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07/06/2025

Republican lawmakers are along for the ride on much of that agenda, which was dispensed by the president through executive orders without their input, rather than legislative actions. But they will be asked to take responsibility for the effects of the enormous legislative package they shouldered through the House and Senate and then the House again. This is their baby as much as Trump’s, and lawmakers in swing districts and tough Senate races know it. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), who voted against the bill and also said that he would not seek reelection, pointedly warned the president that the Medicaid cuts alone could haunt the Republicans in the midterms.

Republicans spent months selling the bill to themselves. Now they have to talk to a wider audience with many voters saying they don’t know what’s in it.

07/06/2025

“Lower-income earners benefit less than middle and upper-middle income households,” Garrett Watson, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, a center-right think tank, told USA Today.
“It’s been marketed as tax relief for seniors, but a lot of seniors are going to be surprised when they find out it doesn’t apply to them,” he added. “I’m getting asked all the time by folks what this actually means for their tax situation.”

President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is sending mixed messages about whether most Americans are required to pay federal income taxes on their Social Security benefits. “I…

06/29/2025

It is important to recognize that the Executive’s bid to vanquish so-called ‘universal injunctions’ is, at bottom, a request for this Court’s permission to engage in unlawful behavior. When the Government says “do not allow the lower courts to enjoin executive action universally as a remedy for unconstitutional conduct,” what it is actually saying is that the Executive wants to continue doing something that a court has determined violates the Constitution—please allow this. That is some solicitation. With its ruling today, the majority largely grants the Government’s wish. But, in my view, if this country is going to persist as a Nation of laws and not men, the Judiciary has no choice but to deny it.

The Biden appointee said the Trump administration “wants to continue doing something that a court has determined violates the Constitution.”

06/28/2025

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who has described Melissa Hortman as his closest political ally and dear friend, delivered the eulogy Saturday to the grieving crowd at the Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis. Walz said he would remember Hortman, a top House Democrat, as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history” and “the most talented legislator I’ve ever known.”�“She saw the humanity in every single person she worked with, and she kept things focused on the people she served,” Walz said, crediting the slain lawmaker with marshaling legislation that brought free lunches to public schools and expanded funding for clean energy and public transportation. “Her mission was to get as much good done for as many people as possible. It was the Golden Rule instilled [in] her by her father, and the passion to serve she learned from her mother.”

After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”

06/22/2025

Bomb, bomb, bomb...Iran! Trump claims glorious victory before the dust from the bunkerbuster bombs has even settled in Iran.

Lev Parnas says it was green light by Putin.
Sen Ron Johnson says it makes him more resolved than ever...to cut Medicaid!

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06/22/2025

"President Trump attacked another country unprovoked and without seeking authorization from Congress as required by our Constitution, ignoring his own intelligence advisors, putting American lives in jeopardy and choosing to escalate in a region already on edge." Moore said in a post to X.

Check out this article from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

How Wisconsin's top Republicans are reacting to President Donald Trump's decision to bomb Iran

Wisconsin's top Republicans are backing President Donald Trump's decision to bomb three Iranian nuclear sites.

06/22/2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday called on China to encourage Iran not to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.

“I encourage the Chinese government in Beijing to call them about that, because they heavily depend on the Straits of Hormuz for their oil,” Rubio said on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.”

The Iranian Parliament has approved a measure to close the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global oil choke point, after the United States bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, according to Iranian…

06/22/2025

"No, if anything, it just strengthens my resolve," Jonson replied. "I mean, how do we expect to defend this nation if we're mortgaging its future, if we're bankrupting it?"

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) insisted that President Donald Trump's attack on Iran made him more determined to pass a bill that could strip health care from more than 10 million Medicaid recipients."Does this change anything for you, knowing that we are now looking at a world where our adversaries are on...

06/22/2025

We are far from alone. Anti-war progressives such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) have been joined by some of the most prominent voices in the MAGA sphere, including Sen. Josh Hawley (Missouri), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia), Tucker Carlson, Stephen K. Bannon and Charlie Kirk, to name a few. Weathering intense pressure from GOP hawks, these dissidents have only grown more strident in resisting the march to war.�A recent YouGov poll found that only 16 percent of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60 percent say it should not. Majorities of Democrats (65 percent), independents (61 percent) and Republicans (53 percent) oppose American intervention. A May poll from the Brookings Institution showed that a strong majority of Americans — and supermajorities of both Democrats and independents — support diplomacy over war as a way of addressing Iran’s nuclear program.

The U.S. strike on Iran could easily spiral into another forever war that Americans on both the left and right broadly oppose.

06/22/2025

“I agree,” Sanders told the crowd. “Not only is this news that I’ve just heard alarming . . . but it is so grossly unconstitutional. All of you know, that the only entity that can take this country to war is the U.S. Congress. The president does not have the right.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at a rally in Oklahoma blasted President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran and enter the U.S. into Israel’s war with Tehran. Sanders broke the news to the crowd in Tulsa, wh…

06/21/2025

The lawsuit — for unspecified damages — highlights questions over how schools can enforce tampering within revenue-sharing agreements following the House v. NCAA settlement’s June 6 approval, which permitted colleges to directly pay athletes for the first time.�“After reviewing all facts and evaluating options, the university today filed a complaint in Wisconsin state court outlining our allegations against the University of Miami,” the school said in a statement to The Washington Post. “While we reluctantly bring this case, we stand by our position that respecting and enforcing contractual obligations is essential to maintaining a level playing field.”

Camp Randall Stadium at Wisconsin. (Aaron Gash/AP)By Glynn A. HillThe University of Wisconsin and its NIL collective filed a complaint in state circuit court against the University of Miami on Friday, claiming tortious interference in a dispute over former cornerback Xavier Lucas, according to docum...

06/14/2025

BREAKING-

“This is a stunning act of violence. I’m thankful for all the law enforcement who are responding in real time,” Klobuchar said in her post. “My prayers are with the Hortman and Hoffman families. Both legislators are close friends and devoted to their families and public service.”

Two Minnesota lawmakers were targeted in overnight shootings in the Minneapolis suburbs of Champlin and Brooklyn Park and the situation is currently under investigation by state and local law enforcement agencies, according to social media posts from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and US Senator Amy Kl...