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1 week ago | 
thinkbigpicture.substack.com | Todd Beeton
A poll released just after last year’s election showed a strong correlation between voters’ level of political news consumption and the candidate they supported for president.
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1 week ago | 
thinkbigpicture.substack.com | Todd Beeton
As we’ve now crossed the 100-day mark of Donald Trump’s second term, it’s worth noting that it’s not just a milepost for Trump but also for the Democratic Party. The party of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, completely shut out of government at the federal level since January 20, has had 100-plus days to prove itself capable of leading the resistance to MAGA fascism. So how are the Dems doing? While Trump has had a decidedly disastrous first 100 days, for Democrats, the news is a bit more mixed.
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3 weeks ago | 
thinkbigpicture.substack.com | Todd Beeton
Whoopsie! Our bad!That may as well be Trump 2.0’s catchphrase. The incompetence of Trump and his administration was wholly predictable, of course—and in fact was widely predicted. After all, Trump not only had a disastrous first term, his nominees to top posts this term have lacked basic qualifications. As I touched on back in February, by nominating such epically unqualified people to his administration, Trump was trolling us.
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1 month ago | 
thinkbigpicture.substack.com | Todd Beeton
Our first clue that Donald Trump was going to take us off the cliff with his new tariff rollout, announced yesterday, was during a Fox News interview last week.
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1 month ago | 
thinkbigpicture.substack.com | Todd Beeton |Jay Kuo
Last week, Donald Trump’s trade advisor Peter Navarro went on Fox and declared with a straight face: “Tariffs are tax cuts.” Such Orwellian spin was brazen even for the serial liars currently occupying the White House.
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1 month ago | 
thinkbigpicture.substack.com | Todd Beeton
Tomorrow, April 1, is Election Day, but don’t be fooled: the stakes are high in these early Spring elections, particularly in Wisconsin and Florida. In Wisconsin, liberal Dane County circuit court judge Susan Crawford will face off against conservative Waukesha County circuit court judge Brad Schimel for a coveted seat on the Wisconsin State Supreme Court. The winner will determine the ideological majority on the court.
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1 month ago | 
thinkbigpicture.substack.com | Todd Beeton
On March 20, Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin dismantling the federal Department of Education. Or as the Trump White House’s Orwellian press release puts it:President Donald J.
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1 month ago | 
thinkbigpicture.substack.com | Todd Beeton
Last week, Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin to dismantle the Department of Education, a step toward achieving one of Project 2025’s major wishlist items and a decades-long fever dream of the conservative movement. But what does that mean? Can an entire department just be disappeared without any input or authorization from Congress? Trump sure thinks so.
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1 month ago | 
thinkbigpicture.substack.com | Todd Beeton
In 2024, Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, spent $277 million of his fortune to elect Donald Trump and Republicans around the country. Now, with unfettered access to federal government systems under the guise of rooting out “fraud, waste, and abuse” through his fake “Department” of Government Efficiency,” Musk got quite the return on his investment. So why would he stop there?
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1 month ago | 
thinkbigpicture.substack.com | Todd Beeton |Jay Kuo
Elon Musk spent hundreds of millions of dollars to elect Donald Trump last year and so far he’s gotten a lot of bang for his buck. So why would he stop there? Musk has made it very clear that he intends to leverage his limitless fortune to buy more elections for Republican candidates, and the first test of that—a Wisconsin Supreme Court race—is coming up on April 1.
