Endless War, Redistricting, and a ballroom no one wants. So what does Trump do? Goes on a field trip to China, of course. Lillianna Byington, Arthur Delaney & Jason Dick break it down with Bill Press. bit.ly/Click-2-Listen youtu.be/OfhnqhKl9pQ

Let’s be clear. China could have forged a compromise on Iran that could have provided Trump an exit from the quagmire he created. Xi chose not to. He appears happy to not interrupt his adversary as he wallows in the greatest strategic mistake in US history.

Trump’s China summit looks like an elaborate trip to nowhere. Pomp and pageantry signifying nothing. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ten years ago. Two guys hanging out in Geneva.

My granddaughter is competing in the Capitol Math Classic at the Diamond Club @nationals.com Park. Which is the closest I’ll likely ever get again to the Diamond Club.

This is a slow-rolling, anti-democratic coup.

In the 1980s, I was staff director for the Bipartisan Congressional Military Reform Caucus. We warned then and after that the focus on big, expensive, complex weapons would hamper combat flexibility and affordability. The military’s poor performance in the Gulf proves our case.

I was alive and aware in 1972 when Nixon went to China. He put US geopolitical interests first, business a distant second. Trump does exactly the opposite. For him and his billionaire CEO travel companions it’s all about business deals. American security interests are an afterthought.

A Congressional Budget Office analysis suggests the cost of the missile defense program could be $1.2 trillion over the next 20 years, a far heftier sum than the initial $175 billion price tag. n.pr/4wpqgqX

Every time I write about Trump’s Debacle in the Gulf, news breaks that it is even worse than we thought. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

CBO estimate on Golden Dome: "A national missile defense system possessing capabilities broadly consistent with those outlined in the executive order would cost about $1.2 trillion to develop, deploy, and operate for 20 years" www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Trump may need China to rescue him from his disastrous Iran debacle. My latest analysis. open.substack.com/pub/joecirin...

Trump may need China to rescue him from his disastrous Iran debacle. My latest analysis. open.substack.com/pub/joecirin...

A turning point. Pair Rothkopf's analysis with Bob Kagan's Foreign Affairs article on the Iran war as America's greatest strategic defeat and the conclusion is inescapable. "Indeed, in many ways, this trip will mark the end of the idea that America’s president is the world’s most powerful person."

Terrific analysis from Danny @citrinowicz.bsky.social. Trump's stupid war likely extended the life of this vile Iranian regime. Exactly the opposite of what Netanyahu, the FDD and other regime-change advocates promised. www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/how-war...

It’s hard for Republicans to talk affordability when they want to spend $1 billion on a ballroom 99.9999 percent of Americans will never have access to. Check out latest Reporters Roundtable on the Bill Press Pod. bit.ly/Click-2-Listen YouTu.be/83q7riEtoaU

On the DSR Daily with @djrothkopf.bsky.social, we break down Trump’s rejection of Iran’s peace proposal, Trump’s upcoming China summit, the latest on a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, and more.  podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... youtu.be/kLW98y-Cx4E

Kurt Campbell know more about Asia than I ever will. I pay attention when he speaks. But this analysis presents Trump as if he is some master practioner of "maximum strategic ambiguity." It ignores the two main motivators of his policies: grift and pathology. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Trump’s rejection of Iran’s proposal is idiotic. Sure, they asked too much but this is a negotiation. Make a counter offer. Trump has lost this war. Every day his position gets weaker. He has very few cards left to play.

The EU flag is flying at Hungary’s parliament again after Péter Magyar was sworn in as prime minister — the first time it’s been displayed there since Viktor Orbán had it removed in 2014.

We must never forget the lies that officials told us to support an unnecessary war. Here Bob Drogin tells us details of Curveball, the source of many of the false claims. It reads like a spy thriller. open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/...

Bibi’s Folly: Netanyahu told Trump “We can win the war in three, four days,” says @alonpinkas.bsky.social. Now that they are losing the war, the two have fallen out. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I’m sorry, but I just love Stephanie Rhule. I love the way she does her show. I love the the young guests she has on. You may have better things to do at 11 PM then to watch a show, but here, take a look and see what you think. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Just as Orban's authoritarian regime was as a model for MAGA, the drive for accountability by the new democratic government should be a model for the rest of us. Watch & learn, Democrats. "Oligarchs close to the former regime are now facing a surge of investigations." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Wait. We didn’t win the war? We didn’t destroy Iran’s missiles? The bombing this year did not prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon? Iran can outlast us? Jeff Tiedrich details Trump lies. Basically, everything you thought you knew about the war is wrong. open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

In a new essay with @mattduss.bsky.social, we argue that the Abraham Accords failed to deliver. Far from promoting peace and stability, they laid the groundwork for a new era of violence, providing political cover for genocide in Gaza & enabling war against Iran. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/07/t...

Everything he says is a lie.

Ifyou are not following @popular.info and @juddlegum.bsky.social, you should be. I want to repost this recent analysis for two reasons. First, it is a great example of the honest, solid, insightful analysis you can expect from Judd and his colleagues. popular.info/p/the-real-c...

U.S. intel also indicates that Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers & about 70% of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles, per a U.S. official. The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities & repair damaged missiles

Chief Justice John Robert's lifelong quest to gut the Voting Rights Act has succeeded. Shameful. And that will effect the midterms. @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social explains. bit.ly/Click-2-Listen YouTu.be/VCOG6f_iHcQ

"I was, last month, one week in France and three weeks in Italy. Not a long time, but long enough to get a good glimpse of how Europeans view the United States these days under Donald Trump. Believe me, it ain't pretty." bit.ly/My-Column

“Once nuclear weapons in the Middle East have become the stated subject of international war, Israel’s arsenal cannot stay outside the conversation,” writes Yonatan Touval. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/06/i...

Pushing back against double standards on nuclear weapons: Europeans should follow this example of US Parliamentarians. "More than two dozen lawmakers say Washington’s silence on the program is indefensible amid the war in Iran and the acute threat of military escalation." is.gd/7MWq8e

I know that @raskin.house.gov will be the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee if the Democrats take back the House, but I’d like to be the first to say that Jamie Raskin would be a great Attorney General.

“We are a back-sliding democracy heading full-tilt towards authoritarianism.” Stacy Abrams tells Chris Hayes, reacting outrageous Tennessee GOP attempt to eliminate all Black representatives.

"Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after Saudi Arabia suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials."

The far-right editors of the Wall Street Journal are confused. They seem to think Trump is winning his war rather than losing badly. The maximalist “deal” they propose is the kind of illusory thinking that got Trump trapped in this quagmire. apple.news/ARQlKZJsdRvC...

Lutnick just can't get his story straight about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein — from back in February, where I first got him to admit he had lied about their connection, to today. What is he hiding? Why does his story keep changing? The American people deserve the truth.

I was waiting for this one. What a beautiful tribute to Ted Turner from Jane Fonda. www.instagram.com/p/DYAtlcgkgf...

🧵On May 4, thirty Member of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking a very simple question: Why do administration officials refuse to answer questions about Israel’s nuclear weapons?

🧵On May 4, thirty Member of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking a very simple question: Why do administration officials refuse to answer questions about Israel’s nuclear weapons?

Sixty years after Israel assembled its first nuclear weapons, the US policy of pretending they don’t exist no longer makes sense, if it ever did. open.substack.com/pub/joecirin...

Trump and his minions have lied about every aspect of this war — including that it is, in fact, a war. @djrothkopf.bsky.social is right: this is outrageous. It is hard to find anything they say that is actually true.

Not since Vietnam have we seen a more systematic effort by an administration to lie about the nature, costs, consequences and results of a war than we have seen from this administration on Iran. What we have here is an illegal unnecessary war wrapped in a strategic fiasco inside a huge cover-up.

The spokesperson of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission just tweeted this.

None of the Iran War's stated strategic objectives have been achieved. Highly repressive regime still in Tehran, nuclear program still intact, missiles & drones still launching. And US now suddenly pausing effort to re-open Hormuz-- a problem that did not exist before the war. It's mind-boggling.

Iran just posted that it rejects Trump’s memo. Calls it “more of an American wish list than a reality. The Americans will not gain anything in a losing war that they didn’t gain in face-to-face negotiations.” So. Iran does not agree. Will Trump start bombing again?

New reporting by @CNN and @reuters.com confirm that Trump’s war has not set back Iran’s nuclear program. US intel confirms there is no significant change since the 2025 bombings. We discussed all this on CNN today. video.snapstream.net/Play/8WtTCph...

Big political question for Democrats: Focus on affordability or the corruption of the Trump Regime? @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social believes they are related and people are beginning to see the connection. bit.ly/Click-2-Listen YouTu.be/VCOG6f_iHcQ