For the Workers Not the Billionaires

PRESENTED BY EUGEN-X

It’s May Day! Here’s the worker-led calendar of events in the nation’s capital:

• 11:30 am-3 pm: May Day Strong: One Struggle, One Fight, All Workers Unite Rally at Franklin Park

• 12 pm-: Mayday Movement Launches a Summer-Long Protest at the National Mall

• 12 pm-1 pm: DC Law Day at the Supreme Court

• 5:30 pm-8 pm: For the Workers Not the Billionaires: May Day Solidarity Rally at Freedom Plaza

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On Monday, Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) introduced articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, the first of the current regime.¹  

The same day, a coalition of unions, municipal governments, and non-profit organizations filed suit against the Trump regime’s illegal and unconstitutional DOGE chainsawing of the federal government—impeachment articles II (USURPATION OF THE APPROPRIATIONS POWER) and V (CREATION OF UNLAWFUL OFFICE). Several of the plaintiffs are objecting to the slashing of climate and environmental programs and staff, including the American Geophysical Union, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, the Western Watersheds Project, and the Northeast Organic Farming Association.²

Yesterday, the last day of April, a devastating, fossil-fueled derecho with hurricane-force winds left behind a wide swath of damage across Western Pennsylvania as four people were killed and more than 400,000 were left without power. The same stormfront caused floods that swept two people in Oklahoma to their deaths. 100 wildfires are burning in drought-stricken Florida. Iraq, the cradle of civilization, is turning into a desert. Record heat is striking Great Britain. Fossil fuels having disrupted Indian monsoons, “heavy rains, thunderstorms, flash floods and landslides in several parts of Jammu and Kashmir last week led to widespread damage and loss of lives.”

The Senate Banking Committee is aptly holding a hearing on how climate disasters are upending insurance markets, with fossil-fuel-advocate-cum-climate denier Alex “Abundance” Epstein and three reality-based witnesses: Lake County, Calif. supervisor Jessica Pyska and insurance industry representatives Robert Gordon and Michael Newman. Epstein is profoundly stupid but represents the interests of the wealthiest people and corporations on the planet, so a majority of senators will agree with him.

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee is holding the
nomination hearing for Paul Dabbar to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce for global trade and technology. Dabbar previously served as Trump’s Under Secretary for Science, and was a managing director at J.P. Morgan specializing in energy businesses, from fossil fuels to renewables and nuclear.

Finally: The kerning on the pope’s tomb is a travesty, but is it as bad as Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) or John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) or Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.)?

Hearings on the Hill:

• 10 AM: Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
  Examining Insurance Markets and the Role of [Climate] Mitigation Policies

• 10 AM: Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
  Nomination of Paul Dabbar to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce for global trade and technology

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1  Reps. Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.), Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), and Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) were original co-sponsors, but withdrew after learning Democratic leadership did not support the resolution. (Caucus chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.): “this is not an exercise that we’re willing to undertake.”) The retiring Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) then co-sponsored the resolution.

2  The full list of plaintiffs in AFGE v. Trump are the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME); Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and SEIU Local 1000; Alliance for Retired Americans, American Geophysical Union; American Public Health Association; Center for Taxpayer Rights; Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks; Common Defense; Main Street Alliance; NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council); Northeast Organic Farming Association Inc.; VoteVets; Western Watersheds Project; City and County of San Francisco, California; County of Santa Clara, California; City of Chicago, Illinois; City of Baltimore, Maryland; Harris County, Texas; and King County, Washington.