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Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, will request the House Ethics Committee to investigate domestic abuse allegations made by his ex-wife to try to exonerate himself.

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Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) on Tuesday said he will file paperwork to have the House Ethics Committee investigate him as he faces increasing pressure to resign or drop out of his reelection race over allegations of domestic abuse. “In light of all the renewed interest in my family affairs I am going to file my…

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A SpaceX rocket is on track to crash into the moon on Wednesday at 2:35 a.m. EDT. The 8,800-pound SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will collide with the moon at a speed of 5,400 mph, experts say. The impact will create a crater spanning approximately 89 feet, or 27 meters, wide. The crash is expected to…

Donald Trump fielded a question about the war with Iran during an unrelated White House event on Monday afternoon, and as is often the case, the president responded with a meandering, five-minute answer that touched on a variety of subjects that had nothing to do with the initial subject.

But it’s where this particular tangent ended up that matters.

Trump: “Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They’re all dirty. They’re filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It’s really all of them.”

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-08-03T18:28:57.857Z

“Like, look at the blue cities,” the Republican said. “What do they have in common, aside from massive crime? Much more crime. The Republicans have very little crime. But what do the blue cities have in common? And also, you can say this with nations, when they go bad, the blue cities have something in common— crime, high crime, vicious, violent crime — but what do they have in common?

“They’re all dirty. They’re filthy, dirty. Their streets are dirty, their streets smell, their storefronts are broken, their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty, and I don’t want to mention any specific city. It’s really all of them.”

In case that weren’t quite enough, the president soon after added that he considers cities led by Democratic officials to be “disgusting.”

For those who keep an eye on Trump’s day-to-day activities, the rhetoric probably wasn’t too surprising, but his tirade was a timely reminder that the incumbent president doesn’t just favor cities and states that voted for him; he also expresses routine contempt for communities filled with Americans he sees as unworthy of resources, support or even some modicum of respect.

I’m trying to imagine what would happen if Barack Obama or Joe Biden publicly declared their disgust and disdain for Republican-led areas of their own country. It’s a safe bet the reaction would be overwhelming, and for good reason: Presidents are supposed to represent the interests of the United States, not the parts filled with voters they like.

Trump, however, shares his revulsion toward many American cities and states with such frequency that it has become little more than the background noise of our civic lives.

Worse, it’s not just a matter of baseless public condemnations. Last week, we learned that Trump overrode officials in his own administration to deny federal disaster aid to Democratic-led states. Less than a week earlier, Team Trump acknowledged in a court filing that it scrapped federal energy grants to blue states, terminating funds “based solely” on political criteria, targeting projects in Democratic-led states where voters opposed the GOP ticket in 2024.

Team Trump has also curtailed federal healthcare funds, but only for states the White House doesn’t like. Team Trump has also tried to freeze $10 billion in funding for social services programs in five states, but only blue states were affected. Team Trump has also launched a supposed crackdown on fraud in social insurance programs, but its sole focus is on Democratic cities and states.

It’s not that the president is failing to bring the country together, it’s that he seems wholly disinterested in even trying.

During Richard Nixon’s second term, Patrick Buchanan was credited with arguing in a memo, “If we tear the country in half, we can pick up the bigger half.” Nearly six decades later, it’s a concept a different Republican president is embracing with a bit too much enthusiasm.

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EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx has found his next starring vehicle in Deadlocked, an action film that has landed at Amazon MGM Studios for worldwide distribution. Directed by Nikhil Bhat, the Indian filmmaker behind the Hindi-language action-thriller Kill, Deadlocked follows a grieving former Marine serving jury duty who is forced back into action when the trial of the century […]

Source: Deadline.

Two of the three victims killed in a shooting at an Idaho In-N-Out Burger restaurant on Saturday have been identified by their families.

Source: ABC News

Health officials in the U.K. are reporting a “sharp rise” in cyclosporiasis cases among some travelers returning from Mexico.

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The Democratic Party has shifted to be more liberal over the past decade, with self-identified liberals now making up a majority of the party, according to a new survey. The Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Tuesday ahead of Michigan’s closely watched Democratic Senate primary, found that 71 percent of Democrats now describe themselves as “liberal” — up…

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“We are a great country, an unselfish country, a compassionate country.”

— Robert F. Kennedy in his final speech, June 1968

In the early morning hours of June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy won the California presidential primary. He took the stage at Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel and pointed to results in Colorado, Idaho, and Iowa as proof that working-class Democrats — and Americans — “wanted change.” RFK was shot minutes later and passed away the next day. The Democratic Party’s disconnect from working Americans has only grown more vast since the tragic events of June 1968.

Fifty-eight years later, Tim Barnicle writes that Democrats are ready to reconnect with working Americans again. He joined “Morning Joe” today to discuss his new column “Prove It: Democrats and the Working Class”. His Substack piece explains why the path to winning runs through the same coalition Kennedy put together in 1968.

Willie Geist: RFK was the brother of a president, a former attorney general, a senator from New York. How did he become the anti-establishment candidate?

TB: He left the Johnson administration, ran for Senate in New York, and watched the party drift away from working-class solutions. As the Tet Offensive escalated, he had a real crisis of confidence and moved toward an insurgent lane. It mirrors what you’re seeing in the Democratic Party today. 

Willie Geist: Is this a left-versus-right fight within the party, or something else?

TB: It’s an up-versus-down appeal to working-class voters who have been bleeding away from the party for over a decade. In 2024, Democrats ceded 56% of working-class voters to Trump. If they can’t get that class of voters back, they’re going to continue to lose.

Jonathan Lemire: RFK reached out to Latino voters, to Black voters, to white working-class voters. How do Democrats win them back? 

TB: Sixty-six percent of Americans support universal health coverage. Sixty-seven percent feel the economy is going in the wrong direction. The solutions are there, but moderate party leaders need to look in the mirror — because their disapproval rating is around 60 percent, same as Trump’s.

Eugene Robinson: To what extent has the working class itself changed since 1968?

TB: It’s been hollowed out. More than half of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency expense, and 60% live paycheck to paycheck. It’s not just a Democratic or Republican problem — it’s an American problem.

Willie Geist: Trump has made inroads with working-class voters. How do Democrats respond?

TB: He’s made cultural appeals on racial lines that have been politically beneficial to him, but not to the voters themselves. That’s the problem Democrats have to solve now — not just how to appeal to those voters, but how to provide real solutions that bring them back.

This conversation has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity.

CHART OF THE DAY

WHAT THEY SAID

LISA RUBIN ON THE DOJ’S WEAPONIZATION FUND ORDER

“Nothing that Todd Blanche did yesterday eviscerates or even modifies that settlement agreement. This is really nothing more than me scribbling something on a napkin, handing it to you, and you saying that it has the force of a binding written order.”

JONATHAN MARTIN ON MICHIGAN

“It’ll still be the same fight in the 2060s — the Bernie vs. Hillary proxy war. It hasn’t changed. But the bottom line today is that Abdul El-Sayed is the superior candidate who ran a superior campaign, and that shows. The deeper issue is that winning a primary is fine, but you’ve got to win a general in a battleground state like Michigan.”

VOTING IS ON IN MICHIGAN, KANSAS, MISSOURI, VIRGINIA, AND WASHINGTON. HERE’S WHAT WE’RE WATCHING.

• In the Michigan Senate Democratic primary, Rep. Haley Stevens, who represents the party establishment, is facing a strong challenge from progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Democrats see the race as the night’s biggest test of how much support the progressive movement is gaining this election cycle.

• In Missouri, another progressive Democrat is on the ballot. Former Rep. Cori Bush wants her district to send her back to the House as she runs against the incumbent who knocked her out of her seat in the last Democratic primary.

• Kansas is a vulnerable state for Democrats, with Gov. Laura Kelly reaching the end of her second and final term. Republicans have a chance to reclaim the governor’s office after eight years of Democratic control. Kelly’s chosen successor, state Sen. Ethan Corson, has struggled to distinguish himself from his Democratic rivals, while the state’s Republican Party has shifted toward the MAGA movement after shedding much of its moderate wing.

• Tonight’s results in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District could set up a rematch between Republican incumbent Rep. Jen Kiggans and former Rep. Elaine Luria, a Democrat who served on the House Jan. 6 committee before losing her seat to Kiggans in the 2022 midterms. 

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On the Toronto set of Sarah Polley’s forthcoming adaptation of “The Bell Jar,” Eilish has gone full 1950s glam.

Source: Vogue

The 56-year-old, who shot to prominence in 1991 musical comedy film The Commitments, died in a motorcycle crash last week.

Source: BBC.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham responds to Archie Goodburn’s impassioned plea for more money and resources to be put into brain cancer research by inviting the Scottish swimmer to a personal meeting.

Source: BBC.