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His DHS is encouraging Americans to snitch on the undocumented and in return they’ll get to take their residences. That’s their solution to the affordable housing crisis.

He could not only fund it in perpetuity but vastly enlarge its payroll without feeling the slightest pinch to his ever-escalating fortune. Instead, he’s planning massive cuts to the Post roster.

“Just as Republicans were conceding the need to negotiate, Democrats pre-negotiated themselves into mush,” David Dayen tweets. Schumer’s “legislative demands for DHS funding are so narrow” that they “almost mirror” what iCE itself just announced in Minneapolis.

Tourist bookings have withered almost to zero.

Trump has turned the entire world against us.

Witness Minneapolis. Witness the recent attacks on Rep. Frost and Rep. Omar.

Trump is actually trying to claim that one cold winter–or even one cold storm–means that there is no global warming, and he insists that environmentalists explain “what happened” to the species -crushing climate crisis.

OK: let’s go.

Although the primary vector of global warming is toward an unsustainably warming planet, the meteorological phenomenon will bring extremes of cold as well as warm. In any case, one frigid winter cannot possibly disprove the climate wreckage that we’re seeing unfold in real time.

The fact that Trump and the Republican Party as a whole keep trying to press their absurd climate denial is a sign of their contempt for the American population.

are a disaster for the American people. The fact that Trump perversely boasts about them as if they were a positive achievement is part of his Orwellian rhetorical jitsu, which the Democrats have refused to counter effectively. I say “refused” because no political party could remain as passive and inept as the Democrats have unless that was a deliberate choice. I’ve asked again and again, why do the Democrats enact regulations but then fail to explain and defend them to the American people? Why don’t they make explicit how harmful to Americans is Trump’s deregulation?

Now it’s Ilhan Omar.

are refusing to fund ICE, they need to start practicing the art of messaging, something that they customarily abjure, always to their peril, and to the nation’s.

As the Democrats in the Senate vote No, they must hold daily press briefings during the shutdown that may occur, hopefully led by senators who are more effective speakers than Leader Schumer.

They need to challenge the entire GOP’s Hitlerian hate narrative defaming immigrants, and repeat over and over again that the GOP neither knows nor cares that immigrants built America, that we are all, except of Native Americans, descended from immigrants.

They must continuously replay the footage of ICE murdering, assaulting, maiming innocent American citizens.

Primary them all.