Tuesday: Bret Stephens says the war is going nicely A few days later: -- Houthis enter war -- Iran strikes US air base, injuring 15 -- 1,000 are now estimated killed in Lebanon -- Iran fires 57 missiles/drones on UAE -- Drones smash into Kuwait airport radar -- Strait of Hormuz still closed

There are several ways to read this, and an obvious one is that the Trump admin is coming to accept the idea that Iran will be controlling — and erecting a toll barrier — on the Strait of Hormuz for a long time. Which would be an economic disaster of their own making. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Oh no. Not yellowcake. We’re not not doing this again

Oh no. Not yellowcake. We’re not not doing this again

can’t believe i managed to get banned from this site

Harry Enten’s future polls on CNN: — Federalist readers rank the living presidents. — On a scale of 1-10, how do Mar-a-Lago employees assess Trump as a boss? (Name and email required.)

Two-Week To-Do List: 1. Replace Obamacare 2. Introduce infrastructure plan 3. End Iran War www.ft.com/content/ef7c...

The Prop 4 repeal effort may have failed, but Utah GOP leaders aren’t done. Republican lawmakers say they are considering placing a constitutional amendment on the 2026 ballot that would allow them to continue gerrymandering the state.

Best headline ever for a journalist profile (1969)

Iranian military spokesman: “Have your internal conflicts reached the point where you are negotiating with yourselves?”

Why does America need the Washington Post’s Opinion Page, anyway? A simple solution to the drag on the Post’s finances and reputation: Defund @postopinions.bsky.social, and use that money to bring back the foreign correspondents Bezos fired last month.

Give me “Questions Only the National Review Is Asking” for $800, Alex.

First deadline was 2 days. Then 4 days. Now 10 days. Strait of Hormuz is still mostly closed. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

“The Well-Timed Trades Made Moments Before Trump’s Policy Surprises” Look at these graphics. Oh well. Probably just coincidences. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Utah's GOP legislators mounted an intense campaign to overturn the state's independent redistricting efforts. It all fell apart this morning. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Exactly as we planned it: "Iran has likely earned hundreds of millions of dollars from oil sales since the start of the war, benefiting from a surge in the price of crude after it became the only major exporter able to use the Strait of Hormuz." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

November 2025: "I don't want to hear about the affordability," Trump says. March 2026: OECD predicts that the Iran war "will fuel a surge in US inflation to 4.2% this year, the highest in the G7." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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I’m no military expert but

Okay fine, in this one instance you do have to hand it to Fox News

Oh Florida simply doesn't allow fraud, why haven't other states tried that.

The Pentagon is feeding Trump a daily, 2-minute video montage of “stuff blowing up.” Those clips are stoking his “increasing frustration with news coverage of the war. … asking aides why the news media doesn’t emphasize what he’s seeing,” www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Iranian military spokesman to the Trump administration: “Have your internal conflicts reached the point where you are negotiating with yourselves?” apnews.com/article/iran...

In case you were wondering what the Secretary of State was doing Tuesday amid a metastasizing crisis in the Middle East … he was testifying in his longtime pal’s foreign-agent trial back in Florida. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Year over year ratings: ABC World News Tonight: ⬆️ 8% NBC Nightly News: ⬆️ 6% CBS Evening News, Bari Weiss Edition: ⬇️ 7% Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...

ICE: We’re going to put a 7,500-person detention center near the Salt Lake City airport. Salt Lake City: Hope you weren’t counting of getting much water for it. www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03...

Steve ("we can take Russians at their word") Witkoff told Trump that the Iranians agreed to give up "their stockpile of highly enriched uranium. "That would be a major concession, but it's unclear if anyone with authority in Tehran has actually offered it." www.axios.com/2026/03/24/i...

Verdict is in for the New Mexico child safety case against Meta. Goes against Meta on every question. Jury finds Meta liable for ~37,000 violations. Maximum liability of $5,000 per violation.

Imagine the phone call that may have preceded this correction. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Any word from Elon Musk's base on Mars?

The war has basically turned the Strait of Hormuz into a toll road, with Iran charging vessels up to $2 million to get through -- as long as their destinations are, like India, on the IRGC's approved list. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. "And then, oh golly, we will hope for the best and see what happens. Okie doke, gotta do a hit on Fox and Friends."

“Here is what Trump expected when he started bombing Iran: its regime would collapse or surrender within 72 hours. “That was Plan A. “Plan B did not exist, which means Trump is scrambling to get back to what existed before Plan A.” Via @edwardluce.bsky.social giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

It’s almost like Ukraine and Iran are completely different countries engaged in completely different wars against completely different belligerents

From tonight’s NYT: “Mr. Trump’s characterization of these as ‘productive conversations’ seemed to overstate the current state of the talks.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/u...

Someone or someones made $580,000,000 in exquisitely well-timed oil trades that took place 15 minutes before Trump's dubiously optimistic post about the negotiations with Iran. Gift link ⤵️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Pete, while you're under the bus, could you see if the oil filter needs changing?

‘We don’t want to be a bunch of whiners,’ said the Farm Bureau exec. But the spikes in fuel and fertilizer prices are squeezing their margins www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03...

I could be wrong but it feels like I'm seeing "quietly" in so many news stories and headlines and it I don't think it used to be so ubiquitous and its driving me quietly mad.

ICE guy detaining a Cinnabon because "it sounded French and looked like it overstayed its visa"

The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Who you gonna believe? “Trump said the military will postpone strikes on Iranian energy for 5 days following ‘productive’ talks between Washington and Tehran.” “Iran’s Foreign Ministry denied Tehran was in talks with the U.S., saying there was ‘no dialogue’” www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Like a Swiss clock. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

it’s legitimately news that someone who believes in vaccines might lead the govt agency responsible for … preventing and controlling the spread of disease

It would be entirely fair and reasonable for a mainstream news org to run something exactly like this.

Sending 5,000 Marines off to seize Kharg Island, is “a reasonable military objective in the same way that sticking your hand into a beehive is a reasonable way to acquire honey. It is technically correct. The bees would disagree.” substack.com/home/post/p-...