NEWS: Trump's January 6th speech not an official act. Lawsuits can proceed.

A federal judge officially ruled that Donald Trump's January 6, 2021, speech at the Ellipse was a political act rather than an official presidential duty, meaning civil lawsuits against him can proceed.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta issued a 79-page ruling establishing that Trump is not shielded by presidential immunity for his remarks at the "Stop the Steal" rally. The court determined that the White House played no role in organizing or funding the rally, and no official government channels were used to promote the speech. Consequently, the decision paves the way for a civil trial brought by Democratic lawmakers and Capitol Police officers who are seeking damages for federal civil rights violations.

Key Legal Findings

• Unprotected Incitement: The court ruled that Trump’s rally remarks "plausibly" constituted inciting words. These statements are not protected by First Amendment free speech guarantees.
• Campaign vs. Official Duty: The content of the Ellipse speech was deemed strictly political and campaign-related, placing it entirely outside the "outer perimeter" of official presidential duties.
• Scope of Liability: While Trump remains liable for his rally speech and various campaign social media posts, Judge Mehta noted that Trump is still immune from civil liability regarding his official actions that day, such as his interactions with the Justice Department.

Litigation Outlook

The ruling allows multiple long-running civil cases in the Washington D.C. federal district court to move forward into the discovery and trial phases. Legal observers indicate that this sets a critical precedent regarding the boundaries of presidential immunity, potentially requiring Trump to personally appear at a civil trial to answer the claims.

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What really is sacred? Is there such thing? What is sacred, and what is action that is sacred? Action being living. To find this out, not verbally but with your heart, with your mind, with your whole being, because you understand the significance of it, you must put aside the word, the image, the symbol, the theory, the knowledge that you have considered sacred. You must put aside all these completely and utterly. You can make a stone into a holy or sacred thing. Thought can make anything sacred and holy, but it is not necessarily then holy. Is thought in itself sacred, however subtle, however refined, however beautiful or noble it may be? Or is it merely a mechanical thing, a response to various forms of memories, experiences and knowledge, and therefore quite mechanistic and of matter? You can or may call something holy or sacred. The human mind, with its tremendous longing for something imperishably beautiful, may call thought itself holy. But is it? To really find out or come upon it with your heart, one must discard everything that thought has created as sacred, everything that it has put together in the form of a book, and everything it has made by the mind or by the hand. All that must be set aside because man deceives himself so endlessly. The very illusion becomes sacred because he loves the illusion. The ugly can be made most beautiful by thought. The very evil, if one can use that word, can be made the most marvellous thing. So if the mind and heart are to find what is the most sacred thing and the most sacred way of living, one must set aside all this utterly and completely.

From Can the Mind Be Quiet?

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Hello distant people from who knows what corners on this round giant rock!

Today, after years of not being able to create anything new for TROM, I am releasing a new project: TROM Articles. See tromsite.com/articles/

Same as TROM Books, but in a different format. Makes more sense to have these pieces of content in this web-format rather than a PDF like the books were.

I am starting with an article about this project: TROM Articles.

But the main release is a massive article called Culture Cancer that I've been working on for the past year. This is an in-depth article about why groups of people hate other groups of people, and why culture can become cancerous. From Israel and Gaza, to Nazis and racism, I dissect this complex topic in a very simple to understand way.

I learned so much while doing this article. I learned to not hate even on those that are absolute monsters, because you get to learn where their hatred comes from. I learned how to communicate better with others and try to solve conflicts, even between friends, partners, family. I learned about the complex situation in Gaza or why the Nazis were such monsters. I learned about what cultures are and why variety is something to celebrate not differentiate. Learned about immigration or where racism comes from. What makes someone a terrorist? Or a white nationalist? Why are people putting themselves into groups and they hate on other groups of people?

A lot to unpack for such a complex topic, so I hope you get to learn a lot too. The article is full of links/sources, videos, documentaries, a course about culture, and even a quiz.

It makes us saner, smarter and more relaxed if we are educated. This is why I want TROM Articles to be a valuable place for that.

At times we may write smaller articles, but from time to time I want us to dissect important topics like the one above, or AI, or how we see the world, science, so much to learn about!

I am going through a lot recently, so I need a bit of time to be able to create new content. But I love doing this. Actually without it, I feel like I will collapse into a black hole. We may reboot TROMcast too, to discuss this topic. I may create videos as well. Let's see. I will let you know if/when these will happen.

I also feel forced to mention that it would help me so much if there would be more people supporting TROM financially. We ask for 5€ donations a month if possible. I feel sick even mentioning this, but since recently I was abandoned by my best friend, my partner with whom I was a team with and helped each other in all ways, then facing the world alone, physically, mentally and financially, has become a big fight for me now. I am asking for real donations not like "if you donate you get this". Everyone is treated equally and asked for a small and equal amount of money.

I hope I can make it, in all ways. Or at least in some ways. I have a lot to say and do. I want to create a Trade-Free Event and open the doors for more collaboration with TROM. Let's see where this goes.

Thank you for still being interested in this project that I hope will become a lot more relevant now with the new TROM Articles release!

PS: I know many people use mobile phones to "eat content". But I cannot guarantee these big articles are properly formatted for such tiny screens. Quite impossible the way I design them. So please, if you can, use a bigger device.

Posted by Gil Durán Sunday, July 12, 2026 a 3:23 PM

Yesterday two mysterious boxes arrived.
     
And here in my hand is my life's work: "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy". It tells the story of how a cult of billionaires became radicalized against democracy. And it exposes their plan to use AI and crypto to wipe the United States off the face of the earth.
     
Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat -- pre-order today! (See links below.)
     
- Simon and Schuster Books pre-order

From an earlier post November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM

My book will be published on August 4, 2026 -- two days after my 50th birthday! It's about a dangerous cult of Silicon Valley billionaires who plan to replace both democracy and god with a scary new religion that seeks to destroy the world for the sake of greed, power, and delusions of immortality...
     
Unless we destroy them first -- and I believe that we will. Let us be thankful for the chance.

See also:

• Wikipedia: Dark Enlightenment
• YouTube: American Conversations with Heather Cox Richardson: Technology reporter Gil Durán - Streamed live on Jun 6, 2025 - (26:49) - Transcript available

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En weer is het de politiek gelukt om een crisis te creëren die er niet was, en asielzoekers daar de schuld van te geven. In elke andere situatie met witte mensen had de politie gewoon ingegrepen, was er fatsoenlijke hulp en opvang gestuurd, waren hulporganisaties gesteund en had er al helemaal niemand buiten moeten slapen.

Maar de bedoeling is dat jij asielzoekers gaat haten. Dat je ze de schuld geeft van alles, terwijl Jettenbal en JeLiegDöz je zorg en je sociale zekerheid weggeven aan rijke stinkerds, je stroom en drinkwater aan AI en je centen aan wapentuig.

En bijna heel de comment sectie onder willekeurig welk nieuwsbericht trapt er in.

Waar een klein land groot in kan zijn: Pak je maat, niet je baas.
En baasje Van den Brink? Die snapt de machteloosheid van hulporganisaties wel. Die heeft hij immers zelf veroorzaakt.

De METRO heeft nog twijfel of het wel echt machteloosheid is. Ze zetten het tussen aanhalingstekens, niet alleen omdat het een quote is, maar wie weet, kunnen we die hulporganisaties later nog wel de schuld geven van hun eigen 'machteloosheid'.

Schreeuwwitje en de Boze Biefmoeder mogen dan uit de regering zijn gestapt, we worden nog steeds geregeerd door radicaal rechts.

Kop Metro: "Van den Brink snapt 'machteloosheid' hulporganisaties Ter Apel". Foto waarbij deze hypocriete minister heel ernstig en bezorgd de camera in kijkt.

Human beings have sought something beyond the physical, beyond the everyday existence of pain, of sorrow and pleasure. They have sought something beyond, first in the clouds: the thunder was the voice of God. Then they worshipped trees, stones. Villagers far away from the ugly, beastly towns still worship stones, trees and small images. Man wants to find out if there is something sacred, and the priest comes along and says, ‘I will show you,’ just as a guru does. The Western priest has his rituals, his repetitions, his fancy dress and worship of his particular image. And you have your own images. Or you don’t believe in any of that; you say you are an atheist. But you and the speaker want to find out something that may be beyond time, beyond all thought, so we are together going to inquire, exercise our brains, our reason, our logic, to find out what religion is, what a religious life is, and whether it is possible to live a religious life in this modern world. So let us find out for ourselves what is really, truly a religious life. That can only be found out when we understand what religions actually are and put aside all that, not belonging to any religion, to any organisation, to any guru, to any so-called spiritual authority. There is no spiritual authority whatsoever; that is one of the crimes we have committed; we have invented a mediator between truth and ourselves. When you begin to inquire into what religion is, you are living a religious life – not at the end of it. In the very process of looking, watching, discussing, doubting, questioning, having no beliefs or faith, you are already leading a religious life.

From Meeting Life

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