3/23/26☀️ AM: … The House and Senate are in session this week.  The House returns Tuesday.  The Senate, which has been in all weekend, is scheduled to confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) as Department of Homeland Security secretary tonight.

Adventures in Fantasy Diplomacy  —  Trump says he's negotiating with Iran.  Iran says he isn't.  Who are you gonna believe?  —  Another day in America's self-immolation as a Great Power.  —  More like this on my YouTube channel  —  Transcript  —  It's Monday morning.

Fox News-Pilled SCOTUS Invents Wild Hypotheticals to Justify Curtailing Right to Vote by Mail  —  The right wing of the Supreme Court happily churned out far-fetched hypotheticals as rationale to end a voting practice so common that 30 states use it — including ruby red Mississippi …

Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms  —  In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere.  —  The Trump administration will pay the French energy giant TotalEnergies nearly $1 billion …

Exclusive: Kalshi to block athletes and politicians from trading on their markets  —  Prediction market Kalshi plans to block athletes, coaches and officials from betting on their sports and to block political candidates from trading on their campaigns, Axios has learned.

How Epstein Helped Solve a Billionaire's Problems With Women … In October 2017, a yoga instructor emailed Jeffrey Epstein with a delicate question: When might she receive the tens of thousands of dollars she'd been promised by the billionaire Leon Black?  —  She and Mr. Black …

Pentagon Officials Weigh Deployment of Airborne Troops for Iran War  —  The combat forces would come from a brigade of about 3,000 soldiers capable of deploying anywhere in the world within 18 hours.  —  Senior military officials are weighing a possible deployment of a combat brigade …

There's no way to redeem Trump's dismal second presidency  —  The Trump presidency is over.  Those words seem harsh and, perhaps, overstated.  But Donald Trump is governing without the consent of the governed.  Most polls show Trump's approval hovering around the 40 percent mark.

Suspect in Loyola student killing was in US illegally, DHS says  —  The suspect charged in the fatal shooting of a Loyola University Chicago student was in the United States illegally, the Department of Homeland Security said.  —  Jose Medina-Medina, 25, was arrested by Chicago police …

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids  —  The baby needed somewhere to go.  So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife.  As squad cars waited outside the family's Lakeland …

White House installs Christopher Columbus statue made from remains of toppled sculpture  —  A new statue of Christopher Columbus went up on the White House grounds Sunday that was built using pieces from a monument to the Italian explorer that protesters destroyed six years ago.

Italy's Meloni seen narrowly losing justice referendum, exit polls say  —  Exit polls on Monday suggested Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had narrowly lost a referendum on her flagship reform of the judicial system, dealing a potential blow to the ruling coalition ahead of next year's general election.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Confirms 91 Wrongful Deportations of Asylum Seekers  —  BALTIMORE—In a stunning courtroom admission, a Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge Monday that the Trump administration has identified 91 cases where asylum seekers were deported despite …

Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners investment firm just filed a disclosure showing over $6 billion in assets under management for 6 clients in 2025 (compared to $4.8B in 2024 and $3B in 2023)  —  Jared Kushner's investment advisory firm Affinity Partners, which is officially registered …

Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death  —  The Trump administration is embracing violence for the sake of violence  —  It appears that members of Trump's cabinet get chosen not despite their endorsements of violence, but because of them.  Pete Hegseth was primarily known as a dapper TV host willing to defend war crimes.