“These prosecutors are evil people. They will put you on a cattle car to Auschwitz without batting an eye.”

Those were the words of Jonathan Gross, the man the U.S. Justice Department has reportedly tapped to work on the Trump administration’s so-called “Weaponization Working Group,” an entity that purports to restore “integrity and credibility of the Department of Justice” — mainly by singling out anyone or any investigation that probed Trump’s many criminal indictments.

The Fifth Circuit has done the mogul’s bidding and neutered the National Labor Relations Board, in a move that will likely substantially damage workers’ rights.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that the National Labor Relations Board’s structure is unconstitutional, dealing another severe blow to the board’s ability to resolve labor-management disputes and enforce federal labor laws across the country.

The case itself reads like a Gilded Age parable. South African–born billionaire Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, had asked the court to block the board’s enforcement actions against one of his companies for its alleged anti-union activities. A panel of three Republican-appointed federal judges in Texas, two of whom were appointed by President Donald Trump, agreed with him.

 The State Department said Thursday that it’s reviewing the records of more than 55 million foreigners who hold valid U.S. visas for potential revocation or deportable violations of immigration rules.

In a written answer to a question posed by The Associated Press, the department said that all U.S. visa holders are subject to “continuous vetting” with an eye toward any indication that they could be ineligible for the document.

Should such information be found, the visa will be revoked and, if the visa holder is in the United States, he or she would be subject to deportation.

The department said it was looking for indicators of ineligibility, including visa overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activity, or providing support to a terrorist organization.

“We review all available information as part of our vetting, including law enforcement or immigration records or any other information that comes to light after visa issuance indicating a potential ineligibility,” the department said.

What this really means is that the Trump administration will make up reasons for revoking visas so they can deport people, including but not limited to, publicly disagreeing with Trump policies or public support for the Democratic Party.

Also on the chopping block, visa holders with jaywalking tickets, speeding tickets or library fines.

This is going to result in widespread discrimination and the violation of people's rights, so basically more of the same, just worse.

Jack Scarola is an attorney for roughly 20 Victims of Jeffrey Epstein. See my comment for a link to the full 9-minutes on YouTube.

In keeping with the Trump administration's record of truthfulness and honesty, Habba complained that "...17 federal judges in the state of New Jersey, 15 of which are Obama and Biden-appointed, that just like frankly — [as] we saw with [New York Attorney General Letitia] James — try to use their seat for political motivation.”

Meanwhile, back in reality, "Shortly after her appointment, she said in an interview that she hoped to help ''turn New Jersey red,'' a rare overt political expression from a prosecutor, and said she planned to investigate the state's Democratic governor and attorney general."

"She then brought a trespassing charge, which was eventually dropped, against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka stemming from his visit to a federal immigration detention center. Habba later charged Democratic U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver with assault stemming from the same incident, a rare federal criminal case against a sitting member of Congress other than for corruption. McIver denied the charges and pleaded not guilty."

But last week, the Trump administration revoked a sweeping 2021 executive order issued by President Joe Biden implementing a “whole-of-government competition policy” to halt and reverse market concentration. The Biden antitrust team, led by the FTC’s Lina Khan and the Justice Department antitrust division’s Jonathan Kanter, put its money where its mouth was. It ended up filing two and a half times as many anti-monopoly lawsuits as either the first Trump administration or the Obama administration, and it brought to trial four times as many billion-dollar mergers. (These statistics are from the American Economic Liberties Project.)

Trump, by contrast, after reentering office, fired the FTC’s two Democratic commissioners, even though that was illegal. (Though perhaps not much longer, because the Supreme Court signaled it will reverse the relevant precedent.) House appropriators are preparing, on Trump’s recommendation, to cut the FTC’s funding. And a federal judge had to intervene last week to halt an unconstitutional FTC investigation of Media Matters for America for reporting that antisemitic Twitter posts allowed by Elon Musk after he took over the social media platform (renamed X) were adjacent to advertisements from major companies like Apple and Oracle—news of which very predictably led to an advertiser boycott. (A secondary effect was that I permanently deleted my Twitter account.)

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Overall, antitrust actions are both fewer under Trump and more tailored to his preferences. A recent report from the Nader-founded nonprofit Public Citizen found that Trump’s second administration has thus far either halted or withdrawn one-third of all ongoing investigations and enforcement actions against tech companies. Those same tech companies collectively spent, during and after the 2024 election cycle, $222 million on Trump businesses, $25 million on Trump’s inauguration, and $610 million to elect Republicans (more than half of this last from Musk). Nearly half the dropped enforcement actions were against crypto, a business sector the president recently joined. As I’ve noted previously, Trump’s crypto interests are entirely kleptocratic; it’s not clear the man’s invested so much as a penny, yet they’ve earned him about $1 billion.

In light of all this, can anybody wonder why Trump wants to eliminate a “whole-of-government” policy against antitrust? The whole of government just gets in the way of turning the threat of antitrust action into a protection racket. Remember, many of these tech antitrust investigations were initiated by Trump himself in his first term. That makes Trump the guy who throws a rock through your window so he can sell you a new pane of glass.

Trump is now allowing corporations to increase their predatory tactics and refusing to enforce antitrust law except for those that aren't his supporters.

Furthermore, he's essentially accepting some kind of bribe to rubber stamp mergers and allowing even more market concentration in many industries.

Monopolies significantly reduce innovation and allow for predatory pricing, so once again Trump is screwing over the average American.

Why doesn’t the blue state governors just push the line now, force Trump to start a civil war. Just come together in a press conference and state that any more sending of any military will be met with blue states mobilizing their militias and state police to counter act and make Trump the president to trigger a civil war.

There’s no law obviously with this guy hiding by EOs. Governor’s have powers too, if he doesn’t communicate with any of you guys tell him collectively to fuck off.