Notices by RonSupportsYou (ronsupportsyou@mastodon.social), page 4

"Trump’s Minnesota Retreat Points to the Power of Public Anger. The withdrawal came as polls show Americans opposing the president’s immigration tactics, and as some Republican lawmakers began to find ways to distance themselves":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/us/politics/trump-minneapolis-ice-republicans.html
#HumanRights #CivilLiberties copy: @renewedresistance #politics

Rep. Dan Goldman said to ICE chief Todd Lyons: "You said in your opening statement that references to ICE as the Gestapo or the Secret Police encourages threats against ICE agents. The problem is, you have it backwards, sir. If you don't want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one."
copy: @renewedresistance #ethics #politics #HumanRights #politics

"MAGA Inc., the main super PAC supporting Pres. Trump, has raised $305 million since the 2024 election. The sum comes almost entirely from donations of $1 million or more. Many of these donors stand to benefit from Trump’s policies":
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/pro-trump-super-pac-raises-record-breaking-305-million
#politics #ethics #Trump #TheBestPresidentMoneyCanBuy

Trump "sees vast numbers of Americans not as friends, but as enemies." He is a president who will destroy as many symbols of national unity as he can to satisfy his bottomless ego, cruel appetites, and unquenchable desire to win at the expense of the people he purports to lead":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/opinion/trump-presidential-power-comments.html
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #Trump #WorstPresidentEver

Ron Filipkowski: "Rep. James Comer spent every day for 2 years, and millions of US taxpayer dollars, trying to link Joe Biden to Hunter Biden’s appointment to the Burisma board in 2014, but Comer has zero interest in the UAE putting $500 million into Trump’s crypto company and then the UAE getting advanced AI chips from the United States."
#corruption #DishonestPoliticians #Trump #TheBestPresidentMoneyCanBuy copy: @renewedresistance #politics

I agree with you about what Donald Trump could try, @jipexu, but he certainly may not succeed. The future can be affected by events and by people's actions. Trump would succeed if people opposed to him just assumed he will win and ended all opposition to him. The path to success is to choose to believe that opposition to Trump's attempt to hold onto power and to gain more power for himself can be defeated by good people.
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #winning

Ronan Farrow wrote this about the arrest of reporter Don Lemon:
"The church's pastor, David Easterwood, is Field Office Director for ICE. He is one of the highest-ranking deportation officials in the Midwest. Protesters were there to expose what they saw as an official using religious privacy as cover. Reporters were there to document it."
#FirstAmendment #FreedomOfThePress #CivilLiberties copy: @renewedresistance #politics

James Talarico wrote about ICE: "They shot Renee Good in the face. They kidnapped Liam Ramos. They just executed a man on the street. Unmask them. Prosecute them. No more secret police."
#HumanRights #CivilLiberties #politics

Trump failed again: "Not only had the White House failed to achieve its strategic objective — both the mass removal of immigrants from the #Minneapolis area and the suppression of the administration’s political opponents through force and the fear of force — it had also lost significant ground with the public on its most favorable issue":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/minneapolis-ice-trump-gettysburg.html
#AbuseOfAuthority #TrumpLiedPeopleDied #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Paul Rudnick: "Bari Weiss and RFK Jr parrot the same drivel. They want Americans to 'look at the facts and make up their own minds.' Except Weiss is staffing #CBSnews with MAGAs, and #RFKjr uses discredited 'research' to claim polio isn't harmful. Both are owned by Trump and push only his lies."
#media #dishonesty #MediaBias #extremism #healthcare #politics

Brian Allen: "The Minnesota National Guard was asked why they are handing out coffee, donuts, and hot chocolate to protesters. Their answer: 'It’s a demonstration of safety and security. We’re here to help.' That’s how you de-escalate. Not masks. Not threats. Not bullets."
#GoodNews copy: @renewedresistance #politics

Do you feel increasingly safe?
Before you give an answer,
look at this #PoliticalCartoon by Dr. MacLeod
of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:

John Fugelsang: "For months ICE has been terrorizing people in houses of worship, making arrests on church property, waving guns at clergy, and detaining refugee families on their way to prayer. The Republican Party made church unsafe. When ICE storms churches, Evangelical leaders are silent. Jesus was crucified by state violence. ICE commits state violence. White Evangelicalism looks at that contradiction and says: 'Seems fine'.”
#religion #HumanRights copy: @renewedresistance #politics

Rahm Emanuel: "This is a referendum election. Keep it focused on the rubber-stamp Republican Congress to Pres. Trump."

Rahm was a Member of Congress, a Chief of Staff, a Mayor, and an Ambassador. This gives him plenty of experience concerning a wide range of issues. He could run for the presidency in 2028.

He explored national and international issues during this interview on #NationalPublicRadio:
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5685069 #politics #NPR

"Top #Catholic Clerics Denounce U.S. Foreign Policy,
citing recent events in #Venezuela, #Ukraine and #Greenland":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/us/catholics-trump-archbishops.html
"The cardinals call for a genuinely moral foreign policy
in which “military action must be seen only as a last resort."
#Trump #extremism #PutinsPuppet #politics copy: @renewedresistance #religion #HumanRights

"Planned reductions in funding for IRS enforcement will reward tax cheats and fraudsters who organize schemes to defraud the government ... Cutbacks in the budget and staff at the IRS may perpetuate in 2026 a nearly $700 billion shortfall in the collection of taxes owed":
https://www.cfodive.com/news/irs-budget-staff-cuts-perpetuate-700b-lost-tax-revenues-treasury/809803/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue:%202026-01-16%20CFO%20Dive%20%5Bissue:80778%5D&utm_term=CFO%20Dive
#Trump #FraudWasteAndAbuse #mismanagement #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Jennifer Rubin: "Republicans often were compelled to do things they had previously refused to do (e.g., vote for the War Powers resolution, vote to extend ACA subsidies, disclose the Epstein files). Even if the federal investigators refuse to cooperate, the state and local investigators can lock down the evidence. There may be enough evidence for probable cause to proceed with a trial, even without the feds cooperation. And there is no statute of limitations on murder."
copy: @renewedresistance

Jake Tapper to Kristi Noem: "I just showed you a video of people attacking law enforcement officers on #January6th. Undisputed evidence, and I just said, Pres. Trump pardoned all of them. You said that Pres. Trump is enforcing all the laws equally. That is just not true. There's a different standard for law enforcement officers being attacked if they're being attacked by Trump supporters. We just saw that."
#DoubleStandards #AbuseOfThePardonPower #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Trump, the tiny handed tyrant,
has no use for laws that prohibit military aggression,
as is shown in this #PoliticalCartoon by Rod Emmerson:

Pete Buttigieg speaks wisely and briefly about 2025 and 2026:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv5g4b9Bf0M
#LookingBack #LookingAhead copy: @renewedresistance #politics #winning