VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump-appointed judge shuts down Trump in court
The viciously overzealous and indiscriminate thugs at Trump’s ICE have once again deported an American citizen — this time, a two-year-old child, identified only as “VML,” was shipped overseas without any due process...and that's according to a judge that Trump himself appointed. Judge Terry Doughty said that there was "strong suspicion" that the child - identified only as VML - was deported "with no meaningful process," and reminded the Trump team that "it is illegal and unconstitutional to deport, detain for deportation, or recommend deportation of a US citizen." Now let's see some action to get these kids back.
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Trump is failing in one big way: Americans are rejecting his fascism
Greg Sargent, The New Republic: "Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency this time around on the most openly ethno-nationalist platform in memory, one he explicitly promised to implement with undisguised authoritarian measures. After he took office, and the forced disappearances and renditions to foreign gulags got going, there was reason to fear that he’d successfully acclimated voters to such tactics, and that he’d ride a wave of approval on the then-thriving economy to seal public approval of them for good. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll, released Friday, is only the most recent of many surveys to find Trump slipping underwater on immigration, which has been his best issue. The poll finds that a majority of Americans, 53 percent, disapprove of his handling of the issue, while only 46 percent approve. But the Post poll is also notable for another crushing finding for Trump: He is badly underwater on immigration among independents. Importantly, this is true both on attitudes toward Trump’s handling of immigration generally and on the specifics. Trump is bleeding independent support in general. As CNN analyst Harry Enten recently detailed, aggregated polling shows that Trump is underwater with this demographic by 22 points, the worst ever in presidential polling. Trump’s hemorrhaging among independents surely has a lot to do with the economy. But it’s likely immigration is playing a role here, as well, because independents are turning on Trump on this issue too. All this also explains why Democrats shouldn’t fear engaging on these matters. Those jarring images of unchecked lawlessness, which are generating relentless media coverage in exactly those terms, have the capacity to create a sense of crisis... rather than fear the 'immigration' issue as this fixed thing that voters are brainlocked into seeing as an immutable Trump strength, Democrats should understand this moment differently. Such powerful, attention-grabbing imagery can inspire the sense that something is profoundly amiss—that bedrock societal principles are in deep peril—which can cut through the fractured media environment and jog people out of their information silos.
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Deb Haaland vows to protect us from Trump and his billionaire allies
Deb Haaland for Governor: Deb Haaland has fiercely fought for justice and delivered results for working people throughout her life, be it as an organizer, from the halls of Congress, or as Secretary of the Department of the Interior. She will always refuse to sit idly by while Trump and his un-elected billionaire allies unleash chaos across the country and give polluters free rein to destroy our pristine wilderness. We can help Deb fight back against Trump by electing her to the governor’s office in New Mexico. Will you chip in to help this fierce public servant answer the call to service once again?
A 60 Minutes resignation highlights the corporate media’s surrender to Trump
Jeet Heer, The Nation: "Since 2016, Bill Owens has led 60 Minutes—he was only the third executive producer in the CBS News show’s history. When he addressed his staff on Tuesday in a memo announcing his resignation, he began, 'The fact is that Sixty Minutes has been my life.' This is not an exaggeration. Owens has been at CBS News for 37 years, most of those at 60 Minutes. As is typical for a journalist of his stature, he’s at times shunted his personal life aside in the service of his career. By foregrounding the private costs of the job at the start of the letter, Owens was making explicit that his departure was no ordinary career move: It was a ritual self-sacrifice designed to get the attention of his superiors and shame them into righting a great wrong. Owens was killing his career to make a point. Owens believed that 60 Minutes was abandoning basic journalistic principles by caving in to Donald Trump. 60 Minutes has been in the president’s gunsight for months. Trump claims that an interview 60 Minutes aired last October was deceptively edited, and he launched a $10 billion lawsuit for damages done by the program. Normally, such a ridiculous claim would be dismissed as a nuisance suit. But CBS, which is owned by Paramount, has been keen to appease the president. Owens crafted his resignation to embarrass his bosses and inspire journalists at 60 Minutes and elsewhere. One CBS employee, speaking under conditions of anonymity, told CNN, 'He sacrificed himself hoping it might make our corporate overlords wake up and realize they risk destroying what makes 60 Minutes great.' With both the universities and the media, the existing economic inequality makes Trump’s autocratic aspirations easier to fulfill. Universities are beholden to large donors who share many of Trump’s political beliefs, and the same is true of media corporations. Even when the leaders of these institutions disagree with Trump, their economic interests make them vulnerable to a hostile presidency. These stories add up to a pattern: Corporate media is bending the knee to Trump. Sadly, Owens might have sacrificed his career in vain. We might hope he ignites a resistance in the newsroom, but it’s just as likely the submissiveness of the corporate owners of media outlets will only intensify. If so, Americans would be well advised to turn off 60 Minutes and other mainstream outlets."
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Starving the world's poor is one of Trump's most reprehensible acts
Nathan J. Robinson, Current Affairs: "n his first 100 days, Donald Trump has done so many horrific things that it can be difficult to keep track of them all. With so much chaos in Washington, we have to work hard to keep focused on what matters most and avoid getting distracted by “palace drama” (such as the beef between Elon Musk and Trump economic adviser Peter Navarro). We have to focus our outrage on the most consequential and deadly decisions. That’s why there needs to be far more protest against Trump’s shuttering of vital aid programs abroad, a decision that has already started killing people and will kill hundreds of thousands if not millions more in the coming years. This may be one of the most evil things a U.S. president has ever done, and that’s saying a lot. Neither Musk nor Trump seems to have cared about the horrifying human consequences of the blanket cancelation of aid programs. With the elimination of treatment for conditions resulting from malnutrition, Nature reports that the “termination of US-funded programmes (worth $128 million in 2022) alone will keep one million children from accessing such treatments, causing an extra 163,500 child deaths yearly.” (The 'pronatalist' crowd has thus far been remarkably silent on this.) Nature also notes that “the number of deaths might be an underestimate, because the aid cuts threaten a huge array of nutrition-supporting programmes, including health, agriculture, school feeding and water and sanitation. Soon we might see many more millions of children around the world developing wasting, stunted growth and micronutrient malnutrition.” One of the reasons this story isn’t getting as much attention as it deserves is that the U.S. media simply does not treat African lives as being as important as American lives. Another problem here, however, is that language is hopelessly inadequate for conveying the moral import of the problem. An aid worker calls the situation “catastrophic,” but so many things are catastrophic now that the word’s meaning has been dulled. But with so much going on domestically, Africa is easier than ever to overlook. We can’t let that happen. The people who depend on lifesaving aid are at risk right now, and they will live or die based on what happens in this country politically in the next months and years. Every American has an obligation to to stand up and fight to save these people from being killed by venal billionaires to whom the global poor are considered worthless and disposable."
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