VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump makes unhinged threat ahead of election
In the incoherency of Trump's recent word salad interview with whatever "Real America Voice" is hides an attack on mail-in-ballots that could turn the election on its head.
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Trump just introduced a new, dangerous immigration proposal
Isabela Dias, Mother Jones: "One part of the GOP nominee’s weekend post stood out. '[We will] return Kamala’s illegal migrants to their home countries (also known as remigration),' Trump wrote. Former White House senior adviser Stephen Miller reposted it, saying “THE TRUMP PLAN TO END THE INVASION OF SMALL TOWN AMERICA: REMIGRATION!” 'Remigration' is the 'chilling notion of returning immigrants to their native lands in what amounts to a soft-style ethnic cleansing.' The word stands in for a policy that entails the forced repatriation or mass expulsion of non–ethnically European immigrants and their descendants, regardless of citizenship. With little fanfare, Trump seems to be hinting at bringing an even more radical idea into his immigration proposals (to Miller’s all-capped cheers) that goes further than the mass deportation of the undocumented population. If given the opportunity, Trump and his acolytes could turn hateful discourse into expulsion policies targeting all immigrants."
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New poll shows VP Harris and Trump NECK AND NECK in crucial swing state
WisDems: A new Emerson College poll shows presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and would-be-dictator Trump tied at 47% in the absolutely-must-win swing state of Wisconsin. The road to the White House and a Senate majority runs through Wisconsin, and Wisconsin Democrats are building a state-wide get-out-the-vote grassroots organizing machine to knock on every door and visit every county for VP Harris. But they can't do it alone. Will you chip in to help the best state party in the country save our democracy from Trump and his radical Project 2025 cronies?
Amber Thurman was killed by Georgia’s abortion ban. There will be others
Moira Donegan, The Guardian: "There are other names, but this is the one we know: Amber Thurman has become the first woman whose death was preventable in relation to an abortion ban since Dobbs. Her name and story have become public as reporting by ProPublica’s Kavitha Surana details how Thurman, a Black 28-year-old mother to a young son who had dreams of becoming a nurse, died a painful, preventable death in Georgia after doctors at a hospital there refused to perform a simple procedure that could have saved her life – because the law did not allow them. The story highlights the reality of abortion bans, which – even in states like Georgia, with putative exceptions for maternal health – in practice impose death sentences on women who seek to end their pregnancies, or who experience severe complications. They force doctors to choose between medical best practices and their own legal protection – and in the process, the lives of women are treated as alarmingly disposable. Amber will never live her dream of going to nursing school. Her best friend, Ricaria Baker, who drove her to the North Carolina clinic, will never laugh with her again. Her mother has lost a child. Her son, who was six when Thurman died, will grow up without his mother: she will never get to know the man he becomes, and he will never get to understand her as an adult. All because the self-interest of cynical Republican politicians, the treacly, misogynist sentimentality of the anti-choice movement, and the myopic bigotry of six supreme court justices were deemed more important than her life, her dreams, her ambitions and all the love her family had for her. We do know that there almost certainly are other women like Thurman. We may well never know their stories, their names. But we know that we are worse off without them; we know that they deserved better; we know that their lives mattered – more than politics and more than other people’s religion. We can pray for those who loved them, and we can fight for those that will come next. And we can hope, too, that Amber Thurman’s face will haunt the nightmares of those who are responsible. I know she will haunt mine."
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Sen. John Kennedy used a Senate hearing on hate crimes to spew hate
Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC: "What a shameful display. Berry was called in as an expert from a civil rights organization to talk about the domestic issue of hate crimes. But the Kennedy was only interested in smearing an Arab American witness as a supporter of foreign American adversaries. He did so not by referring to her past conduct or positions, but simply putting words in her mouth, and then refusing to accept any of her statements as true. Kennedy’s grotesque bigotry undermines the very concept of democratic discourse, in which citizens’ interests are defined by their actions and their words, not their ethnic background or their gender or sexual orientation. Whether sincere or not, Kennedy’s refusal to take Berry at her word is a refusal to accept her as a legitimate citizen. And as Berry pointed out, Kennedy’s behavior underscored exactly why hate crimes are a problem in America — too many Americans fall prey to the fallacy of generalizing about marginalized identities and vilifying them."
Surely New York politics doesn't have to be this bad
Liz Featherstone, Jacobin: "This is probably the craziest time in New York City politics in a while. Last week, the FBI seized the cell phones and computers of top officials in Mayor Eric Adams’s administration, as part of an ongoing corruption investigation. His police commissioner resigned as a result. Unrelatedly, an internal report revealed that Department of Education employees took their families on trips to Disneyworld that were intended for homeless kids. Two former fire chiefs were indicted Monday for bribery and corruption. This comes on top of earlier investigations related to the Turkish government. It’s obvious to everyone that the federal government has something massive to drop on Adams or people very close to him — we just don’t know yet what it is. And then there’s Sunday’s mass shooting on the subway — by cops. But even before this series of cascading disasters, Adams was an awful mayor, seemingly engaged in a kind of vendetta against the working-class New Yorkers who voted for him. During a time when those New Yorkers have struggled terribly and left the city in large numbers because of the high cost of housing and childcare, Adams doubled down on austerity, cutting library, school, and childcare budgets. His cuts to public preschool alone totaled some $400 million, according to the Independent Budget Office. The mayoral appointees that make up his Rent Guidelines Board have approved three rounds of increases on rent-stabilized apartments, even as it becomes disturbingly common to see human beings sleeping on the streets. All these events feel like the death rattle of the Adams administration."
Brian Tyler Cohen makes MAJOR announcement
Shameless by Brian Tyler Cohen: Everybody's favorite YouTube commentator, podcaster, and MSNBC contributor Brian Tyler Cohen has written a book, SHAMELESS: Republicans’ Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy! Shameless breaks down the lies and hypocrisies of a Republican Party steeped in MAGA mania and what steps Democrats must take to fight back, with a special foreword by Rep. Jamie Raskin. Pre-order your copy here!
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