Jonathan Cohn

2 things:
This ENTIRE administration is simultaneously giving Pre-Teen and Rapist vibes
And
MEDIAITE’s logo reminds me of a local IGA store. My mom worked at the local Nap’s IGA before it became Nap’s Thriftway.

Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.

US taxpayers will now have to pay $700 million a month in interest for every month Trump refuses to refund tariffs under the Supreme Court ruling. So much winning.

This is true. Gotta educate every voter about every ballot question in Nov, including this one.

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

“Slurs Filled a Chat” as if by magic! Who can say how those slurs teleported into that chat! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

David Ellison Just Shared His Vision For CNN Post-Merger — And It’s Raising Eyebrows While Ellison said CNN's editorial independence won't be compromised, people weren't entirely convinced by his explanation.

“It’s maintained at CBS, it’ll be maintained at CNN.”

But, of course, it has not been maintained at all at CBS.

www.huffpost.com/entry/paramo...

He keeps talking about how he won't get into heaven. This has to have an impact on his decisions. Has anyone written about this?

ffffuck i forgot about this

your new DHS secretary, everyone:

This is what Hegseth promised. He should spend the rest of his life in a jail cell.

Live Updates: Iran Denies Firing Missile at Turkey as Crisis Spills Beyond Middle East

Spiraling out

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says Ukraine's president says Kyiv will only help if doing so does not deplete its own air defences.

w e a s k e d w h o f o r w h a t n o w

Sean O'Brien is a fascist who loves the boss's boot. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

This is a war for Christian nationalism.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

"No stupid rules of engagement." — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 2, 2026

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East." — Reuters, March 5, 2026

37 pages

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

It's wild that that quote gets even worse after the "I guess."

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

From here:
people.com/trump-says-i...

Historians looking back on the 2026 midterms and trying to explain how the Democrats managed to thrash Republicans will point to many causes—but let me suggest that they should pay attention to these two words right here:

"I guess."

Worse than the worst War on Terror drone strikes. By innocents killed, worse than multiple of the worst drone strike errors combined.

The restrictions Miller and Hegseth railed against were designed to prevent us from doing things like slaughtering children en masse.

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

Exclusive: Trump demands immediate pardon for Netanyahu to focus on Iran "I want him to focus on the war and not on the f*cking court case," Trump told Axios.

The brazen corruption never ends. www.axios.com/2026/03/05/t...

This is a great read, and this section is the fundamental thing for me. What we are seeing with Platner is the increased normalization of Nazism. We cannot have *both* major parties be places where Nazism is accepted.

This is far more threatening to American Jews than anyone's policy views toward Israel

First poll I've seen on support for impeaching Trump over his handling of the Epstein files www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/2/...

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

According to President Zelenskyy, countries in the Middle East fired about 800 patriot missiles in just three days — more than Ukraine has had during the entire war.