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Cameron Kasky
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Cameron Kasky reported that even fundamentally pro-Israel candidates in New York's 12th district rejected AIPAC money because the organization's brand has become so toxic it could cost them their elections.
Cameron Kasky was in Maine without his anxiety medication the day after a major New York Times scandal story dropped on Graham Plattner. He expected chaos. Instead, the energy was overwhelmingly positive — because in Maine, where everyone knows everyone, the 'revelations' were already known. A poll shows Plattner down just 3 to Collins.
Stop looking for a John Kelly or Jim Mattis in this White House. Rubio is constantly in the West Wing, in and out of the press secretary's office, and by Haberman's eyewitness account, loving every minute of it. He's dual-hatted as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor specifically because he wants to be near Trump — not to restrain him.
Losing in 2020 was the best thing that ever happened to Trump's power. He avoided post-pandemic inflation and the Afghanistan withdrawal, became a martyr figure through indictments and assassination attempts, and returned to the White House with an iron grip on his party that a consecutive second term never would have produced.
Musk rejected his cramped West Wing office and set up shop in the grand Secretary of War suites in the EEOB, playing video games late into the night and calling Trump to propose new cuts. He was essentially a co-president — Trump's own staff often found out about Musk's decisions after the fact.
Trump has told people repeatedly he will issue preemptive pardons to anyone who has come within 200-250 feet of the Oval Office. Multiple aides are personally counting on their own pardon. It's not just bravado — it's a governing philosophy.
Natalie Harp, Trump's constant information aide known as the 'human printer,' was leaving raw emotional notes in Trump's private White House spaces — one read 'You are all that matters to me.' The Secret Service was alarmed. Trump openly tells people she loves him as much as his wife and children.
Trump's health is the most tightly guarded secret in his administration. He falls asleep at events, has chronic venous insufficiency with swollen ankles, and is taking increasingly frequent visits to Walter Reed — while his administration releases progressively less information about his condition.
Trump's White House bedroom featured potato chip bags, ice cream cartons, Starburst wrappers, a carpeted bathroom, and bankers boxes stacked so high they left impressions in the carpet. Staff monitored the silverware because pieces kept disappearing into the trash. This is how the president of the United States lives.
Critics said DSA electoral success was a New York City anomaly. Then a DSA barista defeated a 28-year congressional incumbent in Denver. Cameron Kasky argues this proves the movement can replicate its wins — but also that weak, autopilot incumbents deserve much of the blame for their own defeats.
Trump planned to include a line about sweeping J6 pardons in his inaugural address. An aide warned it would cause Democrats to walk out on camera — Trump's only concession to decorum. Hours later, he pardoned roughly 1,500 people anyway, including those who attacked police.
Gaza criticism is now the entry ticket for progressive voters to even hear your pitch — but it's just the ante. The candidates who have actually won built coalitions around energy, vision, and relentless work. The candidates who lost weren't simply pro-Israel; they were also stale, complacent, and neglecting chunks of their districts.
Trump has always been more hawkish on Iran than his own advisors, and he went into the war believing it would be over in days, the way the Venezuela operation was swift and clean. He was warned about depleted munitions and a closed Strait of Hormuz. He went anyway. Now he wants out.
Rubio sat with El Salvador's Bukele in his palace and personally hashed out the CECOT arrangement, which was supposed to target only verified gang members. The vetting proved to be fiction — innocent people, including Venezuelans with no-deportation orders, ended up in the gulag. Rubio is not the moderate anyone hoped for.
A staffer objected to an exhibit, and Trump soon demanded the firing of the National Portrait Gallery's director and issued orders controlling what art could be shown at Smithsonian institutions. At a Board of Regents meeting with Chief Justice Roberts present, a young Vance aide pulled out an iPad and declared a trans-themed painting 'not what Americans want to see.'
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