The “Big, Beautiful Bill,” or what we’re calling the MAGA Murder Budget (credit to Joe Trippi [ [link removed] ]), has made its way out of the house and is on to the Senate, where hopefully somebody kicks on the brakes, even a little bit.
If you’ve been paying attention (and if you’re reading this, you probably have), then you know that this bill represents one of the greatest wealth redistribution schemes in our country’s history. It’s not that most of the benefits of this budget go to the top half. Or the top quarter. Or even the top 10% of earners in America. No. This bill is the biggest diamond in the tiara that sits on the heads of the .1%.
Rick & God [ [link removed] ] have a lot more in common than you might think. God used to be a conservative himself! (Remember the Old Testament? Very law & order).
So, what do you talk about when you talk to God? How the Democrats need to wake up. Corruption. Life. Love. Marco Rubio. All the things, and more!
This week, we learned that Joe Biden — the 46th President of the United States — is fighting an aggressive, advanced form of prostate cancer. He didn’t run in 2024. Kamala Harris did. And she lost to Donald Trump. The campaign is over.
But this isn’t about a campaign. It’s not even about politics of what Joe accomplished or didn’t over the course of his years of public service.
Because the game Joe is in now — the game of mortality, of diagnosis, of time measured in treatments and scans — is the one game every single one of us will eventually have to play.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who’s running as a Democrat for U.S. Senate in Michigan, joins Lincoln Square’s Susan J. Demas to talk about what Medicaid means for people, how deeply these cuts will hurt, and what we can do about it.
El-Sayed is a progressive and he’s been endorsed by Bernie Sanders, just as he was during his 2018 campaign for Michigan governor. He’s been a sharp critic of Democrats for not being progressive enough and not fighting back against right-wing policies. He tells us who he thinks has gotten it right so far and says he’d like to be the kind of principled leaders the late U.S. Sens. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Phil Hart of Michigan were.
Pope Leo XIV’s message of love and unity is the antithesis of Donald Trump’s crude divide-and-conquer tactics that have dominated American life for a decade, and made our country poorer for it.
But as it stands, Trump — who now has a $400 million luxury jet courtesy of the Qatari royal family and recently bragged [ [link removed] ], “I run the country and the world” — finally finds himself in the shadow of a fellow American. And that’s something his colossal ego just can’t abide.