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Philip Bump offers a chart based on UN vote data to show US support for Russia or for Europe from the Reagan presidency through the Trump presidency.
#Trump #UN #Europe #NSS #Russia #Putin #Ukraine #Zelensky #NATO
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Data is anti-fascist
Last week, this newsletter was refreshingly apolitical. Well, that was then. Chapter 1 What they want you to believe about immigrants You don't need to travel too far up the branches of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's …Philip Bump (How To Read This Chart)
"House Oversight Committee Members who went on TV yesterday seemed shocked by what they received this week from the Epstein estate. For among the tens of thousands of photos they received were ones that showed people in sex acts, and this now infamous one of Epstein and top Trump advisor Steve Bannon. Note the passed out woman in the photo on Epstein’s desk." (The photo is below.)
#Trump #Epstein #SteveBannon #EconomicElites #CoverUp
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"I just don’t know he survives what is about to happen. DOJ must, by law, release all the Epstein files by this coming Friday. The small release from the Oversight Committee yesterday put Trump himself right in the middle of it all (again), including this incredible photo (see below):
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #CoverUp
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In 2026 Democrats Can Be Both Warriors For Working People Against Oligarchy AND Proud Patriots Fighting For Democracy Here And Abroad
In recent weeks the threat Trump represents to democracy here and abroad has become far more clear. Pro-democracy forces must forcefully rise to the challenge in the months aheadSimon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
"Blaming others for exposing evidence is not a defense. Claiming you had 'nothing' to do with Epstein despite all the evidence to the contrary just raises suspicion."
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #CoverUp
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"If the president truly had no meaningful relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, transparency would be the obvious remedy. Release the full files. Let the public see the record. Instead, the White House is attempting to discredit disclosure itself. The images, drawn from Epstein’s own materials, raise disturbing questions about Trump’s proximity to Epstein and the world he inhabited."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #CoverUp
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"A new Reuters-Ipsos poll shows that a whopping 70% of Americans believe the regime is hiding information about the Epstein case. And overall, 52% of those surveyed said they disapprove of Trump’s handling of the scandal. Only 23% approve, largely because they have been brainwashed by Fox and the MAGA machine."
~ Scott Dworkin
#Trump #Epstein #EconomicElites #CoverUp
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"There’s even a novelty condom with Donald’s face printed on it, captioned 'I’m huge.' It sounds absurd, but nothing about this is humorous. It reflects the culture Epstein built—and the company Donald knowingly chose."
#Epstein #Trump #SteveBannon #BillClinton #AlanDershowitz #WoodyAllen #NoamChomsky #RichardBranson
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"Different settings, different years, same company. The question isn’t why people are asking questions now—it’s why it took this long for this evidence to reach the public.
Some of the most disturbing photos show Donald posing with women and girls—victims whose faces have been redacted for protection."
#Epstein #Trump #SteveBannon #BillClinton #AlanDershowitz #WoodyAllen #NoamChomsky #RichardBranson
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"Donald appears in the images multiple times, as do Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, and Alan Dershowitz.
These are not partisan attacks. These are official materials released through a congressional oversight process—real images, real people, real victims. And something is immediately clear: Donald doesn’t appear once. He appears repeatedly."
#Epstein #Trump #SteveBannon #BillClinton #AlanDershowitz #WoodyAllen #NoamChomsky #RichardBranson
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"Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released new photos provided directly by Epstein’s estate. These aren’t screenshots from the internet or recycled speculation. They are personal photographs from Epstein’s own collection—images of him relaxing, celebrating, and traveling with powerful friends on his properties and private jet."
~ Mary Trump
#Epstein #Trump #SteveBannon #BillClinton #AlanDershowitz #WoodyAllen #NoamChomsky #RichardBranson
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"When asked about the millions facing higher costs or loss of coverage, Trump dismissed the concern, telling reporters to 'stop being so dramatic.'
That response captures the cruelty at the heart of this moment. A governing party is openly advancing a platform that strips health care away from working families."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Republicans #HealthInsurance #ACA #cruelty
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"a political system that has allowed costs for most goods for most Americans to rise outside their comfort level — and just allowed health costs to spike even further — and an electorate that is screaming for change.
If the midterms are an affordability election, Trump and the Republicans will likely do very poorly."
#Trump #ApprovalRating #economy #affordability #HealthInsurance #ACA #premiums
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"This new poll comes after others have shown a nearly all-time low in the University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentiment, the president falling with independents, and even losing inflation-conscious Republicans.
So the basic backdrop going into the 2026 election year looks like this: We have a president who says 'affordability' is a partisan gimmick, " (continued in /3)
G. Ellliott Morris notes that polls show nearly half of voters say either "jobs and the economy" or "prices and inflation" are the # 1 issue facing the country today. And these "affordability voters" favor Dems by 12 points in the generic ballot:
"In a new poll from the Associated Press and NORC released this week, Trump earned his lowest approval rating on the economy ever in any AP-NORC survey."
#Trump #ApprovalRating #economy #affordability
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Affordability voters favor Democrats over Republicans for 2026 House midterms
Voters who say the economy or inflation are their #1 issue are D+12 in the generic ballot, and give Trump a net job approval rating of -20G. Elliott Morris (Strength In Numbers)
"No president in American history has profited off the presidency the way Donald Trump has—and it’s not close. ...
That’s why we’ve had a hard time picking the worst instances of his corrupt self-enrichment, not to mention that of his cronies and family. So if you don’t see your favorite scheme on this list, don’t worry—there are too many! Here’s our latest Top 10 Worst list…."
~ Norman Eisen and Gabriel Lezra
Jill Marie O'Brien reposts a posting by Amy Siskind noting that even Fox News is turning on the Trump-RFKJr attack on vaccines and vaccination.
#Trump #RFKJr #CDC #vaccines #disinformation #science #research #measles #epidemic #SouthCarolina #MAGA #FoxNews
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"This document basically ... is fundamentally hostile to the European Union because A, it sees it as a potential bulwark against an illiberal United States aligning with autocracies, and B, it really does not want to see an integrated liberal organization succeed."
#Trump #NSS #immigrants #Europe #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"It's a very interesting statement to just say the era of mass migration is over as a basis of American foreign policy. The era of mass migration is not over because the problems driving migration are not going away and in many cases they're getting worse."
~ Joe Stieb
#Trump #NSS #immigrants #Europe #WhiteSupremacy #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The Culture War Eats Foreign Policy
Join Samantha and guest Joe Stieb, assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill, as they talk about Donald Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy. This strange do...YouTube
"Support for Trump’s immigration policies have dropped across nearly every demographic over the first year of Trump’s second term. Today, only 43% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing handling immigration, a decrease of 5 percentage points since March 2025. Notably, the steepest decline in approval over the past year—11 points—comes from political independents. ...
The data shows that Americans overwhelmingly reject Trump’s mass deportation policies."
#Trump #immigrants #ICE
/19
"While the Catholic bishops may be showing signs of ambivalence, there are signs that Americans overall are sympathetic to these churches who are taking a stand. This week, PRRI released new analysis of American attitudes on immigration reform that show Americans are rejecting Trump’s dehumanizing, racist rhetoric and harsh immigration policies."
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #CatholicBishops
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Robert P. Jones notes that though the US Catholic bishops have issued a rare statement condemning Trump's attacks on Immigrants, the archdiocese of Boston has leaned on a Catholic parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, to take down its Christmas creche, which indicts ICE for cruelty to immigrants.
He writes,
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #CatholicBishops
/17
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ICE and Empty Mangers: New Polling Shows Americans Reject Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda
PLUS, an announcement about my next book.Robert P. Jones (White Too Long by Robert P. Jones)
"One key difference between 1930s Germany and 2020s USA is that 1930s Germany didn't have 90 years of books, movies, and documentaries warning it about 1930s Germany."
~ Tom Lennon
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Nazis
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"It tends to pit the kind of middle class white upper middle class white person is the victim you know, the culture is changing and it's, it's toxic and it's terrible. And we have to fight against this, you know, horrible, evil culture. And it, it, it just, it's like a, it's kind of like a, I call it the rollercoaster paranoia."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants #FoxNews
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"Fox news is kind of a paranoia fear rollercoaster for folks who a lot of them are near the end of their life. They're seniors. They've been retired for years and years and they sit down, they turn it on. And it's this, kind of constant they're coming for you and we'll save you and don't worry."
~ Juliet Jeske
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants #FoxNews
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How Right-Wing Media Keeps Us Outraged | It's the Democracy, Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath & Juliet Jeske
Juliet watches Fox News so you don't have to. She breaks down why it's not really a news outlet — it's a fear-conditioning system.Edwin Eisendrath (Lincoln Square)
"No rejection, no detention, no zip ties or shackles. Jesus, Joseph and Mary immigrated to Egypt. Jesus was an immigrant."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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"In this Christmas season, all of us who say we are Christian have to remember that in our faith story, a tyrant King seeks to kill all the babies in his empire out of spite and threat. Jesus’ parents take him to Egypt to keep him alive. They seek refuge and safety and are welcomed their."
~ Jacqui Lewis
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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Jesus was an immigrant
The church MUST respond to the current crisis with love.Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis (Fierce Love)
"White Christians, who are America’s most conservative citizens, hold the most radically right wing views on immigration, per the lates information from the Public Religion Research Institute. ... They would definitely deport baby Jesus."
~ Joy-Ann Reid and Kahlil Greene
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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Fox's Jingle Bells crash-out, Kahlil, and me
The Foxies launch their annual "war on Christmas" charade by attacking me for boosting a young historian's postJoy-Ann Reid (Welcome to Joy's House!)
"We find those Americans who are the strongest adherents to that ideology, about one in 10 Americans, really look very distinct on immigration policy. They're, I think, the most draconian in their views about immigration."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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"I think, for me, the biggest takeaway from the [PRRI] survey is that the Trump administration's second term immigration agenda is mobilizing his base, particularly white evangelical Protestants and Christian nationalists, but it's really alienating a lot of other Americans across the board."
~ Melissa Deckman
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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Trump: An Unpopular Populist President?
Melissa Deckman reveals rapidly declining support for Trump's immigration policies.The Contrarian
"White Christian groups are the most likely to approve of the job Trump is doing handling immigration, including nearly three in four white evangelical Protestants. A majority of white mainline/non-evangelical Protestants (62%) and white Catholics (59%) also approve of Trump’s job on immigration."
~ PRRI
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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The New Immigration Crackdown: Where Americans Stand - PRRI
A new PRRI report considers how receptive Americans are to the second Trump administration’s handling of immigration and their support for several different…PRRI
(continued from /6)
"that if human enslavement could not spread to the West, the growing population of Black Americans in the South would overwhelm them, probably with violence."
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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"The MAGA claim that white Christians in the United States and Europe are engaged in an existential fight to protect their superior race from being overwhelmed by inferior racial stocks has roots in the U.S. that reach all the way back to the fears of white southerners in the 1850s" (continued in /7)
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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December 12, 2025
Today former Alabama senator Doug Jones launched his campaign to become the state’s next governor.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"The coercive powers of the state would be mobilized to curtail the rights of those who dare to deviate and entrench a tiered system of participation defined by hierarchies of race, gender, religion, wealth, and ancestry. A segregationist policy would restore white male dominance in elite institutions as well as across all spheres of American life."
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism #patriarchy #heterosexism #women #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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"Donald Trump pursues a political project for which white nationalism serves as an organizing principle. ...
The Trumpists desire to drastically narrow the boundaries of who gets to belong, they seek to purge all others from the 'homeland.' Those who are left would be living in a society that is not only unequal but has ostracized egalitarian aspirations as heresy."
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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(continued from /3)
"and to fight instead for white Christian male supremacy at home and in the world. ...
That is true for Donald Trump himself also. He is not just a grumpy old man indulging in racist stereotypes, but a politician committed to a worldview shaped and organized by racism and white supremacy. What is on display here is not just personal bigotry."
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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"They are tied to a much broader rightwing attempt to reconceptualize national identity and drastically narrow the boundaries of who gets to belong. They are actualizations of the Right’s defining project: To roll back any progress towards egalitarian pluralism, to vanquish the very idea that America should aspire to be a nation defined by equal citizenship in a pluralistic, multiracial society," (continued in /4)
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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The NSS document tries to bully Europe into adopting MAGA notions of white supremacy and Christian nationalism as guiding principles. Zimmer says,
"These aren’t just a few racist outbursts or isolated escalations. These are not separate policy initiatives. These are manifestations of a worldview defined by white nationalism as its organizing principle."
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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Thomas Zimmer notes that after the shooting of National Guard members in D.C., Trump said that he would shut the doors of America to anyone "non-compatible with Western civilization." He then attacked Somali immigrantss and Ilhan Omar, calling them "garbage." Kristi Noem's followed by calling immigranta "foreign invaders." Stephen Miller attacked birthright ciitzenship. Then there's the new NSS document.
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism
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Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalistSteady
Jeremy Scahill is arguably the best investigative journalist for West Asia affairs. His interview is also a history lesson.
Scahill: "I'm not pro Hamas. I'm not anti Hamas. I'm pro truth. I just.. I'm trying to state facts"
I'll add the segments by title, if you're interested only in some aspects or don't have the time to listen to all of it.
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@palestine
#Gaza #NoCeasefire #Trump #Israel #Colonialism #Fascism
Israel commits genocide while demanding its neighbours demilitarise | Jeremy Scahill | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this UNAPOLOGETIC episode from the Doha Forum, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill examines how Israel has carried out a campaign that meets the legal...YouTube