@markjacob.bsky.social
Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe! It's free.
Hegseth is supposed to be talking about war, but he focuses on rewriting the media's headlines. And he makes it clear that the Trump regime expects sweetheart treatment from an Ellison-owned CNN: "The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better."
Headline from 1984. Yet the Trump regime was surprised in 2026.
The guy who bankrupted casinos has caused the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.
The team that accidentally invited a reporter to a top secret military discussion was taken by surprise when the Iranians closed the Strait of Hormuz.
Is it possible that the U.S. game-planned for the war without realizing Iran might shut the Strait of Hormuz?
Is it possible that the U.S. didn’t game-plan at all but simply acted on Trump’s “feelings“?
Another favor to the Russians by Trump.
Trump is taking credit for the United States being 250 years old.
A competent White House would have been ready to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz from the get-go, not weeks after launching an illegal war and causing what the International Energy Agency calls “the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market."
U.S. leaders were told: "declare victory and go home" in Vietnam as early as 1966, but fought for 7 more years and thousands of pointless deaths
The Trump regime has lost an even more senseless war in Iran in just 2 weeks. The time for leaving is now
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
If the U.S. president can't guarantee the safety of participants in the World Cup, then the World Cup shouldn't be played in the U.S.
This will work because, for all intents and purposes, Stephen Miller IS running GOP policy.
Trump's donors.
Trump says when oil prices go up, “we make a lot of money.”
Just to be clear: “we” is not you.
Up to 3.2 million Iranians and 800,000 Lebanese have been displaced from their homes by the Trump-Netanyahu war. That’s the equivalent of emptying the entire cities of Houston and Philadelphia.
Look for peace in the year 2073.
There is a reason every other president refused Bibi’s invitation to start a regional war. Trump was the only one dumb enough to take the bait.
ICE is still acting like ICE. Abolish ICE.
Understatement of the year from the New York Times: ”The president sometimes exaggerates or is imprecise when giving figures.”
I wrote this back in October. It's media malpractice not to write prominently about the mental unfitness of Donald Trump.
Biden was old in 2024. Trump is old and out of his mind in 2026.
There is some really impressive investigative reporting being done on the horrific Iran school bombing. This is journalism at its best- fearless, diligent & following the facts wherever they lead. In this case, straight to the Trump administration. My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
Trump calls the war with Iran "an excursion that will keep us out of a war."
He's completely detached from reality – mentally unfit to be president.
Republicans go along with the madness because it means temporary money and power to them while our country burns.
@markjacob.bsky.social of Stop the Presses thinks both the media and Democrats need to make Stephen Miller the ugly poster child for the fascist assault on our country.
Why?
It will help the public better understand the Trump regime’s frightening goals.
Trump has known this for days but chose to lie about it. Because that’s what he does. That’s what he is.
Oh, please. Wounded Knee was unacceptable too.
"Another Middle East war is exactly what the young voters and voters of color who flocked to Trump in 2024 did not sign up for."
Greg Sargent on how the supposed political "realignment" is unraveling.
Mass murder isn’t acceptable just because it happens under an American flag.
Trump avoids a clear description of what victory looks like in the Iran war so that he can declare "mission accomplished" no matter what happens.
Sen. Rick Scott in 2022: “The buck stops with one person. Joe Biden made your gas prices go up. He did it. He actually did it.”
Scott today, 14 months after Trump took over: "Unfortunately, [gasoline] prices are gonna be up for a while."
Trump said yesterday about the war with Iran: “It’s going to be a short-term excursion.”
In 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said about the impending Iraq War: “Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”
It lasted eight years.
The College Republicans of America have named Kai Schwemmer as the organization's political director. Schwemmer is an avowed and overt supporter of racist antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Thanks, Pups.