On this week's episode of Wild Card, Poet Laureate Ada Lamone tells us how to give yourself a little grace.

The nice thing about being in my mid-too-late 40s, yeah, I forgive myself all the time.

Join me Rachel Martin for NPR's new podcast Wild Card, the game where cards control the conversation. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.

Senate Republicans successfully blocked another attempt by Democrats to pass sweeping border legislation.

And Piers Claudia Grisales reports both parties are vying to win the messaging war on the issue

in this year's election.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the failed vote to approve

border legislation is part of a larger effort to illustrate where Democrats stand

on major issues facing voters this year.

There will obviously be times to show the public who's on what side.

The border legislation was crafted by a bipartisan Senate group earlier this year, but Republicans

reversed course and voted against it after former President Trump rejected the plan. Even original authors of the bill slammed Schumer's

effort to vote on it again saying it was politically motivated.

Claude Grisselles, NPR News, the Capitol.

In Iowa, state and federal officials are assessing damage from this week's deadly tornadoes.

NPR's Frank Morris reports, a series of twisters killed at least five people and demolished

more than 200 homes.

Federal Emergency Management Director Dan Chriswell says this week's destruction comes hard on the heels of a huge

tornado outbreak that raked this part of Iowa in April.

We have had some staff on the ground for several weeks now because of the previous tornado that went

through and so Iowans have not had any chance to really recover from those

last storms and we know that we're expecting more weather coming in over the weekend.

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