Donald Trump told Axios that he expects to be involved in selecting Iran's next Supreme Leader. The foreign policy establishment immediately began hyperventilating about sovereignty and norms and "the optics." The rest of us noticed that Trump is probably right. Technically, the Assembly of Experts picks the Supreme Leader — 88 clerics sitting in a room deciding who gets to control one of the most destabilizing regimes on the planet. Technically. But when your country has just absorbed a thousand military casualties and your air defense network looks like a screen door, "technically" does a lot of heavy lifting. Trump ...Continue reading

Texas Republicans just spent $122 million to not make a decision. John Cornyn clocked in at 41.9%, Ken Paxton at 40.7%, and Wesley Hunt at a distant 13.5% — meaning nobody hit 50%, and now we get to do this whole thing again on May 26. The most expensive Senate primary in American history, and we're still in overtime. Your donors thank you. Cornyn is the quintessential swamp creature — the kind of Republican who shows up to D.C. and uses seniority to help Democrats pass gun control. After Uvalde, he negotiated the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act with red flag ...Continue reading

Elizabeth Warren just got steamrolled on live TV, and it couldn't have happened to a more deserving person. During a Capitol Hill hearing, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent flipped the script on the Massachusetts senator—and then ran it through a shredder. Warren tried to corner Bessent on President Trump calling the so-called “affordability crisis” a hoax. But Bessent didn’t flinch. Instead, he calmly explained that yes, there’s a crisis—one *created* by Warren and Joe Biden. Not Trump. Bessent said, “It was you and President Biden who destroyed the buying power of the American people.” Boom. Game over. Warren, somehow still thinking ...Continue reading

When your political vocabulary is as shaky as your policy positions, things can go sideways fast — just ask Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The congresswoman from New York is going viral for all the wrong reasons after a laugh-out-loud mistake she made while trying to defend disgraced former CNN anchor Don Lemon. In a heated rant posted on X, AOC tried to cast Lemon as a martyr of the evil Trump administration, claiming he’s being targeted to send a message to the media and public dissenters. But instead of landing a fiery defense, she lit up the internet with one hilariously botched ...Continue reading