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The party is reevaluating its nominating practices that some warn could result in activist-driven sideshows.

White House staffers are losing their minds over media coverage pointing out that the president often falls asleep on camera. The Trump administration’s Rapid Response 47 X account spent much of Tuesday attacking CNN with photos and short videos of the network’s hosts blinking or looking down, facetiously claiming that they were sleeping or showing signs of decline. The schoolyard taunts began just after 12:30 p.m., taking aim at CNN personalities including Kate Bolduan, Kevin Liptak, Dana Bash, Jake Tapper (calling him FAKE TAPPER), and Brianna Keilar, posting photos of all of them with story chyrons about Trump’s health. Even guests who don’t work for the network but were interviewed about Trump’s sleeping habits, such as The Wall Street Journal’s Josh Dawsey and Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Jeremy Faust, were targeted.Earlier in the day, President Trump went to Walter Reed for his third medical checkup in 13 months. CNN has been covering the event, pointing to past incidents that raise concerns about the president’s health. Trump said Tuesday that “everything checked out PERFECTLY” at his visit, but did not offer more details.The White House press office has often resorted to trolling in the past, including using “your mom” taunts against reporters it disagrees with. White House communications director Steven Cheung has basically made hurling insults at reporters his full-time job, and called Democratic Senate staffer Rachel Cohen a “retard” last month.  It also does little to combat the indisputable evidence of Trump’s visible cognitive decline and his issues staying awake. At nearly every televised meeting during his second term as president, Trump can be seen dozing off as someone else speaks, whether it’s a member of his Cabinet or even a foreign leader. White House staffers can make all of the sarcastic social media posts they want, but all of us can plainly see Trump’s physical condition every time he’s on camera. 

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South Carolina has decided not to get involved in President Donald Trump’s redistricting war.The state Senate voted 24–20 Tuesday to leave their House districts alone for the upcoming midterm elections. Twelve Republicans broke ranks to join all Democrat state senators in the decision, which will likely save the state’s one blue seat held by Representative James Clyburn.A few Republican legislators, such as state Senator Richard Cash, changed their votes due to timing. Early voting in South Carolina primaries began on Tuesday. “Neither my conscience nor my common sense will allow me to stop an election that is already underway,” Cash said.The state Senate will now recess until June 10. State primaries take place a day prior, eliminating GOP hopes of gerrymandering before the midterms.Mid-decade redistricting was a rarity until Trump broke precedent in July 2025, when he called on Texas Governor Greg Abbot to redraw his state’s maps in order to benefit Republicans. The dutiful Abbot and Texas’s MAGA majority approved the change, kicking off a gerrymandering war. Republicans got an additional boost in April after the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act, allowing states to meddle with majority-Black and Latino House districts. Missouri, Florida, Tennessee, Ohio, and North Carolina have approved maps expected to create new red seats, while California and Utah have done the same on the blue side. Virginia voters approved a Democratic gerrymander before their state Supreme Court overturned it on May 8.South Carolina’s decision is a surprise rebuke to Trump. On May 14, Governor Henry McMaster called a special session to redistrict while under pressure from the Trump administration; it was widely accepted Clyburn’s seat would disappear. Republicans who voted to keep the maps as is may now find Trump endorsing their primary challengers in future elections, as the president continues to rage against anyone who dares advocate for fair elections.This story has been updated.

While the project will store clean energy, evidence is mounting that much of it will be used to power an AI data center.

Israel is also continuing its attack on Lebanon in what journalist Negar Mortazavi says is an effort to undermine talks.

Today, Bernie Sanders is one of the most important figures in American politics. As biographer Dan Chiasson puts it, Sanders is “arguably the most influential leftist politician in the modern history of the nation,” and he’s consistently ranked as one the most popular American leaders of anykind, alongside Barack Obama. He may not have prevailed in his 2016 or 2020 presidential candidacies (and it’s unlikely there will be another, given Sanders’ advanced age), but he left a permanent mark on the generation that campaigned for him. As Chiasson writes, “Bernie’s influence will be long and profound, as his enthusiastic voters age into power and influence.” Indeed, one of his democratic socialist devotees, Zohran Mamdani, has just been sworn in (by Sanders himself!) as mayor of New York City. But Sanders’ national prominence is a relatively recent development, and even committed leftists may not know the full story of what came before. Chiasson’s new book, Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician, is about Sanders’ first act, when in 1981 he improbably became the country’s only socialist mayor, just as the “Reagan Revolution” was sweeping the country. Today, Mamdani, Seattle’s Mayor Katie Wilson, and others are aiming to replicate something like what Sanders tried in tiny Burlington, Vermont. This makes Sanders’ origin story worthy of study, especially for those of us who want to know how the left can succeed.