Matt McDermott

To recap: The guy who ran on lowering costs, ending foreign wars, and releasing the Epstein files has instead illegally rolled out tariffs that raise prices, brought us to the brink of war in Iran, and forced his DOJ to hide the Epstein files.

The Supreme Court rules 6–3 that Donald Trump has been illegally taxing Americans, and instead of complying with the law he immediately imposes a new 10% tax on all imported goods. It’s open defiance of the Constitution and another bill handed straight to working families.

Seems important to note that last summer the Trump administration emphatically claimed there was “no evidence” to justify investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files.

So were they wrong, or were they lying?

Just an astoundingly bad AP poll for Trump

• 36% overall job approval
• 72% disapprove of Greenland threats
• 66% describe economy as doing poorly
• 60% unfavorable view of ICE

Cannot stress enough: the vast majority of Americans think this presidency is a failure.

It is simply journalistic malpractice at this point to treat anything Trump officials say as factual. Even in sworn court filings, under penalty of perjury, officials have repeatedly been caught lying and hiding evidence to gaslight the American people.

Trump won on one promise: fix the economy.

Two years later, job growth has cratered and Americans feel worse than they did before he took office.

Voters will remember in November.

Hard to take national security lectures seriously from an administration that confused a party balloon for a foreign drone and erroneously shut down airspace over a major metropolitan area for a week.

It’s hard to even watch Pam Bondi’s behavior today. Chaos was clearly the strategy. But Americans have real questions about the Epstein scandal and when the Attorney General responds with childish contempt, it raises the obvious question: why is she protecting pedophiles?

Fixing Transit in Providence Requires More Than a New DOT Director - The Providence Eye Peter Alviti’s resignation last week as director of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation marks the end of a long and troubled chapter for the agency.  For many Rhode Islanders — especially th...

Rhode Island was rocked last week by the resignation of embattled RIDOT Director Peter Alviti.

In @thepvdeye.bsky.social, I make the case that this is a rare opportunity to structurally fix transit governance and restore independent leadership at @ripta.com.

Thanks @phileil.bsky.social for the opportunity to share some thoughts on how we can use this as an opportunity to make necessary systemic change to Rhode Island’s transit governance!

Fixing Transit in Providence Requires More Than a New DOT Director - The Providence Eye Peter Alviti’s resignation last week as director of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation marks the end of a long and troubled chapter for the agency.  For many Rhode Islanders — especially th...

New this morning from @mattmfm.bsky.social in the @thepvdeye.bsky.social opinion section: "As the governor searches for a new DOT director, lawmakers should act this session to revisit and repeal the 2023 change that made the RIDOT director the chair of RIPTA’s governing board."

Really not sure folks are fully processing the fact that the President of the United States trying to arrest six Democrats in Congress is an unprecedented act of political persecution. There’s been nothing like this in U.S. history.

At least one Republican clearly thinks Howard Lutnick needs to resign for lying about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. 👀

Enough is enough: Donald Trump using the Department of Justice to target six sitting members of Congress crosses a red line for American democracy, and Democrats cannot provide a single vote that legitimizes this unprecedented constitutional crisis.

Trump administration fails to secure indictment in connection with Democrats involved in 'illegal orders' video President Donald Trump had accused six Democratic lawmakers of "seditious behavior" after they urged members of the military and intelligence communities to refuse unlawful orders.

Breaking News: NBC News reports the Trump White House tried to get a grand jury today to indict six sitting Democratic members of Congress.

This is a five-alarm constitutional crisis.

Congresswoman @balint.house.gov reviewed the unredacted Epstein files yesterday and said they contradict Trump’s claim that he expelled Epstein from Mar-a-Lago.

She made clear, “That is not true. It’s a lie.”

Watching leaders resign worldwide over Epstein connections while Republicans rally to protect Howard Lutnick, after he clearly lied about doing business with a pedophile, is one of the most grotesque moral failures in modern politics.

Refusing to call Donald Trump a convicted felon and court adjudicated rapist is one of the small acts of bias towards Republicans that the press engages in.

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The right is investing heavily in organizing young men. Democrats need to get serious about fighting back.

@men4choice.bsky.social is showing how it’s done — organizing young men to fight for abortion rights.

Give ’em a follow and check out their work.

Not one to give Republicans strategic advice, but siloing yourself into ideological echo chambers while rejecting shared American cultural moments like the Super Bowl and the Olympics is a remarkable way to marginalize yourself politically.

In the past 72 hours, Donald Trump has posted a racist cartoon of the Obamas as apes, said it’s “very hard” to root for American Olympians, and complained that the Super Bowl halftime show “doesn’t represent” America.

Halftime Show: “Together, we are America.”

Trump: “It is affront to the greatness of America. This show is a slap in the face to our country.”

Yikes: the alternative TPUSA “All-American” Halftime Show had fewer than 14,000 views.

Closing jumbotron Super Bowl Halftime Show message from Bad Bunny: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”

This is, unironically, the queerest Super Bowl halftime show ever — and it’s incredible.

Not sure we can really enjoy the Super Bowl unless we get a photo of RFK Jr. enjoying his yogurt snack.

How inflation is hitting Super Bowl parties Consider cutting back on wings and soda.

Axios suggests “cutting back on wings and soda for the game” as Super Bowl watch party staples see double digit price hikes versus last year.

After Trump promised to lower prices on Day One, Americans are now being told to ration party snacks.

Worth stating plainly: when Olympic athletes criticize the Trump agenda as damaging to American ideals and the GOP responds with threats and calls to silence them, it literally validates the criticism.

Right wing free speech absolutism is the most dishonest grift in American politics.

Nothing exposes the fraudulence of Fox News’ culture war beat like whipping up a scandal over Obama eating arugula, only to nod along with MAGA guys about yogurt as a Super Bowl snack.