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Senate Republicans stab Trump in the back

                        

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Trump suddenly refuses to sign landmark housing bill, demands SAVE Act passage first

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Trump rages against Senate and "four Republican losers" for finally rebuking him on Iran

Donald Trump took to Truth Social in the wee hours last night and accused Democrats and Republicans alike of giving “aid and comfort to the enemy” by rebuking his wild misadventure in Iran and formally calling for an end to hostilities. While not legally binding, the resolution is an embarrassing admonishment for the wannabe dictator and wholly in line with 78% of Americans who want nothing to do with the president’s imperial escapade.

Trump laughably claimed to have Iran “on the ropes” and “willing to give us practically anything” and lambasted the “Four Republican Losers” — including Susan Collins, who he just endorsed two weeks ago, mind you — for supposedly making his job that much harder to do. And if you believe that, we'd love to talk to you about a bridge we have for sale.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump prosecutors now facing criminal contempt

The Trump regime's bad-faith efforts to quash Americans' First Amendment rights to peaceably assemble and protest have run into one constitutional roadblock after another, and thanks to one persnickety district judge in Illinois, prosecutors in Donald's dirty DOJ are now facing the very real prospect of criminal contempt charges for actions taken against the so-called "Broadview Six." Brian Tyler Cohen and Glenn Kirschner dive into the details in the latest episode of "The Legal Breakdown."

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Meet the Democrats who are going to reclaim our congressional majority!

Red to Blue: There are 20 Democrats running to flip vulnerable red seats in the House, and their must-win races are the key to us retaking Congress and making Mike Johnson's majority nothing but a bad memory. All of these Democratic candidates are locked in close races in Republican-held districts, and every dollar might make the difference in helping the Democrats regain control of the House. The Democrats in these races are united by their desire to fight for hardworking families in their districts — not the billionaires bankrolling Republicans’ corrupt and divisive machine. Will you chip in a donation to be split among ALL these candidates to help kick the GOP out of the House?


Mamdani-backed candidates sweep Democratic primaries in New York City
A clean sweep by Democratic primary candidates in the Big Apple who won the backing of Zohran Mamdani is the clearest sign yet that the New York City mayor's popular and productive Democratic Socialist platform is resonating with the electorate and nothing for moderates or independent voters to be fearful of, prophets of doom and right-wing fearmongers be damned.

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Trump is giving white South African refugees gift bags for racists
The Trump regime is really going out of its way to roll out the white grievance carpet for the thousands of Afrikaners who've been granted asylum in the United States, gifting "refugees" copies of highly questionable "literature" from PragerU that conveniently minimizes their own country's history of slavery and apartheid and falsely accuses the South African government of "favoring the Black population." Why Afrikaners need the US government to bestow them with wildly inaccurate, hagiographic stories about their own history is beyond us, but in one text, former President Nelson Mandela — who was wrongfully IMPRISONED FOR 27 YEARS — is hilariously described as an "activist who sought to end apartheid with acts of sabotage." How dare he!

And for anyone wondering just how oppressive and unfair things are for Afrikaners these days, consider this: as of 2025, white South Africans, who make up 7 percent of the population, only own 75 percent of all farmland in the country. The horror, the horror!


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Trump erects fence around Reflecting Pool as renovation chaos deepens

Donald's bungled quest to restore the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in time for the nation's 250th birthday just keeps getting worse, as workers were forced to erect a fence around the perimeter of the entire pool to keep everyone — tourists, curious DC residents, and imaginary vandals alike — away from the storied landmark.

Is the barrier necessary? Of course not. But if you're going to claim without a shred of evidence that saboteurs are covertly conspiring to destroy our most sacred public spaces you really gotta go whole hog and commit to the bit. And just in time for the 4th of July. It is so good to be great again!


Epstein’s longtime assistant tells House Oversight committee "nobody ever sounded like they were underage" in closed-door interview
Well, so long as they didn't sound like they were underage, eh? 🙄 Release. The. Damn. Files.


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LGBTQ rights are under attack from Trump’s administration. This Pride Month, let’s fight back

Christopher Street Project: Across the country, we’ve seen LGBTQ rights come under fire from Trump and the MAGA movement. To fight back, we have to harness our political power and make our voices heard. Join Christopher Street Project, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and more for the Pride Is Power Mass Call on June 29th at 7 PM ET. Speakers like Mark Ruffalo, Congresswoman Sarah McBride, and Governor Gretchen Whitmer will join to answer one central question: how do we turn pride into political power this year? Click here to RSVP!


JD Vance "worried" his kids will become "weird chicken people"
Cosplay hillbilly JD Vance sat down for a softball interview with The Blaze and got some feelings off his chest, opening up about the chicken coop his family recently installed at the vice presidential residence. Never one to not make things incredibly weird, Vance explained his concerns: "They love chickens, like almost weirdly. Like, I am worried they're going to be like weird chicken people now because they obsessively want to …sit in the chicken coop and it stinks and there’s poop everywhere."

Not exactly sure what's so weird about kids enjoying the company of animals, but this also doesn't sound all that different from what their dad endures in the Oval Office, if some reports are to be believed.


Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds
"The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces," said Srinivasan Muralidhar, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry chair, in a statement accompanying the report. Israeli forces continued to use high-payload munitions and weapons with widespread effects in densely populated residential areas, despite mounting child casualties, the commission said.

Conditions Israel imposed on Gaza, including widespread attacks; repeated displacement; and starvation caused by its blockade of aid, food, and medicine, severely harmed children’s health and development, resulting in preventable deaths and trauma.

In the ‌West Bank, including East ​Jerusalem, the commission found a sharp increase in ​violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian children, and documented evidence of torture, including sexual and gender-based violence, during mass arrests and detention. It said Palestinian children, especially boys, were subjected to systemic mistreatment in detention, including forced stripping, beatings, and food deprivation.


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Why'd the Pentagon Pay $4,361 for a $46 Pin? Private Equity.

                       

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The U.S. military was charged $4,361 for a half inch metal pin that costs $46. Why? Defense contractors—with ties to private equity—are raking in excess profits. Instead of cracking down, Trump's DoD is inviting private equity to be MORE involved in our national defense



an obviously unqualified bootlicker

                      

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It has been almost a quarter century since September 11, 2001.

Let’s revisit some of what happened in the aftermath of that fateful day:

  • The 9/11 Commission concluded that failures among our nation’s various intelligence agencies — in particular the CIA and the FBI — permitted the September 11 attacks to occur.
  • Subsequently, Congress passed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush.
  • That law established a new high-level position in the federal government known as the director of national intelligence.
  • The director of national intelligence oversees all 18 agencies that make up the federal government’s so-called “intelligence community,” including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA).
  • The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also reports to the director of national intelligence.
  • The law is crystal clear about the qualifications required of anyone who is in this incredibly powerful position: “Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise.”

Now, there is a debate to be had about whether having a director of national intelligence has made Americans safer.

And our country’s intelligence agencies have a long, shameful history. Time and again they have been found to be acting outside the law; spying on their own citizens; infiltrating domestic organizations that oppose racism, militarism, and corporate greed; violating the civil and human rights of people here at home and around the world; installing dictators in other countries; and generally operating in the interest of corporate power and American imperialism.


But there is obviously a role for intelligence agencies within the overall national security interests of the country.


Donald Trump has just elevated a MAGA acolyte named Bill Pulte to be his acting director of national intelligence (after the departure of Tulsi Gabbard, who made a mockery of the position but looks superb compared to Pulte).

A few things to say to say about Bill Pulte:

1. Pulte has zero — forget about extensive, as required by law, but literally zero — national security experience.

2. Worse still, Pulte has demonstrated that he is more than willing to use a government position to attack those Trump considers his enemies.

3. That’s because Pulte is already serving as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, where he has ginned up cases of alleged mortgage fraud by Trump’s foes (baselessly, it seems).

4. Now Trump has given this sycophantic henchman the keys to the entire intelligence apparatus of the United States federal government.

5. If Pulte weaponized his position at a housing agency, imagine what he could do with the full national intelligence machinery at his disposal.

6. As if all of that weren’t bad enough, Trump says he is deploying Pulte to investigate his nonsensical claims of election fraud. According to Trump, Pulte is “a very smart guy, and you may find out some things about the rigged elections, etc., etc.”


It’s tempting to see the elevation of such an obviously unqualified bootlicker to such a powerful position as almost farcical. But it could not be more serious. It is yet another screaming klaxon warning us all that we are sliding into authoritarianism.

We are facing the very real risk that the vast powers of our country’s intelligence agencies could be exploited to advance the MAGA agenda and sabotage our elections.


The American people are rightly outraged. And Congress must do everything in its power to get Pulte out of the position of director of national intelligence (or any other role in government).

Tell every member of Congress:

Bill Pulte is manifestly unqualified to be director of national intelligence. And there is every reason to believe that he will exploit his access to our nation’s intelligence apparatus to attack people and groups that Trump perceives as his enemies and to interfere in our elections. Congress must act immediately to force Pulte out of the position.

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Wednesday Afternoon News Updates: Trump Abruptly Torches His Own Bill Signing – 6/24/26

                     

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An empty stage in Statuary Hall after President Trump abruptly canceled the planned signing of a bipartisan housing bill, leaving Republicans who hoped to tout the legislation on the campaign trail scrambling. Photo: Scott MacFarlane / MeidasTouch

Hi all, Ben here. It’s Wednesday, and Donald Trump just completely blew up his own party’s big day.

Here’s what we’re tracking today:

  • Trump cancels the signing of a bipartisan housing bill at the last minute, holding it hostage for the SAVE America Act

  • Senate passes a War Powers Resolution on Iran 50-48; Trump accuses four Republicans of giving “aid and comfort” to Iran

  • Oil prices crash below $70 a barrel; Trump blames oil companies for “gouging”

  • Trump claims his approval rating is the highest ever, contradicted by a new poll showing 30%

  • The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool saga continues, now with a side debate about turning it into an “ecosystem”

  • Interior Department puts up banners pairing Trump with George Washington

  • Primary results roll in from Maryland, New York, South Carolina, Utah, and South Dakota, with a big progressive night in NYC

  • MeidasTouch scoop: Newsom and Becerra meet for the first time since the primary

  • Scott MacFarlane hits 200,000 YouTube subscribers


Let’s get into it.

Trump Blows Up His Own Bill Signing

This morning quickly got off to a bizarre start. Congress had actually passed a real, bipartisan piece of legislation. An actual bill! The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. The bill cleared the Senate 85 to 5 and the House 358 to 32. For people keeping score at home, that is about as close to unanimous as anything gets in Washington these days. Elizabeth Warren and Tim Scott worked together on the Senate side. French Hill and Maxine Waters worked together on the House side. Republicans and Democrats actually agreeing on something that helps regular people.

The bill increases housing supply, cuts red tape and outdated environmental review requirements that slow down construction, and restricts large institutional investors, the ones who own 350 or more single-family homes, from buying up even more of the housing stock. It also creates grant programs to help local governments reform zoning, supports rural and manufactured housing, and expands small-dollar mortgage access. This is the kind of unglamorous, technical legislation that actually moves the needle on whether young families can afford a home. I’d argue it could go further, but it’s a real step in the right direction.

So naturally, with cameras set up in Statuary Hall, chairs arranged, the presidential seal mounted on the podium, all the pageantry in place for what should have been a genuinely good news day for the country, Trump cancelled it.

This morning, just hours before the ceremony, he posted that the signing was “hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency.”

Now stick with me here, because this is where it gets good.

Members of Congress found out the event was scrapped while they were already standing in the building. Scott MacFarlane, our head of the MeidasTouch DC bureau, was there and caught the whole thing live. He watched Representative Virginia Foxx get told, in person, that the event she’d shown up for no longer existed. Her response was basically a shrug. She said she’d just go to meetings in her office instead. NOTUS reporter Reese Gorman described informing her himself, noting that members were “significantly caught off guard.”

Meanwhile, Republicans who didn’t get the memo in time were out there doing victory laps for a bill signing that wasn’t happening. French Hill was mid-interview praising the legislation he co-sponsored, seemingly unaware Trump had already pulled the plug. Steve Scalise kept publicly celebrating “delivering for American families.” Speaker Mike Johnson tried to smooth it over, saying he’d walk Trump through the details so he’d understand it’s “a good product.” Listening to Johnson talk about explaining basic legislative wins to the President of the United States like he’s coaching a toddler through a Lego set is its own special kind of embarrassing.

Here’s the reality: Trump has zero actual leverage here. If he refuses to sign the bill within 10 days, it becomes law automatically. If he vetoes it, Congress has more than enough votes to override him given those margins. This entire tantrum is theater. He’s not stopping anything. He’s just delaying a win for the American people so he can throw a fit about an unrelated voter suppression bill that doesn’t have the votes to pass anyway.

Trump attacked Warren by name, calling the legislation “The Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren centric housing bill” and claiming it “pales in comparison” to the SAVE America Act, the bill that would make it harder for women who’ve changed their last name through marriage to vote. He topped it off by saying he’ll be “watching with tears in my eyes” as Republicans pass that instead.

When Warren was asked on CNBC to explain Trump’s thinking, she didn’t even try. She said if you want someone to get inside Donald Trump’s head, you need somebody else, because she has no idea what’s going on in there. She added that whatever his reasoning is, it reflects a complete indifference to the cost squeeze on American families.

That’s it exactly. This was a day that could have been about the country coming together to solve a real problem. Instead it became about Trump’s grievances, his nicknames, and his need to make everything a fight. Markets reacted anyway: homebuilder stocks jumped regardless, with Toll Brothers up over 7%, KB Home up more than 16%, D.R. Horton up nearly 7.5%, and Lennar up close to 7%. The bill actually seems quite good, considering. But Trump, once again, is the problem.

Trump Effectively Accuses Senate Republicans of Treason

Last night, Trump was also busy picking a fight with members of his own party over Iran. On Tuesday, the Senate passed a War Powers Resolution, 50 to 48, directing Trump to remove U.S. forces from hostilities against Iran absent a formal declaration of war. Four Republicans crossed over to support it: Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul. One Democrat, John Fetterman, voted against it. Surprise, surprise.

Trump’s response was to accuse those four senators of giving aid to the enemy. He posted that Iran was “on the ropes, ready to go down for the fall,” and that the four Republicans who voted with Democrats “have just made my job more difficult.” He was effectively calling their vote an act of treason.

Even by Trump’s own framing, the premise doesn’t hold up. We did not win some lopsided victory over Iran. We handed them billions of dollars and a diplomatic outcome that Iranian officials are now publicly calling an American defeat. Their lead negotiator literally said the Islamabad memorandum “became a declaration of America’s defeat.” And the objective facts bear that out.

The Gulf Is Moving On Without Us

This is the bigger story underneath all the noise, and it’s one I’ve been tracking for months on these morning videos. Qatar’s Prime Minister has now said publicly that Gulf states, working alongside Iran, are negotiating a new regional security framework that relies less on Washington and more on regional cooperation. For decades, Gulf security ran through the American security umbrella. Now, in the wake of what regional leaders are openly calling a failed U.S. war effort against Iran, Arab nations are asking why they should keep depending on us at all.

That is an extraordinary shift. The Abraham Accords framework, built around Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain setting terms in the region, is weakening. A new alignment is rising that includes Iran as a major player, not an isolated target.

Meanwhile, Marco Rubio was in Abu Dhabi meeting with the UAE, supposedly representing American diplomatic interests, despite reportedly working to undercut the very MOU he wasn’t even present for during the technical negotiations in Switzerland. And sitting in that meeting alongside him was Trump’s son-in-law Michael Boulos, who holds no formal government role but seems to keep finding his way into meetings with foreign leaders anyway. Combine that with Jared Kushner reportedly raising another 5 billion dollars in the region on top of the 5 billion he already raised, and you’ve got quite the family business operating alongside actual U.S. foreign policy.

Meanwhile, Israel is making clear it’s not waiting on Washington’s permission for anything. Defense Minister Israel Katz said flatly that Israel will not withdraw from Lebanon regardless of any American demand, and that 200,000 residents will not be returning to what Israel now considers its security zone. Netanyahu, at a press conference, said that when he told Trump Israel was going into Iran, he wasn’t asking permission, he was informing him of a decision already made. He said the same was true for Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza.

Trump Needs a Scapegoat

WTI crude fell below $70 a barrel for the first time since March, dropping nearly 3% to $69.94. Meanwhile, gas prices remain quite high due to the oil shocks of the past few months. The chaos is all Trump’s fault, so naturally, he needs a scapegoat. So Trump posted that he’s instructed the Department of Justice to investigate oil companies for not lowering gas prices fast enough, accusing them of gouging. Let’s be clear: the oil companies are certainly not on the up and up. But Trump blaming them for high prices caused by his war is no different than him blaming “vandals” for the algae bloom in the Reflecting Pool.

The Polling Disconnect

Trump posted that his “REAL” poll numbers are “the highest they have ever been.” That claim runs directly into a new American Research Group poll showing his approval rating sinking to 30%. Polls across the board are generally showing that Trump is the least popular president of all time.

A Four-Star General Forced Out

I want to flag something more serious before we move on. General Christopher Donahue, the last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan in 2021, is being forced out as commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa after just 18 months in the role. This is part of a pattern under Pete Hegseth of pushing out senior, experienced military leadership. Donahue commanded Delta Force, helped plan the capture of a Benghazi attack planner, oversaw the restoration of Kabul Airport operations, and coordinated aid to Ukraine. Many people believed he was a future contender for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs or Army Chief of Staff. Instead, like former Army Chief of Staff Randy George before him, he’s being pushed out. This kind of churn at the top of our military leadership should concern everyone, regardless of party.

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General Christopher Donahue

Primaries and a Progressive Surge in New York

Tuesday’s primaries brought some striking results. In Maryland, Governor Wes Moore advanced, and in the 6th district, April McClain Delaney defeated self-funded candidate David Trone. In New York, the most striking story was the continued strength of the progressive, Mamdani-aligned slate. Claire Valdez, running with DSA backing, won in NY-7. Brad Lander defeated Dan Goldman in NY-10. In a tightly contested NY-13 race, Darializa Avila Chevalier narrowly unseated longtime incumbent Adriano Espaillat.

In South Carolina, Alan Wilson defeated Pamela Evette in the GOP gubernatorial runoff. In Utah, Democrat Ben McAdams won in the 1st district while Republican incumbents Blake Moore and Celeste Maloy held their seats. And in South Dakota, the Sioux Falls mayoral runoff remains a coin flip, sitting at roughly 50-50.

MeidasTouch Scoop: Newsom and Becerra Break Bread

Here’s a scoop! MeidasTouch has learned that California Governor Gavin Newsom and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra met this week at Tommy’s Mexican Restaurant in San Francisco, their first in-person meeting since the June primary. According to our sources, the two discussed expanding health care access, tackling the housing crisis, growing the economy, supporting small businesses, protecting reproductive freedom, confronting climate change, and defending California’s democracy from Trump’s ongoing assaults. Newsom has endorsed Becerra and pledged to campaign for him through the general election. We’ll keep following this one.

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That’s the Wednesday roundup, everybody. Let me know what you think in the comments, and continue listening to the MeidasTouch Podcast for more updates throughout the day.

Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you later!



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