While you were sleeping, Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey flipped a ruby red state Senate seat with a 20 point swing against Trump, breaking the GOP supermajority. If you’re wondering why Republicans are rigging maps, this is what they’re afraid of.
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While you were sleeping, Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey flipped a ruby red state Senate seat with a 20 point swing against Trump, breaking the GOP supermajority. If you’re wondering why Republicans are rigging maps, this is what they’re afraid of.
Call it what it is: a lawless president, an administration without accountability, and democracy on the brink of collapse.
Securing DC statehood isn’t some side project — it’s a moral and democratic imperative. The fact that so many national Democratic leaders have treated it like an afterthought is shameful.
Four years ago today, we walked hand in hand into the best day of our lives, surrounded by our favorite people. Every day since has been an adventure — navigating the incredible life we’ve built together. Happy anniversary, @dillmitchell.bsky.social! ❤️
Seems like it should be a bigger scandal that the Vice President is holding a closed‑door meeting this week with the White House Chief of Staff, Attorney General, and FBI Director about how to weaponize Ghislaine Maxwell’s recent testimony.
It’s a really bad look that journalists are trying to sane-wash Trump’s comments into “fired for job performance” when he explicitly said he fired the BLS commissioner for cooking the numbers to make him look bad politically.
These aren’t headlines from a democracy. They’re headlines from a banana republic.
New analysis from the Yale Budget Lab finds that Trump’s tariffs will cost American families $2,400 this year. “Combined with the weak jobs report, it's the latest sign that Americans will face a much more difficult economy in the months to come.”
To recap: Trump inherited a booming economy that was adding hundreds of thousands of jobs a month and tanked it in record time. His tariffs are choking growth, prices are soaring, and job creation has come to a halt.
Companies that have announced price hikes in recent days due to Trump’s tariffs: • Adidas • Procter & Gamble (Tide, Charmin, Crest) • Walmart • Ralph Lauren • Mattel • Subaru • Nike
Lawrence Taylor is a registered sex offender who raped a 16 year old girl.
Today the White House started by demanding a Nobel Peace Prize and ended by scrubbing unflattering history from the Smithsonian. If this were a Democratic White House, the press would be calling for removal from office.
Procter & Gamble is raising the prices of everyday household goods from Dawn dish soap to Charmin toilet paper to Crest toothpaste to Tide detergent. Trump’s tariffs are to blame.
This is an insidious lie: Trump’s top campaign promise to voters was lowering prices of consumer goods on day one. Instead, his actions have drastically increased costs. He failed to deliver his single biggest promise.
News outlets keep calling this a 15% tariff ‘deal’ with Europe. But before Trump, the rate was 0%. That’s not a deal, it’s a massive tax hike on American families. Say it clearly and stop misleading readers.
On one hand, Democrats have work to do to better connect with everyday Americans. On the other, the Republican president is polling in the 30s and covering up his ties to a notorious pedophile.
Wow: Trump approval falls to just 37%.
The new WSJ report that Trump has known since May he’s in the Epstein files turns this into a Watergate-sized cover up implicating the President, Attorney General, FBI, and a GOP House that literally shut down Congress for a month to ensure there can be no accountability.
For the Republican Speaker of the House to threaten to shut down the House to block a vote calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files is absolutely insane. Literally willing to end work on American priorities to protect Trump’s pedophile friend.
The sharp swing toward immigration should be a wake-up call for Democrats: take the fight to Trump on every front. Voters didn’t ask for MAGA’s cruelty, chaos, or dystopian deportation force — and they’re rejecting it. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
There should be folks losing their jobs at The New York Times tonight for such remarkably shoddy reporting. But of course, standards will only be maintained if the outraged party is a Republican.
Celebrating the Fourth of July is more expensive this year due to Trump’s tariffs: “The total cost of a typical grocery trip for a cookout has increased by a 12.7% annualized rate since Trump’s sweeping tariffs.”
Republicans said they’d cut the deficit. They are exploding it. They said they wouldn’t touch Medicaid. They are gutting it. They said prices would drop. They are skyrocketing. Republicans lied to and bamboozled voters. End stop.
The Republican budget bill is going to be devastating to health care access in rural America. Hundreds, if not thousands of community healthcare clinics are going to be forced to cut services or close altogether, with Trump‘s cuts to Medicaid solely to blame.
Curtis is a small town of 900 people in rural southwest Nebraska. The Curtis Medical Center announced yesterday it is closing, after more than 30 years. It is the only health care provider in the community. They blame Trump’s Medicaid cuts.
The Trump slump.
The Republican spending bill is arguably the most unpopular piece of legislation in modern history.
While America slept, Republicans voted to advance a bill that will cause the largest: • loss of health insurance in history • cut to food assistance in history • hike in college costs in history • spike in utility bills in history All to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.
Really seems like there should be more coverage of the fact that Republicans are about to pass a bill that will cause the biggest spike in utility bills in American history.
Nike is hiking prices for American consumers due to Trump’s tariffs. “These tariffs represent a new and meaningful cost headwind.”
The real lesson from New York City: voters are done with cynicism. They want leaders who take risks, do hard things, and make us believe in real, aspirational change. That hope is sorely missing in national politics right now.
This much is clear: the Democratic electorate will never rally behind a serial sexual predator as their nominee — no matter how easily most Republicans have surrendered to one.
It’s CuOVER, folks.
Andrew Cuomo’s political career should have been over the second he resigned in disgrace for gross serial sexual harassment. Tonight it’s over — for good.
The Emerson poll had Cuomo and Mamdani at 58% combined on first ballot. They currently have 79%. Everyone else collapsed. Cuomo probably needs 45% on the first ballot to have a shot after reallocation. Hard to see where he finds those votes — a lot of ground to make up.
Less than twelve hours apart.
New York pundits love pretending their city’s mayoral race is a national bellwether but whoever wins tomorrow will have no effect whatsoever on national politics.
Republicans: consistently going to war with other countries for absolutely zero reason.
There are too many holidays, Trump whines — after literally campaigning on making Juneteenth a federal holiday to pander to Black voters. No principles. No shame. Just the con.
Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo
If you’re a NYC voter, here’s the reality: Andrew Cuomo resigned for serial sexual harassment. Vote however you want. But don’t pretend voting for him isn’t a choice — and a bad one that represents what’s broken with American politics.
We cannot accept this as normal, America.
The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.
While there’s an active manhunt for the Trump supporter who went on a shooting spree against Democrats, Trump is laser focused on what really matters: whining that meteorologists botched the forecast for his birthday parade.
If a Democratic senator falsely blamed Republicans for a political assassination, the day after it happened, they’d be expelled on the spot. Mike Lee did exactly that. Will a single Republican even have the decency to call out his depravity?
Yesterday, a Trump supporter went on an assassination spree targeting Democrats. Today, a GOP Senator mocks their murder. This isn’t politics — it’s depraved moral rot.
Smart analysis of the No Kings protests estimates roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across America yesterday. The anti-Trump resistance is unprecedented, and exceeds his first term. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...
In just hours yesterday, a Trump supporter assassinated Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota. An SUV plowed into a No Kings protest in Virginia. Gunfire at the Salt Lake City rally left one critically injured. Republicans need to stop this violence.
This has been a horrific day of political violence perpetrated against Democrats. It demands clarity from the media. Say what it is. Say why Democrats are being targeted. Tell the truth.
KARE TV in Minneapolis reports that Vance Boelter's roommate says Boelter “voted for Trump” and is "a strong supporter.” Trump supporters spent the entire day spreading misinformation on Twitter to try and suggest the assassin was a Democrat.
The photos coming from Trump’s birthday parade are just incredible. No one showed up.
The New York Times now reports millions of Americans are attending No Kings anti-Trump protests across the country. Events in all 50 states. Officials in Los Angeles are calling the crowds “unprecedented.” This is likely one of the largest mass protests in U.S. history.
Live scene from the Washington Mall for Trump’s parade, via a local NBC4 reporter. Meanwhile, millions are protesting nationally.
Incredible aerial scene from San Diego where a massive crowd of 20,000+ protesters are marching through the streets for the No Kings Day rally against Donald Trump.
It would be nice if a single elected Republican condemned their online cult for taking to social media and spreading sick lies about a domestic terrorist who assassinated a Democratic lawmaker — and had a hit list of other Democrats. Their silence is complicity.
In just one week: A GOP president deployed Marines in a U.S. city, called for a Democratic governor’s arrest, the GOP Speaker called for him to be tarred and feathered, a Democratic senator was handcuffed, and two Democratic legislators were shot in their homes.
When a Democratic state legislator and her husband are assassinated for their politics, every headline should say so. Melissa Hortman was a Democrat. Murdered for being a Democrat. Say it clearly. This was political terrorism.
Today, two Democratic legislators in Minnesota were targeted in a horrifying act of political violence. This is domestic terrorism — and every Republican with a conscience should be at a microphone condemning it without delay, deflection, or excuse.
Rhode Islanders lit the first spark of the American Revolution by burning the HMS Gaspee in June 1772. Today, Gaspee Days are once again filled with protest — because 253 years later, we’re still saying it loud: No Kings. Not then. Not now. Not ever.
Remember when Trump said that Israel wouldn’t strike Iran while nuclear diplomatic talks were active?
Maybe it’s time the press stops sleepwalking through the fall of American democracy — because let there be no doubt, they’ll come for journalists next.
A sitting U.S. Senator being thrown to the ground and handcuffed for attending a press conference. The video evidence is clear. This isn’t law enforcement — it’s Trump’s goon squad, weaponized to intimidate political opponents. The press must say it plainly.
Second abysmal poll this week for Trump, with his approval rating falling below 40%. Economic disapproval 71% among of Indies. The signal is clear: voters are sick of Trump.
If this were a Democrat it would lead to a week long news cycle about fitness for office.
Absolutely devastating poll for Republicans.
HUGE win for LGBTQ+ Victory Fund Spotlight Candidate Gina Ortiz Jones tonight in becoming the next mayor of San Antonio. Republicans were desperate to win this race.
“Not even thinking about Elon.”
There’s a “I’ve got a bridge to sell you…” joke in here somewhere.
Three things more expensive under Trump:
Dan McKee is a case study in how gross incompetence becomes gross negligence: bungle a crisis, dodge accountability, then lie to voters about a fix that’ll take twice as long and cost twice as much. Rhode Island deserves so much better.
As the world watches Trump and Musk bicker like babies, YouGov recently asked Americans to pick a side. The majority picked: neither. Turns out, most people despise them both.
To recap: Elon blew up his brand with actual Tesla buyers to impress Trump — and now even the MAGA crowd thinks he’s a joke. So when does the Tesla board finally cut him loose?
A 22-year-old with zero national security experience is now overseeing terrorism prevention at the Department of Homeland Security. Maybe, just maybe, Trump should stop putting sycophantic children in charge of protecting America’s national security.
Really can’t overstate how insane it is that Trump won promising to lower prices and protect working class programs — only to immediately spike prices with tariffs and push a budget that guts Medicaid and food assistance for the same working class Americans.
Must watch: Miami weatherman John Morales gives a masterclass on how Trump’s draconian cuts to the National Weather Service will lead to less accurate hurricane forecasts — and more avoidable death and destruction.
Pretty huge over performance for Democrats in this South Carolina special election.
Trump trying to rename the USNS Harvey Milk during Pride Month isn’t policy — it’s hate. Milk was a Navy veteran forced out for being gay. This is a slap in the face to LGBTQ+ veterans and a despicable attempt to erase their service and sacrifice.
America, this is so utterly embarrassing.
Anyone running for president in 2028 better have a plan to address housing affordability because it is single-handedly destroying the American dream.
Here we go again.
Ralph Lauren joins dozens of major retailers in significantly raising prices due to Trump’s tariffs.
Reporters who ran with ‘Trump vows to protect Medicaid’ or ‘Trump considers taxing the rich’ in the past few weeks should seriously reconsider whether their job is journalism or stenography.
Devastated by the act of terror outside the AJC gathering last night. The murder of two young, innocent people is a heartbreaking reminder that antisemitism is alive and dangerous. Everyone who believes in dignity and peace mourns today.
The Midterm attack ads write themselves.
To recap: House Republicans passed a budget in the dead of night by a single vote that will strip health care from millions of Americans, deliver a massive wealth transfer to the richest Americans, and exploded the deficit.
Markets are tanking and the bond market is in panic mode over the reckless GOP budget: “We don't see any contraction in the deficit over the foreseeable future. If this dynamic is unchecked, it is inevitable that the US has a spike in rates volatility.”
For all their sanctimonious talk about “regular order,” House Republicans have been meeting overnight to fast track Trump’s budget — a bill still being negotiated and which hasn’t been drafted. It’s simply unprecedented to force a vote today on a plan no one has seen.
Pivoting a conversation from a deadly natural disaster to plug a colleague’s book has to be one of the most grotesque cable news tactics.
Not sure there’s ever been a CBO score as politically toxic as Trump’s budget. It rips food and medicine from the poor to fund tax cuts for the rich — while still managing to blow up the deficit. It’s cruelty and fiscal ruin, all in one.
Non-partisan CBO on the GOP budget bill: • Massive wealth transfer to the richest • Screws working class Americans • Explodes the deficit
It’s an indictment of modern journalism that so many are more focused on brand-building and book deals than reporting the news. When the anchor desk becomes a marketing platform, it’s no wonder trust in the media is collapsing.
CNN turning its news coverage into a nonstop promo for its anchor’s book is truly embarrassing. Instead of reporting the news, it’s a QVC segment for the guy behind the desk. People tune in for news, not narcissism.
New Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 42%, the lowest level of his term as Americans maintain an incredibly negative view of his handling of the economy.
Not here to give Mike Johnson political advice, but inviting Trump to the House GOP conference just so he could publicly insult the very members whose votes he needs to pass his budget seems like — not a winning strategy.
Headlines like this are a complete disservice to the American public. Trump is factually lying. That’s the story.
Maybe people would trust the media more if every outlet wasn’t breathlessly quoting Trump saying “don’t fuck around with Medicaid” and instead focused on the fact that his budget strips health care from 14 million Americans.
Shoutout to the pundits who insisted Trump wouldn’t actually jail his political opponents, when less than six months in he’s now arrested a sitting judge, the mayor of New Jersey’s largest city, and a member of Congress.
The reality is the president was rage tweeting Walmart less than 48 hours ago after they announced price hikes due to Trump’s tariffs. Just constant lies from this White House.
On the topic of presidential mental acuity, the current president was awake at 1:30am rage tweeting about his former opponents’ crowd sizes and calling Beyoncé, Bono, and Bruce Springsteen ‘unpatriotic entertainers.’ Where is the news cycle about his fitness for office?
Pretty weird that 24 hours after a domestic terrorist bombed a fertility clinic in Palm Springs there’s been zero statement from Donald Trump. Remember when presidents used to loudly and quickly condemn terrorism?