During Wednesday’s hearing, Mullin accused the ousted official of lying about her conversations with RFK Jr. and even suggested during his questioning time that there was some sort of recording of the conversation that would prove she was misleading congress.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) today got FBI Director Kash Patel to confirm a key detail about the extent to which the traditional firewall between the Department of Justice and the White House has collapsed.

In remarks to the media on Sunday, President Trump made it clear he will continue to use the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk as grounds to investigate those he sees as his political foes. In fact, he suggested, that work is already underway.

“The Missouri GOP is aiding and abetting the systematic destruction of our democracy by an authoritarian regime led by a geriatric con man who knows the only way he can win is to cheat,” Democratic state Rep. Ashley Aune said of her colleagues' subservience to Trump just before the final vote.

Two weeks ago, Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe unveiled the new congressional map — which he called a “Missouri First” map, in MAGA fashion — and called for a special session for the map to be approved.

TPM's @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social spoke to a bunch of Senate Dems this week. They appear to be focused on extending the ACA enhanced subsidies instead of Trump's power grab as part of the coming funding fight to keep the government open.

"RFK Jr. claimed to a Senate panel that the Biden admin had hidden evidence of the danger of the abortion drug mifepristone — an age-old anti-abortion smear that gives the movement pretext to make the medicine difficult to obtain." More from @kateriga.bsky.social in tonight's edition of WTS:

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) signaled on Wednesday that he would oppose any effort to have the Senate consider a new nominee to replace Lisa Cook:

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The other GOPer who sometimes counters President Trump — and then still votes for things that advance his agenda, like the sweeping Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill this summer — is slamming the White House for lawlessly withholding federal spending that’s been authorized by Congress.

President Trump will reportedly have another big boy military parade later this year.

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The Trump White House has been focused for weeks on forcing Indiana to engage in mid-cycle gerrymandering to help ensure that Republicans are able to keep the House next year — the prospects of which, according to some polls, are pretty up in the air, absent his egregious redistricting campaign.

TPM breaks the news that the University of Michigan's hospital system has been hammered by the Trump administration's DOJ into suspending gender affirming care for minors. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/univers...

As has been obvious since the moment he sent National Guard troops into D.C. to do things like patrol tourists on the National Mall, Trump is using decades-old right-wing propaganda — fear mongering about supposedly lawless urban hellscapes — to justify bringing the military in to Dem run cities.

Big new exclusive from @kateriga.bsky.social and @joshkovensky.bsky.social: The University of Michigan’s statewide hospital system will stop providing gender-affirming care for patients under 19 after receiving a subpoena and being threatened with investigation by Trump’s Justice Department.

Great new reporting this afternoon from @talkingpointsmemo.com's @laylaayanna.bsky.social: Trump’s problematic pick to lead the Bureau of Labor and Statistics is expected to face a hearing before the Senate HELP Committee, according to two people familiar with committee proceedings. More here:

The whole “100 more seats” thing is perhaps a hyperbolic troll — unlike anything anyone’s ever seen, etc. But it’s nonetheless significant.

Even on the precipice of a massive victory for the Trump administration, Texas Republicans are still conjuring up creative news ways to threaten and intimidate their Democratic colleagues — for simply using the tools at their disposal to protest the GOP’s egregious power grab.

In the wake of Vance's meeting with Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, he and other Republican members of the state legislature were tight-lipped about whether they’d agreed to redraw their state maps, and potentially flip the only two seats that Dems hold in the U.S. House.

Obviously, to those paying attention, the reason that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to work around his state’s independent redistricting commission is because of the gravity of the moment.

It’s been clear since President Trump and his Fox News DC U.S. Attorney first announced that he was placing the Metropolitan Police Department under emergency federal control that he was trying to pull off another LA-style federal occupation of a city run by politicians he doesn’t like.

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Cornyn and Paxton using the situation to out-hard ass each other is a pellucid campaigning strategy for both.

Reports from Indiana about the meeting did not exactly describe a ringing endorsement of the Trump administration’s ratfuckery.

While Texas Republicans threaten elected state Democrats with arrest for trying to resist President Trump’s power grab via their state’s congressional maps, the Trump administration is trying to plant some mid-decade gerrymandering seeds in Indiana, too.

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As soon as Abbott vowed to oust, arrest and replace Dem state lawmakers who left Texas to slow down Republican lawmakers’ efforts to redraw state congressional maps in their political favor, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made a big show of backing Abbott’s attempted display of strength.

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The Government Accountability Office has determined that another element of the Trump administration’s DOGE rampage though the federal government was a violation of the Impoundment Control Act.

This all, of course, flies in the face of Trump’s own public remarks on the matter. Earlier this month Trump was asked by an ABC News reporter if Bondi had told him whether his name appeared in the files. “No, no, she’s — she’s given us just a very quick briefing,” Trump said in response. More:

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Johnson says that after conversations with the White House and President Trump, he believes that lawmakers need to give the executive branch “space” to do the work they are already doing to release the files. This supposed work to make the documents public is only a few days old.

Over-the-top, performance art-like cruelty is a key pillar of the Trump’s second term. wherethingsstand.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-admi...

With the House expected to eagerly place another rubber stamp on a legislative priority of President Trump’s, the White House has learned that it is not that hard to bully congressional Republicans into letting the executive branch do their job for them.

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The Trump administration has been flip-flopping for months on the matter of whether the Department of Homeland Security will target farm laborers, as well as workers in the hotel and restaurant industries, with ICE raids.

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President Trump has reportedly been calling some of the highest profile and, typically, most loyal MAGA influencers in recent days to tell them to stop talking about the infamous Epstein files and his administration’s botched handling of their release.

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While Dems have, in recent years, kept their distance from the conspiracy theories related to the death of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, individual lawmakers and party officials are now leaping into the rift forming within the MAGA movement, and attempting to stoke the infighting.

There are plenty of legitimate questions swirling around the devastating flooding in Texas last weekend that left at least 100 people dead. But we live in the MAGA era.

THIS + it's also their own supporters who will impacted by the Medicaid work requirement cuts. They're musing about sending Trump voters to the fields, too

There are several layers to my conclusion that today’s remarks from President Trump’s agriculture secretary are among the most creatively maniacal I’ve heard yet from the administration.

Republicans have tried to bore the public with the details of the cuts they are pushing through in an attempt to (slightly) reduce the cost of the bill, speaking about the Medicaid and SNAP cuts in language of “reforms” and “common sense” work requirements.

The book is now closed on the Republican effort to take from the poor to extend tax breaks to the rich, all while pretending that is not what they are doing.