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Mass Deportations Could Backfire on the Economy
A Penn Wharton Budget Model analysis shows the administration’s immigration crackdown will “shrink most worker paychecks, erode gross domestic product (GDP) and spike the already-massive federal government budget deficit,” CNN…
Are the Democrats Getting Better at the Internet?
Jon Allsop: “Maybe a certain reserved professionalism is part of what makes Democrats different from Trump, and is thus worth preserving; maybe, given the asymmetric power of the right-wing-media ecosystem,…
16 Dead in Border Clash Between Thailand and Cambodia
“At least 16 people have been killed in armed clashes between Thailand and Cambodia, as tensions over a century-old border dispute spiral into the worst fighting between the two Southeast…
Putin Rules Out Any Meeting with Zelensky
“The Kremlin on Friday ruled out any meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before the last stage in signing a peace deal, definitively rebuffing the…
Trump Releases Billions He Withheld from Schools
“The Trump administration plans to release more than $5 billion in funding to public schools that it has withheld for nearly a month, a senior administration official said Friday, ending…
AOC Accepted Impermissible Gift
The Ethics Committee found that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) “failed to fully comply with the Gift Rule by impermissibly accepting a gift of free admission to the 2021 Met Gala…
Texas Lawmaker Admits to Affair
“Three days after state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione (R) announced he was dropping his reelection bid, the conservative news site Current Revolt published an interview with a former exotic dancer who…
George Santos Begins 7-Year Prison Sentence
“Disgraced former Rep. George Santos is set to report to prison on Friday, beginning a more than seven-year sentence after pleading guilty to a laundry list of federal charges that…
Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis
“Media Matters, a nonprofit group that has played a key role in liberal politics, is struggling to withstand months of legal assaults by President Trump’s allies, offering a glimpse of…
We Don’t Really Know the Battlegrounds Yet
Election forecasters are facing a new kind of uncertainty ahead of the 2026 midterm elections: the congressional maps may change. In a typical cycle, the battleground districts are largely locked…
Trump Floats Tariff Rebate Checks
“President Trump on Friday suggested the government might consider issuing rebate checks to some Americans from the tariff revenue collected this year,” Axios reports. Said Trump: “We have so much…
A Stunning Number of Voters Didn’t Rank Cuomo for Mayor
A Gothamist analysis found that more than 70% of voters who fully filled out all five slots on their ranked-choice primary ballots did not rank Andrew Cuomo among their chosen…
Trump Says He Could Pardon Ghislaine Maxwell
President Trump said he had the ability to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, the associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, in exchange for her cooperation with ongoing investigations but had not yet…
Affluent Americans Increasingly Vote for Democrats
Washington Post: “During the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush, affluent Americans who benefited from tax cuts were more likely to be Republicans. The political…
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Republicans Split on Extending Obamacare Tax Breaks
“Republican leaders are facing growing calls from their members to extend a bucket of funding for the Affordable Care Act that is slated to expire at the end of this…
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ICEBlock for the iPhone
ICEBlock is an anonymous crowdsourced platform that allows users to report Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity with just two taps on their phone. John Gruber: “To maintain anonymity and store…
Powell Vows He’ll Finish His Term
“Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has told multiple associates and allies that there’s no chance he will bow to President Donald Trump’s calls for him to resign, vowing to withstand…
Bonus Quote of the Day
“Rupert Murdoch, he’s my new hero. Man, this guy’s got more guts than the entire Democratic Party put together. Go Rupert. Go, cat, go.” — James Carville, on Fox News….
