Grabien Stories https://grabien.com/stories/Feed Grabien recent stories en tom@grabien.com Wed, 13 May 2026 13:51:36 -0400 Wed, 13 May 2026 13:51:36 -0400 News 60 https://images.grabien.com/logo_header.png Grabien recent stories 60 60 https://grabien.com/stories/Feed Dem Sen. Markey: Trump Admin Is ‘Petrified’ That Solar, Wind and Batteries Can Displace Natural Gas in the Future ‘Of course solar is working, it’s working too well’ grabienrecentstories588722 https://grabien.com/story?id=588722 Wed, 13 May 2026 13:39:47 -0400 Dem Sen. Markey: Pete Hegseth Lies That the Cost of the Iran War Is Only $29B ‘These are the biggest liars in American history’ grabienrecentstories588720 https://grabien.com/story?id=588720 Wed, 13 May 2026 13:32:34 -0400 Dem Sen. Markey: Speaker Johnson Is ‘Completely Delusional,’ Gas Prices Are Not Coming Down ‘Trump has to end this war, and right now, the Iranians and and Trump are about as far away as you can get from an agreement’ grabienrecentstories588718 https://grabien.com/story?id=588718 Wed, 13 May 2026 13:29:06 -0400 EPA Admin. Lee Zeldin: ‘We Have Rejected the False Choice Between Protecting the Environment and Growing the Economy’ ‘We can and must do both’ grabienrecentstories588716 https://grabien.com/story?id=588716 Wed, 13 May 2026 13:21:19 -0400 Xavier Becerra Gets Confronted About Lost Migrant Children During the Biden Admin, Blames It on ‘Talking Points from Donald Trump’ ‘Some of these kids, probably because they needed to earn some money, started working in places that were very exploitive’ grabienrecentstories588714 https://grabien.com/story?id=588714 Wed, 13 May 2026 13:03:32 -0400 King Charles III: ‘Proceed with the Introduction of Digital ID’ ‘That will modernize how citizens interact with public services’ grabienrecentstories588712 https://grabien.com/story?id=588712 Wed, 13 May 2026 12:58:45 -0400 MSNBC Security Analyst: Kash Patel’s Behavior at the Helm of the FBI ‘Has Been a Campaign of Unprofessionalism Since Day One’ ‘You know, the individual that we saw yesterday, you know, who’s the director of the FBI, is a petty individual, immature, dishonest’ grabienrecentstories588710 https://grabien.com/story?id=588710 Wed, 13 May 2026 12:44:52 -0400 Ron Brownstein: We Spent 50 Years Trying to Get Away from the Behavior Kash Patel Displayed at Yesterday’s Hearing ‘To me, it’s just a dramatic illustration of how far the guardrails have collapsed’ grabienrecentstories588708 https://grabien.com/story?id=588708 Wed, 13 May 2026 12:41:40 -0400 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Declares a Pre-Emptive War Against American Citizens Who Fight Back Against AI Data Centers ‘We have to relook at all forms of security’ grabienrecentstories588706 https://grabien.com/story?id=588706 Wed, 13 May 2026 12:31:08 -0400 American Petroleum Institute CEO: ‘The Price of Gasoline in California Is a Policy Choice’ Governor Gavin Newsom made it very clear that he did not want refineries in the state of California, and as a consequence, two refineries have closed’ grabienrecentstories588704 https://grabien.com/story?id=588704 Wed, 13 May 2026 12:22:29 -0400 American Petroleum Institute CEO: There’s a Lot of Oil Trapped in the Strait of Hormuz, It’ll Take Months to Clear That ‘Unfortunately, we’re going to be dealing with elevated prices as long as the strait remains closed’ grabienrecentstories588702 https://grabien.com/story?id=588702 Wed, 13 May 2026 12:16:48 -0400 L.A. Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman Says Spencer Pratt Represents ‘Fascism’ ‘But I also think it’s a very serious thing and we need to grapple it’ grabienrecentstories588700 https://grabien.com/story?id=588700 Wed, 13 May 2026 12:08:48 -0400 Whoopi: ‘I Don’t Believe in Anybody Who Is Running This Country Right Now’ ‘And that’s what makes me nervous’ grabienrecentstories588698 https://grabien.com/story?id=588698 Wed, 13 May 2026 12:05:24 -0400 Fox News: CIA Condemns Rand Paul for Subpoenaing Agent Who Claims Government Covered Up Covid-19 Origin ‘The Committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an Agency officer for testimony today without notifying CIA, despite having already obtained closed-door testimony from the individual previously’ grabienrecentstories588696 https://grabien.com/story?id=588696 Wed, 13 May 2026 11:56:37 -0400 CIA Whistleblower: ‘IC Leaders and Senior Analysts Downplayed’ Lab Leak Theory ‘Intentional or not, the IC’s actions resulted in a cover-up, wasted resources, and a failure to properly inform policymakers’ grabienrecentstories588694 https://grabien.com/story?id=588694 Wed, 13 May 2026 11:52:34 -0400 Schumer: ‘Trump May Be Trying To Build a Ballroom, But Clearly He Is Living in the Theatre of the Absurd’ ‘I would say Trump has completely lost touch with the American people’ grabienrecentstories588692 https://grabien.com/story?id=588692 Wed, 13 May 2026 11:47:22 -0400 Schumer: ‘Trump Launched This War Without a Plan, Without a Clear Objective, and Without a Thought on How It Might Affect the American People’ ‘Trump has forced American taxpayers to sink at least $29 billion into a war that still has no endgame’ grabienrecentstories588690 https://grabien.com/story?id=588690 Wed, 13 May 2026 11:43:35 -0400 Rep. Aguilar: ‘Republicans Are Out of Touch with American People’ ‘While Americans are bracing for high prices heading into the summer, the Secretary of Transportation filmed a reality TV trip with his family’ grabienrecentstories588688 https://grabien.com/story?id=588688 Wed, 13 May 2026 11:39:25 -0400 Rep. Huffman During Interior Secretary Hearing: ‘This Is the Most Nakedly Corrupt Administration in American History’ ‘Trump policies have been terrible for our competition with China’ grabienrecentstories588686 https://grabien.com/story?id=588686 Wed, 13 May 2026 10:58:24 -0400 John Thune on Vote to Confirm Fed Chair Nominee: ‘Kevin Warsh Seems To Have Just the Profile of a Federal Reserve Chairman’ ‘Yet, Democrats oppose his nomination’ grabienrecentstories588684 https://grabien.com/story?id=588684 Wed, 13 May 2026 10:55:20 -0400 Rand Paul: Dr. Fauci ‘Shaped’ Covid Conclusions ‘One author received a $9 million grant from Dr. Fauci’s own agency after he changed his opinion from lab leak on the private phone call to natural origin in public’ grabienrecentstories588682 https://grabien.com/story?id=588682 Wed, 13 May 2026 10:26:45 -0400 Comer Promises Potential Subpoenas in ‘Suspicious Prediction Market Trades’ Around Iran War: ‘This Is a Problem’ ‘I don’t know what the law is, but if we need to make a law and change a law with respect to that, we will certainly do it’ grabienrecentstories588680 https://grabien.com/story?id=588680 Wed, 13 May 2026 09:49:25 -0400 Cory Booker: This Supreme Court Is Sending Us Back to an Era in the Post-Reconstruction Period with Voting Rights Ruling ‘— Where southern states effectively stopped black people from having a voice in this democracy, representation in this democracy’ grabienrecentstories588678 https://grabien.com/story?id=588678 Wed, 13 May 2026 09:19:05 -0400 Dan Osborn Claims He’s Not a Democrat Despite Taking Money from the Party and Nebraska Dems Endorsing Him ‘Well, ‘m not a Democrat. I’m not a Republican. I’m a pipefitter’ grabienrecentstories588674 https://grabien.com/story?id=588674 Wed, 13 May 2026 09:08:08 -0400 Dem Rep. Dean: ‘It Would Be a Dream’ to Go Back to Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal ‘It’s a very bad position for the United States’ grabienrecentstories588672 https://grabien.com/story?id=588672 Wed, 13 May 2026 08:26:20 -0400 SF Mayor Lurie on Unions’ Criticizing Him: ‘I’m Not Worried’ About My Popularity ‘These are difficult times and I understand their concerns’ grabienrecentstories588670 https://grabien.com/story?id=588670 Wed, 13 May 2026 08:08:09 -0400 Trump on Potential Russia Visit: ‘I Will Do Whatever Is Necessary’ ‘That war is getting close, believe it or not’ grabienrecentstories588668 https://grabien.com/story?id=588668 Wed, 13 May 2026 08:06:43 -0400 Epstein Victim: ‘What Happened to Me Was Terrible, But What Happened After that by Our Own Government Changed My Life Just as Much’ ‘I came here today to ask for one simple thing to make sure this never happens again’ grabienrecentstories588666 https://grabien.com/story?id=588666 Wed, 13 May 2026 08:05:29 -0400 Chicago’s Brandon Johnson: We’ll Use AI to Fix Our Pothole Problem ‘That company uses AI to improve road operations when it comes to snow, removal and trash pickup’ grabienrecentstories588664 https://grabien.com/story?id=588664 Wed, 13 May 2026 08:00:44 -0400 Jake Sullivan: If We Pull Out, Iran Will Retain Meaningful Control over the Strait of Hormuz Indefinitely for the Future ‘President Trump may have no other choice because of the way he’s fought this war’ grabienrecentstories588662 https://grabien.com/story?id=588662 Wed, 13 May 2026 07:57:44 -0400 Jake Sullivan: Iran Hasn’t Been Rendered Combat Ineffective ‘We got into this war on completely faulty assumptions, and now we’re fighting it on faulty assertions’ grabienrecentstories588660 https://grabien.com/story?id=588660 Wed, 13 May 2026 07:30:12 -0400 Scarborough: Trump Keeps Praising Thugs, Dictators, Autocrats Who Are Actively Helping the Iranians Target Americans ‘Putin is helping the Iranians kill Americans’ grabienrecentstories588658 https://grabien.com/story?id=588658 Wed, 13 May 2026 07:06:54 -0400 Scarborough: ‘It’s Sickening’ that Trump ‘Continues To Side with Dictators’ ‘It’s insanity’ grabienrecentstories588656 https://grabien.com/story?id=588656 Wed, 13 May 2026 06:45:12 -0400 Elissa Slotkin: ‘I Believe in a Jewish State of Israel ... It’s Not a Radical Thing to Say’ ‘I can say that in the same breath that I criticize the military policy of Bibi Netanyahu’ grabienrecentstories588654 https://grabien.com/story?id=588654 Wed, 13 May 2026 04:57:09 -0400 Karen Bass Says Spencer Pratt’s AI Ads Showing Her as ‘The Joker,’ ‘Darth Vader’ Are ‘Taking on a Violent Trend’ ‘I think it‘s a very dangerous trend’ grabienrecentstories588652 https://grabien.com/story?id=588652 Wed, 13 May 2026 04:33:10 -0400 James Comey: ‘The FBI Director Gets No Vacation ... I Could Never Be Intoxicated’ ‘24 hours a day’ grabienrecentstories588650 https://grabien.com/story?id=588650 Wed, 13 May 2026 04:06:22 -0400 Pedro Pascal Says He’s an ‘Actress’ ‘Yeah, I’m not really breathing’ grabienrecentstories588648 https://grabien.com/story?id=588648 Wed, 13 May 2026 03:43:34 -0400 Colbert Cold Open Features the the Donald Trump Desktop ‘End-of-the-Iran-War-a-Day Calendar’ ‘With this detailed daily update, you can finally plan for peace’ grabienrecentstories588646 https://grabien.com/story?id=588646 Wed, 13 May 2026 02:15:48 -0400 CNN’s Holmes: It’s ‘Becoming Much, Much Harder’ for Trump to Spin Iran War and Economy So He ‘Lashes Out’ at Reporters ‘That was wild, Erin’ grabienrecentstories588644 https://grabien.com/story?id=588644 Wed, 13 May 2026 01:34:25 -0400 Tim Kaine: Dems ‘Just Need to Do’ What We Did Last November and ‘Win Seats on the Maps We Didn’t Draw’ ‘the dynamic that their feeling tells me we can do that’ grabienrecentstories588642 https://grabien.com/story?id=588642 Wed, 13 May 2026 01:26:13 -0400 Colbert: Trump Loves Xi for Ruling with an ‘Iron Fist’ While He Rules with a ‘Surgical Glove Full of Welch’s Grape Jelly’ ‘The president is excited to hang out with his dictator pal’ grabienrecentstories588640 https://grabien.com/story?id=588640 Wed, 13 May 2026 01:08:21 -0400 Troy Carter Questions Why J.D. Vance Was Protected Thirty Seconds Before Trump Was at the WHCD Attempted Shooting ‘It’s legitimate to ask, it looked weird’ grabienrecentstories588638 https://grabien.com/story?id=588638 Wed, 13 May 2026 01:02:22 -0400 CNN Economic Analyst: Iran War ‘Handed China a Huge Weapon’ Because They’re Now Becoming the ‘Clean Tech Leader’ ‘and this is only going to make them move faster in that direction’ grabienrecentstories588636 https://grabien.com/story?id=588636 Wed, 13 May 2026 00:46:42 -0400 CNN Economic Analyst: Iran Is the ‘Toughest Nut,’ This Was an ‘Absolute Screw Up’ ‘Maybe the toughest nut aside the China Seas to crack’ grabienrecentstories588634 https://grabien.com/story?id=588634 Wed, 13 May 2026 00:41:48 -0400 Jason Rantz Battles Liberal CNN Panel: Despite the Iran War, the Economy Is ‘Growing’ ‘just to be clear, it is not some blockbuster number’ grabienrecentstories588632 https://grabien.com/story?id=588632 Wed, 13 May 2026 00:39:15 -0400 Erin Burnett: ‘It’s Hard to Get Your Head Around’ the POTUS Saying ‘I Don’t Think About the Financial Situation’ of Americans ‘He really said that’ grabienrecentstories588630 https://grabien.com/story?id=588630 Wed, 13 May 2026 00:32:23 -0400 Jason Rantz Blames Iran War to Obama’s Iran Deal: ‘The Stance that He Took Led Us to a Point’ Where They’re Closer to a Nuclear Weapon ‘That is as a result of that’ grabienrecentstories588628 https://grabien.com/story?id=588628 Wed, 13 May 2026 00:22:21 -0400 Chuck Todd: ‘I Don’t Even Know What Antifa Is ... There Is No Group’ ‘Who’s going to define who the group is?’ grabienrecentstories588626 https://grabien.com/story?id=588626 Wed, 13 May 2026 00:19:35 -0400 Mayorkas Says He ‘Voiced’ Disagreements with Biden’s Immigration Policy ‘I was very pleased that in June of 2024, we took executive action’ grabienrecentstories588624 https://grabien.com/story?id=588624 Wed, 13 May 2026 00:16:59 -0400 Harold Ford Jr. Backed Republican Spencer Pratt: ‘He’s Actually Offering Answers, I Say that as a Democrat’ ‘So Democrats in this race, if you don’t start offering answers, this guy could very well surprise you and win this thing’ grabienrecentstories588622 https://grabien.com/story?id=588622 Tue, 12 May 2026 23:56:12 -0400