Marissa Rothkopf

Here's the @balint.house.gov exchange I wrote up earlier. Thanks to @atrupar.com for clipping it.

So now the total number of countries attacked by Trump is 8. 9 if you count his sending US military into US cities.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

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When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

totally was worth it.

Hiring a white, male insider to turn the brand around isn't what Target needs.

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This is the man who decided we should go to war.

Scenes from a personalist regime

You don't want to read this, but you should.

OK, that's enough internet for me for today.

Never has a nation so powerful put so much at risk so recklessly.

Not an exaggeration.

YouTube video by The Secret Life of Cookies Live with Lt General Mark Hertling and Marissa Rothkopf: Leadership, Strength and Cookies

Hours after the attack on Iran, I interviewed Lt. Gen@markhertling.bsky.social about the breaking news & his book "If I Don't Return" about his yrs as a soldier and leader..I cried reading it. Kindness and intelligence in a leader makes me weep these days. Pls watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYUn...

"You can be a genius and kind and one of those things does not have to come at the expense of the other."

Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic’s Claude AI tool, people familiar with the matter confirmed. Centcom declined to comment about specific systems being used in its ongoing operation against Iran. The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire.

That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

He is hubris in a suit, tie and red,white and blue pocket square.

I SWEAR I spit out my muesli when I read this.

Someone didn’t finish his copy of How to Make Friends and Influence People.

For real? I was there moments before @harrylitman.bsky.social. You could’ve come over and made soufflé in person…a live Secret life of Cookies podcast!

The Week Ahead February 27, 2026

Lots of tails wagging lots of dogs this week. Trump clearly wants you to forget there are documents about him missing from the Epstein files. But I devote most of this piece to a quiet phenomenon: federal judges, declaring war on ICE open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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

@alonpinkas.bsky.social You didn’t actually think that was oil in those tanks in Elizabeth did you??

I read this article with horror. Inhuman.

Love this. Beautiful.

Live with Lt General Mark Hertling and Marissa Rothkopf: Leadership, Strength and Cookies A recording from Marissa Rothkopf's live video

Here's a link to the recording. open.substack.com/pub/marissar...

pay attention.

Live at 10 AM with Lt. General Mark Hertling My live event with Lt.

What a morning to have Lt. General Mark Hertling as my guest. We discussed the latest w Iran, and why character, values and listening are vital to good leadership... (And his imp new book, If I Don't Return). A must-listen. @markhertling.bsky.social

marissarothkopf.substack.com/p/live-at-10...

This is the Epstein War. There is no imminent threat from Iran. There is no public support or authorization for war. Regime change is highly unlikely. This is about a domestic threat to Trump not a foreign threat to the nation. Trump is desperate to change the conversation from the Epstein scandal.

JFC

Senator calls for DEA to provide info on "incredibly disturbing" Epstein drug investigation Federal drug enforcement investigators targeted Jeffrey Epstein and 14 others in a yearslong probe first reported by CBS News.

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.