It's also worth noting that the primary driver of Trump's tanking numbers is the deep unpopularity of two central pillars of right wing populism, tariffs and immigration restrictionism. The story we were told about 2024 was that it revealed a durable right wing populist turn. It's not materializing.

As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders?

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Universities often break their own enrollment records. But some wealthy ones do it by quietly pushing low-income families into crushing debt. 🎓 Here, our #HigherEd expert @stephenburd.bsky.social exposes how some #FinancialAid strategies steer students toward risky loans.

If you ever want to feel like you live in “the ruins of a once great civilization,” then read a local daily paper from the middle of last century — our predecessors had more and better knowledge of their neighbors, their societies, and their local democracies than we do about our own.

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...

Sadly, this is NOT satire.

The President of the United States is compromised. It is time for Congress to act. Now!

It wasn’t enough for Stephen Miller that these American citizens were murdered by ICE and CBP, he had to slander them with lies after their deaths. Miller is a deranged, bloodthirsty bigot, and his policies put lives at risk every day he remains in power. Fire Stephen Miller.

Minnesota Anthem youtu.be/uozLlmUhzZY?...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

In part, the Epstein story and hus celebrity friends is about the worship of wealth in this country, and the willingness to look the other way if you can benefit from it.

Destroy one of the oldest and most beloved entertainment properties in the world, get paid $567 million

Unsurprisingly, the president's reaction to the murder of Rob Reiner confirmed that he is indeed one of the most vile men ever to occupy the White House.

Party of law and order

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

My statement on McMahon's plan to dismember the U.S. Department of Education. www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.

Remember when Trump insisted that there were riots on the streets of Portland? It's because Fox News deliberately spliced footage of the 2020 riots into contemporary footage. It's kinda funny, but the fact that the most powerful man in the world can be so easily manipulated is a bit 😬

The Jeffrey Epstein emails are astonishing not so much for the chumminess he enjoyed with elites even after he’d served time for soliciting prostitution with a minor but for their flagrantness, their casual disregard, and their indifference to consequence. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

… and The Onion had no choice but to admit it was bested by reality and shut down.

Will the Trump-Epstein connection ever break through to MAGA? There is some evidence that at 30-40% "incongruent information", people turn against their candidates. But below that, doubling-down is strong. Cognitive dissonance is hard for people to handle. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

GOP Rep. Bacon: "I do think this was a PR disaster for the White House. When you tell everybody you're going to release everything, that you have the names of all the clients, and then you then you come back and say, 'oh, there was none.' This was a self-inflicted wound by the White House."

I find it highly ironic that the party that bemoaned the deep state and alleged the cover-up of pedophiles is now embroiled in defending the party that has the largest pedophile cover-up in American history.

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

“My work is not done — despite my best efforts, there are still children alive and well in the state of Texas.”

Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything." For once, I believe him.

I wonder how much the moderate Dems who caved to the GOP were worried about losing the filibuster. I have a feeling that this threat played a bigger role than is being reported.

Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

my parents were in town this weekend and I played catch with my dad for like 30 minutes and just talked and it was the absolute best time.

These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.

Powell: "Higher tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods, resulting in higher overall inflation."

Social media is this guy's entire lifeworld. Terminal brain poisoning.

Neguse: "Does anyone here not believe that with one phone call from Speaker Johnson -- one phone call to the president or the secretary of ag -- that those funds would be released tomorrow? And that families wouldn't go starving by the weekend?"

The whole time on the Jan 6 committee, every republicans talking point to the media was “It’s just time to move on and look forward.” Now they are obsessed and on their SECOND investigation of the investigation and of course are at a brick wall

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum: "Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I'm talking about the Epstein list. I genuinely don't understand why there's been any effort to hide this & prevent it from coming out. But b/c of the efforts for years now to hide it, it certainly makes you feel afraid when you're one of the ones truly on the frontlines."

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

I still haven't seen any answer that makes sense to me. Why is an opinion journalist running CBS News as editor in chief? How did that happen, and what is the logic of that appointment? It still isn't clear to me.

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.