Trump's Reflecting Pool Fiasco Is About to Get Even Worse for Him  —  You'd be forgiven for thinking the saga involving Donald Trump's vile prosecutions of innocent people over his Reflecting Pool fiasco has finally come to an ignominious end.  On Thursday, a judge officially threw …

Eleventh-hour primary upsets muddy the race for control of Congress  —  Unexpected winners have complicated both parties' paths to control of the House and Senate.  —  The final stretch of primary season has scrambled the battle for Congress, as scandals, insurgent victories and voters' rejection …

Taylor Farms Voluntarily Recalls Fresh Jalapeños Over Salmonella Concerns  —  The company said it was unaware of any reported illnesses linked to its products containing jalapeños, which were distributed to major retailers across 26 states.  —  Taylor Farms, which has been linked …

Precision Has a Price  —  FOR GENERATIONS, SENIOR MILITARY officers attending professional military education have been taught a simple but enduring truth: Logistics establishes the art of the possible.  No commander can conduct operations without the fuel, ammunition, and other resources needed to sustain the fighting force.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake shakes western Colombia, leaving 2 dead  —  At least two people were killed and dozens of buildings collapsed in cities across western Colombia on Monday after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the South American nation, trapping residents under debris …

The Moronic Bullshit of the “Third Way”  —  The statements seem as belligerent as Pete Hegseth on a bad hair day.  —  “We are preparing for the next war that is coming,” says Jonathan Cowan.  —  Cowan is president of Third Way, described by The New York Times as a “leading centrist Democratic group.”

Trump Turns National Parks into Piggybank  —  There are enormous canyons.  —  Geysers.  —  Majestic cliffs.  —  Waterfalls and wildlife.  —  Rainforests and reindeer.  —  But in America's national parks under President Trump, the most dramatic sight might be the rapid shifting of taxpayer and donor money.

Why Is Iran Acting Like It Is Holding All the Cards in Hormuz Talks?  —  Plus, voters' impressions on the economy pose a midterm challenge for the GOP, and Netanyahu breaks with Trump over the peace plan for Gaza  —  Good morning.  On Tuesday morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went …

243. Birthright Citizenship, Redux  —  Welcome back to “One First,” a newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike.  I'm grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you'll consider sharing some of what we're doing with your networks.

The Campaign Tactics Helping Progressives Win Primaries Ahead of the 2026 Midterms  —  Progressives are being outspent and are receiving little support from the Democratic Party.  Their tactics show a different way to succeed.  —  In late March, several thousand angry demonstrators gathered …

Tucker's third way  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner  —  Good Monday morning, we're feeling as strong as a Bull Moose, and hope you are too.  Get in touch.  —  In today's Playbook ...  — What's next for Tucker Carlson's post-MAGA movement.

Democratic extremism?  GOP spent a decade riding extremism to power.  —  Republicans have spent the past decade worshiping the most extreme president in our nation's history, a man with an almost impossibly long history of loathsome behavior and malicious dishonesty.

The Great Delegalization  —  More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.  —  In early 2010, an earthquake devastated Haiti—but, even as Haitians in the U.S. had far less to return to, they received a new opportunity to stay.

New in SpyWeek: Kremlin Hints FSB May Tempt Kash with Dem Dirt in Moscow, as Berlin Expels Russian Spies, CIA Targets Cuba  —  Moscow Mule?  FBI Director Kash Patel's scheduled Moscow sojourn only weeks before the U.S. midterm elections has generated lots of questions, but none so provocative …

Florida attorney general threatens charges after Cunningham is fouled in WNBA game  —  Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) threatened to charge WNBA players with assault after a hard foul against star Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham over the weekend.

Exclusive: Sanders calls for AI development pause  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is urging leading AI CEOs to pause AI development, warning that lawmakers will step in if no action is taken. … Pause AI development.  It is not too late to avoid disaster.

Capitol agenda: Republicans brace for Trump's wrath  —  President Donald Trump has held his fire since senators skipped town for five weeks without advancing his elections security bill.  Some Republicans don't expect that to last.  Senators punted until at least September any vote …

A twist in the race for Lindsey Graham's seat: No clear Trump-aligned candidate  —  The president backs Graham's sister, but each contender in South Carolina's Senate primary has found themselves out of step with him in some way, and a runoff is likely.  —  Summary

'We've never seen anything like this': ICE's detention crackdown swamps the courts … Months later, ICE agents whisked away Yair Vargas Torres, shuttling him across three states — and attempting to move him to a fourth — before a federal judge ruled that his detention without bond was illegal.

Trump officials offer cities tens of millions for Memphis-style police surges - with conditions  —  DoJ to give $300m for enforcement surges in four cities, as long as they abandon progressive ideologies on policing  —  The Trump administration is offering grants of tens of millions of dollars …

Hegseth can't persuade Republicans to back his big budget  —  In the year and a half since Pete Hegseth squeaked through his Senate confirmation, congressional Republicans have handed the Pentagon chief big wins — and defended some of his most controversial moves.

The Man in Charge of Immigration Data Just Resigned  —  The Department of Homeland Security has stopped releasing timely, reliable statistics on immigration enforcement.  —  Marc rosenblum, the top statistician at the Department of Homeland Security for more than a decade, resigned in frustration in late July.

These corporations are supporting an alleged domestic abuser for Congress  —  Congressman Max Miller (R-OH) is facing serious allegations of domestic abuse.  On May 7, The Daily Mail reported that Miller is “accused of years of documented physical abuse against his ex-wife, Emily Moreno.”

David Ellison's Delusional Stab at Self-Justification  —  While the Skydance-Warner Bros. merger is in legal limbo, the CEO seeking to pull it off makes a disingenuous case for it in the court of public opinion.  —  Pocket  —  Now that the looming Paramount-Warner Bros merger is on hold until …

The U.S. Spent $2.2 Billion on Immigration Detention Centers, With More to Go  —  The Trump administration's new strategy of purchasing privately owned detention centers has already flooded one company with cash, and it's worrying immigration advocates that it will upend local oversight efforts.

The one approach to the Iran war that is guaranteed to fail  —  Trump undermines his own threats and sabotages his own negotiations.  —  The unnecessary war with Iran continues to drag on, with no end in sight, more than five months after it started.  There are many reasons for this quagmire …

Memo to Those Who Fear Socialism: Why Don't You Try Fix Capitalism?  —  Everywhere I look, I see people expressing alarm about the popularity of socialism.  It polls in the mid-to-high 30s, and considerably higher among younger people.  Older people, who have a living memory …

'We're not going to let them do it in the shadows': Hundreds rally at site where Haitians required to check-in, get monitors after end of TPS  —  Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal immigration office Sunday morning to show support for Haitian immigrants from Springfield who were called to report for immigration check-ins.

Trump's foreign licensing business booms to $59.5 million as Gulf developers pay … President Donald Trump's foreign real-estate licensing business boomed during his first year back in office, generating $59.5 million in 2025 as international developers paid a premium to brand luxury towers …

One of Kyiv's deadliest single attacks kills 13 in central Russia while five are killed in Ukraine  —  Kyiv has delivered one of its deadliest attacks since the beginning of the war, killing 13 people and wounding 75 in a strike in Tatarstan, deep inside Russia.