(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . L.L. #26, May 19 [1] ['The Geogre', 'Chitown Kev', 'Belinda Ridgewood', 'Bill In Portland Maine'] Date: 2026-05-19 [Preface:] Laudable links. Worth reading. I scribble about them. Don’t trust me. All rights to wrongs reserved. I’d like to do one every day, but I rely on open access journalism, and open access journalism doesn’t always cooperate. It’s like a hotel with a 747 on the ground floor maybe. It’s a wonderful wall that’s 90′ tall and see-through in places with a moat in front of it, maybe. What matters is the take. CREW‘s Walker Davis and Linnaea Honnl-Stuenkel report “The Trump Organization is developing Trump’s presidential library, maybe as a Trump hotel.” “Sure, but if you get rid of birth-right citizenship, the problem’s solved!” At Pro-Publica, Mica Rosenberg reports “More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates.” But family stress and murdering innocence are worth it to Stephen Miller, I’m sure. F–ing Aloha, baby! Hawaii for the hope. Harold Meyerson, at The American Prospect, says that Hawaii has a new law that might really, genuinely, limit corporations playing in politics. He’s insane, so give him lots of money! Walker Davis and Linnaea Honnl-Stuenkel report for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) that “The Trump Organization is developing Trump’s presidential library, maybe as a Trump hotel” (link above). The authors start with the conflict of interest, which is to say the whole presidential “library” project. [Quote:|] Eric Trump is both executive vice president at the Trump Organization—the company that President Trump himself still owns and profits from in office—and a trustee of the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation, which is registered as a nonprofit in Florida. His involvement in the charity, while he and his family appear poised to profit from its development, raises legal concerns. . . [|End Quote] You see, TrumpOrg is going to get money for the developing of the lieberry, and Donald owns that, while Erk runs it. The money is coming from entities that want the smile of Donald on them. But don’t worry: it’s fair compensation, because Erk wrote that, over the past 6 months, he has poured his heart and soul over the project. (If you detect the stain of blood or smell of sulfur, you know why now.) The day after Erc shared a “first look” video on Elmo’s troll site, Donald talked about the importance of the library: [Quote:|] Trump told reporters, “I don’t believe in building libraries or museums” and that the building was “most likely going to be a hotel with a beautiful building underneath and a 747 Air Force One in the lobby.” [|End Quote] Enter through the Grift Shop, sleep in the sweets, and exit through the revolving doors. [Quote:|] The decision to make Trump’s presidential library a hotel raises several questions, including about how it could legally operate as a nonprofit. Every president’s library thus far has had an associated nonprofit, which funds the development and then assists with events and fundraising after the building is transferred to the federal government to be operated by the National Archives. [|End Quote] Recall that Donald’s OLC just decided that the Presidential Records Act is “unconstitutional” and that Donaldia needn’t participate with the National Archives in any way. Now, the charter for the Trump Lieberry says that it won’t allow any money to go to any trustee or anything, but, uh, the Trump Foundation? Remember that? The Trump million dollars to vets. Remember that? [Quote:|] The Trump family was also forced to shut down the Trump Foundation in 2018 after the New York attorney general accused it of a “shocking pattern of illegality,” including using its funds to benefit Trump’s businesses and to win political favor. [|End Quote] At least, with a 747 on the ground floor, they’ll have a getaway vehicle for their assets. Our souls are tainted by the wretched agents of our name Mica Rosenberg has a miserable story. It’s important, though, to wake up our nerves again. Hearing that this many people were detained, that that many were taken to Texas or Florida and erased, that so many were flown to El Salvador, or Liberia, to rented prisons, it all becomes overwhelming. Our consciences get shocked over and over again until we can feel less and less. We are shamed, angry, and motivated, but we can’t feel the pain that is due. “More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates” is numbing by “big numbers,” but it’s also innervating. Nothing hurts worse than a child who cannot understand why a parent isn’t coming home, a child whose care taker is suddenly absent when food, transportation, and clothing are needed. It’s a horror we recoil from. The reported numbers come from Brookings. [Quote:|] About 400,000 people have been detained by immigration agents since Trump returned to office, Brookings noted. But it’s nearly impossible to know how many family separations that has caused, since the administration does not track it. Families are also now being split up in ways that are more dispersed, more hidden and harder to track. [|End Quote] But, hey, maybe Brookings over-estimated, right? [Quote:|] ProPublica used a different, more conservative, approach that relied on government data obtained through a public information lawsuit by the University of Washington. We found that in just the first seven months of Trump’s second term, at least 11,000 American children had a parent detained. We also found that Trump has been deporting about four times as many mothers of American children per day as President Joe Biden did. [|End Quote] Just 11,000 American citizen minors have a missing caregiver in the first seven months of Donaldia. Obviously, Pro-Publica’s count was being as conservative as possible. It relied on confirmed accounts from the government, whereas Brookings looked at the total detentions and parents and simply did the math. Ready for obfuscation and lies? [Quote:|] In response to the Brookings findings, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, sent an oft-repeated statement that the agency “does not separate families,” adding that parents are asked if they want to be removed with their children or instead to have them placed with a person the parent designates. DHS said this is consistent with the practices of past administrations. [|End Quote] I remember when Republicans in Congress said that Americans did not want government health insurance or socialized medicine because thousands of Americans chose to be uninsured the prior year and thousands upon thousands changed their policies! That, they said, proved that Americans LOVED the free market health insurance system. After all, those people were never “choosing” to be without insurance because they were unemployed or unable to afford it, and they never changed policies due to increasing premiums, I’m sure! DHS gives parents an option to take their American citizen children with them, thus doing the Donald job for them (reversing birth right citizenship). They must like leaving their kids behind. As for this being like prior administrations, the game is in the first step — the detention. In the past, ICE grabbed people with criminal complaints and visa problems. In the past, asylum applicants had parole until a hearing. Donald has set fire to both of those. Therefore, in the past a parent wasn’t in detention suddenly, in the middle of the night or while going to work and then given a choice of deporting their children with them or not. But, hey, there never was a health care problem in the United States, either. DBA a citizen of the state I know this is going to go to an appeals court, and then SCOTUS, because we can’t have nice things, but Harold Meyerson says “Hawaii Just Found a Way to Keep Corporations Out of Politics.” It’s a bit technical, but it’s glorious, if it works. First, credit to the legislature and governor of Hawaii: [Quote:|] Last Thursday, Gov. Josh Green signed into law the first piece of American legislation that curtails corporations’ ability to engage in electoral politics. It doesn’t—because it couldn’t—undo the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, which holds that corporations have the right to spend their resources on political campaigns. That would require another Court ruling striking down Citizens United, or a constitutional amendment banning such spending. [|End Quote] Why can’t anyone get rid of Citizen’s United? You have to go to the weird, bad old days and Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. 1886 for the chef’s kiss of courts and people running orthogonally to one another, because that is when “corporations are people, too, my friend” became law and when they got equal protection rights under the 14th amendment. Yes, the 14th. Next up, you have to get to the contemporary (for most of us) courts arguing that money is symbolic speech. Finally, you put them together and all campaign finance law goes kerflooey because corporations have the same free speech rights as individuals, but they speak with money, where as people can have donation limits. Remember all rights to being wrong are reserved. However, I need to get that out of the way so that we can “get” what Hawaii is doing. [Quote:|] in the United States, corporations are created and given their powers by the charters of the individual states. Indeed, corporations simply are a legal creation of the state, everywhere they exist, by definition. The new law simply states that corporations doing business in Hawaii do not have the power to engage in local, state, or federal political campaigns, that that was not one of the powers enumerated in the state’s corporate charter. It further specifies a range of penalties—including losing the right to conduct any business in the state at all—if they do. [|End Quote] BRILLIANT! Obvious, in fact. Someone somewhere is trying to figure out how to bring a case against this in the 5th circuit right now, but that’s not Hawaii’s stomping ground. [Quote:|] Two hundred and fifty years ago, Jefferson said that people’s rights are self-evident, endowed by their creator, preceding the establishment of governments,” says state Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole, who chairs the Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee that first considered the bill, which was introduced by longtime Sen. Karl Rhoads. “But corporations were, and continue to be, created by state law, as were their powers,” Keohokalole continues. “They are not irrevocable. . . “ [|End Quote] Not endowed by their creators with inalienable rights. Allowed by their licensing governments with limited provisions. The idea, as I say, is brilliant and obvious once you hear it. It came from the Center for American Progress (CAP) and Tom More, “a former counsel and chief of staff to a member of the Federal Election Commission.” [Quote:|] In a paper that CAP published last September, Moore wrote that the states’ “underlying authority to define and limit corporate powers never disappeared. It simply went quiet: unused, untested, and unmentioned—until now.” Moore roots his argument in 200 years of law and practice. He cities Chief Justice John Marshall’s 1819 opinion in Dartmouth v. Woodward [|End Quote] Much of the rest of Mr. Meyerson’s article is crushing on Mr. More’s paper, and everything I would have to say would be crushing on Harold Meyerson’s article, so, uh. . . read the embedded link to CAP, if you have legal awareness, and the link to TAP, if you don’t. . . if, uh, you’re one in the 75% of Americans who truly HATE Citizens United and what it has done. [Conclusion: I thought I was going to have to kick the can for lack of material, but I think 1.5 are really solid and .75 are good. As for me and my performance, I’ll hope for mihi milites amici to return (words), as they seem to be napping.] [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/19/800041071/community/l-l-26/ Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/