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Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Monday shot down Donald Trump's demand to nuke the filibuster in order to help pass a contentious election reform bill, according to Politico, with the leading Republican warning that the results of such a move would be more complicated than the president thinks.Trump has put immense pressure on the Republican-led Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, a bill that would, among other things, requi

President Donald Trump’s “cavalier approach” to the Iran war is “recklessly endangering hundreds of thousands of Americans in the Middle East.”That’s the opinion of two veteran Middle East hands revealed in a New York Times opinion piece. Jeffrey Feltman was the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon from 2004 to 2008, while Mara Karlin served as the Levant director for the Pentagon in 2006 and 2007.They believe Trump’s inaction at the start of the Iran conflict is contradicting a key piece of his State of the Union message, wherein he opined, “the first duty of the American government is to

James Carville, a Democratic strategist and DC insider famous for leading Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign, said on the Monday episode of his “James Carville Explains…” podcast that he is happy to be diagnosed with “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”“I got Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Carville explained. “I hate the motherf—–. And you know what? I don’t want to get rid of it. I don’t want to get better. I want to get worse. I want to hate him more.”He continued, “I pray to God in heaven, God, reig

The Republican Party continues to grapple with floundering support from young men, a group that moved heavily towards Donald Trump in 2024, with a report from USA Today finding that the party now believes these voters "cannot be counted on" to save them from a midterms wipeout.The new report from Monday centered on the latest in a lon

President Donald Trump insists that the US economy is doing great, but according to a veteran markets journalist, he is guaranteeing food prices will go up through his recent invasion of Iran — and that will likely happen right in time for the 2026 midterm elections.Bloomberg's John Authers is tracking global fertilizer vulnerability. “Even if the war ends next month, Brazil—the largest fertilizer importer—won't restock in time for the next soybean planting,” Bloomberg Magazi

A Mississippi GOP Senator may be challenged for her seat by a Democrat she once blocked from a federal judge appointment, according to a Semafor story,Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is set to face Scott Colom, who was the subject of Hyde-Smith’s 2023 veto as he sought a seat as a federal judge. The irony is that if he won appointment for life, he would likely not be seeking her seat.Colom is expected to win the Democratic Senate race this week in the state's primary.While Colom is an admitted longshot as a progressive Democrat running in a deep-red state, he has done research into a key talking point for the campaign t

Pam Bondi keeps illegally appointing attorney generals for New Jersey and local judges keep throwing them out. A chief U.S. District Judge for Pennsylvania rejected three new leaders of the New Jersey U.S. attorney's office on the argument that the Trump administration is illegally trying to circumvent Senate confirmation of U.S. attorneys.“One year into this administration, it is plain that President [Donald] Trump and his top aides have chafed at the limits on their power set forth by law and the Constitution,” wrote Chief District Judge Matthew W. Brann on Monday. “To avoid these roadblocks, this administration frequently purports to have discov

President Donald Trump’s Office of Immigration Detention Ombudsman (OIDO), who is supposed to protect the human rights of incarcerated immigrants, did not even read the 2011 standards book that he is required by law to implement.“[T]he guy the Trump admin installed as the leader of the Office of Immigration Detention Ombudsman testified that he'd never even heard of or seen a copy of the 2011 National Performance-Based Detention Standards — the very ones his office are required to enforce!” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, posted on X. Reichli

Minimally competent leaders would have considered at least five obvious questions before launching the nation into war. President Donald Trump considered none of them.No. 1: What’s the Objective?It’s not surprising that more than half of all Americans oppose Trump’s War. From the outset, his administration has offered numerous and contradictory justifications for it.February 28:Trump cited 47 years of grievances, a desire to destroy Iran’s missiles, and a message

The Trump Justice Department on Monday reportedly reached a tentative deal with Live Nation—the owner of Ticketmaster—to settle a Biden-era antitrust lawsuit that aimed to break up the company, accusing it of illegally monopolizing the live entertainment industry.News of the settlement, which would not require a breakup of Live Nation, came days after the trial began, with a lawyer for the Trump Justice Department’s decimated antitrust division