PATTY MURRAY: What happened to childcare in this budget?
RFK Jr: Ok, let's talk about childcare then instead of the war
MURRAY: Just so it's clear, the president is requesting $1.5t in defense which cuts our non-defense incredibly
RFK Jr: It's not my department
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order banning state employees from using insider info to bet on prediction market apps like Kalshi and Polymarket, warning the unregulated boom “opens the door to insider trading and abuse.”
Never.
USA will never be "champion of the free world" ever again. Their integrity and trust among allies is destroyed forever. Sorry.
EU will form our own EU army and independent databases and enterprise opensource business software's, plus EU space program.
A visual showing Ukrainian traditional patterns and the text High-Level Meeting of the International Coalition for the return of Ukrainian Children 11.05.2026 Brussels. Included are the flags of the EU, Canada, and Ukraine.
Over 20,000 Ukrainian children have been unlawfully deported. This is a violation of human dignity.
On 11 May, we co-host a high-level meeting with Ukraine and Canada.
Our goal is to trace every child, secure their return, and ensure full accountability ↓
link.europa.eu/HCR7jK
Russia: Tuapse fascists were all about the genocide of Ukraine in 2022.
The Fed has two monetary policy tools. Warsh would be the third.
Warsh: "There's a difference between the change in prices and inflation. The change in prices happen in a market economy. When inflation moves up, that's because the Fed had something to do with it."
KIM: Are you concerned there could be real long-term effects of this war in Iran with fuel and fertilizer?
WARSH: If my reform agenda stands for anything, it's for the central bank to stay in his lane
KIM: But you're also charged with forecasting
Warren: "Will you disclose how you divest those assets, or will you just collect the check for $100 million from someone whose whole business is betting on what the Fed will do?"
Warsh: "Ethics officials at the Fed. Reserve and the Office of Government Ethics-"
Warren: "I will take that as a no."
Yep, that’s a NO.
The Fed relies on data and objective reality. Kevin Warsh’s refusal to acknowledge the 2020 election shows he’s more interested in politics than facts.
An independent Fed Chair needs a backbone, not a loyalty pledge. — Warsh is compromised. Hard pass.
"We were really hoping to convince Biden to bomb Iran if reelected" is likely much closer to the truth.
Marge gets it
This guy was installed by president trump
RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.
VAN HOLLEN: If the central bank were to cut rates, that would typically push prices up, right?
WARSH: Unlike many of my colleagues, I don't believe I should be previewing what a future decision might be
VAN HOLLEN: I'm not asking you that. Most economists would agree that would dive up prices
Kennedy promotes an “all shucks” good ole boy image to his constituents when in fact he’s a Phi Beta Kappa Oxford grad.
Hay-air own a biscuit
As Virginia’s redistricting referendum comes down to the wire, Steve Bannon is warning that “demonic” Democrats will impeach President Donald Trump and gerrymander congressional districts nationwide if they win in the Old Dominion Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
And .. here come the Freedom of Information Act requests for Kash Patel records
DC watchdog group Democracy Forward has formally requested Patel's calendars & any messages from security detail that include words "drinking", "hungover", "inebriated"
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
Blotto, wasted, over-served.
🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to block its bid to build a national voter database using private voter data from every state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Biden's approach, had it continued, would have changed America for the better.
"Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?" sings Joni Mitchell at the end of Krugman's analysis.
This whole Warsh hearing is one big campaign ad doxing Biden, Powell and Democratic policies and putting blame on the economy on them. Warsh is in on the plan. He’s doing the blame game on almost every answer.
CHRIS WRIGHT: Energy prices are still well lower than they were in middle of the Biden adminis--
CANTWELL: I want to stop you right there. There is nobody in the Northwest who thinks that. Not when they wake up & airline flights are being canceled because of high fuel costs. No one thinks it's okay
WARNOCK: What grade would you give the American economy?
WARSH: Well, if i gave a student anything other than an A, the dean would summon me because I would've hurt his self-image
WARNOCK: Consumer confidence is at a record low. That's Americans' grade on the economy
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
GALLEGO: Earlier today, you told Sec. Kennedy that Trump never demanded you to cut interest rates. Is that your sworn testimony?
WARSH: That is, senator.
GALLEGO: Okay. Well someone here is lying then. Because Trump confirmed he pressed you on interest rate cuts.
