I will be talking about the Virginia gerrymandering referendum at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday on CSPAN. Please join us.
(Polls open on Tuesday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for Election Day voting).

Thanks to Mary Washington graduate and presidential campaign and Google alum Zach Wineburg for meeting with my Mass Media Politics students last week.

Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."

Thanks to Mary Washington grad Kate Seltzer, now covering Virginia politics and government for the Virginian-Pilot, for meeting with my students this week.

53 years ago today, the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam, ending America’s direct role in the Vietnam War.

I remember seeing this anti-war PSA back then. Its message is sadly still very relevant today as Trump drags us into another unpopular war.

On Nov 2024, airline execs were giddy about trump winning so that Biden era consumer protections could be reversed, etc. None more so than Delta’s CEO. Now Trump’s reckless war may ruin them, even put some out of business.

Cover of The Trump First Term (University of Kansas Press), edited by Azari, Rockman, and Rudalevige

If you want to find out how we got here... Glad to announce the arrival of The Trump First Term, edited by me, @juliaazari.bsky.social, and Bert Rockman. A great lineup of authors (see next post) show what's different - and not! - between Trump 1.0 and today. #polisky

Just a reminder that Hegseth's anti-press policy was so terrible, even Fox News refused to sign it.

US policy-making over the past 14 months has been the best thing that has happened to LPC in decades

A judge finally called a newsroom raid what it is Seizures of journalists’ materials have the same impact as traditional prior restraints

The seizure of Washington Post reporter @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's devices likely killed far more stories than any court order ever could.

Judge Porter should've done more to punish prosecutors, but he was right to call the raid what it was — a prior restraint.

If broadcasters won’t obey FCC chair Brendan Carr’s orders to air more pro-war content or lose their broadcast licenses, I’m going to become an even bigger libertarian.

338 Sunday Update: Liberals Reach New Highs Latest polls suggest the federal race has shifted dramatically in recent weeks, lifting the Liberal projection above the 200-seat mark — an all-time high.

338Canada🍁federal update | March 15, 2026

🔴LPC 209
-----------------majority: 172 seats
🔵CPC 106
⚜️BQ 23
🟠NDP 4
🟢GPC 1

www.338canada.ca/p/338-sunday...

The 10 most important things that happened in Virginia’s 2026 legislative session • Virginia Mercury Virginia lawmakers wrapped up the 2026 General Assembly session in dramatic fashion Saturday evening, adjourning their regular session without a budget deal after an unexpected dispute over data cente...

In the Virginia Mercury talking about the "end" of the legislative session (so far). There's still no budget plan. virginiamercury.com/2026/03/14/t...

Allez les Bleus! 🐓

With Washington Post Local diminished, other news sites step up their D.C. coverage The 51st, City Cast, and The Baltimore Banner are among the outlets to announce expansions of Washington, D.C. metro area coverage since the Post layoffs.

This is a good overview of growing local news landscape post-Post: www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/with...

The Trump WH is starting to reap what it has sown in terms of screwing over counterparties:
-Iran can't trust a negotiated settlement so why reach one?
-Ds in Congress can't trust Trump to follow the law so why bargain w/him?
-Universities see past deals leading to future shakedowns so why make one?

Gallup Ends Presidential Approval Polling After 88 Years - Truthdig Did the company’s extensive contracts with the federal government inform its shock decision to re-evaluate the utility of reporting numbers that Trump hates?

Gallup just ended presidential approval polling after 88 years. Last November, it reported Trump's approval at 36% — his lowest of the second term.

Gallup has extensive contracts with the federal government.

Just watched the first-rate "Who Killed the Montreal Expos?" on Netflix. Even so, watching the Expos leave again was just as awful as when it happened.

We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.

Shouldn’t Brendan Carr be launching an FCC probe of Fox Broadcasting Co.?

The old footage of Trump at a dignified transfer ceremony didn't just air on Fox News -- it aired on local Fox affiliates that are regulated by the FCC. attn: Brendan Carr. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sho...

Trump’s “Warflation” Has Just Begun If he were trying to increase prices on purpose, would he be doing anything differently?

When economists say the president can't really do much to change gas prices, what they mean is he can't do much to *reduce* gas prices. Turns out they can do a lot to raise them
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-iran...

You know who has some cards now? Canada. 🇨🇦

(via B of A) @mark-carney.bsky.social

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Latest Iran poll from NPR/PBS News/Marist conducted Monday-Wednesday finds 44% support/56% oppose military action. The -12 margin of net support is about the same as -11 across six polls conducted through March 3, suggesting initial reactions have persisted maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/war-wi...

Remind your children that they’re fasting because of the Lord and not because you can’t afford groceries.

Tips For Observing Lent https://theonion.com/tips-for-observing-lent/

The Washington Post slashes its newsroom staff.

Has NBC yet responded to criticism thst it muted boos of the vice president at the Olympics? We’re waiting.

How proposed congressional map impacts Northern Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a bill putting Virginia congressional redistricting to a vote. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on the local impact.

On WRC-TV 4 DC talking about Virginia's new NOVA-friendly congressional map, which may go to the voters in April. www.nbcwashington.com/video/news/p...

I will never understand how it wasn't obvious to everyone that crypto has no real function except speculation and crime

Trump threatening tariffs against European countries is an attempt at leverage: analyst YouTube video by CTV News

On CTV News Canada over the weekend talking about President Trump and Greenland.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1usA...