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A 79-Year-Old Freshman Senator?
Mark Leibovich: “Janet Mills does not have a dicey Reddit history or a recently covered-over Nazi tattoo. But her candidacy is haunted by Joe Biden’s 2024 debacle.” Save to Favorites
Trump’s Call for Chinese Help Hits on Sensitive Topic
“President Donald Trump’s demand for China to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz will almost certainly be rejected out of hand. But it unwittingly touches a sensitive debate simmering…
Iran Strikes Gulf Oil Hub
“Iran launched fresh attacks across the Persian Gulf, disrupting shipments at a key United Arab Emirates oil hub and denying President Donald Trump’s assertion that it’s seeking ceasefire talks,” Bloomberg…
Newt Gingrich Weighs In
Newt Gingrich has a solution to the Strait of Hormuz being blocked by Iran: “Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory….
Trump Was Told Iran’s New Leader Is Gay
“President Trump was stunned to learn last week that US intelligence indicates new Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may be gay — and that his father, the late Ayatollah Ali…
Bonus Quote of the Day
“You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all.” — President Trump, speaking to reporters about the Strait of Hormuz being closed. Save to Favorites
Israel’s Standing Plummets Among Democrats
NBC News Poll: “More registered voters view Israel negatively than positively, a change from a few years ago. The change has been especially pronounced among independents and Democrats, fueling divided…
Trump’s Effort to Rewrite History Becomes a Slog
“The Trump administration’s campaign to remove National Park Service exhibits that ‘inappropriately disparage’ historical figures is bogged down more than nine months after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum set it in…
Republicans Want Trump to Move On From 2020
Politico: “Conversations with nearly a dozen GOP state and county chairs and strategists reveal a party largely eager to move on from relitigating Trump’s election grievances, which they’re worried may…
Virginia Could Be Key to Early Redistricting Wars
Washington Post: “Trump started a national battle over maps and power last summer when he pushed Texas and other Republican-run states to redraw their congressional districts, a rare step outside…
Trump’s Escalation Trap
“For five years in office, President Trump has operated with intuition, impulse and improvisation,” Axios reports. “The Iran war, now entering Week 3, is the first time Trump’s style has…
Trump’s Retribution Campaign Is Floundering
New York Times: “A judge has thrown out two of their most high-profile indictments.” “Grand juries have repeatedly refused to charge those they are targeting.” “And now, in the wake…
Israel Expands Lebanon Offensive
“Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, said on Monday that country’s military had launched a ‘ground maneuver’ in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed armed group, effectively expanding a ground…
Trump Threatens to Pull Out of Xi Summit
“President Trump threatened to postpone a long-planned summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as he called on China to send warships to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, casting a…
Oil Industry Warns Fuel Crunch Will Likely Worsen
“American oil executives delivered a bleak message to Trump officials in recent days: The energy crisis the Iran war has unleashed is likely to get worse,” the Wall Street Journal…
Baghdad Don
Paul Krugman: “There’s a real Baghdad Bob feel to pronouncements from the Trump administration these days. The war is going great! We’ve been totally victorious! Also, other countries — including…
Quote of the Day
“We’re always there for NATO, we’re helping them with Ukraine… It’ll be interesting to see what country wouldn’t help us with a very small endeavor, which is just keeping the…
Trump Faces Great Resistance Building a Coalition
“It’s early days, but Trump’s efforts to cajole, bully and threaten allied nations into sending warships to help his mission in the Gulf are already mired in difficulty,” Politico reports….
Japan and Australia Won’t Send Ships to Strait
“President Donald Trump’s demands for a coalition to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz appeared to fall on deaf ears on Monday as allies Japan and Australia said they were…
France Noncommittal On Sending Ships
France is not interested in sending ships to the Strait of Hormuz until hostilities stop and the situation stabilizes first, France24 reports. Save to Favorites
