Michael Gauger

Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted. As vaccination rates decline, the economic consequences will increase, research suggests.

"Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted. As vaccination rates decline, the economic consequences will increase."
www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

complete insanity

Apart from the truly revolting nature of his comment, I am fascinated that this is an official photo put out by the White House the other night. It is, presumably, the most flattering one they could find.

It's just possible that the Trump regime doesn't know what the fu@k it is doing.

Pentagon offers no evidence to support claim it attacked Iran in defense The Trump administration’s effort to construct a case for war after shots started flying has few historical parallels.

If you’re the Trump White House this is not the story you want at the top of Politico’s front page. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Journalists slain at record level in 2025, majority by Israel, watchdog says An increasing number of journalists were killed by drones, the Committee to Protect Journalists found. The Israel Defense Forces said it "strongly rejects" the group's findings.

Last year was the deadliest on record for journalists and for the third year in a row, Israel killed more journalists and media workers than any other country. Israel was responsible for 86 deaths, 28 by drone

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

JFC you guys — do better.

He literally shrugged and said “…that’s the way it is…”

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

Every pic of him in the last 48 hours has looked increasingly more Weekend at Bernies

Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN I hope you aren't drunk and took your staff's advice, Rashida and I don't know this man and feel confident he didn't care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self, Replying to: Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace • 6h My heart goes out to Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib tonight. Sending them thoughts and prayers. (Announcement of the ayatollah’s death)

“I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self” is some God-tier Minnesotan passive aggression, could not be prouder of my former congresswoman.

Um, wasn’t this the antiwar president? How many times did Trump say, from 2015 forward, that he was against all these wars? Back in 2016, that it was Hillary Clinton, not him, who was the warmonger. That he was smarter than that. trib.al/AmigBgS

You’d think the fact that Trump has already gotten 3 American soldiers killed with a reckless war of choice would be getting blistering coverage and be pounced on by every Democratic politician in the country

When Biden’s Afghan withdrawal saw casualties at Abbey Gate it nearly ended his presidency

When Trump came to power, he ripped up the peace deal that Obama had made, and used the uncertainty he created as an excuse to bomb Iran, insisting he had ended the problem he had created once and for all, except now he's bombing them again to solve the problem he created and previously solved?

“Trump isn’t responsible for the outcomes of his own war” is honestly an accurate representation of how Republicans want Trump to be treated, like a very special toddler.

Apart from the face that Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who should not be celebrated by anyone, he was as anti-education as they came! Not only did he not go to college, but he dedicated his life to attacking academics (myself included) because they deigned to research/teach on equity.

The Graham corollary to the Powell Doctrine:

If you break it, who cares about fixing it, that’s someone else’s problem.

Just a stunning thing for him to say

The Republican state of Ohio is using the right-wing Salmon P. Chase Center at Ohio State to influence how Ohio schoolchildren are taught the founding documents.
chasecenter.osu.edu/teaching-dec...

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Opinion | The Warner Bros. deal shows the market working As Democrats threaten retaliation, leaving WBD in David Ellison’s hands could be their sweetest revenge.

The Washington Trump-Post says it's a good thing that Trump turned over Warner to campaign contributor Larry Ellison www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Between SOTU, w/its dead pretty lady porn, & the Iran invasion, Trump has juiced the fawning loyalty oaths that had been trailing off of late.

It's not remotely clear it'll have an effect on his general popularity: He's playing to a much-narrowed audience.

Even if it does, what is the encore?

Publishing my normal Sunday polling article early (for obvious reasons):

Trump starts a war with Iran that few Americans support.

Overall support for Trump in early post-strike polling is below that for Afghanistan and Iraq, including among Republicans.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-trum...

Tweet on X by Amir Kiyae reads: Strikes on Iran appear to have hit the home where opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard have been held under house arrest - both are reported safe, but their residence was damaged. Former President Ahmadineiad's home was also targeted. Israel has stated it is targeting Iranian leaders "past, present, and future." This follows previous Israeli strikes on Evin Prison. Draw your own conclusions,

Home of reformist opposition leaders from 2009 Green Movement, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard was also hit by Israeli/US strikes. They have been under house arrest by the regime for over a decade.

If you are an elected official that opposes military strikes on Iran, the head of CBS News will clap back at you. Will be interesting to see if she does this for other objectors, or just Muslim politicians, but it does raise the question how much her views of the Middle East shape the news.

Scott Jennings is the worst. Send tweet.

This is some next-level swiftboating

It isn’t Operation Epic Furry in Pittsburgh until 4th of July weekend.

I’ll just note once again whenever these come out that if I had posted an image like this when I was cleared, I would have gone to prison.

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.