🚨 At least 10 scientists, all cited in the Trump admin's new climate change report, told me that the report completely mischaracterizes their research. I also found five citations with significant errors, and a paragraph missing an important citation notus.org/climate-enviro…

Climate scientists say new Trump energy report botches their work “Our work has no relevance.” “A serious misuse of my research” “Taken out of context” Crazy story from Anna Kramer notus.org/climate-enviro…

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Senate recess is on hold as talks to get out of town head south Leaders still looking for deals on noms & the minibus. Trump demanding they stay in town. Thune filed cloture on new batch of noms last night, likely teeing up weekend work 😵‍💫 notus.org/congress/senat…

Great get for us

One person close to the president summed up the White House’s political strategy succinctly: “Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.” What Texas and the redistricting wars reveal about our politics. Me and Nick Corasaniti (gift link): nytimes.com/2025/08/02/us/…

No Q about this so far, but we did get a thumbsucker about what cleaning up DC would mean to Trump personally.

Federal law allows Trump to control D.C. police only for 48 hours To extend that to 30 days, he'd need to notify House Oversight and Senate HSGAC Anything longer that that would need to be authorized by Congress — and Democrats would likely block it notus.org/trump-white-ho…

NEW: White House says Trump's DC police takeover is "expected to last 30 days" Trump *must* notify House Oversight's James Comer and Robert Garcia and Senate HSGAC's Rand Paul and Gary Peters to control DC police for that long — not all have been notified notus.org/trump-white-ho…

This is a great scoop about the inner workings of the Justice Department and quite an interesting reaction from a government official

Appreciate the thought that most reporters earn enough money to live in Ward 3

NEW: Senate Leadership Fund, the GOP leadership-aligned super PAC, is telling donors it needs to spend up to $70M to “re-educate” Texans about Sen. John Cornyn’s conservative credentials — or spend $200-250 million to save Ken Paxton in the general. punchbowl.news/article/campai…

BREAKING: Sherrod Brown has decided to run for U.S. Senate in 2026 against Republican Jon Husted, ending months of speculation about his political plans cleveland.com/news/2025/08/s…

it's a contest between him and Elway over which was the best combo athlete + pure passer at the position

gotta bring back the 'big, if true' tagline for this one

Eye popping data from Pew Change in Trump approval among Trump voters by age: 65 and up: -4 18 to 34: -25

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser left town for Martha's Vineyard amid President Trump's takeover of the police department. “The Mayor has a family commitment and had to pick up her daughter. She will return to the District tomorrow,” her office told NOTUS. notus.org/us-news/mayor-…

Democrats are introducing legislation to end President Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C.’s police department. “No emergency exists in D.C. that the president did not create himself,” D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton said. notus.org/congress/democ…

So they…just had a dildo with them?

Our look at the press conference that kind of... wasn't. POTUS took no q's. The two men praised each other but offered few details. No talk of a ceasefire. And ultimately, POTUS called the day productive but said "there’s no deal until there’s a deal.” notus.org/donald-trump/p…