Dan Pfeiffer

Perfect summary of where things stand

The big shakeup in the Trump National Security reveals a chaotic and poorly run White House www.messageboxnews.com/p/thoughts-o...

Thoughts on the Big Shakeup at the Trump White House

A President who can't get the most basic things right.

There is no place in the government with more power to implement Project 2025 than the Office of Management and Budget.

Thank you, Mr. Trump variety.com/2025/gaming/...

Xbox Hikes Consoles Prices More Than 25% Amid Trump Tariffs

Xbox has increased the price of its consoles and controllers amid the tariffs enacted by President Donald Trump.

This is now officially a massive scandal with a coverup that includes the President, the Attorney General, the FBI Director, and the GOP Congress messagebox.substack.com/p/trumps-eps...

Trump's Epstein Problem is Officially a Massive Political Scandal

The WSJ Report shows that this is a coverup that includes the President, the AG, the FBI Director and the GOP Congress

Make sure everyone knows who to blame when their costs go up www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/c...

Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher.

Donald Trump's War on Christmas

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Industry trade groups heightening their trade rhetoric: “Christmas 2025 at Risk,” says the Toy Association. 🎅🏻 (via Apollo) www.toyassociation.org/PressRoom2/N...

What in the ever living fuck are we doing?

Trump's plan to gut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the rich could not be more politically toxic.
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Trump Wants to Cut Medicaid; Here's How Dems Can Stop Him

Dems can make Republicans feel real heat for cutting Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy

The killings in Minnesota and ICE terrorizing American cities wouldn’t be possible without the acquiescence of John Thune, Mike Johnson, and the rest of the GOP.

Everyone, especially the media, has to stop letting them off the hook.
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Stop Letting Republicans Off the Hook for the ICE Killings

The GOP has a choice: use their power to force change or own the chaos and the killings.

In my overly long political career, I have never seen anything as substantively inexplicable or politically suicidal as Trump’s decision to sink the economy and raise prices immediately after being elected to improve the economy and lower prices. www.messageboxnews.com/p/trump-is-c...

Trump is Crashing the Economy ... And his Presidency

Raising prices when everyone is mad about high prices is pure political self-destruction

Trump does so much crazy, corrupt shit that things can get lost. Last week, Truth Social announced a truly breathtaking pay-to-play scam that will allow Trump and all of his rich friends to get even richer, while everyone else is left holding the bag. messagebox.substack.com/p/trumps-mos...

Trump's Most Corrupt Act Yet (Seriously!)

He's selling Wall Street early access to market moving information

While you were sleeping, Dems flipped a state senate seat in Texas by 14 points in a district Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

This is a political earthquake with massive implications for the midterms.
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What Happened in Texas While You Were Sleeping—and Why It Matters

Democrats just won a stunning victory in a very Republican county in Texas

The press wonders why Trump won't release the Epstein files when he promised to do so. But the answer is obvious: Trump believes he is mentioned in the files in ways that are even more damaging than the blowback he is getting from MAGA. Here's why: www.messageboxnews.com/p/why-trumps...

Why Trump's Name is Almost Certainly in the Epstein Files

The most plausible explanation for Trump's approach to the Epstein files is fear

The Art of the Deal

Well, ditching one of the most enduring brands in media history went about as well as everyone expected

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social

this has to be a bit right www.cnbc.com/2025/05/14/w...

HBO Max is coming back — Warner Bros. Discovery is renaming its streaming service, again

The change comes as Warner Bros. Discovery seeks to scale back its volume of content and focus on quality programming and storytelling.

In any other world with any other Attorney General, this pardon would be under investigation right now www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

Democrats have been debating how to handle next week's vote on a bill that funds ICE.

With today's shooting, that debate should be over. Standing up and using every iota of your limited power is not just the right thing to do; it’s the righteous thing to do.

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Why Democrats Must Block the ICE Funding Bill

Some fights are worth having no matter the outcome

I believe that, despite the theoretically tricky politics of immigration, Democrats have a moral obligation to speak out against the illegal rendition of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

This is an argument we can win and here are my thoughts on how to win it: www.messageboxnews.com/p/how-dems-c...

Why Dems Shouldn't Be Afraid to Fight for Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Believe it or not, public opinion is on our side -- if we make the case aggressively

While Democrats almost universally oppose Trump’s War in Iran, many of them are considering voting for a bill to fund the war.

This would be a catastrophic mistake.

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No Democrat Should Give Trump a Blank Check for His Illegal War

The case for opposing funding for Trump's War in Iran

Kinda feels like this should be a bigger deal www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/u...

Trump Is Running His Transition Team on Secret Money

Breaking with past practice, President-elect Donald J. Trump has not agreed to disclose the donors paying for his planning effort or to limit their contributions.

The economy is crashing, people's retirement accounts are being incinerated, recession fears are mounting, and Trump is at a golf tournament.

He could not give less of a shit about anyone other than himself.

The Senate Republicans just passed one of the most morally odious, stupid pieces of legislation in history. It’s hard to overstate how much people hate this bill.

Could it cost the GOP their Senate majority?
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Will the Big Ugly Bill Cost the GOP the Senate?

The Republicans just passed one of the least popular, most odious pieces of legislation in history

The GOP just passed the most unpopular piece of legislation in history. It could not only cost them the majority, but it might be a generational political error that could blow up the Trump coalition and reshape politics for the foreseeable future. Here's why: www.messageboxnews.com/p/did-the-re...

Did the Republicans Just Blow Up the Trump Coalition?

The Republican Budget bill is the same old GOP policies, but now the people that get hurt are their voters