March 4, 2026 at 7:56 AM EST
Last Night's Election Results: Texas, N. Carolina, Arkansas

After the Texas GOP pulled every voter suppression trick in the book, James Talerico seems to have won the Democratic Senate primary. "Seems" to be the winner because as of late last night, so much confusion about which votes were counted, it's hard to be accurate. As of this writing, Jasmine Crockett has not conceded. Still, the Associated Press has called it for James Talerico. UPDATE: Crockett just conceded.

March 4, 2026 at 6:53 AM EST
TX Supreme Court Halts Dallas Co. From Counting Late Votes

Last-minute changes to Election Day voting procedures in two Texas counties yesterday led to hundreds of voters being turned away from polling places JUST AS THEY PLANNED. First, Democratic voters in the area were given two extra hours to cast their ballots after a judge intervened - only to have the state Supreme Court order the county to keep separate any votes cast during the extended voting period.

March 4, 2026 at 6:52 AM EST
Mike's Blog Round-Up

On this day in 1960 Rod Serling's Twilight Zone aired the landmark episode, "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street." It distilled the paranoia of the Cold War into a simple suburban story. When the power goes out on an ordinary American block, the neighbors slowly convince themselves that one of them must be an alien infiltrator. Suspicion spreads, rumors pile up, and within a few hours the friendly neighborhood collapses into accusations, mob behavior, and violence. What made the episode historically important was how bluntly Serling used science fiction to comment on the political climate of the time -- especially the fear, scapegoating, and hysteria of the McCarthy era, when Americans were encouraged to suspect one another of being secret enemies.

March 3, 2026 at 11:00 PM EST
Iranian Dynamite

Open thread below...

March 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM EST
Marco Rubio Did Not Say What He Said

Apparently, the imminent threat of Israel attacking Iran was what started it all. Source: Jerusalem Post

March 3, 2026 at 5:56 PM EST
Trump Declares War On Iran, But Reasons For War Keep Changing

Why did Donald Trump decide to start a war with Iran? The reasons for Trump's Iran War keep changing. Trump admin 'can't keep their story straight' on reason for war with Iran, per an MSNow journalist in the Middle East. Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson tweeted that only 27% of Americans approve of Trump's Iran War. Wilson notes that the most unpopular war in American history, the Vietnam War, had a 29% approval rating.

March 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM EST
Jim Jordan Claims Trump Campaigned On Attacking Iran

Republican Congressman Jim Jordan stretched the norms of reality when he claimed that attacking and then declaring war on Iran was consistent with what Trump told the American people during his 2024 campaign to be president. Does the phrase, "there's a sucker born every minute," hit a nerve?

March 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM EST
New CNN Poll On Attacking Iran Is A Disaster For Trump

In a new CNN poll, a large majority of Americans are against Trump's attack on Iran, while Trump loses more support from the youth vote, and a huge majority don't believe Trump has an actual plan to handle Iran at all. CNN's Dana Bash discussed the latest results.

March 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM EST
'Peace Will Be Yours': Melania Talks 'Children' At UN After Trump Strikes Iranian School

First Lady Melania Trump told the United Nations that she hoped the children of the world could experience "peace" just days after her husband, the president of the United States, was said to have bombed an Iranian girls' school because of outdated maps. While presiding over the UN Security Council on Monday, Melania Trump made a statement in her "capacity as First Lady of the United States."

March 3, 2026 at 1:38 PM EST
Trump Loses Appeal To Delay Supreme Court's Tariff Smackdown

President Donald Trump and his administration lost an appeal that would have delayed a Supreme Court ruling striking down the authority to impose emergency tariffs. In a ruling issued on Monday, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a Trump administration bid to delay the effective date of the Supreme Court's tariff ruling by 90 days.

March 3, 2026 at 9:32 AM EST
Whisky Pete Hegseth: No 'Stupid' Rules Of Engagement

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced to the media that the war with Iran will not include nation building, nor democracy building exercises, nor politically correct wars, and shockingly, no rules of engagement. Pete Hegseth just told the world we are going to commit war crimes whenever we please and you can all fuck off. And if you don't like it, you can fuck all the way off and die.

March 3, 2026 at 9:31 AM EST
'We Have A Superior Culture': Charlie Kirk Show Calls To Deport Muslim-American Reporter

Charlie Kirk Show hosts Blake Neff and Andrew Kolvet called for journalist Mehdi Hasan, a naturalized U.S. citizen, to be deported because he opposed the Department of Education hanging a banner of Kirk because he called college a "scam." During a Monday Charlie Kirk show broadcast, Neff and Kolvet appeared irate about Hasan's opposition to President Donald Trump's Education Department's decision to celebrate Kirk.