CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@ryanjyoder @mastodonmigration the people suffering who are seriously loyal Dems with few or no ties to GOP voters are very willing to endure the pain to crush Trump's approval. But racist, right-wing Dems led by John Fetterman want to help Trump toward racist dictatorship. They have divided loyalties.

@mastodonmigration @ryanjyoder the suffering at the airports was a HUGE problem for Trump & Republicans. Their approval was plunging, along with their midterm prospects. Shutdowns reliably do that. The caving is Dems helping the GOP. It's horrible and incredibly dangerous to those caving Dems themselves. I do understand that the pressure to cave is coming from the many Dem VOTERS who have personal ties to GOP voters, and who share the bigotry & hatred of GOPers to some degree.

@mastodonmigration @ryanjyoder Dems hands are not tied at all. The most loyal Dem voters are fine enduring the pain. It's Dems like Schumer(and yes there are quite a lot of them) who have ties to Republicans who get antsy whenever Trump's approval is about to drop below 40%. Time and again Dems cave whenever that happens, and many Dem voters assist Trump's march toward racist dictatorship because they share the GOP's racism.

If you look at Trump's insane cabinet meetings, the people next to him are Marco Rubio & Pete Hegseth. Neither is working on inflation or affordability, both of which were heavily cited by GOP voters as the top reason they voted for Epstein's best friend to hide the Epstein files. Rubio & Hegseth overwhelmingly work on war, and Hegseth in fact has renamed his department to the Department of War, and his own title to Secretary of War. Yet many claim they voted for Trump cuz he's a peacenik.

Trump himself voted by mail in this election, while fighting hard in the Senate to ban mail-in voting for everyone else.

Democrat flips Republican-held Florida state House district that includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago

Democrat Emily Gregory won a special election Tuesday for the Florida state House district that includes President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, flipping the seat from Republican control, The Associated Press projects

NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)

@EugeneMcParland European racists/Nazis continue to trap Europe on fossil fuels, and fight renewable energy. It's the same or worse in the USA.

Latinos and other non-black people of color mostly voted for Trump and Republicans. Non-black naturalized citizens mostly voted for Trump and Republicans.

Trump administration is deporting parents without their children in violation of its own policies, report finds

Dozens said they weren’t given chance to arrange care for their kids after being deported at short notice, study shows

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Stars and Stripes first covered the U.S. military during the Civil War, and has been published continuously since World War II. It is owned by the Defense Department but is largely staffed by civilian reporters and editors. By Congressional mandate, it has operated independently since the 1990s.

But under the Trump administration, the Pentagon has appeared to try to end that Congressional mandate.

Pentagon tightens controls over Stars and Stripes after calling it "woke"

The new rules for the independent military newspaper are the Defense Department's latest effort to put extraordinary restrictions on journalists covering the agency.

NPR (www.npr.org)