Evening Roundup, June 26
Featuring Hope Ferris and Spencer Klein; Andrea Ducas and Jen Rubin; RJ Matson; Senator Mark Warner; Jacob Kovacs-Goodman; David Litt; Meredith Blake; and "The Tea" with April Ryan & guests!
Don’t forget the human toll of immigration raids
By Hope Ferris and Spencer Klein
Beyond the economic cost of these deportations, each abduction leaves friends, family, and community members who have had a loved one ripped from their midst.
How is it Possible For a Bill to Be This Bad? Andrea Ducas Breaks Down the Compounded Harms of Trump's Big, Ugly Bill
By now, the aim of Trump’s reconciliation bill is as clear as day: tax cuts for billionaires and corporations via cuts to working people’s healthcare. But how exactly would the bill go about this, and what kind of false logic is the GOP using to justify it?
Congress needs to do everything it can to kill the Big, Brutish Bill: Senator Mark Warner explains
Thursday morning, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough released her most recent decision regarding Trump’s Big, Brutal, Bill. In it, she threw out key cuts to Medicaid spending and rejected attempts to limit Medicare and Medicaid coverage of for non-citizen immigrants.
One person’s fight? No. We’re in this together.
By Jacob Kovacs-Goodman
When people play to their strengths to defend the rule of law, we can have their backs.
The power of unlikely friendship
“It’s Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground” is a new memoir about David Litt, a former Obama speechwriter, learning to surf with his brother-in-law, Matt—a tattooed, truck-driving, Joe Rogan superfan. The book was published Tuesday. In this adapted excerpt, David and Matt discover that friendship across...
Seven satirical war films that are somehow less ridiculous than real life
This week has felt like 2003 all over again — but not in a good way where everyone is still using flip phones and Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are still Hollywood’s hottest couple.
The Tea w/ April Ryan ft. Senator Alex Padilla and Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove
Thank you Sara Sobota, Bryce Tolpen, Diane Sheya, W. R. Dunn, Lisa Rouff, Ph.D., and many others for tuning into The Tea with April Ryan!
Banner days
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.
Great interviews today with Andrea Dacus, Senator Mark Warner, the New Jersey
AG and April Ryan’s guests. Great variety of talent being showcased on today’s Contrarian!!!
I have a question not related to this. Jorge Ramos, a well known journalist is giving the news in Mexico that starting July 1 the US is not going to allow anybody coming into or going out of the country whether they are legal permanent residents or citizens. He said it was official Im returning to the States from Mexico on July 1. Is this true? My husband and children are in the US