Il-sen: 38% Giannoulias (d), 36% Kirk (r) (tribune 9/24-28)

Elon Musk's highly-publicized Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), intended to combat government inefficiency, has turned out to be little more than a renamed initiative from the Obama administration. This seems shady. Via International Business Times: Far from the vision Musk and President Donald Trump had promised, the agency is focused on software updates and federal workforce reductions rather than dismantling bureaucracy. The executive orders signed on Monday by Trump, one of his first major actions since retaking office, rebranded the United States Digital Service (USDS), a unit established after the 2013 launch of HealthCare.gov, as the "U.

House Dem leaders are bashing Yambo and his allies in the Capitol for supporting blanket clemency for the Capitol attackers. The Democrats say MAGAts are hypocrites for claiming to support law enforcement while also backing Trump’s decision to pardon more than 1,500 people who were prosecuted for the rampage, including the ones who attacked police officers.

Scott Jennings on CNN is like a soggy piece of wonder bread that was left outside at Trump's inauguration. The man couldn’t argue his way out of a parking ticket, yet there he is on CNN day-after-day spewing half-truths and full lies like they’re 30% off at MAGA mart. On a recent segment, Jennings just flailed as reporters, Democrats, the hosts, probably the also cameraman, just took him apart.

Donald signed a flurry of executive orders into place; some were expected, some were mind-blowing, and others were revealing. None of them will help to lower egg prices, though. All of them will, however, hurt the red states, too, probably more than the blue states. For example, Donald rescinded Handsome Old President Biden's EO to lower prescription drug prices. And then there's this from The New Republic:

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Rep. Gwen Moore sat down with the hosts of the Milwaukee-based talk show UpFront, during which time she talked about why she wasn't choosing to stay in Milwaukee for MLK Day and what she foresaw for the new session of Congress: HOST: Congresswoman Gwen Moore, who joins us now. Congresswoman, welcome back to UpFront. MOORE: Hey, thank you.