Unless you consider Congress like the playoffs HEY-YO

Restore circuit riding, with only vehicles that were in operation in 1787 permitted

Talarico does not need a +6 ”WAR” score - Texas was Trump+12 in 2024 - Maybe Trump+10 with the Latino reversion we are seeing - That’s R+8 on lean - It’s a D+7 to D+8 year - That puts it at R+0 to 1 - Talarico has potential positive residual -Paxton had documented negative residual

US military launching operations in Ecuador www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/us-m...

JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal." She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%! Context:

You know what else would’ve helped with your taxes? The IRS Free File that Musk killed for no reason

A lot of people epically failed to accept the basic reality that the 2024 election was an election with huge moral stakes and a clear right and wrong answer (for a wide range of reasons). They now are twisting themselves into knots to protect themselves from accepting that moral failing.

Wasserman just called it for Talarico.

Also it looks like 6 incumbent Republican state lawmakers in NC (including the Senate president who they spent $10M on) may lose. No idea what's going on with those.

The level of motivated reasoning required for some pundits to convince themselves that Netanyahu, Adelson, et al. did not actually understand their own interests when they strongly favored Trump to win is beyond my comprehension

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

"Furthermore, their mamas don't dance and their daddies don't rock and roll."

I’m struck by how every day the admin is like “whoever could have foreseen these consequences?!” when the consequences thus far — evacuations, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rise in gas prices, etc. — are all the literal most obvious consequences.

The shadow docket and judicial imperialism, an ongoing series www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/the-...

Not going to see this kind of thing from CNN much longer

the feminist political science awards

Kansas invalidated a trans woman's license even though she never changed her gender marker. It's not about the gender marker. It's about targeting trans people and making their lives unlivable.

New post! Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies. Question wording effects can swing opinions by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who interpret polls for a living. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...

Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape. 50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.

NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link. *see next post in thread

Kalman and a Greenpoint

DC journalists have a golden opportunity. Just say something like "since they will be honoring an avowed enemy of free speech and a free press, I will not be attending the Correspondents' Association dinner this year." It's telling how many will not, even when handed to them on a silver platter.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

The actual PURCELL PRINCIPLE (i.e. it is always too close to an election for a court to rule in favor of Democrats, it is never too close to an election for a court to rule in favor of Republicans) strikes again

i love that ryan grim is like "THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS NO LONGER BEHOLDEN TO CONSULTANTS!!!!!!!" while platforming the most consultant-brained candidate you've ever seen

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

Fawlty ass talking points

Which more or less is what Rumsfeld actually did in Iraq!

Let's drink to the not-hard-working people: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/hitt...

Another round of hearty congratulations to the “Peace President will make Burger Less Exponsive” marginal voters in the seven swing states: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/donn...

I'm beginning to think Markwayne Mullin is not very bright: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/the-...

Does Iran also have Saddam's BALSA WOOD DRONES OF TERROR?

tbh, I think a credible, high profile case of the American left successfully policing antisemitism would ultimately do Palestine more good politically than one dipshit oysterman.

Graham Platner, the guy who had to cover his Nazi tattoo to save his senate campaign in Maine, went on the YouTube channel “Valhalla VFT” in January where he said he’s a “longtime fan of the show.” Check out these vile racist thumbnails from the channel & reporting on the antisemitic host.

The Keir Starmer Story

The joy I felt in this moment was indescribable. It was so strong that, for the few necessary seconds, it fully drowned out my needle phobia, which nothing else has ever done. It doesn't even bother me to look at the photo, as looking at needle photos usually does. I just remember the joy.

If the history of Iran has taught us anything, it’s that the US can kill or depose any public official in the Middle East of its choosing with no downside risk whatsoever

I genuinely cannot get over him launching a war from his house in Palm Beach.

will never stop being incredible to me that the son of a lawyer (and grandson of an architect) who went to hotchkiss (hotchkiss!) gets graded on a curve cause he’s “working class”

When you click on Bari Weiss’s Twitter profile, the site recommends that you also follow: Libs of TikTok Matt Walsh Tulsi Gabbard The Daily Wire James O’Keefe Scott Adams And… Catturd

CBS News conducts a poll. It finds that only 18% of Americans advocate removing Iran's leadership "by force," and 74% say Trump needs congressional approval before starting a war. So their headline is, "CBS News poll on Americans' views on Iran prior to conflict." www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...

The media could not psychologically process the fact that we’d lost a war, much less that we’d lost it a long time ago. They had an expectation that the US could still call the shots in a country where we’d been defeated.

we all knew Bari Weiss was a deranged right wing hack but I thought that she’d at least be a little more subtle about it while running cbs news

So many ostensibly straight news stories just flatly assumed that any friction in leaving Afghanistan had to be a result of incompetence by Biden, like there was a "no chaos" button he could have pushed to make the mass withdrawal of troops from an instantly failed state happen with no risk

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this: all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral. BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

Florida Man forced to leave links to temporarily discuss some minor accidents in remote country www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/flor...

this is fucking shocking, and while i know politics journalists think it's cliché to point this out, a democratic president would be impeached for delivering this speech in this way, and rightly so.

‘That’s the way it is’ Like a homicidal Bruce Hornsby