Susan Rinkunas

1 week ago | jezebel.com | Susan Rinkunas

Welcome back to Barf Bag. Weeks after President Donald Trump suggested that children should be less materialistic if his tariffs result in higher toy prices, a GOP Senator chose to remind voters of their own mortality during a conversation about healthcare cuts. These are the world’s worst mindfulness influencers. At a town hall on Friday morning, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) faced constituents angry over her support for Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” that would cut Medicaid and SNAP food assistance.

1 week ago | jezebel.com | Susan Rinkunas

On Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court put the state’s near-total abortion ban back into effect by ordering a lower court judge to lift two rulings that had blocked its enforcement. It’s the latest blow in a long saga of trying to restore access in the state following the fall of Roe v. Wade and after voters passed Amendment 3. Abortion providers say they’ve halted care in response, though advocates plan to seek new injunctions to allow abortions to resume.

2 weeks ago | jezebel.com | Susan Rinkunas

Welcome back to Barf Bag. In early April, as voters were screaming for elected Democrats to do literally anything to thwart President Donald Trump‘s agenda, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) held the Senate floor for a record 25 hours with a speech decrying the administration’s early actions to destroy federal agencies and defy the rule of law. Democrats had been enraged that Sen.

2 weeks ago | jezebel.com | Susan Rinkunas

Just before 7 a.m. on Thursday, the House passed a spending bill that would cut taxes for the wealthiest people and companies in the U.S., while slashing programs that help those working to make ends meet. It’s what President Donald Trump has for months been calling the “big, beautiful bill,” which of course means it’s ugly and vicious.

3 weeks ago | jezebel.com | Susan Rinkunas

Welcome back to Barf Bag. Conservatives love to accuse Democrats of having Trump Derangement Syndrome, or a reflexive negative reaction to anything that Donald Trump does, but this week’s dust-up over a social media post proves that they are their own kind of brainwashed.