Ben Thomas

@SenatorBaldwin | @LawrenceUni ‘22 | NE Wisconsin

[Giannis Antetokounmpo @Giannis_An34]

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[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

Americans are getting squeezed right now. They are no longer able to save much, if at all.

The personal savings rate has dipped to 3%
This is one of the lowest readings in the past 15 years.

Personal savings rate May 2025: 4.9%
Personal savings rate May 2026: 3%
There's been a downward trend for awhile, though it's been especially sharp for the past year.

[Brennan Leach @brennanleach]

Senate vibe check

[Sen. Tammy Baldwin @SenatorBaldwin]

Tired of sports blackouts and costly streaming subscriptions? I've got a bill for that.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Another angle of federal agents killing a Minnesota legal observer, which appears to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk.

Obtained by Drop Site News

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

It’s not true DC was at an “all-time” high in crime, or even close to ‘90s peaks, when Trump came back to office

It’s not true DC now has “no crime,” though it’s down during the takeover

It’s not true DC had gone “many years,” or even this year, without a murder-free stretch like the current one

It’s not true “95%” of DC residents,
or even close, support the takeover

Fact check of some of President Trump’s false claims about Washington today: https://t.co/Tvoj7gd1IG

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

It’s hard to express enough to people who don’t live in DC just how much nothing is actually going on that would justify anything like this.

The Guard already deployed are largely sitting around looking extremely bored (and somewhat miserable because of the heat and humidity).

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

May-June-July is the weakest 3-month period of job growth since COVID. If you throw out 2020, it's the weakest 3-month period since 2010 and the aftermath of the Great Recession.

[Burgess Everett @burgessev]

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full email below

[Idrees Ali @idreesali114]

DETROIT, April 3 (Reuters) - Stellantis NV, maker of Ram trucks and Jeeps, said on Thursday it was temporarily laying off 900 workers at five U.S. facilities after President Donald Trump's tariffs were announced.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.

[Sen. Tammy Baldwin @SenatorBaldwin]

Trump and Elon Musk are firing veterans and the VA workers who make sure our vets get the support they’ve earned.

I mean honestly, this is as low as it gets.

[NFL @NFL]

.@ShannonSharpe telling his brother Sterling Sharpe that he's finally made the @ProFootballHOF will move you to tears. 🥹 #PFHOF25

[ESPN @espn]

BADGERS BACK ON TOP 🏆

@BadgerWHockey wins its third title in five years!!

[IKE Packers Podcast @IKE_Packers]

Keisean Nixon, the new Devin Hester

[Tom Nelson @NelsonforWI]

Excited to release my new ad! 📺

NEW AD: Pulling for All Wisconsin 🚜

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

A friendly reminder that five out of six conservative Justices on the Supreme Court were appointed by Presidents that lost the popular vote.

[Ben Thomas @ben_thomas42]

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