The Bull-Moose Note. (2025)

09/07/2025

More than 400 people are being detained at Alligator Alcatraz, the hastily built immigration concentration camp located deep within the Florida Everglades that has capacity to hold 3,000 people. Reporting indicates that many individuals were detained despite having residency documents showing their legal status to live and work in the country. Detainees say there is a lack of food and water at the facility and medications are being denied. One detainee wonders if the governmet is doing this to them as “a form of torture.”

01/07/2025

The Senate just voted 51-50 to pass the GOP budget reconciliation bill. Republican Senators Susan Collins, Rand Paul and Thom Tillis joined Democrats in voting no. The tie-breaking vote was cast by VP JD Vance.

The bill will now be sent back to the House where it originally passed by just one vote on May 22. Since then, several House Republicans have criticized changes the Senate made to the bill, so its still not certain that it will pass by Trump’s self-imposed July 4 deadline.

26/06/2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On June 22, less than 48 hours after President Donald Trump said he would decide on whether or not to bomb Iran within the next two weeks, American B-2 bombers took off from an airbase in Missouri to drop the largest bombs the United States has ever used in combat on three Iranian nuclear facilities — Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan.

The Trump administration has maintained that the strikes were necessary to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which they say the country was just “weeks away” from accomplishing, even though no credible evidence of Iran working to build a nuclear weapon has existed since the country’s nuclear weapons program was shut down in 2003.

While the Trump administration has said that the strikes destroyed Iran’s nuclear program, it has taken steps to shield a preliminary intelligence assessment that shows otherwise from Congress. The President canceled an intelligence briefing regarding the assessment that was scheduled to take place this past Tuesday because he knew the assessment wasn’t going to support his claim that the strikes destroyed Iran’s nuclear program.

Instead of eliminating Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. bombing campaign may have just pushed it further underground. If the goal was to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the strikes appear to have failed. Unless, as some analysts warn, the real objective was to provoke Iran into pursuing a bomb, which would give the U.S. and Israel justification for a broader war in the future.

All we can do now is see how long this ceasefire holds.

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22/06/2025

Iran’s parliament is considering closing the Strait of Hormuz in response to U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. The final decision is up to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. Closing the strait would result in a drastic increase in oil prices since it handles 20-30% of the global oil trade (~20M barrels per day). While the final decision has not yet been made, ships traveling through the strait have reported experiencing issues with “GPS jamming” in the days following the unprovoked Israeli air strikes that hit Iran on June 13. GPS related issues caused two ships in the strait to collide on June 17 causing fires to break out on both ships. On June 21 GPS jamming issues took place on roughly 970 ships, on June 22 GPS issues took place on roughly 1,600 ships — a 60% increase. According to the Joint Maritime Information Center transit in the strait has decreased by 20% over the last week.

22/06/2025

Iran’s parliament is considering closing the Strait of Hormuz in response to U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. The final decision is up to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. Closing the strait would result in a drastic increase in oil prices since it handles 20-30% of the global oil trade (~20M barrels per day). While the final decision has not yet been made, ships traveling through the strait have reported experiencing issues with “GPS jamming” in the days following the unprovoked Israeli air strikes that hit Iran on June 13. GPS related issues caused two ships in the strait to collide on June 17 causing fires to break out on both ships. On June 21 GPS jamming issues took place on roughly 970 ships, on June 22 GPS issues took place on roughly 1,600 ships — a 60% increase. According to the Joint Maritime Information Center transit in the strait has decreased by 20% over the last week.

22/06/2025

On June 21 President Trump announced that the Air Force deployed U.S. B-2 bombers to illegally bomb several Iranian nuclear facilities without approval from Congress. Iran threatened to target US assets in the region in retaliation if the U.S. bombed them directly. Tens of thousands of American troops and the lives of millions of people in the Middle East are now at risk due to the belligerence of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.

21/06/2025

Our enemies aren’t poor people in foreign countries, our real enemies are rich people in this country.

21/06/2025

Another war has begun in the Middle East as missiles rain down on Tehran and Tel Aviv after Israel launched a series of unprovoked airstrikes on Iran on June 13. The alleged reason for starting the war is to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, but the real reason is a decades-long desire for regime change.

Israeli officials have said that they launched the attack targeting high-ranking Iranian nuclear scientists, diplomats and nuclear facilities to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, which they say the country was just weeks away from accomplishing. However, the entities seeking to manufacture consent for war with Iran have been saying that Iran is weeks away from having a nuclear weapon for more than 30 years despite having little evidence to support their allegations.

While the US has been involved in the war through its proxy force Israel, it has yet to get directly involved, which has so-far saved American assets in the region from being targeted by the Iranian military. However, if Trump decides to follow through on the plans to use the Air Force to bomb Iran, which reporting indicates he has already done, Iran has said that they will start targeting American assets in retaliation.

“Americans should know that any military involvement by the U.S. will undoubtedly result in irreparable damage to them,” said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in his second statement since the strikes began. The statement came in response to Trump threatening to kill the Ayatollah and demanding “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” in a series of social media posts.

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29/05/2025

NEW YORK — The U.S. Court of International Trade has ruled to block President Donald Trump’s unilateral implementation of tariffs on May 28.

The courts ruling stated that the emergency authority claimed by Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in the April 2 executive order that imposed the tariffs exceeded the legal authority of the executive branch. It also mandated that any duties collected since the imposition of the tariffs have to be repaid.

“The law is clear: no president has the power to single-handedly raise taxes whenever they like,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James in response to the ruling. “These tariffs are a massive tax hike on working families and American businesses that would have led to more inflation, economic damage to businesses of all sizes, and job losses across the country if allowed to continue.” James added, “This decision is a major victory for our efforts to uphold the law and protect New Yorkers from illegal policies that threaten American jobs and economy.”

However, the Justice Department has already filed an appeal to the ruling, meaning that legal arguments regarding Trump’s tariff authority aren’t going away anytime soon.

The ruling comes in response to two separate lawsuits that were filed by a coalition of state attorneys generals and small businesses, which argued that Trump lacks the authority to implement tariffs without congressional approval.

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28/05/2025

The House GOP budget bill that was passed on May 22 would cut $698 billion from Medicaid over the next 10 years. Over 10 million could lose health insurance coverage nationwide. In New York State 2.1 million could be cut off. In NY-19 more than 30,000. In Tompkins County alone up to 5,100 Medicaid recipients could lose coverage.

Congressman Josh Riley (D-NY-19) voted against the reconciliation bill, saying, “I don’t know a single person in Upstate New York who thinks our kids should go hungry, our rural hospitals should close, or that 33,000 people in NY-19 should lose their healthcare so that billionaires and the wealthy can get another tax break.”

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28/05/2025

ALBION, N.Y. — Federal immigration agents stopped a bus of farmworkers on their way to work on the morning of May 2 and detained 14 individuals, some of whom were leaders in a union organizing campaign at Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms, according to the United Farm Workers () union.

UFW confirmed that all detained workers are employed by Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms, a company the UFW has been organizing at since 2023. “We’ve already been certified as representing a good chunk of the workers there, the seasonal workers who come in on H-2A visas,” said UFW representative Antonio De Loer.

However, the individuals detained are not H-2A workers, but year-round employees who lack the protections provided by H-2A status. “The group of detained workers are part of the year-round workforce, which tends to be long-term local residents, mostly Latin American immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala,” De Loera said.

A recent Cornell report on Farmworker housing in New York State explains that the H-2A visa provides seasonal farmworkers with legal status and housing protections, including inspections and health standards, but year-round farmworkers aren’t eligible, so they’re excluded from these protections.

Due to the lack of protections undocumented farmworkers make up more than 50% of farmworkers in the New York State, and they often fear retaliation from their employers if they dare to speak up about their oftentimes unsanitary and exploitative working conditions.

According to De Loera, immigration agents boarded the bus with a list of names, called out those individuals, and removed them. “We know several folks who were taken are UFW worker leaders, folks who have been very prominent and outspoken in seeking to organize their workplace…so for us this is very concerning.”

De Loera said that the targeted nature of the raid raises suspicions that farm management could have tipped off immigration officials. “Our concern is that this might have been some sort of operation that was potentially even coordinated with the employer,” De Loera said. He added that the raid was “an attack on workers' right to organize.”

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19/04/2025

The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday ruled 7-2 to stop the deportations of more than 100 Venezuelan men detained under President Donald Trump’s proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act. The order followed an emergency filing and lower court rulings that accused the administration of defying judicial authority and violating due process.

In an unsigned April 19 order in A.A.R.P., et al. v. Trump, the Supreme Court directed the U.S. government “not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court.”

The emergency application was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on April 18 on behalf of Venezuelan men detained at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Texas, where deportations were being carried out in secret and at high speed.

The ACLU argued that the government is carrying out removals under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act without providing adequate notice or access to judicial review, in violation of the Constitution and a prior Supreme Court order issued on April 7.

New reporting undermines the Trump administration’s public rationale for invoking the Alien Enemies Act in the first place. According to Washington Post reporter Josh Hudson, the National Intelligence Council (NIC) concluded in a secret assessment earlier this month that Venezuela is not directing an invasion of the United States through the gang Tren de Aragua.

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