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J.D. Vance Says Trump Can Ignore Judges
Vice President J.D. Vance claimed, "Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power," sparking outrage and criticism.
Rolling Stone

“Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” the vice president wrote

J.D. Vance signaled the Trump administration may try to ignore judicial orders, which could trigger a constitutional crisis.

The vice president wrote on X, “If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”

Vance also shared a post by Adrian Vermeule, professor of constitutional law at Harvard, who wrote, “Judicial interference with legitimate acts of state, especially the internal functioning of a co-equal branch, is a violation of the separation of powers.”

Elon Musk, who has led Donald Trump‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as it attempts to dismantle and take over federal agencies, signaled he may also support defying the courts. He reshared an X post by “Insurrection Barbie” that said in part, “I don’t like the precedent it sets when you defy a judicial ruling, but I’m just wondering what other options are these judges leaving us.”

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Kakistocracy Watch: Harmeet Dhillon Edition
Trump's nominee to head the Civil Rights Division has downplayed the need for the Justice Department to enforce the Voting Rights Act, sayin
People For

Kakistocracy Watch: Harmeet Dhillon Edition

02/07/2025

by 

Peter Montgomery

The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department has historically played a crucial role in defending voting and other civil rights. Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump’s choice to head the Civil Rights Division, has “a history of attacking voting rights,” according to Democracy Docket, which has called her “one of the leading legal figures working to roll back voting rights across the country.”  

Dhillon wrote in a 2022 column in Hillsdale College’s Imprimis newsletter that the Justice Department’s power to administer the Voting Rights Act “was once necessary to push back on Jim Crow laws,” adding, “But the era of Jim Crow is long gone, and it shouldn’t be up to a politicized DOJ to dictate what election integrity looks like.” 

Dhillon’s confirmation “would make a mockery of the concept of civil rights,” wrote MSNBC’s Ja’han Jones, who concluded that Dhillon “is just about the worst person imaginable to have in a position tasked with defending democracy and stemming real oppression.” 

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 denounced programs designed to encourage diversity, equity, and inclusion in educational and economic opportunity as “invidious schemes” and called for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to focus on using “the full force of federal prosecutorial resources to investigate and prosecute all state and local governments, institutions of higher education, corporations, and any other private employers” that engage in what Project 2025 describes as discrimination. The Trump administration has already launched a purge of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from federal agencies, and Dhillon seems poised to carry the administration’s war on shared opportunity into the private sector.  

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The prosperity gospel, explained: Why Joel Osteen believes that prayer can make you rich
The long, strange history of a quintessentially American theology.
Vox

Many of the so-called "Christians" who support Trump's reign of greed and scapegoating follow the "prosperity gospel." This article by Tara Isabella Burton explains how aspects of three different movements combined to create what is known today as the "prosperity gospel." The three include:

  1. The 19th century New Thought movement, which claimed that if one set one's mind to something, they could manifest it in real life. This aligned with "the quintessentially American idea that the individual was responsible for his or her own happiness, health, and situation in life."
  2. The Calvinist idea of believing that prosperity was a sign from God that one was predestined to be saved, and hard work was a sign of one's virtue, which led to "the valorization of the 'Protestant work ethic.'" According to Burton, this "specifically Protestant approach to labor [was] integral to the development of capitalism and industrialization."
  3. The rise of decentralized "charismatic Pentecostal churches," in the U.S. According to Burton, these Pentecostals held "the idea that God would manifest Himself to the faithful in concrete, miraculous ways in the 'here and now'" through “'spiritual gifts' (or 'charisms,' from which the term 'charismatic' is drawn)." This in turn, combined with the "decentralized" structure of the congregations, led to the peculiar, almost fan-like devotion of congregants to their charismatic Pentecostal leaders, who often engaged in showy displays of their "spiritual gifts."

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'The feel of a coup': Elon Musk said to be poised to 'defy' major judicial order
Elon Musk appears poised to defy a judicial order, according to observers. Musk, the richest man in the world and an appointee of Donald T
Raw Story

Elon Musk appears poised to defy a judicial order, according to observers.

Musk, the richest man in the world and an appointee of Donald Trump, was dealt a blow over the weekend when a judge reportedly blocked Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing personal financial data from the Treasury Department, which resulted in a MAGA meltdown.

Musk wasn't too happy about the ruling, saying, "Corrupt judges protecting corruption."

Trump legal ally Mike Davis said, "These DC uniparty judges are shockingly insulated from Real Americans in Real America."

"They are arrogant and delusional enough to believe they are saving America from Trump," the lawyer added. "Even though Trump campaigned on doing precisely what he’s doing. And won a decisive electoral mandate."

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"They are arrogant and delusional enough to believe they are saving America from Trump," the lawyer added. "Even though Trump campaigned on doing precisely what he’s doing. And won a decisive electoral mandate." [emphasis added]

Please--stop with the "decisive electoral mandate" talk.

Trump might have campaigned on making government more efficient but he specifically DENIED that he had anything to do with Project 2025. Therefore, he was elected by a fraud on the American people. Because if they knew he really intended on implementing Project 2025, he would likely have not been elected.

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Trump Says Some White South Africans Could Be Resettled In The U.S. — They Say 'No Thanks'
Groups representing some of South Africa’s white minority have responded to a plan by U.S. President Donald Trump by saying: thanks, but no
HuffPost

Groups representing some of South Africa’s white minority have responded to a plan by U.S. President Donald Trump by saying: thanks, but no thanks.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Groups representing some of South Africa’s white minority responded Saturday to a plan by President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and resettlement in the United States by saying: thanks, but no thanks.

The plan was detailed in an executive order Trump signed Friday that stopped all aid and financial assistance to South Africa as punishment for what the Trump administration said were “rights violations” by the government against some of its white citizens.

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More evidence that Trump is mostly interested in helping Whites more than any other group--even if those Whites are privileged, as are the White Afrikaners:

“It is ironic that the executive order makes provision for refugee status in the U.S. for a group in South Africa that remains amongst the most economically privileged,” South Africa’s Foreign Ministry said. It also criticized the Trump administration’s own policies, saying the focus on Afrikaners came “while vulnerable people in the U.S. from other parts of the world are being deported and denied asylum despite real hardship.”
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Whites in South Africa still generally have a much better standard of living than Blacks more than 30 years after the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule in 1994. Despite being a small minority, whites own around 70% of South Africa’s private farmland. A study in 2021 by the South Africa Human Rights Commission said 1% of whites were living in poverty compared to 64% of Blacks.

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The prosperity gospel, explained: Why Joel Osteen believes that prayer can make you rich
The long, strange history of a quintessentially American theology.
Vox

Many of the so-called "Christians" who support Trump's reign of greed and scapegoating follow the "prosperity gospel." This article by Tara Isabella Burton explains how aspects of three different movements combined to create what is known today as the "prosperity gospel." The three include:

  1. The 19th century New Thought movement, which claimed that if one set one's mind to something, they could manifest it in real life. This aligned with "the quintessentially American idea that the individual was responsible for his or her own happiness, health, and situation in life."
  2. The Calvinist idea of believing that prosperity was a sign from God that one was predestined to be saved, and hard work was a sign of one's virtue, which led to "the valorization of the 'Protestant work ethic.'" According to Burton, this "specifically Protestant approach to labor [was] integral to the development of capitalism and industrialization."
  3. The rise of decentralized "charismatic Pentecostal churches," in the U.S. According to Burton, these Pentecostals held "the idea that God would manifest Himself to the faithful in concrete, miraculous ways in the 'here and now'" through “'spiritual gifts' (or 'charisms,' from which the term 'charismatic' is drawn)." This in turn, combined with the "decentralized" structure of the congregations, led to the peculiar, almost fan-like devotion of congregants to their charismatic Pentecostal leaders, who often engaged in showy displays of their "spiritual gifts."

[See more under the cut.]

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Trump Administration Orders 'Catastrophic' Funding Cuts For Science Research
Scientists and medical experts said the move to effectively slash NIH grants will interrupt research across the country.
HuffPost

President Donald Trump’s administration announced late Friday it is drastically reducing payments the National Institutes of Health makes to universities, hospitals, and institutes that help cover administrative costs, a move critics said will result in a “catastrophic” hit to science research across the country.

Federal NIH grants pay for a portion of the overhead costs required for institutions to conduct research, including construction, utility costs, and lab operation, known generally as “indirect costs,” in addition to the costs of the research itself. Typically, about 30% of an average NIH grant to an institution is earmarked for indirect costs, but some universities get much higher rates.

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