The GOP roadmap for 26, force a vote on an unpopular bill with social war meat & then hope you can win on trans fear again.

Imagine if the GOP wasn't beholden to the election lie of 2020 & could focus on populist legislation instead of wasting all remaining domestic capital on SAVE act.

A devastating newsletter, in three parts

The Economist cover is sort of hard.

🚨 BREAKING: Massive TSA lines at LaGuardia Airport in NYC stretch into the parking lot.

NEW: Last year, a former modeling agent who famously introduced Trump and Melania asked a top ICE official to have the mother of his son detained. Paolo Zampolli told the official that it would help him in a custody battle. The ICE official agreed to help. nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/…

As someone who was in this line at 7am today, the only way to survive was in the Clear regular line. If only we had a working govt to fix this.

Punchbowl with a pretty significant report this morning, that more or less puts Trump now on the hook for the TSA funding lapse.

It's hard to imagine a dumber political strategy to respond to long TSA lines than sending personnel from an agency that 2/3s of Americans don't like and declaring you won't fund TSA unless the Senate passes the politically toxic SAVE Act.

How Conservative Women in America act 😂🇺🇸

We had a 100-0 bipartisan deal in the Senate and the House blew it up because the Republicans who run Congress apparently don’t talk to each other and prefer chaos.

Another weekend with hardly any officials from the White House/State Department/Defense Department on the Sunday public affairs programs. Networks asked; interview requests were declined.

“HOLY FUCKING SHIT” - Dan Hurley’s Mom was all of us after that shot

Wow, the hiring rate in February, per the latest JOLTS report, hit the same level it did in April 2020

These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

Margaret Brennan ticks through Trump's ever-changing talking points about his strategy in Iran over the interruptions of Rep. Mike Turner, who is embarrassing himself on national TV again today

The blasphemy continues. Trump depicts himself as Jesus, his apparatchik compares Trump to Jesus and reporters to Pharisees, Trump reposts an image of Jesus hugging him. The hardened hearts of his most hypocritical apologists have been laid bare since Easter. No excuses left.

COMMENTARY: It’s Time for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to Recognize Howard Stern The class of 2026 includes a posthumous honor for Ed Sullivan; the “King of All Media” should be next. rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…