Edward Murray

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

It's hard to fathom how deeply evil this is, and that we have people running our country who get sick pleasure from sending women fleeing violence in Iran to an African country in the middle of a brutal civil war.
https://t.co/JaN8z2LFI2

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Hundreds of construction contractors in New York, New Jersey, and Florida who are still looking to get paid for work they did for Trump would like a word.

[(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten]

Trump's "I love the inflation" is one of the most politically tone deaf statements I've ever heard.

No prez before him ever had a -50 pt or worse net approval in an inflation poll. Trump's done it 8+ times.

Trump's the only prez to ever hit 80% disapproval on gas prices.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“Are you embarrassed? Do you feel like you’ve lost control of your own tournament?”

@FIFAWorldCup president Gianni Infantino grilled after telling people to “chill and relax” 🤔about his racist pal Trump (and Stephen Miller) banning a Somali ref, Iran’s team, etc

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Citizenship used to mean something

[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

NEW: A House Democrat is pushing to ban the federal prison system from offering taxpayer-funded VIP perks to drug lords and child traffickers. But, so far, Republicans have opposed that.

My latest for @propublica: https://t.co/iFInf9J4aE

[Nahuel Lanzón @nahuelzn]

🇸🇴 Nunca vi algo así. En Somalia hoy se llenó un estadio para recibir como héroe nacional a Omar Artan, el árbitro al que Estados Unidos le negó la entrada al Mundial. Increíble.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: Trump said the Department of Defense is asking congressional Republicans to include the SAVE America Act in a $350 billion defense spending bill.

It's the president's latest attempt to use the military to advance partisan goals, including his desire to control elections. https://t.co/CNRZSIKjI1

[The Intercept @theintercept]

One top military officer provided a plausible explanation, behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, The Intercept has learned. In the briefing, a high-ranking officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff stated that some of the people killed by the U.S. military may have been the victims of human trafficking.

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

Wanna know what also contributes to skyrocketing costs?

Rick Scott was CEO of Columbia/HCA when the hospital chain orchestrated what became the largest healthcare fraud case in U.S. history. The company pleaded guilty to 14 corporate felonies and ultimately paid a record $1.7 billion in federal fines for systematically defrauding Medicare and Medicaid.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Republicans said they wouldn't vote for ICE funding until Trump dropped his $1.8 BILLION slush fund. Then they caved (or didn't mean it in the first place). And now the slush fund is back on track.
https://t.co/ezTa2gnall

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

So apparently Nebraska just had to step in and make Adam Hoffman register as a sex offender — the same man Ken Paxton protected when he admitted to abusing a child.

Hoffman should be in prison, instead he's on the loose and these child abusers never stop at one victim. We know that.

[Zachary Cohen @ZcohenCNN]

Update: If Trump moves forward with Pulte as acting DNI, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are demanding he undergo "a full security clearance process that includes an examination of his financial holdings and foreign contacts."

"Additionally, Mr. Pulte should be subject to polygraph screening ..."

We reported last week that Pulte had not been previously vetted for potential security vulnerabilities before Trump announced he would be acting DNI.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia says he plans to formally ask Chairman Comer to bring JD Vance, Susie Wiles, and Kash Patel before the Committee in light of the new NYT Epstein reporting.

"They're having meetings in the Situation Room about covering up the Epstein files and protecting Donald Trump, and so this is to us a huge smoking gun."

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

When Obama released his long form Hawaii birth certificate in 2011 and extra-definitively disproved Trump's birther idiocy, Trump didn't abandon the conspiracy theory; he just expanded that conspiracy theory to cram in the contradicting facts, pivoting to claims that the birth certificate was a forgery. 

It's a time-tested conspiracist tactic. And he’s now using it again when trying to explain why Steve Hilton succeeded in the California primary elections Trump had baselessly declared were a fraud and were being rigged against Hilton: https://t.co/l8yf1SFm7c

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @DAGToddBlanche: You will be disbarred. You will be investigated next year. And if the facts warrant it, you will be prosecuted by the next Administration.

November is coming.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Seems like Texas becomes more in play for Democrats with each passing day.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Let's walk through what actually happened here, in order.

DOGE cut the USAID program specifically designed to prevent screwworm from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. DOGE cut USDA's animal disease control and prevention funding. That funding had supported more than 180 outbreak investigations in 22 countries and capacity-building in more than 160 laboratories. The screwworm monitoring and response program that watched the border for exactly this parasite - cut.

Then screwworm showed up in Texas cattle. Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a disaster for Zavala and Uvalde counties this week.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins went on CNBC this morning and blamed the Biden administration, 17 months out of office.

Her specific words: "obviously not much had been done to push back."

The program that was supposed to push back existed. DOGE eliminated it in March 2025. Rollins has been Agriculture Secretary since February 13, 2025. The cuts happened on her watch.

Beef prices are already high. Ranchers in south Texas are now dealing with a flesh-eating parasite that was eradicated in this country in the 1960s - eradicated, specifically, using the sterile fly program her department defunded.

The flies existed. The program existed. The budget existed.

Until it didn't.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Donald Trump's former economic advisor just admitted on Fox News that inflation is being driven nearly exclusively by bad decisions that Donald Trump has made. Wow.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Warnock: Right now, somebody is trying to buy groceries in Georgia and they can’t afford them.

Rollins: That’s because of the Biden administration.

Warnock: Two years later and that’s your answer? Because of the Biden administration?