So the question is, how did we get here? We have to look at Project 2025. There was a chapter called The Federal Communications Commission, and it was authored by Brendan Carr. He enacted some of this idea of the unitary executive theory. It takes away a lot of the checks and balances that the federal government has long had.
On Thursday evening, independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported that the FBI is developing tools to identify transgender suspects and classify them as "nihilistic violent extremists." Within hours, the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation - the same outfit driving Project 2025's blueprint now being implemented inside the federal government - released a four-page memo urging the bureau to go even further. Its proposal: formally designate all transgender activism as "Trans Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism," a new category of domestic terror threat.
➡️ The creators of Project 2025 have jumped at the chance to use Charlie Kirk's murder to attack the transgender community. Meanwhile, a man in Phoenix was arrested after threatening to shoot up a queer bar in retaliation. We also got more insight into Pope Leo's stance on same-sex weddings, and heard from Pete Buttigieg after Kamala Harris's upcoming book revealed that she didn't think America was ready for a gay VP candidate.
Artists from all over the city are joining with those all over the world for "We Got the Power," the inaugural action of "The People vs Project 2025." Besides a flash performance of SNAP's eternal dance hit, "We Got The Power" features performances and poetry readings by two dozen ensembles, individual artists and poets including Amos White, Antoinette Payne, Audrey Williams, Basma Edrees, Bellamy Ackrell, Christine Kammler, Dance Brigade, Extinction Rebellion, and Genny Lim. 10am-1pm, Civic Center Plaza, SF.
For the left, there is little more terrifying than an emboldened Donald Trump. Deep into the first year of his second term, he has behaved like an imperial president, thriving off new precedents set by the Supreme Court to shred democratic norms. He has gutted the federal bureaucracy, wantonly dispatched the National Guard to Democrat-run cities, unilaterally imposed tariffs, unilaterally launched a missile strike on Iran, and wrongfully deported an immigrant to El Salvador.