Byrd Rule Violations Continue to Mount on the Republicans' “One Big, Beautiful Bill”  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Senate Parliamentarian again advised that several provisions in the Republicans' “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” would be subject to a 60-vote threshold if they remain in the bill.

States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules  —  A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country's biggest abortion provider.

White House to limit intelligence sharing, skip Gabbard at Senate Iran briefing  —  Top officials will brief lawmakers on Thursday amid a political battle over what intelligence reveals about the damage to Iran's nuclear facilities.  —  The White House plans to limit classified intelligence sharing …

Republicans Ask Donald Trump to Revoke Zohran Mamdani's Citizenship  —  The New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) has called on the federal government to strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship and deport him.  —  On Tuesday evening, Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist …

Bill Moyers, eminence of public affairs broadcasting, dies at 91  —  He was White House press secretary under Lyndon B. Johnson and Newsday publisher before becoming an acclaimed television journalist, mostly for PBS.  —  Bill Moyers, who served as press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson and then …

Behind Trump's 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition  —  A study of the 2024 election, based on validated voters  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand which voters cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election and how they voted.

Support Rises For Giving Most Undocumented Immigrants A Pathway To Legal Status vs. Deportations, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; More Than 9 In 10 Voters Say Politically Motivated Violence In The U.S. Is A Serious Problem  — mail_outline

Mamdani and the Moguls of Madness  —  Will he be a good mayor?  Nobody knows.  But the hysteria is revealing.  —  I was in mid-air when NYC's election results came in, and I'm still not quite home.  So again, not a proper post.  But a few late-morning reactions from the road.

Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated  —  On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts.  —  The announcement was formalized on Wednesday when NOAA distributed …

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them, according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media.

The US economy shrank much faster in the first quarter than previously reported  —  The US economy contracted in the beginning of the year at a much faster pace than previously reported, after new data factored in much weaker consumer spending.  —  Gross domestic product …

Crockett questions Melania Trump's reported ‘Einstein visa’: 'The math ain't mathin"  —  Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) questioned first lady Melania Trump's reported “Einstein visa” inata House hearing Wednesday.  —  “Let me remind y'all that Melania, the first lady, a model …

Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy says ‘democracy is at risk’  —  The retired Reagan appointee joined a forum on threats to judges and the rule of law.  —  Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned Thursday that acrimonious political discourse and threats to judges are eroding …

Why Trump regime shattered the Constitution to crush a 29-year-old Maryland laborer  —  “What's Kafkaesque [...] is when you enter a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your plans, the whole way in which you have configured your own behavior, begins to fall to pieces [...] …

Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into University of California Hiring Practices  —  The Trump administration has targeted the state system as part of its broad effort to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and programs.  —  The Trump administration on Thursday targeted California's …

Vogue's Anna Wintour to tap new editorial leader  —  Anna Wintour, the longtime editor-in-chief of Vogue and a prominent Democratic fundraiser, is seeking a new day-to-day editorial leader at the famed fashion magazine.  —  While multiple outlets reported Thursday that Wintour announced …

What It Took To Win  —  The old saw goes that politics is the art of the possible, but it often seems like the art of the impossible: putting together winning coalitions that “objectively” seem to defy logic—or at least, the logic of the pundits.)  My favorite example of this is Trump managing …

ICE Plans to Send Abrego Garcia to an Unnamed Nation That Isn't El Salvador  —  A government lawyer laid out a plan in court Thursday, but without a clear timeline.  — Copy  —  Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, back in the United States after the Trump administration mistakenly deported …

Iran's Khamenei Makes First Public Comments Since Cease-Fire With Israel  —  Supreme leader strikes defiant tone in a video statement, after not being heard of or seen publicly in days.  —  Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei congratulated Iranians for what he described as a victory …