Anti-Trump Demonstrations across 50 States

According to the Hill, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are hitting the streets across the country on Saturday in protest of President Donald Trump and his administration.

The “Hands Off!” rallies are taking place in more than 1,000 cities across all 50 states, and nearly 400,000 people have signed up to attend the protests, according to the progressive organization Indivisible, which is one of the almost 200 groups partnering to organize the event. 

Protesters are demanding an end to billionaire influence and “rampant corruption” in the administration, a stop to Social Security and Medicare cuts, and an end to attacks on trans people, immigrants and other marginalized communities.

Early Saturday morning, on Capitol Hill, the Senate voted to adopt a budget resolution that will kickstart the implementation of Trump’s domestic agenda. The measure passed with a 51-48 vote after the upper chamber worked through the night.

The deal, which still needs to pass the House, has drawn the ire of some House Republicans, with one lawmaker even calling the resolution “unserious and disappointing.” 

This all comes as the economy reels from Trump’s sweeping tariffs on US trading partners after brutal few days for the stock market.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris praised the “Hands Off!” rallies occurring across the country on Saturday.

“Today in every state across our nation, Americans are standing up to the administration as they implement Project 2025 at full speed,” she wrote on the social platform X, referencing the Heritage Foundation’s political playbook.

“The voices of working people will always be louder than the unelected billionaires” she added, thanking demonstrators for speaking out against the Trump administration and its agenda.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury thanked demonstrators across the US for protesting against the Trump administration on Saturday.

“Across the country and back at home, people are coming out to rally and tell Donald Trump and Elon Musk to hand off our healthcare, our veterans, and our democracy,” she wrote on the social platform X

“Thankful to everyone organizing, standing up, and speaking out,” she added.

Rep. Al Green promised to bring forth articles of impeachment against President Trump within the next 30 days on Saturday.

“You don’t deserve the office you hold,” he said at a Washington rally. “You can’t be entrusted with liberty and justice for all. You can’t be entrusted with the government of the people by the people for the people.”

“I’m coming for you,” the Texas Democrat added, donning a shirt reading “censured not silenced.”

Green made headlines earlier this year after he was censured for his protest during Trump’s joint address to Congress in March.

In February, Green signaled he would introduce impeachment efforts over the president’s comments about Gaza.

Rep. Don Beyer railed against President Trump, stating his recent tariffs are “destroying our economy.”

“Donald Trump says he wants to ‘Make America Great Again,’” he said to a crowd in Washington on Saturday. “But he is going to make America the 1930s again.”

“Herbet Hoover gave us the stock market crash of 1929,” Beyer added. “Donald Trump gave us the stock market crash of 2025.”

The Virginia Democrat went on to encourage listeners to take charge against the administration.

“We will be fearless, relentless, angry, smart, and we will be tireless,” he said.

 

Trump sounds Napoleon Bonaparte

Fears that the United States is in the midst of a constitutional crisis—or something significantly worse ‑ intensified Saturday after President Donald Trump wrote in a social media post, "He who saves his country does not violate any law," a variation of a quote attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte.

If Trump successfully defies the courts, the only remaining obstacle to dictatorship will be public revulsion, national popular protest, and the hope that such a reaction would cause Trump to retreat and, at long last, recall some fraction of the Republican Party to its constitutional duty.

Trump's post on X—the platform owned by billionaire shadow government leader Elon Musk—came as his administration continued its sweeping and destructive assault on the federal government and workforce, running roughshod over the law in the process.

Trump's post Saturday was the latest brazen signal that the president doesn't recognize limits on his authority to impose his far-right agenda.

New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie called Trump's message "the single most un-American and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an American president."

Since taking office less than a month ago, Trump and Musk have moved aggressively to dismantle federal agencies and remove any officials who could shine light on or obstruct their efforts.

Trump, his handpicked Cabinet officials, and Musk have also disregarded or openly attacked the other two co-equal branches of government, accusing judges who have moved to halt or limit the new administration's actions of being Democratic partisans.

In some cases, the Trump administration has actively defied rulings from federal courts, an alarming indication of what's to come.

Yasmin Abusaif and Douglas Keith of the Brennan Center for Justice noted Friday, "The last time the United States saw widespread open defiance of court orders by elected officials was when governors in Southern states refused to integrate their schools after the Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public education in Brown v. Board of Education."

"President Dwight Eisenhower—though he was no fan of the court's decision—ultimately dispatched troops to the South to help enforce the ruling, saying, “The Supreme Court has spoken and I am sworn to uphold the constitutional process in this country, and I will obey,” Abusaif and Keith continued.

"The governors' efforts to defy court orders are widely acknowledged as one of the most shameful periods in US history."

Frank Bowman, a law professor and former federal and state prosecutor, wrote for Slate last week. "With each passing day, the practical ability of the courts to stop, or even materially hinder, the catastrophe diminishes."

Courtesy: Common Dreams

Hamas invites Elon Musk to visit Gaza

A Hamas senior official invited US billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday to visit the Palestinian Gaza strip to see the extent of destruction caused by the Israeli bombardment.

"We invite him to visit Gaza to see the extent of the massacres and destruction committed against the people of Gaza, in compliance with the standards of objectivity and credibility," Hamas' senior official Osama Hamdan said in a press conference in Beirut.

On Monday, Elon Musk, the social media mogul assailed for his endorsement of an anti-Jewish post, toured the site of the Hamas assault on Israel and declared his commitment to do whatever was necessary to stop the spread of hatred.

Musk owns the X social media platform.

Hamdan's comments come one day after a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas was extended for an additional 48 hours.

"Within 50 days, Israel dropped more than 40,000 tonnes of explosives on the homes of defenseless Gazans," he said, "I call on US President Biden to review the US relationship with Israel and to stop supplying them with weapons."

Speaking on the destruction of Gaza incurred by Israel since the conflict began on October 07, Hamdan called on the international community to quickly send specialized civil defense teams to help retrieve bodies still trapped under the rubble. According to the Palestinian foreign ministry, thousands are still trapped.

The truce agreed last week was the first halt in fighting in the seven weeks since Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostages back into Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.

In response to that attack, Israel has bombarded the enclave and mounted a ground offensive in the north. At least 16,000 Palestinians have been killed, Palestinian health officials say, and hundreds of thousands displaced.