Oh, good morning, friends. Um, the worst thing that could happen when making a podcast and editing a podcast happened, and that is that I had an entire episode ready for you guys, and I don't know what happened. It glitched. My program won't open it. It recognizes that there's a file there, but long story short, we have to do it all over again.

But hey, I like talking to you guys, so No problem there, right? So, uh, welcome to the 10th episode of Activist Collective. Um, it's our 10th anniversary. We've, our 10, uh, 10th episode anniversary. Um, every single time we make one of these, I get a little bit better. Um, I get a little bit more, um, functional. Um, and that is, uh, saying a lot for my capabilities.

Um, so let's get right into it.

So a lot has happened in the last week, as in weeks prior, it has just been an ongoing, never ending s**t show. Um, but something, uh, some news that's breaking this morning, if you haven't heard is, uh, uh, Trump and his cronies are forging ahead with their plan to relocate Palestinians. Um, this time they're reaching out to, um.

Three ,   📍 📍 three East African governments asking them to take in Palestinian refugees, uh, for resettlement. Um, they're asking, um, Sudan, Somalia, and the breakaway region of Somalia known as Somali, Somali, Somaliland. Um, it obviously has legal and moral. Um,  implications here, um, because all three of those places are wreaked with, um, violence,   📍 📍 um, and famine,   📍 uh, there are poor, these are places that  can hardly handle the people they already have.

Um, let alone the Moral issue of the Americans coming in and telling the Palestinians where they have to go. This is their home. This is their home and you're basically telling them Israel's won and get out of your country. Uh, this is unbelievable. It's unbelievable. Um, for anybody with a working conscience, you would know that this plan,

I don't have words. For how fucked up that is. Okay, excuse my French So that is still ongoing Donald Trump's plan Remember that AI generated video I showed you last week Like that's his vision He's okay with that that dystopian weird Vegas vibe I mean I And what can Americans do? Um, we tried to tell you not to do this.

We tried to tell them not to vote for this man. We said, if this man is the worst possible option and all they kept the third party voters in the, the, the pro Pally crew, which I hate to say it that way because it's not like I'm not pro Palestine, right? I've been pro Palestine from the jump from the very beginning.

Um, But anyway, uh, we told them he was going to do bad things and they said to us, uh, this isn't about Trump. You guys keep bringing up Trump. It is about Trump. It had everything to do with Trump. The goal was to stop this man from taking over the world with his, his ego. And they just didn't listen. They just thought they knew more than everybody else.

And now we sit here with, uh, Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, uh, deciding the fate of Palestinians. And what if they say, no, what if they say, no, we will not go. This is our home, more violence, more bloodshed, more bombing. Probably it's sad, but let's move on.  

So, um, another federal   📍 📍 judge ordered thousands of federal workers that Trump fired, uh, to be temporarily  reinstated, uh, Judge James Brett Breeder. B R B R E D A R, uh, in Maryland issued a temporary restraining order against dozens of agencies, departments, and their leadership across federal government that had terminated workers as part of a reduction in workforce effort.

Um. This is a quote.   📍 📍 In this case, the government conducted massive layoffs, but it gave no advance notice. It claims it wasn't required to do so because it says it dismissed each one of these thousands of probationary employees for performance. That's a key word. Performance. Or other individualized reasons,   📍 📍 Brader wrote in his ruling.

On the record before the court, this isn't true. There were no individualized assessments of employees. They were all just fired collectively.  Now hours before that, um, a federal judge in California directed that the Department of Veterans Affairs The Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Interior, and the Department of Agriculture and Treasury offer reinstatement to thousands of probationary employees.

The Trump administration had terminated. The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal in that case. The order from Brader, Brader, It applies to 12 departments that have fired probationary, uh, workers, the Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Ed, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, the Interior, Labor, Transportation, Treasury and VA.

It also applies to probationary workers who were terminated recently at the U. S. Agency for International Development. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Environmental Protection Agency, basically everybody that was fired gets to go show up at work today. That's what this says. Um, they were 17th to reinstate the affected employees.

So, maybe they don't get to show up today. today. Um, but they certainly, but they get to go back to work up by Monday. That's what this, that's what this is saying. Um, now the reasoning behind a lot of these, they say, is that the government itself doge as a whole does not have the authority to go into each individual department and start firing people in mass.

They just don't. Um, they're saying that, that firing needs to come from within the department. So, the Department of Education has to fire all of those employees and that has to come from, say, Linda McMahon, the wrestling wife. Um, and if they need to fire someone in the Department of Defense, that would have to come from uh, Pete Hogsbreath, or whatever his f*****g name is.

Um. It's going to happen. They're going to find a way around it. Um, Donald Trump will appeal this to the Supreme Court. Um, so, these people who are fired and get to return, I mean, do they even want to? Do they even want to go back and work under these conditions? I don't know. The people that go back are going to be scrutinized heavily, they're going to be tested, their, uh, loyalty is going to be tested, uh, they're already, if, if you're Kristi Noem, you're giving polygraphs to people, you, I mean, from what I've heard, and I have connections in places, I've heard personally that they are Questioning people's loyalty to Donald Trump straight up.

Are you loyal to Trump? Are you loyal to this administration? And if you don't say yes, straight up, you can't say I'm loyal to the country I work for. No, you got to say you're loyal to that man or you're out. Um, it's fucked up. It's frightening. It's really, really frightening. Um, but we'll see how long this, this lasts.

I'll be watching it like a hawk to see what happens because I'm very curious what the courts are going to do. The only saving grace for this country are the courts. Right now, uh, we've got two elections coming up on April 1st in Florida, one coming up in New York. Now, I believe we have one in Texas since one of the Democratic representatives passed away shortly after the State of the Union address.

Um, and we have a Supreme Court case pending in Wisconsin, or a Supreme Court election in Wisconsin coming up on April 1st. A lot of changes will happen around that time, and I'm hoping for the better. I'm hoping the people in Florida see what's truly happening, uh, and pull their heads out of their ass and go vote and vote for the Democrats to rein in some normalcy and bring our government back to a level playing field.

Anyway, let's move on.

ProPublica just released an article moments ago,   📍 📍 um, titled Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging the Education Department's Civil Rights Division.  The class action lawsuit claims that decimating the agency's Office of Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination in school, violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

Yeah, it does. I'm really glad to see, um, people are standing up and, and pushing back against all of this ridiculous horse s**t.

So this article says that the complaint comes three days after the education department notified 1300 employees, including their staff of, uh, seven of the 12 regional civil rights offices. Um, the complaint filed on Friday argues that the OCR abdicated its responsibility to enforce civil rights protections.

Um,

so they're suing Linda McMahon. And the Trump administration and the people suing, they just say two parents. But it's jointly with the two parents and the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates who are a national disability rights group. Good on them. Good on them. Uh, more, more of that please. We need to see more of that.

And speaking of education, um, did you all see Linda McMahon on Fox News? Um, they asked her a question about what programs would be protected or saved and she said IDEA. Uh, she was asked what IDEA meant. She said, well, I don't know, I've only been here five days or some s**t. She called it a program. Um, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, isn't that a program?

It's a federal law that protects, uh, children in schools with disabilities of all types. But here's the clip just so you can share in the secondhand embarrassment.

This is the s**t we're dealing with in this administration, putting people in high level positions where we need competency and knowledge and we need experience and he's putting people there that don't have these things. And that's, if that's not frightening you as just a normal American who, who. You know, expects that their government will operate and run smoothly.

I don't know, I don't know what would scare you. That, that to me is very frightening. That she would not know what that is and then claim, Uh, it's just my fifth day on the job. You should walk into that position knowing more about education than anybody else or not hold that title. But again, her job is just to decimate it.

She doesn't have to know anything because her job is to destroy the Department of Education. As with a lot of these people, you know, Russell Vogt being, uh, the head of the OMB is by design. His job is to help take apart all of these, uh, federal offices and then align them all under the presidency. That's that's the gist of project 2025.

You don't have to be a rocket science scientist. You just have to be able to close down and shut down a department. And I mean, anybody can do that. Pretty, pretty terrible. What's going on in this country? Um, if you haven't noticed, I'm sick. I'm extremely exhausted. It's been a very long week. Um, and I'm not the only one who's exhausted.

Everyone in my house is exhausted. Um, my kids, my kid has got a lot of work. A lot of extracurriculars. It's been up late. It's been a lot. So that's why my voice is a little more raspy. And I just I'm a little less animated, so I'm sorry if that turns you off, but let's move on.

So last month, um, the s**t stain administration sent out a memo to every school, every college in the country and said, if you don't get rid of your D I programs, you lose all federal funding and now 50 colleges. Are under investigation for possibly not adhering to this new rule of forced we're going to force you to be f*****g racist is what it is I'm going to force you to be racist Um, so the memo, um basically said, um, american schools could lose federal funding Um, if they don't get rid of their race based, race based preferences in admissions, um, or scholarships.

Um, students must be assessed according to merit and accomplishment, not prejudiced by the color of their skin.

Uh, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement, We will not yield on this commitment. B***h, you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground, let alone what DEI is or what it does. Um, basically, There is an organization, um, that these colleges partner with. Um, I'm trying to find, it's called the PhD Project.

It's a non profit that helps students from underrepresented groups get degrees in business with the goal of diversifying the business world. Um, and a lot of colleges partner with this non profit. Um, and basically if they don't cut ties with this non profit, they're going to lose federal funding. I mean, they're already withholding millions and millions and millions of dollars from black colleges right now.

Um, Just simply because they're HBCUs, because they're historically black colleges and universities, they're withholding millions. Tennessee, I think it's Tennessee University, Tennessee State University, they're owed millions, and without it, they could end up having to shutter up the college. Um, our school, our, school district gets away with keeping its DEI because the DEI isn't based in the school.

Um, it's based in the PTA. The PTA is the organization that is separate from the school and runs the DEI program. So that is one way of getting around that. But I don't know how they get around that for admission purposes. Um, we're going to be dealing with a lot of this reverse. Can it be reverse racism where they're saying, um, if you're racist towards white people, then we're going to punish you.

And that's basically what they're saying. They're sick of seeing black people, um, getting the help they deserve and need. And that's. Yesterday I made a video on TikTok and I said, um, that our government's being run by Nazis and white supremacists and the triple K and they're the ones pulling the strings.

They're the ones writing the policies. They're the ones puppeteering. So I feel like if we don't fight back on these things immediately, they're just going to get more and more egregious. I mean, I don't know how you could. It's it's already as fucked up as it could get in my opinion. I'm sure it could get more fucked up I shouldn't say that I shouldn't say that But let's talk about The continuing resolution that everybody is hearing about If you don't know what a continuing resolution is In this particular instance, I'm referring to the continuing resolution for our government's funding They have not been able to nail down a spending bill for years now.

We're going on more than a year and they just keep patching the, you know, the wound, putting a bandaid over it. Let's just push it down the road. Let's just kick it down the road. Um, and this time, because Republicans have a stronghold on our government, when they wrote this continuing resolution that is supposed to allocate funds to certain offices and.

Places like social security, not social security. I don't know why I say that. Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, um, FEMA, USAID would have been in there. Um, every, every office and group would be. Allocated their funding through this sort of thing and what they've done is they've said we're going to give 13 billion dollars to the military And then we're going to take the rest of this money and just say we'll put it where it got where it needs to go.

What? No, thank you. I don't want I don't want this government having Um, free will to spend my tax dollars as they see fit Um, and right now it passed in the House because they have more Republicans than Democrats. But when it gets to the Senate, Republicans don't have 60 senators, which would have been, you know, what they need to pass it without Democrats help.

Sorry, um, because they don't have 60 Republican senators. They need Democrats to vote for it to pass this bill or else it would shut down the government and that means no funding anywhere they go dark Until they can figure out what to do and We are urging our Democrats not to not to vote for this because it's frightening We don't know what they're going to do We don't know who they're going, who is going to suffer at the hands of this sadistic and sociopathic administration without direct funding, without it being said that this amount of money goes here to protect the people who have this or so on and so forth.

And right now the Democrats in the Senate are folding because Chuck Schumer. Who just the day earlier   📍 📍 was standing strong and banging his fist on the desk. We're not going to waiver. We're not going to vote for this the  next day. The, the very next day he was like,   📍 📍 eh, well, maybe we should. Because if we shut down the government, it gives Trump all this power.

What power does  he not have already? Do you know what I mean? Not doing that you expect he would do. This man is doing everything he wants to do, with or without the government in operation. And they just keep bending and bending and folding. And it's getting really tiring and, and maddening to watch.

They're not listening to us, they're not hearing our calls, they're not responding to our messages. So what, what do we do?

Um, now speaking of people in positions, uh, they have no, no right being in, um, when they went after the FAA, um, they stopped all hiring, um, they changed leadership. In fact, the guy who was leading the FAA quit because, um, Elon Musk. Basically went after him and said he was gonna get him fired. So that dude quit since Donald Trump has taken office There have been multiple plane crashes or incidents every single day Every single day and I know that these things happen and that they just don't get reported on but this is too much Just in the last two days there have been three catastrophic incidents in my opinion right now As I'm speaking to you, um, and it is the 14th of March at 1117 Eastern Time, they're reporting a plane crash in North Carolina, um, at North Memorial and Belvoir.

A single engine plane crash. Right now. That happened. Um, yesterday in Mesquite, Texas, um, a single engine plane crashed. I've got video for you of that. Stand by.

Now that's not counting all of the things that happened in January, in February, um, yesterday, um, an American Airlines Boeing 757 took off from, I think it was Denver, uh, they felt engine vibrations had to return   📍 📍 📍 📍 📍 📍 📍 and by the time they got to the ground the engines were on fire, uh, I've got a picture of that, those people were standing on the wing while the plane was on fire.

I don't want to play into any fears that, you know, things are worse now than they were last year, as far as aviation is concerned, um, because I don't believe that I ever watched that sort of news or looked for that sort of thing. So, it could very well be the same number of incidents, but everything that I've looked up shows that this is not the type of thing that is consistent.

You're not going to get consistent crash numbers in January of 2024 and 2025. It's so sporadic. Um, but I will say this more crashes tend to happen in the January, February months. Um, so I'll be keeping my ass on the ground in those months. That's for sure. Um, just be careful friends, wherever you decide to go, what you decide to do.

If you can drive, maybe that's a good option for now. Uh, knowing that Trump administration picks are in charge of your safety and that's frightening, that's, that's scary enough. No, thank you.

So, off of the topic of airplanes, and let's talk about, um, this pink triangle with the slash through it that Trump posted on True Social. This was a, the illustration for an opinion piece by a man named Jeremy Hunt. This is Jeremy Hunt. Jeremy Hunt is a West Point graduate, um, served in our military, uh, was deployed to Ukraine in 2016.

Um, but he is a far right conservative. Um, he, super manly type of guy, loves Trump, all that s**t, all that s**t, right? He doesn't seem to fit the, you know, normal appearance of what a MAGA looks like, um, but he still espouses the same hateful rhetoric and beliefs. The ad, the, the opinion piece was about.

Military recruitment ads, the difference between Biden's and Trump and Pete Hegseth's, Hegseth's. Um, apparently, um, they don't like that it showed that you could be gay and still be a badass in the military. Um, and that's what that article was about. It doesn't, I'm, I'm not, uh, trying to, um, undermine.

People's anger over it. I'm angry over it too. Um, but we have to consider the source. Donald Trump is a f*****g moron. The, the man who wrote that article is a hateful bigot. Um, and apparently gay people scare him. And Trump speaks in meme. He, he doesn't know how to address the people with any sense of or any form of intelligence or intellect.

He just posts s**t. Anything that pats him on the back, he's going to retweet or retruth. Right? Um, I don't even know that Donald Trump knows what that pink triangle is, to be honest with you. Everyone in the world knows what it is, but he's stupid, remember? Donald Trump is dumb. He's f*****g dumb. Um, we have to brace ourselves.

for the impact of this administration and what it's going to do to, um, the destitute American people. The gushing of our tax dollars from the lower and middle class up to the pockets of the wealthy is happening right now. They are draining us of anything we have left. Um, and so the American people, um, in the lower 99 have to start hoarding what little we have.

Um, and so we're going to see prices increase, um, especially for travel. You're going to see prices increase for things that are necessities, and we have to brace ourselves for that. It's just going to happen. And this all stems from just a hateful group of Nazis in the White House. And it's as fucked up as it is.

I don't see anybody doing anything about it. I just don't. Um, you know, I spent a lot of time reading up on, um, the civil rights era and how they did What they did the bus boycotts and things were so well planned They were laid out and planned people were taught how to take Someone spitting in their face without reacting out of violence They would you know for sitting at the counters.

They had to be prepped for Like they would pour hot coffee on them to prepare them For what it would feel like when they do this to you when you go and do these sit ins and these people prepared for a long time to make change and the American people today are weak and and privileged and There I can't see I can't see them doing this.

I don't see them going out and doing it I see the younger generation being able to do it. Sure. I Do but it's not just up to them. It's up to all of us To take part in things like this, and I'm just ready Just waiting for the group to say this is what we're doing I'm just waiting for them to I mean I am one person I Am one person I can try to get you guys organized to do this, but I Don't have the resources that some of these bigger organizations have like the ACLU You know what I mean That's who I tend to push, lean back on in thinking these are the peop this is the group that would do that.

This is the group that would be able to send out a mass email and say this is what we're doing, if you want to be a part of it, come along. Um. And I, I, I guess they're, I don't know if they're waiting for things to get worse. I don't know how they could get worse, but I think we're at a point here, we're at a stalemate where we're just going to watch it go down.

We're going to watch it happen. Um, if we spend, you know, the entirety of his reign, uh, screaming and doing nothing, it's all, it's all for nothing. But that's how I feel. Um, the American people gave up their democracy. They handed it over. Now, again, I have to preface that by saying yes, I believe that there was fraud in this election, and I can say that here.

I believe that Elon Musk had something to do with it. I believe that his Starlink had something to do with it. I believe that Russia had something to do with it. And I believe they're all in on it. I do. I believe they're all in on it. That said, there were still 70 million people who said, here you go. You do, you, you do this because we didn't like all that equality going on.

It's frightening as it is. Um, it's shown a lot of Americans, um, what's been going on. A lot of people have woken up and the collective is starting to look up. They're starting to look up. Um, so friends, I'm going to go, um, hit the couch and rest my eyes because I'm, as I said, I'm not feeling well. Um, I'm sorry that this.

Podcast took so long and I'm sorry, it's not longer but everything that could go wrong with this week's podcast went wrong So I will leave you with this

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