Trump Wants More Power, More Deportations, More Money, And Apparently Fewer Questions
The Trump administration spent another day proving that if you throw enough controversies at the wall, eventually people run out of wall. From efforts to massively expand deportation operations and pressure universities to fights over war powers, executive authority, and federal spending, today’s headlines reveal a government increasingly focused on consolidating power while facing growing resistance from courts, lawmakers, activists, and ordinary citizens. The good news is that democracy may be bruised, exhausted, and fueled entirely by caffeine at this point, but it is still very much in the fight.
Key Developments
- Aaron Parnas reports that even some Republicans are starting to publicly push back against Trump, proving that political self preservation occasionally arrives fashionably late.
- Dworkin Report finds that Trump’s rapidly expanding deportation operation is straining courts, detention centers, and legal systems faster than officials can keep up.
- Defiance News reports that the administration is moving to dramatically expand ICE capacity, because apparently the answer to every criticism is simply making the thing bigger.
- Democracy News highlights how private prison contractors continue to profit from expanding immigration detention while taxpayers pick up the bill.
- The Bulwark warns that allies are building long term power structures that critics say could weaken democratic accountability for years to come.
- Popular Information raises concerns about a proposed $177.6 billion fund that watchdogs fear could become a massive executive branch slush fund.
- MacFarlane News reports Democrats are preparing new efforts to block key administration priorities, reminding Washington that opposition parties still exist.
- AP News details escalating federal pressure on colleges and universities as higher education becomes the administration’s latest political punching bag.
- Trans United Fund reports that a federal court once again blocked the administration’s transgender military ban, forcing officials to learn the same lesson from the judiciary yet again.
- Erin In The Morning highlights Colorado’s new law targeting conversion therapy through civil liability after courts struck down the state’s earlier ban.
- Lever News reports Congress is finally testing whether presidential war powers have limits, a concept that apparently needed a reminder.
- Zeteo examines how foreign policy groups helped build momentum for military confrontation with Iran long before most Americans were paying attention.
- Critical Threats warns that tensions surrounding Iran continue to threaten global stability, energy markets, and regional security.
- Defcon Alerts reports renewed attacks near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant because apparently tempting fate is now an international hobby.
- 50501 Movement is organizing nationwide June 14 actions to strengthen community networks and demonstrate growing resistance to authoritarian politics.
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What We Are Watching Today
- House Committee on Armed Services | 10:00 AM Local Time | Meeting Details
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure | 10:00 AM Local Time | Meeting Details
- House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet | 10:00 AM Local Time | Meeting Details
- Senate Session Live
- Agriculture Secretary Rollins Testifies at Oversight Hearing
- Postal Regulatory Commissioners Testify on U.S. Postal Service
- Secretary Bessent Testifies on Treasury Department Priorities
- House Session
- President Trump Makes Announcement on Coal Industry
Today’s Call to Action
1. Read Today’s Resistance Survival Guide
2. Sign these Petitions and Send These Pre Written Letters
- Tell Congress $70 billion more to ICE with no constraints or oversight for three years is completely unacceptable!
- Add your name to Oxfam’s petition to urge Congress to prioritize people over billionaire wealth.
- Send a message to HASC members demanding they vote YES on Rep. Moulton’s amendment to cut the Pentagon budget topline.
3. Verify your voter registration status and help at least one other person check theirs
4. Save contact information for local legal aid and voting support organizations
5. Attend a Workshop
6. Contact Your Lawmakers Directly
From Indivisible:
- Show your solidarity with hunger strikers by demanding Congressional action against Trump’s mass detention regime. People detained at Delaney Hall and other detention centers are on hunger strike to protest their captivity and inhumane treatment by ICE. Use the link above to call your representative and demand Congress address the captives’ demands and stop the Trump regime’s inhumane incarceration of our immigrant neighbors. Then, use this link to call your senators, too.
- If you have a Republican Member of Congress, email them to oppose another penny of funding for ICE and Border Patrol. The scenes outside Delaney over the past week have put ICE and Border Patrol’s brutality and lawlessness on public display once again. And yet, as soon as this week, Congress could hold a vote to hand those thuggish agencies tens of billions more. We need to increase the pressure NOW to peel off enough Republicans to sink the funding bill.
- Tell Congress to stop Trump’s war with Iran NOW. Republican leadership canceled a vote on a resolution to end the Iran war just before Congressional recess because it appeared the legislation was about to pass the House. This week, amidst new flare ups in the war that could lead to more death and chaos, the vote could come up. Email your representative and demand they vote to end this illegal war now!
- Congress is in revolt over Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund. Tell them to pass legislation to block it before a cent is released to January 6 insurrectionists. Trump raiding his own treasury to create his own private budget, bypassing Congress and the Constitution, for that matter, appears to be a bridge too far for many Republicans in Congress. But anonymous statements and expressions of concern aren’t enough. Congress needs to end this corruption now.
Let’s Roll!
Today’s headlines reveal a pattern that is becoming impossible to ignore. More executive power. More detention facilities. More pressure on universities. More money concentrated in fewer hands. More attempts to bypass oversight. At the same time, courts are pushing back, activists are organizing, lawmakers are challenging executive authority, and ordinary people continue showing up. The people accumulating power want you exhausted. Resistance Kitty’s daily reminder is simple: stay informed, stay loud, and never underestimate the ability of organized people to ruin a would be autocrat’s day.
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