"A flurry of new 2024 presidential election polls have a common thread: Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is leading incumbent President Joe Biden in a hypothetical November matchup," CNBC reports."In four separate surveys released over the weekend by The New York Times/Siena C … | Continue reading
Ankush Khardori: "The Supreme Court seemed to drop a bomb this week when the justices agreed to hear Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election. But the fallout may not be as clear-cut as it seems.""Almost immediately after th … | Continue reading
Anne Applebaum: "Maybe the extraordinary nature of the current moment is hard to see from inside the United States, where so many other stories are competing for attention. But from the outside—from Warsaw, where I live part-time; from Munich, where I attended a major annual secu … | Continue reading
"You have to see the writing on the wall, you have to see the hole in the ship. And if you don’t see the hole in the ship, we’re all going to go down."-- Nikki Haley, telling the Wall Street Journal that Republicans will lose if they nominate Donald Trump. | Continue reading
When asked about President Biden running again, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) told CNN: "I know who I'm going to choose. It's going to be one of the most successful presidents in modern American history." | Continue reading
A Utah parent filed a challenge to have the Bible removed from public school libraries, citing passages describing sex and violence, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.The committee appointed to review the complaint said the Bible may remain in high school libraries, but it will be re … | Continue reading
Kim Jong Un's heavy smoking, alcohol use and apparent weight gain has led South Korean intelligence officials to question the North Korean leader’s health, Reuters reports.He is believed to weigh over 308 pounds. | Continue reading
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said that her fellow Republicans wanted her to lie about Donald Trump, the AP reports.Said Cheney: "After the 2020 election, and the attack of January 6, my fellow Republicans wanted me to lie. They wanted me to say that the 2020 election was stolen, … | Continue reading
Charlie Warzel: "Twitter has long been described, even by its most ardent users, as a hellsite. But under Elon Musk, Twitter has evolved into a platform that is indistinguishable from the wastelands of alternative social-media sites such as Truth Social and Parler. It is now a ri … | Continue reading
Stormy Daniels Says Trump Should Not to Go to Prison. (How much did Trump pay her to say that?) | Continue reading
Barney Frank Pushed to Ease Financial Regulations. | Continue reading
Elon Musk fired a top Twitter engineer because he was upset over the declining number of users that were apparently able to see his tweets, Platformer reports.Said Musk: "This is ridiculous. I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impress … | Continue reading
“The Biden administration's plan to jump-start a domestic supply chain for electric vehicles is on track to shatter expectations,” Axios reports.“Democrats offered carmakers new tax credits as an incentive to scale up domestic battery manufacturing — and they're racing to take ad … | Continue reading
“President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet one-on-one for the first time today. The White House has positioned this meeting as a relatively standard session, during which the leaders will discuss a range of topics,” Punchbowl News reports.“McCarthy, however, sees t … | Continue reading
"The Fulton County special grand jury that has spent the last eight months examining potential criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election has completed its work and is being dissolved," the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.The judge "also scheduled a hearin … | Continue reading
Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham testified that when Donald Trump was watching last year’s Jan. 6 riot unfold on television, he commented that his supporters looked "very trashy," the HuffPost reports.Said Grisham: "I don’t know if he expected them to be weari … | Continue reading
“The House Ways and Means Committee voted Tuesday to publicly release the tax returns of former President Donald J. Trump, the culmination of a yearslong battle during which he defied modern tradition by keeping his finances confidential during his campaign and while in office,” … | Continue reading
A new CNBC All-America Economic Survey shows that only 37% of Republicans say they don’t want Donald Trump to run in 2024, while 57% of Democrats say they don’t want Joe Biden to run. | Continue reading
Former Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) niece bit, kicked, and spit on six deputies after she was kicked off a plane on Thanksgiving for asking passengers she thought to be Latino if they were “drug mules” who were “smuggling cocaine,” the New Orleans Times Picayune reports.She shouted … | Continue reading
“Half of Twitter's top 100 advertisers appear to no longer be advertising on the website,” NPR reports.“A report from Media Matters for America states that these 50 advertisers have spent almost $2 billion on Twitter ads since 2020 and more than $750 million just in 2022.” | Continue reading
Politico: "After a shockingly disappointing election night, Republicans will have a razor-thin majority of no more than five seats (and maybe as small as four). A margin that small means that the GOP could not have reclaimed control without their redistricting advantage.""Republi … | Continue reading
The Ankler: “Michael Lewis — the most talented and successful non-fiction writer working today — embedded with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried for the past six months and is making the collapsing cryptocurrency exchange the centerpiece of his next book.” | Continue reading
The New York Times spoke to the former boss of the man accused of violently assaulting Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi.Said Frank Ciccarelli: "If you got him talking about politics, it was all over. Because he really believed in the whole MAGA, ‘Pizzagate,’ stolen ele … | Continue reading
New York Times: "The attack on Ms. Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, on Friday, which left him with a fractured skull and appeared to be part of a planned attack on the speaker herself, came after a yearslong campaign by Republicans to demonize and dehumanize Ms. Pelosi in increasin … | Continue reading
“First time I ran for Congress, I got whooped. Had a big L on my forehead. I was frustrated too. You know what I didn’t do though? I didn’t claim that the election was rigged. I didn’t incite a mob to storm the Capitol.”— Barack Obama, at a rally in Georgia. | Continue reading
Evan Coren notes that nuclear weapons require sustained maintenance to be in operational condition."Russia’s military performance, the conditions of Russian equipment, and the dynamics of employment in Russia’s economy in the last decade suggest that – even in areas the Russian g … | Continue reading
New York Magazine: “In the final weeks, Fetterman is banking on the hope that voters will see in his vulnerability a new way to appreciate his strength. In our conversation, he was lucid and animated, eloquent about the stakes of the race and incensed about the nasty tenor of Oz’ … | Continue reading
Bloomberg: “Over the past seven weeks, mortgage rates have soared 1.30 percentage points, the largest surge over a comparable period since 2003 and illustrating the abrupt upswing in borrowing costs as the Federal Reserve intensifies its inflation fight.” | Continue reading
"As Vladimir Putin’s game of chicken with the US and its allies over Ukraine escalates into a new round of nuclear threats, the smaller weapons that his officials have called on him to use may provide vital hours or even days of warning," Bloomberg reports."While Russia’s long-ra … | Continue reading
Gallup: "Americans' views of the two major U.S. political parties remain more negative than positive, but the Republican Party's favorability is now slightly better than the Democratic Party's.""Both parties' images have shifted slightly since last year, with the GOP's favorable … | Continue reading
“The University of Idaho’s general counsel issued new guidance on Friday about the state’s near-total abortion ban, alerting faculty and staff that the school should no longer offer birth control for students, a rare move for a state university,” the Washington Post reports.“Univ … | Continue reading
“A federal judge has appointed Raymond Dearie, a former chief federal judge in New York, to sort through the more than 11,000 documents — including classified materials — that FBI agents seized from former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence last month, to see if any shoul … | Continue reading
Jonathan Chait: "While it is factually true that there is no history of a former American president being raided by the Feds, these observations implicitly treat the FBI’s behavior as the source of the historic break. The reason Donald Trump is the first former president to be tr … | Continue reading
"It’s been more than 100 days since Donald Trump was interviewed on Fox News," the New York Times reports."The network, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch and boosted Mr. Trump’s ascension from real estate developer and reality television star to the White House, is now often bypas … | Continue reading
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) office announced he has tested positive for Covid-19 and “has very mild symptoms."Punchbowl News: "Now this leads to an interesting situation. The Senate is supposed to be voting this week on the nomination of Steven Dettelbach to ser … | Continue reading
“A week after the Supreme Court issued monumental rulings loosening restrictions on carrying guns and overturning the constitutional right to abortion, New York enacted sweeping measures designed to blunt the decisions’ effects,” the New York Times reports.“In an extraordinary se … | Continue reading
David Frum: “The culture war raged most hotly from the ’70s to the next century’s ’20s. It polarized American society, dividing men from women, rural from urban, religious from secular, Anglo-Americans from more recent immigrant groups. At length, but only after a titanic constit … | Continue reading
Ron Brownstein: "It may be cold comfort as a stormy midterm election approaches, but House Democrats have achieved a modern milestone in this legislative session that crystallizes a fundamental transformation in how Congress operates.""Working with a razor-thin majority, House De … | Continue reading
New York Times: "Nearly three months since an ultra-contagious set of new Omicron variants launched a springtime resurgence of cases, people are nonetheless dying from Covid at a rate close to the lowest of the pandemic. The spread of the virus and the number of deaths in its wak … | Continue reading
“Roughly two and a half years into the pandemic, White House officials and health experts have reached a pivotal conclusion about Covid-19 vaccines: The current approach of offering booster shots every few months isn’t sustainable,” the Wall Street Journal reports.“Though most va … | Continue reading
Robert Reich: “As I said, Cheney is a firm conservative and I have opposed many of her positions. But we are at an inflection point in this nation over a set of principles that transcend any particular positions or policies. If we cannot agree on the sanctity of the Constitution … | Continue reading
Former President Donald Trump lashed out at former House Speaker Paul Ryan and called him a “pathetic loser” after Ryan said that more House Republicans would have voted to impeach Trump if they'd had the "guts,” Insider reports. | Continue reading
An Associated Press analysis of early voting records from data firm L2 "found that more than 37,000 people who voted in Georgia’s Democratic primary two years ago cast ballots in last week’s Republican primary, an unusually high number of so-called crossover voters.""Even taking … | Continue reading
Ron Brownstein: "That’s because gun control is one of many issues in which majority opinion in the nation runs into the brick wall of a Senate rule—the filibuster—that provides a veto over national policy to a minority of the states, most of them small, largely rural, preponderan … | Continue reading
"Shortly after hundreds of rioters at the Capitol started chanting 'Hang Mike Pence!' on Jan. 6, 2021, the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, left the dining room off the Oval Office, walked into his own office and told colleagues that President Donald Trump was complainin … | Continue reading
"Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at the National Rifle Association's Annual Leadership Forum on Friday," NPR reports."But audience members at the group's annual meeting, being held this year in Houston, won't be able to carry guns during his address."Related f … | Continue reading
“Interesting, all these people telling me what to do, and they just got here.”— Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), quoted by the Wall Street Journal, on criticism that the Democratic Party leadership is too old. | Continue reading