1. Yesterday, the NYT dropped a bombshell: Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has been aggressively lobbying Trump not to end the fighting and pushing him to launch a ground operation. Why would Trump listen? Follow the money.

4. Trump said that Kushner was one of a handful of top officials who convinced him to start the war. Iran is refusing to meet with Kushner, having concluded that he is not participating in discussions in good faith.

But don't tell Trump, he might get mad :(

The Donald Trump Prize for the Most Normally Sized Hands

⚡️🇬🇧 Keir Starmer has given the Royal Navy permission to board Russian oil tankers in UK waters! "Putin is rubbing his hands at the war in the Middle East because he thinks higher oil prices will let him line his pockets. That’s why we’re going after his shadow fleet"

Elizabeth Banks

UH [alex ward is the national security reporter at WSJ]

BREAKING: Bruce Springsteen just announced that his band will be doing a tour in effort to fight back against Donald Trump's authoritarian overreach. The Boss is back! Great. Bring down the ICE

Only Trump could be stupid enough to have formed an alliance with his own enemies.

It's been eight hours since the Government announced that crypto donations to political parties had been banned effective immediately and Reform's crypto portal is still accepting donations

My resignation letter

Trump is seeking a deal with Iran, presumably to stop the economic damage, but what if Iran doesn't want the war to end yet? They've got a stranglehold on global energy, they rejected the US peace offer, and America's leadership doesn't seem to know what to do. My latest, in @liberalcurrents.com:

Jessica: I love that you read a newspaper. Watters: I read more than you. Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Post. Jessica: And you still say this crap on TV after you've read all that?

AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people—keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government. 

FT: Mark Rutte’s suggestion that European allies would eventually 'come together' to heed the US president’s call to deploy naval assets in the Strait of Hormuz has irked officials in several European capitals.

Dems need to be on every news channel saying this. Everyday. All day.

Things are going well.

Strategically genius

“Obviously labeling the leader of another country a war criminal is a monumental step that is above my authority. But have Russian forces committed war crimes in Ukraine? Unambiguously, yes.” See, it’s not so hard.

The fact that military officials can’t give the President of the United States an honest assessment of the war in Iran—and have to placate him by showing him videos of stuff blowing up—should be concerning to everyone.

If we’ve already won, why are we still bombing them?!

"doing this for you"

Trump has already surrendered on being able to accomplish his originality stated objectives, so they’ve moved the goalposts to enable him to declare victory despite his failure.

FERGUSON: Black Sea Straits were a critical factor after Russian invasion of Ukraine. If Russians had succeeded in controlling Black Sea and preventing Ukrainian trade, the war could have been over. But Ukrainians won the battle of the Black Sea — and there's a lesson to learn.

SCHIFF: I don't want to hold up the rest of what DHS does, so I've fully supported vote after vote to fund TSA KERNEN: That's a carve out. It's not a clean bill, which has been business as usual SCHIFF: Well, business as usual right now is people getting killed in the streets. So I'm not for that

Iran's conditions for ending hostilities. Several non-starters here but "sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz" is the big one that will push the GCC against ending the war. Israel would also laugh off each of these on their face. www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/...

I mean, we all expected that right? No other reason to have those documents

Truly fantastic news. Except the Putin part

It’s only cheating if a blue state does it

Yes, gas is soaring because of Trump. Yes, groceries are more expensive because of Trump. Yes, your tax dollars are going to attack Iran instead of the relief checks you were promised. Yes, the petrodollar is about to collapse. But don’t forget measles are back! www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

Endless gaslighting from Karoline Leavitt today.

Murderers, pedophiles, and rapists are protecting us from murderers, pedophiles, and rapists.

"creative solutions" meaning market manipulation

🇪🇺❗️🇭🇺 UP: The European Commission has frozen approval of Hungary's rearmament loan plan under the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) programme because Budapest blocked a €90 billion loan for Ukraine.

Leavitt can't say who the Trump administration is negotiating with in Iran

moar winning

Leavitt is always hyperaggressively incompetent, so I'd be careful about reading too much into her incoherent bluster

Getting into this position against a seriously weakened enemy with a barely functioning regime will be written about for many years as a example of extraordinary strategic failure.

Fair to say based on this Leavitt press conference that Team Trump are seriously panicked.

Q: Joe Kent said the president's red line shifted from 'Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon' to 'Iran cannot pursue nuclear enrichment.' What is Trump's response? LEAVITT: Mr Kent resigned in disgrace Q: But the question of the red line shifting? L: I think the president has been quite clear

Donald Trump has been President for 2% of America’s history. He is responsible for 25% of our National debt.

The Trump family is making billions off of his presidency. The day their assets are frozen will be an historic event.

The golden age of corruption. nymag.com/intelligence...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) accused Sen. Ted Cruz of holding a "sham" hearing on an investigation into President Donald Trump's 2020 election crimes because he blocked the testimony of the primary investigator, special counsel Jack Smith.

Trump's response to rising unpopularity is basically to insulate himself from public opinion

OPINION: Friends,The Wall Street Journal — hardly an outpost of left-wing propaganda — reported on the results of an investigation conducted by the Journal's Hannah Critchfield and her team.

Big surprise - not.

pretty much everything trump/hegseth assert is a lie, from murdering fishermen & others to launching war. this one is just as egregious as the others.