Seth Meyers isn't letting Donald Trump's calls for his firing faze him. read more
The London Times reports that the Trump Administration has been deporting Russian dissenters who fled Vladimir Putin's authoritarian regime, sending them back to Russia, and even apparently helping Russian authorities persecute them: On August 27, less than a fortnight after President Trump's summit with Putin in Alaska, dozens of Russians were rounded up and deported. Among them was Artyom Vovchenko, 27, a deserter from the war in Ukraine. He is facing a prison sentence of up to decade or could be sent back to the front line. ... . Although the deportation of Russians to Russia has accelerated under Trump, the policy began under his predecessor Joe Biden. According to Dmitry Valuev, 46, president of Russian America for Democracy in Russia, an organisation that supports political refugees, deportations under Biden were smaller in number. read more
The class divisions among the Latin communities which separate themselves according to national of origin with Mexicans at the bottom rung and Cubans at the top greatly reduces the political power of a minority easily divided by politicians who know which buttons to push. Finally now, Cuban immigrants are being treated like others coming here from poor Latin American countries which could change Florida from red state to purple or even blue. The Trump administration are bumbling idiots who are stupidly alienating a dependable voting block because their racism is a stronger motivator than their stupidity and I just hope they keep it up! Democrats have shown all nationalities of immigrants compassion and have opposed Trump's racist policies. If Republicans were smart and in touch with reality they would rid themselves of obvious White Christian Nationalists a/k/a Nazis such as Stephen Miller and his ilk but, if they aren't smart enough to do that, I wish them well in their slow spiral into obscurity.