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Can we call them racist yet?

The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the f...

In remarks to a private audience in 2023, Russell Vought, who is Trump’s budget chief and the intellectual force behind Trump’s unprecedented power grab, said he championed the term “invasion” because it “unlocked” extraordinary presidential powers.

(Published May)
By @mtredden.bsky.social

And here is the other function of the autocratic state: Protect the supporters of the regime - and thereby encourage self-proclaimed rightwing "patriots" and white militants to use whatever force they please to “fight back” against anything and anyone deemed the “enemy within.”

Now that I've failed to fulfill my promise to "end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, it is no longer important. It doesn't affect us.

you could launch a left leaning youtube/tiktok channel that is just attractive people highlighting viral clips from cable news/wild feeds/citizen video and get millions of views. it would be more media infrastructure than liberals/dems have invested in in 25 years.

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations."

Now that I've failed to fulfill my promise to "end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, it is no longer important. It doesn't affect us.

The Former Lobbyists Making Key Decisions at the E.P.A.

Top industry lobbyists and other officials who have opposed pesticide safety and environmental regulation, are now in charge at EPA.(and OSHA and MSHA.) The entire leadership of the office that regulates pesticides "comes directly from industry."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/c...

SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.

SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience."

www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

My “secret plan” to beat this supply shock? Stop creating it.

Roll back the tariff brinkmanship, restore a stable policy regime.

Less uncertainty → more investment → better supply → lower inflation and steadier jobs.

Trump’s Tony Soprano Presidency Is Bleeding the Country Dry The thrill many felt of having a made-for-TV-mobster president is gone.

"Trump, who values loyalty and servitude above all, doesn’t even pretend to be the steward of a country of 330 million people."

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Art of Letting Trump Claim a Win, While Walking Away Stronger

GIFT: People like Trump are the easiest mfers to manipulate because all you have to do is shower him with praise to get whatever you want.

It doesn't speak highly for Republican voters, but we have been in an information war, which Dems have been slow to acknowledge.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...

How and Where the National Guard Has Deployed to U.S. Cities (Gift Article) See where the troops called upon by President Trump are working, what they are doing, and under whose authority.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Republican Health Care Trap, Episode 78 As the shutdown drags on, the GOP croons its old tune: replacing Obamacare.

Unicorns are more likely to exist than the Republicans' perfect Obamacare replacement www.thebulwark.com/p/the-republ...

Toyota says it did not explicitly promise Trump new $10 billion investment in US (Refiles to restore garbled words in final paragraph) TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Toyota Motor did not explicitly promise a new $10 billion investment in the United States, a senior executive said on We...

It was obvious at the time that all these commitments were just words. Apple, Microsoft, Toyota, none of them made a legally binding commitment to do anything. But Trump got his announcement, which was the whole point.

He'll do the same thing this week w/ China
finance.yahoo.com/news/toyota-...

Yes it is.
Every day we are seeing next level authoritarianism.
Thank John Roberts and his idiotic, historically incompetent, opinion that granted Trump total immunity.

GM lays off more than 1,700 at sites in Michigan, Ohio, citing EV challenges General Motors laid off more than 1,700 workers across manufacturing sites in Michigan and Ohio, the company confirmed to CNBC.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/g...

Amazon laying off about 14,000 corporate workers as it invests more in AI The company said it's cutting roles in order to help make the company leaner and less bureaucratic, while it looks to invest in generative AI.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/a...

Toyota says it did not explicitly promise Trump new $10 billion investment in US (Refiles to restore garbled words in final paragraph) TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Toyota Motor did not explicitly promise a new $10 billion investment in the United States, a senior executive said on We...

It was obvious at the time that all these commitments were just words. Apple, Microsoft, Toyota, none of them made a legally binding commitment to do anything. But Trump got his announcement, which was the whole point.

He'll do the same thing this week w/ China
finance.yahoo.com/news/toyota-...

27% of Florida is on the ACA. 20% receive a subsidy, #1 in the country. More than 3 million Floridians are about to lose the subsidy that makes insurance affordable

Why do people vote against their own interests? Because they know more about Biden's pen than they do about their own health insurance

Look at that list of facts, now imagine Biden or Harris were president right now. It would be the apocalypse. Instead, I can't find a single story on home page about any of it

Tim Steller's column: Feds trying to criminalize protest in Tucson, elsewhere For Star subscribers: When it comes to protests against ICE tactics, the federal government is working to frame free speech and assembly as incipient domestic terrorism.

Column: A Tucson man got a visit from FBI agents seeking the shadowy group behind a protest he attended. There was none, but the visit kept him from going to the next protest. The episode reflects the Trump administration's criminalization of protest, notably against ICE.
tucson.com/news/local/s...

27% of Florida is on the ACA. 20% receive a subsidy, #1 in the country. More than 3 million Floridians are about to lose the subsidy that makes insurance affordable

Why do people vote against their own interests? Because they know more about Biden's pen than they do about their own health insurance

Look at that list of facts, now imagine Biden or Harris were president right now. It would be the apocalypse. Instead, I can't find a single story on home page about any of it

Why We Fight On raising children during an authoritarian slide.

"Flash is older now and has experienced adversity. He no longer believes in magic....Last week a student at the college he’ll be attending was arrested by ICE and disappeared into the system. This is the world into which I am sending my son." www.thebulwark.com/p/why-we-fig...

Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme about school shooting A Middle Tennessee sheriff is defending the arrest of a man for posting an online meme quoting President Donald Trump.

Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Glad to hear.

This'll change quickly when Gestapo 2.0 is the only one hiring anymore. Between tariffs, economic downturn, and AI job-cuts like Amazon announced yesterday, we're not very far from that.

That's the thing about Constitutions, you're not supposed to be able to go around them. But Republicans all serve Trump, not the Constitution they swore an oath to. They only ever cared about power & they don't feel the need to pretend anymore.

It's all just one big Emoluments Clause to them.