA),
Gov. Tim Walz (MN),
Gov. Tony Evers (WI),
Greg Olear,
Harry Litman,
J.B. Pritzker,
Jake Auchincloss,
Rep. Jamie Rankin,
Rep. Jasmine Crockett,
Jay Kou,
Jeff Danziger,
Sen. Jeff Merkley,
Jeff Stein,
Jeff Tiedrich,
Jen Rubin And the Contrarians,
,Jeremy Seahill,
Jessica Craven,
Jessica Yellin,
Jim Acosta,
Jim Hightower,
Jimmy Kimmel,
J-L Cauvin,
John Cusack,
John Larson
Sen. Jon Ossoff,
Jonathan Bernstein,
Jordy Meiselas,
Josh Johnson (stand-up comedian),
Josh Marshall/TPM,
Joy Reid,
Judd Legum (Popular Information),
Julie Roginsky,
Katie Phang,
Ken Harbaugh,
Lawrence O'Donnell,
Liz Cheney,
Lucian Truscott IV,
Marianne Williamson,
Mark Fiore,
Marvin Kalb,
Mary L. Trump,
Maxwell Frost,
Mayor Michelle Wu,
Mehdi Hasan,
Melvin Gurai,
Michael Bennett,
Michael Cohn,
Michel Zeitgeist,
Miles Taylor,
Nicolle Wallllace,
Noel Casler (former and current staff of the Inter-American Foundation, a small but mighty federal agency for Latin America)
Olga Lautman,
Oliva Troye,
Paul Krugman,
Prof. Lawrence Tribe,
Qasim Rachid,
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman,
Rachel Cohen,
Rachel Maddow,
Rebecca Solnit,
Rep. Andrew Egger,
Rep. Emily Randall,
Rep. Jessica Denson,
Rep. Jonathan V. Last,
Rep. Noe Casler,
Rep. Pramila Jayapal,
Rep. Sarah Longwell,
Rep. Al Green,
Rep. Don Beyer,
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde,
Rev. William J. Barber II,
Rez Reuveni (acting deputy director for the Office of Immigration Litigation, and his supervisor),
Rich Wilson,
Robert B. Hubbell,
Robert Reich,
Roger Parloff,
Ron Filipkowski,
Ruth Ben-Ghait,
Sarah Inama,
Scott Dworkin,
Sen. Amy Klobuchar,
Sen. Andy Kim,
Sen. Bernie Sanders,
Sen. Chris Murphy,
Sen. Chris Van Hollen,
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand,
Sen. Lisa Murkowski,
Sen. Maria Cantwell,
Sen. Patty Murray,
Sen. Ron Wyden,
Sharon McMahon,
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse,
Simon Rosenberg,
Stacey Abrams,
Stephanie Miller,
Stephen King,
Steve Brodner,
Steve Schmidt,
Sue Nethercott,
Sen. Tammy Duckworth,
Tennessee Brandon,
Thom Hartmann,
Tim Snyder,
Timothy Snyder
Tristan Snell,
Will Bunch,
Zev Shalev,
ADVOCACY GROUPS, MEDIA NETWORKS
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union),
AICN (North Carolina),
American Oversight,
Bill Kristol/all NeverTrumpers,
Blue Future,
Blue Missouri,
Blue Wave,
Bluesky,
Bulwark Media,
CODEPINK,
CREW,
DemCast,
Democracy Forward,
Democracy Index,
DemocracyLabs,
Every State Blue,
Feathers of Hope,
Field Team 6 (North Carolina),
FiftyFifty one (50501),
Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF),
Fred Wellman/On Democracy,
"Hands Off,"
Indivisible,
Jessica Valenti/Abortion Everyday,
Lambda Legal,
League of Women Voters,
Marc Elias/Democracy Docket,
MeidasTouch Network,
MoveOn,
MSNBC (an exception to corporate news, and their suppressing news0,
No Kings,
Olivia Troye,
Protect Democracy,
Public Citizen/Co-president Robert Weissman,
Run for Something,
Seneca Project,
Substack,
The 19th/Errin Haines,
The American Manifesto,
The Bulwark,
The Civic Center,
The Dean's List/ Dean Obeidallah,
The Dr. Martin Luther King Center
The Lincoln Project,
The Politics Girl,
The States Project (North Carolina),
The Union (North Carolina)
Third Act,,
Thomas Zimmer/Democracy Americana,
We the People Dissent,
Working Families Party,
LAW FIRMS/ORGANIZATIONS, LAWYERS, COURTS, ACADEMIA
American Bar Association,
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer,
Big Ten Universities,
Brenna Trout Frey
David Pepper,
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services),
Harvard/President Alan M. Garber,
Hogan Lovells (seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-affirming medical care),
Jenner & Block (also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding),
Judge Hannah Dugan,
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III,
(former) Judge J. Michael Luttig,
Judge James Boasberg,
Judge Paula Xinis,
Judge Royce Lamberth,
Justice Elena Kagan,
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson,
Justices Sonia Sotomayer,
Northwestern University,
Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling (have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams& Connolly),
Presidents of 328 U.S. colleges and universities who have signed a letter condemning “government overreach" (including St. Louis University),
Ropes & Gray (seeking to block cuts to medical research funding), Susman Godfrey law firm,
UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky,
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (per the ABA Journal, representing fired inspectors general),
Wilmer Hale Keker, Van Nest & Peters,
Southern Poverty Law Center,
Letter signed by 500 law firms joined a court brief supporting Perkins Coie lawsuit against the Trump Administration),
To paraphrase Churchill: We shall fight them in the streets, we shall fight them on the sidewalks, we shall fight them on the internet, we shall fight them in the courts, we shall fight them in the Congress, we shall fight them in the voting booth--We shall never surrender. YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. SOLIDARITY..
E pluribus unum ( "Out of many, one")
Thank you! My circle is small. I had no idea there were So many other warriors. Onward for Democracy. 🇺🇸
Trump & Kash Patel [ U.S.A. ] vs Wisconsin County Judge Dugan:
At 1:01 AM Eastern, MSNBC's diligent reporter RYAN REILLY reported a major escalation in efforts to catch & deport targeted suspects & attack any person who impedes ICE.
Kash Patel's FBI arrested a Milwaukee County Judge Dugan & indicted the Judge by claiming she "impeded" ICE efforts to arrest the suspect at the Courthouse where the suspect was appearing with his attorney on another matter.
Apparently, Kash Patel's overt actors did not like the Judge's lack of enthusiasm of the Wehrmacht's tactics nor her referral to the County Presiding Judge. A criminal complaint has been filed presumably in the Eastern U.S. District of Wisconsin
LET ME REPEAT: A criminal complaint has been filed against Judge Dugan. Furthermore, I note Kash Patel deleted his "X" post "alleging the Judge was "allowing the subject-- an illegal alien -- evade arrest". Nope, FALSE.
The suspect was in fact arrested after a foot race that the suspect lost. No word on the suspect's attorney and/or his ability to run.
Jen has said, many times, that profits from paid subscriptions help support pro-democracy litigation. Does The Contrarian contribute to State Democracy Defenders Fund or other organizations that help plantiffs and amici prepare and submit their filings? If not that, what does Jen mean?
I'm a paid Contrarian and am happy to support litigation. But I want somebody to tell me how I can do it MORE, through DIRECT donations to the organizations that do it AND donations that are restricted for that purpose. Democracy Docket, Elias Law Group and ACLU don't seem interested in my money!!!
There is no enforcement of the rulings against this barrage of tRumpsky assaults. What is the point? 3 and a half more years of this? Millions spent on infighting. Great way to eliminate waste. PINO! WHEN will those near the middle left or right wake up! Woke, actually. That's what it really means.
I start to wonder whether this platform is really fighting for democracy. The situation is catastrophic, cannot be more dramatic - the fascism is at the door of the US, if it has not already entered. The persecutions are escalating, now even a judge is being persecuted by the FBI - they are coming for you and me. And yet, there has never been enough outcry here, far from that. It seems to me more ad more that people leading this have no experience with fascism, have not been studying it seriously, are never bringing up experiences of other countries that had to go through such a tragedy. For example, Hungary in recent years went through a very similar process now taking place here - under the pretext of defending white Christians as a threatened social group. This is a text book example of how fascism operates, by proclaiming that whites are endangered social group. It is imperative that we study that and other examples to know how to fight back.
The time is dangerously running out, every day they take away more and more liberties and human rights - unless one faces the gravity of it, tomorrow will be late. This is not the time to talk about the pets of the week - the claims that this is done for the sake of one mental's health is simply an excuse to ignore the drama. The US is not immune to fascism, and it is dangerously close to turning into autocracy - after all, the man who organised the insurrection and pardoned the criminals that violently stormed the Capitol has become the president. Moreover, the fascist movement called the GOP has now taken over all public institutions - this is how fascism in Italy and nazism in Germany started, and we know how that ended. Let us please accept the fact that there is a political cancer spreading out in the US - it should have been dealt with years ago, but better late than never.
Dismantling FEMA illegally. Impeach and remove. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/nx-s1-5345777/trump-states-fema-funds
I am no longer getting the Coffee with the contrarian’s emails. I’m wondering what I can do to get that back. I am a paid subscriber.
Bonnie Johnson
johnsonbonnie11@gmail.com
Norm, legal question that I would love to hear answered at a morning coffee. There are two themes that emerge from multiple federal and supreme court rulings- overreach of executive power and non-compliance. Can all these rulings be bundled and brought before the supreme court to make clear there is no king and he must comply- i.e. civil servants fired and ordered reinstated were not; immigrants in cecot without due process- yet ordered to do that; Kilmar and other ordered to be returned; DOGE not complying with rulings. Help me understand the process. Under normal processes- this would be done via impeachment, which is not on option with non-independence of GOP.
Overreach, non-compliance and abuse of power. REMOVE. Another giant fu to the courts here: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/nx-s1-5345777/trump-states-fema-funds