New: When No One Was Looking, Ohio Became a Swing State Again A year ago, the widespread assumption was the Ohio Senate seat held until last year by JD Vance would stay red. Now Republicans are openly panicking about Ohio. time.com/article/2026...

“The fact that a thrice-Trump state is even on the map in 2026 speaks volumes.”

New: When No One Was Looking, Ohio Became a Swing State Again A year ago, the widespread assumption was the Ohio Senate seat held until last year by JD Vance would stay red. Now Republicans are openly panicking about Ohio. time.com/article/2026...

“Like many traditions under the second Trump administration, this one has been turned on its head. The art world veterans are out. Taking their place: a months-old nonprofit run by a woman whose most recent job was owning a luxury pet food store in Tampa, Fla.”

Canada PM Mark Carney in video address released Sunday night: “Many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become weaknesses...The U.S. has changed and we must respond. It’s about taking back control of our security, our borders and our future.”

‘Dark Money’ Floods Virginia Redistricting Fight, With Millions Linked to Peter Thiel time.com/article/2026...

PSA: Your sneaking suspicions about the crossword are, for the one and only time in your whole life, correct!

"Gov. Janet Mills said Friday that she hasn’t decided whether to sign a bill passed by the Legislature to impose a statewide moratorium on new data centers," www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Seems like the creator of #thepitt wasn’t expecting this follow up question www.tvline.com/2149438/the-...

In Texas, where an estimated 10% of restaurant workers are undocumented, owners have said that Tump's immigration crackdown has created a chilling effect, regardless of immigration status. Industry and political leaders are calling for legal pathways to hire immigrants.

OIL PLUMMETS AS IRAN SAYS “STRAIT IS OPEN” WTI crude down 10% RBOB gasoline down 16c/gal ULSD diesel down 43c/gal

Seems like the creator of #thepitt wasn’t expecting this follow up question www.tvline.com/2149438/the-...

The Senate voted down a War Powers Resolution on Iran for the fourth time Aside from one abstention, the vote was identical to the previous war powers vote from three weeks ago. Rand Paul joined all of the Democrats but John Fetterman

Hochul has resisted calls to raise taxes on high earners. “But a tax on multimillion-dollar 2nd homes was more palatable to her, according to her aides, since it mostly targets individuals who do not pay state or city income taxes because their official residences are outside New York.”

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Congress is nearing Iran War’s 60th day, when they must vote to keep it going. A White House official says they’re “in ‘active conversations with the Hill on this topic,’” and warns against lawmakers trying “to score political points by usurping the Commander-in-Chief’s authority”

Under the War Powers Act of 1973, presidents must terminate military operations after 60 days unless Congress has voted to declare war or passed legislation to authorize the use of force. time.com/article/2026...

New: Congress is bracing for May 1, the 60th day after Trump formally notified Congress of the Iran War—and the deadline to authorize it. Even some Republicans in the Capitol see it as a moment of reckoning: “If it’s not approved, by law they have to stop their operations," says Rep. Don Bacon.

New poll from Politico: More Americans now doubt vaccine safety than trust it. A plurality of Americans also back reducing the number of vaccines administered and believe the right to decide what people put in their bodies is more important than preventing the spread of disease

“The Army paid for three years of law school at Harvard for Ryan Gunderman. In exchange, the Army expected the young captain to serve for six years as an Army lawyer. “She had served less than two when she was put on leave.” “They spent more than a half a million dollars on me, just in education”

“Orbán’s downfall and Magyar’s ascent both have a lot to do with the tireless work of investigative journalists” Excellent read! www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

JD Vance may have had a rough week but at least he can look forward to his upcoming rollout of his book on Catholicism

Because, as many reporters who've been chasing this story have explained, the victims wouldn't go on the record until @sfchronicle.com reporters managed to get the initial/main victim to do so, and others came forward after that to CNN. Rumors aren't publishable. Rumors aren't prosecutable.

Survey results released this week by Marist put Mamdani's job approval at 48 percent — significantly lower than the 61 percent notched around the same time by Eric Adams. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

NOTUS: "President Donald Trump is preparing a $98 billion supplemental spending request tied to U.S. military operations in Iran, a sharply reduced figure from earlier Pentagon proposals, according to two people familiar with the administration’s thinking."

New: A surge in calls among Democrats to pursue Trump’s impeachment is hitting a wall with party leaders, who believe it will distract from their midterm focus on costs and corruption, according to interviews with over a dozen Democrats. Some also view 25th Amendment as a nonstarter

In Key Senate Races, Schumer Willing to Help Candidates Who Want Him Gone time.com/article/2026...

This is a strong contender for correction of the year www.ft.com/corrections

A new study finds Google’s AI-generated summaries above search results are accurate 91% of the time. Given that Google handles five trillion searches every year, that translates to “tens of millions of wrong answers that the AI Overviews are providing every hour” futurism.com/artificial-i...

"Using triumphant phrases, Leavitt praised the ceasefire as 'a victory for the United States of America' and talked as if the U.S. military’s operation in Iran was now completed."

TIME: Schumer has "quietly signal[ed]" that he would be OK with state Sen. Mallory McMorrow in the U.S. Senate, over establishment favorite Haley Stevens. McMorrow is one of several Democrats running across the country who want new Senate Dem leadership. time.com/article/2026...

"In key states like Maine...Schumer is making clear his ego won't override his desire to see Democrats regain control, according to party insiders." "Schumer is prepared to root for—and, if needed, put serious money behind—candidates who have made trashing him part of their messaging"

"All but three of the 4,499 refugees let into the United States this fiscal year so far have come from South Africa...While more than 80% of South Africa’s population is Black, the Trump administration singled out white Afrikaners. The State Department data does not specify race."

New: Chuck Schumer is signaling he will back a handful of anti-Schumer Democrats running in pivotal states if they win their primaries, including Graham Platner, according to half dozen party insiders. That means putting significant resources behind their bids in the fall time.com/article/2026...

The last time human beings took pictures in the vicinity of the moon, Apollo astronauts had to “hand-carry cameras into space and hand deliver them back to Earth, where NASA technicians would hand develop the physical film inside.” time.com/article/2026...

New: Democrats Demand GOP Leaders End Recess to Stop Trump's Iran War "Given Republicans’ slim margin in both chambers, even a modest number of defections could tip a war powers vote" time.com/article/2026...

New: Hegseth’s rosy claims about Iran war contradict reality, officials say. From me, @nakashimae and @TaraCopp www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

New op/ed from Sen. Angus King, on a striking shift in Senate Armed Services Committee's hearings with military leaders: "Recently, I get the feeling that our military witnesses are almost literally looking over their shoulders before giving their carefully parsed answers." time.com/article/2026...

Tonight, an hour before Trump's Iran deadline, polls will close in the special election to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat. Trump won the district by nearly 40 points. He's endorsed Republican Clay Fuller, who supports Trump on Iran. Democrat Shawn Harris opposes it. MTG hasn't endorsed anyone.

Exclusive: ICE arrested more than 800 people after tips from US airport security agency, w/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/ice-ar...

“Every bridge in Iran will be decimated...Every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again...It will happen over a period of four hours."

How Elon Musk’s D.C. Hyperloop Failed "In the beginning, I expected to uncover a scam gone awry...The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing." washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

Incredible sentence: “The tone of the administration’s 27-page filing — particularly its first five pages — departs from the usual style for federal appellate briefs, which typically focus on legal arguments.”

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

In a sparsely populated mountainous area of Iran where a U.S. fighter jet crashed, local merchants and industrialists were offering $60,000-$100,000 to anyone who handed in the U.S. crew. Provincial officials promised a commendation by the governor.

From a 2025 story on the close circle of Trump-aligned lawyers prepping for the next SCOTUS vacancy: "We are looking for people in the mold of Alito, Clarence Thomas and the late Scalia,” said a White House official familiar with the process

The White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll will include an “AI-Creation Station, courtesy of Meta” www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

The White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll will include an “AI-Creation Station, courtesy of Meta” www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

Pam Bondi will have the shortest tenure of a Senate-confirmed attorney general since William Saxbe in 1975. "Senate confirmed" makes all the difference there. Trump cycled through half a dozen AGs in his first term, only two of whom were confirmed by the Senate time.com/article/2026...

Susie, Wiles, according to White House sources was worried aides were giving Trump "a rose-colored view of how the war was being perceived domestically." "She had urged colleagues, the officials say, to be 'more forthright with the boss' about the political and economic risks."