Evening Roundup, June 30
Featuring Pablo Torres and Jen Rubin, Jeff Nesbit, RJ Matson, Mia Ives-Rublee and Nicole Jorwic, Talking Feds, the Democracy Movement, and Ben Sheehan
Offsides with Pablo Torre: This NFL Collusion Bombshell is the 'Holy Grail' of the League's Secrets
Pablo Torre recently obtained a document that neither the NFL nor its players’ union want you to see. It suggests that the league colluded with its 32 franchises to avoid giving veteran, star quarterbacks the money they were guaranteed. This bombshell is not only a towering allegation of collusion involving the most powerful men in the biggest sport in …
End game
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.
The Corrections
This week on Talking Feds Substack: It was a week of legal, political, & military battles. Trump bombed Iran but with less definitive results than he had proclaimed, leaving next moves up in the air. A relative unknown stormed to victory in the NYC Dem primary, triggering widespread analysis of what if anything it showed about the state of the party. The Supreme Court ended…
The Contrarian covers the Democracy Movement
Every day (Monday-Friday), we’ll update this space with protests, signs and other public demonstrations against the actions of the administration. Keep checking to see how Americans all across the country are protecting and defending democracy. Find protests in your area at
Why do we still have the electoral college? Ben Sheehan on the importance of civic education
Remember Schoolhouse Rock? So does Ben Sheehan! That’s why he created Civics Made Easy, a new PBS show all about breaking down the complicated world of American government in order to educated the American public.
Two of the brightest minds in economics join us LIVE every Tuesday for Let's Do Lunch! to answer your questions about the economy. This week,
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The Trump plan -- Marshal law and no more elections.
What's needed is 4 senate Republicans to step up today.
Getting rid of the electoral college at this point would be a good thing. It would reduce the impact of gerrymandering at the federal level. However, that would not have saved us from tRump. He won a plurality of the votes in addition to the electoral college vote count. We would still have a toxic trifecta (almost quadfecta).