September 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM EDT
'Consequences': People in every congressional district set to be harmed by new Trump-GOP attack

As Republican lawmakers attempt to rebrand the budget law that slashed $1 trillion for Medicaid to help pay for tax cuts for the rich""unable to ignore the blaring message from angry town hall participants and polls showing Americans do not support the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act""research released Friday suggests the GOP should brace for even more outrage from voters across the country. According to the analysis by the Center for American Progress (CAP), no state or congressional district will be spared from the cuts the OBBBA makes to healthcare, and every district in the US is projected to see a rise in the number of uninsured people by 2034.

September 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM EDT
This is the simplest way to punch back at Trump's gaslighting

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker isn't pulling any punches. On Tuesday, he gave a speech calling out Donald Trump and Stephen Miller's fascist cosplay, their lies and distortions, and predicting federal troops will soon be on the streets of Chicago. Pritzker came right out and said Trump is doing all this for his own wealth and power:

September 6, 2025 at 5:46 AM EDT
Trump's latest fail threatens the GOP

Sorry to intrude on you again today, but this morning's jobs report shows that Trump's economy is experiencing a jobs crash. When I say jobs crash, I mean that employers have essentially stopped hiring. Today's report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the economy added only 22,000 jobs in August (relative to the normal monthly gain of 180,000 to 200,000).

September 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM EDT
Pentagon employees express 'anger and downright confusion' over Trump's rebrand: report

President Donald Trump's executive order (EO) instructing the Department of Defense (DOD) to use the name "Department of War" on all official signage and communications is already causing significant turmoil within the Pentagon. That's according to a Friday article by Politico's Jack Detsch, Paul McCleary and Joe Gould, who reported that the logistical realities of Trump's EO are starting to hit home for many of the DOD's rank-and-file employees. The cost of the new name remains unknown, but initial estimates suggest a price tag of $1 billion to implement the change.

September 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM EDT
'Really broken through': Lawyer reveals why this simple anti-Trump tactic is so effective

One arena in which President Donald Trump's administration has been consistently stymied is the federal judiciary. And an attorney currently leading a prominent lawsuit against the White House is now giving new details on why his efforts have borne fruit. During a Friday interview on MSNBC's "The Weeknight," Norm Eisen -- who was U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic during former President Barack Obama's administration -- expanded on his simple strategy of filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests compelling the Trump administration release documents pertaining to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Eisen previously shed light on his successes in the judiciary with the Atlantic in an article entitled "The Anti-Trump Strategy That's Actually Working." The article reported on "a legal resistance led by a patchwork coalition of lawyers, public-interest groups, Democratic state attorneys general, and unions has frustrated Trump's ambitions."

September 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM EDT
'Economic genius strikes again': Trump mocked for saying economy will improve in 2 years

While running his third campaign for the White House in 2024, President Donald Trump promised that he would immediately jump-start the (already objectively strong) U.S. economy if elected. "Starting on Day 1, we will end inflation and make America affordable again," Trump said at a Montana rally in August of last year. "This election is about saving our economy."

September 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM EDT
'Significant and concerning': Economist explains why the Fed can't bail out Trump

After months of lower-than-expected job growth, President Donald Trump is likely hoping the Federal Reserve will fulfill his wish of a reduction in interest rates when the central bank meets later this month. But one former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is cautioning the president against getting his hopes of any significant jolt to the economy. In a Friday op-ed for the New York Times, Jason Furman -- who chaired the CEA during former President Barack Obama's second term -- said that if Trump wants to turn the U.S. economy around, the bulk of the action will have to come from the White House itself. He wrote that the recent months of lackluster job growth is a "significant and concerning" trend.

September 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM EDT
'Please help me': Ex-girlfriend of married GOP rep tells judge she's 'scared' of lawmaker

Florida once had a reputation for being a volatile swing state that went for Republican George W. Bush in two presidential elections before favoring Democrat Barack Obama in the next two. But these days, Florida is dominated by Republicans and is home to a who's-who of MAGA, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Florida), former Rep. Matt Gaetz, and President Donald Trump himself. One of the Sunshine State's most embattled MAGA Republicans is Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), whose ex-girlfriend, according to Politico's Gary Fineout, "spent more than an hour in court" on Friday, September 5 "describing how she was 'scared' the Central Florida Republican wanted to harm her and tarnish her reputation." Mills allegedly threatened to release explicit videos of them.

September 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM EDT
'Corrodes everything it touches': Republican lawmaker switches parties -- and torches GOP

Friday morning, September 5 brought a major announcement from Oregon State Rep. Cyrus Javadi: He has officially left the Republican Party and registered as a Democrat. And he plans to seek reelection as a Democrat in 2026. Javadi, who was first elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 2022, discussed his reasons for leaving the GOP in a Friday Substack essay.

September 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM EDT
'None of us will be spared': Nephew of RFK Jr calls him a 'threat' to 'every American'

A prominent member of the Kennedy family is demanding the resignation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., after the Health and Human Services Secretary made inaccurate and damaging claims in a Senate hearing just one day ago. Secretary Kennedy, an anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist, told U.S. senators that he did not know the number of Americans who died from COVID, denied that his policy decisions were reducing access to the COVID vaccine, spread false or misleading claims about overall vaccine safety, and defended the changes at his agency that have led to the resignations of top officials and protests by employees.

September 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM EDT
Trump judge goes 'off the rails' in 'political audition' for Supreme Court: analysis

One of President Donald Trump's appointees on the federal bench appeared to make a deliberate effort to put himself at the top of the pack of potential new Supreme Court justices, according to a recent analysis. In a Friday article for the Washington Post, columnist Jason Willick delved into a dissent submitted earlier this week by Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Andrew Oldham (who was nominated during Trump's first term) in a high-profile immigration case Trump just lost. Oldham -- who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito - was the lone dissenter on a three-judge panel weighing the legality of Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to justify deporting immigrants without due process earlier this year. The Trump administration claimed in court that the Alien Enemies Act was appropriate, saying that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua was invading the United States with the blessing of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

September 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM EDT
'Stop it now while you still can': MAGA melts down over police patch in state Trump won

On Friday morning, September 5, Republican Dearborn Heights, Michigan Mayor Bilal "Bill" Bazzi -- President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Tunisia -- addressed MAGA Republicans' angry response to an optional police patch that incorporates Arabic. Bazzi, according to Fox 2 TV, said that the patch was strictly an idea and shouldn't have been presented as official. The 62-year-old Bazzi was born in Lebanon but has lived in the United States since he was ten. In 2024, he endorsed Trump for president.