In a Deep Red Town, Locals Vent Over a Planned ICE Detention Center

Trump is trying to warehouse deportees in the backyards of Trump voters and guess what? They're not happy. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’

This is a scary news story. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.

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trump wound up giving iran massively more control over the global energy market than it had before he started the war. job well done sir

Still, Alex Wellerstein, a historian who studies nuclear conflicts, said that even if Mr. Trump does not carry out the extent of his threat, the president’s violent rhetoric damages his credibility as a negotiator and his country’s standing in the world.

This is pretty much the mildest thing I said about the current situation... perhaps for the best, though... every time I talk to a reporter I come away feeling totally unhinged, because I'm being asked "normal" questions about totally insane things.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran

The C.I.A. director used one word to describe the Israeli prime minister’s regime change scenarios: “farcical.”

At that point, Mr. Rubio cut in. “In other words, it’s bullshit,” he said. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

From the summer of 2016, when the American people were debating whether to invest the ultimate power in Donald Trump or in Hillary Clinton. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/st...

In three straight elections, more Americans voted for someone else.

53.91% for Clinton or other
53.15% for Biden or other
50.2% for Harris or other

Vance heads to Hungary as MAGA ally Orban trails in polls Viktor Orban, who has built strong ties to the MAGA movement and the Kremlin, faces a tough electoral challenge from center-right candidate Peter Magyar on April 12.

“Orban’s government—bankrolled in part by cheap Russian energy—poured money into a network of think tanks that became hubs for MAGA & nationalist ideology, & that in turn provided channels for the Kremlin to filter its talking points to U.S. right-wing groups.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In

Always fascinating to watch The Times grapple with pure absurdity/lunacy. Good kicker quote, though. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company

Two months + $20k + A.I. + no other humans = a $1.8 billion business.

Now? “I kind of want to hire people because I’m lonely.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/t...

Their tiny church is on the cover of JD Vance’s new book. They don’t know him. The members of a tiny Methodist church in Virginia are excited — if a little confused — that Vance’s memoir of his path to Catholicism has put them in the spotlight.

"The modest church on the cover of Vice President JD Vance’s new memoir unpacking his Catholic faith has a tiny but loyal congregation. What it doesn’t have, members said: any connection to Vance or Catholicism." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Opinion | ‘Everything After This Will Be Harder’: Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Iran

Gen. McChrystal: “I even have a problem with the word ‘warrior.’ … Traditionally, warriors were separate from soldiers. And the difference between an army and a mob is discipline and leadership and the uniform code of military justice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

The Grande Dame of the Epstein Files Peggy Siegal, once the most powerful publicist in New York, defends herself.

The final paragraph is shocking and sublime. nymag.com/intelligence...

Judge Jeanine’s Big Audition Many in Trumpworld are circling the newly open job of attorney general — including Jeanine Pirro.

"'If Donald Trump were to shoot someone in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue,' I ask her, 'would you prosecute him?'

Pirro leans back in her chair and thinks for a moment."

Ben Terris with an impeccably-timed profile of Judge Jeanine: nymag.com/intelligence...

My favorite Perry Mason moment from the new Acting Attorney General:
"You went on TikTok and called me a 'crying little shit,' didn't you?"

What Happened to Pam Bondi? How the attorney general became a person who loves telling Trump yes

“The overwhelming thing you have to understand about Pam is her debilitating insecurity."

Revealing Pam Bondi profile from January: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Poland PM: 🇵🇱

Can a Journalist Be a Celebrity Anymore?

“He still reads a rough draft of each article on speakerphone to his mother and father.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...

Trump’s Ballroom Design Has Barely Been Scrutinized (Gift Article) A stairway to nowhere: Three months that could change the White House for generations.

The south portico has no doors into the ballroom. And all of the columns will block views and daylight from inside. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | What Jackie and Ethel Kennedy Knew

“Love Story” began as a glossy time capsule of ‘90s NY, lapsed into cloying repetition of privileged irritability, & finished with the character of Carolyn’s mother commandeering the story for one gripping scene—featuring the coiled grief of Constance Zimmer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/o...

The Kennedy Center’s longest-serving volunteer fears ‘this is the end’ Marilyn Schoon has given her heart to the national cultural center since 1972, a year after its inception. But she no longer fully trusts it.

Washington is comprised of good people who do thankless work because they believe in building and maintaining goodness. Thank you to Marilyn and Bill for volunteering at the Kennedy Center. And to Janay Kingsberry for writing about them. wapo.st/4lRlgXc

How Doodles Became the Dog du Jour Poodle crossbreeds have grown overwhelmingly popular, sparking controversy in dog parks and kennel clubs alike.

“‘It’s not the doodles I hate. It’s the people who own them.’” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

We’d Be Winning This War if It Weren’t for Your Coverage Clap! Why don’t you clap?

"Please stop asking questions about the $2 million that the Department of War has spent on crab in September alone. This is tactical crab." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

A Mar-a-Lago flip: Dems win Trump's hometown Florida House district Tuesday's results add more tallies to a trend of Democrats flipping Republican-held seats in state legislatures across the country over the past 14 months.

Trump, Melania & Barron all voted by mail in the House District 87 election. The president requested his mail-in ballot March 14; on Monday he referred to voting by mail as "cheating." www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.

"These are the largest single points of consumption of electricity in history." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Excitement of Friendship “I really live only when I am with my friends.”

"The wind should rather blow through the dusty regions of the mind, and the sun light up its dark corners, and thinking & talking should be saner and higher and more joyful than within doors. But one must have a friend along to open the windows."

From Dec. 1912: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...