Many holidays are coming up like Passover. Passover is a very important holiday in Judaism that celebrates the Hebrews escaping from the slavery and injustices inflicted on them from the Egyptians. In our generation in 2026, we still face many problems like economic uncertainty, an unjust war, corporate conflicts of interests, a desire to see judges follow Trumpism unconditionally, and other evils. Yet, in the midst of these injustices, we are reminded to fight for liberty so all in the human race can have happiness, joy, peace, justice. Freedom is our birthright. Many evil people want to do anything possible to restrict rights from human beings, and we are opposed to that. The reason is that we may have ideological disagreements with our neighbors on some issues. We may have theological differences with our neighbors. Yet, it is wrong and immoral to execute policies to oppress our neighbors. We desire no malice. We desire nothing more than seeking for justice and giving people the opportunity to live their lives, help their family, have adequate health care, live in a cleaner environment, worship God (or not. Me personally, I believe in God), and to witness their descendants to witness a better world than the past. Fundamentally, we don't desire to go back to the past or have the status quo of the present. We want to honor the heroes of our past, respect our great history, honor the elders who came before us fighting the good fight, respect the efforts of the present that desire true liberty, and seek a better future.
Margaret Ryan, who is the top enforcement official at the Securities and Exchange Commission (that investigates insider trading and other illegal activities in the financial markets) has resigned last week after six months on the job. Sources say that Ryan wanted to be more aggressive to get charges of fraud and other misconduct including against Trump's inner circle. SEC's chairman, Paul Atkins, and other Republican appointees to the commission wouldn't let her do it. Trump appointed Atkins as the chair of the SEC. Atkins was the co-chair of the Token Alliance that promotes cryptocurrency. Atkins allowed the SEC to settle many lawsuits with cryptocurrency companies and had a lax regulatory approach to fraud. Trump has been accused of doing insider trading. That is why we have to use our thinking to promote goodness and reject tyranny. With this reality, you some regulations in the world. The Trump administration gave credit companies favors, tax breaks, and deregulation. Trump passed legislation that gave record tax breaks for the super wealthy, so Trump is for the interests of the one percent, not the majority of the American people.
Trump wants to target judges who disagrees with the GOP whom he called "criminals." He called judges who disagree with Trumpism criminals which outlines his fascist ideology. People have every God-given right to disagree with Trump's views. Trump wanting to crackdown on judges is evil. There has been an increase of threats against federal judges. Trump doesn't care about the safety of judges who are progressive. Trump housing chief Bill Pulte is now filing a new criminal probe of Letitia James after James was acquitted. This is beyond harassment of Letitia James. This is about trying to end the progressive successes of the 20th century plainly speaking from civil rights to environmental protections. Many sexists and racists have a vendetta against Letitia James. The Trump administration promotes an illegal, immoral war in Iran, supports the terrorism of ICE, and desires to restrict our voting rights. Trumpism is a clear and present danger to our democratic systems without question.
There has been a landmark decision in Los Angeles that finds Meta and YouTube negligent in a social media addiction trial. A jury in Los Angeles found that Meta and Google were negligent and failed to warn users of the dangers associated with using their platforms in a high-profile social media case. This comes to mean that the compensatory damages are assessed at 3 million dollars with Meta having to pay for 70 percent and YouTube having to pay for 30 percent. Many families and children accuse social media companies of using their technology to intimidate and promote mental health harm to younger people, especially teenagers. A young woman identified as K.G.M. or Kaley alleged that she was addicted to apps like Instagram and YouTube as a child. One Meta spokesperson said that they respectfully disagree with the verdict and evaluating their legal options. YouTube had disagreed with the verdict and plan to appeal. The truth is a balanced approach. Social media should never be blamed for all evils in the world as the First Amendment is a supreme right. Yet, some younger people are harmed by many social media, and legitimate regulations are necessary in social media to protect children and adults from harm. This issue is not going away, and some compare it to the Big Tobacco moment of the 1990s when tobacco companies had to pay billions of dollars for lying to the public about the safety and potential harms of their products. In Sante Fe, New Mexico, Meta had to pay $375 million in damages for violating the state's unfair practices after Attorney General Raul Torrez said that the company didn't do enough to protect the apps from online predators who target children. Meta said that it would appeal the case. Therefore, we need legitimate safeguards in social media.
The state of Oklahoma is wrong is give sensitive information to the DOJ. One Sheriff in California has seized 650,000 ballots. He wanted to investigate potential fraud in last year's election. The sheriff is a Republican who is running for Governor in California. This Republican sheriff is named Chad Bianco. Another extremist named Ingersoll said that some people who shouldn't be allowed to vote (in the realm of 150 million people in a fairer world). He said that only married people and others should be allowed to vote. This plan, if implemented, is illegal. These reactionaries desire to end voting rights as we know it. Threats to our voting rights continue, and these voter suppression advocates are not playing any games. They are being overt in desiring to limit who can vote and which documents you can show to vote in an open society.
By Timothy
