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5:25 PM ET, March 11, 2026

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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Dire Straits: The Iran War Is Run by Idiots  —  Also: Americans don't care about process.  So they will get corruption.  —  ∙ Paid  —  People were not happy with me in the comments after yesterday's TNL.  Many were upset that I spent part of the episode lamenting how unbelievably stupid …
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump tells Axios there's “practically nothing left” to target in Iran  —  President Trump told Axios in a brief phone interview Wednesday that the war with Iran will end “soon” because there is “practically nothing left to target.”  — “Little this and that... Any time I want it to end …
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
The Obvious Is Taking Its Revenge on Trump  —  The reasons other U.S. presidents avoided war with Iran are becoming all too evident.  —  In the least charitable—and probably accurate—view, President Trump went to war with Iran out of a delusional faith in himself.
Discussion: PJ Media and Raw Story
New York Times:
How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran's Response to War
Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:   Trump's Delusions Come at Americans' Expense
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says the Iran War Is Nearly Won but Israel Has Other Ideas
New York Times:
U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says  —  Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump's assertion that Iran could be to blame.
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NPR:
Pentagon probe points to U.S. missile hitting Iranian school
Discussion: UPI, NOTUS and Straight Arrow News
John Cornyn / New York Post:
Sen. Cornyn: Why the SAVE Act matters more than the filibuster  —  If a man takes a swing at you and barely misses, that doesn't make him a pacifist — it just means he has bad aim.  —  Standing still and giving him a second free swing wouldn't be wise or honorable; it would be foolish.
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
Republicans plan marathon debate for SAVE America Act
Calen Razor / Politico:
Capitol agenda: GOP wants to move past the SAVE America Act
Jordain Carney / Politico:
John Thune says he's ready to take the filibuster heat
Kyla Guilfoil / NBC News:
Trump nominee withdraws after senators press him on remarks about Jews, Israel and ‘white culture’
NOTUS:
House Republicans Are Ready to Shut Down the Senate's Housing Bill
Discussion: CNBC
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's staff took issue with images taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out photographers from two subsequent news conferences.  —  The Defense Department has barred press photographers …
ABC News:
FBI warns Iran aspired to attack California with drones in retaliation for war: Alert  —  The warning came in a bulletin that was reviewed by ABC News.  —  Iranian-made Shahed-136 ‘Kamikaze’ drone flies over the sky of Kermanshah, Iran, March 7, 2024.  —  The FBI warned police departments …
Tim Balk / New York Times:
Joe Rogan Says Trump's Supporters Feel ‘Betrayed’ by Iran War  —  The influential podcast host described the conflict as a sharp reversal from the policies the president had campaigned on.  —  Joe Rogan, the influential podcast host, said on his show Tuesday that the war in Iran was “crazy” …
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Bondi Is Said to Move to Military Housing Because of Threats
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Iran war flummoxes some Trump media allies
Discussion: USA Today and Raw Story
New York Post:
The untold reason Kristi Noem's alleged lover Corey Lewandowski did ‘whatever the f-k I want’ at DHS  —  WASHINGTON — Embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's top aide and alleged lover Corey Lewandowski bragged that he could do “whatever” he wanted as a powerful federal official …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Ordered Justice Department Reversal on Law Firm Sanctions  —  ‘I never signed off on that,’ the president told aides  —  The Justice Department's surprise reversal last week on defending the White House's sanctions against law firms came after an angry outburst by President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
Discussion: Above the Law
Wall Street Journal:
Iran's Control of Hormuz Means It's Exporting More Oil Today Than Before the War  —  Tehran is letting ships carrying its crude go through the strait, while it scares off others  —  Iran is exporting more oil through the Strait of Hormuz than before the war, showing it is in control …
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Matt Peterson / CNBC:   Chubb set as main U.S. insurer for Persian Gulf shipping amid Iran war
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Poll: Confidence in the Supreme Court drops to a record low  —  The latest NBC News poll shows that the percentage of voters with a “great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence in the court is at the lowest ebb since the question was first asked in 2000.  —  The percentage of voters …
Josephine Walker / Axios:
Trump will tap oil reserve as Iran war drives up gas prices  —  President Trump said Wednesday he will tap the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to counter climbing gasoline prices as the Iran war disrupts global oil shipments. … I filled it up once, and I"ll fill it up again," Trump said during a visit to Kentucky. "
Raphael Satter / Reuters:
Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show  —  A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI's investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a break-in at the bureau's New York Field Office three years ago …
Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years  —  Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the unelected House of Lords.  On Tuesday night members of the upper chamber dropped objections …
Gavin Bade / Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Unveil New Tariff Probes  —  Investigations under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 will target what the U.S. deems as unfair trade practices  —  WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is preparing to announce new tariff investigations that could result in higher levies on a litany …
Discussion: CNBC, New York Times and Bloomberg
Torrie Herrington / NOTUS:
Democratic Rep. Kelly Morrison Bought Stock in an Autonomous Warship Company as War in Iran Raged  —  A spokesperson for the Minnesota lawmaker said an “investment adviser” made the trade.  One government watchdog called it a “clear conflict of interest.”  — Copy
Discussion: Fortune
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
How Trump's War on Iran Is Hastening the Coming MAGA Crack-Up  —  Congratulations are in order for Donald Trump: His attack on Iran is the most unpopular American war in modern history.  The New York Times compared support for Trump's war with initial support for nine other wars going back to World War II …
Discussion: Strength In Numbers
Straight Arrow News:
Iranian-linked cyberattack cripples global medical technology company  —  An Iranian-linked hacker group that took credit for a cyberattack against a global medical technology company on Wednesday said it was spurred to action by the airstrike against an elementary school in Iran.
Steve Benen / MS NOW:
Dems score upset win in New Hampshire special election, giving GOP fresh reason to worry  —  Heading into Tuesday's state legislative special election in New Hampshire, Republicans had reason to be cautiously optimistic.  The race was in a district that Donald Trump won by 9 points in 2024 …
Michael Gold / New York Times:
Republicans Concede They Need to Pivot on Immigration Before Midterms  —  In public comments and private meetings at a House G.O.P. retreat, top officials allowed that President Trump's immigration crackdown had hurt the party and that they needed a course correction on the issue.
David Strom / HotAir:
Impossible, But True: CNN Gets Worse, Says Mamdani Was Target of Terrorist Attack  —  The word went out on Saturday that the terrorist attack on Jake Lang and anti-Islamist demonstrators in New York City was to be rebranded as a right-wing attack on Zohran Mamdani.
Reuters:
Mexico's lower house rejects President Sheinbaum's electoral reform  —  An electoral reform proposed by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was rejected on Wednesday by lawmakers in the lower house of Congress who criticized the bill as a move by the ruling party to concentrate power.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Tillis says DOJ probe of Powell ‘reaching the point of the absurd’  —  Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Wednesday suggested that the Justice Department should admit it made a mistake by launching an investigation related to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.  Asked by reporters about a potential off-ramp …
Discussion: The Hill, CNBC and Bloomberg
Regina Zilbermints / The Hill:
Republicans block Democratic bill to fund DHS agencies other than ICE, CBP  —  Senate Democrats on Wednesday seemingly sought to turn the tables on Republicans, asking for unanimous consent to pass a bill to fund agencies within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that do not conduct immigration enforcement.
Discussion: NewsMax.com, Townhall and Mediaite
 
 
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Andrew Ackerman / Washington Post:
CEO pay to be clawed back when banks fail under new Senate plan
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Washington Times
Mariah Timms / Wall Street Journal:
Veterans Affairs to Pursue Legal Guardianship of Homeless Vets
Discussion: New York Times and The Independent
ABC News:
Dems call for probe into ‘troubling pattern’ of legal wins for Pam Bondi's brother
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Haley Cohen / Jewish Insider:
ADL condemns Zohran Mamdani for hosting Mahmoud Khalil at mayor's mansion
Tina Nguyen / The Verge:
The mysterious case of the DHS white supremacist memelord
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Financial Times:
Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power
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Elias Isquith / The Necessary Fictions:
The media is structurally pro-Trump
Ariel Wittenberg / Politico:
A data center opened next door. Then came the high-pitched whine.
New York Times:
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