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Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
My Statement on D.C. Circuit’s Ruling to Protect Landmark Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund from Unlawful Trump Attacks
If only it hadn’t been illegal. 😞
Aaron RuparBessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."
The GOP's official party-wide slogan marching into the midterms: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
IRAN WAR An Emerging Deal Between Iran and Oman to Reopen Hormuz Would Come at a Cost for Trump Because Iran will come out the winner from this ill-advised war www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
An Emerging Deal Between Iran and Oman to Reopen Hormuz Would Come at a Cost for TrumpThe deal would address President Trump’s most urgent political problem by allowing ships to move again. But it would give Iran strategic leverage it did not have before the war.www.nytimes.com
How Netanyahu’s MAGA Evangelical Backers Are Grappling With Backlash Against Him talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-net...
How Netanyahu’s MAGA Evangelical Backers Are Grappling With Backlash Against HimIn Church, Merch, and State, Sarah Posner writes about the intersection of religion and...talkingpointsmemo.comHow ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its CriticsThe agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.www.wsj.com
Sick and tired of journalists asking politicians how they *feel* about the Bad Thing that just happened. Ask them what they're going to *do* about it!
“.. he is so set on avenging his election loss and pursuing retribution against his political enemies that he has Americans looking backward when many have signaled they would rather he explain why the country is at war ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
THIS IS SO ON BRAND… Three polls. Same verdict: Trump’s approval has completely collapsed. A normal president would take the hint and try to pivot. Trump doubles down.
Conservatives who have long pushed for Medicaid work requirements often said vulnerable people would get a pass. But the federal government's list of exemptions left off homeless people. n.pr/4w4pkH0
Medicaid work rule leaves homeless people in the coldConservatives who have long pushed for Medicaid work requirements often said vulnerable people would get a pass. But the federal government's list of exemptions left off homeless people.n.pr
"Politicians like Ken Paxton, they use those difficult issues to rile people up, to divide us, to distract us in order to win power for themselves." -James Talarico on not taking the bait on trans panic.
in constitutional terms i think this kind of has to be right. this isn't a ceo transition where they negotiate the hand off. pulte is a temporary whose only authority rests on the job being vacant which it ceased to be with Clayton's confirmation.
emptywheelCATO argues Bill Pulte could not legally serve after Jay Clayton was confirmed, so everything Pulte did in the last week (like firing a bunch of people) can be challenged. www.cato.org/blog/william...
Is there enough money in that lush fund to give this guy a few hundred K for his patriotic efforts?
CNN found the posts on July 16. Collins removed the family photo from his campaign website and said nothing else. Two weeks later a reporter asked him about it out loud, and he scooted to his car: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
Bizarre Texts, Gifted Guns, 30 Types of Ice Cream: Rep. Faces Censure Following Sexual Harassment Allegations talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-e...
Bizarre Texts, Gifted Guns, 30 Types of Ice Cream: Rep. Faces Censure Following Sexual Harassment AllegationsThe bipartisan House Ethics Committee on Monday recommended that Rep. Chuck Edwards...talkingpointsmemo.com
Republicans might have the vote, but Democrats need to make it as painful and costly as possible.
Adam Keiper"Democrats need to make this next week as visible and painful as possible for the GOP." www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-sheep-...
