But does this poll reflect Trump's most important constituency? The people he REALLY listens to? You know, #Putin, #StevenMiller, #FoxNews, #JeffBezos, #PeterThiel and #Bibi the Butcher? Surely their love will never fail!
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#Trump Approval SINK Nationwide, Majority of Voters Say U.S. Headed the Wrong Way: #Poll https://dailyboulder.com/trump-approval-sinks-nationwide-majority-of-voters-say-u-s-headed-the-wrong-way-poll/
Read this: When Hegemons Backslide https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/22/when-hegemons-backslide/
Let me just copy-pasta my reply to another post earlier:
""“Our immigration enforcement system is punishing people simply for being accused, not convicted, of a crime.”"
Necessary edit:
"“Our immigration enforcement system is punishing people simply for being Hispanic.”"
Period
Full stop"
"“Our immigration enforcement system is punishing people simply for being accused, not convicted, of a crime.”"
Necessary edit:
" “Our immigration enforcement system is punishing people simply for being Hispanic.”"
Period
Full stop
I'd put hard money down on the idea that #Trump got overruled off-camera by #StevenMiller
#Miller hates 'em all -- and doesn't care if someone is working for a campaign contributor
Steven Miller's new Government Photo
"Changes are coming"
'changes' won't do a damn thing when #StevenMiller is berating #ICE / #CBP leadership about "why aren't you at Home Depot and 7-11?" sweeping up day laborers waiting for contractors, as they have for years and years
Simply sweeping up everyone with an Hispanic surname or Hispanic appearance en masse is not going to be anything #Trump can fix -- not when Stephen Miller is really the one calling the shots
And of course they're "impossible to replace" when they've been working those jobs their entire lives, some back when Steven Miller was a teenage high school bigot back at Santa Monica CA high school
We are now at the point where our government is literally terrorizing tens of millions of hard working Americans as a matter of strategy.
What can we do? Call your Senators and Rep and demand they fight Trump’s insane and illegal escalation of the past few days.
Contact your local party and Dems and encourage them to hold solidarity press conferences defending the State of California as this escalation/attack is not just on California and Los Angeles - it is on all of us, the United States.
Every elected Democrat in the country should be talking to their constituents about what is happening here, and why it matters to them.
#immigrants #resist #resistance #uspol #uspolitics #iceraids #trump #stevenmiller
Well, just to be fair to #StevenMiller, everyone knows that Brown skin + Hispanic surname = "illegal alien", right? Pretty sure that's what it says in the Constitution...or at the least the copy of it in the "Trump Bible".
“Just go out there & arrest illegal aliens. The WH🚨marching orders that triggered a migrant crackdown in LA & nationwide."
Since #StevenMiller’s directive, officers: told to “do what you need to do” to make more arrests. Agents didn’t need to develop target lists of #immigrants suspected of being in the US illegally -S Miller. He directed them to target Home Depot or 7-11s -bet that he & a few agents could go out on the streets of DC, &💔arrest 30 ppl.
#PoliceState #USPol https://www.wsj.com/us-news/protests-los-angeles-immigrants-trump-f5089877?st=zrMocU
#politics #emptywheel #stevenmiller #fascism #bbb #trump #distraction #incitement
Empty Wheel:
Let's be clear what is going on: After Elon correctly confirmed that the Big Ugly Bill would put a bigger hole in the deficit, Stephen Miller incited a panic he wants to use to pass the bill as a promise to impose martial law on Dem cities and states.
After a judge found #DJT admin deportation of immigrants to Sudan illegal, instead of returning them to US, #Drumpf admin exiled them all into legal limboland, including their US govt personnel escorts, all now suspended without a final destination in #Djibouti with #ICE employees stuck with deportees, living out of a dangerously hot metal cargo container at behest of #StevenMiller and other unconcerned #WhiteHouse acolytes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/05/djibouti-deportations-migrants-ice-trump/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ5MDk2MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUwNDc4Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDkwOTYwMDAsImp0aSI6ImMxNmEzMzNlLWYxYTctNGQ1Ni1hNzRiLWNmZmZiNjRlMmM1NiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9pbW1pZ3JhdGlvbi8yMDI1LzA2LzA1L2RqaWJvdXRpLWRlcG9ydGF0aW9ucy1taWdyYW50cy1pY2UtdHJ1bXAvIn0.gTsfYG3cfcmsNG_1zvkbXZydFy2eljbQ88evq2gwmg8 #CantMakeThisShitUp
SLAVE HUNTERS
ICE VIGILANTE SQUAD
SAME PEOPLE
DIFFERENT CENTURY
Becca Balint has got this exactly right. It probably takes about a minute to hear her out. Please do.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1777821982800433
: #beccabalint #democrats #donaldtrump #eightysix47 #habeascorpus #stevenmiller #uspol #uspolitics :
"Last week, anti-immigration zealot Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, told reporters that the administration is “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus “to take care of the illegal immigration problem.”"
"So what Miller and Trump are saying is that the administration will suspend habeas unless the courts let the administration do whatever it wants, Constitution and separation of powers be damned. Put another way, the administration is demanding that it be unconstitutionally allowed to defy the courts, and if it isn’t allowed to do so, it has no choice but to unconstitutionally suspend habeas."
"It was a small but powerful victory for the Constitution. A reminder that even in the darkest hour, habeas corpus still mattered.
Which is exactly why Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, is frothing at the mouth to get rid of it."
Marcy (Emptywheel) as always does an excellent job of cutting through #StevenMiller's bullshit:
"Stephen Miller Threatens to Suspend Habeas Corpus because He Got Caught Lying"
First, as I thought, it was all a setup:
https://sfba.social/@FinchHaven/114480275255358279
"You should know that the question to Stephen Miller about habeas corpus was a set up.
The male “journalist” who asked it after Miller called on him for the first question at a staged press event posed it in terms of “taking care of the illegal immigration problem.
So Miller’s misrepresentation of what the Constitution says about habeas corpus — similar to ... at war with the legislative branch” — all of that appears to be a set up, a set up from one of the right wingers the White House has invited in as if they were journalists.
[snip]
Miller’s problem is that judges are not required to accept his blatantly false claims as true — indeed, are required to test them, as even the Trump judges have done."
"But in this chaotic administration, it seems worth asking who the “we” is in Miller’s statement."
