In the contest for "Leader of a major power going to war for the stupidest reasons," Trump is making Kaiser Wilhelm looks pretty damn good.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I'd guess that the ratio of words written about to votes for is higher for Kat Abughazaleh than other other primary election candidate in American history.

True of pretty much every career out there

Markwayne Mullin at his confirmation hearing

This caught my eye. Pete Hegseth would consider George Washington part of the woke, DEI-infected military. www.axios.com/local/boston...

This is the future that conservatives want.

The NRA's nightmare is a national list of gun owners.

If you've ever served on a college honor court, judicial board, or Title IX committee, the DOGE guys will look very familiar.

My parents (born in 1930 and 1933) knew what polio did. Kids who ended up in braces or iron lungs or worse. How their parents forced them to stay inside during the summer because of polio outbreaks. They also talked about the overwhelming sense of relief when the polio vaccine was discovered.

He had more courage than someone like Pete Hegseth could ever imagine.

Here's a race I could get into www.channel3000.com/news/la-cros...

how would YOU open the Strait of Hormuz? Wrong answers only

how would YOU open the Strait of Hormuz? Wrong answers only

Good to know that AI models are less bellicose than undergrad IR students.

If Iran is a paper tiger why do we need help?

I was worried he was going to put in a plug for Kalshi.

Me watching Lionel Ritchie

Was that AI Gwyneth Paltrow?

About time the Oscars made up for overlooking Uncle Buck

I’m guessing that Yale could hire 2 or maybe 3 tenure track junior professors for what they are paying Brooks.

An honor to talk to Dahlia Lithwick about the policy + legal history of US citizenship & migration. It is horrifying that my book drops as SCOTUS decides the constitutionality of the birthright citizenship stripping EO. What U don't know about this history can shape your support for present law. 1/

Trump: The Straits of Hormuz are open! Iran:

Who would have guessed that Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal would be reporting the most damning stories of Trump 2.0?

Who wore it better? #PedoPals

Other than the vault and the armed guards, there's free money down at the bank! Walk right in and grab some!

Question for the military experts here. The US Navy protected shipping in the Straits of Hormuz in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War. As best I can tell, this involved as many as 30 US ships at one time. Does the US Navy even have that capability today?

It’s well known that in war “no plan survives first contact with the enemy.” That’s why Trump went to war without a plan. Genius!

JFC

New study. We had adults place historical figures on the left-right ideological spectrum. Folks most often place history's villains (Hitler, Stalin, etc) as extreme examples of their opponents. But they place heroes (Jesus, MLK, Lincoln) are on their own team. 1/4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How to lie with charts: @axios.com edition. Take a look at the y-axis. Since the Iran war began, the Canadian dollar has risen a whole 0.7¢ against the US dollar. That's less than a 1% increase.

And they say innovation is dead in today’s America

No one tops LBJ when it comes to Presidents ordering menswear. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_m...

Except then we had a president who wasn’t stupid enough to go to war with Iran.

You must be shi**ing me NYT. You can debate the merits of humanitarian intervention but the idea that Trump launched this war because he cared about Iranian protestors is laughable. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/w...

If Noem wants to challenge Mike Rounds for his US Senate seat, she has until March 31 to file. The primary is June 2.

Now that she’s gone, we’re gonna hear lots more. Lots.

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

I'd say it's about 50-50

Does this mean Corey Lewandowski is single again?

I never thought I’d see a Kennedy declare war on Massachusetts www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Siri, what’s a non-denial denial?

Passchendaele Redux

Fascinating. Attacking Iran could turn into a disaster for global agriculture. But I’m sure Team Trump has this all figured out

How I arrived on Bluesky

His outrage is an act. Tillis knew full well about Noem killing her dog but he still voted to confirm her appointment. I’m guessing he’s angling for a gig at the Kennedy School.

Has any previous conflict started with a majority of the country opposed? Plus, it's not even close. In contrast, after the Iraq War began, about 60-70% of Americans approved of it.

Foreign policy decision making in the Trump White House

Maybe because Democrats are willing to hold their own accountable? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Does this mean that Trump will have to forfeit his FIFA Peace Prize?