The GOP holdouts desire to back Blanche after they made a deal for Blanche to reject the $.1776 billion anti-weaponization fund. Blanche is a person who unconditionally supports Trump without any political independence. These 2 Senators, Cornyn and Tillis, decided to be sellouts and be puppets for the Trump agenda. Todd Blanche has no power to unilaterally end the fund, but only Trump can do it. Trump has no desire to legally end the anti-weaponization fund. Trump's lawyers have appealed the Florida court decision to cite the fund as unconstitutional. The IRS Trump immunity tax policy remains, so these senators technically received no concessions from Blanche. This fund will financially aid January 6th terrorists who destroyed property and almost overthrew the government of America. That is treason, and Trump is completely anti-American by his words and policies. Trump and his allies have planned this scheme to cause Todd Blanche to be the new Attorney General for a while now. The FBI and the DOJ have been nothing more than agents and prosecutors to protect the Trump MAGA movement.
Right, the DOJ election monitors are in Michigan as Trump seeks voter rolls and complete federalization of the elections in America (which is illegal, as only the states and local governments can control the election). The DOJ has received massive court failures by the courts which is good news to protect voting rights. In fact, the DOJ has 20 losses over voter roll access. The DOJ is still trying to make people support more voting restrictions, and they want to send federal agents in to try to intimidate people who live in blue cities. By November 2026, Trump is trying to steal elections by subverting legal voting laws and other nefarious tactics. Right, these DOJ election monitors are in four Michigan cities. This is totally authoritarian and has no place in any society, period. We have to do the work to vote, support voting rights organizations, and never forfeit our right to vote for anyone. People should support election officials and election workers of all stripes. Trump doesn't care about voting rights as he wanted people to steal the election in 2020 in Georgia back in 2020. The GOP has put many resources in supporting candidates who are election deniers and extremists who seek to ruin American society.
Promoting your rights is important. Right now, many law firms have surrendered to promote the interests of Trump. We have seen Trump trying to shut down media figures who disagree with him. We know of the massive anti-black racism and discrimination in America. We know about the corruption involving ICE. Many migrants and immigrants who were kidnapped by ICE are sent to internment camps. Many of the women don't know where their children are, since they are separated from their children. Many staff members verbally and sexually abused detainees. Many of them refuse to give detainees medication. There was a woman who wasn't given proper shocks, and a woman from Ecuador named Nancy wasn't given medical attention. There are tons of cases of immigrants who won cases, and ICE has appealed decisions. They have no communication with their children. Now, Trump has record-low approval ratings.
There are House and Senate primary elections in 5 states. The issues are very clear from affordability, health care, education, the war in Iran, AIPAC, Gaza, Ukraine, and other important issues. Reecie Colbert is right to say that disagreeing with the policies of AIPAC is fine, but some folks are obsessed with calling people agents of AIPAC as a coded way to intimidate many black candidates in claiming some moral superiority over everyone else. That is what we are against. We don't agree with AIPAC on many issues, but we won't use AIPAC as a means to scapegoat black candidates like Jasmine Crockett, who didn't even take money from AIPAC. Some (not all) are using AIPAC as a coded way to disguise their anti-Semitic, wicked views too. At the end of the day, we want solutions to complicated issues. Racism is not just found in far-right extremists like MAGA cultists. For example, the so-called "progressive" William Lawrence said that black leaders want to "Defang the white left." This nonsense is not only racist but a lie. Black people have always supported leftists of every color, and black people are tired of being scapegoats for Republicans' winning elections. The CBC, to its credit, has condemned Will Lawrence's views.
The dress code in Tuskegee has caused sincere people to have tons of different views. The truth is clear. The leaders of Tuskegee want people to just use this dress code to be prepared for jobs. Yet, is this the sole purpose of an HBCU? The answer is no. The purpose of HBCUs is to promote black identity, promote camaraderie among black people of diverse backgrounds and classes (as some people promote respectability politics as an excuse to attack and slander the black people who are poor, alternative, artsy, and black people from urban environments), promote justice, educate people, etc., not just seek employment opportunities. You can't dress your way out of suffering anti-liberation, and you can't follow bourgeois standards to achieve black liberation. To have such a dress code in a cafeteria is lunacy to me. In a cafeteria, people want to eat, not to have some business meetings all of the time. Now, I do believe in some social standards. There is a time and place to wear certain clothing. I don't believe people should travel in an HBCU naked. That is inappropriate, but we should be reminded that some of the most evil people in history wore a suit and tie, and some of the most righteous people in human history wore hand-me-down clothing. Not everyone is going to look like someone in some fashion magazine all of the time, and that is perfectly fine. The Crown Act was made to liberate black people who faced discrimination, and some of the Tuskegee dress code seeks to conform to Eurocentric bourgeois ideals involving fashion. I agree with some of the Tuskegee dress code as in a business meeting, interviews, and in certain celebrations, as standards should exist (and there is nothing wrong with encouraging great hygiene that will improve human health including confidence in many ways). I agree with Tuskegee's attendance policy. Yet, I am totally against the dress code involving a cafeteria and the classroom (as the objective of being in a class is to pass that class, not follow some fashion show standards).
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