Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social

Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com

If anyone across the Department of Ed, the Pentagon, HHS, the NIH or any other channel hears of anything peculiar for Autism Awareness Month, my Signal is emgarcia.85.
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1/ A lot has changed since my dad's reentry in 1962. Mission Control had no visual of reentry and never reestablished comms after blackout. Still, Carpenter reentered and splashed down safely, egressed thru the nose, alone, inflated and then plopped a life raft in the ocean near Puerto Rico.
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A woman who worked for nearly two years for Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading candidate for California governor, said she had sexual encounters with him while he was her boss and alleged he twice sexually assaulted her when she was too intoxicated to consent.
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Trump doubles down his support for Viktor Orbán.
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For Democrats to ever pass something massive and have enough wiggle room even post-filibuster, they need to win both seats in North Carolina, McCormick's seat in Pennsylvania, RonJohn's seat in Wisconsin, two seats in Alaska, and at least one Texas Senate seat.
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I sometimes forget when Barack Obama became president, Democrats had two Senate seats in West Virginia, Montana, Arkansas and North Dakota. They had a Senate seat in Nebraska, Iowa, Louisiana and South Dakota.
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Shingles vaccines make the astronauts’ bodies radiate light. Thank you for asking.
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Inflation rose 0.9% last month, the largest increase since June 2022. But the worst is yet to come for airfares, groceries and more
www.axios.com/2026/04/10/inflation-airfares-gas-prices
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Survey results released this week by Marist put Mamdani's job approval at 48 percent — significantly lower than the 61 percent notched around the same time by Eric Adams. www.politico.com/news/2026/04/10/hed-at-100-days-mamdani-is-already-a-different-kind-of-mayor-00865897
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This pisses everyone off, but the Democratic Party coalition is Black Church ladies in the South, midwestern labor union members, working-class Latinos and Asian-Americans, woke white college-educated urban-dwellers, and increasingly, white women with degrees in suburbs.
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Buttigieg is interesting. He is able to charm white liberals with degrees with NPR tote bags who brunch and their moms who go to #NoKings rallies. It makes him telegenic on cable news, which is filled with yuppies. But after seven years as a public-facing Democrat, Black voters still don't trust him
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social
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it's amazing how far this total myth that real rednecks are somehow all communists has spread. i've lived in the south my entire life and there is just absolutely no proof of this at all
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So who is directing this movie?
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I just got off the phone with Marina Lacerda, one of the Epstein survivors, and she responded to Melania Trump's calls for a public hearing.

"It just takes me back to why do we need to do that? For what? We have names that are presented in these files with these rich, powerful, prominent men."
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Over the past year, the vast majority of new jobs have gone to women. One economist says to help men find work, we need to embrace ways to "make girly jobs appeal to manly men." n.pr/3OwioTq
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We just got the first hard economic data showing the effects of the war, and it shows inflation surging. Lemme take two minutes to explain what it all means while talking into a baby koala's butt.
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People beat up on Mike Johnson all the time, but if you ask me who was more obsequeious to Trump, without a question it's Kevin McCarthy. Johnson is a radical with a coherent ideology he wants to advance. McCarthy just wanted power without principles. He lied to every single faction of the House GOP
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When I called Haley Robson, an Epstein survivor, she said she immediately started laughing when she saw Melania Trump's remarks.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/melania-trump-statement-epstein-donald-emails-b2954855.html
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The women of Minneapolis go hard!
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The U.S. Postal Service, which lost $9 billion in 2025, recently warned that it could run out of money within 12 months.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
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"A lot of people are getting rich off the Trump presidency. Donald Trump, but also his kids and in-laws; other grifting nepo-babies; cabinet members, senior aides; and other well-connected friends, investors, and firms.

You know who isn’t on that list?

You."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/trumps-economy-insider-trading-pardoning-criminals-chumps?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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So far, no outside Democratic groups have come to Janet Mills’ aid in the state on the airwaves. One recent poll conducted by a firm that also works for the committee that elects Senate Democrats found her lagging behind Platner by nearly 40 percentage points.

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The March CPI numbers will show just how much the Iran war caused a price shock
www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/march-inflation-report-iran-war-gas-prices-rcna267535
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Republicans are planning to spend $79 million in Ohio against Sherrod Brown and $71 million against Roy Cooper. www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/04/09/democrat-senate-cooper-brown-north-carolina-ohio-00864549
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“I’ve worked so damn hard for years just to get here. I showed up, I competed. I respected the sport every game, every single day,” van Leuven said. “And now, with just one decision, I’m being told I don’t belong anymore. This isn’t just about me. This is another huge hit for the trans community."
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Not the point but those liberal arts colleges cost $72K now
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Now? Democrats see Palestinians as the oppressed party here. Particularly its younger voters. And it's not just woke white college students with noserings at $60K a year liberal arts schools sympathize with the Palestinians. Black and Latino voters are far more sympathetic to Palestinians.
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Democratic voters also view their party as the defender of "out-groups." Truman recognizing the state of Israel was not about geopolitical strategy; he saw it as justice. Democrats saw support for Israel as penance for FDR keeping Jewish people out of the U.S. during the Holocaust.
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A friend of mine who is Jewish and a bit older than I am explained it to me this way: In the 1960s and 1970s, Israel was a small country surrounded on all sides by enemies.

Now? It has a massive military and is an occupying force in the West Bank and turned Gaza into an open-air prison.
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Some exciting news with you I can’t share *just* yet. But I promise it’s really cool.
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NEW: House Democrats are more open to impeaching Trump. But they also have to reckon with the fact they are in the minority. And even if they win the House and 51 seats in the Senate, they'd need 16 seats to get Trump convicted and removed from office
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/house-democrats-trump-impeachment-iran-b2954767.html
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