Politico: “Speaker Mike Johnson is with President Donald Trump at the White House Tuesday morning, meeting about the stuck GOP immigration enforcement bill.”
Jill Biden Admits She Had to Lie After Debate
Former first lady Jill Biden told NBC News she felt she “had to support” President Joe Biden publicly in the wake of his disastrous 2024 debate with Donald Trump, despite acknowledging now that she feared her husband might have been having a stroke.
Standoff Between Republicans and White House Continues
“A standoff between the White House and the Senate remains unresolved after Republican senators defiantly left town 10 days ago without passing legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies,” the Associated Press reports.
“Senate Republicans who are returning to Washington on Monday say they won’t have the votes to pass the Homeland Security spending bill until the White House works with them to place parameters on a new $1.776 billion settlement fund designed to compensate Trump’s allies. But Trump has shown little interest in doing so, even after a judge temporarily halted any payouts.”
“It’s unclear how they will settle the dispute.”
Why Did the Press Ignore a Gathering of Fascists?
The Redoubt: “Right-wing extremism is going mainstream, but it’s not getting the coverage.”
Iran Calls Off Negotiations with the U.S.
Trump’s Approval Collapses in Pennsylvania
A new Penn Live poll in Pennsylvania finds President Trump’s approval rating has dropped to 34%, his lowest on record.
Key finding: The poll found 71% of Pennsylvanians believing that Trump’s tariffs are hurting them, an 11-point increase from April. Only 9% of Pennsylvania voters now believe the President’s signature economic policy is helping them.
Trump Wants to Frighten Would-Be Whistleblowers
Quinta Jurecic: “The NDAs would ostensibly forbid federal workers from sharing ‘non-public, confidential, or proprietary information’ outside the government, including with the press. Exactly what constitutes such information remains unclear, as does the proposal’s legal validity.”
The Problem With Graham Platner
Andrew Egger: “If you’re a Democrat, it’s certainly not unreasonable to look at a guy like Platner and say: Okay, so he’s a cheater—now explain to me exactly why I should think that means Republicans should control the Senate?”
“I don’t have a convenient moral to the story here. It’s not like the answer is just for the parties to keep running the same old colorless senior-citizen career politicians. Voters don’t like them, and they shouldn’t. If Maine Gov. Janet Mills hadn’t been such an uninspiring establishment Senate candidate, Platner would never have found a populist wave to catch in the first place.”
“But I do worry that the path we’re on is one that makes it easier and easier for Democrats to follow Republicans into just abandoning character-related assessments of their candidates altogether. We’re currently in the midst of a long, painful education in how badly that can go on the GOP side of the aisle. Once you decide moral fiber in your leaders is a luxury your party can no longer afford, it’s amazing how quickly things can get out of hand.”
China Aims AI at Predicting Who Could Pose a Political Risk
New York Times: “A Chinese company has been trying to develop artificial intelligence-powered technology that would enable authoritarian governments to not just monitor dissidents but also potentially predict who could become one in the future.”
“The work, which appears to be in the research stage, is ripped out of dystopian science fiction, offering a glimpse of a world in which an authoritarian state is able to move against its citizens before they begin any public dissent.”
Starmer Faces New Scrutiny as Mandelson Files Published
“The UK government released a vast trove of documents relating to Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador, in a move that threatens to cause fresh damage to Keir Starmer’s faltering premiership,” Bloomberg reports.
“The release resurfaces a saga that has weakened and embarrassed Starmer over the nine months since Bloomberg News exposed the extent of Mandelson’s ties with the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.”
Democrats Hopeful Amid Voter Frustrations in Iowa
“After years in the political wilderness, Iowa Democrats are feeling a new sensation — hope,” Bloomberg reports.
“Once seen as a bellwether, the Midwestern state of 3.2 million people has over the past decade served as a microcosm for national politics, lurching to the right as President Donald Trump solidified his grasp on White and rural voters. But Democrats see an opportunity to reverse those trends, buoyed by broad dissatisfaction with the economy and a group of well-liked, centrist candidates expected to prevail in Tuesday’s party primaries.”
“Trump’s aggressive tariff agenda has turbocharged voter frustrations with the state’s heavily agricultural economy, squeezing the fertilizer supply chain. The Iran war has driven up fuel prices. The president’s recent trip to China didn’t yield specific guarantees of new row crop purchases. Sweeping policy changes in education and healthcare alienated some Iowans, while longtime Republican incumbents are retiring.”
The White House Is the New Green Zone
Matt Viser: “Three times in four weeks, gunfire has broken out as federal agents were protecting the president and vice president in the vicinity of the White House. Three months ago, a man was shot and killed after entering the Mar-a-Lago security perimeter with a shotgun and fuel can. Three months before that, two National Guard members were shot just blocks from the White House.”
“The Secret Service, which says it has protections all around the building—some visible, some not—has a division that over the past year has been studying the rise in violent rhetoric and action to get at the question: What is driving the attacks—and can they be headed off in advance?”
Trump Faces Mounting Pressure as Republicans Revolt
Semafor: “GOP senators are rebelling against a $1.8 billion Trump-backed ‘slush fund’ to compensate people allegedly victimized by the government, including 2021 Capitol rioters, and refusing to pass an immigration enforcement funding bill as a result.”
“To add to Trump’s woes, he is 20 points underwater in polls — far more unpopular than Joe Biden at this point in his term — and a judge struck down his move to put his own name on the Kennedy Center, saying Congress must be consulted.”
“Trump has also angered Republicans by undermining establishment favorites in recent primaries, creating a “wounded bear caucus” of outgoing congresspeople,”
Will Attacking Schumer Pay Off?
“Two Democrats running for an open Senate seat in Iowa are testing whether the way to win a state that President Donald Trump carried three times is a moderate message — or a fiery indictment of the Democratic establishment,” the Washington Post reports.
“Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and his allies view state Rep. Josh Turek as the party’s best shot at flipping Iowa in November and helping Democrats recapture the Senate.”
“Meanwhile, state Sen. Zach Wahls, who is running against Turek in Tuesday’s primary, sees Schumer as part of the problem.”
Jeffrey Epstein’s Sperm May Have Survived Him
New York Times: “Emails and records in the Epstein files released by the Justice Department indicate that Mr. Epstein had been banking his sperm for at least several years before his death, and that he did not want the cryobank to discard it if he died.”
How California Redistricting Shrunk the Competitive Map
New York Times: “Back in 2010, California created something many good government advocates had encouraged and many political incumbents feared: a nonpartisan redistricting commission. The people appointed to the panel were charged with drawing political maps in a way that did not favor one party over the other…”
“Then, last year, partisan redistricting wars ignited across the country. After Texas legislators redrew their state’s congressional districts to favor Republicans, Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed for voters to approve a plan that would allow California Democrats to do the same. They did, by a wide margin.”
“As a result, there are just four competitive congressional districts in the state and just four seats considered safe for Republicans. The rest of the state’s 52 members of Congress are all but certain to be Democrats.”
Quote of the Day
“This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas. Americans are not a race, we’re a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions, and that is what makes us exceptional.”
— Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), at a campaign speech.
Los Angeles Voters Have No Good Option
Marc Novicoff: “t’s happening again. In a big American city, a young Indian American democratic socialist is trying to unseat an unpopular Black incumbent on a platform of housing affordability. This time, the arena is not New York City but Los Angeles. Nithya Raman, the insurgent, has fashioned herself as a Zohran Mamdani of the West. Karen Bass, the embattled incumbent, is fighting to stay in office and make sure that lightning doesn’t strike on opposite coasts.”
“But the similarities mostly end there. In New York, an inspiring young leftist competed against a boorish, but experienced, former governor to replace a corrupt mayor. In Los Angeles, the leftist insurgent isn’t inspiring, and the boorish challenger—the former reality-TV villain Spencer Pratt—is inexperienced. The incumbent isn’t corrupt, just feckless. Despite their overwhelming weaknesses, two of these candidates will advance from Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary, and one will win in the November general election. Los Angeles is unlikely to be better off.”
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