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there's a new round of efforts by the GOP and Trump administration to cut Medicaid. a reminder of one of the least discussed effects of Medicaid: health-care coverage lowers crime and promotes safety. (and yet the GOP cuts Medicaid, but doesn't get labeled as endangering safety.)

Did you read Bolts' extraordinarily rich reporting on how Southern states have been violating the laws that readmitted them into the U.S. for 150+ years? Now listen to reporter Alex Burness talk about it & explain how he approached the story in our latest video: www.tiktok.com/@boltsmag/vi...

It isn't getting as much attention as another upcoming Senate primary, PPP finds Peggy Flanagan up 46/32 on Angie Craig in the August 11 race to replace Minnesota Senator Tina Smith. The poll was done and released for the Dem LG association, which is supporting Flanagan. demlgs.org/wp-content/u...

It really doesn’t fucking matter if you say you believe in science if you then destroy scientific funding, expertise, and capacity.

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

2. He admitted that there is “no list” of 9/11 families seeking to ban Mamdani from the anniversary ceremony.

This is so fucking evil www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Ken Paxton has 15 homes… FIFTEEN!

New poll: Americans believe the U.S. should arrest Benjamin Netanyahu by a +22 margin Total: 49-27 Black: 53-13 Hispanic: 52-15 Ages 18-29: 58-17 Harris voters: 74-10 Independents: 55-20 23% of Trump voters agree as well Economist/YouGov:

"“You can’t get rid of 30 percent of your staff and expect to be functional,” says Traci DiMartini, the former IRS human capital officer who was one of the first high-ranking officials DOGE pushed out last year. “Things are starting to break.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Also says something about public understanding of arithmetic since their guesses add up to 169 percent

We actually had the 16th highest mortality rate in the world and it largely resulted from the ignorant asshats who were *resisting* the common sense protection measures Fauci was promoting like masking and distancing. What a colossal asshole.

Most politicians dislike Mamdani because he actually loves the job. They love the trappings of the job but hate the actual work, so they don't do it. Mamdani, to their chagrin, sets a bar they can't meet with respect to showing voters what's possible with governance.

When Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

The Republican Party created an unnecessary trade war and an unnecessary real war, and now that both of them have gone predictably wrong, their message for the midterms is that this was all the fault of Democrats who were in power years or even decades ago. Good luck with that.

I wonder whether the boards of Tesla and SpaceX have any reaction to Musk's call for political assassinations, or more specifically to his call for the killing of the Economist's editor in chief. If I were a journalist, I might make some calls.

After federal agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the pro-Trump management team at CBS News pressured journalists to put disinformation in their reports. This went beyond “politics” – it was news executives helping fascists whitewash murder. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

I'm just glad Article I isn't alive to see this

Terrific answer from the great historian David Blight. Museums aren't there to inform us of all the old answers, but to inspire for us all the new questions.

This president is allowed to savagely lie about transgender Americans, and Muslim-Americans, and Haitan or Somali immigrants and more because he's America's Special Little Boy. No consequences for him or for the entire party that has his back.