TOP O’ THE MORNIN’

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“I don’t trust you. I don’t trust – I don’t trust a lot of people. I don’t trust you,” Trump said. “Look at you. You come in all shootin’ for bear. You’re so happy to do the interview.”

AOC joked about a recent on social media last week that sparked rumors about her political future and sidestepped the conversation.

Two extremely annoying busybodies—masked up, of course, and sporting the latest in campus rage chic—stepped in, repeatedly putting themselves in between the perps and the ICE officers, clearly in an effort to prevent the officers from doing their job. 

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I’m all about protecting the children, and I recognize our right to keep and bear arms is how we do it.

They have been cooking stories longer than some of our readers have been alive, as I once recounted when given the honor of writing a foreword to Bernie Goldberg’s seminal book . 

It was vintage Trump. Period. And the media was once again reminded why he’s president and not Kamala Harris.

If she keeps this up, and we’re sure she will, we may even end up with an honest and effective DOJ Civil Rights Division. 

WHAT’S ON TAP?

Today on Capitol Hill…

Wednesday promises to be another busy day on the Hill with multiple meetings and hearings set, including: 

• House Veterans’ Affairs, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee — Answering the Call: Examining VA’s Mental Health Policies
• House Science, Space, and Technology, Energy Subcommittee — Risky Business Part 2: The DOE Loan Guarantee Program
• House Foreign Affairs — The Need for an Authorized State Department
• House Appropriations, Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee — Oversight hearing of the U.S. Postal Service
• House Natural Resources, Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Subcommittee — Oversight Hearing titled “Advancing Federal Water and Hydropower Development: A Stakeholder Perspective.”
• House Energy and Commerce, Communications and Technology Subcommittee — Global Networks at Risk: Securing the Future of Communications Infrastructure
• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Business meeting to consider S.558, to provide for the consideration of a definition of antisemitism set forth by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance for the enforcement of Federal antidiscrimination laws concerning education programs or activities, and S.163, to require institutions of higher education participating in Federal student aid programs to share information about title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including a link to the webpage of the Office for Civil Rights where an individual can submit a complaint regarding discrimination in violation of such title
• Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation — (I won’t include the entire description because it’s a mile long, but the key aspect): Business meeting to consider S.29, to make daylight saving time permanent, S.191
• Senate Appropriations — Hearings to examine biomedical research, focusing on keeping America’s edge in innovation
• House Armed Services, Military Personnel Subcommittee — Military Department Personnel Chiefs: Personnel Posture

In addition, several House committees are meeting to continue their work preparing the details of the budget reconciliation package. 

And hopefully, the Democrat senators will be awake for their duties on Wednesday. I hear tell they were busy pitching a fit Tuesday night over Trump’s first 100 days in office. 

White House What’s Up

Speaking of those first 100 days, President Donald Trump had a big day Tuesday, celebrating the successes of his second administration, capping it off with a rally in Macomb County, Michigan. Wednesday looks to be quite busy as well, as he’ll participate in a Cabinet meeting in the late morning. In the afternoon, he’ll participate in the swearing-in ceremony for U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Warren Stephens. Later in the afternoon, he’ll deliver remarks on “Investing in America.” And then in the evening, he’ll participate in a NewsNation town hall with Chris Cuomo. 

Full Court Press…

Wednesday marks the last official day of oral arguments before the Supreme Court (though they have the birthright citizenship case(s) set for May 15). The court today will hear the consolidated cases of OK Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville School v. Drummond on the questions of:

1. Whether the academic and pedagogical choices of a privately owned and run school constitute state action simply because it contracts with the state to offer a free educational option for interested students.
2. Whether a state violates the Free Exercise Clause by excluding privately run religious schools from the state’s charter school program solely because the schools are religious, or whether a state can justify such an exclusion by invoking anti-establishment interests that go further than the Establishment Clause requires.

The Court, on Tuesday, handed down a decision in Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Kennedy, construing the proper calculation for Medicare reimbursements for individuals entitled to supplementary security income (SSI) benefits. (This one’s a fairly technical/granular decision. A fuller summary will be included in the next Skinny on SCOTUS installment.)

They’re set to hand down at least one more decision today. 

COMING ATTRACTIONS

As noted above, SCOTUS is set to deliver more opinions today — and they’ll start landing more regularly in the coming weeks. 

And while President Trump has just marked 100 days of his second presidency, he’s got 1361 to go — plenty to look forward to, no doubt!

MORNING MUSING

I mentioned in yesterday’s Morning Musing that just over the first 100 days of the Trump administration, I’ve eyeballed north of 2,500 articles here at RedState. I have a pretty decent recall (though I don’t think it’s quite what it used to be), but with the sheer volume of stories we cover, a lot of info once absorbed has since left the building. But I know that’s not just me. We’re all inundated with so much information daily that there’s no way to keep up with and retain it all. It’s like we’ve all succumbed to externally induced ADD. 

So much so that news stories that were everywhere mere months (even weeks) ago are now long-forgotten. Like…remember the drones? Remember how they were being sighted everywhere — particularly in and around New Jersey/the East Coast and (more troublingly) around military installations? That was just last fall, reaching peak coverage in December. And everyone was in a heightened state of — I won’t say panic but — concern over them. And then…Trump took office, the White House said they’d been authorized by the FAA for research, and…that was that. Did they disappear? Or did people just stop worrying and talking about them? I’m left to wonder…

LIGHTER FARE 

What a thoughtful pup!

This is Mazi. She brought one toy to bed for herself and one for each of her parents. This way, they all have a buddy to help them sleep safe and sound. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/OTqT1lpbsv

— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) April 29, 2025

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