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[David French @DavidAFrench]

"In their arrogance, Trump and Netanyahu defied their predecessors in all the worst ways, and now they court a profound defeat when, not long ago, a meaningful victory, however partial, was well within their grasp." https://t.co/ua3ByowXno

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Paint was seen peeling from the floor of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, weeks after a $14 million renovation that included a new color President Trump called “American Flag Blue.”

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Fox Sports is set to earn at least a quarter-billion dollars from commercials shown during the new 'hydration breaks' at the World Cup. ⚽️

https://t.co/1JpJ0x5SSp

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

President Trump has made a series of decisions that have confounded Republicans and are challenging his grip on the party https://t.co/LQodEVuZqh

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Trump administration is backing off a plan to end an ocean monitoring system critical to understanding climate change. https://t.co/u1coejtfde

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

Also, TOM COTTON on SAVE America Act on Fox News:

"The reality is we don't have 50 votes for it right now as it's written, much less 60 votes. "

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

moscow today. hard to find a bigger strategic mistake since the wall came down than putin deciding to invade ukraine.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

President Trump wanted the Reflecting Pool to be an American-flag blue—“instead, he’s gotten a swamp,” @mviser says. He reports from Washington, D.C., on the foiled project that cost taxpayers at least $16.4 million: https://t.co/oU4d7lkRa3

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Western officials and experts describe the memorandum to end the Iran war as a flawed document with vague terms that put the onus on the U.S. to deliver concessions.

By threatening to resume bombing, President Trump may have already breached one provision. https://t.co/L2fvluTfco

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

the faster trump can get iran headlines behind him, the better (for trump).

one of many reasons that progress on us/iran nuclear negotiations are low.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump’s grift will be caught. It always gets caught.

The insider trading, the crypto grift, the international bribes, the ballroom donors getting contracts, the pardons going for five to ten million dollars a piece, there will be a reckoning for all of it.

It’s disgusting, but here’s the silver lining I want to leave people with.

If we get a reform-based president after this, they now have a complete playbook.

Every norm broken, every standard flouted, every weakness in the system exposed, it’s all documented.

That’s actually the roadmap for reform.

Trump has been so brazen about all of it that he’s inadvertently shown us exactly what needs to be fixed.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

NYT: A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas weeks after Defense Secretary Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.

https://t.co/fFIt8Mhyzg

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

I guess the pivot now is to blame our allies for a war we started and lost

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

Gas prices are back below $4 for the first time since March 30.

The AAA average gas price fell to $3.999 today.
That's still a dollar above where gas prices were before the war in Iran began. But it's a psychological milestone to see prices drop below $4 again

Warning: Getting back below $3.50 could be harder. In 2022, it took until after Thanksgiving to get back below $3.50

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

"The United States is conducting an operation to eliminate the threat of Iran’s short-range ballistic missiles"

"...the purpose of this is to destroy that missile capability."

"our mission and our focus is the destruction of their ballistic missile capabilities"

"the objective of this mission is the destruction of their ballistic missile capabilities"

"I’m telling you what the objectives of this operation are.  The objectives of this operation are to destroy their ballistic missile capability and make sure they can’t rebuild it, and make sure that they can’t hide behind that to have a nuclear program.  That’s the objective of the mission."
-- Marco Rubio, 3/2/26

https://t.co/yNCUakGrmx

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: Putin has presented a fake image of Russia to the world. He talks about leading a traditional society

In reality, divorce is very high, abortion is common, very few Russians go to church and less than 5% have ever read a Bible. It's not a traditional culture at all 1/

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

having read the memorandum, you can understand why trump wanted to keep it private.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Edited comments of Sen Marco Rubio, R-Fl, September 2016, raising questions about providing billions to Iran as part of a nuclear deal given the regime’s funding of terrorism.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Iran has learned a valuable lesson as it returns to the negotiating table: It can survive the worst the U.S. can throw at it https://t.co/Gs46Wq6hQs

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

An absolutely wonderful read on "poetic ecology" and the biology of wonder: https://t.co/4bhiYpvbFL