How the Trump Admin Tried to Turn Foreign Aid Funds Into Deportation Cash talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...

How the Trump Admin Tried to Turn Foreign Aid Funds Into Deportation Cash talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...

New at TPM: Court-appointed amici filed their memo last night in Trump's $10B lawsuit against the IRS on the issue of whether there's true adversity between the parties, without which there's no federal court jurisdiction over the non-dispute. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Trump’s New $1.7 BILLION Slush Fund Boondoggle talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Latest ep is OUT! We were joined by @peltzmadeline.bsky.social who helped us understand what's going on in the MAHA movement. Are they happy with Trump? Are they happy with RFK Jr? How did the Dems cede anti-corporation sentiment to the GOP around Big Food? www.youtube.com/watch?v=nce9...

FYI

On Thursday, Virginia Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger said that the state will use its 2021 map in the upcoming elections while legal challenges with the state’s new Democratic-led redistricting proposal continue to play out in court. talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog-up...

The litigation stems from House Democrats’ temporary departure from the state last summer in an attempt to deprive the legislature of the quorum needed to pass new, gerrymandered maps. talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog-up...

Simple Request

An agreement is in the works between President Trump and the IRS and DOJ that would create a $1.7B slush fund for his allies who have been Deep State "victims."

Are The Moms Alright?

It was the perfect sound byte for Dems who are not having to do too much to remind Americans that Trump’s economy, & his decision to launch another endless war, is ruining their financial prospects, at a time where record high inflation and Trump’s own tariffs are making it hard to afford anything.

Mifepristone gets temporary reprieve, Alito rages at the "unreasoned" stay order (what's good for the goose!), anti-abortion activists (including Alito) fume at the FDA to hurry up and restrict the drug already talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

Trump actually made the remarks one day after a handful of Republican senators visited the White House and begged him to help them message to the American people about how the party will address their affordability concerns.

Supreme Court Keeps Mifepristone Available For Now While Alito and Thomas Seethe in Dissent talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

Thomas and Alito seethe as Supreme Court blocks a 5th Circuit ruling that would reimpose restrictions on mifepristone while a major case plays out.

Alito exclaims that mailing mifepristone undermines Dobbs: "The manufacturers of the drug, including Danco and GenBioPro, are obviously aware of what is going on yet nevertheless supply the drug and reap profits from its felonious use in Louisiana."

Thomas, invoking the Comstock Act: "Applicants are not entitled to a stay of an adverse court order based on lost profits from their criminal enterprise"

Thomas and Alito seething in dissents from Supreme Court order blocking the 5th Circuit's ruling that would reimpose restrictions on mifepristone while a major case plays out.

Stay granted, keeping mifepristone accessible as usual at least while the case plays out. Thomas and Alito dissent

Alito's administrative stay on the 5th Circuit mifepristone ruling - that would restore in-person dispensing requirements, stopping the drug from being mailed - lifts at 5 pm ET

Josh Marshall: Because of a culture of impunity, the Supreme Court decided to run the country from the bench. There's no special knowledge you need to know that has happened and that it is unacceptable.

This week the Republican scramble to severely cut back Black electoral power continues at a dizzying pace, with some southern states that initially appeared hesitant now jumping into the fray.

A notable cluster of new smackdowns of the Trump admin from federal judges in an array of cases, involving violations of the law, defiance of court orders, and assorted shenanigans, tho ultimate accountability to the rule of law continues to be slow in coming: talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Big Round of New Trump Administration Smackdowns from Federal Judges

@kateriga.bsky.social joined the @thebradblog.bsky.social show to talk about the need for Democrats to engage in some norm-breaking if we ever hope to restore and repair American democracy. bradblog.com?p=16757

Do Dems Have the Courage Required to Restore and Reform American Democracy? (Do You?): Today's #BradCast Guest: @kateriga.bsky.social of @talkingpointsmemo.com; Also: SC Senate leader blocks U.S. House gerrymandering; Primary results from WV, NE... FULL STORY, LISTEN: bradblog.com?p=16757

Now, Vance claims, red states are no longer safe in Trump’s pretextual war on fraud.

His immigration enforcement operations, the deployment of the National Guard to combat supposed crime and the withholding of funds over nebulous fraud claims have all served as a mechanism for his ideological and grievance-based retribution.

These funding freezes are part of Trump’s ongoing quest to find novel ways to punish blue state officials he deems political foes, and the residents of blue states/cities who oppose him.

These funding freezes are part of Trump's ongoing quest to find novel ways to punish blue state officials he deems political foes.

Wake Up and Smell the Court Reform

More on the Fancy Lawyer

The Cost of the GOP’s Medicaid Cuts: ER Bills for States and a Spiraling Oral Health Crisis talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-cos...

"Black people in America did worse economically in 2025 than at any time since the Federal Reserve began its financial wellbeing survey in 2013 ... More notable is the gap between Black people and, in some cases, every other racial and ethnic group recorded." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/black-p...

Black people are doing worse than every other racial and ethnic group in Trump's economy, according to a new study from the Fed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/black-p...

Yes, the Fancy Lawyers Are the Problem — Across the Board talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/yes-t...

Black people saw the largest decline in financial stability for nearly every category compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new Federal Reserve survey.

Josh Marshall: The mystification of formal legal knowledge by SCOTUS justices and elite lawyers is being used to corrupt the democratic and constitutional process.

‘Gamesmanship’

Here's how House Dems are confronting Trump's attacks on voting www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkwLTK9n/

Senate Dems are expected to force another war powers vote today. This will be the first one since the conflict passed the 60-day mark. Last time they voted on this issue, Sen. Susan Collins shifted her stance and voted with Dems. First Republican senator to shift their vote on the issue.

With the Corrupt Supreme Court, It’s Calvinball All the Way Down talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/with-...

I was in the federal courthouse in suburban Maryland for a hearing yesterday in the civil case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The case is deep in the procedural weeds at this point, but it continues to produce moments I’ve never seen in court. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

The case marks a new escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to find and prosecute instances of noncitizen voting, despite evidence that it is exceptionally rare.

I was in the federal courthouse in suburban Maryland for a hearing yesterday in the civil case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The case is deep in the procedural weeds at this point, but it continues to produce moments I've never seen in court.

States are scrambling to cap or cut dental benefits to save $ after the GOP passed sweeping Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill. History shows us these cuts are “a false financial trade-off," @farrellbrenner.bsky.social reports. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-cos...

Democrats trounce a candidate they believed to be a Republican plant.