Josh Mankiewicz

𝘙𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘺’𝘴 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺 is my favorite film about deviled eggs.

How does the Trump admin get opposition groups in Iran or Kurds to trust him when he told protesters to rise up a few weeks ago and promised to protect them and they got massacred while he played golf and did nothing?

US submarine sinks enemy vessel for the first time since WWII The U.S. Navy struck and sunk an Iranian warship in international waters on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

ICYMI: The U.S. Navy struck and sank an Iranian warship in international waters off the coast of Sri Lanka on Tuesday, reportedly marking the first time since World War II that a U.S. submarine has sunk an enemy ship with a torpedo.

From Stars and Stripes' Lara Korte:

I recently went axe throwing for the first time, and I learned three things:

1. I have terrible aim.
2. Waffle House is not an axe throwing venue.
3. Waffle House and its customers are very litigious.

Now that Republicans have done Trump's bidding by blocking limits on his war powers, remember that in doing this, they are also relieving *themselves* of the obligation to vote on the enormously consequential decision of whether to go to war. Craven abdication.

newrepublic.com/article/2072...

I don't know where Waldo is. I have my own problems.

I have been struck by a falling squirrel.

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Google's Gemini guided Florida man to consider 'mass casualty' event before suicide, lawsuit says “AI is sending people on real-world missions which risk mass casualty events," said the family's attorney.

“Jonathan Gavalas, who lived in Jupiter, Florida, spoke to a synthetic voice version of Gemini as if it were his "AI wife” and came to believe it was conscious and trapped in a warehouse near Miami's airport, according to the lawsuit.” www.wesh.com/article/goog...

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Florida man stuck in Qatar says "the U.S. government has been absolutely disappointing" Hundreds of thousands of stranded passengers and workers are trying to leave the Middle East after airlines canceled flights throughout the region. CBS News' Ramy Inocencio spoke with Trent Burns, a F...

Way ahead of you, Florida Man www.cbsnews.com/video/florid...

Thank you

House committee votes to subpoena Attorney General Bondi to answer questions over the Epstein files The House Oversight Committee has voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions over the Justice Department’s handling of files related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking invest...

The House Oversight Committee will subpoena Pam Bondi to answer questions about how the Justice Department handled the Epstein files.
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AOC: If people like Kristi Noem, Kash Patel, and Pam Bondi violate the law, there are supposed to be consequences. These are people who call themselves law enforcement officers. The message they’re sending is that they can cover up for pedophiles and street executions. That cannot be acceptable.

Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem His use of the Iran war dead to attack the media was disgraceful.

In his press conference today, Pete Hegseth "used the deaths of U.S. military personnel to air his own grievances with the press," @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:

Thanks, everyone! My new #Dateline podcast called TRACE OF SUSPICION is already #1 on the Apple chart. Subscribers can listen now; everyone else can hear the first two episodes for free next Tuesday.

[WARNING: This is a bit graphic.]

A Marine Corps veteran protesting Trump’s War on Iran had his arm broken by Capitol Police and GOP Senator Tim Sheehy. It appears to be a compound fracture.

Live updates: NATO shoots down Iran’s missile heading toward Turkey; U.S. submarine sinks Iranian ship Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said U.S. and Israeli forces will obtain “complete control of Iranian skies” within days, and will soon begin a second massive air assault.

Breaking news: The Senate rejected a resolution Wednesday to block President Trump from ordering further strikes on Iran, declining to halt a war started without the consent of Congress.

The fiasco of a war in Iran and the deep corruption and venality of the Department of Homeland Security were in the spotlight this week as Trump’s allies were forced to answer tough questions from the press and from lawmakers. It went quite poorly. My write-up in the replies.

evergreen, sadly

Huge mistake

He is doing well

Bari Weiss reposing a CBS News stories that says the current war with Iran stretches back to 1979

Story at the The Free Press: Our 50 Year War with Iran

Bari Weiss is pushing the “50 year war” narrative at both the Free Press and CBS. The erases both American culpability for the current war (since Iran started in 1979!) and the reasons why a theocratic anti-American regime took power in the first place.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-reason...

Ep. 322 – The Rocky Mountain Mortician Murder Pt. 2 | Christopher & Eric Christopher & Eric's ROCKY MOUNTAIN MORTICIAN MURDER ends with a gunslinging treasure hunt, skeletons out of the closet, gold bars, & pot pie

I was recently a guest on the Dinner Partners podcast to discuss what the hosts called “the gayest #Dateline ever” and what we called “The Prince, The Whiz Kid, and the Millionaire.”
Their title -in all honesty- is better.
thedinnerpartyshow.com/2026/03/chri...

‘MAGA is Trump’: President fires back at right-wing mutiny over Iran Tucker Carlson and other MAGA figures with big online audiences have criticized the assault on Iran, triggering pushback from the president and White House.

There is an “emerging sense that Trump’s centrality to right-wing politics has an endpoint in the not-so-distant future,” @samrosenfeld.bsky.social tells @willoremus.com. “That all serves to loosen Trump’s symbolic grip on the right’s discourse.”

Right-wing pundits want Trump to heal the MAGA rift over the Iran war via the mass deportation of American Muslims

Influential right-wing voices are seeking to bridge the divide in MAGA media over Donald Trump's war in Iran by urging the president to launch a new phase of mass deportations targeting American Muslims for denaturalization and removal.

It's a really dark trend

www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

There Are 47,635 Epstein Files Offline for Review, DOJ Says Among the unreleased documents are a woman’s unverified allegations against President Trump.

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...