Ron DeSantis

Former President Donald Trump has taken an unusual shift in his approach to politics, wrote Jim Newell for Slate: He's actually swallowing his pride and biting his tongue to avoid attacking fellow Republicans he believes have wronged him.

This was made apparent during his visit to Capitol Hill to meet with Republican lawmakers last week — the first time he had visited since the January 6 attack.

A group of Donald Trump's conservative allies are growing angry over his refusal to endorse their candidates in 2024, according to a new report.

Members of the far-right Freedom Caucus members are accusing the former president of abandoning them — and pointing to Trump's endorsement of Chair Rep. Bob Good's (R-VA) opponent John McGuire as proof, sources tell nonprofit News of the United States journalist Reese Gorman.

Donald Trump is on the warpath to unseat Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, and now Politico's Playbook has revealed the origin of the former president's grudge.

While it's generally known that Trump is bitter at Good after he endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president last year, Playbook writes that Trump especially "hates" Good because of the timing of his endorsement.

Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), who chairs the far-right House Freedom Caucus, is competing in a tough primary race against a Republican state senator endorsed by former President Donald Trump. And now he's facing additional scrutiny over financial disclosure reports that are raising more questions than they're answering.

According to a Friday report in NOTUS, the Virginia Republican has been cagey in his answers about what he did with his significant amounts of money invested in various stocks and mutual funds. The publication reported that previously, Good had anywhere between $200,000 and $1.7 million (financial disclosure forms only require a range, not an exact number) in roughly 100 different stocks and mutual funds. But in his most recently available financial disclosure forms, all that he has listed is an IRA and a Roth IRA, with anywhere between $275,000 and $550,000 entirely held in cash.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency on Wednesday for five counties due to heavy flooding in southern Florida just the day after he cut $205 million in stormwater, wastewater, and sewer projects from the state's budget.

Heavy rains caused by a disorganized tropical system have inundated southern and western Florida since Tuesday, bringing more than a foot of rain in places and disrupting road and air travel throughout the area. The Weather Prediction Center (WPC), part of the National Weather Service, put southern Florida under a rare 4 out of 4 high risk of flooding on Thursday as rains were expected to continue there, and warned that it could be "locally catastrophic."

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that key sections of Florida's ban on gender-affirming healthcare for minors—which also limits adults seeking such care—are unconstitutional and that the Republican state lawmakers and GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis were acting with "anti-transgender animus" and not in the interest of public health when they approved the legislation.

"The state of Florida can regulate as needed but cannot flatly deny transgender individuals safe and effective medical treatment—treatment with medications routinely provided to others with the state's full approval so long as the purpose is not to support the patient's transgender identity," Judge Robert L. Hinkle of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, wrote in his 105-page opinion.

A book about book bannings has itself been banned by a school board in Florida at the behest of right-wing Moms for Liberty activists.

The Guardian reports that "Ban This Book" by author Alan Gratz has been removed from libraries in Florida's Indian River county school district after the school board opted to ban it in a 3-to-2 vote last month.

Vice President Kamala Harris took a shot at Rep. Byron Donalds' (R-FL) comments on the Jim Crow era.

The Florida Republican, who's considered a potential running mate for Donald Trump, has come under criticism for claiming last week that "the Black family was together" and tended to vote for conservatives during the era of racial segregation, and Harris criticized the lawmaker and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in one fell swoop during an interview with Politico.

Mick Jagger continued his Donald Trump-trolling tour this weekend when the iconic Rolling Stones frontman reminded the crowd to do their civic duty.

Jagger was introducing the fan favorite "Sweet Virginia" chosen by concert attendees in Atlanta's Mercedez-Benz Stadium when he admitted the band had wanted another outcome, according to an Atlanta Journal Constitution report.