📅 May 19–25, 2025 | From weaponized investigations and Christian nationalism to transcript erasure and academic crackdowns, Trump’s authoritarian machine is escalating
Use this spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to your own reps, as well as those in other states on a specific committee important to a topic you’re sharing. Use your voice and make some “good trouble.”
A Very CORRUPT Bill would NOT Have Passed the House Under REASONABLE Circumstances
Representatives Who Did Not Vote:
1. Andrew Garbarino (R- NY): Missed the vote after inadvertently falling asleep during an all-night legislative session.
2. Gerry Connolly (D-VA): Passed away on May 21, 2025, a day before the vote.
3. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ): Absent due to health issues.
4. Frederica Wilson (D-FL): Absent; specific reason not publicly disclosed.
5. Brittany Pettersen (D- CO): Absent due to maternity leave.
6. Kevin Mullin (D-CA): Absent due to recovery from knee surgery
BECAUSE this was a crucial bill that would affect the entire country for decades, it should have been treated with SERIOUSNESS and:
1. Should have been given ample consideration under normal business hours, NOT in the middle of the night - NOT with “marathon hours” that would be difficult for a very young person to focus when in fact the majority are elderly.
Sleep is a necessity. Lack of sleep can cause health issues.
2. Should be afforded the SAME consideration as in a presidential election, where the voter is allowed to have an advocate submit THEIR vote when they are unable to be physically present for the vote.
THREE VOTES which would have PREVENTED this bill from passing the House were NOT COUNTED because those Representatives could not be present.
(Did Speaker Johnson hurry & hold this vote so quickly BECAUSE he KNEW Petersen (D) would be on pregnancy leave and Mullin (D) was to have knee surgery?)
3. Should allow reasonable time for the Congress (Representatives & Senators) to:
• READ the bill,
• ANALYZE the bill,
• DISCUSS the bill,
• DEBATE the bill and
• AMEND the bill.
You ONLY want to rush a bill through with a vote in the middle if the night when you DON’T want Congress to KNOW what is REALLY in the bill - how it could AFFECT their constituents, our country and our democracy. OR that it allows President Trump to be a DICTATOR. (See below).
That’s exactly what happened in this 1,116 page bill. Maybe they ought to take a vote on how many of those Representatives actually READ the bill in its ENTIRETY! If they hadn’t read the bill, that is lack of “due diligence.” Therefore they neglected their sworn duty as a Representative by not doing their required “homework.”
According to ChatGPT, to read this entire bill it would take:
• an average reader 22 hours and 20 minutes; and
• a fast reader 18 hours.
Were the House Representatives afforded proper time to READ this bill let alone analyze, discuss, debate and amend it??
“BURIED IN THE BILL
A small addition to the budget bill House GOPers are pushing upends the traditional balance of power by forbidding courts to charge Trump and other government officials with contempt for defying court orders.
The bill also blocks court-ordered national injunctions to prevent potential illegal acts posing imminent harm.
*** With the SCOTUS ruling giving Trump immunity, this small part of the bill completes his quest to become America's first dictator.” ***
I posted this in a comment below yours (or some order idk what Substack does with how comments are organized) -
Use this spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to your own reps, as well as those in other states on a specific committee important to a topic you’re sharing. Use your voice and make some “good trouble.”
Removal of transcripts makes it much harder to search for specific words. This is deliberate.
Reading the entire report is depressing (although I had heard of most of them).
Per Gil Scott-Heron
https://youtu.be/XUi580gA5BQ?si=gAMewYUJQJncfSPK
Thank you for collecting and shareing all this important data and information‼️
Use this spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to your own reps, as well as those in other states on a specific committee important to a topic you’re sharing. Use your voice and make some “good trouble.”
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13lYafj0P-6owAJcH-5_xcpcRvMUZI7rkBPW-Ma9e7hw/edit?usp=drivesdk
A Very CORRUPT Bill would NOT Have Passed the House Under REASONABLE Circumstances
Representatives Who Did Not Vote:
1. Andrew Garbarino (R- NY): Missed the vote after inadvertently falling asleep during an all-night legislative session.
2. Gerry Connolly (D-VA): Passed away on May 21, 2025, a day before the vote.
3. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ): Absent due to health issues.
4. Frederica Wilson (D-FL): Absent; specific reason not publicly disclosed.
5. Brittany Pettersen (D- CO): Absent due to maternity leave.
6. Kevin Mullin (D-CA): Absent due to recovery from knee surgery
BECAUSE this was a crucial bill that would affect the entire country for decades, it should have been treated with SERIOUSNESS and:
1. Should have been given ample consideration under normal business hours, NOT in the middle of the night - NOT with “marathon hours” that would be difficult for a very young person to focus when in fact the majority are elderly.
Sleep is a necessity. Lack of sleep can cause health issues.
2. Should be afforded the SAME consideration as in a presidential election, where the voter is allowed to have an advocate submit THEIR vote when they are unable to be physically present for the vote.
THREE VOTES which would have PREVENTED this bill from passing the House were NOT COUNTED because those Representatives could not be present.
(Did Speaker Johnson hurry & hold this vote so quickly BECAUSE he KNEW Petersen (D) would be on pregnancy leave and Mullin (D) was to have knee surgery?)
3. Should allow reasonable time for the Congress (Representatives & Senators) to:
• READ the bill,
• ANALYZE the bill,
• DISCUSS the bill,
• DEBATE the bill and
• AMEND the bill.
You ONLY want to rush a bill through with a vote in the middle if the night when you DON’T want Congress to KNOW what is REALLY in the bill - how it could AFFECT their constituents, our country and our democracy. OR that it allows President Trump to be a DICTATOR. (See below).
That’s exactly what happened in this 1,116 page bill. Maybe they ought to take a vote on how many of those Representatives actually READ the bill in its ENTIRETY! If they hadn’t read the bill, that is lack of “due diligence.” Therefore they neglected their sworn duty as a Representative by not doing their required “homework.”
According to ChatGPT, to read this entire bill it would take:
• an average reader 22 hours and 20 minutes; and
• a fast reader 18 hours.
Were the House Representatives afforded proper time to READ this bill let alone analyze, discuss, debate and amend it??
“BURIED IN THE BILL
A small addition to the budget bill House GOPers are pushing upends the traditional balance of power by forbidding courts to charge Trump and other government officials with contempt for defying court orders.
The bill also blocks court-ordered national injunctions to prevent potential illegal acts posing imminent harm.
*** With the SCOTUS ruling giving Trump immunity, this small part of the bill completes his quest to become America's first dictator.” ***
Call DC Pols/202-224-3121/Raise Hell
I posted this in a comment below yours (or some order idk what Substack does with how comments are organized) -
Use this spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to your own reps, as well as those in other states on a specific committee important to a topic you’re sharing. Use your voice and make some “good trouble.”
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13lYafj0P-6owAJcH-5_xcpcRvMUZI7rkBPW-Ma9e7hw/edit?usp=drivesdk
What a recap. It's gonna get worse...