Why would statehood for DC and Puerto Rico make it unlikely that Republicans could win an election for decades?

Trump selecting his own resort in Doral to host the G20 summit not only benefits his resort, but means other cities have materially lost out. No evidence that there was a fair selection process. Clear presidential profiteering. Don't let this go. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

The Department of Education just released a 200-page report claiming the Biden Administration systematically persecuted Christians. 1,100 footnotes. 300 pages of exhibits. One of their lead examples of anti-Christian bias: the $37.7 million fine against Grand Canyon University.

#BREAKING: Velshi: “Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican  chairman of the powerful House Juduciary Committee spent YEARS as one of [FISA] Section 702’s most vocal CRITICS. He routinely cited a 2023 government report finding that the government had misused the program 278,000 times. He…voted

As ICE’s crackdown on illegal immigration has flooded detention centers with record numbers of detainees, guards inside those facilities have increasingly resorted to acts of physical force. Douglas MacMillan, Andrew Ba Tran, Drea Cornejo and Luis Melgar found 4 main things...

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

Judge DuBose has called a hearing today to consider contempt against the attorney for concealing material facts. This is the latest in a too-lengthy-to-count list of examples in which Trump's DOJ and Trump's DHS are on completely different pages in an immigration detention case.

Mike Johnson sold Republican health care cuts as a crackdown on undocumented immigrants. It was a lie from day one. Undocumented immigrants were never eligible for Medicaid or ACA subsidies. Here’s what’s actually happening: Premiums have more than doubled on average, ACA

The Department of Justice asked a federal court to throw out their convictions for Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders. These are the individuals who led 1,500 people to attack our Capitol on January 6th. Even though Pam Bondi is gone, I’m urging my colleagues in the Senate to

The media spent the better part of two years burying Hillary's presidential campaign for less. This won't be remembered by the weekend ⬇️

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made a false claim in his testimony to the House on Wednesday. Then he repeated it in his testimony to the Senate on Thursday. Hegseth said Wednesday: “In 2024, troops were depl… – that was Joe Biden by the way, Joe Biden –  were deployed to

BREAKING: Delta Air Lines will no longer offer free snacks or drinks on all flights starting May 19th (under 350 miles). Meanwhile, Delta CEO Ed Bastian received $27.1 million in 2024. Consumers lose, every single time.

1/2 Louisiana just interrupted an election where early voting had started. In Alabama, we were saddled with an unconstitutional map for an extra two years after a 2/22 ruling by SCOTUS deemed it too close to the election to do anything about it. Purcell is in the eye of the

CHUCK GRASSLEY has released the Judiciary Committee's reconciliation title. $3.4B for CBP through 2029 $30 Billion for ICE $2.5B for DHS $1 billion for the "East Wing Modernization Project, including above-ground and below-ground security features" punchbowl.news/reconciliation…

Two different technical, procedural moves from #SCOTUS yesterday have one thing in common: The Court is behaving differently in otherwise similar cases based upon the ideological/partisan valence of the dispute. Results aside, that's not a healthy trend: stevevladeck.com/p/226-two-more…

Families are facing a costs crisis and the one bill the GOP congress plans to pass this year is spending taxpayer money on a fancy ballroom and immigrant detention centers.

Trump tore down nearly half the White House, without approval, then told you this ballroom would not cost any taxpayer money. Now, Republicans are requesting $1 Billion of your money for security features related to it. #ballroominflation

Then and now. So back in 2022, when the original Louisiana map was struck down 5.5 months before the election, Louisiana argued to SCOTUS for *eight* pages that it was too close to the election to change the map. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/2…

New details have been released about Palm Beach International Airport, recently renamed to Donald J. Trump International Airport. Their new contract requires the airport to purchase Trump merchandise from Trump's own licensor, directly violating the Emoluments Clause of the

Trump promised no tax dollars would fund his ballroom. He lied. Senate Republicans just slipped ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your money into a reconciliation package for “security upgrades” tied to Trump’s vanity ballroom project at the White House. One billion dollars. Let that