In all this long career I had certain rules which I followed win, lose or draw. I refused to handle any political money in any way whatever. I engaged in no private interests whatever that could be helped by local, state or national governments. I refused presents, hotel accommodations or trips which were paid for by private parties.
There were opportunities by the wholesale for making immense amounts of money at the county level and also in the Senate. I lived on the salary I was legally entitled to and considered that I was employed by the taxpayers, and the people of my county, state and nation, I made no speeches for money or expenses while I was in the Senate, or as V.P. or as President.
I would much rather be an honorable public servant and known as such than to be the richest man in the world.
and political prophesying according to Wikipedia on HST
In 1946, Truman created the President’s Committee on Civil Rights. On June 29, 1947, Truman became the first president to address the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The speech took place at the Lincoln Memorial during the NAACP convention and was carried nationally on radio. In that speech, Truman laid out the need to end discrimination, which would be advanced by the first comprehensive, presidentially proposed civil rights legislation. Truman on “civil rights and human freedom”, declared:
It is my deep conviction that we have reached a turning point in the long history of our country’s efforts to guarantee freedom and equality to all our citizens … it is more important today than ever before to ensure that all Americans enjoy these rights. … When I say all Americans, I mean all Americans … Our immediate task is to remove the last remnants of the barriers which stand between millions of our citizens and their birthright. There is no justifiable reason for discrimination because of ancestry, or religion, or race, or color. We must not tolerate such limitations on the freedom of any of our people and on their enjoyment of basic rights which every citizen in a truly democratic society must possess. Every man should have the right to a decent home, the right to an education, the right to adequate medical care, the right to a worthwhile job, the right to an equal share in making the public decisions through the ballot, and the right to a fair trial in a fair court. We must ensure that these rights – on equal terms – are enjoyed by every citizen. To these principles I pledge my full and continued support. Many of our people still suffer the indignity of insult, the harrowing fear of intimidation, and, I regret to say, the threat of physical injury and mob violence. Prejudice and intolerance in which these evils are rooted still exist. The conscience of our nation, and the legal machinery which enforces it, have not yet secured to each citizen full freedom from fear.
repeating HST for emphasis
Every man should have the right to a decent home, the right to an education, the right to adequate medical care, the right to a worthwhile job, the right to an equal share in making the public decisions through the ballot, and the right to a fair trial in a fair court.
EXPLAINING SOCIALISM by Harley Schwadron
repubs are so deft with their word play alchemy:
e pluribus unum became and is reviled as DEI
endowing unalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness became and is reviled as socialism.
dems need another “plain speaker” like HST
speaking of plain speaking, HST dubbed by gop back then as a “socialist” but far from the nowadays “social democrat”
On October 5, 1976, the Public Broadcasting System aired a one-hour program titled, “Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking.” Actor Ed Flanders performed President Truman, based on a biographical work published by Merle Miller.
Thanks for spotlighting Harry. My big fear about the Trump family’s vast and unprecedented corruption is how it could become the new normal. Truman’s approach might just be a quaint relic .
The GOP is terrified Medicare for All is catching on…
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Maine news
From the “Bangor Daily News” (07/06/26)
In a populist year, Hannah Pingree united warring Democratic factions
Populists and progressives from U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner in Maine to contenders backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani have dominated this primary season, often sparking questions about Democratic divides heading into November and beyond.
But those dynamics played out far differently in Maine’s race to replace Gov. Janet Mills. Former House Speaker Hannah Pingree, a longtime player in Augusta who fought for progressive issues such as marriage equality and reproductive rights and later ran Mills’ policy shop, is a frontrunner in early polls against Republican Bobby Charles and independent Rick Bennett.
Pingree, whose mother is U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-North Haven, successfully navigated a ranked-choice primary that featured a pair who were arguably more progressive in former state Senate President Troy Jackson and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, and another who were more centrist in former public health chief Nirav Shah and Angus King III.
Patd:
I cannot imagine Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries ever saying what Harry Truman said to the NAACP in 1947.
They would not consider it to be “Centrist.”
Nash — Pingree seems difficult to pigeonhole. Checks a lot of progressive boxes but not running as an insurgent type. Is she something brand new — an Establishment Progressive???
Over in the Michigan Dem Senate primary (Aug. 4): With yesterday’s dropout by one of the 3 candidates we’ve got a center-ring showdown between progressives and the establishment (Abdul vs Haley). It’s gonna be epic, with a headliner debate over Israel. I sure hope we don’t hand over a Dem seat because of it.
Why don’t we have free universal health care like they do in Western Europe?
From Google AI…
The American Medical Association (AMA) aggressively opposed what it termed “socialized medicine” throughout the 1950s. During this decade, the AMA capitalized on Cold War anxieties and the Red Scare to defeat any proposals for government-subsidized or national health insurance. The organization labeled public health initiatives as un-American, bureaucratic, and socialistic threats to the traditional doctor-patient relationship.
The Defeat of the Truman Plan (Early 1950s)
The Propaganda Campaign: In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the AMA hired the nation’s first political public relations firm, Whitaker and Baxter, to launch a multi-million dollar campaign against President Harry S. Truman’s proposed national health insurance program.
Mass Distribution: Doctors distributed over 55 million pamphlets to patients with the slogan, “Guard your health, guard your pocketbook, socialized medicine would rob both.”
Political Fallout: The intense lobbying effectively killed Truman’s initiative by 1950. It established “socialized medicine” as a highly effective political pejorative.
Resistance to Early Medicare Precursors (Late 1950s)
The Forand Bill Opposition: When the Forand Bill was introduced in 1956 and 1959 to provide health insurance to Social Security beneficiaries, the AMA immediately blocked it.
Operation Coffee Cup: In the late 1950s, the AMA organized a grassroots lobbying mechanism called Operation Coffee Cup. They mobilized doctors’ wives to host neighborhood coffee meetings, urging citizens to write letters to Congress protesting government health insurance.
The “Voluntary Way”: To counter government plans, the AMA actively promoted private, physician-backed, employer-provided insurance programs (like Blue Shield) as the true “American Way.”
This coordinated resistance throughout the 1950s successfully stalled the creation of a national health safety net until the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.
Have you signed our Declaration yet? When we get more signatures I’ll start sending it to Dems in Congress who are planning to take down the empire if they win the midterms.
Sign now at trailmix.cc/sign
It’s only been 80 years. What’s the hurry?
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2040447249847910563
Argentina’s Plan Andinia Is No Longer a Theory, It’s a Filed Government Document
We covered this months ago when Patagonia was burning, now the documents are in black and white.
A leaked Argentine government file (MS-26) reveals a “preventive plan” to receive up to 300,000 Israeli refugees — exclusively Israeli citizens, zero provision for Iranian or other civilian war victims.
Separately, expediente AR-MOPU-ISR-0426-7781, filed March 8, 2026, proposes a private settlement in Patagonia called “Barrio Privado Josué, Profeta de Israel,” 100,000 hectares of fire-scorched land. Four times the size of Gaza. Construction set to begin April 2026.
Milei gutted fire management budgets by 81%, repealed post-fire land-use protections, and opened migration pacts for Israeli nationals, while fires cleared the very land now being developed.
https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/article-896518
Israel’s biggest diplomatic win since the Abraham Accords came from Milei’s Argentina
Israel and Argentina launch the Isaac Accords, aiming to reshape alliances and expand normalization into Latin America
On April 19, Israel and Argentina issued a joint declaration, a new “covenant of Judeo-Christian nations.”
Formally named for Abraham’s son, the Isaac Accords aim to reflect continuity. Background documents explain that just as Isaac “carried forward Abraham’s legacy,” so the Isaac Accords “seek to build upon the legacy of the Abraham Accords and to expand Israel’s relationships with a new set of global partners.”
https://apnews.com/article/israel-latin-america-ties-isaac-accords-milei-469d4db73045a10d550cde4fb1527dc0
The Isaac Accords, funded by money from the Genesis Prize that Milei received two months ago in Jerusalem, will increase ties between Israel, Uruguay, Panama and Costa Rica, according to the Genesis Prize announcement on Tuesday.
Argentina, under Milei, already has solid ties with Israel. His posture stands in contrast to most of Latin America — where Bolivia and Colombia have severed ties with Israel and other countries have recalled their ambassadors.
The new initiative’s name is a nod to the Abraham Accords, which recognized bilateral relations between Israel and several Arab states starting in 2020, during U.S. President Donald Trump’s first administration. In 2026, the Isaac Accords plans to expand to Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and possibly El Salvador, according to the organizers, the American Friends of the Isaac Accords.
https://www.military.com/israel-defense-provision-blocked-from-house-vote-despite-bipartisan-push
A bipartisan effort to remove a controversial U.S.-Israel defense integration provision from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) never received a vote on the House floor after the House Rules Committee declined to make the amendment eligible for debate.
The amendment, introduced by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) would have removed Section 219 of the NDAA, formerly Section 224. The Rules Committee’s list of amendments made “in order” did not include the bipartisan proposal, ensuring it would not receive debate or a recorded vote before the House considered the broader defense bill.
The decision effectively prevented lawmakers from publicly voting on a proposal that had attracted support from across the political spectrum and generated significant grassroots opposition to the underlying provision.
https://www.military.com/section-622-amendment-make-israel-intelligence-sharing-harder-to-reduce
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2027 contains a series of provisions aimed at strengthening intelligence cooperation with U.S. partners. One of them, known as Section 622, goes further than the others and would amend the National Security Act of 1947 itself by adding Section 1115 to govern intelligence sharing with Israel.
The legislation was advanced by the Senate Intelligence Committee helmed by Rep. Tom Cotton, (R-Ark.), the committee’s chair, and was eventually approved in May. The amendment directs the president, acting through the director of national intelligence and, when necessary, the secretary of defense, to “expand and enhance intelligence sharing” with Israel.
The amendment also limits when intelligence sharing can be reduced. Intelligence sharing with Israel “shall not be suspended, reduced, or otherwise materially limited” unless the President determines that a “specific and identifiable national security concern” justifies doing so.
Any reduction must be documented and reported to Congress within 15 days. Congress also requires notification within 15 days whenever intelligence sharing is materially increased, reduced, suspended, or otherwise altered. The legislation spans 192 pages and contains several other intelligence-sharing provisions.
Military.com contacted Cotton’s office and inquired about the amendment’s effect on presidential flexibility, the absence of reciprocity requirements, the Jonathan Pollard case, disputes involving Iron Dome software access, and the decision to amend the National Security Act directly rather than create a temporary intelligence-sharing program.
The office did not respond.
https://www.rsn.org/001/the-group-behind-project-2025-has-a-plan-to-crush-the-propalestinian-movement.html
Now the Heritage contingent was in Israel, in part, to discuss another contentious policy paper: Project Esther, the foundation’s proposal to rapidly dismantle the pro-Palestinian movement in the United States, along with its support at schools and universities, at progressive organizations and in Congress.
Project Esther exclusively focuses on antisemitism on the left, ignoring antisemitic harassment and violence from the right. It has drawn criticism from many Jewish organizations amid increasing calls for them to push back against the Trump administration.
“Trump is pulling straight from the authoritarian playbook, using tools of repression first against those organizing for Palestinian rights,” said Stefanie Fox, the executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace. “And in so doing, sharpening those tools for use against anyone and everyone who challenges his fascist agenda.”
Her group is one of those described by Project Esther as a “Hamas Support Organization,” or an H.S.O. — a label Ms. Fox strongly rejected.
An open letter from three dozen former leaders of major Jewish establishment groups, including a former national chair of the Anti-Defamation League, recently warned that “a range of actors are using a purported concern about Jewish safety as a cudgel to weaken higher education, due process, checks and balances, freedom of speech and the press.” It called on Jewish leaders and institutions “to resist the exploitation of Jewish fears and publicly join with other organizations that are battling to preserve the guardrails of democracy.”
Christian Nationalism is not Christianity
Zionism is not Judaism
It’s all white supremacy cosplaying in religious garb.
They both claim victimization of religion whenever policies of control, violence, apartheid are attacked.
Wake up, folks. It’s all tied to global proper structures, and Epstein, too.
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Of course the world is pissed at dumbo’s interference with the World Cup.
I’m still trying to figure out the rules… one team does something and it’s a penalty… the other team does it and it’s not. And the flopping is worse than basketball. But still… Rick and I are enjoying watching it.
The US’s chance of beating Belgium tonight is slim to none, IMO… no matter who’s playing or not playing. The best European athletes go into soccer. The best US athletes have much more lucrative choices.
today’s meme…
Bees are in danger — and so is our future.
7 different species of bees were just added to the endangered list. If bees disappear, strawberries, avocados, and coffee will vanish too. This is your problem, and this is your wake-up call.
Together we can protect these incredible pollinators before it’s too late. Share this and spread awareness!
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/cheyenne-suspends-data-center-fill-and-flush-and-closed-loop-discharges-after-meta-contractor-contaminated-its-reuse-water-system
The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities has stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data center fill-and-flush and closed-loop cooling operations after tracing a rare bacterium in the city’s reclaimed water to Goat Systems LLC, the entity Meta uses to build its Cheyenne campus. In a notice reported by Cowboy State Daily, the Board said Goat Systems was in significant noncompliance for discharging water carrying Cupriavidus gilardii, a metal-resistant bacterium that interfered with two water reclamation plants and pushed the reuse system offline for months of cleanup. The Board revoked the contractor’s fill-and-flush discharge privileges on March 24, and a wider suspension now covers every data center connected to city services.
Microsoft and Nvidia market sealed liquid loops as a near-zero-water alternative to evaporative cooling, an approach that is spreading quickly as AI data centers expand into more communities. Microsoft describes cooling systems that are filled once during construction and then recirculate the same water, while Nvidia’s Rubin platform runs a coolant that is 75% water and 25% propylene glycol. That one-time fill, however, is the step that produces a discharge, and the flush water leaves the site before the loop is sealed.
Fill-and-flush is a commissioning step in which crews fill a cooling loop’s piping with water, flush it to clear debris before the system is run, and then send the used water to drain. Goat Systems routed that flush water, which contained Cupriavidus gilardii, into Cheyenne’s sanitary sewer, Frank Strong, the Board’s engineering and water resource division manager, told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Strong said the fill water had been purchased from the Board itself and that the origin of the bacterium remains unknown, but said that lab staff caught it in February during routine fecal-bacteria sampling. “This isn’t something we normally test for,” Strong told the paper.
Today in the Diner…
Trump NATO Summit and World Cup Controversy
President Donald Trump calls the FIFA boss to reverse a World Cup red card before a tense NATO summit. Plus, breaking down Harry Truman’s history.
Welcome to another serving at the Digital Diner. Today we are looking at President Trump’s bizarre decision to moonlight as a World Cup referee. Because when you cannot win a war in Iran, why not lobby the FIFA boss to reverse a red card? It is a perfectly normal warm-up for what is sure to be an incredibly awkward NATO summit in Turkey.
Meanwhile, we are breaking down the microscopic look at White House chaos and policy-by-impulse. We also dig into the progressive primary battles heating up across the map, the push for a billionaire wealth tax in California, and why establishment politicians are sweating out the midterms.
And because no daily broadcast is complete without a history lesson, we dust off the Harry Truman bobblehead. From his start with the corrupt Pendergast machine to his legendary Senate speech on defense spending, it is a stark reminder of how political character used to look. Pour some coffee and settle in. ☕
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00:00 Intro
00:04 President Trump FIFA World Cup Controversy
02:49 Prince Estate Music Lawsuit
04:23 White House Strait of Hormuz Chaos
11:27 California Wealth Tax and Midterm Elections
38:10 Harry Truman and the Pendergast Machine
52:30 NATO Summit in Turkey Preview
in Hawaii in 2016
President Trump plays referee:
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Geez… I just checked on Obama Presidential Center tickets. Booked up to November. 😳
Hayley Steven’s is NOT who will win:
Short answer: no sign of NRA money, but yes — AIPAC is all over Haley Stevens’s Michigan Senate bid, and it’s the biggest single source of outside firepower right now.
Here’s what the reporting shows:
### AIPAC — yes, and openly
– Stevens “accepts corporate PAC contributions, along with dollars from AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee),” the Detroit Free Press noted in its endorsement write-up.
– At the Mackinac debate she was “directly asked on stage about accepting donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)” and defended taking broad support.
– The overlap is deep: “Roughly 31 percent of donors who gave at least $200 to Stevens’s Senate bid also donated to AIPAC since the start of 2025”.
– AIPAC even ran a fundraising page on its site “steering funds directly to Stevens’ campaign,” and the Detroit News estimated AIPAC raised “several million dollars for Stevens” by tracking dual donors.
– Historically, “In the 2022 election cycle, AIPAC bundled over $940,000 for her Congressional re-election campaign, and reported donations and bundled funds have continued to grow into her 2026 Senate run”.
### NRA — no evidence
I checked the FEC-linked donor databases and recent coverage — there’s no record of NRA PAC money to Stevens. She’s a Democrat with a gun-safety voting record, and the NRA typically backs Republicans in Michigan. Nothing in the 2024-2026 filings shows NRA contributions.
### Who’s “floating” the campaign with big money right now
It’s not one billionaire, it’s a cluster of pro-Israel and centrist outside groups:
1. **AIPAC’s super PAC (United Democracy Project)** — CNN reported “AIPAC’s super PAC has already spent over $7 million boosting Rep. Haley Stevens against Abdul El-Sayed” in this primary.
2. **Other outside groups** — MIRS News tracked “Spending from such enigmatic groups as ‘A Stronger Michigan,’ ‘Fight For Michigan’ and ‘Center Forward’ have combined for $10 million in advertising spending in support of Stevens”.
3. **AIPAC donor network** — beyond the super PAC, the bundled individual money (that $940k+ history, plus the current fundraising portal) is a major pipeline.
4. **Corporate PACs** — she doesn’t reject them, unlike El-Sayed. The Free Press specifically flags that as a difference in the race.
5. **Traditional Democratic establishment** — she cites support from former Gov. Jennifer Granholm and former Sen. Debbie Stabenow, and her campaign points to grassroots donors like “grocery clerks, retired teachers and factory workers”, but the dollar volume is dwarfed by the outside spending above.
So if you’re watching the Michigan Democratic Senate primary (Aug 4), Stevens’ financial edge is coming overwhelmingly from AIPAC-aligned spending and allied centrist super PACs — not the NRA.
well all we need is uniform campaign finance reform and then there won’t be the appearance of antisemitism against AIPAC
holding breath… NOW
that is to say that AIPAC isn’t the problem, the entire system is
the zionists will enrich another culture with their contributions and we will get
idiot leftists and moron rightists hooray
Putin could try to escalate his way out of Ukraine?
If Henry Wallace would have been FDR’s successor, there would have been no Hiroshima or Nagasaki genocide. Discuss.
The 1944 fight wasn’t really about the vice presidency — it was about who would likely become president in 1945. Everyone in that July could see Franklin D. Roosevelt was failing. His doctors, his family, and the party bosses all understood: if he won a fourth term, the VP would inherit the office. That turned the VP slot from a ceremonial job into the most important decision of the convention.
## Why Henry Wallace was dumped
Wallace wasn’t dumped because delegates disliked him — on the first ballot he led with 429.5 votes to Truman’s 319.5. He was dumped because the people who ran the party feared him.
– **He’d become the left face of the New Deal.** By 1944 Wallace was the hero of labor (especially the CIO-PAC led by Sidney Hillman), Black voters in the North, and progressive intellectuals. He’d given the 1942 “Century of the Common Man” speech, pushed for full employment, and talked openly about raising living standards abroad. That reputation — built since 1933 through “books, pamphlets, and speeches” — had already made conservative Democrats suspicious enough that it took Roosevelt’s “emphatic personal insistence to secure Wallace’s nomination for vice president in 1940”.
– **Southern conservatives and city bosses saw him as unreliable.** The inner circle that decided to stop him — DNC treasurer Edwin Pauley, chairman Robert Hannegan, Postmaster General Frank Walker, party secretary George Allen, and Bronx boss Ed Flynn — called the effort “a veritable conspiracy”. They considered Wallace “unpopular with some of the leaders… who disliked his liberal politics and considered him unreliable and eccentric in general”. In plain terms: segregationists, captains of industry, and big-city machines “set out to destroy Wallace” because they thought he’d push civil rights and labor too far.
– **He’d fought the wrong people during the war.** As head of the Board of Economic Warfare, Wallace quarreled so heatedly with conservative Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones over conditions for Latin American workers that Roosevelt fired him from the board in 1943. That made him enemies in the Senate, where the VP presides.
– **He looked soft on the Soviets.** Even in 1944, bosses worried Wallace was “too friendly to labor” and “too far to the left” for some advisers. His later Madison Square Garden speech would prove them right, but the suspicion was already there.
Roosevelt didn’t want an open fight. In May 1944 he sent Wallace on a long trip to China and the Soviet Union — “probably with the intention to get him out of the country at an inconvenient time and to obstruct his campaign”.
At the July 11 White House meeting, the bosses pushed Truman. Roosevelt initially preferred Jimmy Byrnes, but Byrnes was unacceptable to Black voters (he’d filibustered anti-lynching bills) and to labor, and his switch from Catholic to Episcopalian would cost Catholic votes. Roosevelt gave Hannegan a famously slippery note: “I should, of course, be very glad to run with either of them [Truman and Bill Douglas] and believe that either one of them would bring real strength to the ticket”.
To Wallace, Roosevelt wrote the lukewarm “if I were a delegate I’d vote for Wallace” letter — instantly dubbed the “kiss-of-death” letter by Truman men. Wallace understood: “He wanted to ditch me as noiselessly as possible.”
On the floor, Wallace’s people packed Chicago Stadium on Thursday the 20th — they may have reused same-color tickets or counterfeited them, the organist played “Iowa, Iowa,” and banners filled the hall. Chairman Sam Jackson, under orders from Hannegan “not to let the convention nominate the vice president last night,” recognized a motion to adjourn.
That night, Hannegan, Flynn, Kelly and Walker “had been working through the night, talking to delegates and applying ‘a good deal of pressure'” — Walker reportedly telephoned every state chairman. Police also “kept large numbers of Wallace supporters out of the convention venue” the next morning. By the second ballot Friday, Truman surged to 1,031 votes; Wallace collapsed to 105.
## How a “failed haberdasher” became the nominee
Harry Truman wasn’t unknown to the bosses — he was unknown to the public. Gallup in July 1944 found just 2% of voters wanted him for VP.
His backstory is exactly what you remember:
– After World War I, Truman opened the Truman & Jacobson Haberdashery at 104 W. 12th St. in Kansas City, Missouri in November 1919. It “failed in 1921” after a postwar recession, with a going-out-of-business sale in September 1922. He never declared bankruptcy, but the failure pushed him out of business.
– Army buddy Jim Pendergast introduced him to his uncle, Tom Pendergast, the Kansas City Democratic boss. Truman became a county judge in 1922, then U.S. Senator in 1934 — a product of the machine, but with a clean reputation.
What made him attractive in 1944 was that machine background plus a national credential the bosses could sell to Roosevelt: the Truman Committee. Roosevelt “knew of the senator’s leadership of the Truman Committee, and that he was a loyal supporter of the New Deal”. The committee had saved billions exposing war waste, giving Truman headlines without making ideological enemies.
He was the perfect middle:
– Supported most New Deal programs, so labor (Hillman) could live with him — Hillman told Truman labor’s first choice was Wallace, “and if that was impossible they could also consent to Truman”.
– Had opposed Roosevelt’s third term in 1940, which pleased conservative Southerners.
– From a border state, not identified with either the Northern left or the Deep South.
– Acceptable to the unions, but not seen as a radical — “an ideal compromise candidate”.
Truman himself didn’t campaign. He carried a speech to nominate Byrnes in his pocket, repeatedly said he didn’t want the job (partly because he’d put wife Bess on his Senate payroll and “didn’t want her name drug over the front pages”), and only caved after Hannegan staged the famous phone call where Roosevelt shouted, “Well, tell him if he wants to break up the Democratic Party in the middle of a war, that’s his responsibility”.
Ferrell puts it bluntly: Truman was “a product of the boss system in Kansas City, and… he was nominated in 1944 by the boss system who had made it clear to Roosevelt that Wallace was unacceptable to them”.
So Wallace lost not at the ballot box initially, but in the back rooms — because the people who controlled delegates believed Roosevelt would die, and they preferred a moderate Missouri senator who’d once sold shirts on 12th Street to a visionary Iowa liberal they thought would remake the party and the peace. Eighty-two days after the inauguration, Roosevelt did die, and that backroom calculation put Truman in the White House.
Public disclosure: France 🇫🇷 is such a heavy betting favorite in Copa Mundial you have to wager a fortune to win back just peanuts.
https://share.google/NsXERMSQo3OVgpmH8
Yep, they said France’s second team was good enough to win it all…that was before WC started.
I finally see who the Zava character in Ted Lasso was fashioned after; Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who is now a commentator for WC.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnells-wifes-foreign-travel-after-cpr-drama-revealed/
Elaine Chao, 73, who has been married to the 84-year-old Republican lawmaker since 1993 and formerly served as transportation secretary in the first Trump administration, traveled to Beijing and met with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng just days after McConnell’s hospitalization.
*Odd
https://okmagazine.com/p/mitch-mcconnell-health-concerns-explode-status-remains-unknown/
One widely circulated X post claimed, without offering evidence, that McConnell was “a vegetable on life support” and that because Chao is in China, “there’s no one with power of attorney to pull the plug or give up his seat.”
The same post went on to speculate that the situation was “likely by design,” claiming a vacant Senate seat before August 3 could trigger a special election and allow Representative Thomas Massie to run as an Independent.
It also alleged that “the entire Republican Party is going along with this sick charade.”
*Plausible
How does Putin escape a quagmire like Ukraine and still look like a tough guy? As the Ankara NATO summit opens, a classic Russian misdirection might be brewing in the Western Balkans to divide the West, test Trump and gently put Ukraine behind him.
Full war game and map:
“Thank you for taking the time to contact our office about your concerns with the SAVE Act.
To begin, I want to be clear: this legislation will not take away any American citizen’s right to vote-including married women who have changed their last names.
The intent of the SAVE Act is simple and important: to protect the integrity of our elections by ensuring that only U.S. citizens are allowed to register and vote in federal elections. In America, you have to provide an ID to open a bank account, board a flight, drive a car, or donate blood — so it only makes sense to add voting in federal elections to the list of actions that require proof of identification.
I understand that many women, due to marriage or for other reasons, change their last names, oftentimes resulting in a difference between the nam on their birth certificate and what is on their driver’s license or passport. The SAVE Act takes these realities into account and, if signed into law would require states to establish reasonable procedures to accommodate name discrepancies- such as accepting supporting documents like a marriage certificate or other proof of a legal name change.
As your Senator, I remain committed to protecting the integrity of our elections while ensuring that every American can freely and securely exercise their right to vote.”
*A) There was a typo in their response.
*B) It still required more from women; it required nothing from men. And if it costs money to access documentation, it’s a poll tax.
Making my response call now, and adding NO ICE, NG, etc., at polling places.
DOGE won’t get a closing report detailing savings or workforce cuts, OMB says
During the hearing on June 30, subcommittee chair Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) asked, “is there something that you’re going to present or is there somewhere we can find what exactly DOGE accomplished as far as reductions in dollars spent, people at agencies, or whatever? Is there going to be some documentation of what took place?”
The DOGE website went dark last month. And the president’s proposed budget has no funding for the agency.
“We have no plans to do kind of a closing DOGE report,” Vought responded. “We’re always happy to give you our assessment of that work. I think it made some really important strides. You all passed many of the reductions that — DOGE found just through the normal appropriations process when you ended the year so much lower than the year before. We did some of that in the rescissions package. And so many of — the fruits of their labor are sprinkled all across the government, but I’m always happy to work with you on what you feel like you need.”
*Manure. Not fruits. Manure.
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2074173313778139364
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Trump seems to confuse Nicki Minaj with Kelly Loeffler, the administrator of the SBA
how much of everyone’s ai slop should i be reading
looks like trump ruined the whole world cup with his meddling lol
My slop is 100% genuinely me…but that doesn’t mean you should read it.
Politico: Graham Platner allegedly raped a Bumble partner 5 years ago. Allegations just released. Platner in full denial. I guess the public decides… but what will the DNC say from the top?
This sort of story is de rigueur for the Republicans.
How will the news feed proceed?
Kansas Republicans could try to delay election for U.S. Senate if Roger Marshall leaves office
Replacement would wait two years for an election under 2025 state law, which conflicts with U.S. Constitution
A Republican-conceived law usurping Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s discretion when filling vacancies in certain Kansas statewide elective offices could complicate the competitive race for U.S. Senate.
Candidates and political observers wonder whether Kansas Republicans could attempt to avoid holding an election for U.S. Senate this year by having the incumbent, Republican Roger Marshall, resign from office to take a position with President Donald Trump’s administration. The power play would raise constitutional questions.
The catalyst for this fear is a 2025 law requiring vacancies for U.S. Senate, state treasurer and state insurance commissioner to be filled by Kansas governors by choosing from a list of finalists endorsed by the full Legislature or a 12-person GOP-controlled legislative committee. A governor of Kansas in the past could immediately and unilaterally choose a person to temporarily fill these jobs pending an election, but the new law limited the governor’s options to members of the former officeholder’s party.
In addition, the same state law says if the vacancy were created after May 1 in an even-number year, such as 2026, the appointed replacement wouldn’t go before voters in an election until “two years following the year in which such vacancy occurs.” A simple reading of this Kansas statute — in isolation from the U.S. Constitution — suggests appointees chosen to fill these jobs this fall would avoid facing voters until 2028.
“This is certainly not the norm in the United States,” said Bob Beatty, a political science professor at Washburn University. “Waiting two years is pretty extreme.”
Despite confusing text in the 2025 Kansas law, the U.S. Constitution’s 17th Amendment, ratified in 1913, grants states the right to have temporary officials hold vacant U.S. Senate seats until an election could be held to determine who served out the unexpired term. The constitutional amendment wouldn’t permit states to artificially extend a U.S. Senate term beyond six years regardless of the number of people who were elected, appointed or resigned from the position during the six-year window.
This constitutional intent wouldn’t prohibit an individual or organization from raising legal challenges that portray Senate Bill 105 as a clever way of delaying an election amid a senator’s resignation.
Republican and Democratic strategists and candidates in Kansas have been weighing the possibility of Marshall prevailing in his August reelection primary and resigning a month or so later after securing a coveted appointment in the Trump administration. For the first time, under this scenario, Kelly and the Legislature would be responsible for implementing the 2025 law.
Without changing state statute on U.S. Senate vacancies, Marshall’s departure would have enabled Kelly to appoint a Democrat to his seat and weaken the GOP’s grip on the U.S. Senate.
Marshall is deeply unpopular with farmers, and there’s a Republican-voting minister running as a Dem instead of an Independent because he doesn’t want to help Marshall.
well there goes the senate
Senator Marshall: The Democrats Will Do Anything to Tear Down Donald Trump
U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Cheryl Castone on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures to discuss passing the SAVE America Act to secure election integrity, the Democrats’ continued refusal to support voter ID, and the possibility of a reconciliation bill passing with year-round E15 and funding for farmers hit hard by fertilizer prices.
On the Save America Act there’s nothing more important than election integrity — our elections need to be trustworthy. The question might be is why can’t we get 10 Democrats to agree that voter ID is important as well as proof of citizenship? That’s the real question here. The Democrats would do anything to tear down Donald Trump — they’d rather have depression; they’d rather have a war, anything other than Donald Trump, to make progress here.
“Well, without Reconciliation 3.0, I’m not sure what we’re going to get across the finish line, and that’s why I think we need to walk and chew gum — we need to be going down a couple roads. Let’s get a vote on the record on the voter ID, and then the proof of citizenship, and then let’s go on to a reconciliation bill that at least nips at the edges on the funding portion of the SAVE America Act, and get the president’s supplemental legislation to him that would fund the military and take care of our farmers as well.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/06/graham-platner-sexual-assault-allegation-00987737
make what you will of the allegations but they won’t inspire gen Z+A female enthusiasm for his candidacy
literally every woman will be able
to read between the lines on this story
Drat! This time Platner has a problem. A sexual assault charge. It was during his drinking days. The woman is not a GOP operative. She’s believable. Everything before now was forgivable. This one crosses the line into date rape and every woman recognizes it.
Schumer vindicated
not a fan but now we see why new candidates need vetting
i was critical of his maneuvering with Janet Mills but maybe he knew something (this) i didn’t, so log a tick against me
why does the word “categorically” in denials always make me suspicious? What does it even mean?
Janet Mills is still on the Maine ballot… Will Platner drop out?
How many women will now turn on Platner?
Anon
Did you read my blog today. As promised it is about AI personality.
I will read it if you wrote 100% of the words it contains
I can ask AI my own shit and quite frankly, I have deeper questions than y’all
They’re not giving you access to the good models anyway you guys are just training it for free
I asked if it was sentient yet and boy did it dance around the issue
Under Maine law Platner has to quit to be replaced. If he quits by July 13, the Maine Democratic State Committee—roughly 100 party insiders—bypasses the voters entirely to select a replacement nominee by majority vote.
Can’t be said enough:
We have an adjudicated rapist in the White House, whose case was just affirmed by the Supreme Court.
So, hear me out, maybe men should stop running for office for awhile and get their sh/t together.
Having someone in the WH who has done “worse” things does not fix anyone else’s crimes. To the victim, the whole “worse” thing is a slap in the face.
the logic doesn’t work without everything we just said for 10 years being a lie
Platner accuser on CNN shortly
he’s done, AOC and leading progressive influencers like her won’t support him
only a successful performance in a tough, pointed interview within 48 hours can save him
if that’s even possible
Not about logic, just a fact.
Dumping him would be all the more reason to repeat that a jury and the courts found Trump liable
lol more offensive than anything I’ve ever said
I’ll tell you what that is a very deft addendum well played
so the pod save crew have a new millenial female cohost (which is a good addition, the show needed that voice) and of course she’s very smart. anyway…
She begrudgingly conceded to the necessity of moral compromise for the sake of pursuing policy goals, but only when the allegations against platner were less severe than what they are today
Intelligent, educated female voters who are the backbone of the Democratic Party are not gonna support him like I said without some confessional interview ASAP
maybe he was a GOP plant the whole time
I mean, he does have a nazi tattoo after all
dated a GOP operative
that’d be one heck of an op, up there with the pagers
I think it’s very interesting this is coming out with only 7 days for him to pull out of the race. I think there was a hope the texts would make a difference, then decided to go with this. It is an accusation. Yes, women should be believed and all, but why now? Why not right when he entered? Is it because in polls over the weekend he was beating Susan Collins by 5+ points? It’s all timing for me.
Here’s the last Mills-Collins matchup before she dropped out:
Emerson College Polling
Conducted March 21-23, 2026
Janet Mills: 46%
Susan Collins: 43%
Someone Else: 8%
Undecided: 3%
Source:
https://static.notus.org/0b/9f/97515a054eaa89882d18ab798388/poll.pdf
Jake has been teasing this interview since his show started half an hour ago. Any moment now, unless something’s happened. Crucial to see how this accuser presents on camera.
I always thought it was a bad move for Platner to so unequivocally and emphatically say he would never vote for Schumer for leader. Especially when he knew all this baggage is out there.
He seems resigned (or resigning) here:
I wonder if CNN keeps putting off airing this interview because Plattner is about to quit?
i aint getting swallwell’d twice in the same
year
yep that’s a withdrawal address
go go Talarico may your closet be free of skeletons
schumer right now
so that article was published at 3:18 pm est today, he issued that address around 5:30 pm est, so that’s an journalistic article and subsequent resignation in 2.5 hours
shit moves pretty quick these days
i’m electing to believe his entire candidacy was a GOP op
I fell for a little bit by the way, full disclosure 😔
CNN airing interview now.
Khanna and Gallegos have pulled their support.
Recorded in my TV..
CNN interview just now aired — woman who says Graham Platner raped her in 2021..
if he has to go every Democrat talks about it should stress the contrast, that Republicans reward rapists
who is platner
If Platner must go don’t let the GOP off the hook for protecting their adjudicated rapist.
I was busy for a few hours and I missed the breaking news on Platner.
I’ll post articles from both major Maine newspapers here tomorrow.
Platner is toast. Now, release the EPSTEIN files!
I hope Belgium beats the ever-tRUMP-lovin’ crap out of the USA.
Nash, I’m curious if any of those Democratic governors candidates are possibilities to switch over? or are they stuck with Janet?
Is this guy a possibility?
https://golden.house.gov/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/06/mike-johnson-birthright-citizenship-threat-explained/90825101007/
Speaker Mike Johnson has indicated that House Republicans are exploring multiple avenues to limit birthright citizenship following a Supreme Court ruling that blocked an executive order on the matter.
While Johnson has not specified the exact content of a potential bill, he has expressed a readiness to advance legislative solutions immediately if they are available. Other Republican efforts to address the issue include legislation introduced by Senator Lindsey Graham and Representative Brian Babin, which seeks to narrow the definition of individuals who are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States under the 14th Amendment.
Dems have 7 days to fix this, find a candidate who keeps the Senate in play.
they’ll just go with mills
My neighbor is a Belgian war child. I’m with her.
As Maine Goes, So Goes The Senate
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Poobah, what the stupid motherfucker doesn’t get is that you still have to play the game. At the half, the US is down two to one. Belgium’s outplaying them like nobody’s business. Can you hear me now?
PLEASE, let the FOF say something, anything, about Platner. Open that door you stupid m’f’er.
via Scully the twist is that the player Trump appealed to FIFA for is a birthright citizen, whose mother immigrated from Nigeria when she was seven months pregnant.
irony of ironies
Drat, Google, I need a better answer.
Really, Google, that’s all you got?
Democrats face an immediate crisis in the race to control the U.S. Senate. Here is the realistic bench of contenders ready to take on Susan Collins.
The Maine Timeline
July 13, 2026 (Next Monday at 5:00 PM): This is the hard drop-dead date for Platner to file his official withdrawal paperwork with the Secretary of State. This is the only way to trigger a clean vacancy that allows the party to replace him on the ballot.
July 27, 2026 (The fourth Monday in July): If Platner hits the July 13 deadline and bows out, the Democratic state committee then has exactly two weeks to select and submit their replacement nominee to the state.
The epistemic crisis guy heard from someone who had cancelled a membership to a place DC folks join because his boss had died. This was a few days ago.
They are def running out the clock so Massie can’t run as an Independent.
Gotta keep Yertle hooked up until August 3rd.
I mean, his wife fled the US faster than Ted Cruz facing a TX blizzard, so she won’t be forced to get involved with any plug pulling.
If Platner is arrogant enough to think he can out-maneuver this documented accusation, then he should just come out as a Republican already.
Are Dems afraid of taxing California billionaires
🍽️ From today’s Digital Diner menu
1-4, dumbass. You…can’t…rig…soccer, asshole.
here’s a prospect, a logger endorsed by Bernie for governor..
Troy Jackson: The former Maine Senate President finished a strong third in the primary. Jackson is a staunch pro-labor economic progressive who commands fierce loyalty from working-class voters, particularly in rural, northern Maine. His populist appeal is exactly what national Democrats lack in rural counties.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/06/sport/live-news/usa-belgium-world-cup-score
Belgium ends the USA’s World Cup dream with a dominant 4-1 win in the Round of 16
*Dumbass ruins everything he touches…again. Happy for Belgium. They were fun to watch. Also, their outfits were pretty unicorn colors.
Relieved that he won’t be presenting the trophy to team USA. Hopefully, he knows he’ll get booed and chanted at so hard that he’ll skip it.
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/mamdani-nyc-wealthy-corporate-flight
When Zohran Mamdani won the mayor’s race, his critics predicted a mass exodus of wealth and business from New York City, cratering its tax base.
It’s been nearly six months since he won, and market indicators suggest so far that the rich are staying put.
The 10 Countries That Still Tax Wealth: Rates, Rules, and Who Pays
Only a handful of countries still tax net wealth directly, but the details vary wildly.
Of the 38 member states of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), only four levy a comprehensive net wealth tax on individuals: Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and Colombia. A handful of others, including France, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands, tax specific categories of assets rather than total net worth.
Unlike income taxes, which apply to what you earn, wealth taxes apply to what you own. That distinction matters enormously for high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) whose wealth is concentrated in assets rather than current income.
Norway has taxed individual wealth continuously since 1892, making it one of the oldest wealth tax regimes in the world. It is also one of the simplest.
Individuals with net wealth above NOK 1.9 million (approximately $197,000) pay a combined rate of 1%, split between a 0.35% municipal levy and a 0.65% state levy.
For net wealth exceeding NOK 21.5 million (approximately $2.2 million), the state rate rises to 0.75%, bringing the combined rate to 1.1%.
The tax applies to worldwide assets for residents, including foreign real estate. While tax treaties may affect how foreign property is ultimately taxed (and may provide credits for wealth taxes paid abroad), Norwegian residents must declare all overseas property as part of their wealth tax base.
*More details, and more countries in link.
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