Trump 2020: Find me 11k votes Trump 2025: Find me congressional seats

Bottom line: The final text of the EU-US trade deal delivers $5,000 less to the average American household than the handshake agreement Trump boasted of on August 5.

People I talk to outside DC do not understand what's happening. On my way to work, three cars surrounded a fourth, five guys got out in masks, wearing no agency name, grabbed a man from the car, shoved them in theirs, and drove off.

She’s right, why not invest in our youth before they go to prison? Crime prevention is NOT talked about nearly enough or receive funding like this. Fund more nonprofits instead of prisons..

Trump calls Washington “the most unsafe place anywhere,” but 78% of DC residents say they feel very or somewhat safe in their neighborhoods and only 17% support the federal takeover, per The Washington Post Schar School poll. Joe Heim Scott Clement Emily Guskin washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

This isn't the first time Netanyahu has said this. He says it quite often in fact. Which is why you should ignore people who fashion themselves as public intellectuals in the West who say "this would all be over if Hamas does xyz".

Must be a busy day at the White House as they deal with the stunning news that Trump's promised $600 billion gift from the EU is not actually coming. That's an enormous sum of money, and surely blows a hole in their economic and budget plans that they'll need to repair.

The military occupation of DC just got a lot worse with propagandist Charlie Kirk using the language of the Rwandan genocide: he calls DC residents "cockroaches". That's not an accident. Everyone, even junior college dropout Kirk, knows what that means. It is very, very ugly. 1/

In Mukachevo, the Russians practically burned down an American company producing electronics—home appliances, nothing military. The Russians knew exactly where they lobbed the missiles. We believe this was a deliberate attack against American property and investments in Ukraine.

The far-right 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just sided with SpaceX's claim that the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional. The richest man in the world is one step closer to getting what he's always dreamed of: the destruction of unions once and for all.

🚨 $500,000,000 That’s what Elon Musk is being forced to cough up to 6,000 workers he fired without severance after his Twitter takeover. He bragged about “free speech” while gutting livelihoods. He renamed Twitter “X” but forgot to pay the people who built it.

Marriott allowed ICE to hold immigrants in a Louisiana hotel that it owns, contradicting a 2019 policy not to use its properties as detention facilities. trib.al/Nt7ztS4

Surprising critique of our D.C. poll demographics. The sample is weighted to match the 2023 Census American Community Survey by age, race, and education for D.C. adults. Party is self-reported but similar to city registration stats. Methods all here-> washingtonpost.com/documents/9762…

Pretty sure Batya, with the PhD dissertation on ‘Coercive Pleasures: The Force and Form of the Novel 1719–1740’, is the one who ‘dumbed down’ to appeal to her newfound MAGA base.

Justice Jackson had sharp words for her colleagues, accusing the majority of having “no fixed rules” beyond ensuring that the Trump administration “always wins.” Here's Amy Howe's analysis of the decision: scotusblog.com/2025/08/suprem…

Sort of nutty that Trump claims he wants to fund DC given that his mob took $1B out of DC's budget. Ah well, this crowd doesn't care about facts. Abigail is a paid propagandist for a criminal.

If your employer offers you a smartwatch in exchange for perks or a health insurance discount… They could be using it to monitor your health. Pregnancies, disabilities. The ADA prohibits this so companies get around that by offering employees perks to voluntarily provide it

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump admin and FL from bringing new detainees into “Alligator Alcatraz” and to dismantle some aspects of the facility as current detainees are moved out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

With Lloyd Doggett's retirement there will likely be no white male Democrats left in Texas' congressional delegation next year.