Analysis: The public does not like open-ended wars of choice in the Middle East.

Fox News shows Trump’s approval is at 41% His disapproval is at 59%, a second-term high 64% disapprove of how he is handling Iran An all-time high of 16% of Republicans disapprove www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

Each of these “final blows” would absolutely expand and prolong the war.

Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.

Chuck Grassley and co actually published a copy of this very same memo this week... but cut out all the most newsworthy info about the classified documents case. Their version makes a jump cut from page 2 to page 12. www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

What to call this corruption other than a wholesale looting of the federal treasury by the President to benefit his supporters using a DOJ that is run out of his White House — but gussied up with the language and procedural flourishes of a normal settlement of a legitimate legal dispute.

Why do Republicans currently control the White House, Senate, and House? Did Democrats forget to do the fraud in 2024? Decide it wasn't worth it this time?

Grade-A nightmare fuel from @bretdevereaux.bsky.social acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

It turns out that there isn’t a ratings bump for MAGA capitulation. www.mediamatters.org/bari-weiss/l...

You: People who write about TV need to leave the politics out of it. It’s just an escape from the real world! Me: The president’s aides are producing him a daily TV show of the war www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

It turns out when you publicly signal that you are courting a different audience but don’t have good ideas to attract them, you lose some of the old audience without adding the new one. There’s no capitulation bump.

**clears throat** Sora, more like Sinka am I right?

Not an expert here but this doesn't sound very Christian to me.

New: Pete Hegseth’s pastor and close spiritual advisor says he wants Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico to die. “We want him crucified with Christ,” Brooks Potteiger said of Talarico, as the podcast host said he prays “that God kills him.” www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-h...

Not going great.

Not going great.

Three right-wing talking points whose logic contradicts each other: 1. No voter ID means illegal immigrants are voting. 2. You need an ID to fly on a plane so you should need one to vote. 3. We need to send ICE to airports to arrest all the illegal immigrants flying on planes.

Right-wing groups are urging the Trump administration to curb abortion access as part of its MAHA platform.

Yep. See also: Antonin Scalia refusing to read WaPo or NYT because he preferred to cook his brain on rightwing talk radio

Having an 88-year-old chair the House Financial Services Committee seems like a terrible idea. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

This is gearing up for Trump to spend September ranting about trans kids and how the Democrats want to steal the election -- and trying to bully Senate Republicans into tossing parliamentary rulings that various SAVE Act pieces can't work in reconciliation. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

DOJ tacitly admits defeat in the longrunning dustup over who is in charge of the US Attorney's Office for NJ—accepting the district court's appointment of a longtime career attorney as US Attorney storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

one of the Trumpiest days yet of in that it seems equally plausible that the president is laying the groundwork for an exit strategy in Iran and that he's only doing that to delay long enough to calm markets before an invasion. it's also possible neither thing is true... or that both are

Need a brown fedora.

I feel like Matt Gertz is almost a realtime political archaeologist.

‘While state and federal prosecutors have sent record numbers of people to prison for violent crimes and property- and drug-related offenses, the US retreated from prosecuting and punishing white-collar crime, despite a tsunami of elite-level wrongdoing.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

"How quickly would Democrats panic if he said hey, we're going to put some ICE agents in line with the TSA...? “And oh, by the way, if we think you might be an illegal when you're coming through to try to get on an airplane, we're going to go ahead and arrest you at the airport, too."

Random throwaway paragraph in my latest / proof we live in the bad place. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

I do not understand why people would believe a White House statement cleaning up the president's Fox-addled post to make it look more strategic when the statement contradicts the plain language of the post. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

It has been 10 days since Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Arkansas Fox News is still talking about it ... A LOT

Climate/renewables arguments aside, this is the president's administration paying a foreign company to invest in states where Republicans are in charge rather than ones where Democrats are in charge -- using tax dollars to punish people who didn't vote for his party.

Right-wing radio caller -> Fox segment -> presidential post -> policy This is how we live now. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

Trump is the one preventing TSA's funding, instead using it as leverage to pass his unrelated priorities. As with the plan to send ICE to airports, he first floated the idea after watching a Fox segment. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

Why is the president saying that there are negotiations between his administration and Iran? I thought the demand was unconditional surrender. You don't need negotiations for that.

Both the problem — long airport lines caused by Trump’s opposition to funding TSA — and his response — stationing ICE agents at the airports — seem to have their origins in Fox segments he had been watching. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

Right-wing media urge Trump to seize Kharg Island: www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

I hate it here.

lmao

New goal is to end the consequences for the war after failing to achieve the original goals.

"Thune told Trump that Senate Republicans would support funding all of DHS except ICE....ICE funding could be handled later in a party-line reconciliation bill. Democrats would accept the offer, the South Dakota Republican informed the president. But Trump said no, according to multiple sources."

I mean, okay! I take that deal. They won’t be masked up or anything, obviously, contrary to what I’ve seen some people suggest here. My guess is that with all the new recruits coming online they don’t know what to do with all of them and they’re the ones who will be detailed to do this.

Enemy 1) Foreign autocracy Enemy 2) Domestic opposition party

If outlets fight, they can win — but their owners have to want to fight.

What’s more, ICE agents WORK FOR US. WE PAY THEM. Making it criminal to know their names, to observe them as they work, helps formalize their status as America’s de facto secret police.

This is an effort to turn the Minnesota rapid responders into criminals. If Democrats make this deal, they will send me, and many others like me who have been out protecting the community, to jail.

Whoa whoa whoa. WSJ reports that Trump *personally* pushed the Justice Department to settle its antitrust case with Live Nation. Several sources for my NYT column speculated this was the case. The Journal says it's a fact. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Fooled by a fake Trump post, people are getting too good at his cadence.

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled in favor of the New York Times, finding that the Pentagon's press policy violated its First and Fifth Amendment rights, and that of reporter Julian E. Barnes:

It was 100% among MAGA GOP respondents, not the general public. www.mediaite.com/opinion/cnns...