TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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The president can wax rhapsodic about his marble preferences and his affection for Corinthian columns. “Corner store,” however, left him badly confused.
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The questions are going to keep getting louder, and Russell Vought’s reluctance to disclose the cost details is likely to prove unsustainable.
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The questions are going to keep getting louder, and Russell Vought’s reluctance to disclose the cost details is likely to prove unsustainable.
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There’s a growing list of examples of GOP lawmakers telling the president the one word he hates most: no.
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There’s a growing list of examples of GOP lawmakers telling the president the one word he hates most: no.
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Taken together, it seems as if the White House decided the way to change public attitudes on the economy is to try to pull some kind of Jedi mind trick.
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Taken together, it seems as if the White House decided the way to change public attitudes on the economy is to try to pull some kind of Jedi mind trick.
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OTHER STORIES WE'RE KEEPING AN EYE ON
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- "Dan F. was alarmed when his daughter, a Marine aboard the USS Tripoli, a warship deployed to fight the Iran war, sent him a photo of a meal served on the ship. A lunch tray, two-thirds empty, carried one small scoop of shredded meat and a single folded tortilla.
A picture of a mid-April dinner on the USS Abraham Lincoln, shared by a service member with his family, was similarly unappetizing – a small handful of boiled carrots, a dry meat patty and a gray slab of processed meat."
(USA Today)
- "A three-time Trump voter, Czika raised the idea in early January with union colleagues of publicly calling out Paulson to try to save the Conn Selmer plant. The strategy was to pressure Paulson by linking the closure to Trump's pledge to revive American manufacturing. During the 2024 campaign, Paulson had criticized U.S. companies for offshoring jobs.
But the United Auto Workers’ public campaign — including a rally at which local officials assailed Paulson, social‑media videos and an online petition to the White House seeking Trump’s intervention — failed to avert the closure. The Eastlake, Ohio, factory is set to shut at the end of June, costing 150 jobs.
Conn Selmer, the largest U.S. band-instrument maker, will shift to China production of tubas, sousaphones and some French horns, Chief Executive John Fulton told workers in January, according to a video reviewed by Reuters. That accounts for nearly all of the Eastlake factory’s output."
(Reuters)
- "I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows."
(The Atlantic)
- "Dear Mr. Kushner:
You are now reportedly participating as “Special Envoy for Peace” in negotiations on behalf of the United States government to address the roiling conflicts in the Middle East. At the same time, you are soliciting billions of dollars from Gulf monarchies for your private business ventures while already managing billions of dollars of their money in your international investment firm, A Fin Management LLC (Affinity).
From the standpoint of the American people, your decision to act in these two roles—one public for the government and one private for personal profit—creates a glaring and incurable conflict of interest."
(excerpted from a letter from Jamie Raskin, top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, to Jared Kusher, Donald Trump's son-in-law)
- "Trump is once again offering exclusive access to anyone willing to buy his largely pointless crypto creation—a bit of blockchain that has no value other than virtual signaling admiration and (financial) support for the president."
(Mother Jones)
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