Trump cultists

“We actually had 217 votes this morning. Andrew Garbarino [photo] did not make it in time. He fell asleep in the back. No kidding. I know, I’m gonna just strangle him. But then — but he’s my dear friend. And then David Schweiger was gonna vote and slipped his card in right at the last minute. So it looks like …

“Hi everyone, it’s Judge Jeanine. I’m at the water cooler in the United States Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. And you may recall that the United States gave something like $44 billion a year through USAID for things like dance classes in Wuhan, China, and Sesame Street in Iraq. “But here in the United States, in the United States Attorney’s …

“I’m worried. My family is worried. I mean, we live in a world where the left and the Palestinian cause literally calls for violence against Jews every day. I don’t know why we’re surprised when they actually do it. We need to start to call evil for what it is and not make excuses for it, and the fact that …

Playbook reports: Republicans will soon be able to laud tangible victories as the midterm elections loom closer: tax cuts for working families, no tax on tips, more money for national defense and a massive, potentially game-changing cash injection for Trump’s deportation and border-control project. But but but: The Dems spy opportunities here, too, chiefly over the cuts to Medicaid, which …

The Washington Post reports: House Republicans approved President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and immigration agenda Thursday morning, sending to the Senate legislation that the GOP hopes will transform the federal government and the economy and power the White House’s drive to deport immigrants and build up the military. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, as the measure is formally known, extends …

Axios reports: House Republicans made a last-minute change to the $1,000-per-baby MAGA Accounts in their sweeping tax bill: Calling them “Trump Accounts” instead. It’s the latest in a series of attempts by congressional Republicans to display their loyalty to the president through legislation — and the one that is most likely to be signed into law. House Republicans have introduced …

NPR reports: Just months after being freed through a pardon from President Trump, two men convicted of felonies for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol scored visits to the secure grounds of the White House. During their visit, the men took turns posing for pictures and videos behind the lectern in the White House …

The New York Times reports: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader. The event, billed as the “Secretary of Defense Christian Prayer & Worship Service,” was standing room only and ran for about 30 minutes, with Brooks …

The Huffington Post reports: Louis Prevost — the self-described “MAGA-type” older brother of new Pope Leo XIV — and his wife, Deborah, met Tuesday with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance at the White House. They had a “great meeting,” White House aide Margo Martin wrote on social media. It’s not clear what they talked about. Prevost has …

NBC News reports: Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a close ally of President Donald Trump, is still considering a run for governor of Florida — a twist that complicates a Republican primary that already has a Trump-endorsed candidate and, potentially, the current governor’s wife. Trump has backed Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., for the 2026 race, and a Trump adviser said the …

Politico reports: House Republicans on Tuesday passed legislation to rescind a Biden-era policy meant to more closely scrutinize proposed bank mergers, sending the regulatory rollback to President Donald Trump’s desk. The House voted 220-207 to nullify a new rule finalized by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency last September that created a tougher regulatory process for banks seeking …

The Associated Press reports: A Virginia man has been charged with felony burglary after being pardoned for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot, which included smashing the door panel that rioter Ashli Babbitt tried to breach before police shot her. Zachary Jordan Alam, 33, of Centreville, was arrested May 9 in a neighborhood outside of Richmond, Henrico County police …

The Daily Beast reports: Kid Rock is distancing himself from his own restaurant after it reportedly closed its kitchen to avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. The outspoken MAGA fan’s Big A– Honky Tonk Rock N’Roll Steakhouse was forced to close early on the weekend of May 10 after staff without legal citizenship either didn’t show up for work amid …

“I don’t think that we’re out of the woods and I do think that the biggest threat with regard to this sort of stuff is less the tariffs than the feeling of uncertainty for investors as to what comes next. And that’s where the pharmaceutical EO starts to come in or the negotiations over the tax bill. What actually makes …

“Social Security, another just obscenely broken program. What a complete fraudulent program Social Security is. They garnish all of our wages, then they spend all that — none of it goes to Social Security. “It’s a complete and total looting of the productive class to supplement the unproductive class, to create total fealty to the Democrat Party, and to scare …

“People are angry. You know, forget about the big beautiful bill, people want big beautiful handcuffs on some of these people. Because for far too long we saw– we saw Thomas Crooks took a shot at Trump in the head. He’s dead. We don’t know any more about that. Ryan Routh tried to shoot Trump on a golf course. We …

The Washington Post reports: Their news site had just exposed details of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s alleged deals with the country’s gangs. Now the three journalists were faced with a choice they had long dreaded. El Faro — Spanish for lighthouse — is the premier independent investigative news outlet in El Salvador. The staff had received word that Bukele’s increasingly …

“Well, I’ve decided today’s the day I’m going to take the opportunity — since a lot of you are here — to make an announcement of my own. Some of you have already guessed, so it won’t surprise you at all, but I have the same cancer Joe Biden has. So I also have prostate cancer that has also spread …

“I think wokeness and DEI and cancel culture is starting to exit the building, and we can thank President Trump for leading that charge once again. I call him the dragon slayer in that regard, ‘cuz he just came and slit the throat of DEI and wokeness. “There’s always gonna be cancel culture at some level, somebody getting butt sore …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) accused the Biden White House of a “political cover up” following former President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis while also offering best wishes to the former president on Monday. The take came after Biden’s team announced Sunday that he’d been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had already metastasized to the bone, …