Greg Dworkin

Newtown

Contributing Editor at Daily Kos

Contributing editor, Daily Kos. Recently retired doctor. Personal account, reflecting my own view. https://t.co/MFW4T52r3U @demfromct.bsky.social

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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Amidst the Musk feud, Trump continues to screw his own voters

3 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

They served the nation. Now, these veterans say they’re protesting to save it. Today in D.C., thousands of veterans are rallying against Trump’s cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs and his slashing of staff throughout the government. “A lot of the people I served with are 100 percent disabled,” said Radcliffe, 68, who spent two decades in the Navy. “What if they lose their care?
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: An unhinged pair of losers go after each other

3 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

Oh, sure. They make money. But on a human and personal level, they’re both big time losers. The open acrimony between the two men comes after the billionaire denounced President Trump’s signature domestic policy bill as an “abomination.” President Trump on Thursday threatened to cut the billions of dollars in federal contracts and tax subsidies for Elon Musk’s companies, escalating a feud that unfurled on social media in remarkably public and rapid fashion.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: When besties break up

3 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

I’m Normally a Mild Guy. Here’s What’s Pushed Me Over the Edge. Elite snobbery has a tendency to set me off, and here are two guys with advanced degrees telling us that regular soldiers never fight partly out of some sense of moral purpose, some commitment to a larger cause — the men who froze at Valley Forge, the men who stormed the beaches at Normandy and Guadalcanal. But that’s not what really made me angry.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Joni Ernst doubles down on stepping in crap

3 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

Joni Ernst posts sarcastic apology video following comments that 'we all are going to die'• Sen. Joni Ernst's response to a constituent's concern about Medicaid cuts, "we all are going to die," sparked controversy. • Ernst now has posted an apology video on Instagram, apparently filmed in a cemetery, in which she sarcastically reiterates her point.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: When the left hand and the right hand don't agree

4 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Covid shots were coming off the childhood vaccine schedule. A memo sent by the agency Friday contradicted that. The agency kept Covid shots on the schedule for children 6 months to 17 years old with a new condition.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: When you're losing, scream at the refs. It doesn't work, but YOLO.

4 weeks ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

White House reactions to unfavorable court rulings appeared designed to undermine confidence in the judiciary. Mr. Friedman said there was a political risk for Mr. Trump if he refused to abide by court rulings. Already, the administration has declined to carry out court orders seeking to return a deported man from El Salvador and turn around deportation flights. “Historically and certainly in the last century, presidents have not done well politically by defying the courts,” Mr. Friedman said.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: It's not you that's nuts. It's the White House.

1 month ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees. We are throwing the most advanced health science research system into the sea and have turned over our public health infrastructure to quacks and crooks. We are destroying our prosperity to sate the president’s desire to play at 19th century political economy.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: When we was fab

1 month ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

The Trump administration’s embrace of nativism is as shameful as it is self-destructive. If the Trump administration’s sudden assault on thousands of foreign students legally studying at Harvard seems unprecedented, it’s because it is. If the abrupt abrogation of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans legally living and working in the United States seems unprecedented, it’s because it is.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Not every conservative loves the Big Ugly Bill

1 month ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

The Megabill Is a Total Bust, According to the GOP’s Leading Economic Populist Oren Cass says the Republican Party still has a long way to go in achieving its promise under Donald Trump “I liken it to a death march through a series of choices that nobody really wanted to be making,” said Oren Cass, the chief economist of the right-leaning think tank American Compass and a leading proponent of conservative economic populism among allies of Donald Trump.
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: How elections are won-and lost

1 month ago | dailykos.com | Greg Dworkin

The 2024 election was even weirder than we thought An expansive new report challenges early theories about how Donald Trump won. This is where Catalist’s estimates, which blend complex voter file modeling with large-scale survey data, provide a major boost.