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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump makes announcement he’ll regret

As the country collapses and the world burns around him, Dementia Don has decided now is the time to focus on his latest vanity project: a giant 250-ft triumphal arch desecrating Arlingon National Cemetary. It's almost like he has no interest in governing and only cares about remaking our nation's capital in his unholy and incredibly trashy image.



Calls mount for California governor candidate Eric Swalwell to quit after multiple women accuse him of sexual assault
Congressman Eric Swalwell’s campaign to succeed Gavin Newsom as California’s governor imploded after he was accused of sexual assault by a woman who worked for the congressman in interviews with the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN. In response to the reports, and three more women alleging sexual misconduct by Swalwell, multiple staffers resigned from Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign, and leading California Democrats called on him to drop out of the race.


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MAGA extremist and billionaire lapdog Greg Abbott launches re-election run

Gina Hinojosa for Texas: Greg Abbott has become a national figure for his astonishing mismanagement, breathtaking corruption, and shocking cruelty. He’s the man who stripped Medicaid from two millions Texans, most of them kids. He’s the man who has spent years trying to privatize our public school systems and funneled a billion taxpayer dollars into the pockets of his donors. He’s the man who refused to use state money to feed kids during the SNAP freeze. Former school board president Gina Hinojosa is running to put an end to Abbott’s depravity once and for all. Will you chip in to help her take advantage of Abbott’s barrel-bottom 32% (!) approval rating?


Raskin calls for Trump to take cognitive test in wake of Iran threats as Democrats question president’s fitness
Rep. Jamie Raskin is calling on the White House physician to conduct a cognitive test of President Donald Trump amid his heightened rhetoric about the US war with Iran. “In recent days, the country has watched President Trump’s public statements and outbursts turn increasingly incoherent, volatile, profane, deranged, and threatening,” Raskin, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, wrote in a letter obtained by CNN.

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Trump posts graphic video of woman’s killing in Florida
Besieged by questions about his war on Iran and his wife’s statement on Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump tried to shift the national conversation back to his immigration crackdown by posting a graphic, distressing video of a woman in Florida being killed last week by a man he described as an “illegal immigrant” from Haiti. The video, taken by a surveillance camera outside a Fort Myers gas station, showed a man identified by authorities as a Haitian immigrant using a hammer to bludgeon to death the woman, who was reportedly a clerk at the gas station. Trump’s decision to elevate such graphic images of a woman’s death by posting it for his millions of followers on Truth Social was startling, but in keeping with a pattern of using shocking video of violence attributed to undocumented immigrants to sow fear about immigration and justify mass deportation.


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Epstein survivors have words for Melania Trump after surprise statement

More than a dozen survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse have accused Melania Trump of “shifting the burden” on to them after she called on Congress to hold public hearings with victims of Epstein’s abuse. “Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have already shown extraordinary courage by coming forward, filing reports, and giving testimony,” said a group of 13 people and the brother and sister of the late Virginia Giuffre, who was one of the most vocal Epstein accusers, in a statement. “Asking more of them now is a deflection of responsibility not justice." Their response came after the first lady delivered a surprise statement in which she denied she ever had a relationship with Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. She also said that she was not a victim of Epstein, had no knowledge of his crimes, and that the late convicted sex offender did not introduce her to her husband, Donald Trump.


Trump reportedly says he’ll issue mass pardons at end of his presidential term
Donald Trump has reportedly said he will issue pardons en masse to his closest advisers at the end of his second presidency, promising them in casual conversations over the last year. “I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval [Office],” the president reportedly said in a recent meeting, garnering laughs from the room, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing an anonymous source. The publication reported that another source had said Trump used the line in an earlier conversation, but with a smaller radius: he said he would pardon anyone who came within 10ft of the presidential office. Other sources claim Trump has floated hosting a news conference at the end of his term where he will announce mass pardons. In response to the report, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said: “The Wall Street Journal should learn to take a joke. However, the president’s pardon power is absolute.”


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Massachusetts celebrates health care milestone amid gathering storm clouds

   

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GAS PRICES: Average gas prices in Massachusetts are nearly $4 per gallon – and are becoming a political issue in the governor’s race. Jordan Wolman explains.

CODCAST: Take a trip down memory lane as lead “Romneycare” proponents John McDonough and Cheri Andes talk with Paul Hattis on The Codcast as Massachusetts celebrates the 20th anniversary of the landmark health care law.

RIDE SERVICES: The Massachusetts Senate quietly voted last week to extend a 20-cent per-ride fee on companies like Uber and Lyft, which would otherwise sunset in January 2027, Ella Adams reports for State House News Service.

They got the band back together.

Twenty years after Massachusetts passed landmark health care reform legislation that gave the state the highest rate of insurance coverage in the country, the leading players behind the law gathered in the same storied meeting hall where the 2006 bill was signed to celebrate their uncommon achievement.

Legislators greeted the activists who pushed them to act. Business leaders and health care administrators who worked out disagreements sat shoulder to shoulder in the audience. And underscoring what a singular feat it all was, five Massachusetts governors came together, as Gov. Maura Healey was joined by four of her predecessors, two Democrats and two Republicans, at Monday’s event at Faneuil Hall in Boston.

Against the backdrop of the dysfunctional, toxic climate that now defines Washington, the health care bill’s embrace by the state’s overwhelmingly Democratic Legislature and the Republican governor who signed it into law seems even more remarkable today.

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The common cause that united them, not any differences they had, animated the bipartisan bonhomie that marked Monday’s commemoration.

“Political rivals respected each other, buried political weapons, and worked together to find solutions,” former governor Mitt Romney said from the same stage where he signed the law 20 years ago. “The political leaders who were part of this effort came to the job to get things done, not just to see what we could do to get ourselves reelected.”

The celebration came as the state faces tremendous threats to its effort to maintain near-universal coverage, and with business leaders, health care officials, and state leaders conceding that they have done little to tame runaway health care costs. The state has the highest average cost for employer-based family premiums in the country, the state Health Policy Commission reported last fall.

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The crowd gave a warm welcome to Romney, who said that after his recent six years in Washington as a US senator from Utah, “I have greater appreciation for what we did here in Massachusetts.” There was no talk about serving as governor here making him feel like “a cattle rancher at a vegetarian convention,” a line he used in southern states when trying to buff up his conservative credentials in the run-up to his 2008 presidential run.

Meanwhile, Sal DiMasi, the wise-cracking Massachusetts House leader during the health care reform, who once famously quipped that he “got frostbite” from a hug the more buttoned-down Romney gave him, began a long list of tributes with high praise for the former governor.

“First and foremost, I’d like to thank Gov. Mitt Romney,” said the 80-year-old DiMasi, who has weathered life-threatening cancer as well as five years in federal prison on corruption charges. “Governor, you showed the nation what could be accomplished when you work productively and respectfully.”

Former governor Deval Patrick, who was charged with overseeing implementation of the law when he took office in 2007, echoed the theme, saying Massachusetts officials showed what “collaborating across all kinds of difference and all sorts of interests can achieve in service of the common good.”

“It was never about perfection, never about ideological or partisan purity,” Patrick said. “Never about having to agree on everything before we worked together on anything.”

MATERNITY: Merrimack Health’s Methuen campus will shutter its maternity unit in August, the 12th closure of maternity services in Massachusetts since 2010. Hallie Claflin looks at the bigger picture.

INSTAGRAM: The Supreme Judicial Court ruled that Instagram owner Meta is not immune from a state lawsuit alleging it has addictive features that exploited young users. Chris Lisinski reports on the opinion’s national significance.

BALLOT QUESTIONS: Lawmakers are offering mixed messages about a ballot question that would cut the income tax, at once slamming the campaign as “insulting” and also urging organizers to come to the table for negotiations. Chris Lisinski has more.

OPINION: Education consultant Laurie Gagnon argues that policymakers should not view debate about graduation requirements as a “binary choice between state standards and local autonomy.”

HIGHER ED: Harvard faculty are grappling with grade inflation as they push to make an “A” mean something again. (GBH)

POLITICS: Massachusetts’s lone open US House race this year demonstrates the rising cost of winning a seat in Congress. (The Boston Globe – paywall)

MAYORS: New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell outlines accomplishments and the challenges ahead in his state of the city address. (New Bedford Light)

COURTS: Domestic abuse survivors are crying foul over a vote by a member of the governor’s council to confirm a controversial judge. (Mass Live – paywall)

ICE: Plymouth town meeting members on Saturday will weigh a proposal to codify a police policy of not cooperating with ICE agents. (Plymouth Independent)

 
 
 
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