Evening Roundup, Nov 4
Featuring Jen Rubin & Robert Weissman, Allyn Brooks-LaSure, "Offsides" with Pablo Torre, Meghan Houser, Lynn Sweet, Meredith Blake, and the Contrarian Podcast with Paul Krugman and Jared Bernstein
Taking Dirty Donations: Rob Weissman on the Donors Behind Trump's $350 million Ballroom
How much is a president worth? Apparently, for Trump, it’s $350 million dollars.
Public media is starting to disappear. Health consequences will soon follow.
By Allyn Brooks-LaSure
When the stations are gone, people will be in the dark without the important weather and safety updates these public broadcasters provide.
Offsides with Pablo Torre: Steve Ballmer Sued & Dodgers World Series Win
It may not be Monday, but there’s no way we’d skip talking sports with Pablo Torre, Pablo Torre Finds Out, this week. Today, Pablo updates Jen on the new civil lawsuit filed against Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer by 11 Aspiration investors.
In Praise of The Alameda Dragon
Protests against Trump’s militarized abuses of power continue to give us harrowing visuals and, within them, portraits of courage nationwide. Today I’d like to give one of these local champions her due: the wearer of the dragon-esque costume above. While some documentation shows her filming ICE and otherwise mixing it up on the fro…
Looped In With Lynn Sweet: Will Our Border Patrol Become Trump's Personal Army?
The National Guard is waiting impatiently for the greenlight to infiltrate Chicago, Illinois. Unfortunately for the Trump Administration, US District Court Judge April Perry issued a temporary restraining order blocking any action until further notice. Simultaneously, Border Patrol presence and operations in Chicago is on the rise, inspiring questions o…
Why We're All Obsessed with 'Rumours'
My pop music-obsessed seven-year-old daughter recently made a playlist on my iPad. Along with a slew of recent hits from female pop stars identifiable by their first names—Taylor, Billie, Dua, Chappell, Olivia, Sabrina—there was one major outlier: “Silver Springs” by Fleetwood Mac.
Tariff trouble, the unstable job market & is AI in a bubble?
Paul Krugman and Jared Bernstein dig into the economy on this consequential day. We all know that inflation is on everyone’s mind, and while inflation looks to be lowering from pandemic-era highs, there’s a difference between the inflation rate and price level.
Just as we expected. Democrats won NJ, VA and NYC . A yes vote to the PA supreme court justices and prop 50 passed in California. It is a repudiation of Donald Trump and MAGA. MAGA and the GOP have been torched this evening.
Cruelty & chaos hunger games terrorizing kids & protecting pedophiles: Christian values? Imagine if a Dem had done this. Trump threw a party complete with sequined feathered dancers and yes a scantily-clad woman in a giant martini glass. The party held just hours before 42 million Americans were about to lose federal food assistance as 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay was grotesque. It was also like everything Trump unspeakably vulgar. Imagine if a Dem had done this. https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/the-big-smirk?r=aexlz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Get up stand up & resist the fraudster authoritarians.