Bernie: 'Despair Is Not An Option' - The Monday AM Quickie 4/14/25
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THE BIG NEWS
Sanders Says 'Despair Is Not An Option' as Trump Disappears More People to El Salvador Gulag
Vermont independent democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders drew a record 36,000 people to his Fighting Oligarchy rally in Los Angeles on Saturday and another 20,000 in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Sunday, ABC, The Guardian, KJZZ, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone and The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Sanders urged attendees to steel themselves and take the fight against authoritarianism “door to door, workplace to workplace, school to school.”
“We’ve never gone through anything like this, but ... despair is not an option. Giving up and hiding under the covers is not acceptable. The stakes are just too high,” he told the audience in LA.
Sanders’ nationwide tour with New York Squad Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been attracting massive crowds since it began earlier this year, including in Colorado last month, where they set a previous record of 34,000 people. Trump and his Boer squire Elon Musk are taking note of how many people are protesting across the country, Sanders said, adding, “You are scaring the hell out of them.”
The rallies took place against the backdrop of Trump’s deportation terror campaign, which continued throughout the weekend. Trump authorized the military late Friday night to seize control of land at the US-Mexico border, falsely claiming it is “under attack.” The next night, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent another 10 people to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, for alleged gang membership. On Sunday, Justice Department officials argued against their obligation to bring Maryland father Kilmar Armando Abrego García back from CECOT despite the Supreme Court ordering the government to facilitate his return. Instead, the department quibbled over the meaning of “facilitate” and claimed that Abrego García’s family has no right to ask a judge to demand the government get him back. And at least one US citizen, an immigration attorney, got an email from the government demanding she leave the country “immediately.”
MORE STORIES TO WATCH
Sudan Paramilitary Attacks Camps of Starving People
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied militias attacked two displacement camps in the Darfur region on Friday and Saturday and murdered more than 200 people, including at least 20 children and nine aid workers, the Associated Press and The Guardian reported. The violence continued into Sunday, when aid workers said the RSF was attacking the camps with artillery shells and armed vehicles and that paramilitary forces were burning down buildings. The violence was some of the worst Darfur has seen since the civil war started two years ago, causing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Half of Sudan’s population, about 25 million people, is suffering from extreme hunger.
Deathmonger RFK Deletes Data to Hide Body Count
“Health secretary” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is “making America healthy again” by no longer gathering information about how sick we are. His layoff of tens of thousands of federal workers means the end of data collection on alcohol-related deaths, asthma, cancer, HIV, sexual violence, lead levels in children’s blood, and outbreaks of drug-resistant gonorrhea, among other illnesses and conditions. If we can’t see the numbers, it means everything is fine! Kennedy continued to substitute fiction for fact on Friday with a 40-minute monologue to Food and Drug Administration staff. He accused them of working for the companies they regulate, repeated tired “deep state” yarns, and used a disability slur. Solidarity to all the staff members who walked out.
QUICKEST QUICKIES
- Whooping Cough Skyrockets As Vaccinations Drop As the number of measles cases climbs past 700, cases of pertussis, aka whooping cough, are also on the rise nationwide thanks to the government-backed anti-vax movement. via ABC News and ProPublica.
- National Forests Set for Wood Chipper Trump’s Department of Agriculture plans to log all 18 national parks in California – home to some of the largest trees in the world – in service of its apocalyptic goal of chainsawing 112.5 million acres of national forests to increase domestic lumber production by a quarter. via LA Times.
- Florida, Ohio, Texas, Competing for Federal Agencies Today is the deadline for state officials to submit their secret proposals to relocate federal agencies out of the DC area. via The Washington Post.
- Good luck, North Carolina. You’re on Your Own The Federal Emergency Management Agency will stop matching 100 percent of North Carolina’s spending on recovery from Helene, the deadliest hurricane in the state’s history. via NC Newsline.
SOME NUMBER
1 Million
That’s how many immigrants the Trump administration wants to deport this year, more than double the record set by Barack Obama, who kicked out 400,000 immigrants per year by the end of his first term.
ON THE SHOW TODAY
4/14: Happy Monday! Today’s MR guest is Roberto Lovato, a Salvadoran-American writer and assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He’s the author of “Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas.”
He'll be on to discuss Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele's visit to Washington in the wake of SCOTUS' ruling that the Trump administration must make an effort to bring home Kilmar Armando Abrego García, as well as the dystopian nightmare facing hundreds of detainees the US has sent to El Salvador's maximum security prison.
DON'T MISS MR CLIPS
Bernie Sanders Grills Trump Trade Stooge
“Why does the president have to lie, all of the time, in order to make his point?” Great question.
Union Leader Demand Release Of Detained Immigrant Workers
Bring home Maryland father Kilmar Armando Abrego García – and everyone else.
PARTING WORDS
“The American dream of owning a home is dead unless you make a gazillion dollars.”
-- Colorado ski shop worker Kristine Litchfield, 62, who cannot afford to buy or rent a home despite earning $24 an hour – slightly $9 above the state’s minimum wage. So she lives in her Ford T250 van and parks it in a lot in Frisco. Thanks to “backlash” from better-off neighbors, the lot requires she and other parkers show proof of local employment. “This is the American dream. Living in a van. Living in your car,” Litchfield said.
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