Ian Reifowitz

SUNY Distinguished Professor of History, SUNY-Empire State University. Author of four books. RT not endorsement

[Ian Reifowitz @IanReifowitz]

Thank you so much, Anthony, for having me on! It was a great conversation about a really important topic.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

New episode of Open Book is out now: The Formula That Made Donald Trump Unstoppable with Ian Reifowitz @IanReifowitz

Watch this episode on X, YouTube, & Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

I’m not sure quoting 1938 Neville Chamberlain was a great idea here. That didn’t work out very well.

[. @GregTSargent]

New Emerson poll has Dems +10 in the generic House ballot matchup. That's consistent with the findings I report on here: Majorities of working class voters blaming Trump/GOP for their economic struggles in red-leaning House districts.

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

Even without Maine, Democrats have a clear path to a Senate majority.

Polling shows them tied or slightly ahead in Ohio & Texas. Odds are in their favor in Alaska & North Carolina (big time).

The map is wide thanks to Trump's unpopularity.

https://t.co/vrXsTxuhYy

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

The regime quietly ripped $3B in food stamps and Medicaid away from families. So Hawaii's governor just fought back with a genius move: a new 13% tax bracket on millionaires to fully fund the stolen aid. Read how a blue state just outsmarted Trump: 👇 https://t.co/JMItcAtV4e

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: They tried to run Kemp, but he refused. So we're left with the congressman who's only a congressman because his daddy was a congressman and the coach, who's only a coach because his daddy was a coach.

It doesn't matter which one wins . They're both Trump puppets and we'll beat either one of them in November

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Texas now has the highest uninsured rate in the nation at 18.8%.

[(((Howard Forman))) @thehowie]

New record low support for GOP on Generic congressional ballot per @NateSilver538

Texas is in play.

Gerrymandering can only do so much for the House (and dummy-mandering starts looking more likely if the trend continues).

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN spoke with two Texas Republican Voters.

One says she was going to vote for Cornyn but is going to vote for Paxton instead because she likes whoever Trump backs.

The other says he is specifically voting for Cornyn because Trump endorsed Paxton: I think he's ruined my Republican party. I think he's divided America. I think he's bad news

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Generation after generation, men and women put on the uniform knowing the risk — and went anyway knowing they might not come home. Knowing their families would carry that for the rest of their lives.

To the families still carrying that weight — I see you. The pain doesn’t go away, but neither does the pride.

Freedom has never been guaranteed. It has to be earned, defended, and sometimes paid for in the hardest way imaginable. Today on Memorial Day, we stop, we slow down, and we remember those who did.

We honor them.

We thank them.

And we work hard to live up to what they died for. Keep the democracy they believed in worth believing in. That is the ultimate tribute for their sacrifice.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

The world’s largest military budget has produced an industrial base that cannot sustain a serious war.

How is that possible? Because the system is not designed to produce military capability. It is designed to produce contracts. The five largest defense contractors employ roughly a thousand lobbyists in Washington. They distribute their suppliers across forty-five states deliberately, so no senator can ever vote to cancel a program without firing his own constituents.

And here we are. The current leadership will keep fiddling on this as they see our apathy as permission.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Rogin: This is the most unpopular war in American history by far, and for good reason. And the way that these things work is that the longer that it goes on, the popularity goes down, not up over time. And that is a calamity for the Republican party. But that's not what's important right now. What's important is that it's a calamity for the United States of America, for our national security, for our alliances abroad, for putting our troops in danger with no clear strategy of what achieves a victory and how to get them out of there. And how does this end? And without any of those answers, everybody can see that the administration is flailing about. And the way we know they have no strategy because the strategy changes every single day with various justifications that don't make any sense when compared to one another. And that's where we are. And that's a pretty sad state of affairs. And yes, that's going to be terrible for Republicans in November, but that's really not the most worst thing about it. And Donald Trump doesn't seem to care about that anyway.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Will be interesting to see @foxnews try to shovel this horse balls of a deal down its viewers throats, and explain why allowing Iran to have $25 bills and control of the strait and keeping their nukes is making America great again.

Good luck

[Greg Dworkin @DemFromCT]

The @nytimes ate its Wheaties

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Recall: Dems hung tough on no funding for ICE & BP, Rs caved and passed rest of DHS and decided to do ICE and BP via reconciliation. Trump wanted ballroom then slush fund, couldn’t work it out, & here we are.

Lesson for Dems: Hanging tough put pressure on Rs, -> Rs in disarray.

[Ian Reifowitz @IanReifowitz]

Here's a link to my Rochester TV news appearance, where I discussed Pres. Trump's influence on a number of Republican primary races, including in Texas and Kentucky. Thanks to @sjreports for having me on!
https://t.co/EykIxEK5mq

[Richard Stengel @stengel]

George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. https://t.co/yDqVXWfDgc

[@charlesgaba.com at Bluesky now @charles_gaba]

📣 #COLORADO Democrats need your help!

--This page includes both COMPETITIVE and LONG SHOT races
--Donations go directly to the candidates
--Nothing donated via this page goes to me
--Opt out of sharing email/phone w/the campaigns

Donate today! #Blue26

https://t.co/2nBxpX91kN

[Eugene Vindman @YVindman]

I’m leading a bill to ban Members of Congress and their immediate families from using prediction markets.

The American people should never have to wonder whether lawmakers are using insider information to profit off the issues they oversee.

Public servants should be focused on serving the country, not playing the odds.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Jesus.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This is total BS. Violent crime has been dropping nationwide for three years! Now Trump comes in and claims that magically that's all his doing.

There is NO evidence at all that deportations have reduced crime rates. None. Zero. The trendline is unchanged from before Trump.