Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he understands the frustrations and worries of air traffic controllers who have to work without a paycheck during the government shutdown, but he and the union that represents controllers are also now emphasizing that calling out sick in protest could cost th
From what I saw, through the stuff on the internet, the White-supremacists were solidly Trump, the male-supremacists were solidly Trump, AND Trump used a voter-deregistration law, through some local Republicans, to remove Democrats from voting-rolls, in key swing-states.
AND many Democrats refused to vote.
When all 4 of those come together, then you have the real basis for the result that happened.
sigh … yet-again, journalism got disappeared off the internet, in order to prevent any accountability or leverage-causing-necessary-change…
Neither DuckDuckGo nor Google can find the journalism I’d read about that voter-deregistration having already been used as a partisan weapon, with the obvious consequence that it can be used again to immense effect, in 2026 & 2028.
Welcome to the for-profit-only “reality” we live-in…
( I’m going to be saving offline-copies of all such journalism, from now on, because of this bullshit.
Without knowing history, it isn’t possible to be competent to avoid re-enacting it!
This ISN’T it, but it gives some similar information: https://newrepublic.com/article/199247/transcript-trump-lets-slip-dark-truth-plot-rig-midterms )
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Not that it is journalism, but I’ve noticed comment sections have mostly disappeared, as well. Sure, papers can claim it costs money and they have to moderate, etc…but I found it very interesting, for example, that just before the 2024 election, The Denver Post decided to close its comment section for good.
I’ve seen it in various smaller papers, too.