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[Zachary Donnini @ZacharyDonnini]

With redistricting finally winding down, here's how the U.S. House map is likely to change between 2024 and 2026.

[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.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

FWIW, Jay Clayton, Trump's new DNI nominee, was just on CNBC insisting there was election fraud in the LA mayoral race. That's sort of party line stuff at this point. But still, relevant to this post since Trump's openly using it to go after voting

[Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks]

He’s right, of course, but it doesn’t really mitigate the fact that Cornyn was happy to stay on the bus as long as Trump was throwing other people under it

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

The corruption doesn't ever go away; like reptiles, it sometimes dives back into the swampy muck and resurfaces elsewhere

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I'm shocked they haven't deleted this tweet confirming that DOGE cut the funding for the screwworm eradication program.

Have the plague you voted for!

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Seems like we are really close to the finish line here lol

[Charlie Cook @CharlieCookDC]

Midterm elections are almost always bad for a President’s party. But how bad? Is a just-released Fox News poll in Ohio a dead canary in the coal mine? A state that Trump won by eight pts twice (2016 & 2020) and 11 points in 2024 should not look like this https://t.co/NLMDRhCMHG

[Charlie Cook @CharlieCookDC]

Besides Ohio, look at this new Texas poll. When a Republican President, and a Republican Vice President, a GOP Texas Governor and both Republican Senators are all underwater in favorability in an independent poll, something is going on. https://t.co/4mOzTb5R9k

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

Just gutter racism. There is no other way to describe it.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Incredible. Scotland puts a wind turbine near Trump’s golf course in Aberdeen 20 years ago. He sues and loses. Then his resulting hatred of wind turbines now ends up with the US Secretaries of Defense & Interior fabricating absurd lies to justify killing wind energy in the US.

[Aaron Astor @AstorAaron]

It also seems to be the case that lots of regular oil traders are just sitting on the sidelines bc they don't want to get burned by another fake "deal" headline. So all the action is to the downside instead of the price returning to proper equilibrium.

[Aaron Astor @AstorAaron]

There is absolutely no reason to believe that Iran and Trump will agree to any deal that truly reopens Hormuz any time soon. Oil traders shorting it down to this level are speed-running global oil's rush to tank bottom, discouraging any kind of demand destruction.

[Aaron Astor @AstorAaron]

There's a good argument that oil shld be valued somewhere btw the $90s and $110s (and not higher) because of reserves, dark fleet, workarounds, etc. - for now at least. But when you look at the drops from $105 to $86 it becomes clear that BS "deal" stories are pushing oil down.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

The path without Maine is... really tough. It requires 3/5 of these. The least red of them, Ohio, voted for Trump by 11.2 points. It only gets harder from there.

I just don't see it tbh.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

This is an ominous preview of just one way in which @POTUS may try to interfere with an election his party is on track to lose: Impeding the delivery of mail-in ballots by the USPS.
Remember 2020 and January 6th before you say he'd never do THAT!

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

How come there are no conspiracy theories about Maine's very slow ranked-choice tallying?

It's almost as if it's not the slowness of the count, per se, that gives rise to these theories so much as it is people deliberately lying.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

This excerpt details shocking collusion between @DAGToddBlanche and the White House to cover up the Epstein files and save Trump's ass. Blanche is at secret Situation Room meetings. He's part of spiking the release of a document database. @JudiciaryDems take note!

[Sam Stein @samstein]

I have read this one a few times. and @WillieGeist wants to be whose father?

Either way, Trump loves the show so much. He just can't quit hate watching it.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

The US attorney for the central district of California going on Glenn Beck's show to promise that there will be election fraud charges in the next couple months and then asking the listeners to help him collect evidence is a new look for the department.