Evening Roundup, July 10
Featuring "The Tea" with April Ryan, "Cutting USAID will kill millions," Josh Levs, David Bernell and Thomas Graham, Reginald T. Jackson, Jeff Nesbit, Shalise Manza Young, and RJ Matson
The Tea w/ April Ryan ft. L.A. Mayor Bass and Rev. Shavon Arline-Bradley
April Ryan knocks the pot over on The Tea this week with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass discussing the turmoil and fear caused by the latest federal overreach of ICE and other federal forces in the city.
Cutting USAID will kill millions
USAID is the best of America. Trump and the GOP’s decision to cut funding for these critical programs that support development and humanitarian causes across the world, along with PEPFAR programs that combat AIDS in 55 countries, will kill millions of people and hurt the nation’s interests abroad. We will not forget. And we will not stop fighting... (Video)
Most of the media’s ‘deficit hawks’ don’t exist
For people who don’t follow the ins and outs of politics closely—that is, tens of millions of Americans—the message they’re getting about Trump’s new mega-bill boils down to this: It’s big, includes lots of spending and cutbacks, and even got the support of a bunch of Republicans who are concerned about the national debt.
The GOP's lies and delusions
By David Bernell and Thomas Graham
The president and the Republican Party have demonstrated that if you are not a wealthy American, the government will not help you.
Black America can't afford to wait as Trump's budget wrecks our communities
By Reginald T. Jackson
Change might come with the next election, but the doors are closing for us now.
Pain, lies and propaganda in the Trump era
By Jeff Nesbit
Last week was a very, very bad week for many Americans.
What the attacks on Mamdani reveal about us
By Shalise Manza Young
The status quo isn’t working for the majority of New Yorkers in the same way it isn’t working for the majority of Americans. Shouldn't Democrats rally around someone pledging to fix it?
Down the rabbit hole
RJ draws several editorial cartoons each week for his substack, e pluribus cartoonum, and for Roll Call, the newspaper of Congress and Capitol Hill. His work is widely syndicated to print newspapers by Cagle Cartoons.
We should learn from Mamdani and embrace him, not attack him.
The work is amazing. US bill was devastating. Trump is cruel.