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GOP Wants to Shut Down Gaza Protests for Good - The Monday AM Quickie 11/25/24

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THE BIG NEWS

Trumpocalypse: Seb 'Vitezi Rend' Gorka Heads Back to the White House

  • Republicans Plan Authoritarian Crackdown on Palestine Advocacy and Activism A bill that will permit the Trump administration to kill nonprofits accused of supporting "terrorism" passed the House late last week, but with only 15 Democratic votes instead of the 52 is received in a vote the week prior. via NBC News and Mother Jones.
  • Trump Transition Is a Clusterf*ck of Shouting Matches and Phsyical Altercations Bankrolled By Secret Donors "They could be taking money from foreign governments for all we know," says Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration, of the Trump transition team's refusal to sign standard ethics and transparency agreements required by the federal government. via Politico, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Guardian.
  • 'The Prosecutors Will Be Prosecuted,' Trump Attorney General Pick Pam Bondi Has Promised "Justice Department attorneys now hope that Trump's pick for the critical No. 2 position at the department — Todd Blanche, the president-elect's defense lawyer — can help protect the department's career civil servants from Trump's wrath." via the Washington Post and NBC News.
  • Wannabe Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Wrote That Military and Police Should 'Attack First' in 'Civil War' Against Democrats Meanwhile, Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri says it's "a slur, quite frankly," that Democrats are questioning whether Trump's pick for Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is compromised by Russia. via the Guardian, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press.
  • Trump Deportation Boss Tom Homan Guested on Podcast Hosted By 'Adolf Hitler-Admiring QAnon Conspiracist' Immigrants across the country are preparing for the worst, deluging lawyers and nonprofits with for help getting their papers in order and understanding their rights ahead of an expected crackdown. via HuffPost and the New York Times.
  • Wrecking Crew Update: Censorship Czar Brendan Carr to FCC; Hedge Funder Scott Bessent to Treasury; Think-Tank Hack Brooke Rollins to USDA; NFL Defensive Back Scott Turner to HUD Trump and Congressional Republicans also hope to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by maybe putting a banker in charge. via the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and Politico.
  • 'Elon Wants a Monopoly in Space': Musk Hopes Trump Will Gift Him the Skies Musk cronies advising his federal budget-corrupting commission, meanwhile, include private equity executive Antonio Gracias, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, and former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick. via Politico and the Washington Post.
  • Matt Gaetz Joins Cameo "As of Sunday night, [creepy failed AG nominee] Gaetz is charging a minimum of $550 per video, which so far have averaged about a minute and a half in length." via NBC News.

COP29 Climate Summit Deal 'Completely a Travesty of Justice'

Delegates to this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, reached an agreement yesterday on funding for poorer countries that will bear the brunt of the damage from climate change. The problem is, the $300 billion deal "requires no specific pledges from any countries and falls short of the $1.3 trillion poorer nations say they will need every year a decade from now," the Washington Post reports. "This document is nothing more than an optical illusion," Indian delegate Chandni Raina said to applause from the outraged attendees representing the global south. That was among the more charitable descriptions. One Nigerian delegate called the deal "a joke" and an insult. Nafkote Dabi, head of climate policy at Oxfam International, tells the Guardian the "shabby and dishonourable" deal is akin to a "global Ponzi scheme." Along those lines, a Greenpeace spokesperson calls the deal a "climate scam." According to the Associated Press, "COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev gaveled the deal into acceptance before any nation had a chance to speak." Not beating the scam allegations!

Will Trump Use School Vouchers to Further Enrich Wealthy White Families?

Donald Trump says he wants to eliminate the federal Department of Education, which he has appointed a pro wrestling executive to lead. In practice, that will likely mean a return to segregation and a massive upward wealth transfer. ProPublica reports that 60 years after Mississippi lawmakers enacted a private school voucher program in response to a Supreme Court ruling that declared racial segregation in public schools unlawful, so-called "segregation academies" are thriving across the South, backed by taxypayer dollars. At 15 of 20 private academies that have received $10 million from Mississippi's tax credit program in recent years, student bodies were at least 85 percent white. At 16 of the 20 schools, enrollments were 30 percent to 60 percent whiter than their surrounding communities – or even more. Meanwhile in Arizona, Politico reports that a school voucher program that opened statewide in 2022 has "morphed over the last two years into a budget-busting free-for-all used by more than 50,000 students — nearly 1 in 20 school-age children in the state," with parents from high-income zip codes abusing "the taxpayer funds for everything from ski lift passes to visits to trampoline parks, a $4,000 grand piano, more than a million dollars in Legos, online ballet lessons, horse therapy and cookie-baking kits" – at a cost of more than $400 million a year, accounting for over half of the state's projected budget deficit.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • China 'Increasingly Uncomfortable' with North Korean Military Aid to Russia In exchange for sending more than 10,000 troops to aid Russia's war with Ukraine, Russia supplied North Korea with air-defense missile systems and other aid. via the Guardian and the Associated Press.
  • Israeli Government Sanctions Pro-Ceasefire, Anti-Apartheid Newspaper Haaretz Meanwhile in Gaza, the price of a bag of bread climbed above $13, as the amount of food Israel allows into the territory "has plummeted, now at nearly the lowest levels of the entire war." via the Guardian, Haaretz, and the AP.
  • Romanian 'Ultranationalist' and Putin Fan Călin Georgescu Leads in 1st Round of Presidential Voting "He has also attracted controversy over his views on Romania's past, including that Ion Antonescu, the country’s World War II-era leader who joined forces with Adolf Hitler, should be seen as a national hero." via Politico, Al Jazeera, and the AP.
  • Leftist Yamandú Orsi Wins Uruguay Presidential Election "Fireworks erupted over the stage where Orsi, 57, a working-class former history teacher and two-time mayor from Uruguay's Broad Front coalition, thanked his supporters as crowds flocked to greet him." via the AP and Al Jazeera.

SOME NUMBER

4,000

That's how many supporters of former Pakistani premier Imran Khan police say they arrested ahead of a rally in the capital, Islamabad, called to demand his release from prison. Authorities have also shut down mobile and internet services indefinitely, "sealed off Islamabad with shipping containers and shut down major roads and highways" leading to areas where Khan is popular.

ON THE SHOW TODAY

11/25: Happy Monday! Sam and Emma speak with Mike Elk of the Payday Report to discuss the recent news out of Brazil that former President Bolsonaro has been indicted. Then, they speak with Jacob Silverman, independent journalist and co-writer of this very newsletter, to discuss Trump's nomination of Howard Lutnick to be Commerce Secretary, and his associations with crypto.

DON'T MISS MR CLIPS‌

Georgia's IMPRESSIVE Progressive Representation

That's Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.

Trump 2.0: Making The World A More Dangerous Place

Sam interviews Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy.

PARTING WORDS

"I've given my order, 'If I die, don't stop until you've killed them.' And he said, 'yes.'"

-- Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, recounting her instructions to an assassin she says she hired to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the event of her death. Her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, "told a public Philippine Senate inquiry last month that he had maintained a 'death squad' of gangsters to kill other criminals when he was mayor of southern Davao city," the Associated Press reports.

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