Californian with a wide variety of interests, but since 2016, seeking justice, democratic norms, improving public: education & health, access to the arts, inclusivity, ethics in government, finance & business, human rights, IMM, ENVIR & worker protections, accountability for the oligarch criminality in the US & helping America turn blue.
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Last Notes npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales “ACLU has reached 90 of the ~137 Venezuelans sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, then prisoner-swapped to VZ. 90⚡️of 91 want to challenge their Tren de Aragua designation: 22 by coming back to USA (🚨they’ll be detained) +68 in written petitions. Latest ACLU filing⬇️ Govt has appealed Judge Boasberg’s order that the govt hear any of these petitions, alleging no juris…” - R Parloff #DHS #ICE #Immigrants #Torture #TrumpRegime #Deportations #Bravery #Protest #USPol https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.257.0.pdf https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/116/205/333/807/113/150/original/deffb307d18e5d02.jpeg https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/116/205/387/088/629/650/original/19f6a0d1c2914c2a.jpeg npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "“The imminent threat🚨was that we knew that if #Iran was attacked, & we believed they would be attacked, that they'd immediately come after us, & we were not going to sit, sit there & absorb a blow before we responded” -Rubio." -Z Taylor "So it wasn't that Iran was going to strike first. It was that #Israel was going to strike first, & Iran respond. US knew Israel was going to attack. Iran would likely respond. & #Rubio portrayed that as the🚨imminent Iranian threat." -L Rozen #Lies #War #USPol https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/116/161/718/607/860/165/original/834fc3a1a447f6bd.png npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Even🚨CNBC calls out Vance, as he blames Good for her KILLING. VP Vance said Renee Nicole Good was to blame for her fatal shooting by an #ICE agent in MPLS, even as the killing remains under investigation by fed & st authorities. #Vance was responding to a civil rights ATTY who said video showed that IMM officers instigated the confrontation with Good. MN Gov Walz & MPLS Mayor Frey have scoffed at the claim: #ReneeGood was trying to mow down ICE agents. #Murder #USPol https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/08/vance-renee-nicole-good-ice-minneapolis-shooting.html npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "The US govt🚨doesn't want you to know that it sent innocent ppl to be tortured through a program that the SC unanimously ruled violated #DueProcess. Innocent men💔were humiliated, beaten, starved, & raped. WE SENT THEM THERE -PAID FOR THEIR #DETENTION. #CBS pulled🚨“60 Mins” segment on CECOT where the Trump admin sent 100s of Venezuelan migrants, a last-min dec that drew: rebuke from one of its high-profile corresps. Alfonsi said Weiss🚨“spiked our story -pol dec." #USPol https://www.wsj.com/business/media/cbs-news-pulls-60-minutes-segment-correspondent-calls-decision-political-841ea812?mod=e2tw&utm_social_handle_id=3108351&utm_social_post_id=630371613 npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Trump hailed: get-together w the RU dictator as “productive,” praised #Putin’s observations as “profound, & “many pts” -agreed on +2: “made some headway.” Devs since then suggest➡️🚨all in Putin’s dir. On the US side, it’s been all carrots & no sticks.🚨Trump's successfully pressured Cong not to follow thru w sanctions +admin ann that the US would end a prgm of MIL supp. Putin extended lovefest w his fellow dictators... #TrumpLies #Ukraine #NationalSecurity #Protest #USPol https://www.thebulwark.com/p/hey-donald-the-red-carpet-didnt-work-putin-ukraine-poland-qatar-fara-hhs-rfk-ai-chat-gpt?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "The DOORS WOULDN'T OPEN." 🚨When Tesla car doors lose power, you need to use the manual door release to get out. But riders and drivers can get stuck inside. "It's absolutely crazy they still haven't fixed this. They should cancel this feature altogether: let people inside open the damn doors. I'd rather own an old car that's opened by hand & locked by mechanical physical keys." -A Stacy #Tesla #DeathTrap #Musk #GOPDeathCult #Regulations #PublicSafety #Protest #USPol https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-tesla-dangerous-doors/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales With all due respect,🚨there's Nothing The #Fed can do to overcome the HC #Insurance Tax every indiv & co paying for ins faces. Fam of 5: making 125k per yr pays an effective fed income tax of 3.3%. Their insur:🚨$9600/yr WITH taxpayer subsidies. PLUS $19,200 ANNUAL out of pocket Max. No subsidies & their prems go up to 25k/yr. Plus 19.2k OOP max. It can be 10x their fed inc tax.💔It's horrific for so many fams. This is why homes: unaffordable - #Tariffs hurt more... -M Cuban #Economy #USPol npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The #jobs numbers don't fit Trump's narrative, so he's having his goons find a way to rig the data: "The DOL's Ofc of IG said Wed it's reviewing the “challenges” that the BLS is facing in its data-collection efforts. The IG: initiating that probe in light of BLS announced a reduction in its data collection for 2 key inflation metrics." #TrumpLies #BLS #Economy #Unemployment #Trumpcession #Tariffs #Protest #USPol https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/10/trump-bls-jobs-data-labor.html . npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The mood at the appt that AM was dif. An officer shadowed them *soon handcuffed, stripped of their belongings. Orozco Forero said🚨she showed an #ICE officer a letter from O David’s💔doctors approving a biopsy; the officer tore it apart, she said. “This no longer works." She only had minutes to tell her fam in Seattle what was happening. There may be a way to stop the deportation order, he told them. She💔thought only of her sons. Fam sep➡️#sadism. #Deportations #USPol https://19thnews.org/2025/09/family-detention-dilley-texas/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales 5 of #SCOTUS' 6 RW justices took adv of their right to remain silent, but SCJ Kav: Such stops are usually “brief."🚨 I'd no idea *deprived of my rights under the 4A as long as my getting roughed up takes only a few moments. He noted: illegal IMM “esp pron in the LA area, among other locales in the US.” Yes, America has an illegal-IMM problem in var “locales,” & therefore… what? #ICE officials🚨can use race-based criteria in an area w a lot of Spanish-speaking ctzs? #USPol https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/supreme-court-ice-detain-decision/684154/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyZmf3gbKdDw0dljv7376DDs npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "SK officials:🚨negotiating with the US to win “voluntary” departures of the wkrs, rather than #deportations *could result in making them ineligible to return to the US for up to 10 yrs. "This self-inflicted economic headache for the US comes the same day as it was🚨revealed that at least one of the Korean men arrested & detained by #ICE was working 100% legally -as ICE itself confirmed... -forced to leave anyway." -A R-Melnick Trump's destroyed trade, goodwill... #USPol https://www.huffpost.com/entry/south-korea-plane-detained-workers-ice-raid_n_68c13dd4e4b059d8ed3699d0 https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/115/180/041/762/768/610/original/87a63317c52eeb6f.png npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales “They put Trump’s name on the trucks. This is the clearest signal🚨that #ICE is intended to be a personal, partisan police force that exists at the disposal of Trump. This isn't a choice someone makes if they intend to leave office in 3 yrs. If ICE looks fascist, presents like fascists, & behaves like fascists, then it probably is fascist. ICE has some new cars -cartoonishly fascist.🚨Behold the #DHS’s hype video ann..." -B Kristol #Fascism #PoliceState #Protest #USPol https://www.thebulwark.com/p/fascist-secret-police-cars npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales MAGA Rs are fuming: "During Aug recess, Johnson & Thune plan to call the House & Senate into session every 4 or 5 days, with practically no one there, for the sole purpose of preventing Trump from making recess apps." "Trump is the only President in history that has had recess appointments blocked by his own party." -C3 Thune said: Johnson has to figure out a way forward on the #Epstein controversy that’s derailed House bus until the fall. #USPol https://www.newsmax.com/politics/thomas-massie-mike-johnson-john-thune/2025/07/25/id/1220172/ https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/23/congress/thune-interview-on-epstein-johnson-00471670 npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "We need to extend our soul to the hungry." It’s a man-made crisis, & there're man-made solutions that could save lives today. The hunger catastrophe in Gaza is entirely caused by the men of war on both sides of the Erez crossing. We don’t have the time to argue about who's holding up the food trucks.🚨Food cannot flow quickly enough to #Gaza. The WFP:💔1/3 of Gaza’s pop hadn't eaten for mult days in a row. Small children are dying of #starvation: rising rapidly. #USPol https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/opinion/gaza-starvation-famine-israel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "DOGE🚨"is using a new artificial intelligence tool to slash federal regulations, with the goal of eliminating half of DC’s regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of Trump’s inauguration." Roughly 100K of those rules would be deemed worthy of trimming, The tool has already been used to complete “decisions on 1,083 regulatory sections” at the #HUD in under 2 weeks, & to write “100% of deregulations” at the #CFPB. #DOGE #AI #Deregulation #TrumpRegime #Protest #USPol https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/26/doge-ai-tool-cut-regulations-trump/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUzNTAyNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzU0ODg0Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTM1MDI0MDAsImp0aSI6IjAxNWQ1NzRmLTRmNDAtNDBjYS04M2YwLWY0NGFmZmZkYzkxZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI1LzA3LzI2L2RvZ2UtYWktdG9vbC1jdXQtcmVndWxhdGlvbnMtdHJ1bXAvIn0.z17OUPzuSx-jtQATWZcaOwF5JZehWDvi6fXB2jr-rbE npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Trump: now admitted Americans aren't rushing in to fill jobs of deported migrants -makes it essential to stop removing them. That wrecks a core pillar of MAGA ideology. There's no putting that genie back in the bottle. #ICE is growing quickly, &🚨agents: even more vulnerable to #corruption, criminality... than almost any other fed LE agency: lowest hiring stands/shortest training periods/lowest EDU reqs... They've supercharged new arrest quotas, so... #Immigrants #USPol https://newrepublic.com/article/197676/transcript-trump-blurts-awkward-truth-ice-maga-seethes npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales “Trump said that there’ll be a temporary pass issued for migrants working at farms/hospitality IND to allow employers to have more control after mixed msgs re exceptions in deportation efforts.” So if undoc #immigrants work in the fields/farms, feeding Americans, or in the hospitality IND, doing Trump & the oligarchs’ dirty work *won’t be🚨disappeared, cut off from their families, likely perm, detained & then💔deported to a pos DEATH SENTENCE. #Deportations #ICE #USPol https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5375717-trump-temporary-pass-migrant-farm-hotel-workers/ https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/768/773/645/125/136/original/e9f55285066b003f.jpeg npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "Likely in light of the situation in LA, #ICE l'ship just put out a pretty outrageous msg to politicians: “I’m demanding they stop.” He specifically calls out Mayor Wu & Hakeem Jeffries. Beyond the free speech issues & the hypocrisy, I'm not unsympathetic to ALL of his concerns. Threatening the family of an ICE officer is wrong! But🚨if ICE doesn’t want the public to be outraged by their behavior, there's an easy answer; stop doing outrageous things!" -A R-Melnick #Fascism #Deportations #USPol https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/642/299/327/189/853/original/9b3b22aeec12c40a.png npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Funding decreases touch virtually every area of #science, the #TrumpRegime says it wants to cut. That means less support for early-stage #research *underpins future tech advancements +American competitiveness.⬇️💰for undergrad/grad students, postdoc res... "Biggest cut: 80% STEM EDU -if you don't educate the next gen of scientists -won't have many scientists...🚨China's budget calls for an⬆️in govt spending on science & tech by 8.3% this year +ED by 6.1%." -A Bertrand #USPol https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/22/upshot/nsf-grants-trump-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J08.9UfS.qKmsxJhnrYYB&smid=nytcore-android-share npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "The US has been talking with Hamas thru an American intermediary in Doha this week in hopes of brokering an IL-Gaza ceasefire AGT -as US officials say Trump's growing increasingly frustrated with IL’s handling of the conflict. The talks have been led on the US side by B Bahbah, the American-PA who led the group “Arab Americans for Trump” during: '24 pres campaign." "Trump admin: working on plan to move 1M Palestinians to LY." #Gaza #Trump #USPol https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/israel-gaza-negotiations-trump-administration https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-working-plan-move-1-million-palestinians-libya-rcna207224 npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Ominous: “Scores of foreign #mercenaries have landed in IL for the launch of a controversial US-backed aid plan for #Gaza that could force the UN out of managing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. A person familiar with GHF’s operations: a single nation had committed to at least $100M -has yet to come forward." -L Rozen #Netanyahu, #Trump..: barbaric. Palestinians in Gaza are on the verge of starvation-only 5 aid trucks have entered as of Tues night. #USPol https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/gaza-desperately-needs-aid-how-many-trucks-has-israel-let-in/ar-AA1FdcBx https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/546/765/177/463/619/original/d1e93ed212a87250.png npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "If your insurance co ditches you in the middle of open-heart surgery, you’ll go bankrupt. Local governments face a similar future when Trump🚨kills federal disaster relief. And the Trumpiest places will suffer the most." -Gongloff Depriving local govts of federal relief money amid worsening climate disasters will🚨threaten their economies, putting some of Trump's staunchest supporters at risk. #FEMA #PublicSafety #Trumpcession #ClimateChange #TrumpRegime #Evil #USPol https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-05-07/fema-usda-aid-cuts-threaten-a-1-trillion-hole-in-muni-finances?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NjYyNDM1MSwiZXhwIjoxNzQ3MjI5MTUxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVlcyTVlUMEFGQjQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIxMkE1QzVFRUNERDg0NUJEQjVFOTM1MUE0Mzk4QTAxNCJ9.pWbXkS4sIzfmShC9rikBg76CN7jw2ZSsuWQzpUbg_wQ&leadSource=uverify%20wall npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales They don't want to make govt smaller or even more efficient. They want to use it to punish their opponents." - D Bier The Trump admin said on Thurs states🚨could lose TRANSP funding over a failure to coop on fed #immigration enforcement efforts or for maintaining DEI programs. TRANSP Sec Sean Duffy: recipients of TRANSP Dept FIN asst must ensure personnel practices are "merit-based." The Trump regime is undemocratic. Lawsuits will ensue. #Fascism #Deportations #USPol https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-warns-states-they-could-lose-transportation-funding-over-immigration-dei-2025-04-24/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The #TrumpMusk regime is decimating the #VA. These #DOGE operatives appear to have no work experience that’s remotely close to the VA in terms of its scale or complexity. VA: administers all the govt benefits afforded to vets/their families for ~10M ppl: EDU, loans, disab pymts, & HC. Lavingia is Gumroad's CEO, a platform that helps creatives sell their work & takes a cut of each sale. More recently, Lavingia launched Flexile, a tool to manage & pay contractors. #USPol https://www.wired.com/story/doge-department-of-veterans-affairs-ai/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Welcome news: “The Social Security Administration said it would postpone controversial changes to phone service and partially relax new rules on identity verification.” #SocialSecurity #DOGE #Musk #Privatization #USPol https://www.axios.com/2025/03/26/social-security-cuts-doge-phone-id npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales We Americans no longer have undeniable legal status. Our #rights /orgs/jobs/health/schools/laws/C -now provisional, subject to the whims of the “King". Our very citizenship: provisional now. C may say: born here➡️citizens -may CXL the C by EO. Only seeking to keep out the children of undoc IMGs, or of “invaders” or “terrorists.” Any of us may be declared🚨terrorists or invaders -may be stripped of CTZ/jailed/deported. We can be fighting ppl like the King. #USPol #Fascism https://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/2025/03/20/mathews-with-the-king-in-charger-we-are-all-undocumented-now/82569479007/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales “Trump moves closer to a court crisis.” “I worry that there might be some people in the admin who’d actually like to defy a judicial order. Which I think would be a terrible mistake. -John Yoo He’s a #Trump ally who advanced one of the most sweeping theories of presidential power. “If the courts can’t render reliable decisions, then our legal system doesn’t function. If our legal system doesn’t work, the country is in really bad shape.” #SCOTUS #Fascism #Threats #USPol https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/trump-boasberg-courts-constitutional-crisis npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "There are a lot of Trump-aligned voices telling people to calm down. Selloffs happen. And it’s true. People tend to regret panicking. But this is one of the fastest selloffs of the last century, while the President pursues a policy that virtually no economist will defend." -J Weisenthal Treasury Sec Bessent says a🚨‘DETOX' period for the economy doesn't have to be a recession. It'll be a deep #recession. #Trumpcession #Trump #Stagflation #StockMarketCrash #Musk #DOGE #Coup #Resist #USPol https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/157/175/979/931/515/original/4062acac24489c08.png npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The degree to which Trump & Musk’s interests are intertwined is unprecedented & unsustainable. #Musk spent nearly $300M on the 2024 US election cycle -maj. on Trump’s pres. campaign. His X created an online MAGAtopia barely rivaled by Trump’s TS platform. #DOGE has let Trump outsource the tedious mechanics of actual governance. Trump reading off a list of Tesla retail prices: purest distillation -won’t end well. Going badly, for them/us: Stock market: tanking... #USPol https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-congress-takeover/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales A Trump admin freeze on purchase cards that agencies use to cover -dumpster pickups at nat parks -liquid nitrogen for lifesaving MIL research -upending work across the govt. Govt scientists who study food safety -running out of cleaning fluid for their labs -fed aviation WKRs report cuts to travel for urgent work +contractors who help ID US soldiers killed in combat were told to pause their efforts. The net effect of the freeze -resembled a govt shutdown. #USPol #DOGE https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/09/doge-government-credit-card-limits/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Trump’s empire is an actively malicious force in European & Canadian affairs. An empire of the far R: W version of the RU empire, which worked so tirelessly to put Trump in power. Putin wants to conquer #Ukraine. Trump boasts that he'll annex CA, GL & PA. A transactional or isolationist American empire would leave Europe to fend for itself. Trump, Vance, & Musk won’t even grant us that small mercy. New American empire:🚨seeks to destroy lib #democracy. #USPol #Resist https://nickcohen.substack.com/p/a-far-right-empire-trumps-america npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Trump is keenly alert to his legal danger, deeply committed to keeping power by any means necessary. He seems to be sleepwalking toward a stinging pol loss that'll expose him to all kinds of personal risk. He’s not trying to expand his coalition, to win any votes he doesn't already have. So what is his plan to preserve his immunity & his impunity? Trump’s behavior in 2021 showed that there were🚨no limits to what he'd do to keep power. #Coup #USPol #Resist #Trump #Musk https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/donald-trump-congress-address/681924/?gift=u_ph18NIUFAoAwv9Pzffjq6YZgkYqrmANeNZHvpcsao npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Protesters have so many things to push back against -from #tariffs to Trump's reset on the war in Ukraine to the aggressive & sometimes legally dubious actions of the #DOGE & its ldr #Musk, that it's hard to know what to focus on. #TrumpMusk regime is responsible for hundreds of heinous actions & atrocities that've affected millions of ppl around the world: #Firings, #Ukraine #Betrayal, cuts to #USAID, #NIH, #NSF, #CDC, #FDA, #FFA, #FA, #NOAA, #VA #GSA... #USPol #Resist https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/demonstrators-across-50-states-look-to-unify-a-disparate-opposition-to-trump-and-his-sweeping-agenda/ar-AA1AfFmz npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "A senior FEMA official, fired by the Trump administration, is suing saying she's been falsely smeared as illegally funding hotels for migrants in NYC. Her firing violates the law and right to due process, she argues." -K Cheney #USPol #Immigrants #FEMA #Trump #Lies #DueProcess #Fascism #Lawsuit #Justice #Firings https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278033/gov.uscourts.dcd.278033.1.0.pdf https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/105/508/577/426/873/original/8bfc9829a57be6f8.png https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/105/509/370/167/736/original/79ffbb57bf0cbd22.png npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "We're firing Rangers at Nat. Parks, scientists & aid workers that treat/prevent/research disease & feed the poor, & disabled vets helping fellow vets at VA hospitals, but the good news is we're going to buy a shit ton of crypto so Trump & his friends can make billions. -R Filipkowski Citizens' arrests of #Trump, #Musk... are warranted. Several acts &🚨atrocities have already transpired, but Americans are unaware bc: uninformed by the media. JL is wrong on everything, but #crypto. #USPol #DOGE npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales “Treasury Secretary Bessent says Trump tariffs won’t cause inflation to increase.” Treasury Sec Bessent is just another Trump sycophant who lies for him. If these tariffs are imposed, they’ll further weaken a US economy that’s already being hit by all of Musk’s egregious, unnecessary, DOGE firings. #USPol #Economy #Firings #DOGE #Musk #Trump #Resist https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/02/scott-bessent-says-trump-tariffs-wont-cause-inflation-to-increase.html https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/095/902/398/346/128/original/993c30c190d6fbeb.jpeg npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "IRS leaders rejected a request from immigration enforcement officials to divulge the home addresses of 700,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally." This announcement is welcome, but how long will it take Trump to fire the IRS Commissioner? #USPol #IRS #Immigrants #MassDeportations #Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/28/immigration-enforcement-trump-administration-irs/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "Major changes coming to federal govt, led by Musk's #DOGE: Most significant move to dismiss fed WKRs now underway. Agencies must submit plans to significantly reduce staff size by Mar 13 SSA under instruction to cut staff in half; GSA says ts. there are imminent Labor Dept eyes gutting EEOC office by 90% Mass lease CXLs of fed bldgs underway. +100 IRS leases to be nixed. Why #Trump & #Musk wanted unified front today with CAB Secs" - #USPol #Recession IS IMMINENT🚨 https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/26/doge-federal-workforce-firings-job-cuts/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "DOGE says it's now saved $65B in federal funds, but that's still impossible to verify. It only provides records for $9.6B in savings from contract terminations." Neither Trump, nor Musk, can keep track of their egregious lies that are destroying public servants' livelihoods & lives. #Trump #Musk #Grift #DOGE #USPol #Resist https://abcnews.go.com/US/doge-now-saved-65b-federal-funds-impossible-verify/story?id=119174949 npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales #DOGE has installed 2 ppl at HUD: given them unprecedented access to the agency's highly sensitive data on Ms of American & 10s of $Bs in payments. Musk's men at HUD come from the RE sector -have access to vast amount of personal & FIN—& control over who can access which HUD systems. One man has write privileges on🚨*he can input overall changes to—a system that controls who has access to HUD systems. #Trump & #Musk unconstrained & dangerous. #USPol #HUD #Data #Msuk https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hud-systems-access-ai-proptech-real-estate-mobile-home/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales While #Musk is touting cuts to govt, the new admin has already delivered $86 million to SpaceX since the inauguration." Amid a 5% reduction in NASA’s WF, the Trump admin: obligated >$86M worth of NASA💰to SpaceX. He has multiple conflicts of interest, bought the presidency for #Trump, spews #DOGE's false claims 24/7 on X, threatens judges/others who displease or rule against the admin or him, sinisterly demands #firings of fed WKRs for govt💰➡️ to his ventures... #USPol https://www.levernews.com/musks-empire-is-reaping-2-million-per-day-from-trump/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "grok says Musk’s shuttering of USAID condemns tens of 1000s of ppl AT A MINUMUM to DEATH. & there was no corruption or fraud in the org whatsoever. So here’s my question to you, Elon Musk How are you *not* a🚨mass murderer?" -AMoneyResists "#Trump wants us to believe that USAID is bankrupting America—it’s <1% of the fed budget. "#Musk—the richest man on Earth—is💔gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. We're watching evil at work." -C Webb #MassMurder #DOGE #USAID #Eugenics #USPol https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/060/455/984/102/302/original/4c99cdc8d8b4a28d.png https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/060/466/258/007/730/original/edfbefb531c00ddf.png https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/060/467/882/717/367/original/4a5957af79237618.png https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/060/469/035/063/756/original/f6f450011e02fb99.png npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The Department of Justice has eliminated its national database that tracked misconduct incidents among federal law enforcement officers. We’re a lawless society now, but there’re still “laws” the #TrumpMusk regime can enforce against the us. That’s why they want a compliant law enforcement & military. #USPol #Lawlessness #Betrayal #DOJ #Resist https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-department-shuts-down-federal-law-enforcement-misconduct-tracker/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales @nprofile…qfwu I'm so sorry, California (+some other💙states) aren't perfect, but in respect to LGBTQ rights, they're much better then red states. Now we know how Hitler was able to commit atrocities. npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The US in the meeting in Saudi Arabia normalized a regime headed by somebody -designated as a war criminal & all of the crimes of this war/killing/just brutal assault on UA -illegal, brutal assault -was, in effect, washed away." #Trump in FL -the war was really the fault of the victim -of Ukraine, 'You never should have started it?' I can't believe that a pres of US would have said something as factually wrong & insulting as that." We're traumatized by the hour. #USPol https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin-2671181074/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who's a retired air traffic controller." #AI is at work for #MuskTrump, but 99+% of us who don't have private planes, rely on: CDC, FDA, NIH... to ensure our families get info. & alerts on pandemics, needed vaccines, PPE... for our health, CFPB & SEC to safeguard our savings, DOL & OSHA to protect workplaces & workers, the IRS for enforcement, so that everyone pays their taxes in full, #FAA for🚨survival..." -R Perlstein #USPol https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/015/761/952/954/684/original/4dcbb155143e02b0.png https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/015/763/372/177/445/original/6bf5001063556ab3.png npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales All my life I have studied democratization & autocratization. AR, CU… I can recognize the stages of transition to #authoritarianism. #Trump thinks he’s saving the country. Ruling party acts like a rubber stamp -like his policies &/or fear retribution -never say never. Overuse of EOs incl. declaring nat. emergencies. Colonize bureaucracy. Fire staff. Replace them loyalists eg #Musk. Defund insts. as a way to force compliance.🚨Mobilize HATE across society… #USPol #DOGE https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/us/politics/trump-saves-country-quote.html npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Economists are warning that #Trump is causing #stagflation. "We've highly disruptive shocks underway: surge in uncertainty about the future *prompts firms & HHs to delay major spending decisions +a fear: prices will continue to rise in consumer sentiment -spurs hoarding, notably of necessities -cause a freezing of action on big investments -pro cyclical, while the desire to hoard necessities. Worst case scenario: stagflation🚨: unemployment & inflation rise in tandem." -D Swonk #USPol #Economy https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/114/013/872/629/816/656/original/e6925e305f6175c1.png npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Trump may have fired the nuclear weapons workers intentionally. The media downplays the crisis & gives Trump a pass because they believe he was just uninformed. #USPol #Trump #Musk #NuclearWeapons #DOGE https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/climate/nuclear-nnsa-firings-trump/index.html npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales "How much Elon Musk makes from the govt a day: $8M. How much a senior on SS gets a day: $65 2024: Musk’s bus' were awarded ~$3B➡️100 fed contracts, aver. ~$8M/day." -Alt Nat. Park Service Musk claims he's not receiving a salary for his DOGE work. During the DOGE oversight hearing, Rep Casar revealed: $8M figure. Here's what #DOGE has targeted so far: NASA, DOED, DEI initiatives, USAID, fed workforce, FAA, TSY, FEMA, NOAA & CFPB. #USPol #Musk https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-agencies-musk-doge-targeted-list-2025-2 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-claim-suggests-elon-musks-doge-salary-is-8-million-a-day-is-it-true/ar-AA1z0sqM npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales 🚨"I’m calling it the apocalypse of American science -will basically change science as we know it in the US. Nobody else can really afford to pay for it -what’s worked nicely over the last 50-60 years is that the NIH does a lot of basic science research, asking Qs that PEOPLE CAN'T MAKE MONEY FROM from. We're going to see health research kneecapped" -overseen grants at the Nat. Cancer Inst. -part of the NIH. Indirect costs are essential for modern-day research. #USPol https://time.com/7216299/nih-budget-cuts-science-research-funding/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The brakes don’t work! She crashed into a large concrete barrier. Zhang could never have imagined what was to come: Tesla🚨sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car’s brakes -& won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay >$23,000 in damages & publicly apologize to the $1.1T co. Over the last 4 yrs, #Tesla has sued at least 6 car owners in CN who'd sudden vehicle malfunctions-. #TrumpMusk: the US must rule like CN/RU -fewer regs, & autocratic. #USPol https://apnews.com/article/tesla-china-lawsuits-musk-investigation-58b10ccace488784fcc63646ab78b410 npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales House Rs seek bill with up to $2T in savings. The prime target is Medicaid, that provides health coverage to >72M low-income Americans. Rs see MDCD as a program rife with fraud & abuse & have long sought to rein in its spending. R MOC look to use the RECONC process to pass items on his wish list. Work requirements would save about $100B over 10yrs. Hard-line Rs are pushing for a bottom-line figure of at least $1.5-2T -could necessitate even more cuts. #USPol #Medicaid https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5139533-house-republicans-medicaid-cuts/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The #NHI came under attack by PJ25 before Vought -confirmed to head of OMB *asserts: “funding for scientific research shouldn't be controlled by a sm. grp of highly paid/unaccountable insiders” -encourages “more modest fed funding thru” NIH. NIH, 2/7: would cap grants for “indirect” research costs at 15% Some at NIH funded research *helped scientists understand cystic fibrosis that led to Vertex dev. a treatment -his daughter benefited from. #USPol #Hyprocrisy #Cruelty https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/project-2025-vought-medical-funding/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales The Trump-Musk regime ramps up atrocities by the hour. At some point their followers will be severely impacted, & break from the movement. “NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately” #USPol #NIH #Science https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/08/nih-cuts-billions-dollars-biomedical-funding-effective-immediately/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales #Florida lawmakers look to move up in the pol field -hoping: changes to gun laws may sway voters into giving their support. ST Rep Rudman filed HB 31 -to repeal of FL St. 790.02, re: arrest w/o warrant & upon probable cause on FL’s red flags laws +wants to allow open carry. Fine filed SB 94 -to repeal law preventing ppl <21 from buying rifles. *Submitted their resignations, but Rudman is running for a seat in Dist. 1. Fine: FL’s Dist. 6. #ItsTheGuns #GOPDeathCult #USPol https://www.news4jax.com/news/florida/2024/12/16/florida-lawmakers-file-proposals-to-roll-back-gun-control-amid-congressional-bids/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales #AI imperils us: LLMs built with transformers -not technically capable of creating superintelligence *predictive in nature/don't understand concepts in the way that human beings do. Efforts to improve LLMs by⬆️their model size/amt. of data -trained on/computing power -diminishing returns. Limits: perm. -inherent flaws of the approach/AI cos. might never find a way around them -probably never recoup its investment: too expensive/never be good enough for most ppl to pay-. https://www.platformer.news/ai-skeptics-gary-marcus-curve-conference/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales #Tradwife🚨 Neeleman -UT Mormon wanted to be a ballerina. She went to Julliard. He, also Mormon/son of the fndr of JetBlu immediately wanted to marry her but she wouldn’t date him for “6 months” -mentioned she was flying back to NY *called his dad/booked the seat next to her, pretending: a coincidence. Airline IDU: “giant🚩” She agreed to date him for a year+ before getting married. He said “no" -married 2 mos. later. Wedding IDU: “another big f***ing🚩” 3 mons. later🤰. https://skepchick.org/2024/11/trad-wife-farmers-actually-lead-horrible-lives/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Every single crypto industry-backed candidate won their race. Corruption wins again. We must work to elect ethical politicians, & for a govt that won't profiteer & compromise everything. It won't be easy. #Crypto facilitates corruption, scams, money laundering, treason, fraud, trafficking... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-08/crypto-s-135-million-campaign-is-undefeated-in-48-races-so-far npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales JD Vance: “Democratic opponents pose ‘bigger threat' than Russia and China.” Vance, who’d soon succeed #TFG, if he wins, would also rule America as a fascist. “Listen to what he is saying. In the Fascist tradition, Vance considers the democratic political opposition of his own country an enemy force to be defeated. Ending US democracy is a win for foreign autocracy, and he makes sure Russia and China know his allegiances.” -R Ben-Ghiat #USPol #GOPFascists https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/vance-current-u-s-leadership-is-a-way-bigger-threat-than-any-foreign-threat-222772293910 npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales #Crypto has no socially redeeming reason to exist. It's actually useful for is buying things on the internet that're illegal -not the sort of thing that causes big banks & investment firms & institutional$ managers to flock to something -or a currency. It's a digital bauble that speculators speculate on. Does the overseer of our nat. currency need to promote this made up form of money that proclaims that's goal is to displace our nat. currency? *A nat. sec. threat. #USPol https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/crypto-as-a-political-characteristic npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Sad, there were only 11 Senators that voted for in favor of the resolution: The Senate rejected a resolution from Senator Sanders to require the State Dept to write a report detailing any human rights violations stemming from the use of US equipment & military funding in conjunction with Israel’s bombardment of Gaza since the #Oct7 attacks. #IsraelHamasWar #WarCrimes #IHL #HumanRights https://prospect.org/world/2024-01-17-attempt-congress-to-do-something-on-foreign-policy-israel-gaza-fa/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Fascism in Florida: #DeathSantis suspends the elected Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell, he accused her of failing to impose mandatory sentences for gun & drug crimes & allowing juveniles to avoid incarceration. DeSantis previously suspended Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren last year. Andrew Bain, the judge appointed to replace State Attorney Monique Worrell is a member of the Federalist Society. https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/08/09/desantis-suspends-monique-worrell-state-attorney-prosecutor/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Some of the Republicans’ 2025 platform has been released, which is good for voters, bc now they know how dystopian & dangerous their plans would be for America. Their would-be reign of terror includes, fascism, racism, lawlessness, regression, a federal abortion ban, gutting regulations, decimating the USG, esp. the IRS & DOJ… but their most disturbing plan would escalate global warming, which should be disqualifying. #ClimateCrisis #GOPSabotage https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01082023/far-right-battle-plan-to-undo-climate-progress-trump-win-2024/ npub1jq0k29haxkzpj5g9p3vys8djf7wuccc78505xv4mlgtjmwwxd94qv4nl0q Kim Perales Another dangerous RW operative: On Hanania's podcast, he's interviewed: S Pinker, M Andreessen, E Musk, P Thiel... Rich benefactors, some of whose identities are unknown, have funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars into a think tank run by Hanania which doles out cash to conservative academics. He maintains a creepy obsession with so-called race science, arguing that Black people are inherently more prone to violent crime than white people. #GOPRascism #GOPSabotage https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817?utm_campaign=share_twitter&ncid=engmodushpmg00000004