Notices by Qasim Rashid, Esq. (qasimrashid@mastodon.social), page 17

Bradley Bartell voted for Trump. Now ICE arrested his wife Camila Muñoz.

"I knew they were cracking down, but I didn't think they'd go after my wife," said Bartell.

Life imitates art

"I never thought the leopards would eat MY face," cried the woman who voted for the leopards eating faces party.

BREAKING: In a landslide vote, Harvard Law student body passes divestment referendum, overcoming administration attempts to prevent and delegitimize the vote.

Harvard Law students overwhelmingly vote for Justice for Palestine and divestment from Netanyahu’s regime.

This is historic. Now the question is whether Harvard will listen to its students or its donors.

Schumer is capitulating to Trump, again.

For those saying that Chuck Schumer is just one Senate Democrat and doesn't speak for the entire party, I have two responses:
1. He literally is the minority Leader of the Democrats, so yes he does speak for the party in capitulating to Trump
2. If Senate Dems found his act truly objectionable, they'd remove him. They won't. They're complicit.

We desperately need leadership with the courage to fight injustice.

Thank you to the 14 principled members of US Congress who signed this letter to Secretary Noem demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil. It should be a source of shame that every single member of Congress, or at least in the Democratic caucus, didn't sign this.

Does Trump need to literally light the Constitution on fire before they act?

Trump last week at Joint Address: We ended the last admin's insane electric vehicle mandate.

[Americans stop buying Teslas]

Trump this week: Why won't you people buy Tesla's electric vehicles??

Ideally POTUS & the world's most incompetent person are two different people. Simply not the case here.

Donald Trump proudly pardoned the Nazi who wore a "Camp Auschwitz" sweatshirt while storming the Capitol and beating cops to death.

Anyone who actually believes Trump's prosecuting Mahmoud Khalil because of "antisemitism and rule of law" is either lying to themselves or a closeted Nazi.

Where is Dem leadership on the illegal arrest and disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil?

Where is the free speech crowd who claims they are the vanguards of free speech?

If roles were reversed MAGA leadership would have a nationwide media tour at this point. smh the apathy is deadly.

Putin just illegally detained a legal US resident without a warrant or charge because he peacefully protested the Govt’s policies enabling war crimes. His lawyer & family have no idea where he is

This is fasci—

Wait—sorry I misread. Trump did all of the above to US greencard holder Mahmoud Khalil. 😳

No warrant. No formal charge. Just an arrest in the dark of night and transported to an undisclosed location.

This is fascism and if you think he’ll stop at Palestinians, you’re sorely mistaken.

CBO Report: To achieve budget goals, GOP must cut Medicare or Medicaid

What are those goals?
-$4.5T in tax cuts for 800 billionaires & a few hundred billion dollar corps, many of whom only currently pay less than 5% tax

That's it. That's the GOP goal. Steal from the poor to fund their rich donors.

The fact that Musk has lost $100B over the last month but is still the wealthiest person on Earth and financially unharmed in the slightest—all while wealth and income inequality is worse now than it was after the Great Depression—is Exhibit A on why we need to tax billionaires out of existence.

If its not antisemitism when Columbia let alt right Nazis speak on its campus, but somehow is antisemitism when people peacefully protested genocide of Palestinians on Columbia's campus—then you'll have to stop pretending it was ever actually about antisemitism.

Republicans are proudly standing united by their President even as he acts to install fascism & Democrats are proudly censuring fellow Democrats for condemning the President's acts to install fascism.

Trump approval is 45%. GOP approval is 40%. Dem approval is 21%. This is how republics collapse.

Here are their numbers if you want to call them and share your thoughts.
Each number starts with 202-225
Ami Bera -5716
Ed Case -2726
Jim Costa -3341
Laura Gillen -5516
Jim Himes -5541
Chrissy Houlahan -4315
Marcy Kaptur -4146
Jared Moskowitz -3001
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez -3536
Tom Suozzi -3335

I also encourage everyone to call Rep Al Green's office and thank him for standing up for Medicaid and against fascism.

It is critically important we let our elected officials know when we are proud of them.

Rep Al Green's number is (202) 225-7508

Here are the 10 Dems who just voted with MAGA to censure Rep Al Green for loudly rebuking Trump's fascist plan to gut Medicaid:
•Ami Bera (CA)
•Jim Costa (CA)
•Jim Himes (CT)
•Jared Moskowitz (FL)
•Ed Case (HI)
•Laura Gillen (NY)
•Tom Suozzi (NY)
•Marcy Kaptur (OH)
•Chrissy Houlahan (PA)
•Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)

Bad enough they don’t have the courage to do anything more than hold up a silly sign, but to tear down the one Dem willing to get into Good Trouble to oppose fascism? Spineless.

USA promised to defend Afghans if they helped us against Taliban—then Trump backed out.

USA Promised to help Kurdish allies in Syria—then Trump backed out.

USA promised to defend Ukraine if it gave up its nukes—now Trump is backing out.

Trump has further turned the world against us. We are not safer.

Said it before and I’ll say it again.

Cutting $4.5T in taxes for 800 billionaires but not $1.7T in exploitative student debt for 45M Americans is the modern version of let them eat cake.

Morning Joe bent the knee to Trump fascism & Joy Reid demanded justice against Trump fascism.

Morning Joe whitewashed Netanyahu’s genocide of Palestinians & Joy Reid called out Netanyahu’s genocide.

MSNBC protected Morning Joe & fired Joy Reid.

I’m just not qwhite sure why.🤔

Y'all notice this hypocrisy?
•Musk gets $20B+ in federal subsidies—is celebrated!
•NPR gets ~$3M in federal grants—Trump wants to shut it down as "wasteful."

This isn't democracy—it's autocracy & an all out war on free press. Here are two ways we can fight back:

https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/the-war-on-free-press-and-how-to-fight-back/

If Black elders who suffered Jim Crow are still with us, & Indigenous elders who were stripped of their land are still with us, & Japanese elders who were forced into Camps are still with us, & Asian elders who were denied the right to immigrate are still with us, & Latino elders who were cruelly denied documented status are still with us, & women who were denied basic financial autonomy are still with us—how can anyone pretend the people & systems enforcing those atrocities are magically gone?🤔