Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 4, Week 10 (260 total reports)
09.04.20245-15.04.2025
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. Jerry Goebel
This week’s news review focuses on the “extraordinary danger” President 47 and his cabinet pose to the United States and looks at those forming opposition to him. Will you be among the resistors? Remember, all it takes is three point five percent to cause significant change, and this week’s “Hands Off” rally is your chance to participate.
Visual Stories!
In support of those resisting the oligarchy this week, please check out the new visual story, Three Point Five, we don’t need everyone, we just need YOU!
And, if you want to pass on information about the man who brought tariffs to military bases and islands of penguins, enjoy this song, “Trump the Biggly Tariff Maker.” Please take a moment to like, subscribe, and/or share.
Top Links of the Week
15.04.2025
Over 24 hours, Trump makes his authoritarian-style vision plain
I still find it hard to fathom that so many people did not take Project 2025 and the now-President 47 at his word when they revealed their agenda for undermining democracy in the United States. Now, we are living the nightmare; this continues to be evident in the actions of the president and his cabinet, but the 24 hours between April 13 and 14 was a real doozy. Is this what the US voters wanted—or didn’t want badly enough to prevent? He’s not done; if anything, he is spurred on by a Congress that won’t confront him and seems impotent in his presence. All the more reason for people to prepare to show up at the nearest “Hands Off” rally this weekend. Remember, all we need is 3.5% of the population, and the movement will solidify. The last Hands Off rally was close to that percentage, and this one can go over the top. Three Point FIVE! How can you be a part?
14.04.2025
Bernie Sanders warns of 'extraordinary danger' facing U.S. under Trump at LA rally
The octogenarian, who has served his country with clarity for decades, is now speaking loudly about the extraordinary danger we currently face under this authoritarian regime. In Sanders’ own words, he says, "We are living in a moment of extraordinary danger," he said, "and how we respond to this moment will not only impact our lives but will impact the lives of our kids and future generations." There are times when I review what I am writing and how far I’ve strayed from focusing on purely adolescent issues, but speeches like this remind me, “This is the battle we must fight for future generations.”
13.04.2025
The Economist
This behind-the-scenes article tells us that the major decider behind the tariff chaos is President 47 himself. There does not seem to be an overall picture, although the videos of 47 with his billionaire cronies talking about how much they made in the last market collapse are pretty telling. Like everything related to this president, it’s all about the money and how manipulating others enriches him and the puppet-masters who put him on his throne.
12.04.2025
A Perfect Case for Congressional Action
There’s a whacko at the wheel. Folks, it’s time to tell Congress to do its job. They could be checking this administration on the constant whims and wackiness of their madman President. As this article points out… no one person (especially a mentally unstable one) should be allowed to control the global economy. It IS within the power of Congress to prevent this. But apparently, they don’t think it’s pressing enough to respond even though scores of people are seeing their retirement income and life savings threatened. Call your Congressperson—especially if you have a spineless Republican lackey of Mike Johnson and President 47. Tell them to do their job and hem in this whacko at the wheel.
11.04.2025
Ketanji Brown Jackson is not holding back against Trump or her fellow justices
The majority of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Roberts may be tidily in President 47’s back pocket (or him in theirs—it’s hard to tell who owns whom these days), but Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is boldly speaking truth to power and giving other justices like Sotomayor, Kagan, and even Coney-Barrett the courage to stand behind her. She might eventually replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the leading liberal justice voice. Her last dissent about sending people from the US to prison camps abroad compares the actions of the Conservative court to those who voted to intern Japanese Americans during World War II. Only she says, this Supreme Court is far more nefarious in its desire to hide their opinions behind legalese. Apparently, they do not want their opinions to see the light of day in the future if the US does return to some form of normality. Shame on them. Shame on the GOP, and shame on those people who voted for this termination of people’s civil rights and those who stayed home or declared they were Independents at a time when Project 2025 and President 47 (then 45) declared their intention to be a dictatorship! No excuses, none!
10.04.2025
America, the Isolated
https://www.theindex.media/america-the-isolated/?utm_source=flipbJoaoard&utm_content=other
This writer, Joan Westenberg, should be noted not only for her insight but also for her lilting style. She unmasks this administration’s chaos with eloquence. Not only does the emperor have no clothes, but he is appalling indeed to behold. He’s the exhibitionist everyone wishes they had not seen. This administration (and its global cohorts) are intent on dismantling cooperative trade globally and moving the world back to a medieval age of feudalism; revenge economics or… (as she points out, cultural revanchism). They will only be satisfied with the destruction of global cooperation and current alliances all over the democratic world, all bowing down to one authoritarian regime (assumably Russia). We must keep our eye on the long game and the deviousness behind the apparent chaos. Prepare for the next “Hands Off” rallies and support DEI stores. Use your voice and your pocketbook to undermine this far-right radical regime.
09.04.2025
Robert Reich: The Real Reason We’re In A National Emergency – OpEd
This administration has declared an national emergency and is using those powers to undermine democracy. Reich looks at the varied ways that President 47 and his puppet-masters (we must remind ourselves that 47 isn’t smart enough to act alone, he is a front man for multiple nefarious agencies like Project 2025, Elon Musk, John Roberts, Mike Johnson, and Vladimir Putin). They have to continually concoct new emergencies to continue undermining global democracy. Remember, their primary goal is to use chaos and smokescreens to overwhelm you. Don’t give in to it. The next “Hands Off” rally is April 19, find a way to attend and show that citizens of the US hate this president and his regime.
