Evening Roundup, June 10
Featuring Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Harry Litman, Jen Rubin, Andrew Weissmann, Brian O’Neill, Lily Roberts, Meredith Blake, Shalise Manza Young, Jared Bernstein & Natasha Sarin, and Nick Anderson
Trump is alienating his billionaire backers: Sheldon Whitehouse on the recent conservative schism
Trump’s frenzied, tumultuous economic decisions, among other problematic policy moves, are starting to become too erratic for his once-loyal donors. In April, a lawsuit against Trump’s tariffs was filed by a legal group backed by conservative megadonors, including Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society and billionaire Charles Koch. More recently, Trump p…
Caught in a Bad Bromance
It was a week in which events looked to be spinning out of control on multiple fronts. Talking Feds Substack breaks it down. The bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump hit the rocks and broke to smithereens, with Musk by week's end calling for Trump's impeachment. The Big Beautiful Bill looked likewise to be at rough shoals, w/ several R's threatening to leave the fold…
Hegseth is no “warrior”
Secretary of State Pete Hegseth—who has created turmoil throughout the Pentagon and recklessly transmitted battle operational details over an unsecured Signal chat, and who now wants to deploy the Marines against American civilians—has waged a nonstop attack on American values. From the monumental (using mass deportatio…
4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines: Andrew Weissmann on Trump's show of force in L.A.
The anti-ICE protests in L.A. continue to rage on with approximately 700 Marines arriving downtown Tuesday afternoon. In response, California Governor Gavin Newsome has filed an emergency request in federal courts asking that they block Trump’s use of the military in the city. On top of all this, Trump threatened that potential protestors at his militar…
Trump's budget cuts hurts working families: Lily Roberts on the sinister aims of the big, ugly bill
House Speaker Mike Johnson says July 4 is still the target for passing what Trump calls his “big, beautiful bill.” That puts us less than a month away from what could be the most catastrophic event for American families in decades. If passed, the bill would cause nearly
Let’s do Lunch! 06/10
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Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose cartoons have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post and elsewhere. Find him on Substack at nickanderson.substack.com.
Your take on Los Angeles was very good but have a problem with “rage on” making it sound as the city is on fire.you will always have some bad actors as in this case but 90%percent has been peaceful. Only problem is peaceful doesn’t make good news. They kept showing for example the burning of the cars over and over so you would think 100’s were on flames. This is a prime example of trump and no guardrails.
I have an idea to share with our fellow Contrarians. My husband and I are attending our local No Kings rally on Saturday. Our sign will read, "No Kings, YES Liberty and Justice for All". We also plan on taking our American flag, (being that it's also Flag Day). We're hoping there will be many others doing this, and we also hope to (with others) recite the Pledge of Allegiance. As we are allegiant to our country and not a king! We are in CA, and feel that it wouldn't be good optics to arrest those of us carrying our flag and peacefully pledging allegiance to our country!