Trump has ZERO POWER TO REGULATE ELECTIONS. That power belongs to state and local elections officials.

relatedly, new euphemism for "steal elections outright by corruptly invalidating millions of opposition votes" just dropped

The impunity is the point.

Yep. Donald Trump voters like his power to run afoul of the rules/law, and they want that power for themselves. Will there still be legacy media people going to midwestern diners to find out what Donald Trump voters want only for them to never arrive at this answer by design? Probably.

And why wouldn't he, ever since the court ruled that Presidential gains can never, by definition, be called ill-gotten?

I wish it were more broadly understood that Trump constantly and explicitly holds up his naked corruption *as a badge of honor* that his supporters are supposed to thrill to (and see benefit for themselves in). He thinks corruption is the highest form of winning.

Ethnic cleansing

A lot of Rust Belt spots fall into this category - refugees did the same to many Buffalo neighborhoods and stabilized the population that had been declining since WWII. That didn't stop suburban whites from grousing about their presence though.

Dems telling me they dodged a big bullet and won a big victory with the ruling on mail ballots. They were expecting Trump and Republicans to try to use that to rig some of the House races in California, which will be important to winning a majority.

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I hope they resist but wonder in an area this red how strong a pushback will be done. Minneapolis protests were on moral grounds. In Springfield, they keep the city afloat & it still morally wrong so hopefully their neighbors support them.

So much FAFO, so little time.... This could get really weird

Republican America:

"Springfield had shed more than 1/4 of its population since the 1960s...Haitians assembled car engines at Honda, operated robots at Amazon and packed salads at Dole. They were welcomed by GOP leaders and business execs," NYT reports. After revitalizing this Rust Belt city, they're getting deported.

Fox and MAGA have a deranged new "cause." Good and appropriately scalding fom @markjacob.bsky.social:

Really psyched to see that the @liberalcurrents.com Reconstruction Papers have just been released! Congrats to @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com and this whole team of great writers and thinkers for imagining how to rebuild post-Trump with ambition: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pdf-of-t...

Important: DHS Sec confirms ICE deportation forces coming to Springfield Ohio, in a county Trump won by 30 points. Will Trump/Miller really turn Springfield into the next Minneapolis? If so, GOPers there will likely oppose it. Trump is *that* toxic. newrepublic.com/article/2124...

"Small wonder that more people are voting for the candidates who are saying most emphatically that they’re going to...fight back against the people who’ve been cheating the middle and lower classes for years." Read @mjtoma.bsky.social on centrists and primary losses: newrepublic.com/article/2124...

“I mean, a 67-year-old former Olympian who was biking in on the National Mall doesn’t seem like an Antifa vandal, does he?”

Steve M's law is: Not every sentence Trump utters is a lie, but every sentence he utters that includes a number is a lie. He says "six" because he thinks six arrests sounds scary. Also, he's never believed in objective reality. Reality is whatever he can persuade people to believe.

Big danger of a personalist autocracy is that people can be arrested and disappeared for no reason other than displeasing the despot. Big danger of a personalist autocracy led by a senile old man who is obsessed with pool maintenance is that you can get arrested for dipping your hand in the water.

As has been the custom during the Trump era, most of the mainstream media continue to treat Trump’s and the Republican Party’s lies as credible. They do not know how to cover an authoritarian Republican Party. Their failure is contributing to the collapse of the democracy.

Let's not overlook how crazy it is that Trump keeps saying *six people* have been arrested for "vandalizing" the Reflecting Pool, and officials are presenting zero evidence that this actually happened. On the pod, former prosecutor Ankush Khardori is good on this: newrepublic.com/article/2124...

Nuremberg Laws, anyone?

"White evangelicals are conditioned in an authoritarian environment and predisposed to obey authority, to respond favorably to claims of certainty and moral simplicity, and to crave order...Which Trump has expertly manipulated." Also, that headline!

Immigrants contribute way more to a society than they extract (yes, even "illegal" ones) but fascists in the US are so determined to create a white-christian authoritarian ethnostate that they will sabotage their national economy by ethnically cleansing vast swaths of their labour / consumer pools.

The hood is fully off Alito “None of the..statements by..[Trump were] overtly racial..all expressed policy views that could rest on race-neutral justification” Kagan’s reply “The evidence..includes statements..so repellent and racially inflected that the majority declines to put them in print”

JD Vance made up a horrific and racist lie about a group of people, and now those people will be deported because the Supreme Court refuses to acknowledge, let along regard as disqualifying, the clear racial bias of this administration.

thank you jd vance for helping instigate an ethnic cleansing campaign

“..what you’re actually going to get is social turmoil, violent ethnic purges and serious economic disruption. If you are upset at the prospect of law-abiding immigrants being violently wrenched from your communities, next time don’t vote for the guys who lied in your faces so viciously about them.”

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Hard-working, church-going, Haitian immigrants helped pull Springfield, Ohio out of being an economic shithole by doing the jobs the local white population was too lazy, unreliable, and drug addicted to do. And their reward is to be punished for it. Springfield would rather die of whiteness.

Haitian migrants in Ohio fled a dangerous country to carve out a life in the U.S. doing shit work (factories, home health care, etc) that actual "Americans" refuse to do. it's the story of our nation's immigration patterns dating back 150 years and yet b/c of their skin color, they are vilified

This entire 10 year project was, is, and will be about unfiltered racism. The media muddied it up with the anodyne "white working class" economic non-sense but at bottom, the Trump-Miller vision of America is white, Christian, and European.

I think the Trump voters of Springfield, Ohio, need to see what they have done to their neighbors, the consequences of their actions (on inactions) and the cost in terms of human suffering.

“…ICE could proceed with what Ohio-based immigration advocate Lynn Tramonte calls a strategy of “attrition.” This would entail taking quiet steps to make the Haitians’ lives more and more unlivable, perhaps with pressure on local employers to fire all their Haitian workers…” A must-read from Greg

“If you vote for the ticket that tells you immigrants are eating your pets—the ticket that tells you mass removals are needed to purify and revive the nation and its heartland towns—what you’re actually going to get is social turmoil, violent ethnic purges, and serious economic disruption."” 🧵

Ok, good news. I don't know if this is a perfect statement. I would go MUCH harder on intrinsic divinity. These are real people, God's children, who have lives that our government is on the precipice of needlessly destroying. This is not about taxes or prices. Still a big improvement over '24.

Absolutely outrageous..evil..ugly. I am so ashamed our country is doing this to fellow human beings🤬🤬🤬

J.D. Vance represented Springfield Ohio when he was in the Senate and now he’s going to gleefully oversee an ethnic cleansing campaign directed at a group of Haitian refugees who literally saved the city from financial collapse.

A lot of home health patients will suffer from this. My parents had home health care and some of their carers were Haitian.

The nation's soil must be purged of those whose blood is inferior; any cost will be shouldered in the righteous quest for racial purity

Mm-hm — and what Republican incumbents get in return, what with the timing of all this, might come as a rude surprise.

Gov Mike DeWine (who was against the SCOTUS ruling) should take action now to protect Springfield, OH. Maybe even call up the National Guard and at least threaten ICE not to fuck with the city.

As Greg notes, it will be interesting what plays out in Springfield. Republican Gov Mike DeWine has ties to Haiti, where a school was named for his deceased daughter, Becky (a journalist). He's already said the SCOTUS ruling was "a mistake."

A nation that continuously invades itself is not one that is getting Great Again.

We have an ethnic cleansing going on in our own country and its not even in the top 3 of campaigns. 1. Gaza 2. AIPAC 3. "We need fighters"

👉🏾 "If you vote for the ticket that tells you immigrants are eating your pets—the ticket that tells you mass removals are needed to purify and revive the nation and its heartland towns—what you’re actually going to get is social turmoil, violent ethnic purges, and serious economic disruption."

They wanted to do this in January, DeWine was mobilizing churches to look after the kids of deported parents in anticipation. They held off until they got this legal win. Very possible we'll be seeing another Minneapolis-scale invasion.

Yep. Importantly, Mike DeWine, a Republican, has debunked Trump/Vance lies about Haitians, and many locals defended them as well. If Trump and Miller really go full paramilitary raids, it will further split the GOP coalition in a state with a big Senate race.