Notices by Teri Kanefield (teri_kanefield@mastodon.social)

One more comment about the border issue in Texas.

Heading into the 2018 midterms, Trump tried to do the same thing: Create a border crisis and campaign on the (invented) issue that scary brown people were invading.

It didn't work in 2018 (the Republicans lost) and I am sure it won't work again.

The idea that it work will comes from being inside an information ecosystem (or bubble): They can use it to rile their base, so they think it will rile everyone.

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Also I want to remind everyone that right now, Abbot is huffing and puffing.

He's making threats and talking big.

Jackson actually did defy the court. And yes, Southern states defied Brown v. Board.

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One mistake the GOP made is to cater to a small, vocal part of the base.

The two mindblowing books I read in the past few weeks (attached) opened my eyes to how small these partisan ecosystems are.

Some of the people insisting that Biden should do X or Y do not realize that they, too, are speaking for a very small subset of the voting population.

It's fine to say what Biden should do, but he will go where the larger numbers are.

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Hi, everyone. It looks like the migration was successful.

That means I worried for nothing.

I followed the instructions put together by @feditips