Trump gets BACK-TO-BACK losses in court

Courts are handing the resistance a genuine streak. A federal judge blocked Trump's revamped federal voter database tool, ruling it "threatens the sacred right to vote" — the ninth time a federal court has stopped the administration from accessing voter information.

A separate ruling dismissed the DOJ's subpoenas against Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota state officials, with the judge calling it an effort to "harass and retaliate against them.”

A U.S. district court also dismissed Trump’s lawsuit against Los Angeles over its sanctuary city immigration policy. And in a detail that deserves a banner headline of its own: even Trump's own judicial appointees are ruling against him in what one report describes as "a blizzard of blistering rulings.”

The pattern matters: this isn't a single judge or a single issue. Courts at every level are treating the administration's power grabs as legally untenable, and the cumulative effect is that Trump's most aggressive second-term tools — voter roll purges, immigration retaliation, sanctuary city punishments — are being dismantled piece by piece.

The U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland entered their second day under conditions that would embarrass a student diplomat. Vance admitted on the record that the talks have been a "string of errors," Iranian state media flatly contradicted U.S. claims that nuclear inspections had been agreed to, and Iran has apparently already pocketed a major sanctions win — oil revenues flowing again — while giving up nothing concrete in return.

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade is now openly calling for Trump to fire Vance from the negotiations. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has told Congress it needs $80 billion to cover the cost of the Iran war — a number that has received almost no attention relative to its scale.

Trump claimed victory, Vance claimed progress, Iran said none of it is true, and Fox News is already looking for someone to blame. The administration cannot keep its own story straight from one press conference to the next.

New York's congressional primaries are happening today, with progressive candidates explicitly framing themselves as running against establishment Democrats — and Zohran Mamdani, riding the momentum of his mayoral race, has backed Darializa Avila Chevalier, who is running on universal healthcare, abolishing ICE, and campaign finance reform.

Exactly zero of Mamdani’s endorsements line up with those of Hakeem Jeffries.

In Maryland, Gov. Wes Moore is seeking the Democratic nomination for a second term.

These races are a direct test of whether the Mamdani moment — socialist, grassroots, uncompromising — is replicable at the congressional level. Turnout has been low in early voting, which is… not a great sign. But progressives have been winning in every corner of America. The hope is that Mamdani’s last-minute push gets people out to the polls today.

The Washington Post published an investigation based on more than 25,000 emails and memos from a former member of a shadowy, Hare Krishna-linked group, finding "unmistakable" links between Gabbard and the organization — and raising the question of whether she has been taking political direction from its leader, Chris Butler, throughout her entire career. The Trump team has said nothing.

Gabbard just recently resigned as the Director of National Intelligence. She has access to the most sensitive intelligence the United States government possesses. The silence from the White House is its own answer.

Tucker Carlson announced he can no longer defend the Republican Party. He said there's "no chance I would support the Republican Party," adding, “I’m out.”

His reason?

The GOP has "betrayed" Americans by putting the interests of Israel above those of American citizens.

The guy who spent 35 years as one of the loudest conservative voices in America. The guy whose show was the most-watched in cable news history. The guy Trump's own base treats like a prophet.

This lands the same week that a self-described MAGA rebel told The Daily Beast the movement is set to "collapse under its own weight," an ousted Republican senator (Cornyn) said on the record that Trump "revels in chaos," and a GOP senator admitted what critics have been saying all along about Trump's "rope-a-dope" governing style. Even CNN's data guru is reporting that Republican voters don't believe Trump's own claims of victory on Iran.