NEW: GOP centrists help Democrats defy Mike Johnson on ACA in stunning revolt

“The interesting question is not whether humans are monogamous. We know humans are monogamous, they have been for the last 200,000 years, that’s pretty clear. The real interesting question from my point of view is ‘why are humans monogamous’ ...” www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

While much of Trump’s recent scrutiny of college admissions practices has focused on race, experts say his ban on DEI is likely to hit another underrepresented group of applicants: men, and particularly White men — the largest subset of male college applicants. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Perhaps the most “newsworthy” thing about Donald Trump’s recent derogatory comments about people from Somalia is just how unsurprising they are. open.substack.com/pub/eugenesc...

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

“He does not get regular exercise, in part because he has a long-held theory that people are born with a finite amount of energy and that vigorous activity can deplete that reserve ... He enjoys red meat and is known to eat McDonald’s by the sackful.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

It’s official. @dougjones.bsky.social will run against Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/life/2025/11...

“There is no one reason or no silver bullet for what makes crime go up and crime go down,” said Insha Rahman of the Vera Institute of Justice, a liberal research organization. “Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

“Trump’s recalcitrance on the Epstein files isn’t enough to shatter his coalition, but it has created at least a few fissures.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...

By 2034, about 16 million people would lose health coverage with proposed Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “big beautiful bill” as well as changes to the Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage, according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/20/o...

Though female members of every demographic are more likely than their male counterparts to receive a psychological diagnosis, left-leaning men are more likely to experience mental illness than conservative women. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/11/o...

Great @globeopinion.bsky.social piece by my friend @scotteugene.bsky.social on how ignorance that book bans foment limits our ability to build a better, more just future. As that’s the point of it. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/o...

International students contributed $44 billion to the U.S. economy in the 2023-2024 school year. Their loss could hurt more than just universities’ bottom line. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

After rising to power in part by framing himself as a protector of white America, Trump continues to use his platform, in this case the Oval Office, to elevate claims of white grievance. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

Just six years after his Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered, at Saudi Crown Prince MBS’s direction, Bezos is going into business—and, thus, helping to enrich—the man who orchestrated it. www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...

Across the country, more than a thousand national and local nonprofits, schools, and faith-based and community organizations are reeling after Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service ordered AmeriCorps last week to terminate close to $400 million in grants www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

The African nation of Rwanda is in talks with the Trump administration to accept U.S. deportees, the country's foreign minister confirmed late Sunday. www.axios.com/2025/05/05/r...

The African nation of Rwanda is in talks with the Trump administration to accept U.S. deportees, the country's foreign minister confirmed late Sunday. www.axios.com/2025/05/05/r...

Sen. Cory Booker's marathon speech on the Senate floor won the floundering Democratic Party something it has desperately needed in the Trump era: attention and the applause of its base.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man charged with murder in connection to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year. www.axios.com/2025/04/01/l...

“In so many cases, these are lifesaving programs and services, and we worry for the well- being of those who have come to count on this support,” said Dannette R. Smith, the commissioner of Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

"I think you caved. I don't think you showed the fight this party needs right now, because you're playing by a rulebook where the other party has thrown that rulebook away" -- here's the full clip of Sunny Hostin confronting Schumer today on The View

Economist/YouGov Poll, March 9-11 54% of Americans say eliminating the U.S. Department of Education would hurt public schools in their community 18% say it would help today.yougov.com/politics/art...

“The true returns from a college degree compound in earnings and also in overall well-being, not just over years but over decades.” time.com/7267451/coll...

56 percent of the public disapproves of Trump’s handling of the economy — worse than at any point during his first term in office. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

“Pushing untrained creators out onto the red carpet in the hopes of virality is making a bleak media landscape even worse. Just because you give someone a microphone, it doesn’t make them a journalist — and it most certainly doesn’t guarantee a good interview.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

“Once a college closes a DEI office, once it shuts down a research program, once it censors a syllabus, these things are not coming back. The political will is not there to bring them back on a college campus." www.axios.com/2025/03/02/t...

“If we as a newspaper, and we as a country, are to defend his twin pillars, then we must redouble our fight against the single greatest threat to “personal liberties and free markets” in the United States today: President Donald Trump,” @danamilbank.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Scoop: In a tense off-the-record meeting with reporters that went off-the rails, the Pentagon's new press chief indicated they'll do away with the travel pool. He also scolded reporters for their coverage. "It was bleak and horrible," I'm told. Details in Status: www.status.news/p/pressed-at...

Trump on calling Zelenskyy a dictator: “Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question.”

Cooper and her husband were trying to get pregnant, but the doctor said that IVF might be their best chance. Trump had promised to make it free. That is what she thought about in the voting booth. apple.news/Av161Tv0FTfC...

Trump won the support of about 2 in 10 Black voters in 2024, up from about 1 in 10 in 2020, according to the Associated Press. He roughly doubled his share among young Black men, winning about 3 in 10 of those voters. wapo.st/4gQvB1I

“Trump scoffed that U.S.A.I.D. was ‘run by radical lunatics.’ Is it radical lunacy to try to save children’s lives? To promote literacy for girls? To fight blindness?” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

“For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality."

What people don’t realize is that you don’t HAVE to watch that thing, you can just read.

Soup kitchens can no longer feed the hungry. First responders are unable to reach the dead and wounded. Mothers and fathers search in vain for the medicines that keep them alive. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Today in US History: On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granted black men the right to vote. It was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869. Black Americans were set free by the 13th amendment. The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship. #BlackHistoryMonth

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has unveiled a 10-part plan for House Democrats' efforts to counter many of President Trump's moves to upend the federal bureaucracy. www.axios.com/2025/02/03/h...

There's a growing marriage gap in the U.S.: Marriage rates for women without college degrees are falling, while rates for those with four-year degrees are holding steady. www.axios.com/2025/01/31/m...

If he becomes health secretary, RFK Jr would oversee the agencies responsible for funding medical research, setting health guidelines and approving medications. Yet for decades, he has used conspiracy theories to undermine public health guidance. www.nytimes.com/article/rfk-...

“Conservatives used to be uptight, but the left has become the funless, sexless party. Not that the right is the party of sex, necessarily. We have fun,” says a 31-year-old influencer, Arynne Wexler. “What does a conservative even look like anymore?” nymag.com/intelligence...

“We will not allow unlawful, extra-constitutional, and ill-advised actions to undo the hard work of many generations of Americans. This is a moment to recommit to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the values that have guided us for six decades.” www.axios.com/local/washin...

An ex-sister-in-law of Pete Hegseth’s submitted a sworn statement to senators that accused Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense of being so “abusive” toward his 2nd wife that she once hid in a closet from him and had a safe word to call for help www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

Albuquerque Cosper Head grabbed Officer Michael Fanone around the neck and told a crowd, “I got one!” Head then dragged Fanone down the Capitol steps and into the mob. Rioters beat, kicked and shot Fanone with a stun gun. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/b...

🥚 Egg prices keep rising www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Scoop: On Sunday, CNN chief Mark Thompson convened his top anchors for a meeting about inauguration coverage in which he signaled he did not wish to see them focus on Trump's record as a convicted felon or the fact he was twice-impeached. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...

“Trump and his family conceivably could make billions through deals worldwide, new businesses and new currencies, funding the family — or even a political movement — for a generation. Their only limitation is imagination.” www.axios.com/newsletters/...

“Trump may not complain about Miller, but he does occasionally poke at his obsession with immigrants ... In one meeting, Trump said that if it was up to Miller there would be only 100 million people in this country, and they would all look like Miller …” t.co/oBv1v8fS4a

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Forecast snapshot: Inauguration Day will be frigid in D.C. (high of 28°F) and around the country. www.axios.com/newsletters/...