Repeat after me - Eyes on 2026

Repeat after me. 

There is no trade emergency. There is no migrant emergency. There is no crime emergency. There is only a chilling and determined power grab by the most dangerous man to every occupy the White House. Eyes on 2026.

Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power

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Sherrilyn Ifill from Sherrilyn’s Newsletter <sherrilyn@substack.com>    9-1-2025

media outlets, political pundits, and even some activists have taken the bait – 

• focusing their narrative on crime in our cities. Of course there’s crime in all of those cities. But the rates of violent crime are higher in cities located in states like Alabama, Colorado, and Louisiana (all with Republican Governors), making it clear that crime-fighting is not Trump’s obsession. Still local news and national news outlets have taken to airing long drawn-out stories asking residents whether they think that their city could do more to stop violent crime. Obviously, the answer will always be yes. 
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• That is not really the question of the moment. The focus should be on what Trump is doing – the fact that he has broken a critically important norm by ordering a federal takeover of our nation’s capital, by threatening to do the same in other cities, and that given the absence of an emergency, his actions are likely unconstitutional.

With all that we have seen from President Trump, can we at this point, well into the second half of 2025, start from the premise that whatever Trump does is not for altruistic purposes? He is not interested in the price of groceries, or in the quality of art or museums. He cares not at all for history, or for the imaginary “beautiful Black ladies in Chicago” who he says have begged him to send the military. He has no interest in promoting peace between Russia and Ukraine. He does not want a strong NATO. He cares not a whit about whales, children with autism, veterans, healthcare, antisemitism, or the deficit. Do we get that yet? 

Trump’s only sustained interest is the accumulation of power and money. 

He is also a narcissist. That means he wants to impose himself on every aspect of our society – as dictators do. 

He wants to run the world and the Kennedy Center. He wants the Nobel Peace Prize, and the World Cup trophy. He wants to takeover Greenland, and protect the integrity of the “soft, beautiful, stone”[vii] on the new White House patio.

As the Democrats prepare to return from recess, they must take care not to cede to the narrative of “emergency.” Democrats have no reason to be on their back heels about crime. Violent crime fell precipitously after we emerged fully from COVID and got our bearings. 

Democratic Mayors like Brandon Scott in Baltimore are showing that a city can make progress on violent crime – not by flooding the streets with cops – but by beefing up social services and programs for young people.[viii] He and others like him should be applauded. And national media outlets should admit that they missed that story. 

Chinese and Black Roots of Racism

 Michael Luo

Executive editor

Only one man’s face is clearly visible in the photograph. He is wearing a brimmed hat, an oversized coat, and boots. He seems to be mid-stride, with one foot in front of the other, as though he’s walking out of the frame. He’s staring straight at the picture-taker, his mouth slightly agape, in what appears to be a grimace. The photograph was taken after one of the most gruesome episodes of racial terror in American history. On September 2, 1885, white rioters killed at least twenty-eight Chinese miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and burned down the town’s Chinese quarter. The rest of the Chinese population fled. About a week later, several hundred Chinese miners returned, guarded by federal troops. The photograph is a tableau of that moment, when those who came back set up camp next to the railroad tracks. My eyes are invariably drawn to the man in the hat. I wonder about his story.

My piece in this week’s issue is an account of the tragedy in Rock Springsand of the effort today to uncover what happened. (It is drawn from my book, “Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America,” which will be published on April 29th.) The massacre was the opening act of a harrowing—yet under-examined—period in American history that became known as “the driving out,” when dozens of communities expelled their Chinese residents. Part of what I was trying to understand in my book is how fury about an entire people can spill over the way it did against Chinese immigrants at the end of the nineteenth century. Today, we’re once again in a moment when anger toward immigrants is coursing through the country. They’re seen as strangers, making them an easy target for politicians on the right and left. Their stories also deserve to be told.

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THOUGH “I will not defend it….it….it….Hmnnnn it what!  Joy Reid’s firing!?  

RACHEL HAS WHITE PRIVILEGED DRIPPING FROM HER LIVER!!!

Her words are not worth 2-cents    Lynch a nigga… and shake your head and keep your rich status!

Rachel said…. “I will tell you. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we’ve got two – count them – two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend,” Maddow declared. “And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible. And I do not defend it.”