KNOWLEDGE: THIS WEEK'S INSIGHTS into TYRANNY 5.31.25

 THIS WEEK'S RANDOM INSIGHTS

MAY 31, 2025

It is difficult to keep up with the news since Jan 2th and that is by design.  The white House wants everyone yo give up, be discouraged and let them set up a money-maming, corrupt dicatorsgip of the kind never before imaginged in our country.

May 30, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson

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KNOWLEDGE: TRUMP and GOP's Budget Bill rewards the richest and steals from everyone else

 TRUMP and GOP reward the richest and steal from everyone else

BUDGET BILL 

Poorest among us will be impoverished by 13.6% whereas the super-richest will get almost all the beenfits from the GOP- Project 2025 Trump-VOUGHT budget.

Reich and Lofthouse, from minute 5:50 in their analysis of this week's developments in tyranny and fascism. 

from Strengh in Numbers by G. Elliot Morris 

Let this graph sink in.  

The poorest in our country are being robbed in order to give MASSIVE tax breaks to the super and ultra-richest in the country.  That means MUSK, BEZOS, Zuckerberg, and all the cronies swarm around the White House.

Robert Reich calls this "reverse robin-hood" .  That is too polite.

The rich have become richer and richer and paid less and less since of their fair share of taxes since about 1950.   When one has plenty it is the just, fair, normal, and moral thing to pay more taxes.  

In 2018, the richest among us had the lowest tax rate of any group of taxpayers!!!!!!

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Taxing the rich used to be normal, and most other countires do it as a matter of course.  In the USA rich donors and corporations have captured congress and been able to stop paying their fair share.  This started with Reagan. Images below let us study the current situation.  

The Richest pay less as a percentage than some with much less wealth, and they surely can afford to pay taxes at the 1965 tax rates.  

MUSK became super rich because of federal money.  Doubt it?  Google it and check out this blog.

 

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KNOWLEDGE: Musk is enriching himself at your expense

 Musk is enriching himself at YOUR expense

SNIP FROM a congressional hearing in FEB 2025.  

MORE DETAIL BELOW 

IT HAS ONLY GOTTEN MUCH MUCH WORSE 

AND DOGE and MUSK attacks on federal workers IS COSTING EXTRA MONEY.

HOW MUCH?

$2,000,000,000 

EXTRA EVERY DAY RELATIVE TO 2024

Rep. Melanie Stansbu

 

 ALERT: civil service at risk-act today friday deadline

LINK FOR ACTION ABOUT CIVIL SERVICE RULE CHANGE-URGENT DO IT TODAY OR FRIDAY DEADLINE.

KNOWLEDGE & ALERT: DOGE ORDERED MASSIVE CUTS TO SCIENCE that HURT EVERYONE

 

DOGE ORDERED 

MASSIVE CUTS TO SCIENCE 

THAT

HURT EVERYONE

UPDATED IMAGE

GIFTED ARTICLES FROM THE NYTIMES

some key figures.  There is much more in the article.

KNOWLEDGE: "Billionaires-steal-from-you-and-me-bill" NOT BBB

 Actual effect and better name of BBB: "billionaires-steal-from-you-and-me-bill"

Trump’s grossly misnamed “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about many trillion dollars in tax benefits being gifted to the wealthy donors of our GOP lawmakers and to cronies of the president and his family. It also raises our debt massively and could create a very poor economy in the

The bill also slashes 1 trillion dollars from our health care and food. Many hospital will be forced to close, many people will suffer and die, mostly children and the sickest and oldest in our country will be tossed off their health care or be denied vital services, and little money will be saved.

How can we say this? This has been tried before and it failed. See Georgia and Arkansas. The upshot: no money is saved but people suffer and die.

"Work requirements" are a dishonest and disguised way to cut care. "Sending it back to states" is a way to cut care. "Saving the money for the really sick" is a way to cut your care and hurt the entire community. This bill shows very clearly that the GOP does not care about ordinary people or its voters.

KNOWLEDGE & ALERT: MORE ATTACKS ON SCIENCE

MORE ATTACKS ON SCIENCE RESEARCH

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COSTS ARE ENORMOUS 

CUTS ARE COMPLETELY ILLEGAL

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PROTEST RULE CHANGES FOR FEDERAL WORKFORCE

World cloud of the most common words in the project titles of terminated grants, with size proportional to word frequency.

Over 700 and $1.7 billion in previously undisclosed grant terminations published by NIH
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726 additional additional terminated grants were reported by NIH this week, amounting to over $1.70 billion in total grant value, with $780 million remaining unspent. This brings the total number of terminations in our NIH database to over 1500 and $7.5 billion in total value.
Thanks to scientists self-reporting these terminations, we know these are not all recent terminations. 58 of the 726 were previously reported by scientists to Grant Watch, with dates as early as 2025-03-21.
The list of publicly reported terminations is likely still far from complete. Grant Watch has reports of over 40 additional terminations reported by researchers that still do not appear in any official public site or list, also reported as far back as early March. Nor does the current list include many grants to Harvard University terminated last week. This suggests that even with this new batch, NIH and HHS’s public reporting is not up to date, and the full scope of terminated grants is unreported and will grow.
Approximately 500 terminations were added to NIH’s RePORTER database on Sunday May 18, then more were also published to the HHS TAGGS website today. As has been the case previously, the two sources have significant discrepancies, with approximately 300 terminated grants only published in one of the two sources. In the past three weeks, HHS had stopped posting new terminations to the TAGGS list, actually removing some.
Terminations in the RePORTER database are not searchable and not included in the site’s programmatic API. Grant Watch tracks this designation by regular scraping of the RePORTER website.
These new terminations also do not appear to have been part of releases on doge.gov. DOGE’s website claims that 1,951 grants have been cancelled across all of HHS, totaling $47 billion in value, but provides no details or reference numbers beyond the recipient institution, which is also missing in many cases. Nonetheless, more grants to Harvard, UC San Francisco, and other institutions appear in the new RePORTER terminations than are listed by DOGE.


 

KNOWLEDGE & ALERT: Actual effect and better name of BBB "billionaires-steal-from-you-and-me-bill" What is hidden in the budget bill? MASSIVE cuts to your healthcare, taking food from children, POLLUTION, SOLD and DAMAGED public lands, slashes to our rights, and fewer services for the public

 https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lphfu3vn4s2y

What is HIDDEN in the budget bill

THAT OPENLY CUTS 1 TRILLION FROM HEALTH CARE AND FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY?

LINK for cartoon

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about tax cuts it quietly guts federal protections and reshapes entire agencies. Here’s a fraction of what’s buried inside:

May 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM

· 1d

- Closure of the U.S. Department of Education

- 25% expansion of logging in national forests, bypassing environmental reviews and fast-tracking timber production

· 1d

- Rollbacks on clean energy incentives, cutting tax credits for EVs and renewables, gutting key climate provisions

- More public lands opened up for drilling, mining, and logging, with royalty breaks for fossil fuel companies

· 1d

- Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, ending U.S. participation in global climate efforts

- Executive Order 14215, forcing independent federal agencies to follow White House legal interpretations and centralizing authority under the presidency

· 1d

- Pension changes for federal workers hired before 2014, cutting take-home pay by raising required contributions, reducing future payouts, and eliminating early retirement supplements

· 1d

- REINS Act-style regulation repeal, where major federal rules expire unless Congress re-approves them every 5 years allowing Trump to quietly erase protections without rewriting laws

· 1d

- Expanded executive control over agency budgets, letting White House to move federal funds internally without explicit congressional approval

- Restoration of impoundment powers, giving Trump the ability to block or delay spending already passed by Congress reviving powers stripped after Watergate

· 1d

- Creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), placing White House–aligned teams inside every federal agency with access to internal systems and influence over hiring and daily operations

· 1d

- Sharp cuts in regulatory enforcement, with agencies like the EPA, CFPB, and Labor and Transportation Departments halting enforcement of key safety, environmental, and 

· 1d

- Trump’s personal control over economic policy, strengthening his power to direct tariffs, pressure private companies, and dictate pricing with little resistance treating the U.S. economy like his own business

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KNOWLEDGE & ALERT: Russian infiltration documented with dangerous consequences

Russian infiltration of our country documented 

it has dangerous consequences

Government take-over IS MOTIVATED BY

1) MUSK BEING A RUSSIAN (+China) ASSET

2) Trump being a Russian asset

3) Greed, corruption, and investigations of Musk businesses

Result:  SLASHING OF OUR BENEFITS AND GOVERNMENT 

Video with evidence

The ZDF documentary "Putin's Helpers - Trump, Musk and the Kremlin" features claims by former FBI agent Johnathan Buma about alleged Russian operations targeting Elon Musk. 

LINK to german original.  This is like the German 60 minutes.

Translation is here:

Here's a breakdown of the key points:

1. Allegations of Russian Targeting:

• Buma claims that Russian intelligence services targeted Elon Musk, possibly to blackmail or influence him.
• He suggests that Musk's lifestyle, including "susceptibility to promiscuous women and drug use, particularly ketamine," made him vulnerable.
• Buma also alleges that Peter Thiel was another target of Russian intelligence. 

2. Documentary Context:

• The documentary, "Putin's Helpers - Trump, Musk and the Kremlin," investigates alleged connections between Russia and prominent US figures, including Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
• It explores concerns about potential Russian influence on US national security. 

3. Source and Credibility:

• The claims originate from Jonathan Buma, a former FBI counterintelligence agent.
• However, it's important to note that Buma himself is facing legal trouble, having been arrested and indicted for leaking classified information.
• This raises questions about the reliability of his claims and his motivations for coming forward. 

4. Musk's Response and Actions:

• There's no mention of Elon Musk's response to these specific allegations within the provided context.
• The search results do mention Musk's shift in stance regarding Ukraine after initially supplying Starlink terminals.
• Musk currently serves as a senior advisor to Donald Trump and heads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 

In Conclusion:

The ZDF documentary presents serious allegations about potential Russian targeting of Elon Musk, as claimed by a former FBI agent. However, the credibility of these claims is subject to scrutiny due to the source's legal issues and lack of independent confirmation. 

Some vital snippets:

some links

german news show

LINK to german original.  This is like the German 60 minutes.

Translation is here:

Conflicts of interest and greed are behind it too.

Both graphics from Robert Reich substack