GALLEGO: Would you say as a former auditor you pride yourself on catching waste?
DENNIS: Yes
GALLEGO: Let's do a test. Would you say $600m on a ballroom, half paid by taxpayers, is a good fiscal decision?
DENNIS: Oh, I'm not going to get involved in what the White House is doing
GALLEGO: As HUD CFO, this is literally the job
Campaign promises mean nothing when you don’t actually improve peoples’ lives.
Our job can’t just be to push back against Trump — we must protect our people by pushing forward.
The day after starting the Iran war, Trump said it would last “four to five weeks.”
It’s now been 146 days. 18 US troops have been killed, hundreds injured. Thousands of civilians have been killed. Prices are spiking again.
We must end this war. Join me: https://t.co/vQ5XPyQaFl
BREAKING: Warnock dares to say it out loud – the Trump-Vance administration is "a white supremacist regime"!
Sen. Raphael Warnock just delivered one of the sharpest condemnations yet of the Trump-Vance administration, flatly declaring it is "a white supremacist regime" trying to "impose its dark and divisive vision of our country onto the American experiment."
"There is no question that the Trump-Vance administration is a white supremacist regime that is trying to foist its dark and divisive vision of our country onto the American experiment," Warnock said.
"... Black people have been at the center of the work of trying to transform our country, make a country as good as its promise, one that lives up to the ideals in the charter documents in our nation."
Drawing on his role as senior pastor of the church once led by Martin Luther King, Jr., Warnock challenged Christians who have supported those efforts, saying the principles under attack are rooted in the faith they profess.
Warnock argued that the administration's attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion were central to that vision before turning to his role as a pastor, saying equity and inclusion are moral concepts rooted in Christian teaching.
His remarks also amounted to a direct challenge to administration figures such as Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth, who speak openly about their Christian faith, arguing that the values they invoke are incompatible with policies he says target immigrants, the poor and marginalized communities.
"I've been saying from pulpits in my other day job that equity is in the Bible," Warnock said. "The idea of inclusion and diversity, these are moral concepts. And we have to hold this administration accountable."
Warnock then turned his attention to pastors and churches that have embraced Trump's agenda.
"Pastors and churches who are loud supporters of this [have been] some of the meanest voices in our country right now, the folks most likely to blame immigrants, blame poor people, are people who read from the book," he said. "And so I want to challenge them on the basis of the book."
He closed by invoking one of Christianity's best-known passages, Matthew 25: "As much as you've done it unto the least of these, you've done it also unto me."
Kudos to Rev. Warnock for refusing to sugarcoat what he believes the Trump-Vance administration really is. Rather than wrapping his criticism in political talking points, he grounded it in the teachings of Jesus.
And the leaders who proudly invoke Christianity, including Vance and Hegseth, should ultimately be judged by how faithfully they follow the biblical doctrine to care for "the least of these."
Whether a person worships every Sunday or never sets foot inside a church, that's a challenge worth wrestling with. And a lesson that MAGA Christians need to learn.
Massie: They're also required to come to us after 90 days, and we're well past 90 days. Now, the president's lawyers acknowledge this reality because they've pretended to stop the war at the 90 day point and then started again. They're in violation of the law.
Rep. @yassaminansari: The most important thing we can do to get some justice for survivors is to stop Todd Blanche from being confirmed as the next Attorney General of the United States. He is leading the biggest coverup in history.
Sen. DURBIN: I remember Republicans claiming a chance meeting on the tarmac between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch was ‘collusion.’ But they express no concern JD Vance is leading sessions with Todd Blanche and Kash Patel to protect Donald Trump from the Epstein scandal.
🚨UNF*CKING BELIEVABLE:
Jessica Tarlov revealed 40% of Donald Trump’s wealth has been accumulated WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT.
“This is staggering corruption.”
Buttigieg: This denial about the war is especially shocking when you look at the disrespect that has been shown to those who are paying the heaviest price for it.
The fact that the Trump administration deleted references to four American service members killed in action because that simple and tragic reality complicates their narrative that we're somehow not at war, when everybody knows that we are, shows you just how far from reality they are. And I think voters are fed up with it.
It's embarrassing that Mike Lindell, Lisa Demuth, Kendall Qualls, and the entire Minnesota GOP won't speak out against Trump targeting states like Minnesota simply because we didn't vote for him.
Trump is trying to take control of key parts of Minnesota's elections yet again - and he's putting our safety at risk to do it.
I won't let that happen. I've stopped Trump's lawless attacks on our elections before, and I'll do it again.
On his first day back in office, Trump rescinded Biden's ethics pledge banning executive branch appointees from lobbying their former agencies for 2 years.
Now multiple ex-Trump officials are lobbying their former offices on behalf of Big Oil, crypto, and private equity.
"Drain the swamp." https://t.co/1bVrIZLCwB
NEW: Minnesota just hit three straight months of job growth.
And as a top state for business, we’re creating jobs that pay well, provide benefits, and offer unmatched worker protections.
If you want to work, Minnesota is the place to be.
They Tried to Erase Her Name. History Brought It Back.
Before she turned 25, Alice Ball changed the future of medicine.
In 1915, at a time when racism and sexism kept many Black women out of science, Alice Ball developed the Ball Method—the first highly effective treatment for Hansen's disease (leprosy). Her breakthrough gave thousands of patients hope and helped replace a life of isolation with the possibility of recovery.
But the story didn't end there.
Alice Ball died at just 24 years old, before she could fully receive the recognition she had earned. After her death, her research was carried forward by University of Hawaii white racist president Arthur Dean, and for years the treatment was widely associated with his name rather than the young Black scientist who made the breakthrough possible.
For decades, one of medicine's greatest pioneers was pushed into the background.
Alice Ball's story reminds us that Black brilliance has always been part of human progress—even when history failed to give it the credit it deserved.
She didn't just make a scientific discovery.
She changed lives.
Today, her legacy is finally receiving the recognition it always deserved.
Remember her name: Alice Ball.
A visionary. A trailblazer. A Black woman whose impact changed the world.
❤️💚🖤