Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 4, Week 23 (273 total reports)
09.07.2025-15.07.2025
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. Jerry Goebel
Don’t be distracted! This President, with assistance from a MAGA Congress and SCOTUS (Supreme Court of Trump — US), is focused on dismantling democracy in the United States.
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There have been plenty of distractions this week to keep our eyes from focusing on the primary issues before us, but we must remember the betrayal of this Congress in passing the One Big Horrible Bill. They are Compliant Cowards.
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15.07.2025
SCOTUS Judges Tear Into Court’s ‘Indefensible’ Decision to Help Trump ‘Break the Law’
This decision by Justice Roberts’ MAGA-Supporting Supreme Court (SCOTUS or Supreme Court of Trump — US) should remind us that the conservative plot to undermine democracy in the United States is deeper than the carney at the top; President TACO. The role of the Conservative Supreme Court in dismantling the Department of Education must be remembered as one of the hallmark decisions leading to the abolishing of our Constitution in the future. The primary question at stake here—and the precedent being set—is “does a President have the right to arbitrarily (and solely) dismantle an entire department of the government that was established by Congress and, if so, where else will this apply when it is a set precedent for the courts?”
14.07.2025
America Is Now a Police State
In this article, Jonathan Alter issues a warning we all—who care about what remains of the U.S. Democracy—need to embrace. Here’s how he summarizes it: “If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And if you have $75 billion over four years in new funding for ICE, you—Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and Tom Homan—will use it to fund a huge domestic army to round up four million people in the next three years, put them in ‘detention centers,’ and deport them.” These three men are as racist as any men who have lived in history—including Adolf Hitler and George Wallace—the One Big Ugly Bill has now given them a $75 billion dollar hammer to arrest and lock up the people they hate the most, anyone that is not white and doesn’t work in an industry that benefits President 47, like on golf courses, in hotels, or restaurants. Folks, the daily stupid antics of this President are only distractions to keep us from looking at the real issues of arresting those against this administration’s policies; ignoring habeas corpus, or taking away health care. Don’t be duped by the Rosie O’Donnell stories and stealing the spotlight at a FIFA World Cup Award Ceremony—all distractions. This Administration seeks to undermine Democracy in the United States, and we can’t afford to avert our gaze.
11.07.2025
The growing surveillance state in the U.S. is far worse than you imagined
You might not be worried about who has access to your private information right now, but what if this Administration continues with its directives from Project 2025 to detain—without habeas corpus—anyone this administration sees as a threat, anyone who has spoken negatively about their actions or their beliefs? According to Maurizio Guerrero, the author of this article, we are on the verge of seeing this occur as this administration undermines the right to privacy of all citizens.
10.07.2025
Trump Loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable.
This article by Nick Miroff examines the morale at ICE, the police force that is now super-funded (from $9 billion a year to $170 billion under the new Republican-backed budget; this includes an astonishing $45 billion for new detention facilities—concentration camps—like their pet project in Florida). Whereas ICE was once a branch of the government primarily focused on preventing drugs and criminals from crossing the border, they have increasingly become a tool of mega-racist Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem (who, since the floods in Texas, can’t really remember what her actual role is in securing the Homeland from all threats, including natural disasters). Miroff explains that since the new Trump focus in immigration is deporting as many people as possible, including mothers still nursing babies and babies receiving cancer treatments, the morale of the employees has fallen abysmally. Adam Boyd, a 33-year-old attorney who resigned from ICE’s legal department last month, told Miroff he left because the mission was no longer about protecting the homeland from threats. “It became a contest of how many deportations could be reported to Stephen Miller by December,” Boyd said. You can recognize ICE these days by their unlicensed vehicles, the masks on their faces, their refusal to say who they are or who they represent, and their violent techniques to force people into their waiting vans sans rights.
09.07.2025
Meet the new national police force
Every dictator needs a secret police—and King TACO is no exception. While taking away medical care for millions and food from hungry children’s mouths, the OBBB also creates the largest domestic police force in the world; Trump’s Gestapo, or ICE. What we are witnessing in LA is but a sign of things to come in the rest of the blue states with Democratic governors across the nation. At the same time, this administration is asking more red states to follow the lead of Texas and Florida in building large-scale concentration camps for immigrants (or whomever this President deems “the enemy”). The policy of this administration to allow their “officers” to wear masks and not identify themselves is leading to copycat robberies and rapes in many cities. For the first time in US history, citizens are being told, “If law enforcement shows up at your door, call 911.” We mustn’t lose focus; this administration has to declare martial law to prevent upcoming elections, and it needs to ignite violence to do that. We must follow John Lewis’ advice and get in Good Trouble, but simultaneously, we must also remain nonviolent.
