David Rothkopf

NEW: A judge ordered the US government to refund Trump's illegally collected tariffs.

It was theft in broad daylight.

I'm pushing Donald Trump to give the American people their money back.

While not much unites the hardliners in Iran and those seeking democracy in that country, I’m pretty sure they’d all agree that Trump should not be involved in picking their next leader.

Apprentice: Iran

If you are Gen X, Millenial, Gen Z or Gen Alpha, you have essentially never known a moment in your adult life when the U.S. has not been preparing to fight, fighting, supporting or teeing up the conditions to fight an unnecessary, costly war in the Middle East.

Opinion | Trump's claim that Iran was close to a nuclear weapon included an obvious tell Jarvis DeBerry: Trump’s use of “two weeks” is enough by itself to warrant our skepticism.

I’m delighted to be included among the experts that @ms.now cites to debunk Trump’s absurd claim that Iran was “two weeks from a bomb.” www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

A bubble masking a recession. That doesn't sound good.

PAULSEN: ".. 90% of private sector real GDP is only growing at 1% while U.S. job creation has flatlined. Technology may be the tail wagging the dog, but the rest is a recession by any other name!"

Centrists should brace themselves for Democrats who are fed up with their capitulation, Reagan-lite economics and morality-blind foreign policy. Times up. Corporate Dems failed the country. Time to return to the roots of the party and tap into the energy of young voters who have a different vision.

Watch Tim Walz school the worst of the worst GOP bigots Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison testified before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday, where GOP Reps. James Comer of Kentucky and Nancy Mace of South Carolina failed ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz told House Republicans their fraud claims didn’t hold up—at one point reminding Rep. James Comer that Minnesota’s Medicaid error rate is lower than Kentucky’s.

The hearing didn’t quite go the way they planned.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

This is a president willing to burn down democracy in America in order to keep himself out of jail.

A key precept of the Trumpian ethos is that immigration is a threat not only to American culture but to its prosperity. Despite what the president says, evidence shows that immigrants do far more to aid the American labor force than to hinder it. trib.al/v8VG3c5

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......

A majority of Harris voters lived in Trump states.

A majority of Trump voters in 2020 lived in Biden states.

Democrats have won 42-46% of the vote in the South in every presidential election over the past three decades.

States and regions of the country aren’t monoliths

Yeah, this clip will certainly be shown as evidence at the trials.

We’re carrying out the dumbest war under the supervision of two D-list TV personalities bragging about our war crimes and all the fast food CEOs are competing over who can take the biggest bites of their burgers.

Some are calling it the most American moment in history.

Seems fair.

When Stephen miller starts shrieking on Fox that’s always when you know things are going great

Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Making Us Poorer—and Sicker Despite what the president says, evidence shows that immigrants do far more to aid the American labor force than to hinder it.

"Immigrants have helped reduce deficits every year between 1994 and 2023, in large part because the amount they pay in taxes outstrips the cost of the benefits they receive." trib.al/JUH1lJ3

The Year Texas Might Turn Blue The stars are aligning for Democrats

With candidates at the top of the ticket who can pull Hispanic voters (Talarico for Senate and Hinojosa for governor), Ds have the best chance to arrest the slide of Hispanic voters and to punish Rs for the attempt to rig midterms through mid-decade redistricting. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Thanks.

@djrothkopf.bsky.social @joecirin.bsky.social @edwardluce.bsky.social @jonatomic.bsky.social can’t say it’s going to help me sleep better, but excellent discussion nonetheless. thank you.

@joecirin.bsky.social, @jonatomic.bsky.social and @edwardluce.bsky.social join @djrothkopf.bsky.social to discuss the current situation in Iran, what this means for the US, and why we’re even there in the first place. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

youtu.be/9vt_-eA2JgI

Thanks to @djrothkopf.bsky.social for inviting me on to assess the war and where it may be heading. Good to be with @joecirin.bsky.social and @edwardluce.bsky.social

@paxsapiens.bsky.social

www.mediaite.com Sen. Mark Kelly Says ‘Random Group Of People ’ Could Do A Better Job on Iran Than Trump Admin

Sen. Mark Kelly Says ‘Random Group Of People Off The Street’ Could Do A Better Job on Iran Than Trump Administration Mediaite

Trump Follows His Gut. His National Security Advisers Try to Keep Up.

David Sanger captures a core problem we face very well in this piece (and not just because he quotes me in it.)
Trump Follows His Gut. His National Security Advisers Try to Keep Up. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...

Putin is having a really, big-time, shitty week and I am here for it brothers and sisters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As predicted. This is why you don’t let Republicans control our government. Period. Full stop.

Capitalism thrives in darkness.

We reserve the right to choose the leader of every country and to impose the death penalty on those we don’t like.

The Coming Invasion of Iran The U.S. and Israel are arming Kurdish groups to stage an incursion. What could go wrong?

Highly recommended by @arashtehran.bsky.social

“According to this person, the operation is to be led by the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (known by its Kurdish initials PDKI), whose leader, Mustafa Hijri, spoke by phone with Donald Trump yesterday.”

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...