Elizabeth Weimer

I break Tradition. Sometimes my tries are outside the lines.

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

He's either pathologically stupid or lying. Probably both.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

🚨After receiving a briefing from a Senior TRUMP Administration Official on the status of the Iran negotiations (someone in the know & not just speculating), I can tell you the following:

-USA IS NOT GIVING IRANIANS MONEY FOR NOTHING. All speculation and propaganda to the contrary is false. Some hardline elements of Iran’s govt (IRGC) have pushed fake stories & propaganda to try to kill this negotiation.

-Iran deal is NOT done (95%, but still haggling over some language). No deal being signed today. May be a few more days before this is done.

-Iran will NOT get any money or sanctions relief up front.

-Iran must turn over nuclear stockpile to get anything. USA position is that failure to meet deal commitments means Iran gets nothing.

-Long term USA objective is preventing Iran from having nuclear weapon.

-Initial deal point is to re-establish free flow of commerce by reopening Strait of Hormuz.

Deal should have 2 phases:

Step 1 - Open Strait of Hormuz. Give world economy breathing room. Iran agrees to give up enriched uranium.

Step 2 - Get the nuclear material turned over. Only then can Iran get sanctions relief.

Bottom line: goal is to make a deal that lowers costs for Americans, calms world energy markets, and guarantees that Iranians cannot have a nuclear weapon over the long term. We aren’t there yet. Iran takes forever to get you a response on even small things. But we are close although it still could be a few days.

“If we get what we are demanding, this is going to be a historic deal,” SAO says.

SAO sounds prepared to do no deal at all if all Iran will do is a “bad deal.” SAO admits deal could fall apart yet. But if a deal is reached, SAO expects very senior USA admin officials to take part in a signing ceremony of some sort.

Iran has agreed in principle to the framework but there are still a couple points USA isn’t satisfied with. 95% done. But literally changing words sometimes requires days in Iran’s system. Haggling over language. But USA feels like we have a commitment on nuclear stockpile and on opening Strait of Hormuz.

If IRAN doesn’t deliver on commitments, they get nothing.

“Iran’s ability to project power is a lot more limited than it was two months ago,” SAO says. “Their industrial base for building ballistic missiles has been substantially destroyed.”

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

Did nobody fact-check Jill Lepore's book?

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Fox just posted my column on AOC's latest socialist mythology about the Framers and their alleged animus toward billionaires. https://t.co/wnmAfnwcIe Whatever else can be said of AOC, she is fast becoming the greatest fabulist since Aesop.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

What is even more chilling than some of Justice Jackson’s jurisprudence is the fact that she is often cited as the model for Democrats seeking to pack the Court with an instant majority if they retake power. This and other dissents show why Democrats are confident that packing the court will yield lasting power. https://t.co/FEYBGZq9f8

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Justice Jackson recently said that “I have a wonderful opportunity to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues, and that’s what I try to do.” For some of her colleagues, that cathartic benefit is coming at too high a cost for the Court. https://t.co/SGtZMbHH0h

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Spirit customers today may have a difficult time seeing how the blocking of a merger to save the airline was what Elizabeth Warren called "a Biden win for flyers!" Rather than "fewer flights and higher fares" cited by Warren at the time, they now have no flights and no jobs...

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries just called the Supreme Court "illegitimate." That follows Democratic politicians and pundits calling for the packing of the Supreme Court. Nothing says Happy 250th Anniversary like tearing down the core institutions of the Republic.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

...Sen. Chuck Schumer, who has blocked their funding for over 70 days, immediately posted, "I’m grateful for the quick response of law enforcement and am praying everyone remains safe." The only thing more impressive than their stout courage is Schumer's striking lack of shame.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝐌𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐄: "𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐆𝐍𝐈𝐙𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐌 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄"

Miranda Devine was close enough to Tucker Carlson that he asked her to write his biography. She was halfway through it when he left Fox. She was on his show constantly. She knows him.

And she does not recognize what he has become.

Her explanation is worth hearing — because it is charitable, honest, and ultimately more damning than any partisan attack could be.

Tucker started in journalism working for Bill Kristol in the neoconservative world. He was young, charismatic, a gifted writer, great on air. And he believes Kristol used those gifts to prosecute the case for the Iraq War — a war Tucker later concluded was a catastrophic mistake. He had a friend die there. He beats himself up about it constantly.

That guilt is real. That anti-war conviction that grew from it is genuine. And Devine is right that Tucker is not alone — a whole generation of conservatives, Pete Hegseth among them, came out of the Iraq era deeply skeptical of military intervention and the people who sold it to them. I've said as much. The skepticism itself is not the problem.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞'𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.

At Fox, Tucker had an exceptional team around him. Executive producer Justin Wells — described as first among equals in Fox behind-the-scenes talent. A retinue of genuinely gifted people who took Tucker's immense natural ability and turned it into the number one cable news show in America. You do not achieve that without excellent editorial judgment surrounding you, challenging you, sharpening you.

When Tucker left Fox, he could not keep those people. And now, according to someone who knows him well and has no axe to grind, 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝.

That word matters. Isolation is how talented people go wrong. It removes the friction that produces good judgment. It removes the trusted voices that say — wait, think about this differently. It removes the editorial check that separates a genuinely great broadcaster from someone platforming whatever confirms his existing worldview.

The Tucker Carlson who was brilliant on Fox was Tucker Carlson plus a world-class team that made him better. The Tucker Carlson who says he is rooting for Iran to win, who praises communist dictators, who questions whether H-m-s is a terrorist organization, who bought a home in Qatar and whose content is distributed by the Muslim Brotherhood — that Tucker Carlson is isolated, nursing a decades-old wound about Iraq, and apparently surrounded by people who tell him what he wants to hear rather than what he needs to hear.

Devine's account does not excuse what Tucker has become. It explains it. And the explanation is in some ways sadder than the simpler version — because it suggests a genuinely talented man who once did great work has been undone not by malice but by isolation, guilt, and the absence of people willing to push back.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝𝐲. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬.

And there is only one person to blame for what comes out of Tucker's mouth, and that's Tucker himself.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Rep. Nancy Pelosi 2026: Condemning Trump's attack on Iran, declaring "The Constitution is clear: decisions that lead our nation into war must be authorized by Congress."
Pelosi 2011: Defending Obama's unilateral attack on Libya and confirming that he "did not need authorization."

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Mayor Brandon Johnson held another chest-pounding press conference where he declared, “We are putting ICE on notice in our city.”  However, even a cursory examination reveals that, as before, there is less than meets the eye in Johnson’s theatrics... https://t.co/4yZTpW7L34

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

Could she find a bigger mask?

[Meghan McCain @MeghanMcCain]

If you know one thing about the fabric and personality of the foundation of America and Americans - it’s how independent we are. Both as a people, as a nation.

We think for ourselves, don’t take shit, we sure as hell won’t be ruled or told what to do. There is no god damn collective, our forefathers rejected the very concept 250 years ago. We are rebels, resolute pioneers, constantly in search of the better.

I have no idea how badly this will go for the people in New York City but I assure you with every fiber of my being this won’t work in the country as a whole. We are not Russia, Cuba, Venezuela and never will be. And I thank God for that.

I wish my New Yorker friends the best of luck because I truly believe you will all need it with this utterly bizarre communist experiment you’re about to endure.

[Megyn Kelly @megynkelly]

No, actually, we are Americans and we don’t believe in that shit

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

What an embarrassment, @CNN. She interviews @nickshirleyy in person but not the day care center. And then she takes the word of the one day care center she contacts by phone - but does not visit - that they are legit? Seriously?

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

As billionaires flee California to avoid a new wealth tax, https://t.co/FvJsTyrT6F, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna mocked their departure with "I will miss them very much." Indeed, you will as you shrink your tax base rather than cut a bloated budget. Good luck with that...

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

Good man!

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

This is a tour de force of a paragraph, even by the high standards of @ByronYork Read the whole thing. 🤣

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

White people lined up by the millions to put this ungrateful wench and her despicable husband in the White House for two terms, and yet she hates white people even more now than she did before. Important lesson here.