Trump campaign asks for cut when candidates fundraise with his name and likeness - POLITICO

If they just use 'Donald,' can they get it for half price? apple.news/Agnh-241ZT0mYk…

Not only is Ukraine apparently going to finally get the additional weapontry they need but the braying jackasses who make up the Putin caucus within the House GOP may finally get their comeuppance. Will be fun to watch.

On #AxeFiles , Fareed Zakaria, author of Age of Revolutions, talks about the loss globalization & automation have visited on some towns, even as others have prospered.
'When communities go down...it's not just an economic issue. You lose your life.'
Pod: link.chtbl.com/rzRbbrqO

Amazing performance in do-or-die game for Chicago Bulls by Coby White, who's gone from role player to star this season. Most improved in the NBA!

I give Speaker Mike Johnson great credit for his comments below re Ukraine and his resolve not to be bullied by the pro-Putin caucus within his own party.

New ⁦Hacks on Tap⁩ is up! I’m galavanting through UK and Germany this week & ⁦David Axelrod⁩ is keynoting a Friends of Trotsky Society Singles cruise in the Med so Gibbs lured the great Whit Ayres⁩ and ⁦Jonathan Martin⁩ to the show. It’s great! hacksontap.com/episodes/bad-o…

McCarthy's Faustian bargain to become Speaker--giving any one member of the House the right to ignite the process of vacating the chair--has empowered legislative arsonists and thrown the whole place into a perpetual leadership crisis.

I'm still confounded by Trump's insistence that Joe Biden is addled and incompetent, while at the same time accusing the President Biden of masterminding a labyrinthinine series of federal and state indictments to damage Trump and keep him off the campaign trail.
Neither are true but BOTH

Trump's two major achievements as president were appointing the SCOTUS majority that overturned Roe v. wade and a $1.7 trillion tax cut heavily skewed to the wealthy.
Unpopular as they are, these two things--and not the trials--may prove to be his undoing in '24.

Will Dems protect Speaker Mike Johnson from ouster if he puts Ukraine funding on the floor? On #AxeFiles , Nancy Pelosi deflected, instead sharing a story about her offer to save Boehner from a similar right-wing coup. 'It's about the integrity of the House.'
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Trump complained yesterday that the trial is keeping him off the campaign trail. But it seems as if he's spending more time on the golf course than the trail as it is, making only a few campaign events a week.

I'm far from the first to note this but the Antelope Canyons of Arizona are absolutely breathtaking.

Reporting in AZ suggests GOP in the state legislature is NOT planning to repeal the sweeping, 1864 abortion ban, which includes mandatory prison sentences for doctors.
This is a big fork in the '24 road.

I'm a huge, lifelong basketball fan. Never watched the WNBA draft before but I did with interest tonight, and look forward to the upcoming season. These women can play!
(And the Chicago Sky, with Cardoso and Reese, cleaned up!)

On #AxeFiles , Nancy Pelosi speaks about the politically-inspired attacker who in '22 nearly killed her husband, Paul, in their home. 'I feel terribly guilty because, obviously, he was there looking for me, and my dear husband became the victim.'
Pod: link.chtbl.com/1DSLs3TD

Trump says he is 'proud' and 'honored' to be in court today as a criminal defendant in a tawdry hush money case.
Say what?!??

This was truly sad.