Today’s Sift will be on the long side, both because a lot happened this week and because I’m about to take two weeks off.
There will be two featured posts: the first about Democrats’ strategy for the FY2026 budget, which has to involve a willingness to shut down the government, plus a message that identifies issues worth shutting down the government for. That should be out shortly.
The second concerns the run of court losses the Trump administration had this week, and the question of what it all means: Will the Supreme Court make up new legal doctrines that allow it to reverse the lower courts? If the Supreme Court does take a stand for the law and constitution, will Trump follow their orders? I’ll try to get that out by 11 EDT.
That still leaves quite a list of things for the weekly summary to cover: the Epstein victims rally, Trump declaring war on Chicago, the Navy sinking an alleged drug-smuggling boat and killing its 11 passengers, the RFK Jr. Senate hearing, another bad jobs report, and a US senator giving an ethno-nationalist speech. I’ll try to get that posted by 1.
The Weekly Sift 