X social media site down today / Vermont AG filed sixth anti-Trump lawsuit last week
By Paul Bean
On Saturday, Elon Musk called out Democrat funded organizations responsible for on-going nation-wide protests harassing Tesla dealerships.
Last week, protests of Vice President JD Vance’s ski trip to Vermont were planned by the Mad River Valley Chapter of Indivisible Project, one of the national organizations mentioned by Musk, Saturday. Their website says, “We’re a grassroots movement of thousands of local Indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda.”
Musk is a tech-billionaire and founder of Tesla who oversees the recently created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Vermont AG files 6th anti-Trump lawsuit – In other Vermont-related protest against DOGE, Attorney General Charity Clark announced March 7 she had filed her sixth lawsuit, with other state attorneys general, against the Trump administration: a suit to stop mass firing of federal probationary employees, one of the DOGE cost-cutting measures. In the same release, Clark cites the other five:
- Birthright citizenship ban (EO) – A preliminary injunction was granted, blocking the ban, while the lawsuit proceeds.
- Federal funding freeze or “OMB Memo” – A preliminary injunction was granted yesterday, March 6, stopping the Trump administration from pausing billions of federal assistance funding to the states that sued.
- Freeze of National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants – A preliminary injunction was granted on Wednesday, March 5, barring the Trump administration’s attempt to cut billions in funding for critical biomedical and public health research.
- Elon Musk and the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE)’s unauthorized access to the Treasury Department’s systems – a preliminary injunction was granted, blocking access by DOGE while the lawsuit proceeds.
- Unlawful delegation of executive power to Elon Musk – The case will proceed to expedited discovery where the States will seek information regarding DOGE’s current operations and future plans. The States anticipate filing a motion for a preliminary injunction by mid-April.
A statement about the Treasury suit signed by Clark and other Attorneys General said, “As the richest man in the world, Elon Musk is not used to being told ‘no,’ but in our country, no one is above the law. The President does not have the power to give away our private information to anyone he chooses, and he cannot cut federal payments approved by Congress.”
X DOWN – Meanwhile, Musk’s social media platform X is currently down and the outage has not yet been explained by their X.
Indivisible – “IMRV is completely volunteer-driven,” says the Indivisable Chapter of Mad River Valley donation page with a link to an Act Blue donation link, the Democratic Party’s fundraising apparatus mentioned above by Musk. “Your donation will support the direct costs of our activism. We need to fight fascists and save Democracy!”
“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent handed Musk access to the system that moves trillions of dollars,” says another section of Indivisible’s national website titled ‘Stop the Trump Musk Coup.’ “What’s the plan? Cut off funding for social programs? Leak financial data to his private empire?,” continues their website. “No one knows—because there is no oversight. No one elected this man. And yet, now he’s holding the government’s financial infrastructure hostage.”
“PLEASE DONATE TODAY before you forget.” IMRV wrote on their Facebook Page.”And guess what? No Donation is TOO LARGE!”
Comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore mocked the protesters of Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Sugarbush last weekend for a ski trip with his family and accurately claimed their Democrat Party connections. “So they’re just horrible Democrats,” continued Jimmy. So that’s all this is. A ‘grassroots organization group… I bet they’re taking dark money…By grassroots they mean founded by congressional staffers with dark money, I think that’s what they mean by grassroots.”
A website photo of Indivisible members visiting with a staffer at the Vermont office of Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vermont) seems to validate at least some of Dore’s claims. As for Dore’s claims about dark money, here is a link to Indivisible’s national organizations financials.
Bernie-backing group behind February Tesla protest – Similar to current protests happening at Tesla dealerships around the country, on February 13, a group of Vermonters protested Elon Musk’s role in the Presidential administration. These protesters gathered outside the showroom in South Burlington and protests do not appear to be associated with any of the organizations mentioned by Musk, however one organizer posted prior to the event:
“This is a 50501 spin-off protest. There is no one organization or leader. This is spontaneous outrage-combustion. It will happen nationally starting next week. JOIN US.”
The 50501 (fifty fifty-one) Movement is a political activist group, which aims to unite citizens across the US in resistance to the Trump administration’s policies. The name “50501” stands for “50 protests. 50 states. 1 day.” The movement was created in response to what organisers view as “anti-democratic and illegal actions” by President Trump, including his executive orders and leadership decisions.
While Fifty Fifty One appears to be a relatively new organization with limited information on their funding or who is behind them, one of their partners is The Political Revolution PAC. “Our founders also started Sanders for President, the single largest online community dedicated to Senator Sanders’s presidential bid,” says the Political Revolution’s website.” Purely through the use of volunteers that group raised more than $10 million and reached millions of people per month….Our political action committee is dedicated to electing progressive candidates and supporting issue-focused efforts to transform our government so it represents all our citizens, not just the wealthy few.”
