Jessica Tarlov
@jessicatarlov
Liberal talking head (co-host of The Five on Fox News) and excellent mom if I do say so myself. Democracy enthusiast. Perusing the blue skies.
Karoline Leavitt is getting glowing reviews of her performance as press secretary when she dodged, attacked, and obfuscated for the most part. A few examples of the lies we heard: claiming the US spent $50M on condoms for Gaza, calling the Epstein files a 'hoax,'
Trump’s threats are a big yawn. This is reality today: We've used virtually all of our long-range precision missiles fighting Iran, per Reuters. Every time this kind of leak drops, the response is 'fake news' and 'treason.'
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New polling should terrify Republicans: Jon Ossoff (Georgia) + 13 Roy Cooper (North Carolina) +9 Josh Turek (Iowa) +4 James Talarico (TX) +3 Even Greg Abbott is only +1
The GOP is acting like the most extreme DSA positions like abolishing prisons are mainstream Democratic policies when they themselves run away from the most extreme GOP positions like they’re the plague.
Nobody believes Trump anymore. Not "locked and loaded." Not that diplomacy is "going well." Not the bridge and power plant claims. And the oil market doesn't believe him either. I told you prices would climb back up once those waivers got yanked. They did.
The hypocrisy knows no bounds. Socialism is bad but it’s a-okay if Trump takes stakes in American companies like US Steel and Intel. The words mean nothing anymore. Only the team does.
I know how much fun the Democratic civil war is to talk about especially on the right. But the real 2026 battle isn't Dem vs. socialist, it's Dem vs. GOP in swing districts, and a new Fox poll has Dems up 53-46 overall and 59-41 in close counties.
Political violence is wrong—full stop. Left-wing violence is rising, but the data still shows right-wing violence is still more prevalent. When Tom Homan comes out and says that he’s concerned we’re going to have to bury an ICE agent, it feels totally disconnected from reality for most.
Mocking the Democratic candidates in Maine may feel good now, but reality it’s a very blue environment and Susan Collins is six years older than when she beat Gideon and has been voting with Trump 95% of the time. She gave the go ahead on an extra 70 billion for ICE with no guardrails.
So this happened...My first I Disagree book event. And it went GREAT! Massive thank you to Sam Potolicchio, Georgetown University, Mannheim Business School, and Essec Business School for having me and the incredible engagement and reception.
We were promised 24–48 hours. Then a few weeks. Then a few months. We've had "bridge day" and "power plant day" multiple times. Every day it's "Iran wants a deal." Every day it's "the war is almost over." At some point, enough.
Pick your poison: ICE is rogue or dangerously under trained. Neither good. We’ve seen this movie before in Minneapolis The shootings in Maine and Houston reveal a huge problem for DHS, Tom Homan, and Republicans like Susan Collins who decided to give ICE another $70 billion with no guardrails.
Some more thoughts on the mess that is the Maine Senate race. Listen to it all, but want to underscore that Republicans don’t get to take a moral victory lap here. They’re still the party of Trump.
4th of July was supposed to be a nonpartisan event celebrating America. Parts of it was. Trump taking America250 and pushing it aside, however, was anything but.
Want to know what dilutes patriotism? A system that’s rigged against the American. And who can fault Americans for looking at a president flying around in a $400 million Qatari jet or making $2.2 billion in his first year in office and thinking ‘hey this place doesn’t actually seem all that fair.’
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Are the divisions in the Democratic party real? Of course. But we also heard that AOC and Ilhan Omar would destroy Democrats’ electoral chances in 2018 and we won 43 seats that year and Trump was more popular than he is now.
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NYC is deep blue, so DSA-style candidates can win here. And it was undoubtedly a great night for Mamdani. The real test, though, is whether that politics can win swing districts and help Democrats get to 218 seats.
Trump was in Pennsylvania today. Here's what voters face: • Higher costs from inflation and tariffs • Billions in lost tax revenue from mass deportations • Hundreds of thousands losing healthcare because of Medicaid cuts and reduced ACA subsidies
Is diplomacy better than nothing? Of course. But reality is Iran closes the strait when it feels like it and we just gave them a huge concession in selling their oil on the open market. Rolled back 40 years of restrictions!
The only folks who like this deal are the Iranian regime. The immediate oil sanctions relief is music to their ears with 300 billion to follow. Iran is already flexing with shutting down the strait and accepting applications for passage after the 60 days is up.
Texas is still red, but running a campaign on James Talarico shares a bank account with his mom, is maybe a vegan, is maybe a little bit gay but also has a hot Latina girlfriend, isn’t really a winning message.
The race is Maine is about change — just like races all over the country. The facts are that Susan Collins votes with Trump 95% of the time, backs his judicial nominees, and then campaigns as an independent voice.
There are Democrats who have concerns about Platner, but the idea that we’ll be lectured by folks that support Donald Trump and want Texans to choose Ken Paxton is ludicrous. The man’s wife left him on biblical grounds!
Donald Trump needs a midterms deal more than a nuclear deal and whatever happens in the next few days should be understood in that context. It’s why he is about to give Iran a ton of money to save face as Trump’s approval ratings are as low as ever and our farmers are begging for fertilizer.
Stop pretending this is about cracking down on fraud when Trump literally let people who stole hundreds of millions in Medicare and Medicaid money walk free. One guy stole $1.3 billion and served 14 months of a 20-year sentence. When a reporter asked the DOJ about it, they refused to answer.
The MAGA victory lap on getting Massie out when they had to spend 35 million and won by 10 in a Trump 35 district seems misguided. Trump has a 34% approval rating. He’s -18 with Independents and Democrats are up 11 for the midterms.
The Trump administration says it is going to go after fraud. It should redirect its attention to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Everything is a scam to get richer. He’s made $3 billion since coming back into office!