The Daily Beast Newsletters Crossword SUBSCRIBE LOG IN ALL Cheat Sheet Media Obsessed Royals Politics Opinion Power 100 Innovation U.S. News Scouted HOMEPAGE Politics Dem Senator John Fetterman Spotted at MAGA Dinner With Major Trump Ally CROSSOVER EPISODE The Democratic senator also walked back an earlier X post calling out his own party. Julia Ornedo Julia Ornedo Reporter Published Jun. 10 2025 11:09PM EDT fb icon twitter icon email icon reddit icon U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA). Nathan Howard/Getty Images Senator John Fetterman was reportedly spotted at a MAGA hangout in Washington, D.C. with ultra-conservative strategist Steve Bannon. The Pennsylvania lawmaker was seen on Monday dining at the D.C. establishment Butterworth’s–which has become MAGA’s favorite restaurant—with Matthew Boyle, Washington bureau chief of the right-wing Breitbart News Network, according to Politico. Fetterman was later joined by Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, “for a good 20 minutes or so,” Politico reported. A spokesperson for Fetterman told the Daily Beast that the senator’s run-in with Bannon was unplanned. Fetterman Rips His Own Party for ‘True Chaos’ in L.A. NOT A FAN William Vaillancourt FEtterman The Democratic senator stirred speculations about a party switch earlier this year after he met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and repeatedly broke from his colleagues to side with Republicans on issues including a Trump-backed spending bill and the Laken Riley Act. Fetterman stepped further away from his party this week when he ripped Democrats over their response to the protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles, which became the site of heated clashes between law enforcement and demonstrators. Scenes from the protest that broke out late last week included officers firing rubber bullets and tear gas into crowds as protesters threw rocks and set self-driving cars on fire. Law enforcement fire less-lethal munitions at protesters during clashes outside the federal building in Los Angeles, California Federal agents clashed with crowds in a Los Angeles suburb Saturday, including shooting flash-bang grenades, as the protests stretched into a second night Saturday. Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images “I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration—but this is not that,” Fetterman said in a now-deleted post on X. “This is anarchy and true chaos. My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement.” On Tuesday, Fetterman appeared to back down, telling NewsNation that his post wasn’t intended as a critique of the Democratic Party. “When people are setting cars on fire and damaging buildings and going at members of law enforcement, that’s not free speech, that’s not protesting. That’s just illegal behavior. And you know, we can’t ever be quiet, or we can’t defend that,” he said. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit back at Fetterman. “I think that if Sen. Fetterman or anybody else is concerned with law and order, we should be looking at one of the most law-breaking agencies and administrations that we’ve seen in the United States,” she told reporters. “We also have a convicted felon in the White House.”
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QUALITY POST: What the 2025 numbers actually show ADL’s audit still found incidents in all 50 states. Raw totals were highest in New York (1,160), California (817), and New Jersey (687). Those are also the largest Jewish populations. Assaults were concentrated in New York City. National totals fell from the 2024 peak but stayed far above pre-2023 levels. FBI hate-crime data still has Jews as the large majority of religion-based victims. So “low incident count” in a small state can just mean few Jews, not a better civic culture. adl.org States that currently have the better combined reputationFlorida (especially South Florida). This is the loudest “safe to be openly Jewish” brand in the U.S. right now: large community, state-level enforcement posture, and a political class that treats synagogue security and campus disruption as law-and-order, not a speech puzzle. It also ranks well on economy and is in the U.S. News top 10 overall. Tradeoff: culture-war heat, insurance/climate costs, and it still recorded hundreds of incidents (319 in 2025) because the community is huge. vinnews.com Utah and parts of the Upper Midwest (Minnesota, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Iowa, New Hampshire). These dominate 2026 “best states” lists for schools, fiscal stability, crime, and family metrics. Day-to-day life for a generic resident is often calmer than in NY/CA. Jewish life exists but is thinner.
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What about when he gets free of those three placesWhen Christian finally gets free of the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair, and Doubting Castle, his journey completely transforms. He enters a landscape that is the absolute antidote to the "dark feeling" and the chaotic information overload of the modern world.In Bunyan’s allegory, escaping those dark places leads him to a state of profound peace and clarity that provides a beautiful blueprint for how to find relief in your own life:🏔️ 1. The Delectable Mountains (The View from Above)Right after escaping Giant Despair, Christian reaches the Delectable Mountains. These mountains are full of gardens, orchards, and vineyards, and they are guarded by shepherds named Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.What it means for you: After years of being trapped in the loops of overthinking, Christian is given a safe sanctuary. The shepherds give him a perspective from a higher ground, letting him look back at the treacherous path he survived with a sense of peace, rather than terror.☀️ 2. The Country of Beulah (Rest and Healing)Near the very end of his journey, Christian enters the land of Beulah. In this country, the air is incredibly sweet and calm. The story notes that here, "they were out of the reach of Giant Despair, and from this place they could not so much as see Doubting Castle." The sun shines night and day, and it is a place of total rest where the traveler waits before crossing over to their final home.What it means for you: Beulah represents a mind that has completely disconnected from the noise of the "Vanity Fair" internet and the heavy weight of global politics. It is a state of mind where the background noise finally goes quiet, and you are allowed to just be, safe and rested.🔑 How He Actually Escapes Doubting CastleThe most important part of the entire story is how Christian gets out of Doubting Castle in the first place. He and his companion Hopeful are locked in the dark dungeon for days, being beaten by Giant Despair.Then, at midnight, Christian suddenly remembers something. He cries out, "What a fool am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle." He pulls out the key, puts it in the lock, and the heavy iron doors fly open instantly.The key was in his possession the entire time; he just forgot he had it because he was so focused on the terrifying walls of the dungeon.
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