Article is also available at https://www.siasat.com/most-americans-blame-trump-for-high-prices-as-midterms-approach-3550969/ (arc)
More discussion of the same poll from NORC at https://apnorc.org/projects/most-blame-president-trump-for-higher-prices-and-are-unhappy-with-how-he-is-handling-the-economy/ (arc)
The way the DA’s quotes all seem to be impliedly questioning the credibility of this woman because the cops say she told them something different two years ago is wild
Like, we won’t know for sure what actually happened here without a way deeper investigation, but if this DA didn’t even consider the possibility that the cops intimidated this woman into changing her statement back then and the truth is only coming out now that she’s got her own representation his voters need to remove him from office ASAP, because fuck only knows what his cops are doing if he’s that credulous with them
Link is broken for me, but seems like the exact same news story is also available here - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-uses-taxpayer-money-to-air-2024-trump-campaign-ad (arc
At any rate, unless they omitted something in the PBS version of this story, it looks like the only source they have that this is actually taxpayer funded is the Trump administration itself telling us that, which is horribly irresponsible journalism to repeat. Either actually investigate this bullshit and tell us who at what agency spent money illegally so they can be prosecuted or find something else to report on, because just repeating what the administration themselves are already telling us is just signal boosting their fascist trolling.
“Substance use disorders… are influenced by genetic factors” - https://web.archive.org/web/20250115025115/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8477224/
Wasting his administration’s own resources just as much as everyone else involved is, except he’s wasting resources for a losing effort. Also I’m pretty sure like five different non-profit media advocacy organizations jumped in to represent these networks and did the heavy lifting for them, so really they just got free advertising out of this.
All they got was a 14 day access order
Which is almost certainly going to be extended within 14 days, so it’s effectively a permanent access order
I would strongly bet on incompetence, I think Trump just threw a dumbass narcissistic temper tantrum and lashed out at these organizations because he’s a cornered rat and he knows it and his lawyers just had to scramble to put the best presentation on it they could, which got laughed out of court because they’re a bunch of idiots trying to justify the actions of an even bigger idiot
Interesting theory, but imo
a) Never ever ever bring up Biden, his administration was a failure that was rejected by voters and there’s absolutely no need to waste political capital trying to rehabilitate his legacy. If someone else brings him up the answer should always be “Biden failed because [whatever], what my administration will do differently is [whatever].”
b) I think most voters are going to have a really hard time believing that anything bad could ever happen to them personally the same way they think about car crashes and mass shootings, so I think the “ICE is Trump’s Gestapo and a threat to you” argument will fall flat (even though in reality it’s an excellent point). Like, even with Renee Good they will say “Well, that was terrible, but she was a protestor and I’m not so I’m fine.”
c) Closet bigots still think bigotry is bad, they just also believe they’re not bigots, so appealing to bigotry too directly isn’t going to win them over and it will make progressive voters stay home. I think emphasizing the “law abiding” nature of most migrants will reach that exact type of voter tho (like, law abiding is just assumed when we’re talking about white citizens and it’s not with brown migrants, which is a fucked up double standard, but arguing about that is almost as big of a waste of time as arguing with people about Joe Biden in 2026).
Another page talking about this same poll (arc) had this interesting part,
On the issues, Democrats hold an advantage over Republicans on which party would better handle the economy (42% Democratic Party to 34% Republican Party), foreign policy (42% Democratic Party to 36% Republican Party), and gas prices (40% Democratic Party to 27% Republican Party). The gap narrows considerably on immigration. Here, voters divide with 41% reporting the Democratic Party would do a better job and 38% saying the Republican Party would handle the issue better. Impressions of the Democratic Party’s handling of immigration have improved, though, since 2024. At that time, 30% of registered voters thought the Democrats would do a better job on immigration, and 42% said the Republicans would better address the issue.
Independents’ views widen the Democratic advantage on three of the four issues. On gas prices, independents favor Democrats by 26 percentage points (41% to 15% Republican Party). On foreign policy, the Democrats (47%) hold a 22-percentage point advantage over the Republicans (25%), and on the economy, Independents give a 19-percentage point advantage to the Democrat Party (41% to 22% Republican Party). On immigration, independents still favor Democrats but by a narrower 14 percentage points (41% Democratic Party to 27% Republican Party). Of note, 18% of independents think that neither party would do a good job handling immigration.
My theory is that these independents see immigration as a choice between Republicans who are honest about horrible policies and Dems who are dishonest about ineffective policies. Dems saying that they want to militarize our border, telling migrants not to come here, or other right wing talking points doesn’t do them any favors because it just makes voters think that even the Dems think Republicans’ bigotry is justified. Instead, flip the conversation and talk about how our immigration system makes it impossible for people who are trying to do things the right way and frame yourselves as champions of law abiding blue collar types on every side of the border.
“Peter?”
“Michael.”
“What do you know about If Books Could Kill?”
“Is it a podcast about the Supreme Court decisions that have left our nation flying blind like Malcolm Gladwell thinks all Korean aircraft pilots do?”
“No, that’s your other show.”
Theme song
A roster of Vance’s YLS class might make you think the country’s run by an Ivy League cabal.
“Run” implies that these idiots have some kind of plan when they’re pretty clearly just flailing through day to day, but otherwise no shit it is Vanity Fair, and fuck you for trying to downplay it
Also, the title is a reference to a book the author apparently expects us to be familiar with, which also sucks because the book in question is a dusty old piece of hateful garbage
Listen to a podcast about William F Buckley’s God and Man at Yale or read an archived copy of a transcript.
Federal spending on the initiative grew from $12 million to $17 million between 2021 and 2024. During the same period, the audit found that 39% of money for the Missing and Murdered Unit was redirected toward other Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement costs, including upgrading vehicles.
Thank you Joe “fund the police” Biden, very cool /s
Really annoying how certain media outlets treat every single thing the US military says as fact without independently verifying it themselves
The founders didn’t really give the Presidency that many powers, things just kinda devolved that way over the years because Congress didn’t want to make tough votes, e.g. the Vietnam war wasn’t ever technically a war because Congress didn’t want to own it by declaring one, so they just told Eisenhower/Kennedy/LBJ/Nixon to figure it out for them with a bunch of vaguely worded resolutions and lots of military funding in budgets.
Also, it is the founders’ fault that they gave us a system with an undemocratic Senate where Wyoming gets as many votes as California that distorts everything in our politics because they wanted to protect the little state government fiefdoms they’d made for themselves.
I cant believe it
Good, you really shouldn’t believe random bullshit people say without any evidence
half of Americans still support ICE
Citation needed
The influential group
Citation needed
No, ICE and CBP are separate agencies, they just both happen to be appallingly racist (even by the standards of US law enforcement). The county board successfully forced the sheriff to ban ICE agents, but in response to that she went out of her way to hold a press conference to tell the board they better not try to ban CBP agents too or else, which is probably more just deeply annoying to me than it is actually consequential at this point, but could turn into a lawsuit if the county does try to ban CBP I’d suppose.
But of course pigs are still pigs
Kelly Martinez, San Diego County’s elected sheriff, said after the vote… CBP could continue using a county facility, setting up a showdown with the supervisors, who are also elected. The sheriff made a lengthy defense of CBP’s work…
Related articles, “The Legacy of Racism within the U.S. Border Patrol” (arc) and “Border Patrol has a history of excessive force. Critics say they’re out of their depth” (arc)
Alternate link - https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2026/10/01/renee-good-family-lawsuit-us-government-immigration-officials-killing-minneapolis (arc)