This just into the newsroom

Judge Boasberg blasted the Trump administration and Pirro: "In sum, the President spent years essentially asking if no one will rid him of this troublesome Fed Chair" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Surprisingly, stocks are not recovering or even getting a little bit of a sugar boost after that Jerome Powell news.

Trump having a normal one about Haberman.

This is evidently the top talking point about the war in Iran today from both the White House and Pentagon.

This is pretty interesting

He thinks he's George Patton now ..

This is just embarrassing

I just can't with Pete Hegseth this morning Just another propaganda screed ..

Republicans are in *disarray* on the SAVE America Act www.semafor.com/article/03/1...

Thune and Schumer just clashed over Homeland Security funding with no breakthrough. Schumer tried to get Thune to agree to funding just TSA. Thune said Dems could fund all of the department now and then continue negotiations on immigration enforcement There’s also a roll call vote at 145 on DHS

ICYMI: Via Tech Crunch: A whistleblower claims that a DOGE engineer put Social Security data on a thumb drive And said he "expected" to get a presidential pardon for it techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/d...

WSJ: "Reopening the [Hormuz] strait, military analysts say, may require a ground operation to seize the Iranian coastline." www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The Atlantic (gift link) On Trump's failure to sell the Iran war: "Over the past year, the president has fallen in love with overwhelming, one-and-done demonstrations of force, like the kind he ordered in Venezuela, in Nigeria, and last summer in Iran. .." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

None of us really knows if this bill (the SAVE act) will completely undermine democracy by allowing manipulation of vote tallies. But if that’s what we all get, these senators will not necessarily be the beneficiaries except perhaps in the short term. They are teeing up arbitrary government.

On the housing bill the Senate will pass today: "Johnson informed House GOP leaders this wk that the president told him “no one gives a [bleep] about housing”-a message intended to convey that Trump has made the SAVE America Act his top legislative priority instead .." punchbowl.news/archive/3122...

These guys really don't want women and racialized ppl to vote

In Playbook this morning: Homan is busy kissing up to Markwayne Mullin 👇 www.politico.com/playbook

NOTUS on Senate Iran intel briefings: Dem Andy Kim: “Nothing I heard in there gives me a sense that there was any credible imminent threat..as someone who’s worked in national security, that would justify a war of this magnitude,” GOP don't 'agree' Nothing is real .. www.notus.org/congress/sen...

Scary: There's a new MAGA 'Mass Deportation Coalition' focused on lobbying the admin to NOT tone down the immigration rhetoric (WH told Congress to cool it) They want the messaging (& actions) to be "ALL" illegal immigrants This is about the midterms, kids www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Letter from DOGE Caucus Chair Joni Ernst to the House proposing $93.5B additional cuts via a new Reconciliation bill Cuts include: Covid funds climate initiatives State SNAP work req'mnt fines $250 fee for EV owners Problems: Thin majority Election year So.. www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

Thune on internal GOP Senate opposition to Trump's mail in ballot ban: “I understand his passion. We’re working through what that actual proposal might look like and to address what I think is the real problem.” Suggests GOP may focus on "ballot harvesting" instead Brace yourselves ..

SAVE Act status: Senate GOP prepping for "marathon" debates next week Including scheduling overnight sessions, and challenging Democrats to stay on the floor to prevent any Republican from calling a final vote Could go on for more than a wk It'll be a MESS More: www.politico.com/live-updates...

I hope I'm wrong, but Julie Le seems like a total schmuck. similarly hope I'm wrong about my assumption that there's a grifter political operative attached to this misadventure

BREAKING: Bipartisan group of Senators call for an independent audit of the Justice Department’s protocol when redacting the Epstein files.

This feels like the most rational decision given how many people on BOTH sides knew Jeffrey Epstein

A GOP brawl continues to escalate over the SAVE America Act - more in 'Regular Order' from Capitol Hill jamiedupree.substack.com/p/senate-lea...

When I asked Grassley about Trump saying there are almost no more targets in Iran, he says “Why don't you ask me your question and leave Trump out of it?”

NEWS: Democrat Shawn Harris has forced a runoff in the special election for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s deep-red Georgia seat (Trump +37). With ~70% in, Harris leads with 38.3% to Trump-endorsed Republican Clay Fuller’s 34.5%. Runoff set for April 7. A major warning sign for MAGA.

🔵 Democrats flip another seat in the New Hampshire State House. Democrat Bobbi Boudman wins a special election in a Trump+9 district, after losing the same seat by 14 points in 2024. A 13-point Democratic overperformance.

Since Trump’s election: 🔵 Democrats have flipped 28 state legislative seats 🔴 Republicans have flipped 0

New exclusive: Researchers have unmasked an Iranian troll operation — accounts posing as Scottish independence supporters, Irish nationalists and Latina women that all pivoted to war propaganda overnight. X and Bluesky removed them. Meta didn't respond. www.ms.now/news/iran-pr...

NBC's Brennan Leach this am: "Sen Cornyn puts his hand in my camera as I ask about the filibuster, tells me to “go away” Q: You previously said that nuking the filibuster would be taking a wrecking ball to Senate rules, is that no longer true? Cornyn: I said I’d be open to reforms

Read this:

Outside of the merits of the argument, this is just poorly written trash, which I guess makes it fine for The NY Post. There's no argument in here. It's just rants about the left and grievances.

CNN's Annie Grayer: "The House Oversight Committee has begun its deposition with Epstein's longtime accountant It has reviewed 44k documents from JPMorgan & Deutsche Bank including payments to women, tuition to universities & large routine cash withdrawals for unknown purposes, per source" 👇

Hey Texas: John Cornyn is out with a new oped in NY Post saying passage of the SAVE voter suppression Act is more important than preserving the filibuster Is this what you guys want? nypost.com/2026/03/11/o...

And this morning -Instead of dealing with the war in the Middle East that he started- He's busy obsessing about Thomas Massie👇 (h/t: this likely means that the WH internal polling on the Kentucky House primary shows Massie doing really well .. )

Context matters, kids ..

The House Oversight Cmte will depose Jeffrey Epstein’s accountant Richard Kahn under oath today Most House GOP are in Doral for the last day of their retreat But word is Comer is back in DC to attend this depo And Oversight Dems will also attend abcnews.com/Politics/hou...

Our 20 year old Joe Rogan fan on the Trump admin heading toward a ground war in the Middle East -and therefore a draft: "Dunno where this goes, but I DO know that I'm not going to fight in a war for a Trump oil grab .. or for Israel .. and every one of my friends feel the same" So there it is ..

Reminder - I24 highway conditions, running N/S on W side of KY, prove Republicans can’t, or refuse to, govern For The People McConnell failed KY & America. We did not have to be here.

And as for the House on the SAVE Act: Johnson and other top GOP leaders refuse to commit to passing it (a 3rd time) with Trump's changes Their current agenda contains a lot of other stuff But not the SAVE Act (brace for some kind of nutty voter suppression EO) www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Thune yesterday: “The votes aren’t there for a talking filibuster. I’m the one who has to be the clear-eyed realist about what we can achieve.” He said senators will “continue to convey” the unsolvable math problem to Trump and take "the heat" as it comes “It just kind of comes with the territory,”

After Trump's SAVE Act tantrum at the House GOP retreat this week, House members called it "a Senate problem" Word now is Thune will bring it to the floor next week -at a 60 vote threshold (without filibuster chgs) to show Trump it won't pass & GOP won't tinker with the filibuster It will fail ..

Looks like the Republicans are pretty worried about the Dems in Kentucky this cycle 👇

News: Senate Democrats are not budging on DHS shutdown -- even with their own colleague Mullin taking over for Noem, whom Democrats loathed Sen. Peters: "It doesn’t matter who’s going to be DHS Secretary. We know that pretty much Steve Miller and the White House run DHS.”

22 candidates on the ballot and two move on to an April 7 runoff election to fill the seat of Marjorie Taylor Greene. (Fuller was endorsed by Trump.)

Sen. Ron Wyden says there's secret classified info in 702 surveillance program about Americans' privacy “The American people are going to be stunned that it took so long and that Congress has been debating this authority with insufficient information" www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...