Jim Gallagher
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Jun 27
‘Clouded in mystery’: how Ice became a rogue agency that does Trump’s bidding
The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/ice-trump-administration-immigration-deportations?CMP=share_btn_url Ben Makuch Shrouded in secrecy, the US law enforcement agency has become a kind of domestic stormtrooper for Maga’s agenda Tue 24 Jun 2025 07.00 EDT Across the US, group chats and community threads have started spiking with warnings. Not just the typical alerts about traffic or out of service subway stations, …
Jun 05
California Democratic Party Concludes Convention with Calls for Unity and Activism
By Gaston Castellanos in the Fullerton Observer on June 4, 2025 • The California Democratic Party (CADEM) concluded its 3-Day Convention in Anaheim with 4,000 activists and delegates that featured speeches by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Civil Rights Leader Dolores Huerta and California statewide and legislative leaders. United States Senator Adam Schiff took the stage and so did his colleague Cory Booker, the Senator …
May 06
Trump’s 100 Days Top 10 Failures!
1. Supreme Court defiance 2. Environmental degradation 3. Those ‘beautiful’ tariffs 4. The war on DEI 5. Illegal deportations 6. Shaming Zelensky 7. Claiming transgender people do not exist 8. Appointing a Keystone-Cops cabinet 9. Gutting funds for medical research 10. Remaking the world map Source- READ MORE AT https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article305246606.html
Apr 08
5 things to know about tariffs and how they work
FROM PBS NEWS AT https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/5-things-to-know-about-tariffs-and-how-they-work Economy Updated on Apr 3, 2025 6:51 PM EDT — Published on Mar 4, 2025 4:49 PM EDT By — Paul Wiseman, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tariffs are in the news at the moment. Here’s what they are and what you need to know about them. Tariffs are a …
Mar 05
Fact Checking Trump’s Address to Joint Congress- Mar. 4, 2025
By PolitiFact Staff March 5, 2025 President Donald Trump recapped six weeks of aggressive efforts to cut the federal workforce, reorganize the economy and reorient foreign policy in his first address to a joint session of Congress. The March 4 speech was long by historical standards — about an hour and 40 minutes — and …
Feb 05
37 ways Project 2025 has shown up in Trump’s executive orders
Politico By Liset Cruz, Ali Bianco, Megan Messerly, Abhinanda Bhattacharyya and Anna Wiederkehr 02/05/2025 02:00 AM PST President Donald Trump on the campaign trail last summer disavowed Project 2025, saying he knew nothing about the effort. But many of the conservative blueprint’s ideas have made their way into his early executive orders, signaling the sweeping …
Jan 02
The Women’s March Rebranded and Reorganized. Now They’re Ready for 2025
from Time magazine 5 minute read One day after Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump protestors fill the streets during the Women’s March on January 21, 2017 held in the area surrounding the Washington Mall.Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis —Getty Images By Rebecca Schneid December 18, 2024 3:13 PM EST When activist and organizer …
Dec 08
5 Takeaways From The Elections Now That They Are Finally Over
With the resolution of an incredibly close House race in California (Democrat Adam Gray unseated incumbent Republican John Duarte), we now know the major results of the 2024 balloting a month after Election Day. It’s a good time to set aside Republican spin claiming a massive landslide victory and Democratic rationalizations about this or that …
Nov 06
Bernie Sanders remark on Instagram re: 2024 election
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right. Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCC3TFUBbkO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== “While I concede this election, I will not …
Sep 29
A new way forward…
Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are fighting for a New Way Forward that protects our fundamental freedoms, strengthens our democracy, and ensures every person has the opportunity to not just get by, but to get ahead. As a prosecutor, Attorney General, Senator, and now Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris always stood …
We want you to join us at our next meeting, Monday, July 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm!
The Chino Valley Democratic Club will meet on Monday, July 14, at 7 p.m., in a hybrid in-person/ Zoom online meeting. The Club recommends participants contact chinovalleydemocrats21@gmail.com for the location or go to the Zoom link https://tinyurl.com/f47tjtj4 and join at the designated date and time, Monday, July 14, at 7:00 p.m. It is recommended that participants join the meeting 10-15 minutes before the meeting starts.
On the agenda, we will host Union rep Stephanie Rodriguez from American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), representing the beleaguered workers of the Social Security Administration. We will share lessons learned from recent city-wide actions like No Kings Day rally, and cover local and National events. The public is invited.
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