“Every year, moms and dads await their $2,000 check. Let’s make it monthly. That’s the way that families budget month to month. It’s much easier to budget if you’re getting your payment broken up in 12 monthly payments. And we’re going to expand it. That’s why I’m calling it the mom’s monthly bonus.”
Smerconish took issue during his Saturday show a video New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) made recently outside of billionaire Ken Griffin's New York penthouse while pushing for a tax on luxury second homes in the state. The video led to billionaire Vornado Realty Trust CEO Steve Roth calling out the mayor and going viral for comparing such tax the rich rhetoric to some disgusting racial slurs. I must say that I consider the phrase tax the rich' quote, tax the rich when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country, to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs, Roth said, a comment heavily debated on cable news on Saturday.
You've got to show [people] government can work. Shapiro made a straightforward but understandable case, arguing that not solving problems can lead to an increase in cynicism. He mentioned the evolution of the permitting system in Pennsylvania under his tenure as governor as one example of demonstrating governmental effectiveness and addressing constituent concerns through tangible policy improvements.
[Buttigieg] sounds like the youngest member of the old Democratic Party, the one that flourished before Tr*mp: brainy, credentialed, and elite; liberal but not progressive; and personable but-this might be key-frightfully boring. Rather than have a beer, Buttigieg is the candidate you want to sit down and have Somali camel stew with while you banter about Arabic verb form.
If you're reading a Gavin Newsom memoir for pleasure, you should be first in line for an emergency MRI. His second book, Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery, is out this week and simply cannot be read for enjoyment. It's like Hillbilly Elegy but for middle-class alcoholics in the Bay Area with close ties to petroleum magnates.
Americans are tired of empty, bloated promises from a president focused on lining his own pockets, protecting the Epstein class, and putting American livelihoods last. What we heard tonight from this rudderless, lame-duck president was the same old routine-delusion, division, and distraction.
Our father was a servant leader not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world, the Jackson family said in a statement. We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family. His unwavering belief in justice, equality, and love uplifted millions, and we ask you to honor his memory by continuing the fight for the values he lived by.
We're here to guide you through the liberal version of MAGA's surge-and-splinter: State of play: This is how many 2028ers see the landscape of progressive media, according to conversations with several aides to possible contenders. 1. The Partisans Shows such as "MeidasTouch" and "No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen" are seen as safe spaces for Democratic candidates to get their messages out to millions of Democratic-leaning viewers with little adversarial pushback.
Early Saturday morning, it appeared as if enough Senate Democrats were willing to fund the Department of Homeland Security and its deportation machine, if that's what it took to keep the rest of the government open. How quickly things change. The House had passed funding for the DHS late last week, with seven centrist Democrats joining nearly all Republicans to get it over the line. The Senate was to take it up this week alongside a handful of other funding bills.
But they've certainly got Democratic operatives and consultants talking even as Padilla and his camp remain loudly mum on the possibility. The focus for California's senior senator, said Padilla spokesperson Edgar Rodriguez when asked about the gubernatorial rumors on Wednesday, remains on California's upcoming special election on redistricting. That's been the party line in the past few weeks, since the rumor mill really started churning, and what Padilla himself has said in recent interviews.
