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“About an hour after Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president, the Democratic candidate’s campaign had friendship bracelets for sale on the Harris campaign website,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “It looked like a synchronized effort: Bracelets, after all, were a hallmark of Swift’s ‘Eras Tour.’ People outside the campaign were encouraging an endorsement.

“Speaker Mike Johnson is fighting for his job this week. Today’s setback gives him a sense for how difficult — and lonely — it will be if he wins,” Axios reports. “Johnson’s rank-and-file aren’t taking his Plan A seriously … his top members are pointing fingers over who’s to blame … worst of all, the former president reserves the right to blindside him.” “Those dynamics will only increase if Donald Trump wins back the presidency and Republicans maintain their House majority.”

“The federal government has for the first time declared that the certification of the presidential vote next year will be treated as a ‘national special security event’ — an acknowledgment that the once-routine part of the democratic process now carries special risk,” Politico reports. “The designation by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas places the Jan.

Standing in front of a dramatic blood red curtain with ominous lighting and draped in a demon red dress, Kim Guilfoyle gave a pathetically lame speech to a room full of Florida Republicans. So lame that it actually brought back traumatic memories of the Jeb Bush "please clap" speech that contributed to the death of his political aspirations. Political party? Party for Satan? Death of American exceptionalism? FIRE FIRE FIRE! I don't know.

"The new jobs of the South will be union jobs," said Tim Smith, a regional director for the United Auto Workers, after the union announced Tuesday that 1,000 workers at Ultium Cells in Spring Hill, Tennessee had voted to form a collective bargaining unit. The vote made the electric vehicle battery plant the second Ultium Cells workplace to join the UAW, and the second auto industry plant in the U.

Just as Republicans failed to vote for a bipartisan border bill after Donald J. Trump demanded they disregard it, he is now calling on his enablers to shut down the government over a bullshit narrative. It is already illegal for non-US citizens to vote, but Trump is claiming that a problem that doesn't exist is the problem, so he can claim that the election will be rigged.