News On Tap For Monday, August 4, 2025

Time To Fight

Your "News On Tap" today is full of fight - and for once, Democrats are landing a few punches. From the Redistricting Wars, to Schumer & Senate Dems scoring a win, Democrats may finally be listening to their voters. Plus, we’ve got the latest on Trump's fascist push, the Trump/Epstein scandal, the many wars of the Right, Gaza, elections, entertainment news, & more. Plus, Brooklyn Dad Defiant will join us with some advice for Dems, Indys, & non-Trump Repubs on how to fight dirty and win. But first…

First Round - It’s Go Time, Democrats. LFG.

The Redistricting Wars Are Here

• Texas Democrats Head To Illinois, Massachusetts, & New York To Deny Republicans A Quorum On Redistricting, With Help From Gov. J.B. Pritzker

• Texas Tribune: Denying Quorum Has Been A Texas Political Strategy, For Both Parties, Since 1870

• David Daley: How Republicans Hope To Gerrymander Their Way To A Midterm Victory In The U.S. House

• Republican-Controlled U.S. Supreme Court Signals They May Rule Next Term On The Constitutionality Of The Voting Rights Act To Protect Minority Voters

• Trump DOJ's Requests For Voter Data In 19 States, Mostly Democratic-Led, Raise Alarms

Democrats Are Fighting Back

• DNC Chair Ken Martin Says Democrats Across The U.S. Are ‘Absolutely’ Ready To Fight Back Against Republican Redistricting

• Schumer & Senate Dems Get A Big Win, As Senate Heads Home With No Deal To Speed Confirmations; An Irate Trump Tells Schumer To 'Go To Hell'

• New AP-NORC Poll: Many Democrats See Their Party As 'Weak' Or 'Ineffective" And Democratic Voter Now Want Their Party To Stand Up & Fight

Second Round - This Is What MAGA Voted For

Fascism Is Here

• Trump Fired America’s Economic Data Collector. History Shows The Perils Of Similar Actions. [Gift Link]

• Nobel-Winning Economist George Akerlof: Why Trump’s Meddling In The Bureau Of Labor Statistics Matters [Gift Link]

• Trump DOJ's Office Of Special Counsel Launches Investigation Into Ex-Trump Prosecutor Jack Smith Over Alleged Hatch Act Violations

• Greg Sargent: Newly Leaked Memo Shows Trump’s Domestic Use Of Military Set To Get Worse

• Newly Revealed Campaign Finance Filing Shows Massive Scale Of Corruption In Trump’s Pay-For-Access Operation [Gift Link]

The Trump/Epstein Scandal Rolls On

• Trump Admin Broke Rules To Waive Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status So She Could Be Moved To A Minimum Security Camp In Texas

• Joan Walsh: Did Trump Know What Epstein “Stole” Virginia Giuffre For?

Third Round - The Many Wars Of The Right

Trump's War on The Economy

• Trump's Tariffs Are Set To Go Into Effect This Week — And Cost U.S. Consumers, Heavily

• David Dayen: Trump’s Tariffs Are Kleptocracy In Action

Immigration Wars

• Reality Wins A Round As Trump's DOJ Walks Back The White House’s Goal To Arrest 3,000 Immigrants Per Day

• ICE Crackdown Is Putting Afghans Who Aided U.S. War Efforts In Danger Of Deportation Back To Afghanistan

War On Education

• Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Capitulation Deal With Trump

• Trump Went to War With Ivy League Colleges. Community Colleges Are Now The Ones Being Hit.

Battles On Capitol Hill

• Republicans Get A Small Win, As Senate Confirms Former Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro As Top Federal Prosecutor For DC

• Schumer & Jeffries Demand Republican Congressional Leaders Meet To Try To Avoid Sept. 30 Government Shutdown Deadline

• Congress Is Now On Summer Break. Funding 'Chaos' Awaits When They Return.

Fourth Round - More News To Drink About

Election Land

• Extremist Republican Rep. Nancy Mace Launches Bid For South Carolina Governor

• Former Univ. Of Tennessee Football Coach Derek Dooley Launches Republican Challenge Of Sen. Jon Ossoff For U.S. Senate

The Disaster In Gaza

• Israeli Attack On Red Cross/Red Crescent Society's Gaza HQ Condemned By Global Health Organizations

• Polls Confirm Americans Don't Buy Netanyahu’s Lie That There Is No Hunger Crisis In Gaza

Fifth Round - Entertainment & More

Rest In Peace

• Loni Anderson, Beloved Star Of ‘WKRP In Cincinnati,’ Dies At 79

Media Matters

• Corporation For Public Broadcasting Forced To Begin To Shut Down Following Rescissions By The Republican Congress

• Jimmy Kimmel Begins Emmys Ad Campaign, Saying He's Voting For Colbert and ‘The Late Show’ Amid CBS Cancellation

Entertainment & More

• Box Office: ‘Fantastic Four’ Stays No. 1 But Tumbles 66% To $40M; The Bad Guys 2” Opens To $22.8M, While “The Naked Gun” Launches To $17M

• MLB Speedway Classic Game Braves Vs. Reds, Delayed One Day For Rain, Still Sets Attendance Record At Bristol Motor Speedway

• Jump Ball: Ex-NBA Owner Eyeing Bid To Keep WNBA's Sun In Connecticut As Boston Group Seeks To Move Team As Part Of Sale

Your Bar Regular Today

Brooklyn Dad Defiant, AKA Majid M. Padellan, activist, blogger, & author, will join us at the bar tonight for a little dancing, a little drinking, and a lot of talk about how Democrats can get back in the fight and win, which is the focus of his latest posting on his Substack, titled “Democrats, It's Time to Get Dirty: How to Beat Trump and Win Back America.”

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