FutureGrasp

A global advisory group focused on digital and energy technologies and their trends and implications in geopolitics, national security, and economics

[Andrea 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @WholePlateWay]

He’s right…

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

Time to pay the piper, Donald.

Your tariffs were nothing more than an illegal cash grab that drove up prices, hurt working families, and wrecked longstanding global alliances.

Every dollar your administration unlawfully took needs to be immediately refunded — with interest.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

A UAE investor secretly gave Trump $187 million and his top Middle East envoy $31 million. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke decades of national security precedent.

Brazen, open corruption. And we shouldn't pretend it's normal.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump just CONFIRMED that Tulsi Gabbard is involved in the Fulton County 2020 election probe and says she was PERSONALLY present during the FBI raid that SEIZED ballots.

The sitting president is OPENLY tying the intelligence chief to a local election investigation and hinting at “interesting things” coming.

That’s federal power hovering over election infrastructure and it should ALARM everyone.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Drop a ❤️ to honor Alex Pretti

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

I am calling for the arrest and prosecution of the ICE agent that shot and killed Renee Good.

I am also calling on Congress to support my bill with @JasmineForUS to force ICE agents to wear body cameras, not wear masks, have visible identification, and ensure ICE has independent oversight.

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

Renee Good’s last words were to ICE agent Jonathan Ross: “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.” Then Ross shot Renee three times in the face. As she was dying, his last words to her were: “Fucking bitch.” And JD Vance thought that exchange exonerated ICE. That says it all.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

So, Republican lawmakers are proposing a statue honoring Charlie Kirk for our nation’s capitol.

If anyone deserves a statue it’s U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, who actually defended our nation’s capitol by diverting an unruly MAGA mob away from Senate chambers.

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

Never has a President wagged a dog harder than Trump and MAGA now.

To distract from Epstein, the explosion of health and homeowners insurance costs, and the tariffs that are decimating small businesses, Trump is plunging this country into a war and using our soldiers as pawns.

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

Statement from the Prime Minister of Denmark 🇩🇰:

“I must say this very clearly to the United States:

It makes absolutely no sense to speak of any necessity for the United States to take over Greenland. The United States has no legal basis to annex one of the three countries of the Kingdom of Denmark.

The Kingdom of Denmark — and thus Greenland — is a member of NATO and is therefore covered by the Alliance’s collective security guarantee. We already have a defence agreement between the Kingdom of Denmark and the United States that grants the U.S. broad access to Greenland. In addition, the Kingdom has made significant investments in security in the Arctic.

I therefore strongly urge the United States to cease its threats against a historically close ally, and against another country and another people who have stated very clearly that they are not for sale.”

Mette Frederiksen
Prime Minister of Denmark

[Sen. Cory Booker @SenBooker]

Today, many leaders will rightly condemn President Donald Trump’s unlawful and unjust actions in Venezuela, and I join them.

But just as glaring, and far more damning, is Congress’ ongoing abdication of its constitutional duty. For almost a year now, the legislative branch has failed to check a president who repeatedly violates his oath, disregards the law, and endangers American interests at home and abroad.

Time and again, Congress, now led by Republicans, has chosen spineless complicity over its sworn responsibilities. From the reckless leaking of classified information that put American troops at risk, to the illegal use of military force destroying vessels and killing people in the Caribbean and the Pacific without congressional authorization, there has been a stunning absence of accountability.

No hearings.
No serious investigations.
No enforcement of checks and balances.
No accountability.

Again and again, the president has exceeded his authority, defied congressional intent, trampled the separation of powers, and broken the law - while Congress looked away in cowardice and submission.

Republicans in Congress own this corrosive collapse of our constitutional order. With only a handful of honorable exceptions, they have bent themselves to the will of Donald Trump, afraid to state in public the feelings they often communicate privately. That submission, this abandonment of independent judgment and constitutional courage, now stands as one of the greatest dangers to our nation and to the global order America claims to defend.

Nicolás Maduro is a brutal dictator who has committed grave abuses. The United States military remains the most capable fighting force on Earth, and our praiseworthy service members carry out their orders with professionalism and excellence.

But none of that suspends the Constitution.

The Constitution is unambiguous: Congress has the power and responsibility to authorize the use of military force and declare war. Congress has a duty of oversight. Congress must serve as a check, not a rubber stamp, to the President. On this count, Congress has failed.

We face an authoritarian-minded president who acts with dangerous growing impunity. He has shown a willingness to defy court orders, violate the law, ignore congressional intent, and shred basic norms of decency and democracy. This pattern will continue unless the Article I branch of government, especially Republican congressional leadership, finds the courage to act.

They must stop behaving as partisan puppets and start acting as patriotic constitutional stewards.

What happened today is wrong. Congressional Republicans would say so immediately if a Democratic president had done the same. Their silence is surrender. And in that surrender lie the seeds of our democratic unraveling.

There are still three years left in this administration. From the pardoning of individuals who violently attacked police officers while attempting to overturn our election to this latest extrajudicial assault on another nation’s sovereignty, the damage will continue unless it is confronted.

Enough is enough.

Congress has failed. But it is not too late to redeem the harm done by a year of submission and silence. Congress must act now. It must reassert its constitutional authority, restore the rule of law, and stop this president before further injury is done to our democracy and our republic.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.

The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Donald Trump will spend Christmas Eve with his billionaire friends at Mar-a-Lago on the taxpayers' dime.

Barack Obama spent his Christmas Eve as President surprising kids at a children's hospital. Don't forget what real leadership looks like.

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.

Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

[Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries]

Donald Trump should keep his reckless mouth shut.

[Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin]

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship.

[Compete.org @CompeteNow]

In our August #CompeteFellow Insight, Dr. Thomas A. Campbell warns of rising U.S. dependence on China for critical minerals and tools, and calls for a bold, coordinated strategy to restore America’s manufacturing autonomy. Read more here. https://t.co/XoN47PJqCT

[FutureGrasp @FutureGrasp]

Honored to have an OpEd published by the Council on Competitiveness today! https://t.co/6p2KlzCmnF

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

17 million people just lost health care.

18 million kids just lost school meals.

3 million Americans just lost food assistance.

And $3.5 trillion was added to the deficit.

All for a tax cut for Trump’s billionaire donors.

The ultimate betrayal.