$60 Billion More for Funding Iran War

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on the House Budget Committee advanced a $95 billion package Thursday for the Iran war, farm aid and President Donald Trump’s push for strict new voter ID requirements, moving forward on a party-line vote despite trouble in the full House — and the Senate.

Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington framed the proposal as one last push to deliver for voters ahead of the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. It advanced on a vote of 20-14. “We are rallying to finish what we started when the American people sent us here,” said Arrington, R-Texas.

With Iran war funding making up the bulk of the package, some $60 billion, Arrington acknowledged that people could debate “why we’re there” in the overseas conflict. But he said the money is needed for basic supplies — “just the bombs, bullets and battlefield readiness for our men and women in uniform to finish the fight successfully and return home safely — that’s it.”

The resolution, which sets out instructions for the various congressional committees to draw up proposals, also calls for $13 billion for Intelligence, $12 billion for Agriculture, and $10 billion for Administration, which handles voting and elections.

-AP

Depending on how it is directed, $60 billion could fully fund universal free preschool across the U.S. for years, triple the nation's annual federal medical research budget, or make tuition-free public college a reality for nearly half of all full-time undergraduate students. [1]

Here is a breakdown of what that sum translates to today:

In Healthcare: It could double the annual budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to accelerate cures for cancer and heart disease. Alternatively, it covers more than a year of total federal spending on the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). [1, 2]

In Infrastructure: It would be enough to clear the maintenance backlog of the entire U.S. mass transit system, or construct thousands of miles of high-speed rail lines connecting regional hubs like Chicago and the Midwest.

In Global Relief: It could fund the entirety of the United Nations' annual humanitarian and peacekeeping operations for over five years or wipe out the national debts of several developing nations.

In Corporate Value: It matches the recent order backlog of AI hardware makers like Super Micro Computer or the annualized sales of Amazon Business. [1, 2, 3]

In the broader scope of U.S. federal outlays, $60 billion equates to roughly 0.8% of the federal budget, or just over half of what the U.S. spends annually on primary and secondary public education combined.

 -AI Overview

 

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr.

 

You might think that an arch-conservative who has used his lifetime seat on the Supreme Court to send U.S. law back to the 1920s would take a victory lap and maybe chill just a bit. But no. Despite his success in helping to dismantle  abortion rights, attacking public-sector labor unions, elevating gun rights, promoting “religious liberty,” and destroying the Voting Rights Act, Justice Samuel Alito Jr. is still seething mad, motivated by ideological extremism and a stack of personal grievances, some dating to his childhood in Trenton, New Jersey. 

Alito’s well-established pattern of outbursts was on full view during the court’s June 26 announcement of several late-term rulings. He set the tone for the session by reading a summary of his cruel 6-3 majority opinion that denied political asylum seekers the right to enter the country before reaching the U.S.-Mexico border (Mullin v. Al Otro Lado). 

Finishing quickly, he paused before moving on to summarize another of his opinions. Justice Soto Sotomayor apparently took the break in the action as a cue to read a synopsis of her dissent. Dissenters often refrain from reading their summaries, but there is nothing unusual about them opting to speak up, provided they give advance notice of their intentions.  

Sotomayor blasted Alito’s handiwork. “The consequences of today’s decision are predictable,” she said. “More people will die. More people will attempt to cross the border illegally, and some will make it while others will not.” Her remarks apparently enraged Alito, making him look, in the words of NPR’s legal affairs correspondent Nine Totenberg, like “he had just bitten into a lemon.” 

“There is much that I would have added to my bench statement had I known there would be a dissent read,” Alito said, uttering remarks that, in the staid confines of the nation’s most august judicial body, were veritable obscenities that prompted audible gasps from spectators and reporters in the gallery. A court spokesperson later clarified that Alito was in fact notified of Sotomayor’s plans, but to date, he has not publicly apologized. Like the president whose policies he almost always supports, Alito invariably overreacts and never recants. 

Justice Samuel Alito Jr. is still seething mad.

Who can forget Alito sneering on live TV during Obama’s 2010 State of the Union address, mouthing the words “not true” as the president decried the court’s Citizens United opinion and the impact it would have on future elections, including greater foreign influence? 

Since then, Alito has only gotten more unhinged and offensive, becoming a regular featured speaker at Federalist Society events, railing against the legalization of gay marriage, labeling the Second Amendment and freedom of religion as “unfavored” constitutional rights, and condemning liberals as a threat to civil liberties.   

In September 2021, Alito went ballistic after The Atlantic magazine staff writer Adam Serwer penned a column accusing the court’s right-wing majority of releasing a 5-4 shadow-docket ruling on Texas’ newly enacted vigilante abortion law in the middle of the night to minimize public outcry. In an hour-long live-streamed speech delivered at University of Notre Dame, he excoriated the press for portraying the court’s conservatives as “a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways,” and for feeding “unprecedented efforts to intimidate the court or damage it as an independent institution.”

In June 2023, Alito again went off the rails with an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that lambasted a ProPublica report that in 2008 he took a luxury fishing trip to Alaska, flying for free aboard a private jet owned by Republican megadonor Paul Singer. The problem, according to ProPublica, wasn’t just that Alito had failed to recuse himself from reviewing lawsuits involving Singer’s hedge fund, but that he also failed to note anything about the excursion on the annual financial disclosure forms required under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

Claiming he had no duty to reveal the junket, he argued that his spot on the private jet “would have otherwise been an unoccupied seat” if he had not accepted the billionaire’s offer of a free ride, and that gifts of “hospitality” need not be reported. In a follow-up interview with the Journal, he added, “Congress did not create the Supreme Court” and “No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period.”

Alito’s official court opinions have been equally acerbic and hyperbolic. They arguably reached a crescendo in his 2022 majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization). Not content with simply overruling the 50-year-old precedent on which U.S. women had come to rely as an essential part of their health care, he wrote: “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences.” 

When used by a high court justice, the phrase “egregiously wrong” is an insult and a sign of contempt. And to add further insult, Alito reached deep into the bowels of Anglo-American common law to override Roe, citing the work of Henry de Bracton, a 13th-century English cleric and judge who condemned abortions as homicide, and a 17th-century English jurist who sentenced at least three women accused of using witchcraft to death.

So many of his hang-ups have become the law of the land.

What’s behind Alito’s fury and habit of issuing norm-breaking invective? As Georgia State University law professor Eric Segall told The Wall Street Journal in an article published this month, “Alito thinks of the other side as the enemy.” And true to Segall’s observation, Alito unwittingly admitted as much at the Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual dinner in 2024, when documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor asked whether there was any way the country could overcome its terrible polarization, then surreptitiously recorded Alito’s answer that “there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised.” 

Like most extremists, Alito has views that derive not just from his abstract political beliefs, but from his lived experiences growing up in a predominantly white Christian community as the son of deeply religious Catholic Italian immigrants, and later as an out-of-place right winger at Princeton University and Yale Law School. 

In a revealing new biography, Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement, journalist Peter S. Canellos offers a compelling psychological portrait of Alito as a man dismayed by the demographic and secular changes that have transformed and, by his estimation, degraded the country of his boyhood. Alito has been on a mission to reverse those trends ex cathedra from his perch on the Supreme Court.

The problem is not that Alito has personal hang-ups — we all do — but that so many of his hang-ups have become the law of the land. On June 30, NPR’s Totenberg erroneously reported that Alito planned to retire so that President Donald Trump might nominate a younger right-wing zealot to the bench. The story turned out not to be true and was promptly retracted. Too bad for her — and even worse for the country.

-Bill Blum, Truthdig

America’s bees and beekeepers are losing a valuable ally just when they need its help most

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to soon close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, a 6,500-acre agricultural research station in Maryland that is home to the nation’s premier bee research and disease diagnosis hub, the Beltsville Bee Research Lab.

The closure comes at a critical moment for bees. In winter 2025, many beekeepers lost over half their operations as pesticide-resistant varroa mites spread, bringing deadly viruses. The losses have led to low honey production, and soaring fuel costs have made shipping bees cross-country for agricultural pollination increasingly expensive, further stressing the industry.

Beekeeping involves keeping colonies as healthy as possible. Often, beekeepers need help. Allagash Brewing/Flickr, CC BY

During my 14 years researching bees and beekeepers, and in writing my new book, “Bitter Honey: Big Ag’s Threat to Bees and the Fight to Save Them,” I’ve seen beekeepers frequently turn to the USDA bee labs for support during crises like this. Because honey bees contribute roughly US$15 billion to U.S. crop production – native and managed bees pollinate more than 130 crops – these labs help stabilize the nation’s food system.

Today, that scientific support system is at risk, just as beekeepers face their greatest challenges and native bee populations continue to decline.

Why the Beltsville Bee Lab matters:

USDA’s bee researchers have served beekeepers for over 130 years, including nearly 90 years at the Beltsville station. One of the Beltsville Bee Lab’s standout services is its bee disease diagnostic service, where beekeepers can send samples for analysis free of charge.

Since the early 2000s, Beltsville researchers have helped beekeepers respond to varroa mites – a primary driver of high colony losses each year. Now, the lab is helping them prepare for a deadlier mite that is infesting honey bees in Asia, Tropilaelaps mercedesae, or “tropi” mites – by developing detection and response protocols that beekeepers can use to protect their colonies.

Varroa mites are the leading source of stress on honey bees, affecting half of all colonies at times. Other major stressors affect large numbers of colonies as well. Farm Doc Daily/University of Illinois

While the Beltsville Bee Lab supports beekeepers nationwide, it’s located in a prime farming and beekeeping region. Its closure would leave a critical research gap in the Northeast, where beekeepers help pollinate cranberries, squash, blueberries and other crops.

Its location has also allowed researchers to conduct extensive studies on winter colony losses, research that would be difficult to replicate at the remaining USDA bee labs, which are primarily located in more temperate climates.

Hidden costs of bee lab closures:

The USDA states that it will decommission the entire Beltsville Agricultural Research Center because building maintenance and renovations would cost an estimated $500 million. But closing the lab could cost beekeepers, farmers and consumers far more.

For example, in winter 2025, beekeepers experienced their highest losses in U.S. history. Many opened their colonies in January that year and found that more than 60% of their colonies had died – nearly 1.7 million colonies nationwide. Beekeepers contacted Beltsville, and researchers quickly flew out to test affected colonies for pesticide residues, diseases and varroa mites, data that could help guide beekeepers’ treatment response.

Entomologist Jay Evans explains what the Beltsville Bee Lab does and the diseases bees face:

A few weeks later, as the lab’s scientists were working on the crisis, the Trump administration fired probationary researchers and staff at the bee labs, along with thousands of other employees across the USDA. The Beltsville team was hobbled, and the remaining staff restricted from communicating with beekeepers.

Because of the communication lockdown, it took nearly six months for researchers to deliver their findings. By then, the season was over and beekeepers had been forced to navigate the crisis on their own.

The loss of bee colonies ultimately cost beekeepers an estimated $600 million in lost honey production, pollination income and colony replacement costs – far more than the one-time projected costs to modernize the entire Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. These losses can hit consumer pocketbooks too.

When beekeepers lose nearly half their operations, they often need to charge farmers more for pollination services to stay afloat. Those added costs can ripple through the food system and affect what everyone pays for the fruits, vegetables and nuts that depend on pollinators.

Beekeepers often transport their bees across the country to meet pollination needs and produce honey at different times of year. The map shows the movement of bees out of California to other states in summer and fall. Jennifer K. Bond, et al., USDA Economic Research Service, 2021

More cuts planned to US pollinator research:

The Beltsville Bee Lab closure is not an isolated case. The administration has proposed eliminating the U.S. Geological Survey’s Ecosystems Mission Area, a move that could defund the USGS Bee Lab, an essential resource for research on native bees.

It also plans to decommission 16 USGS research centers nationwide, including the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center in North Dakota, the highest honey-producing state in the nation. For decades, beekeepers have brought colonies to forage on grasslands in the region. Researchers have been tracking how the shift from grasslands to crops has affected honey bee health and beekeeper revenue.

The U.S. Forest Service also faces widespread cuts, including the planned closure of 57 of its 77 research stations throughout the United States. Since the Forest Service manages over 193 million acres of federal lands that support native plants and pollinators, those closures could affect crucial pollinator habitat as well.  All kinds of bees are valuable for pollinating crops and flowers, not just managed honey bees. Jean Hort/Flickr Creative Commons

These closures risk a severe brain drain. When the first Trump administration moved the USDA Economic Research Service from Washington to Kansas City, Missouri, in 2019, the agency lost over 75% of its experienced research staff. 

A recent survey suggests that history may repeat itself. If the reorganization goes through, farmers and beekeepers will lose experts with decades of institutional and technical knowledge. The Beltsville Bee Lab is a key part of the often-unappreciated federal research infrastructure that supports the health of pollinators and the nation’s food supply.

If the USDA and the USGS move forward with their plans to close bee labs and research sites, the result could be slower responses to bee threats, weaker tracking of native bee populations and diminished pollinator habitat for bees – all of which raise costs and risks for beekeepers, farmers and everyone who depends on the food system.

-Truthdig

 

BOYCOTT TAYLOR FARMS and EARTHBOUND FARMS ORGANIC

BOYCOTT TAYLOR FARMS:  Meet Bruce Taylor, of Taylor Farms.  This man makes huge contributions to Trump, so his lettuce is never inspected.  

So far, this man has given us E. coli, and cyclospora. He does NOT allow his lettuce pickers to take bathroom breaks. Kroger brand lettuce is actually Taylor’s, as is Sysco’s— which supplies a large percentage of restaurants in the US!

2026 cyclosporiasis outbreak:  In 2026, Taylor Farms was linked to a cyclosporiasis outbreak from iceberg lettuce supplied to Taco Bell. 

As of July 2026, the outbreak was the largest in the U.S. since 1997, including 7,000 confirmed cases and 141 hospitalizations.

EARTHBOUND FARMS ORGANIC SALAD MIXES also owned by Taylor. Never buy from this criminal again. The only way we’re going to shut him down. We certainly can’t count on our current “government” to do anything.

The Thermal Drone Found the Missing 3-Year-Old at 5:12 a.m., but the Operator Radioed Something that Made No Sense...

The Thermal Drone Found the Missing 3-Year-Old at 5:12 am, but the operator radioed something that made no sense: “I’ve Got Two Heat Signatures.” The story comes from dairy country in northern Wisconsin; from an October night the volunteer search coordinator says he'll be telling for the rest of his life — because of the second signature.

The boy's name is Sammy. Three years old, visiting his grandparents' farm for the weekend. The cat's name is Waffles — the grandparents' six-year-old orange barn cat, who had appointed himself Sammy's escort the day the boy learned to walk. Wherever the boy went on that farm, an orange shadow went at knee height. The family thought it was cute. That was the whole depth of their theory about it.

At around 6:40 on Saturday evening, in the gap between supper and dusk when everyone believed someone else had him, Sammy followed something — a deer, the grandmother thinks — through an open gate and into the two hundred acres of woodlot behind the farm.

By 7:15 they knew. By 8:00 the county had two deputies, a fire crew, and every neighbor with a flashlight walking lines through the trees. By midnight there were sixty people, a search dog, and a drone with a thermal camera, and the temperature was on its way to 34 degrees.

Every parent knows the math the searchers wouldn't say out loud. A three-year-old, forty pounds, in a t-shirt, on a night one degree above freezing. Hypothermia doesn't need hours in a child that size. It needs the small hours, and it was getting them. What nobody had noticed, in all the counting and re-counting of that terrible evening, was that they weren't missing one member of the household.

At 5:12 AM, the drone operator, gridding the woodlot's far ravine for the third time, saw a bloom of white on his screen at the base of a fallen oak. One heat signature, child sized. He called it in, and then he looked closer at his screen and said the sentence that's now the title of the story:

"Correction — I've got two heat signatures. There's something on top of him."

The nearest search team was four hundred yards out. They ran it. And the first searcher over the ravine lip — a volunteer firefighter — swept her flashlight onto the fallen oak and stopped dead, because two eyes were burning back at her out of the dark.

Sammy was curled in the leaf litter against the log, asleep or close to it. And wrapped across his chest and throat — covering the exact places a small body loses its heat fastest — was Waffles. Seventeen hours. The cat had either followed the boy out the gate or tracked him into the dark, and at some point, in that freezing night, he had stopped escorting and started insulating pressed flat over the boy's chest, chin over the boy's neck, running his own small furnace against forty pounds of fading warmth.

He had not left to hunt. He had not left to shelter. Barn cats know every dry hollow in their woods. He'd spent the night in the open, on duty. And when the flashlight hit them, Waffles lifted his head and began to scream — the guiding cry, over and over, until boots arrived.

Sammy's core temperature was low enough that the ER doctor used the word "window." As in closing. As in — and this is the quote the family had printed and framed — "the heat source on his chest is a real part of why we're having a good morning instead of the other kind."

Sammy was home in two days, asking for pancakes. Waffles was checked, thawed, and returned to the porch, where he accepted a hero's breakfast with the expression of an employee reviewing a long-overdue raise. He still escorts the boy every visit, knee-height, everywhere. But the gate has a new latch, and the grandmother has a new answer when city visitors laugh at the phrase "barn cat."

She points at the woodlot. "Two hundred acres of dark," she says. "Sixty of us searching it. And the only one who never lost him — never once, all night — was already there."

— A true note inside it: if a child goes missing, note whether a pet is missing too — searchers say animals are found with lost kids far more often than people think. And latch the gate.

-FB

Now would be a good time to remind everyone of these Trump facts, because apparently some people still need the refresher

Ladies & Gentlemen: 

Please meet the President of the United States:

Flew on Epstein’s plane at least seven times. Just friends, I guess.

Pleaded the Fifth more than 400 times in a single deposition. Nothing says “innocent” like refusing to answer a single question about your own business.

34 felony convictions. A record most people would call disqualifying, and 91 criminal charges.

Accused of sexual misconduct or assault by at least 26 women. Tell me again how he’s a great guy.

6 corporate bankruptcies. The self-proclaimed greatest businessman alive somehow keeps running out of money.

5 draft deferments. Funny how the toughest guy in the room never actually showed up for duty.

4 criminal indictments. Not two. Not three. Four.

2 impeachments. A club of exactly one president.

2 of his own companies convicted of criminal tax fraud. Convicted. Not accused. Convicted.

1 fake university shut down. 1 fake charity shut down. Even his charity was a grift.

Paid 25 million dollars to settle the Trump University fraud lawsuit because scamming people who believed in you costs money eventually.

Ordered to pay 5 million dollars in the first E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, then hit with 83.3 million more in the second. A jury said it twice so nobody could pretend it was a fluke.

Ordered to pay 2 million dollars for looting his own so-called charity.

Stealing from a charity with his own name on it.

Found liable for business fraud and originally slapped with a penalty topping 450 million dollars, later thrown out on appeal while the fraud finding itself stuck to him anyway.

First president in modern history to increase the deficit every single year of a full term. Fiscal responsibility, apparently, was always just a talking point.

Kept the debt to GDP ratio above 100 percent for his entire first term.

Presided over the largest single day point drop in Dow Jones history at the time. So much for the guy who claimed to be a genius with money.

Set the record for the longest government shutdown in US history in his first term at 35 days, then couldn’t resist beating his own miserable record in his second term with a 43-day shutdown, followed by yet another shutdown just months later. Encore nobody asked for.

Added roughly 2.25 trillion dollars to the national debt in his first year back in office alone, pushing the debt past 39 trillion dollars. Somebody remind me who the party of fiscal discipline is again.

Pushed through the largest defense budget increase since World War Two while the debt kept climbing anyway.

Purged more than 300,000 federal employees in his first year back. Efficient, if your goal is chaos.

Pardoned nearly 1,600 January 6 Capitol rioters on his very first day back in office, including Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy. Law and order, except when it’s inconvenient.

At least 40 of those pardoned rioters have already been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for new crimes since walking free. Shocking absolutely nobody.

His family’s crypto ventures, including a meme coin and World Liberty Financial, pulled in more than 1.4 billion dollars in disclosed earnings while he sat in the Oval Office. Draining the swamp was apparently code for filling his own pockets.

Sent the National Guard into American cities at a cost of nearly 500 million taxpayer dollars in 2025 alone.

His own tariffs are projected to cost the average American household more than 2,500 dollars this year.
You’re paying for this. Not China. You.

Now sitting at one of the lowest approval ratings of his second term, stuck in the high 30s while inflation and gas prices make everyday life harder.

None of this is a conspiracy theory, a rumor, or something you saw in a group chat. It is the actual, documented record, sitting in plain sight for anyone willing to look.

So, the next time someone tells you to relax and give him a chance, ask them how many more indictments, judgments, and shutdown records he needs to rack up before that chance runs out.

-Anonymous 

"If he won’t save me, why should I keep his secrets?"

 

You’ll forgive the candor, but I’ve seen this particular opera before. The overture is dissonant; the soprano’s drunk, and someone has barricaded the emergency exits. What we’re witnessing is not an explosion. Not yet.

It’s pressure. The kind of pressure that builds slowly in a steel drum over a blue flame, hissing, rumbling, waiting for the weakest weld to split like a politician’s alibi. The MAGA faithful may have been promised a cleansing fire, but what’s rising isn’t righteous fury. It’s something far more dangerous: expectation laced with betrayal. 

My theory, if you’ll indulge it, is rather simple. Ghislaine Maxwell—yes, her—was sold a dream. A vile, cynical, and deliciously transactional dream. That if she kept her mouth shut through her trial, through prison, through the ritual shaming on the cover of tabloids she once hired photographers for, Donald J. Trump would return to power and, at precisely the right moment, make it all go away. A pardon. A clean slate. A golden parachute sewn together with denial and a wink. And for a while… it worked. She stayed quiet. Trump won. Or claimed he won.

Pam Bondi, Christopher Wray, Dan Bongino—yes, that’s how you pronounce it, like a failed pasta dish—began priming the base. Whispering sweet nothings into MAGA’s ear about how there never really was on an Epstein list, how the whole affair was a fabrication of the Clintons and the liberal elite. A psych-op. Smoke. Mirrors. Because the goal, always, was to prep the battlefield. To soften the edges of outrage. So that when the pardon came—wrapped in red, white, and a flaming Twitter post—it would be seen not as complicity but as justice.

But now? Now the whole thing’s blown a goddamn gasket. The narrative snapped. The list exists. The documentation exists. The tapes may very well exist. And Ghislaine, poor doomed Ghislaine, is sitting in her cell doing mental arithmetic with one equation: "If he won’t save me, why should I keep his secrets?"

Trump CAN’T pardon her. Not now. Not without confirming every fear, every accusation, every whisper in every basement bar and comment thread in America. To do so would be to stand on the gallows and wave a flag that says: Yes, I was in on it.

But if he doesn’t? If he tries to pivot, distract, throw Rosie O’Donnell under a bus or start a war in Patagonia to change the subject—at some juncture soon Maxwell will sing. Not just warble. Not just suggest. She’ll scream. She’ll torch every bridge and dance in the embers, and the whole rotted scaffolding will come down.

Which brings us to Pam Bondi and the gang. Up till now, their job was simple: look the other way. Pretend not to notice the smell from the basement. But now, to save him, they’d have to start committing active, prosecutable felonies. Destroying evidence. Lying under oath. Obstructing investigations they no longer control. And here’s the kicker: the Supreme Court may have given Trump temporary sanctuary, but they aren’t protected. Not even a little.

And they’re beginning to realize, with the exquisite clarity of someone holding a grenade with the pin already pulled, that Donald Trump will let them drown before he risks getting his cuffs wet. He’s in a lifeboat—yes—but it’s built for eight and he’s armed with an oar, cracking skulls to keep it balanced. He promised safety, and now they’re treading water, watching him drift away.

And what happens when the frog in the pot realizes the water’s boiling? Either she gets fried and served with a side of plausible deniability… Or she jumps. And if she jumps, she burns the whole goddamn kitchen down…"

-Robert Hawks, writing for "Democrats, Republicans and Independents Against Trump and Trumpism"