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What would a third-party sting-like-a-bee countermove to the current GOP look like? The target audience would be “double-haters,” moderate and traditional conservative voters who may hate Trump, but are equally reluctant to vote Democratic.
The Freedom Caucus will most likely spend at least the next two years—possibly longer—in obscurity. That may just be what they want. Or it may just be a just outcome for their behavior.
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"I divide this into two buckets: There's the outrageous, bordering on and then spilling over, to illegal things that he has done... Then there's a separate bucket, which is the incompetent bucket."
@weissmann.substack.com lays out the case against confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general.
"'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is a movie that was written and directed by a young man who felt he still had so much to learn, so much to see, so much to do....Disclosure Day is a film made by a man who has seen it all."
"While that may make logical sense, in reality, it’s the part of the report that has the jaws of scholars like Glied and McIntyre on the floor." If healthcare policy is your thing, you will really want to read the whole thing:
It's funny how the little murmurs about understanding the limits of American power abroad from the beginning of the Trump era have turned into something like the opposite of those cautions lnk.thebulwark.com/3RV0ZFv
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Why did Pete Hegseth warm Europeans not about the actual invasion in Ukraine but the so-called invasion of migrants from Africa and the Middle East? @saletan.bsky.social says the answer is obvious.
Check out his explanation in his latest newsletter here:
Trump's AG nominee Todd Blanche lost Trump's own criminal trial, built an illegal slush fund, and lied on Fox News—and Republicans are confirming him anyway.