Evening Roundup, November 13
Featuring "The Tea" with April Ryan, Max Stier, Rep. Jake Auchincloss with Jen Rubin, Frederic J. Frommer, Larry Levitt, Ciera Stone, Tom Malinowski, and Ben Sheehan
The Tea w/ April ft. Rep. Justin Pearson & Mayor Brandon Johnson
Enjoy this week's edition of "The Tea," with April Ryan speaking with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Tennessee Representative Justin Pearson. Join us Live every Thursday at 5pm ET / 2pm PT.
Learning the right lessons from the government shutdown
Among the defining features of the longest-ever government shutdown, which was just temporarily resolved, was the way President Donald Trump used it to continue his campaign of traumatizing federal workers, extracting a political price from his adversaries and callously causing harm to the public.
No One Wants to Govern Anymore: Rep. Jake Auchincloss on the Legislative's Atrophied Power
Healthcare is absurdly overpriced, Trump is bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela, and the Justice Department refuses to release the Epstein files. Throughout all these issues, there’s one big question on all our minds: Where is Congress?
80 years before the Trump-Pence fallout, FDR’s VP challenged him for the nomination
By Frederic J. Frommer
Roosevelt ran, of course, and easily defeated his No. 2.
Sticker Shock: Larry Levitt on the Rising Healthcare Process & A Broken System
No one can escape the combined ripple effects of rising healthcare costs and shrinking safety nets. Rural hospitals, middle-class Americans, vulnerable groups, and those with employer-sponsored insurance are all at risk.
The Day of the Disappeared
“Killed by ICE.”
In the basement of a local church, a crowd of people are pressed shoulder to shoulder listening to Representative Emily Randall (D-WA) speak. “It is going to take all of us, arm in arm, to keep our communities safe...”
Bring Back Checks and Balances! Tom Malinowski on His Run for Congress, Epstein, & More
Last Tuesday, Mikie Sherrill won the race to become New Jerseys next Governor and plans to submit her resignation from the U.S. House of Representatives next week. Who will take her place in Congress? Friend of the Contrarian, Tom Malinowski, who previously represented New Jersey in 2019, is throwing his hat in the ring.
What is the nuclear option?
What is the nuclear option?
For six weeks, Senate Republicans shut down the government because Democrats would not agree to a funding bill. In response to this, President Trump says that Senate Republicans should use the nuclear option.
Ben Sheehan breaks down what on earth Trump was demanding.
"Overpricing"? BAH! The GOP doesn't WANT people to have health care.
What other reason could they have for TOTALLY PRICING REGULAR WORKING PEOPLE OUT OF BEING ABLE TO AFFORD IT WITHOUT RUINING THEIR PERSONAL ECONOMICS and just letting their sick children and elders die?
They're still fighting with FDR, and probably Social Security is next, if they and the Heritage Foundation have their way. <--now THERE's an oxymoron if I ever saw one. Unless you mean by "Heritage" and "Foundation," Tribal Kingships. They've forgotten that it's supposed to be FOR THE PEOPLE . . . but oh wait! I Forgot. They really want to kill the entire U.S. Constitution. Great big silly me.
In my view, this has Russell Vought's and Stephen Miller's grubby little fascist fingerprints all over it. And Donnie doesn't have time to even think about it--so intent on serving the oil and gas people is he with their suppression of the realities of climate change.
If they worry about a nasty version of communism taking over, they should remember that it's predatory capitalism that made it happen.
November 18?