Three Wins Today: April 26, 2025
I’m going to start a new thing today, it’s not a big thing, but I think it matters. As I’m sure you know by now, just because I say these are three wins today doesn’t mean they are three wins FROM today, rather, either I saw them today or they were sitting in my tabs for a couple days and I forgot about them (that one happens a lot. So I want to make sure the date of each of these stories is front and center. I don’t want anyone to think for a single second that something may have happened today that didn’t.
I hope you enjoy this level of transparency. I know it will certainly make me feel better, that I’m being as honest and truthful as possible.
On Wed April 16, North Dakota Republican Governor Kelly Armstrong wrote a letter to the Senate president vetoing their book ban bill. You have to read the entire letter, but here’s a little snippet:
And it won't just be the books cited as examples by the supporters of this bil that wil be affected. In the last 10 years The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Of Mice and Men, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Kite Runner, 1984, and To Kill a Mockingbird have all been targeted by obscenity laws. I don't pretend to know what the next literary masterpiece is going to be. But I know that I want it available in a library.
This is a REPUBLICAN GUYS! I think we need to be paying a whole lot more attention to North Dakota, both Dakotas actually. With a little TLC, and not instantly writing them off, I think it’s possible they could become competitive.
On Friday April 25, George Scamtoast got the outcome he deserves. He has been sentenced to 7 years in prison. It’s encouraging to see that even in this world a Republican can be held responsible for his crimes. And given that John Durham, the special council to prosecuted the case is still employed, I don’t think DT is interested in facing the ire he would if he pardoned him, but that’s just my gut reaction.
On Friday April 25, DT appointed Judge, Dabney Freidrich issued a Preliminary Injunction in support of the NAACP blocking the Admin from requiring schools to sign a form saying they will support their white supremacist agenda. The order is 16 pages and each section explains why the case does or doesn’t have standing based on different parts of the constitution. She doesn’t think it violates the first amendment, but she absolutely thinks it will cause irreparable harm. Here’s a snippet from that section:
Turning next to irreparable harm, it is well settled that “the loss of constitutional freedoms, ‘for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.’”…“[A] prospective violation of a constitutional right constitutes irreparable injury for . . . purposes” of “seeking equitable relief.”…Because the plaintiff has established a likelihood that the certification requirement impinges on its members’ liberty interest in receiving protected speech, it has shown irreparable harm.
To hear this from a DT appointee matters. Anytime we get any wins from a DT appointee that is inherently a bigger deal.
So I hope you got something out of these wins, and if not, well, I hope you find some yourself that you do. There are a lot more out there than just three.
Our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them!
I read you every night, just being going to bed. Your three wins lift me. Thank you.
Excellent!