Director, UVA @Center4Politics. Author, The Kennedy Half Century bit.ly/3hSzJp5. Read the Crystal Ball every week: linktr.ee/c4politics

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A favorite JFK quote: "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.'
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NEW: In 2018, white working-class voters approved of Trump on the economy by 30 points. Now they disapprove by as much as that margin in some polls. My piece on how Trump’s big blue-collar white vulnerability is reshaping the 2026 landscape nytimes.com/2026/06/13/us/po…
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The $TRUMP meme coin generated about $616 million for the Trump family, while buyers lost more than $700 million, according to Reuters' estimates. The coin has tumbled 97% from its January 2025 peak reut.rs/4oisC7e @specialreports
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BREAKING: NYT Confirms Trump Is Supervising Kennedy Center Tarp Removal As His Agents Appear to Be Indicating It May Stay Up Indefinitely—Effectively Taking *Kennedy's* Name Off the Center As Well As Trump's in One of the Most Petty and Vindictive Acts Ever Taken By Any President
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Note to anyone angry that Trump's name was taken off the Kennedy Center, don't you worry. You can still find his name in the Epstein files over 38,000 times.
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Kennedy Center says it has fully removed Trump's name from its building. cnn.it/4xqbIYD
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Team Trump confirms to the court .. they’ve taken Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center
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JD Vance: If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.
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World War II ended with unconditional surrenders by Germany on May 8, 1945, and Japan on September 2, 1945, rather than negotiation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditi… archives.gov/milestone-docu… nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/end…
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: A commercial airline pilot tells MeidasTouch they filed FAA and NASA safety reports after lighting from Trump’s UFC event at the White House allegedly flooded their cockpit on approach to Reagan National. The pilot called it “10 times worse than any laser illumination event” they’d ever experienced. meidasnews.com/news/white-ho…
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On Friday evening, the Republican leaders of North Carolina's state legislature dropped a big, unannounced, 36-page omnibus bill stuffed to the brim with new voting restrictions and elections changes. This thing is a voter suppression wishlist. Just some of its major provisions: 👉 Total ban on encouraging voter turnout: State and county board members are prohibited from any public statement "encouraging or promoting voter turnout in any election" 👉 Grants the Republican State Auditor total discretion to audit all machines, county offices and personnel involved in any election 👉 Reduces campaign finance transparency: the bill significantly raises the dollar thresholds for required reporting of dark money contributions or media expenditures, waiving reporting for the rest 👉 Requires voters to register with a political party a full year before voting in that party's primary election (up from 90 days) 👉 Total ban on any ranked-choice voting in any primary or general election statewide 👉 Strips some overseas voters of their eligibility to vote in any state elections 👉 Partisan staffing: changes up to 25 professional staff at the State Board of Elections from career civil staff to partisan political appointees 👉 Bans paid petition gathering This bill just dropped last night and may not be online yet (they like to take their time). We got a full draft of the bill here: carolinaforward.org/images/h…
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“President Trump himself will occupy an arena-level seat, positioned like a Roman emperor in his pulvinar—the imperial box—and surrounded by senators and dignitaries, if not the traditional six Vestal Virgins” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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To those wondering what my dad would have to say about Trump, here’s a clue from the past…
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The bottom line: The federal judges have ruled more than 13,300 times — the overwhelming majority of the 15,100 rulings — that ICE had detained people in violation of the law or their due process rights. politico.com/news/2026/05/13…
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REP. BRANDON GILL: This is a much more effeminate version of Beto O'Rourke ... this is somebody who is really obsessed with children ... I think of James Talarico as a barely straight version of Pete Buttigieg KAYLEIGH McENANY: We know Talarico has a longtime girlfriend and she's very beautiful
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Welcome back, #KennedyCenter!
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NEW: Workers are now putting up a curtain to hide the actual removal of Trump's name from the Kennedy Center. The crowd is booing and screaming, "SHAME!"
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NEW — Republicans made the House map redder, but Democrats remain clearly favored in VoteHub’s 2026 House forecast. @ZacharyDonnini breaks down how redistricting shifted the battlefield and what Democrats need to retake the majority. votehub.com/2026/06/12/repub…
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Meningitis B vaccine to be expanded in the UK This is good news Believe me you do not want to get meningitis B - it's horrific
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Alaska Survey Research poll | 6/4-6/7 LV US Senate Alaska 2026 🟦Mary Peltola 49.4% [ 1.0] 🟥Dan Sullivan 44.2% [-0.4] (incumbent) 🟥Gerald Heikes 3.7% [-1.4] 🟥Dustin Darden 2.7% [no change] (Change from 5/14-5/17)
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