Scott MacFarlane

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA):

"I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"

ALERT: Professional news. Nine days after leaving CBS, I have found a new professional home:

Chief Washington Correspondent and Anchor for
@meidastouch.com

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Gov JB Pritzker (R-IL) signs order prohibiting Jan 6 rioters from state employment in Illinois:

“I hereby direct CMS to apply the State Personnel Code and consider
any participation in the January 6 insurrection as infamous and disgraceful conduct that is antithetical to the mission of the State”

The misogynistic smearing of a former First Lady at a White House event sanctioned by a President … is a stain that will not be removable

Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) letter to chair of Senate Judiciary Cmte, which is poised to vote on confirmation of Kash Patel:

“We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner ..

Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN:

“This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

It’s staggering

How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters

And how ready they were to do so

ALERT: Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) asks Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to provide a health update to him and to all Kentuckians

Though the Justice Dept has deleted information about its Jan 6 prosecutions from its website, a federal judge has issued an order listing and chronicling all of the cases and prison terms

Here:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Rep Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY):

“Mr. Abrego Garcia must be returned immediately before he is killed in one of the most dangerous prisons in the world. Enough with the fake bravado. This is not America. The Supreme Court must aggressively enforce its order immediately.”

Big loss in court for Kari Lake

Judge Royce Lamberth orders administration to restore millions of $$ in funds to Radio Free Europe

Judge: "When money has been appropriated by Congress.. Executive has no residual constitutional power to refuse to spend these appropriations"

ALERT: More trouble for Todd Blanche today. Attorneys for
@katiephang.bsky.social ask Judge Emmet Sullivan to issue a $1000/day fine against Blanche until Blanche adheres to court order to release more Epstein files

(Blanche refused to do so by July 2 deadline)

Hiring freeze ordered at US Dept of Veterans Affairs, which operates dozens of hospitals, 100s of clinics and veterans benefits programs nationwide

Pete Buttigieg to CNN just now.. about Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's controversial road trip reality show

"I love road trips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded road trip lasting about seven months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different"

Sen Patty Murray (D-WA):

“If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

100%

Emerging from his viewing of the UNRELEASED Epstein case files at Justice Dept, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) says:

"The Dept of Justice has been in a cover-up mode for months... trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug"

Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VA) just now on CNN:

"We have a President moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism. He's suing media who criticize him. He's going after law firms that have clients who were against him. He's suing universities who teach courses he doesn't like"

Rather than go to that black-tie affair in DC last night… I traveled around my neighborhood in style

The “Brick House” is crumbling

The Commodores bow out of the 250th event in DC

Event is falling apart… brick-by-brick

NEW: Epstein survivor Annie Farmer about Todd Blanche testimony about wanting to hear from Epstein survivors:

"Blanche’s suggestion that survivors reach out to the Dept of Justice to re-report the crimes committed against them is beyond insulting. Many of us have already done that, repeatedly"

Sen Susan Collins (R-ME): “After careful consideration, I have decided to vote against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense”

Important statement from the New York Times

“Should this information fall into the wrong hands, the national security of the United States would be severely compromised”

Nine FBI employees/agents sue over Justice Dept acting leadership’s order that the Bureau hand over a list of employees who worked on Jan 6 cases