But what about Tim Apple

This is a remarkable and important step. Ukraine, a country under full scale invasion for 4+ years, is signing deals to co-develop/produce weapons with other countries. Saudi, UAE and Qatar are not only confident of but also banking on Ukraine being a functional nation state over the next decade.

I’m not sure the Iranians will want to negotiate if it’s just Witkoff & Kushner on the other side of the table.

Is it weird that I want to know the Pope’s daily Wordle score & feel somewhat competitive about it?

Hear me out: What if Iran & the U.S. are still talking about talking? Like — a framework for ongoing negotiations? It might include some temporary freezes, but the idea they can hammer out a full-on deal in a few days or even weeks is a stretch.

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin should be freed immediately.

Maybe this whole “journalists directly calling Trump then writing up whatever he says” phenomenon is not such a great idea…

EXCLUSIVE: US diplomats are pleading w/ the Trump admin to unleash them on social media as the US takes a reputational hit over an Iran war that also endangers its security ties w/ allies, State Department cables show: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Strait of Confuse

EXCLUSIVE: US diplomats are pleading w/ the Trump admin to unleash them on social media as the US takes a reputational hit over an Iran war that also endangers its security ties w/ allies, State Department cables show: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Honestly, it’s kind of a miracle whenever the NYT writes about any college other than an Ivy.

My God, this story … www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

President Trump seems to be trying to find a way to turn an easy win on the Fed into a long slog of a loss. My latest column: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Maybe they think it's "just war" not "Just. War."...

A friend in need of White House Correspondents Dinner tickets is a friend indeed…

—————————————————————— Trump Is Facing an Increasingly Defiant World www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Column: Trump has bullied other countries on trade and how they govern for months. But recently, a handful of global players have defied him, showing limits to his influence, writes our @nahaltoosi.bsky.social.

@nahaltoosi.bsky.social is spot on with this.

NEW COLUMN: Iranians, Hungarians, and the Pope. In a few short days, a handful of players have shown how the world is increasingly willing to defy President Trump. But does he get what's happening? www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I highly recommend this book by an inside witness to the takedown of USAID. It reads like a thriller. And there are some absolutely astonishing anecdotes in it. a.co/d/0hOwuhoc

Honest Q: What is the crime rate in Vatican City?

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

Back from a brief break & apparently everything is crystal clear on the Iran front: (WSJ story vs WaPo column)

Pleased to roll out this project that @katherinepomps.bsky.social and I have been working on for some time: A database of 300 immigration habeas cases in which the government has violated court orders: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thre...

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It's called the Persian Gulf. Not just "the Gulf". There are dozens of "gulfs" in the world. So call it by its name. The Persian Gulf.

I looked up the half-life of uranium and ... that's not gonna be a solution.

TRUMP on IRAN: "We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders ... They're all dead. The new group is less radical and much more reasonable." This is just not the case.

"Mission Almost Accomplished"

amaze amaze amaze!

Too many people are lying about too many things.

Here's the bigger issue: 32 days into a war that the US-Israel launched, the Trump team is still trying to offer the public an explanation for WHY it happened. Shouldn't they have done this BEFORE the war? There are lots of arguments to make for attacking Iran. Did they think the public would balk?

1/And now, Rubio tries to retrofit the entire Iran war with a new explanation: That the Islamist regime was building up its missile and drone capacities so much that the US couldn't then do anything to it if it built a nuclear weapons program. Earlier he said ... x.com/marcorubio/s...

1/The email lists Trump's goals as: Obliterate Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal & production capability, annihilate its navy, sever its support for terrorist proxies, & ensure the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism never acquires a nuclear weapon. These differ from Rubio's list! ...

Latest White House email subject line: "President Trump’s Clear and Unchanging Objectives Drive Decisive Success Against Iranian Regime"

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For those following, there's been a shift in how Marco Rubio talks about Cuba. For a while, he was more likely to stress economic reform over political reform in Havana, though he wanted both. But in recent days, he's spoken of both in an equivalent manner, suggesting they go hand-in-hand.

Great, informative interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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This story contains the phrase "deep regime change," and so I think I'm going to jump off a cliff now... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

BREAKING: President Trump says nations upset by high fuel prices should "go get your own oil" as Iran maintains its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz. Follow AP's live updates.

Definitely bookmarking this prediction…

Project Hail Mary in the morning, Duke losing in the evening. Good things are still possible.

The price of gas alone is making a Costco membership extra worth it right now.

Looking forward to the White House leaks that’ll show up in some articles right before stock market futures open today …

Poor Brent.

No, I do not want more "Love Story." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/b...

NEW: The Trump admin has spent a year working to arrange deportation flights to Iran in coordination with Tehran. The war ended those efforts, leaving the fate of Iranians in ICE custody murky — and in some cases ordered released. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

“I’m looking at what the U.S. is actually doing rather than what POTUS is saying on Truth Social" via @politico.com Felicia Schwartz @nahaltoosi.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

I'm not sure I'll ever get over this quote from Trump today: "In Trump time, a day, you know what it is? It's an eternity."