Bernie Sanders FINALLY puts Fetterman in his place

Mandela Barnes, the former Wisconsin lieutenant governor and 2022 Senate candidate, dropped out of the Democratic gubernatorial primary yesterday — not because he was pushed out, but because he looked at the numbers and did the math.

Democratic socialist Francesca Hong had surged to a commanding lead, and Barnes announced in a video that he no longer saw a viable path to the nomination.

The Wisconsin governor's race is one of the highest-stakes contests of the 2026 cycle, with control of a major swing state and its redistricting future on the line. Hong's rise is a direct test of whether the democratic socialist lane that powered Zohran Mamdani's New York City victory can travel to the Midwest — and Barnes stepping aside rather than splitting the vote is exactly the kind of move that gives it a real shot. The primary is August 11th. Watch this one.

At the same time, progressive Abdul El-Sayed has opened up a 15-point lead over AIPAC-backed Haley Stevens.

And that was before AOC endorsed him in this great campaign ad.

The Senate Judiciary Committee was supposed to vote Thursday morning on Todd Blanche's attorney general nomination. Instead, the vote was postponed after Republican Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis announced they wouldn't support Blanche until the Justice Department put in writing that Trump's so-called "Anti-Weaponization Fund" — a $1.776 billion pool of money for people claiming they were targeted by the government — is actually dead.

Blanche had already said the fund was dead in June. All Trump had to do was confirm it on paper. He refused. Instead, he posted on Truth Social that he'd be fine "temporarily" withdrawing Blanche's name until Cornyn and Tillis are out of office — a sitting president threatening to wait out his own party's senators.

Meanwhile, Epstein survivors are separately urging senators to vote no on Blanche, and MoveOn is calling for the nomination to be killed outright. The White House "seemed surprised" by the revolt. In case you forgot, this is the president’s personal lawyer.

Elon Musk is coming to Trump’s aid, reviving his super PAC for the 2026 midterms, less than a year after pledging to stay out of politics.

The announcement landed the same day SpaceX scored a $1.6 billion military contract — a coincidence so brazen it practically announces itself.

America PAC spent $288 million on Trump's 2024 campaign and left a trail of legal wreckage behind it: fake voter registration ads that harvested personal data, pre-filled absentee ballot applications sent to Georgia residents in violation of state law, and canvassers who say they were tricked and threatened. Georgia's Elections Board issued a formal reprimand. Nothing else happened.

With Trump’s numbers in the toilet, the question is — will the influx of spending work? Or will Elon waste even more money?

Two federal appeals courts ruled against Trump’s immigration detention policy on Thursday, back to back. The Seventh Circuit found the government cannot deny bond hearings to undocumented immigrants already living in the U.S., ruling that the administration had been misapplying a rule meant for people arriving at the border.

Hours earlier, the Ninth Circuit reached the same conclusion.

These are the fifth and sixth consecutive losses on this specific policy. Separately, the administration is letting expire — today — a key contract providing legal services to unaccompanied migrant children, even as the government owes the firm $65 million and current and former prosecutors are calling the fast-tracking of child deportations a scandal.

Six losses in a row and they're still doing it — because the point was never legality, it was the deportations themselves.

For the second time in two weeks, the Senate rejected a resolution that would have directed Trump to end the war in Iran and required congressional approval for further military action. The final vote was 49–50.

Three Republicans crossed over: Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul. Mitch McConnell didn't show — he hasn't been seen in public in 46 days. And John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, voted with Republicans to kill it. The resolution only needed a simple majority.

Fetterman ran in 2022 as a progressive. He is now the deciding vote keeping an unauthorized war alive.

Fetterman also tried to tell Bernie Sanders to “maybe sit a few out” after endorsing progressives like El-Sayed, Bernie told Kaitlan Collins why he would not be taking Fetterman’s advice.

That exchange came after El-Sayed (hilariously) referred to Fetterman as an “ogre.”

That’s all for today — we will see you tomorrow!