“Not My President’s Day” national day of protest announced for Feb. 17, 2025, @ noon at City Hall

 

A super PAC is urging Americans to rally en masse nationwide February 17th at noon at city halls across the country to show opposition to “co-presidents” Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s lawless dragging of the nation into fascism and oligarchy. It is the same group that organized the #50501 protests at state capitals across the country February 5th.

American Opposition, a new Super PAC based in Boulder, Colorado that just registered with the Federal Election Commission on January 27, 2025, formed to fill the vacuum they say is being left by Democrats.

Social media post announcing the national protests

Their objective is to get large numbers of people to turn out to protest Trump and Musk’s illegal actions to shred the U.S. government. Trump and Musk have been working to push out hundreds of thousands of skilled civil servants and end birthright citizenship which is enshrined in the Constitution. They’ve invited unvetted and unidentified people to enter and seize control of the U.S. Treasury and access millions of Americans’ private and sensitive personal information,like Social Security numbers and bank account information. They’ve illegally closed down public agencies that were duly created and funded by Congress, like USAID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and they’ve illegally blocked Congressionally mandated funds from going to duly established federal agencies in compliance with U.S. law. Beyond this, they’ve been threatening and bullying everyone who stands in their way.

Most of the aggressive actions taken by Trump and Musk since the start of this administration to dismantle the government have been determined to violate either the U.S. Constitution or U.S. laws, or both. Trump and Musk have even brazenly violated direct court orders to cease their actions. 

These activities to illicitly seize control of U.S. government have been widely recognized as takeover of government by unelected, private citizen Elon Musk (video), the wealthiest person on Earth, and an anti-democratic administrative “coup,” a sudden, illegal seizure of power from the American government.

A press release issued on the PR NewsWire Service Feb. 4, by American Opposition says,

BOULDER, Colo.Feb. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Amid growing concerns over the future of democracy in the United States, Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos has launched American Opposition, a new organization dedicated to mobilizing Americans against the rising grip of fascism. Álvarez-Aranyos – a political veteran who oversaw strategic communications efforts for the most covered political non-profits in both 2020 (Protect Democracy) and 2024 (The American Sunlight Project) – aims to deploy high-impact messaging strategies to inform and empower the public….The United States is now under the grip of fascism, and if we don’t rise up to defend her, we may very well lose her,” said Álvarez-Aranyos. “American Opposition is designed to provide concerned citizens with the knowledge and tools they need to take meaningful action in defense of democracy.”

No local organization has been identified as organizing the protest scheduled for February 17th. People are just asked to show up in numbers, bring signs, chant and demonstrate. When asked who, if anyone on the ground in Grand Junction is spearheading this this event, American Opposition responded by saying that just gathering at City Hall is the right thing to do, and “We don’t keep lists, for obvious reasons.”

Information about the protest is mostly being spread on social media sites like Threads, local Reddits and on American Opposition’s Instagram page.

Trump administration working to change or eliminate boundaries of national monuments to allow increased mining & drilling

Colorado National Monument (Photo: National Park Service)

The Trump administration has started reviewing the boundaries of protected public lands with the intent of increasing mining for minerals and drilling for fossil fuels, actions that could drastically change existing national monuments, a category that includes the Colorado National Monument.

Trump’s newly-appointed Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, issued a 7-page directive (pdf) on February 3, 2025 to implement Trump’s January 20 Executive Order #14154, “Unleashing American Energy,” which has a goal of boosting mineral mining and fossil fuel exploration and production on all federal lands. Burgum’s directive orders federal officials to consider redrawing the boundaries of federally-protected areas that were set aside by past presidents to protect their unique landscapes and cultural resources.

Previous conservation policies are now gone

Burgum’s directive tells federal land managers to “suspend, revise, or rescind” previous conservation policies that include bans on oil, mining, and gas drilling in sensitive locations on public lands. Burgum gave officials at federal agencies until February 18 to submit plans on ways to comply with his order, which includes taking “actions to review and, as appropriate, revise all withdrawn public lands” to facilitate more fossil fuel production and mining for minerals.

National parks and monuments are considered “withdrawn,” or protected, from extractive industrial activities like mining and drilling.

Conservation groups are worried that changes in the borders of national monuments will shrink or eliminate them in favor of increased mining and drilling for fossil fuels.

Backlash growing to co-presidents Trump/Musk:

Hundreds shout “Shut down the Senate!” at protest of Elon Musk’s takeover of USAID in Washington, D.C.

Hundreds of protesters gathered yesterday, February 4, 2025 to protest Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s illegal intrusion into federal government offices, and seizure of the U.S. Treasury. Protest signs read “COUP,” “Nobody elected Elon,” “Felon!,”Impeach President Musk,” “Stop the billionaire grift!,” “Stop the felons’ smash and grab,” “America is not for sale.”

Group organizing a national labor strike

A decentralized group, GeneralStrike.us, is organizing a generalized national labor strike in the U.S. in an effort to force significant changes aimed at benefitting hard working, underpaid Americans who are struggling to stay afloat due to low wages and escalating costs of living. The appeal to join the strike is going out to all workers including, but not limited to teachers, fast food workers, drivers, gig workers, waiters, actors, artists, athletes, retail and grocery store workers and more.

GeneralStrike.us says “Our greatest power is our labor and our right to refuse it,” and “We are not one singular organization. We are a network of regular people united by our shared values, committed to a general strike to radically change our country.”

Trump hands Musk control over the U.S. Treasury & government payment system

Photo: ABC News

Whistleblowers confirmed late Friday that convicted felon and President Trump has handed his unelected billionaire co-president Elon Musk control of the U.S. Treasury and access its sensitive payment system that disburses payments each year totaling $6 trillion. Musk, an unaccountable billionaire who is ineligible for a security clearance due to his ties to the Chinese government through his factories there, now has access to control all payments made by the U.S. government and access to every American’s personal information including Social Security numbers, bank account information, dates of birth, home address, Medicare and Medicaid payment and other personal data.

Members of Musk’s non-government “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) stormed the Treasury building, ordered the longtime Treasury employees out their jobs, and seized control of the servers and payment system.

This is an illegal act.

A convicted felon now in charge of the country, Trump is moving quickly to end law enforcement as we know it

Letter sent to federal law enforcement officials who worked on the criminal cases against convicted felon and now U.S. President Donald Trump. The two federal cases against him were for his attempts to subvert the outcome of the 2020 election and for hoarding classified and top secret government documents and refusing to return them to the federal government. The letter notifies federal law enforcement employees they are being fired because their investigations did not please Trump.

The following analysis of Trump’s ongoing mass purge of federal law enforcement officials was taken from Rachel Maddow’s show 1/31/25 show, starting at 17:12 into the show (video). I transcribed her presentation and then lightly edited the text to make it clearer as a written, rather than a spoken piece. I also included links to further information. I chose to highlight Maddow’s presentation because it is perhaps the fullest, clearest and most concise explanation of the current state of affairs ongoing on under Trump that has been broadcast so far. (Note: Italicized, bolded and capitalized emphasis are mine.):

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Trump is punishing law enforcement officials at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who pursued violent January 6 criminals to gain revenge on law enforcement personnel who participated in a previous investigation that is now over. The point of Trump’s actions is to permanently, irrevocably change law enforcement in the United States so FBI and prosecutors will no longer pursue criminal investigations and cases against suspects if the suspected criminals are associated with Trump and his supporters.

Trump is trying to get rid of American law enforcement as we know it.

They are trying to get rid of the very idea of an independent “justice-is-blind” system that makes America who we are. It is hard to see how this can be corrected or undone.

As public school districts across Colorado take steps to protect students from ICE raids, Mesa Valley School District 51 says it is “obligated to comply”

First page of the letter sent to “District 51 families and colleagues” saying the District “will remain politically neutral,” and telling parents to update their student’s emergency contacts

On January 20, convicted felon, sexual abuser and now President Trump rescinded the decades-old federal policy (pdf) of not pursuing immigrants in “sensitive places” (pdf), including schools, hospitals, churches, synagogues, mosques, funerals, weddings, parades and public demonstrations like marches and rallies.

U.S. Department of Education policy says that in the U.S., all children are entitled to a public education (pdf) regardless of their immigration status.

News from today indicates Trump is going after immigrant kids. White House “border czar” Tom Homan, who is carrying out Trump’s mass deportation, says the data they seek on children won’t be used for enforcement, but rather to “ensure that children were placed in the best possible homes,” according to the Washington Post.

But Trump recently enacted a change in federal policy that will now allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents enter and arrest immigrants in these places.

As he started his term, Trump promised to prioritize removing “violent criminal” immigrants, but has since changed his stance and now considers every undocumented person in the U.S. to be a “criminal,” even though being in the U.S. without legal status is a civil and not a criminal violation.

Trump says he seeks to pursue criminals, but as the first U.S. president who is a convicted felon, Trump himself is a criminal.

Caroline Kennedy’s recorded statement to U.S. Senators warning of the dangers of approving her cousin, RFK Jr., to lead DHHS

Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy, niece of Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. and cousin of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., recorded this video of herself reading  a scathing letter she sent to all U.S. Senators warning them that her cousin, RFK, Jr., who was nominated to head the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is not just completely unqualified for the position, but that he has personality traits that are extremely disturbing and worrisome.

Trump violates law in after-hours firing of 17 independent inspectors general

Trump sleeping during a religious service (Photo: YouTube)

Late on Friday, January 24, convicted felon and President Donald Trump fired 17 Inspectors General of federal agencies.

Inspectors General are independent government watchdogs who investigate allegations of waste, fraud and abuse inside government agencies.

Trump’s action was done in a way that violated 5 U.S. Code Chapter 4, §415 (e)(2) of the Inspector Generals Act of 1978, which says he must give both houses of Congress 30 days notice of the removal:

(2) Inspector general removed or transferred.If an Inspector General is removed from office or is transferred to another position or location within a designated Federal entity, the head of the designated Federal entity shall communicate in writing the reasons for any such removal or transfer to both Houses of Congress, not later than 30 days before the removal or transfer. 

In legal terms, the word “shall” indicates an absolute obligation. It clearly imposes a specific duty upon a person. Trump also violated another part of the same law that requires the President first supply “substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons for the change” to both houses of Congress:

(B) If the President places an Inspector General on non-duty status, the President shall communicate in writing the substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons, for the change in status to both Houses of Congress (including to the appropriate congressional committees) not later than 15 days before the date on which the change in status takes effect…” 

Trump defended his move by lying to the public. He said that a mass removal of inspectors general was “a very standard thing to do.”

It is not.

The practical effects of Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship

Presidents have no authority to change the rules of citizenship on their own, as adjudicated sexual abuser, convicted felon and President Donald Trump is trying to do, but if Trump’s recent dictatorial attempt to end birthright citizenship at the stroke of a pen were to ultimately be realized, it would create negative repercussions for parents and babies born in the U.S. after February 19, 2025. Estimates are that about 150,000 children born in the U.S. each year and their parents could face obstacles under this system.