Jake Lahut

Boutta catch a flight. Let’s see what insane shit could go down in the next few hours

Well well well

Putting the bat signal out to my sources and reporter pal compadres:

Plz stop texting me about Corey Lewandowski being out too. I’m apprised of the situation

Gonna be a great time for all involved

Gavin Newsom has an event tonight in my old stopping grounds of Portsmouth, NH

I'm sure Lewandowski, committed to the department, will remain as a close adviser to Mullin.

Will be interesting to see how Markwayne Mullin’s difficulties with the English language will play out in this job

There it is: Noem out, Mullin in

I’ll tell ya, it’s not the most reassuring thing to see all these finance guys going on CNBC one after the other to insist the private credit market is totally fine

I worked for Reid for 6 years. Best job I ever had. But it wasn’t easy. When he said stuff that he shouldn’t have- unlike every other elected official- he simply didn’t care. He would shrug his shoulders and expect me to take care of it. this book did a great job of capturing it all

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Trump's PAC Is Already Fundraising Off Of The War With Iran The Never Surrender PAC has put out a typically noisy, hyperbolic fundraising notice. But this time, for war.

A quick blog for the newsletter on one of the more brazen Trump fundraising tactics we’ve seen to date straightfromthehut.substack.com/p/trumps-pac...

well, shit

For what feels like the 100th time this season, even though there are only 80 games, I’m starting to wonder if overtime is the best case scenario here for these Detroit Red Wings

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

Safe to say this did not go well for Gonzales

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.

“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is the WH deputy comms director retweeting himself from his non-govt account

Forgot that Axios uses the Hegseth-ism of “warfighters” in its copy (same with Gulf of America, if you remember that capital D discourse) www.axios.com/2026/03/04/p...

The autopen investigation continued after Mr. Martin was removed from the prosecutor’s office and replaced by Ms. Pirro, but it suffered from several crucial problems, according to the people familiar with the inquiry, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss deliberations that are supposed to remain secret. Investigators were never quite clear what crime, if any, had been committed by the Biden administration’s use of the autopen.

that would be a crucial problem, yes www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...

Trump's PAC Is Already Fundraising Off Of The War With Iran The Never Surrender PAC has put out a typically noisy, hyperbolic fundraising notice. But this time, for war.

One of the major Trump PACs is fundraising off of the war with Iran.

Donations range from $26 and $47 — because of course —all the way up to $3,300. straightfromthehut.substack.com/p/trumps-pac...

‘He Torched His Career’: Republicans Blast Wesley Hunt After His Texas Senate Bid “Ultimately, I feel bad for him,” the executive director of the Senate Leadership Fund told NOTUS.

Put this quote on the epitaph of so many Republicans in the Trump era:

“I’ve never seen so much political potential squandered in such a short amount of time to achieve so little." www.notus.org/2026-electio...

Don’t ask me why, but I’m imagining Trump dictating this while listening to “The Winner Takes It All” by ABBA

An interesting combo of necessity + the Chris LaCivita relationship.

This line also stood out: "Estimates of the added cost of Paxton being the nominee in the general election range from about $80 million to more than $200 million..."

Wow RIP, have only heard extremely weird things and bits of lore about this spot. Bummed I never managed to visit

4 votes

The USHL has some of the wildest marketing stunts you will see in professional sports on this continent lol

The Trump-DeSantis brawl gets an extension, with Trump co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita working for Cornyn and his DeSantis equivalent Jeff Roe working for Paxton.