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Also, apparently the White House thinks Walter White was a good guy.

Crude oil is now up 49.65% so far this year.

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And these job losses in February were BEFORE the war and the shock in energy prices.

I'll also note that we still appear to be missing a ton of pages from this woman's file. There were at least *53 pages* missing (that we know about) and we still don't seem to have all of them — specifically the FBI's contemporaneous notes for these interviews

37 pages

Our New Iran Correspondent | The New York Times Company

This is the kind of journalist an editor yearns for at a time like this: A Persian-fluent reporter w/ deep experience covering Iranian politics and policies.

She used to work at the Washpost.

Then Bezos dismantled the international coverage.

Now she’s at the NYT

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Anyway, like I said earlier today, we'll see how long Trump stays mad at Tucker and keeps him out of the MAGA club.

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Tucker Carlson, to his Fox News producers in January 2021: "We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can't wait."

"I hate him passionately. ... I can't handle much more of this."

Of course, the whole centrist posturing is a scam, considering half the network’s roster hails from Fox News and Bill O'Reilly just guest hosted last night.

And Nexstar, the company that owns NewsNation, is cozying up to Trump to help push through its local TV merger with Tegna.

NewsNation, the supposedly centrist, non-partisan, down-the-middle network that only wants to report the news, is out here cheering on Karoline Leavitt for berating Kaitlan Collins and using that to promote themselves.

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.

Iran appeared to surveil center where U.S. forces were killed in Kuwait, Army memo says In the week before an Iranian retaliatory strike that killed six U.S. service members, Iranian intelligence was likely able to identify and track American forces, according to a memo reviewed by CBS N...

New: Army memo said Iranian intelligence was likely able to identify and track the American service members who moved to the tactical operations center in Kuwait that was struck by a drone killing six. Smaller drones were suspected of conducting aerial recon. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-ap...

Vet whose arm was broken during Senate briefing can get ‘kind of riled up,’ mom says Exclusive: Marine Corps veteran Brian McGinnis, whose wife is Palestinian, ‘has strong feelings’ about the Middle East, his mother told The Independent

"Marine Corps veteran Brian McGinnis, whose wife is Palestinian, ‘has strong feelings’ about the Middle East, his mother told The Independent."

@justinrohrlich.bsky.social spoke to McGinnis' mom, who said she still couldn't bring herself to watch the video.

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Donald, the Dove

In a lengthy conversation just now, President Trump hit back at Tucker Carlson who called the Iran war “absolutely disgusting and evil.” "Tucker has lost his way,” Trump told me. “I knew that a long time ago, and he's not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that."

We'll see if Trump fully boots Tucker out of his inner circle and keeps attacking him over Iran.

Last year, he called Tucker "kooky" after Carlson criticized him for the Iran strikes and saber rattling, only to welcome the ex-Fox star back into the fold in short order.

CNN's Kasie Hunt: Do you expect the confirmation of Markwayne Mulling to be bipartisan?

Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT): "Well, Markwayne is -- he's respected, he‘s honest and he‘s competent... people respect Markwayne."

Hunt: "Hmm, interesting."

Fetterman is basically a reactionary now: there is no real effort to explain why Mullin - a buffoon who spent the week insisting we are not at war with Iran - is qualified. Trump nominated Mullin, and that’s good enough for him.

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He wasted no time...

Bari Weiss Is Going Full ‘Propaganda-Palooza’ With the Iran War The CBS News war coverage is going exactly as we thought it would. Plus, Gayle King goes 'all in' on Weiss, while CNN commentator Scott Jennings sucks up to her.

“It was naive to think she would stand on principle when that much money was on the line,” a CBS reporter told me about Gayle King's new contract. “A lot of people were disappointed that she didn’t use her position to speak up. Instead, she rolled over for a fat paycheck.”

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Just the cherry on the top that Noem goes out by spouting out another falsehood.

George Orwell did not say this:

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Corey Lewandowski is expected to leave DHS with Kristi Noem, according to Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich.

A Whte House source also says that "t was a combination of her many unfortunate leadership failures. From MN to the ad campaign to the allegations of an affair."

BREAKING: Trump Axes His Puppy Killer Kristi Noem is out at the Department of Homeland Security, partly for a very silly reason. The department will remain under the control of Stephen Miller.

by far the best, ballsiest, and most in-depth story on noem's firing so far. @swin24.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social @zeteo.com open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

Amazing!

Elon Musk Is Backing ‘JD Vance 2.0.’ Some Republicans Aren’t Sure That’s a Good Thing So far, Musk’s super PAC money has done little to sway a Kentucky race.

Elon Musk is backing “JD Vance 2.0.” It's not clear that’s a winning strategy.

BREAKING: Trump Axes His Puppy Killer Kristi Noem is out at the Department of Homeland Security, partly for a very silly reason. The department will remain under the control of Stephen Miller.

"Donald Trump has fired Kristi Noem – his monstrous Homeland Security secretary – for what may be the stupidest reason possible."

Check out @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social on the firing of Kristi Noem.

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There it is: Noem out, Mullin in

Gas prices are now higher than when Trump took office.

PAT RYAN: 'Does the US want to be the policeman of the Middle East getting nothing but spending precious lives & trillions.' Rng a bell?

COLBY: Defer to you

R: That was Trump. How about this - 'we simply cannot afford to get enmeshed in a Middle East war'

C: Defer to you

R: That was actually you