Notices by Kim Perales (kimperales@toad.social), page 2

“Trump pardon attorney taking “hard look” at defendants convicted of plotting to kidnap Gov Whitmer. The effort to rewrite history & normalize political #violence continues.”
-B McQuade

“So far Trump has released cop assailants, adjudged terrorists, (apparently) some murderers to use in a rendition stunt, & now people who planned to kidnap Trump's political opponents.

How is it that this is not a 24/7 story?”
-M Wheeler

Amplify‼️
#Trump #Lawlessness #Retribution #USPol
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/23/justice-department-michigan-governor-whitmer-kidnapping-plot/83825764007/

“Rs wanted to impeach Pres Biden using false accusations that he took $5M from CN. Trump just took $100M+ from 1 Chinese #crypto billionaire who was facing charges by the SEC. Those charges are gone. Trump gave him & others a party & R’s are silent.”
-J Levy

“The largest single, trump cryptocoin🚨BRIBE was from CN. Commies apparently love trump as much as he loves them...esp: Soviet Union Communism -in '87. And so do those Radical Islamists, who bought up the largest.
-HQdepot1
#Bribery #USPol

In a grossly inappropriate red MAGA hat & pink tie, Trump shamed America, the cadets, military, & fed govt, with his speech:

“We’re focusing on “KILLING…,” not host drag shows. He said he was clearing the military of transgender ideas, & “critical race theory’ & trainings he called divisive & political. Trump said the election results gave him a “great mandate” & IT GIVES US THE RIGHT TO DO WHAT WE WANT TO DO.

#Military #DOD #Trump #Dishonor #Bellicose #USPol

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-delivers-commencement-speech-to-west-point-graduating##-class-of-2025

Trump wasn’t just disrespectful, he left early, after his indecorous speech.

“Trump is giving the commencement address at the US MIL Academy wearing his campaign hat. It’s traditional for the president at academy commencements to congratulate each cadet.

That part of the ceremony is now happening w/o him.

Perhaps he was just too tired to shake hands with and salute each cadet.

A year ago, President Biden did exactly that.

My pool report from that day:”

-SV Date

#Trump #Military #USPol

The evidence of Trump’s erraticity, mendacity, inconsistency, nonsensical rambles, threats…, is now hidden from the public, as the WH has🚨stopped publishing a database of official transcripts of Trump’s announcements, appearances, & speeches altogether & has taken down those it’d published. Instead🚨it’ll only post videos. So far there’re only 50 of his 1st 120 days.

Democracy dies in darkness.

READ: Heather Cox Richardson:
#TrumpRegime #Tyranny #Oligarchy #Kleptocracy #Resist #June14 #USPol

"ICE🚨arrests cont today at #immigration ct nationwide, w #ICE officers handcuffing ppl in the hallways after ICE prosecutors moved to dismiss cases.

More confirmation: even where the judges AREN'T dismissing cases, ICE is still detaining ppl in some cases -showing up at cts w lists of names & arresting most everyone on the list when they can. Afterwards -putting anyone whose cases was dismissed thru expedited removal—w the🚨goal of DEPORTING THEM QUICKLY."
-A R-Melnick
#Sadism #DueProcess #USPol

“We can’t accept everyone” literally always means: “We can’t accept 1 more than we are now” In this case:🚨“We must expel already assimilated legal #immigrants to💔foreign prisons.”
-D Bier

"Their ignorance of history is shameful! The reason we wrote Refuge status into law was because during Nazi takeover of Germany other countries wouldn't accept Jews trying to escape. That was the plot of the "Voyage of the Damned."
-P Mercado
#TrumpRegime's intent is #EVIL.
#Racism #Deportations #Sadism #USPol

"Best possible time to🚨light 4-7 trillion dollars on fire with tax cuts to people who absolutely don’t need more money."
-A Fritschner

"IF YOU ARE WONDERING WHY STOCKS JUST ALL WENT DOWN AT ONCE

WE JUST HAD A HORRIBLE BOND AUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES FOR OUR 20-YEAR TREASURIES

Because of the lack of bidders…it caused the 20-year bond yield to surge to 5.1%.

Credit market is screaming for help right now."
-Amit

#Budget #Republicans #Bonds #Trumpcession #Stagflation #Deficit #Debt #USPol

"This is how you show utter scorn for INTL law & rule of law at home, & strike deals with other lawless govts. They refuse to clarify bc giving an answer would already be a form of accountability."
-R Ben-Ghiat

"Trump admin: is disappearing migrants to places that aren't even their origin Cs, then refusing to say which Cs they were sent to by claiming this is "classified," then refusing to say what the legal basis is for classifying that info."
-G Sargent
#Fascism #USPol
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/g-s1-68090/dhs-migrants-deport-south-sudan

"New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research,🚨generative AI is nearly five times LESS accurate than humans.

Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought."
-L Jarovsky

Many are realizing that generative AI is overhyped & it underdelivers.
#Technology #AI #Fraud #USPol https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.241776

Trump is playing chicken with the #SCOTUS.

A reason why the Trump admin is fighting hard on this procedural injunction issue is bc it recognizes -likely lose on the substantive issue. So if you play out the game theory here,🚨if they win on the nationwide injunction issue -virtually impossible for ppl to actually have their const #rights vindicated.

What Trump/others around him: are trying to do is bluff the court into not issuing a crystal clear order.
#Contempt #USPol
https://newrepublic.com/article/195392/transcript-trump-threats-defy-courts-suddenly-get-dangerous

“The AMB to #Ukraine Brinks, who just resigned, goes nuclear on…”
-T Mylovanov

I resigned bc of Trump's foreign policy: to put pressure on the victim, UA, rather than on the aggressor, RU -can’t stand by while a country is invaded, a #democracy bombarded, & children killed with impunity. I believe that the only way to secure US interests is to stand up for democracies & to stand against autocrats.

Peace at any price isn’t peace at all -it’s appeasement…”
#Russia #USPol
https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/05/16/trump-ukraine-policy-russia-ambassador-resign/83648993007/

“International criminal groups are stealing as much as a trillion dollars a year from U.S. government programs but DOGE has done little to address the problem, accoring to a new report.”

#DOGE intentionally didn’t investigate the real fraud. Republicans are largely responsible for oversight negligence.

#Fraud #Oversight #Congress #USPol

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/rampant-federal-fraud-doge-done-little-stop-rcna206860

"Johnson, who endorsed the #impeachment inquiry into fmr Pres Biden over his family’s bus dealings tells me he sees no role for Congress in oversight of Pres Trump/family’s foreign bus interests -argued: Trump’s bus dealings are transparent…

"I pointed out that investors in his #memecoin are not public, & access to the WH was being auctioned off."
-R Nobles

Lying is required in the #TrumpRegime, as it is in authoritarian govts.

GOP MOC must shamed 24/7.
#Fascism #USPol https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna204847

"Toddler left in U.S. custody after parents were deported is returned to Venezuela"

"Two things:

1. It's fantastic that the United States actually responded to pressure and returned this 2-year-old which it stole from her parents.
2. Trump's anti-Venezuela cruelty seems to be actively creating more popular support for Maduro and may be helping the regime!"
-A Reichlin-Melnick

#Deportations #DueProcess #Immigrants #DHS #ICE #FamilySeparation #TrumpRegime #USPol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/14/venezuela-trump-toddler-family-deportation/

Rs aren't just ignoring Trump's graft, they're enabling it. So House Dems should start treating them as explicit accomplices to Trump’s #corruption rather than impotent toadies. A good place to start? Pressuring Comer -Qatari plane... He appears to believe that the essential element of #corruption is that it be hidden rather than overt.

They can also expand the sphere of culpability to including ppl who -unlike Trump -will have to face voters again in the future.
#USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/14/trump-republicans-ethics-oversight-pressure/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ3MTk1MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQ4NTc3NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDcxOTUyMDAsImp0aSI6IjZhNWM5YzY3LTlmZGUtNDUwYi1iZTRkLTVlMzNkM2RkYjE3ZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI1LzA1LzE0L3RydW1wLXJlcHVibGljYW5zLWV0aGljcy1vdmVyc2lnaHQtcHJlc3N1cmUvIn0.d1eyeb6ix8xfULyq2OqoBcxnCv6oOAsv9FF44S_pXrE

"Harvard faces increasing sanctions after becoming the first U.S. university to openly defy the government’s demands to end DEI practices."

"Lifting sanctions on Syria, designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism since December 1979, but imposing them on one of our country's most venerable universities."
-L Abravanel

#TrumpRegime #DEI #Corruption #Universities #Fascism #USPol

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-cuts-another-450-million-grants-harvard-escalatin-rcna206509

"Trump says he’s lifting sanctions on Syria to “give them a chance at greatness.”

As he gets a standing ovation, he adds of MBS, “Oh, what I do for the Crown Prince….”
-R Grim

"Trump announced he'll ease sanctions on Syria:

"After discussing the situation in Syria with the Crown Prince & with Pres Erdogan of TR... among others in the Middle East, I'll be ordering the cessation of sanctions against SY"
-Belaaz

Trump makes deals with terrorists. He makes #Syria great again.

Netanyahu?
#USPol

🚨"Update: DOGE removes 31 more incorrect claims -- and $122M in savings -- from its "Wall of Receipts" after we identified they were wrong.

The listings were wrong b/c the contracts DOGE claimed credit for killing were not dead anymore: agencies had revived them."
-D Fahrenthold

#DOGE #Fraud #Fraudsters #Firings #Corruption #Trump #Musk #Austerity #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/politics/doge-musk-contracts-trump.html

“Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar.”

He’ll have use of the luxury plane, as the new Air Force One, until shortly before he leaves office.

His presidency should end quickly given that he’s wildly profiting off the office, imprisoning his critics, refuses to follow the Constitution …

#Emolumemts #Corruption #Trump #Traitor #Constitution #USPol

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story?id=121680511