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The Supreme Court’s recent decision to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act has left both Democrats and Republicans scrambling to redistrict to their advantage — and at least one conservative is warning that the liberal party will not only work to keep up but plan big payback for the court that made it all necessary.“Party leaders are already plotting how to counteract the gerrymanders that Republicans are expected to undertake in Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, and Louisiana,” The Bulwark’s Laura Egan wrote on Wednesday. “House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeff

Left Hook podcaster Wajahat Ali and guest host Danielle Moodie both say American voters are about to blow if President Donald Trump doesn’t stop flashing around his lavish taxpayer-funded $1.4 billion sanctuary for him and his rich buddies.“The data is clear: over 60 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck,’ said Ali. “A $400 emergency would bankrupt a majority of the population. Yet, we are told to celebrate a $1.4 billion ballroom that ‘repels weapons.’”Construction for t

The ongoing rise in prices under President Donald Trump, which is being exacerbated by the war in Iran, has prompted one food CEO to cut prices for his company’s products as consumers “run out of money.”“Consumers are literally running out of money toward the end of the month,” Kraft Heniz Chief Executive Steve Cahillane told The Wall Street Journal’s Jesse Newman in an interview that ran on Wednesday. “Being there with the right offering at the right time has never been more important.”Kraft Heinz is working to lower prices to keep purch

President Donald Trump’s economy has reached a point where it is impacting an institution upon which countless Americans rely for survival — soup kitchens.Theresa Wilson, the owner of Rose of Sharon soup kitchen said the need for her services is "growing,” reported AL.com’s Megan Plotka on Wednesday."We see people from everywhere, and I’ve been seeing an increase in the different types of people coming here, and it’s because the food prices are so high, gas prices are so high, and they have food insecurity,” Wilson said. “We w

Puck Chief Political economist John Heilemann tells MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace that he is spying the signs of President Donald Trump’s sour economy in grocery lines even as Trump and his family continue to use the White House to enrich themselves.“It's not just that we're that the president has so many side hustles. … But it's that he has these side hustles and he's doing them out in the open at a time when people [are hurting,]” said Heilemann. “When I go around up here in my upstate purple part of New York, I go around to drugstores and supermarkets, and all of a sudden, I'm seeing people using coupons in a way that

The Wall Street Journal and other industry observers keep saying artificial intelligence investment is the one thing “saving” President Donald Trump’s stock market time and again, as Trump’s economy plateaus or tanks other stocks. However, Asad Ramzanali, director of AI and technology policy at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, says AI overinvestment and risky financial engineering have made an AI crash more likely.“I started [my research] not assuming we’re in a bubble, but that if we are, we should be prepared. As I got de

After over a decade of loyalty to President Donald Trump, most political analysts assumed his MAGA supporters would stick with him through just about anything. As he famously declared on the campaign trail in 2016, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters,” and for a long while, that seemed to be the case. But now, according to the New York Times, MAGA turmoil over Trump's alignment with Israel is shifting into a death spiral. Some of his followers back Israel, while others say it’s a betrayal of the “America First” value

President Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment, Justice Neil Gorsuch, has a children’s book out about America’s founding — as well as some opinions on whether the current bench lives up to the founders' ideals.Gorsuch told The New York Times’ David French in an interview that the U.S. Supreme Court has a long way to go in meeting those expectations.French asked Gorsuch for his views on the connection between the founders’ ideals and the statements in Gorsuch's book “Over Ruled.” The same judge who has consistently sided with Trump over vulnerable groups like im

Joseph Palange, a Cleveland-based writer and member of the Cleveland Fire Department, tells the Dispatch that his father is the old, original version of “conservative” — but the old man’s philosophy has very little to do with the modern GOP.“My father is and always has been the most conservative man I have ever met,” said Palange, wo describes his Dad as a “live and let live kind of guy … the kind of man who would turn a bag of cash into the police department not just because it is the right thing to do, but because he knows the world doesn’t give you a free lunch without a catch. He will not drive his company vehicle to the grocery store, and I never heard him swear until I was in my 20s.”

MS NOW producer Steve Benen says the FBI faces serious questions following the reported raid on the offices of Virginia Democratic Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, because “the hyperpartisan leaders of the Justice Department and the FBI have made it impossible to give them the benefit of the doubt.”Benen finds multiple issues with the execution of what is reportedly a search warrant, including that Fox News was on the scene reporting almost immediately — an issue raised by online commentators as well.