Sen. Raphael Warnock accused Republicans of “taking food away from working families to give their donors another tax cut” after President Donald Trump claimed in his State of the Union address that his administration “lifted 2.4 million Americans — a record — off of food stamps.” The two lines are colliding because they describe the…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries took direct aim at President Donald Trump’s new “war on fraud” messaging — and he didn’t bother with subtlety. “The President announced a war on fraud,” Jeffries wrote. “You can begin with the most corrupt administration in American history. The Trump Cartel.” The jab lands because it’s tied to something…
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) is daring critics to argue with his wording after posting a blunt claim about President Donald Trump just hours before the State of the Union. “Just two weeks ago, Donald Trump tried to have me arrested because he didn’t like what I said,” Kelly wrote on X on Feb. 24, adding…
Rep. Ro Khanna says he’s bringing Haley Robson — a woman he describes as “a survivor of Epstein’s abuse” — as his guest to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union, and the announcement instantly set off a familiar online fight: who gets to speak for victims, who counts as a survivor, and what “justice”…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is escalating a growing legal fight over U.S. vaccine guidance, saying the state is helping lead a multi-state lawsuit against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the CDC for “illegally removing 7 childhood vaccines from the federal list of universally recommended shots.” In a post circulating online, Newsom framed the…
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he’s suing the Trump administration over what he calls an “illegal overhaul” of the CDC’s long-standing recommendations for children’s vaccinations, framing it as a public-health and trust issue — and accusing the White House and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of putting politics ahead of medical…
Sen. Ted Cruz is leaning hard into a simple message as Washington heads into another prime-time political moment: “Gas prices are down. Murder rates are down. Illegal border crossings are down. Don’t pay attention to the media, look at the substance.” It’s the kind of post that spreads fast because it bundles three everyday stress…
A blunt line from Rep. Jim McGovern is racing around social media hours before President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address — and it’s becoming the shorthand for a bigger Democratic strategy fight: show up and sit stone-faced… or don’t give Trump the visual at all. In a post circulating online, the Massachusetts Democrat…
Rep. Greg Casar is accusing the Justice Department of illegally withholding “some Epstein files,” tying his demand to old allegations involving President Donald Trump and a minor — and it’s instantly reigniting a familiar question: what exactly is in the government’s Jeffrey Epstein trove, and why does it keep showing up with missing links, redactions,…
A winter storm turned Washington Square Park into a snow-day hangout — and then a viral mess. Video posted by independent scene account @BGOnTheScene shows NYPD officers getting pelted with snowballs while working in the park. The clip lit up X fast, with critics calling it an “attack” on police and demanding arrests, while others…
Chuck Schumer is drawing a hard line on President Donald Trump’s newest round of import taxes, arguing the tariffs are hitting Americans in the wallet — and promising Democrats won’t help keep them alive once the clock runs out. In a post that’s now ricocheting across social media, the Senate Democratic leader framed the tariffs…
Elon Musk is torching The New York Times after a screenshot of a decade-old NYT opinion piece with a jarring headline—“Pedophilia: A Disorder, Not a Crime”—started circulating again on X. “The New York Times is utterly disgusting,” Musk wrote, reacting to the image that frames pedophilia as a “disorder” rather than a “crime,” a phrasing…
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries jumped in Monday to defend California Gov. Gavin Newsom after a fresh wave of criticism over Newsom’s remarks at a Georgia event that circulated widely online. Jeffries wrote that Newsom “is not a racist,” accused “deranged far-right extremists” of “lying again,” and told critics to “Pipe Down.” The blowup traces…
Sen. Adam Schiff is accusing President Donald Trump of once again flexing U.S. military muscle overseas without Congress signing off — and he’s warning lawmakers they’re about to lose their say on war and peace if they don’t push back. In a post that quickly ricocheted across political X, Schiff said Trump has “deployed massive…
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is urging President Donald Trump to “adhere to the Supreme Court” after the justices ruled that Trump’s earlier, sweeping tariffs were not authorized under the emergency law the administration used to impose them. Shapiro’s post frames the tariffs as an across-the-board hit to “families, farmers, and small businesses,” arguing the White…
Sen. Ted Cruz took aim at California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a post that called him “the perfect Democrat, made in a laboratory,” and accused him of “dripping with racist condescension,” adding a jab that Newsom is “also very pretty.” Cruz’s shot didn’t come out of nowhere. It’s tied to a clip circulating from Newsom’s…
Donald Trump Jr. is amplifying the “Trump derangement syndrome” label again — this time in a clapback aimed at author Stephen King after King posted a list of insults about President Donald Trump that included a line claiming Trump “has never had a child.” In his post, Trump Jr. mocked the “never had a child”…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is escalating her fight over the Trump administration’s push to shrink — and ultimately eliminate — the U.S. Department of Education, arguing the White House is trying to “dismantle” the agency in ways that Congress never authorized. In a new letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and…
A federal judge in Florida has permanently blocked the Justice Department from releasing former special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the classified-documents case against President Donald Trump, a ruling that immediately set off outrage from transparency groups and Trump critics who argue the public is being denied the factual record in one of the most…
Hillary Clinton is drawing fresh attention — and plenty of pushback — after posting that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “threatened by strong women,” adding that she can say it “from personal experience.” In her post, Clinton pointed followers to a new Foreign Affairs essay where she argues that attacks on women’s rights aren’t just…