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Meet Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

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Meet Dr. Abdul El-Sayed 

Meet Dr. Abdul El-Sayed 

By William Jones

 

From Public Health Official to Candidate  Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has carved out a career that has moved in and out of medicine, public health, and politics. Now at 41, the handsome and articulate Michigan doctor and former public health practitioner is center stage in a pivotal moment in U. S. politics. El-Sayed has defeated a popular moderate Democratic challenger in the primary, and will face former U.S. Representative, Mike Rogers, a Republican, in the November. general election. El-Sayed’s progressive message is being tested in one of the nation’s most closely watched swing states. Personally he is already facing bigoted slurs from the political right. Islamophobia, is alive and well, in the good ‘ol US of A. The vehement attacks by the GOP, have some Democrats worried that El-Sayed may cost them their dream of taking back both the House and the Senate in November.

Michigan Roots and a Public-Service Path  Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed was born October 31, 1984, in Rochester Hills, a suburb of Detroit, MI.  His parents were Egyptian immigrants. His mother, Fatten Elkomy, a nurse practitioner, his father, Mohamed, was a PhD candidate at Wayne State University. After his parents divorce, Abdul was raised by his father and his stepmother, Jackie, both engineers.  El-Sayed grew up going to public schools where he was socially active and played sports. According to his campaign bio his family was deeply connected to public service. After high school, Abdul, went on to study at the University of Michigan, graduating with high honors in biology and political science.

Family Life  Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is married to Dr. Sarah Jukaku, a psychiatrist. They met at the University of Michigan and married in 2006 and have shared the last 20 years together. The couple have two beautiful and talented daughters. He jokingly refers to himself as “girl dad.”

Impressive Credentials  After graduation from the University of Michigan he was accepted to Columbia University’s Medical School. In his second year at Columbia he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford where he received a Doctorate in Public Health. When his time at Oxford was finished he returned to Columbia and completed his medical training. As time passed, he grew more interested in how communities are affected by sickness and disease, rather than the individual response. This change in perspective led him into epidemiology, public health policy, and government.

Building a Career in Public Health    El-Sayed garnered nation wide recognition when he was named Executive Director of the Detroit Health Department at the youthful age of 30. His activities focused on improving health initiatives, the environment’s threat to health, and the intervention of health programs for children and families. While Executive Director of the Detroit Health Department he learned that the health of the community is much more than doctors and hospitals. He soon came to understand how conditions in the home, family income, clean water and air, are all factors that affect the overall health of the community. Dr. El-Sayed left the Detroit Health Department in February of 2017. During his tenure he was designated ‘Public Official of the Year’ by the Michigan League of Conservation Voters and ‘Policy Innovator’ by the Carnegie Council.

Keeping Busy    After leaving the Detroit Health Department Dr. El-Sayed launched an unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Michigan in 2018, finishing second in the Democratic primary, losing to powerhouse and future governor, Gretchen Whitmer. After his primary loss he refocused; writing several books on public health,  hosting the podcast America Dissected, and serving as the director of Wayne County’s Department of Health, Human, and Veteran Services from 2023 until 2025. The themes from his first campaign remained largely unchanged as he persisted in his call for a bigger government role in health care and economic security for all.

A Senate Campaign Built From the Ground Up  Dr. El-Sayed had decided to run for the U.S. Senate in April 2025 when Democratic Sen. Gary Peters announced that he would not seek re-election and then immediately threw his support behind centrist Democrat, Haley Stevens, the U.S. Rep. from Michigan’s 11th District.  Dr. El-Sayed’s campaign had started out small but with Peter’s decision not to run for re-election, Dr. El-Sayed began an  aggressive campaign against the “establishment” and went on an all out statewide push for the nomination. El-Sayed visited 110 cities, held over 500 events, and developed a volunteer network of more than 12,000. He campaigned on a progressive platform of Medicare for All, economic affordability, campaign-finance reform; and notably, loud and clear opposition to the seemingly unlimited U.S. military aid to Israel. Dr. El-Sayed is identified with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens is identified as a moderate. Reuters described the battle as one for the party’s “ideological direction.”

The General Election Test   Winning the primary gave El-Sayed an opportunity, but it also means that he now faces a far greater challenge. There’s still plenty of political room left in Michigan, and Republican Mike Rogers has solid national support, and a huge bank balance as he readies for the general election. Now El-Sayed must win over voters who are unlikely to be in the progressive camp who might not see their everyday concerns addressed by his ideas. Cost of health care, wages, housing, and government trust are likely to continue to be key topics with voters. He will also continue to be a figure of interest in Israeli politics here in the United States as the Muslim voice against the genocide in Gaza.

Building Bridges  El-Sayed immediately after his victory went to work to show party unity; assuring the public that after the  contentious primary campaign the Democrats were united against Trump and his billionaire allies; understanding that all of the voters who had supported Stevens now had to be shown his was a winning candidacy. The AP reported that El-Sayed spoke by phone with former President Barack Obama and hoped he would campaign with him. The defeated Stevens embraced El-Sayed in her concession speech and encouraged all Democrats, Independents, and disillusioned Republicans to support him. The action was a clear sign that the Democrats want to show a united front to the Republicans and their massive financial war chest. As for the Republicans they are already declaring the good doctor to be everything from a “communist” to a “9-11 advocate.”

A Career Reaching Its Biggest Test   As you can see it’s been no straight trajectory to the top of the political ranks for Dr. El-Sayed. His backers find a man who understands that policy decisions impact the lives of ordinary families and who won’t be afraid to challenge the status quo. Some prognosticators think his progressive views in a multi-racial battleground state may not be what is needed. The next stage of the campaign will be influenced by these opposing perspectives. November will reveal the direction this country is headed. The Senate race is wide open. It is likely to be a barometer for what we can expect in 2028.

References: The internet

Photo from Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s Facebook website

Blatant, Spit in Your Face, Corruption From Trump, Inc.

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Blatant, Spit in Your Face, Corruption From Trump, Inc.

Blatant, Spit in Your Face, Corruption From Trump, Inc.

Editor: Donald Trump is convinced that he and his family… and his cronies, can get away with the money and no one will stop him. I think he’s misjudged the situation; at least I hope so. We will find out in about 85 days whether all the dark money and corruption will keep the MAGA’s in office. The only thing I believe that can end this unimaginable corruption is an enormous voter turn out. A turn out so big and impressive for the Democrats that there won’t be but a handful of GOP/MAGA legislators left in office. They stopped Viktor Orban in Hungary and we can stop Trump, but it will take a dramatic tsunami of opposition to him to make it happen. If you are not registered to vote, get off your ass and get signed up, we will need every disgusted, ashamed, humiliated and outraged citizen to vote- Calamity, aka D.S. Mitchell

By William Jones

It seems most administrations face accusations of some level of corruption. But few have had the scale that has been tied to Donald Trump’s second term.  Since January 2025, nonpartisan trackers, congressional investigators, and journalists have documented a pattern that can no longer be ignored. Several government benefits including appointments, contracts, dropped investigations, pardons, and policy decisions all flowing toward the President and his family alongside his donors and allies. Still, there are many defenders of the administration who insist this is ordinary political discretion, or even a crackdown on fraud committed by others. In truth, the volume and consistency of the cases below suggest something more deep-rooted and against the political culture of this great nation. Voters deserve a clear account of what has actually been documented, and what remains contested.

1) Family Business and Conflicts of Interest

The hallmark of corruption allegations involves members of the President’s own family profiting from decisions made inside his administration. Reports show his first term senior adviser, and son in-in-law, Jared Kushner, reportedly sought to raise more than five billion dollars for his private equity firm from Gulf governments, including Saudi Arabia, while simultaneously serving as a key U.S. envoy to the region, a dual role that watchdogs say blurs the line between diplomacy and personal enrichment. Separately, reporting has tied a six-hundred-twenty-million-dollar Pentagon loan for a small manufacturing startup to intervention from a senior trade adviser, arriving only months after a venture capital firm run by Donald Trump Jr. took a stake in that same company. The U.S. Air Force has also signed a contract with a drone manufacturer backed by Trump Jr. and brother Eric. Taken individually, any one of these could be coincidence. Taken together, critics argue they describe a pattern in which proximity to the President’s family has become a predictable path to federal money.

2) Donor Access and Pay-to-Play Appointments

Nonpartisan trackers such as the Campaign Legal Center have catalogued dozens of instances in which political donations or financial arrangements appear to have shaped major personnel and policy decisions; including Cabinet and ambassadorial appointments, pardons and commutations, and the dropping of federal investigations. One case that drew particular attention involved a bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario; the President moved to block a competing bridge from opening, a decision that came within hours of its owner making a million-dollar donation tied to securing a meeting with the Commerce Secretary. In another instance, at least twenty Cabinet members are reported to have directed more than thirty million dollars toward efforts that personally benefited the President through political donations, property spending, stock holdings, and contributions to Trump-aligned funds. Congress has also opened a probe into more than sixty million dollars in corporate payments to the President’s planned presidential library, after the original fund was dissolved and the money’s destination became unclear.

3) Regulators and Enforcement Bending to Financial Interests

A third pattern involves officials responsible for oversight instead holding financial stakes in the industries they regulate. The acting Attorney General reportedly ordered the termination of several crypto-related investigations while personally holding hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto investments. The FAA Administrator held millions of dollars in an airline’s stock for months after taking office. And a top aide to the Homeland Security Secretary has been accused of soliciting kickbacks from a federal contractor, the private prison operator GEO Group, in exchange for contract growth. Even routine government spending has drawn scrutiny; a no-bid contract to clean the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool went to a firm tied to a longtime presidential supporter, and the pool has since turned green with algae. Meanwhile, taxpayers are now reported to be covering roughly half the cost of a new White House ballroom, despite earlier assurances that private donors would foot the entire bill. And if it was totally donor built what favors would  be doled out? The stench is unimaginable.

4) Legal Settlements That Benefit the President Personally

Perhaps most striking is a reported settlement in which the President dropped a lawsuit against the federal government in exchange for the Justice Department establishing a fund of roughly $1.8 billion, described by the administration as compensation for ‘victims of lawfare.’ Government watchdogs have called the arrangement a use of federal legal machinery for personal financial benefit. Separately, dozens of former federal judges have signed court filings describing a related proposed IRS settlement as corrupting the judicial process itself, and Senate Judiciary Committee members have opened a records-preservation inquiry into how that deal was reached. These are not routine legal outcomes. They are settlements negotiated by an administration the President himself controls, resolving disputes in which he is both the plaintiff and the defendant. One judge, called the whole action a “fraud against the court.”

Why Has There Been No Criminal Conviction?

This remains one of the big questions. There have been congressional inquiries, administration disputes, and even watchdog reports, but none has led to criminal convictions. The White House itself has pointed to its own Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. Its reports uncovers billions of dollars in fraudulent government contracts, benefit claims, and pandemic-era loans, and frames itself as the party rooting out corruption rather than committing it. Republican officials argue that personnel and policy decisions fall within a President’s normal discretion, that donor-funded ambassadorships and access have a long bipartisan history in American politics, and that much of the criticism, including a newly proposed ‘Anti-Corruption Bureau’ from Senate Democrats is itself politically timed ahead of the midterm elections. Americans should weigh the documented pattern above against that defense, and against the fact that discretion, poor judgment, and criminal corruption are not always the same thing, even when they look similar from the outside.

To Conclude

Democracy depends on public confidence that government decisions are made in the public interest rather than for private gain. Whether or not any individual case here ultimately results in prosecution, the sheer accumulation of documented conflicts including family enrichment, donor access, regulators with financial stakes, and self-benefiting legal settlements has pushed corruption concerns into the center of the national conversation in a way rarely seen in modern American politics. Congress, the courts, and the voters each have a role in demanding transparency and accountability, regardless of party.

Reference Links

https://campaignlegal.org/document/tracking-trump-administrations-most-corrupt-transactions

https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-details-unprecedented-corruption-of-trump-white-house-over-the-last-500-days

https://represent.us/trump-corruption-tracker/

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/resources/human-rights/2026-march/trump-administrations-rampant-pay-to-play-corruption-threatens-our-democracy/

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/epic-corruption-plain-sight

https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/whitehouse-renews-probe-into-cop-beaters-slush-fund-and-trump-family-tax-fraud-amnesty-deal/

https://www.ms.now/news/schumer-anti-corruption-agency-trump

https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/05/trump-administrations-full-scale-war-on-fraud/

First they Came for…

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First They Came for…

First They Came for…

 

By D. S. Mitchell

One of the most poignant and powerful pieces of prose ever written about silence, apathy and the end result of such inaction in the face of injustice was written by Luthern pastor, Martin Niemoller.  The piece was created from a collection of speeches written by Niemöller (1892–1984). In the 1920s and early 1930s, Niemoller supported many Nazi ideas and the right-wing political movement. But after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Niemöller became an outspoken critic of Hitler’s interference in the Protestant Church. Niemoller spent the last eight years of Nazi rule, from 1937 to 1945, in a Nazi concentration camp.

The central message is that silence in the face of injustice makes us complicit. The words remind us of the importance of collective responsibility, emphasizing that an attack on any group’s rights is a threat to us all. The quotation expresses Niemöller’s belief that most Germans had been complicit through their silence in the Nazi imprisonment, persecution, and murder of millions of people. He felt this was especially true of the leaders of the Protestant churches.
First They Came
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
Silence is easy. Speaking out is tough. Do the right thing. Stand up for your neighbors and your community. People are being shot on the streets of America, by ICE.  The only thing that will stop Trump and Stephen Miller’s right wing agenda is us.

Invisible

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Invisible

Invisible

By John Curran

 

Invisible? They used to make fun of me a lot, mis amigos. Since yesterday they don’t make fun of me at all. Yeah, they used to call me ‘no mucho macho, amigo’ ‘cause whenever something heavy was happening ‘n maybe it was happening around us, I would go into my survival mode. I would just close my eyes, be real still, and as quietly as I could I would slide myself over and out the nearest damn exit. No matter what they want to call me it has worked so far and it worked yesterday ‘n got me through the heaviest go down I’ve seen yet, in all my days, which continue on, no thanks to this place where I hope to just survive long enough to get the hell ‘outa here.

See, we was just going to work, ‘Bossman’ Jake had just picked us up. ‘Bossman’ Jake  who’s real name is Jose would always say that Jake is just what it takes to get him thru until one day he can be Jose again; back in that little fishing village where he was born down in Veracruz. To one day pack up this so called American dream, leave it for the next sucker, and take his wife ‘n 3 kids back on down to that little grass shack where he was born and where once he says, he was truly happy. So, Jake picks us all up, the four of us and we’re heading to the first job site. We got three of them today ‘n it looks like it’s gonna be hot. And if you know Houston, a hot day here you don’t take light, it’s brutal here, worse than Mexico ever was.

Money, that’s the only damn reason I’m here. Like I say to Jake, I hope to be right behind ya’, one day soon. Well… that day won’t never come for Jake ‘cause of right before we got to the first jobsite we come on some kind of roadblock manned by these pretty heavily gunned-up soldier type guys. Someone says, “it’s fucking ICE”.

As we come to a stop, Jake rolls down his window and the closest goon yells something, then one of the others behind him yells something else; and so that’s when Jake starts his car, slowly going forward until another one ‘a these guys yells something else  and so Jake turns to the left and that’s when they shot him.

The car continues to roll, finally coming to a stop at the side of the road.  That’s when I closed  my eyes and became very still and in all the ensuing screaming yelling and general commotion it was not hard for me; especially as I was seated  in the back by the door, facing away from all that,  I just slipped right on outa’ there sight unseen the way I have always done. So… call me anything you want but I am still here, unlike Jake who was a good man, a hardworking father and husband. A good man.

Maria is shattered, I ain’t gotta be told. She loved him more than the rest of us did, and that was a whole lot, right there.

I Am My Politics; And So Are You

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I Am My Politics; And So Are You

Harris and Walz are igniting the Democrats

I Am My Politics; And So Are You

D. S. Mitchell

Editor: Writing for Calamity News and Politics gives me a platform to discuss headline events and political policy. It also provides me a place to vent and fume. If somebody doesn’t like the drum I’m beating, they are fully able, and encouraged to move on; to a site that better satisfies their social view of the world.

 

My Son

“Don’t get so wound up, it’s just politics”, my son told me one time.  Well, whether I’m saying it to my son, or to a potential reader, or to a neighbor, the guy sitting next to me at the bar-that is the wrong attitude. In the end, politics is government policy, and government policy; in case you hadn’t noticed, effects everything in our lives. So the choices you make politically are a vision of who you are and what you want in the world around you.  The schools, the hospitals, the parks, the highways, the airports, the waterways, international trade, economics, military defense, environmental action and social justice.  Nearly every part of our daily life is effected in someway by the policies that our elected officials enact in Washington, D.C., or our state capitols. Got it? We are the politics we support.

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Celebrating Juneteenth

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Celebrating Juneteenth…

Despite MAGA “Culture”…

Celebrating Juneteenth…

Despite MAGA “Culture”

 

By Cate Rees-Hessel

 

Continue to Proclaim Freedom…

As we celebrate Juneteenth, now a legal holiday thanks to years of activists’ campaigning and then our former President Biden in 2021 for making the day a federal holiday. It troubles me that we live in a racist ICE-filled nation because of our current administration, but that won’t stop us from celebrating. The holiday fell on a Friday this year, giving us a whole weekend to celebrate. Here are are 19 ideas to honor June 19th:

  1. Many towns are having public celebrations – I have my pink Juneteenth T-shirt all ready; I will proudly celebrate the North African portion of my heritage.
  2. Check your local library for books and films honoring Juneteenth.
  3. Make it a weekend event with barbecues, water parks, movies, or concerts.
  4. Visit an African museum to view exhibits and artifacts.
  5. Enjoy a marathon of African American TV episodes on your favorite streaming service.
  6. Read the Emancipation Proclamation out loud.
  7. Volunteer for a liberal Democratic organization.
  8. Buy a beautiful piece of African art to display.
  9. Teach children about African culture.
  10. Share stories and ideas around a campfire or picnic.
  11. Learn African dances and dance like everyone is watching.
  12. Learn the significance of quilts and how they assisted with the Underground Railroad.
  13. See the new recently released Michael Jackson film.
  14. Craft an African decoration to display.
  15. Read about Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Shirley Chisolm, Rosa Parks, and Kamala Harris.
  16. Read about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, John Lewis, Jesse Jackson, Hakeem Jeffries, and Cory Booker.
  17. Read about Big John and Mother Amy, slaves that positively influenced Dolley Madison.
  18. Enjoy some delicious soul food while listening to the premier children’s choir, the Soul Children of Chicago – see soulchildrenchicago.org for their music.
  19. Visit the brand new Obama Presidential Center in person or online, which is open starting today – go to obama.org.

 

Whatever you decide to do to celebrate, enjoy, engage, and be safe – God bless our nation. We celebrate freedom despite our current administration – vote blue and continue to fight for freedom as we celebrate Juneteenth…

Dumb & Ugly Josh Hokit

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Dumb & Ugly Josh Hokit

Dumb & Ugly Josh Hokit

By D.S. Mitchell

Michelle Obama target of UFC fighter

Josh Hokit, also known as “no class Hokit,” in a post fight interview with Joe Rogan Sunday night thanked Donald Trump for hosting the UFC event before insulting the mother of one of his rivals, praising the Lord Jesus and ending the rant with an old far right wing conspiracy theory attack on former first lady Michelle Obama with the following disgusting comments, “And lastly — Michelle Obama is a man! Am I right, America?” To his credit, Rogan did not follow up on Hokit’s comment.

The fact that these comments were made on White House grounds shocked me; but why should I be shocked? Trump posted a video clip on his Truth Social account earlier this year that showed the Obamas as apes. After a heated response  from the public Trump tried to defend the offensive post before finally taking it down. Trump has yet to denounce Hokit’s comments. Many in the community have come out against Hokit’s racist and misogynistic dialogue, which I must say reflects poorly even on scandal ridden Donald Trump and his UFC event.

Robert Griffin III, a black former NFL quarterback and a UFC fan slammed Hokit’s postgame interview. “What a disgrace. It takes a really small man to use his biggest moment to attack a woman by calling her a man. Especially with the history behind calling black women men,” Griffin said on X.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-New Mexico) called Hokit’s remarks “disturbing”.

The often controversial Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, said Monday that he thought Hokit’s insult was inappropriate and Trump should have spoken up immediately condemning the remarks. “When on the White House lawn… I don’t care what you think about the Obamas or anything, that has to be an immediate denounce,” Portnoy said.

UFC CEO Dana White in a later interview told Time magazine that he disliked Hokit’s comments, “I understand that the Obama’s are public figures but I’m completely against saying nasty and false things about people’s families,” White told the magazine in a text message. “Everyone knows my position on free speech but I hate that kind of nonsense.”

Michelle Obama is beautiful, dignified, talented,  and a down right sensational person. I thank her and her lovely family for the eight years that they shared themselves with us. Thank you, Michelle, Malia, and Sasha (Natasha) and Barack. We were so lucky to have had you as our first family, and I for one, miss you.

 

Courage

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Courage

Courage

D. S. Mitchell

As part of my job at Calamity Politics I get to do research. Research can be lots of fun. This week, I decided to look up courage. I am beginning to believe that we are going to need strength and courage to see this political battle to it’s satisfactory progressive conclusion.

People say some pretty inspiring things.  Here’s a brief collection of some pretty smart comments by some pretty smart people.

1,) “Courage leads starward, fear toward death,” Seneca

2.)”Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen,” Winston Churchill

3.)”Courage conquers all things,”  Ovid

4.) “The strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is courage,” Michel De Montaigne

5.) “Fate loves the fearless,” James Russell Lowell

6.) “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties,” Erich Fromm

I’m inspired. How about you? If you are even a little inspired, do something to fight the corrupt Trump administration. Be brave. Be courageous. Write a letter to the local newspaper, make a phone call to your congressperson, march in that NO KINGS protest on July 4th, 2026, donate to Democratic candidates, talk to your friends and neighbors-even those who have been on the other side of the aisle; reconnect if you can. Don’t force the issue but let them talk about their current thoughts on Trump; a lot of folks are evolving as Donnie Boy destroys the economy and every friendly relationship this country has ever had.

Join the New Resistance

Angry? Feeling Betrayed? Here’s Why

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Angry? Feeling Betrayed? Here’s Why.

 

 

Angry? Feeling Betrayed? Here’s Why.

 

By D.S. Mitchell

 

So, I’ve been doing my own research and right now my blood pressure, despite medication, is at least 40 points above normal. Damn fucking serious, my doctor tells me. So while the doctor adjusts my medication based on the nightly news, I have put together a list of Trump’s most despicable actions. I can only imagine the number of outrages I don’t know about; those hidden behind the curtain, those hidden behind a wall of corruption.

1.) During Round One the Mango Menace tore up Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Better known as the “Iran Nuclear Deal”. Why? Because Obama was connected to it. No other reason than a black man had been its guiding force. The agreement provided for inspections and prevented Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon. Now in Round Two, Melon Head, under the spell of Israel’s Netanyahu and big Jewish donors in the U.S., launched major combat operations against Iran without formal, direct advance notification to Tehran. Trump’s War characterized by a surprise military campaign, aimed at destroying Iranian capabilities, rather than a declared, notified war. Now here we are;  and it looks like the Iranians are winning.

2. ) This one is a twofer for Trump. This is the second time he has withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, ending U.S. participation in global climate efforts. Trump’s fossil fuel donors are jubilantly jumping up and down, while the environmentalists cry. However, as oil prices skyrocket, Europeans are buying EV’s and talking wind and solar power and even nuclear. Hopefully, we in the U.S. will take up a similar cry.

3.) Fed chaos has caused market volatility while Trump’s shifting economic policies are  an economic disaster. Trump’s wildly gyrating tariffs based on nothing other than how he felt when he woke up. His tariffs are a tax on the U.S. consumer and those policies have triggered inflation and chaos; and now that the courts have ordered repayment of tariff charges to  many big companies. When asked about it, Trump suggested he would “remember” the guys that wanted their money back; like he’s some ‘effin mob boss. A really ugly look for the United States of America.

4.) Trump and his sometimes buddy Elon Musk dismantled USAID and other U.S. “soft diplomacy” efforts. The battle was loud as food and medicine rotted and expired in warehouses around the world waiting to be delivered to those desperately in need. An estimated 600,000 to 732,000 died, most were children and those deaths were directly related to the withdrawal of  USAID. Apparently, the number of those who died mattered little or nothing to Trump and his allies. My God, that’s like wiping out every man, woman, and child in Denver, Colorado; without a single tear shed.

5.) Trump revoked federal recognition of transgender Americans by executive order and federal agencies have rushed around carrying out Trump’s orders. The common goal of all his  orders is to remove transgender and nonbinary people from public life by restricting access to accurate federal identity documents, threatening to withhold hospitals’ federal funding over gender-affirming care, and erasing trans history from federal websites and in schools. The Trump White House is using the federal government as a cudgel to make it harder for trans Americans to live openly — without fear of harassment and discrimination.

6.)Trump egged on by drug intoxicated Elon Musk joyfully halted the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program completely. EXCEPT, as I understand it, “for select white South Africans.” This while Secretary Hegseth is firing black officers with decades of service without reason or explanation. Everything this administration does has an anti-melanin component to it; and they are making no effort to conceal their love of white.

7.) After Trump denied any knowledge or understanding of what Project 2025 was during his 2024 campaign he suddenly embraced the project after the election. Project 2025 is a plan to restructure the U.S. government in the image of  a Christian Nationalists homeland where we all follow their narrow religious beliefs. In the introduction to the document the authors call for “deleting” LGBTQ+ equality, reproductive freedom, and removal of diversity, equity and inclusion language and intent from “every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.”

Project 2025 plan is to:

  • Eliminate the Department of Education
  • Fund private religious schools with taxpayer money
  • Delete LGBTQ+ rights
  • End marriage equality
  • Limit reproductive health care and in the process ban the most accessible forms of abortion
  • Create obstacles for racial justice through gerrymandering and the resulting loss of voting rights
  • Using religious freedom to discriminate

8.) Trump ended the Energy Star appliance-efficiency program and any other credit or tax benefits derived by the purchase of energy efficient products including  EVs.  Oh, I keep forgetting, grandpa thinks “global warming is a hoax.”

9.) Trump’s “Big beautiful bill” cut a trillion dollars from United States health care expenditures. An estimated 12 million people will lose health care coverage. Children’s Medicaid, nutrition, and vaccine programs have been devastated.

10.) Trump in demented tweets has threatened to abandon NATO commitments if allies don’t increase their military spending; while walking away from Ukraine forcing NATO Europe to ramp up money and resources for the Ukrainian defense. His saber rattling and threats to take over NATO countries such as Greenland by force if necessary is causing a wide rupture between us and our long time friends.

11.) With the scribble of his sharpie Trump attempted to revoke birthright citizenship via executive order. The Supreme Court is reviewing numerous law suits regarding the constitutionality of such presidential action.

12.) The Trumpster has used the Alien Enemies Act to justify mass migrant detentions. The public is sick of warehousing human beings for the profit of Trump allies and community after community is fighting back and they are winning and ICE detention warehouses are being shut down across the country.

13.) Trump looked at a couple pictures and appointed unqualified loyalists to high-ranking posts. The Trump cabinet is the richest cabinet in U.S. history with little experience at public service.

14.) Proposed turning Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East”-resettling Gazans “some place-anyplace” without a view.

15.) Trump has pushed for mass surveillance expansion focusing on protestors and immigrants and then have used that information to deport students.

I had intended to list 47 abhorrent, disgusting, revolting things that Trump has done since being elected  for his second term, and truly I am so angry I don’t know if I can get to 47 with out  having an ‘effin stroke. Because right now, I’m guessing my blood pressure is somewhere close to 170/100! As far as finishing this article I don’t think it will be this week. Hugs. Love you. Keep protesting, keep resisting.

 

 

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