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Trump's economic numbers remain abysmal and if his tariffs cause a downturn later this year, the bottom's gonna fall out of his Presidency and he'll back back in the 30s, like he was in the worst days of his first term www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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"On the Upper West Side, Michael Wengroff, 79, a retired mortgage broker, said he ranked Ms. Adams first and Mr. Cuomo second. He does not like the rent freezes supported by Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Lander" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/n...

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CNN and MSNBC covering the use of tear gas against protesters in L.A. while Fox News stays on Trump's parade

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The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

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“It’s the gasoline depots that are exploding one after another, it’s loud and scary.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Sen. Fetterman is tweeting about Iran but not the murders of Minnesota elected officials. For those he only retweeted Tina Smith

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This is indeed the same Elliot Abrams who was convicted on two counts of withholding information from Congress during the Iran-Contra scandal. George H.W. Bush pardoned him and he's gone on to serve in the George W. Bush and Trump Administrations www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

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#NoKings

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"To me, the structure and the content are inseparable" - Christopher Nolan describing Memento in 2000, and giving a preview of all of his future films youtu.be/FTnq3Jd3jas?...

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Democrats need to have a honest conversation about why their consultants really go into politics. A decade of public service doesn't entitle one to a decade of lucrative work for a vile corporation. Too many Obama alums follow this Clinton tradition www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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“'Everyone likes a winner and striking first usually gives you a big advantage.'” Benjamin Netanyahu wrote that in his 2022 memoir"

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Hegseth's Chief of Staff is basically Miles Bron, Ed Norton's character from Glass Onion nymag.com/intelligence...

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Interesting nugget: Future Forward PAC found the best way to appeal to Latinos and Asian Americans (who are rapidly moving away from Dems) is to not use targeted ads at all. "Those populations were best moved by the same ads as the rest of the country" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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In September 2024, the Harris campaign broke from their top Super PAC to pivot from an economic message to a return to Biden's 'Trump is a threat to democracy' message. They were primarily worried about Trump's post-Butler bump in approval ratings www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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"The document noted that ads focused “on Trump’s fitness as disqualification alone, without tying to voter impact” were among their worst-testing" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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"At the beginning of 2024, the group secretly commissioned 154 ads for Biden and tested them from February to April. The results suggested that the single worst ad it tested echoed the threat-to-democracy themes that Biden’s team had embraced" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The Working Class President www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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"James Gunn locked his final cut of the long-awaited Superman last week, and Warner Bros. has started showing the $225 million reboot to talent and their reps during the past few days" puck.news/why-a-superm...

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Reminder:

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Tammy Duckworth will be on Colbert Monday, Maxwell Frost next Thursday www.interbridge.com/lineups.html

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NBA Finals are so devoid of star power that Taylor Swift actually chose hockey instead

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Worth just pointing out the simple reality: Absolute chaos at home and abroad less than five months into Donald Trump's second term

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The Trump-ification of the NFL: They're supporting his ridiculous Birthday parade. Plus: "NFL lobbyists have been trying to get the new tax hike on sports team owners excised from the tax reconciliation package moving through Congress"

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If Israel attacked Iran while someone else was President, then Donald Trump would absolutely assert "This never would've happened if I was President"

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Democrats need to have a honest conversation about why their consultants really go into politics. A decade of public service doesn't entitle one to a decade of lucrative work for a vile corporation. Too many Obama alums follow this Clinton tradition www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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"A man was arrested after he lunged toward Mamdani at a news conference and berated him about his positions on Israel. In a subsequent scuffle, police officials said, the man bit the hand of one of Mamdani’s volunteers. Mamdani now travels with security" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/n...

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The 68-win 2024-25 Thunder could join this list 73: 2015-16 Warriors, Lost NBA Finals 68: 1972-73 Celtics, Lost Conference Finals 67: 2015-16 Spurs, Lost Second Round 67: 2006-07 Mavs, Lost First Round 66: 2008-09 Cavs, Lost Conference Finals 65: 2017-18 Rockets, Lost Conference Finals

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"But in the United Kingdom, Butler said, a dogged publicist named Derek Taylor arranged for listening sessions for prominent musicians — including his former clients John Lennon and Paul McCartney — ginning up press interest and leading “Pet Sounds” to greater success" bsky.app/profile/nick...

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“When it was released in the United States,” said Jan Butler, a senior lecturer in popular music at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom, “it did pretty well, but for the Beach Boys, it was considered a flop.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/a...

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“Thunderbolts*” needed to make $425 million worldwide to break even, a figure that seems unachievable" variety.com/2025/film/bo...

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Updated presidential issue approval ratings chart (YMMV) reveals a dip in Trump's immigration approval over the last week. Due mainly to a couple of big negative polls. This is the trend to watch over the next week www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

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JFC. I know Nick knows this, but if anyone else isn't sure: no, Governors don't have the power to remove and replace U.S. Senators. Not for this reason, not for any reason. What a weird thing for the article to suggest as an option.

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Leigh Ann Caldwell reports that the Fetterman/Bannon dinner "set the phones of Democratic aides ablaze with texts wondering what it all meant, and whether Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro could remove and replace him for failing to fulfill his job duties" puck.news/john-fetterm...

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“It will be hilarious when Conor Lamb primaries him from the left,” one Democratic operative said. “John Fetterman will lose in the primary. He is a lame duck.” puck.news/john-fetterm...

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"Republican strategist and former Trump campaign advisor David Urban recently made the switch-parties pitch directly to Fetterman, I’m told. Fetterman laughed it off. Urban then suggested that he become an independent, which Fetterman told him he also wouldn’t do" puck.news/john-fetterm...

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“Ohhh, that’s not good,” one senator told me about the [Fetterman-Bannon] dinner. “Yikes,” said another" puck.news/john-fetterm...

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Rubber Soul inspired Brian Wilson to make Pet Sounds. Pet Sounds inspired Paul McCartney and George Martin while making Revolver. Revolver inspired Brian Wilson to make Good Vibrations. Good Vibrations inspired Paul McCartney and George Martin while making Sgt. Pepper's

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"One seasoned C-suite executive believes that Leto may benefit from a feeling that the #MeToo movement has lost steam in the current political landscape. “In this climate, you’d get in more trouble for saying something bad about Donald Trump on the air,” the exec noted" variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Tomorrow's NYC Mayoral Democratic Primary Debate will have only seven participants after last week's with nine

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Time to once again flog my theory that a decent amount of variation in presidential approval polling has to do with how easy any individual pollster makes it for respondents to offer some form of "don't know" (As always: no choice is "wrong," but different choices can tell you different things.)

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New Quinnipiac Poll: Do your sympathies lie more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians? Israelis 37% Palestinians 32% Don't Know 31% poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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Quinnipiac finds only 10% want to decrease Medicaid spending poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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By a 64-31 margin, Quinnipiac finds Americans want to continue granting birthright citizenship poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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"In hearings, she often sits quiet and alone, sometimes relying on staff aides to remind her where she is. She sometimes does not seem to recognize people she has known for years" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

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In the next civil war, "the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other." - Ulysses S. Grant, 1875

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"On foreign policy, it's never stopped being November of 2001 to Chuck Schumer" youtu.be/JDaQ4risTlg?...

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"You’ll notice the president said nothing about lawful or unlawful protest, peaceful or violent. To him, any dissent is unacceptable. He does not believe that anyone has a right to challenge him. He is the nation’s boss, and it is our job to obey" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

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