But first, who is winning the Trump vs Musk war? “Musk already lost his war,”   The Washington Post ’s Philip Bump writes . Asked who they would choose between Trump and Musk, 7 in 10 Republicans said Trump, with another 1 in 8 saying neither. (This, unsurprisingly, was the most common answer from Democrats.) Republicans chose Trump over Musk by a nearly 12 to 1 margin . However, will this brouhaha result in a significant change to Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill?   Yahoo Finance  has a detailed analysis of what could happen.  My sense, is that the Bill will pass pretty much as is.  Here is the access to this  YouGov poll on this issue . I recently watched two courtroom dramas, one each from Prime and Netflix.  Turned out to be terrible films, but this experience inspired me to wonder what were the best trial movies ever produced.  The various sources I researched pretty much had the same top ten. The best from Google AI are: To Kill a Mockingbir...

First, though, good news for Republicans, as signs are showing that the rift between Elon Musk and Donald Trump is beginning to soften.  Musk deleted the Epstein and impeachment allegations from his X platform, while Donald Trump, when asked about taking back the symbolic White House key he gifted to Musk, responded:   I don't take things back, I gave him a key, he tried very hard, praising the efforts of DOGE . About  Vladimir Putin's revenge strikes against Ukraine , he launched hundreds of drones....killing maybe four.  But how accurate were Ukraine damage to Russian bombers?   NBC  says maybe only half of the 40 cited were damaged, and some not totally.  Still, Putin hasn't quite yet ended his retaliation campaign, for Ukraine's foray was truly remarkable. Yesterday, I alerted you to two productions on television.  One of them was  Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best by PBS .  Watched it. First, this was originally show...

Time  magazine said it well this morning: When Musk left Trump’s side, he seemed suddenly cleared of any sense of loyalty. He started lobbing his problems with House Republicans’ "One Big Beautiful Bill." He called it an abomination, a debt bomb, a mistake that would cost incumbents their jobs if they didn’t reverse course. He said Trump would never have been elected without his financial help. (That one is probably right, as Musk was the single largest patron of efforts to get Trump back in power.) And, for good measure, in a social media post mid-afternoon Thursday, Musk said Trump is in the unreleased dossier about those involved in a sex trafficking operation of disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. As Trump responded in kind, the world was left watching a brawl involving two masters of the universe who, given their power and resources, could better the course of human history if only they would focus. Trump said Musk “went CRAZY!” Trump threatened to take away all contr...