Arnold Schwarzenegger fights against Gavin Newsom's gerrymandering attempt
'Arnold Schwarzenegger is joining a number of California Republicans getting off the bench to help in the fight against Governor Gavin Newsom's gerrymandering.
'This is in relation to a formal proposal for newly drawn congressional maps to create more Democratic districts.'
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Sydney Morning Herald
8 hours ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
The Democrats can't allow Trump to be a saviour on crime in Washington
It's hardly the most heinous crime, but you hear a lot about Washingtonians and their personal experiences of being preyed on. City officials and many liberal residents are outraged about Trump's painting the district as a hellscape and flooding the zone with law enforcement and troops. Protesters around town held up signs reading 'fascists,' and a Department of Justice employee (now fired) threw a Subway sandwich at an officer and was charged with assault. It's ridiculous to drag FBI agents from their desks to be cops on the beat. And the tableau of National Guard troops — even unarmed — raises the spectre of martial law being normalised and weaponised. (Armed and masked Border Patrol agents showing up at a Gavin Newsom gerrymandering speech in LA was disturbing.) It is also true that many district residents are secretly glad to see more uniforms. No matter what statistics say, they don't feel safe. I've always been hypervigilant. My mom, the wife of a policeman, passed down a healthy paranoia. She drove me to move into my dorm at Catholic University with a butcher knife on the seat between us. She gave me a Chinese letter opener with written instructions on how to find the jugular. At Christmas, there was always a can of pepper spray or a whistle among the presents. I find myself packing pepper spray again. I feel more wary walking around the city. It's disturbing to ask someone to unlock the Claratyne at the chemist because the police don't lock up the smash-and-grabbers. Drugstores, as Bill Maher pointed out, have become a 'zoo for teeth-whitening strips'. Loading Trump is playing the saviour on crime when he's the biggest scofflaw in town — first inciting the mob on January 6 and then pardoning felons who broke into the Capitol and beat up police officers. Elie Honig, a CNN legal analyst and the author of the forthcoming book When You Come at the King: Inside DOJ's Pursuit of the President, From Nixon to Trump, summed up the dilemma. 'Yes, Trump is hypocritical and scattershot on public safety,' he told me. 'And yes, he's likely doing this as a flex. But he happens to be within the law here, and he happens to be right.' While the district's homicide rate has fallen, it's almost as high as New York City's at its most dangerous, in 1990. In The Atlantic, Michael Powell noted that the reality of crime is grimmest in Wards 7 and 8, the disadvantaged, majority-Black neighbourhoods where more than half of the district's homicides occurred last year. 'I have no doubt that Trump enjoys targeting Democratic-controlled cities for embarrassment,' Powell writes. 'I also have little doubt that a mother in Ward 8 might draw comfort from a National Guard soldier standing watch near her child's school.' The diva of distraction is putting on a show. (They're eating the cats and the dogs!) But progressives should not fall into Trump's trap and play down crime, once more getting on the wrong side of an inflammatory issue. As with inflation, they should remember that personal experiences can count more than sanguine statistics. Even if Trump is being diabolical, Democrats should not pretend that everything is fine here. Because it's not.
The Age
8 hours ago
- The Age
The Democrats can't allow Trump to be a saviour on crime in Washington
It's hardly the most heinous crime, but you hear a lot about Washingtonians and their personal experiences of being preyed on. City officials and many liberal residents are outraged about Trump's painting the district as a hellscape and flooding the zone with law enforcement and troops. Protesters around town held up signs reading 'fascists,' and a Department of Justice employee (now fired) threw a Subway sandwich at an officer and was charged with assault. It's ridiculous to drag FBI agents from their desks to be cops on the beat. And the tableau of National Guard troops — even unarmed — raises the spectre of martial law being normalised and weaponised. (Armed and masked Border Patrol agents showing up at a Gavin Newsom gerrymandering speech in LA was disturbing.) It is also true that many district residents are secretly glad to see more uniforms. No matter what statistics say, they don't feel safe. I've always been hypervigilant. My mom, the wife of a policeman, passed down a healthy paranoia. She drove me to move into my dorm at Catholic University with a butcher knife on the seat between us. She gave me a Chinese letter opener with written instructions on how to find the jugular. At Christmas, there was always a can of pepper spray or a whistle among the presents. I find myself packing pepper spray again. I feel more wary walking around the city. It's disturbing to ask someone to unlock the Claratyne at the chemist because the police don't lock up the smash-and-grabbers. Drugstores, as Bill Maher pointed out, have become a 'zoo for teeth-whitening strips'. Loading Trump is playing the saviour on crime when he's the biggest scofflaw in town — first inciting the mob on January 6 and then pardoning felons who broke into the Capitol and beat up police officers. Elie Honig, a CNN legal analyst and the author of the forthcoming book When You Come at the King: Inside DOJ's Pursuit of the President, From Nixon to Trump, summed up the dilemma. 'Yes, Trump is hypocritical and scattershot on public safety,' he told me. 'And yes, he's likely doing this as a flex. But he happens to be within the law here, and he happens to be right.' While the district's homicide rate has fallen, it's almost as high as New York City's at its most dangerous, in 1990. In The Atlantic, Michael Powell noted that the reality of crime is grimmest in Wards 7 and 8, the disadvantaged, majority-Black neighbourhoods where more than half of the district's homicides occurred last year. 'I have no doubt that Trump enjoys targeting Democratic-controlled cities for embarrassment,' Powell writes. 'I also have little doubt that a mother in Ward 8 might draw comfort from a National Guard soldier standing watch near her child's school.' The diva of distraction is putting on a show. (They're eating the cats and the dogs!) But progressives should not fall into Trump's trap and play down crime, once more getting on the wrong side of an inflammatory issue. As with inflation, they should remember that personal experiences can count more than sanguine statistics. Even if Trump is being diabolical, Democrats should not pretend that everything is fine here. Because it's not.
Sky News AU
9 hours ago
- Sky News AU
MSNBC host curses live on air in hysterical meltdown over Trump-Putin talks
MSNBC's Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace has lost it live on air while covering US President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Wallace was covering the recent Alaska summit between Putin and Trump, where the two leaders discussed the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. While speaking on MSNBC, Wallace claimed President Trump didn't 'give a s**t' about Democracy. 'He doesn't care about our allies, he doesn't care about our Democratic allies' sovereignty,' Wallace said. Wallace said it was 'so much' to watch Trump stand with Putin, a person responsible for 'all that suffering and all that death' in Ukraine.
