Even the trainwrecks are bigger in Texas www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Baltimore Councilman Mark Conway files to challenge U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

My most curmudgeon take is that pitch comm is dumb and I miss the days when catchers painted their nails to better give signs

Border czar Tom Homan was investigated by federal law enforcement last year and allegedly accepted $50k in cash from agents who were posing as business executives seeking government contracts, MSNBC reports.

Congress has gone senseless over censure. I report for @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

How censure lost its bite www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Exclusive: President Trump declined to approve more than $400M in military aid to Taiwan this summer. Sources said the package would have been “more lethal” than past rounds of aid to Taiwan, including munitions and autonomous drones.

After football, Andy Nelson’s barbecue connected him to Baltimore

I have no clue what Purdue just did.

How the UK became American conservatives' worst nightmare via @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The new nightmare for the American right isn't the U.S. turning into Russia or Venezuela. It's the U.S. turning into the UK. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

How the UK became American conservatives' worst nightmare via @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The new nightmare for the American right isn't the U.S. turning into Russia or Venezuela. It's the U.S. turning into the UK. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

New Weird & Wild! You'd think I'd learn never to use the word "impossible" to describe anything in baseball. But that Orioles win in the Yamamoto game? Impossible! Plus: That 8 minute HR trot! Schwarber! An AL pitcher HRs! Jonah Tong! Wild box scores! Lots more! www.nytimes.com/athletic/662...

Rich @anniekarni.bsky.social read on Eleanor Holmes Norton's weakness at the DC oversight hearing. "She often stumbled and sounded as if she was not following the meaning of what she said, emphasizing words that did not make sense to emphasize." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

realized today that the sopranos is about rapid disruptive changes to a long-established industry and that tony soprano was basically a media person trying to figure out how to navigate the rush to AI

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer fired the U.K. ambassador to the United States on Thursday, after officials said “additional information” came to light about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. https://wapo.st/46a7hG1

Pat Buchanan now has such a significant place in the MAGA pantheon that his face was on notebooks handed out at the National Conservatism Conference along with Nixon, Reagan & Teddy Roosevelt. I write for @politico.com on how this is now fully Pat Buchanan's GOP www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Best I can tell from available play by play data, there has never been another game in recorded NL/AL history in which… A pitcher lost a no-hitter on a HR with 2 outs in the 9th and then … His team lost the game. Baseball!

On Truth Social, Trump channels Apocalypse Now and proclaims "Chicago is about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR"

Pat Buchanan beat George H.W. Bush for the 1992 GOP nomination. It just took 33 years to count the votes. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Mayor Adams speaks to the inaugural class of HBCU Prep, a new HS partnering with Delaware State University. “You are the Eric Adams and the Ericas of tomorrow,” he tells them.

Prominent far-right influencers have been attempting to rehabilitate Hitler's reputation. That's not an exaggeration; it's easily documented. I wrote about why they are doing this, what they hope to gain, and what it means for America.

Paul Renner has entered the Florida governor’s race, taking on Trump-backed Byron Donalds.

Harmeet Dhillon at NatCon: "When the next group of elites comes to demand we stop protecting fairness in hiring, confidence in our elections, safety in girls sports, we're going to answer them the same way that Leonidas answered on the eve of the Battle of Thermopylae: Molon Labe. Come and take it."

My overall NatCon day one vibe: This is a movement that's taken power more early and fully than expected, and is hoping to head off factional disputes that could end it. (For factional disputes that toss a party out of power, see: Democrats, The)

I'm at NatCon this week, where I am trying to listen more than post. But here's a vibey quote from one panel: "Remigration has become the essential political question. We have entered a period in which Winston Churchill maters less to us than Enoch Powell."

Trump announces that Rudy Giuliani will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom

PICK 2!!! IN THE CFL

Curtis Sliwa calls for feral cat ‘colonies’ to claw back at NYC rat problem: ‘Caped crusaders at night’

Is the President of the United States under the mistaken assumption that Pete Rose has been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame? (He also seems to think that Rob Manfred has control over Cooperstown as well)

If he used a phone to do this, does that mean he called his scam?

George Herman Ruth, a Tennessee man with the same full name as the celebrated Yankees slugger Babe Ruth, used the names of retired and dead baseball players to file fraudulent class-action settlement claims, prosecutors said.

Donald Trump is now demanding that Roger Clemens be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame

Businessman Ed Hale Sr. will run for governor as a Republican, switching parties

What Kamala Harris can learn from John Kerry www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What Kamala Harris can learn from John Kerry www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Right-wing activist Laura Loomer had a disastrous deposition in her lawsuit against HBO's Bill Maher. Among the mishaps: Loomer tries to evade a question by claiming MTG keeps Arby's sandwiches in her pants. www.thebulwark.com/p/laura-loom...

Trump to nominate State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce to serve as deputy representative to the United Nations.

Democrats chose John Fetterman over Conor Lamb. Now there are regrets. Progressives are wondering if maybe they were a little too tough on the once up-and-coming lawmaker.

Chris Van Hollen is the next Democrat to go to Iowa. He's appearing at the Polk County Steak Fry in September per a source

NEW: A biotech company donated $5M to attend a March 1 dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. The company's co-owner brought a flier opposing a pending change limiting Medicare $ for his products. The next day, Trump posted the flier on Truth Social. The next month, the Medicare change was tabled.

How the Left Fell in Love With Conor Lamb www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Blaming Israel for both World Wars, which occurred before the state was created, is not "anti-Israel." It's just old-school antisemitism with "Jews" replaced by "Israel" for deniability. Some of this stuff is hard, but this isn't. Journalism should call something by its name.

Michigan politics knowers: Why is this flag display famous?

American victims and relatives of people killed or injured in attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah have sued the UN agency dedicated to Palestinians, accusing it of aiding the armed groups and fueling terrorism.

The first indication that this was going to happen was that it was reported by Michael Wolff

NEWS: Trump has withdrawn Alina Habba's nomination to be US attorney in New Jersey, part of a multistep maneuver intended to keep her in the position as acting US attorney beyond an initial Friday deadline.

Some personal news . . .

Trump doubling down on changing the names of the Commanders and the Guardians back to the Redskins and Indians and says he will condition federal support for a new stadium on the NFL team reverting to the name "Redskins."