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Today: "Donald Trump Is Finally Cracking Up for Real" Plus, the Trump administration’s Iran plan is even crazier than we thought; a massive bribe was behind the FDA’s vaping decision; and more... Podcast: Trump Rages at GOPer in Crazed Tirade as Slush Fund Prompts GOP Revolt As Republicans start turning on Trump over his illicit $1.8 billion scheme, the author of a piece on Trump’s corruption explains why this saga is so deadly for the GOP—and why Trump won’t let it go. Read the transcript here. The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent

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The Trump Administration’s Iran Plan Is Even Crazier Than We Thought A bonkers new report suggests that the U.S. and Israel attempted to install Holocaust-denying former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s leader. By Alex Shephard Trump’s January 6 Slush Fund Is a Criminal Enterprise The president has long been operating under the assumption that he is immune from prosecution. His latest scheme, however, may be a step too far. By Matt Ford What We Have Lost With The Late Show There may be a day again when TV executives have the backbone to support a show like Colbert’s. But The Late Show will be gone. By Phillip Maciak Trump’s IRS Deal Is a Massive Test for Congress and the Courts The president’s slush-fund-and-tax-penalty "settlement" is brazenly criminal. If our governing institutions can’t block it, America will officially be a banana republic. By Timothy Noah

Judge Grants Emergency Order to Block Trump From Destroying Records A federal judge has ruled that Trump can’t violate the Presidential Records Act just because he feels like it. By Hafiz Rashid Read now

Trump’s Slush Fund Case Assigned to Judge Unafraid to Rule Against Him Judge Richard Leon previously caught the president’s ire after ruling against his White House ballroom. By Hafiz Rashid Trump Turns Senator Cassidy Into One of His Biggest Republican Enemies Bill Cassidy is already criticizing Trump’s favorite projects after the president backed one of his primary opponents. By Hafiz Rashid Turns Out a Massive Bribe Was Behind the FDA’s Vaping Decision A new report reveals how easy it is to purchase new regulations under the Trump administration. By Finn Hartnett Donald Trump Is Finally Cracking Up for Real By Molly Jong-Fast, Michael Tomasky Angelo Carusone and Aaron Rupar share a distinction that we imagine many Americans would happily cede to them: They have likely watched more Donald Trump rallies, speeches, and press briefings than any other living Americans. Carusone is the chairman and president of Media Matters for America, the liberal media watchdog group; Rupar is an independent journalist who fires off dozens of posts a day about Trump to his two million followers across Blue­sky and X. Carusone reckons he’s watched around 650 Trump events over the course of a decade. Rupar estimates that, while he may have missed a few events in that time, he has endured "probably like 98 percent of his speeches and rallies." And both closely monitor the president’s social media posts. So they’re pretty well-qualified to assess the question: Has Trump deteriorated over the years? Continue reading this article.

Trump’s Angry Jan. 6 Tirade Accidentally Hands Dems Midterm Weapon Democrats will seek to force Republicans to vote on Trump’s toxic new slush fund for January 6 rioters, Representative Jamie Raskin tells TNR in an interview. Democrats shouldn’t let up. By Greg Sargent Read now

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Cranky, perhaps. But Barney Frank’s accessibility and honesty were a breath of fresh air.

                                                                                           

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Cranky, perhaps. But Barney Frank’s accessibility and honesty were a breath of fresh air.   May 21, 2026 By Jack Sullivan

There’s little in the news business that bothers seasoned political reporters. We deal with personalities, egos, partisan attacks, attempts at humiliation, personal barbs, even veiled threats.

Most of it bounces off the hardened veterans of this noble effort to pry information loose about our government, those who wield power in it, and make sense of it all for the public. But one thing reporters never stop hating is when a public figure declines comment or simply doesn’t return a call.

That never applied to Barney Frank, the longtime Massachusetts congressman who died Wednesday from congestive heart failure at age 86 at his home in Ogunquit, Maine.

Frank was consistently accessible, ever quotable, always on the record, and honest to a fault. Love him or hate him – and there was often little middle ground – you’d be hard-pressed to find a story that included the sentence, “Frank did not return a call for comment” or “Frank refused to comment.”

If you were going to talk with him, you had best be armed with solid facts and good questions, or be subject to his famously acerbic style, which could slice through you before you knew it.

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More Context Barney Frank, 86, left mark as trailblazer in politics (May 2026)

More from CommonWealth Beacon NEW CODCAST: CommonWealth Beacon editor Laura Colarusso sits down with Dave Denison, founding editor of CommonWealth magazine – CWB’s precursor – to discuss the seismic changes in both the media and political environment in Massachusetts on the 30th anniversary of the news organization’s launch. GASSED UP: Enbridge, a Calgary-owned gas pipeline company, has proposed an expansion to the Algonquin pipeline, which carries natural gas from New Jersey to Massachusetts. Jordan Wolman dives in. OPINION: Massachusetts environmentalists run the risk of alienating key Democratic allies over debates about energy affordability, writes union leader Harry Brett. He says that the environmental community’s mission to “‘electrify everything’ has become increasingly unmoored from the growing economic concerns of ordinary people.” MY ADDITION: ENERGY!  I am a firm believer in REDUCE YOUR CONSUMPTION!  It's easy, sometimes COST FREE, or LOW COST, but possible!  I've blogged about it ENDLESSLY!  We replaced 2 ALWAYS ON LIGHTS with LEDs $2 INVESTMENT.  With no change in usage, the bill dropped $5 the following month.  LEDs are now mandatory in NEW CONSTRUCTION.  We were recently purchasing LEDs for $1 each until TRUMP  imposed TARIFFS,  TRUMP also eliminated ENERGY STAR ratings so you can't find the MOST ENERGY EFFICIENT APPLIANCES.  ALL OF OUR PERIPHERALS, including TV, are on ENERGY STRIPS - when they're OFF, they're OFF!  It's disappointing that your articles focus on POLITICAL ENERGY COST HYSTERIA and ignores options.options.  WBUR has broadcast several programs about COMMUNITIES that welcome WIND ENERGY that pays for LOCAL PROGRAMS.  Wind farms can create millions in cash for local services, but efforts to block wind projects are ‘widespread and growing’ https://fortune.com/2024/07/25/wind-farms-tax-money-local-services/ This is what happens when a wind farm comes to a coal town Michael LevittTinbete ErmyasAri ShapiroKat Lonsdorf February 26, 2024 https://www.wbur.org/npr/1233128242/coal-renewable-energy-west-virginia-inflation-reduction-act-climate I blogged about BALCONY SOLAR: Plug in, power up: the people's solar movement is here https://middlebororeviewandsoon.blogspot.com/2026/05/plug-in-power-up-peoples-solar-movement.html FRANK TALK: By all means, read Jack Sullivan’s terrific remembrance of Barney Frank. But for a taste of the more combative side of the late liberal icon, revisit this great interview with him from 2015. Gabrielle Gurley gets plenty of Frank talk, including a passing reference to Boston Mayor Kevin White, for whom he worked, being “a little bit racist” in his 1960 run against Ed Brooke, and exasperation when he accuses his interviewer, at one point, of “not listening to me.”

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