At the end of last month the US Supreme Court endorsed – and effectively advanced – the Trump/MAGA sadist agenda by ruling against those working to stop ICE’s (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) abduction, kidnapping and torturing of mostly non-whites before (often illegally) expelling them to countries other than their homelands without giving them the chance to appeal or adduce the deportations as human rights violations. These include, for instance, being flown into war zones or areas where LGBTQ+ people are targets. Given that ICE (also implicated in voter suppression efforts) was recently ordered to increase the number of arrests it has to make each day back up to the previous ‘target’ of 3,000, such abuses seem certain to increase.

Bo French is a candidate to lead the Texas Railroad Commission, the body that regulates that state’s oil and gas industries. But he has other interests. He enjoys posting images of non-whites at a sports event and describing them as being “…far worse than any of us could imagine…” and calling for the public execution of his opponents. After asking on social media last year whether Jews or Muslims posed the greater threat, French won the nomination in May. This is, of course, well in line with the ways in which the US government also frequently acts towards LGBTQ+ opponents.

The US State Department (the equivalent of the UK’S Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) appears to be illegally diverting a significant amount of money (the equivalent of roughly £152m) officially apportioned by Congress for human rights. It’s going to far right, Fascist and racist/supremacist groups and organisations in order to ‘safeguard western civilisation norms’.

This is largely consistent with a view expressed belligerently and unequivocally by the US Vice President Vance recently when, referring to a black candidate for the US Senate in Florida, he said that because of her views and race she should “Get the hell out of here”.

The same treatment is meted out to those drawing attention to and actively opposing the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, such as lawyers like Florida-based Jalal Shehadeh.  They have either been detained or had their phones and other belongings seized without cause. High profile critics of Trump continue to be subjected to deliberately intimidating searches of their homes – without cause.

After all, if Trump can order an investigation by the FBI into posts on TikTok because he doesn’t like them, and can defy a court ruling that he must reverse his exclusion on media of which he disapproves, he can pretty much do anything – including apparently turning a blind eye to, even encouraging, an attack on Los Angeles and San Diego, which would take 10 million lives.

In fact, Trump’s supremacist incitements to violence against non-whites reached a new low last week when he posted just about as clear a threat as possible that he will use government terrorists to kill and injure guest-workers in (in this case) Minnesota if he wants to.

As long as supremacist rants of this kind on fascist propaganda outlets like Fox are broadcast, accepted and consumed by the estimated third of the adult population in the US, which is still taken in by MAGA, it’s of little surprise that not more people have yet caught up with what’s really happening; and why.

Little that the Trump/MAGA cult has done in their second term more starkly highlights corruption and arrogance than their illegal campaign advertisements for next month’s midterm elections. They have been estimated to cost a total of $20 million dollars (about £15 million). So each resident in the US is having to pay to be lied to. It is illegal to use government funds for (party) political campaigning. Indeed, what is happening may even count as theft. But the Supreme Court has already ruled [pdf] that everything which a sitting president does in furtherance of their official activities automatically indemnifies them from criminal prosecution.

The Trump/MAGA censorship wave continues with – according to a new report issued last week by PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, Novelists) America – a total of almost 12,000 books being banned in the school year, 2025-2026. Texas and Florida, unsurprisingly, account for by far the greatest numbers, 68% and 27% respectively. Many of those titles which the cult deems unfit to be read are young adult fiction by non-white authors. The same demographic, however, is trusted with weapons.

Environment

Minimally satisfactory though it was, the last administration did make a show of promoting electric vehicles, and a move away from transport using fossil fuels. Trump and members of his cult can’t or won’t understand the wisdom of taking (such) steps to address climate collapse. So at the end of last month they announced a significant reduction in the requirements to which car makers must adhere on the control of emissions from cars and smaller lorries produced between 2022 and 2031. Vehicles are the largest source (nearly 30%) of greenhouse gas generation in the US.

In the middle of last month it was widely reported that Trump’s Environmental ‘Protection’ Agency (EPA) was planning to repeal limits to carbon pollution for coal- and gas-powered power plants. This is well in line with MAGA’s environment lying. With few objections from lawmakers, they soon did just that! Although there will be legal challenges, the time those may take and the favour with which the ultimate legal authority, the US Supreme Court, looks upon MAGA suggest that this, but the latest move for the cult in characterising climate collapse as a ‘hoax’, may well be successful. As El Niño promises to be fiercer than for many years, the emissions from fossil fuels are likely to accelerate the disaster.

The cult inflicted double damage last week when its border patrol agents attacked and arrested protesters to remove a 200-year-old cottonwood tree in southern Arizona. They both destroyed ancient plant life, inflicting irreparable harm on the environment; and desecrated the ‘grandmother tree’ sacred to local populations. This was to further the building of Trump’s border wall to keep non-whites out of the US.

Health

Of major concern are also the assertions by prominent Trump/MAGA cult members such as this one by quack secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert Kennedy Jr, that we should prefer the diagnostic conclusions of AI to those made by qualified doctors. Kennedy has also announced an ‘inquiry’ into ‘injuries caused’ by vaccines. Cult members at every level have also so far failed to make it clear why Trump’s own AI chatbot should be believed when it returns several assertions such as that Trump did not lose the 2020 election. One wonders how long it’ll be before he abandons it and takes it down.