Erik Larson

My latest:

The same White House press corps that knifed Michelle Wolf for joking that Sarah Sanders burned lies to make her smokey eye makeup, claiming it was inappropriate to make fun of a woman’s appearance, hasn’t said a word about this line which isn’t even a joke

Plan to ease rules on mailing guns could help company Trump Jr. has stake in President Donald Trump’s eldest son is a key player in GrabAGun, a company that hopes to dominate internet firearms sales. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Property tax breaks are saving the data center industry $450 million in Oregon this year alone, under decades-old incentive programs. There's a growing push to rein in those incentives and make data centers pay the same taxes that other Oregon businesses pay. www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...

Vance said that he is “embarrassed” thinking back to 2016, when he did not believe that Trump, whom he said at the time may be “America’s Hitler,” was intelligent. www.thedailybeast.com/vance-humili...

I'm not hiring Four Seasons Pool Repair to resurface my pool, that's for sure...

In March, Marco Rubio said depleting Iran's missile stocks was a core aim of Trump's war. Now, JD Vance just confirmed Trump's defense of Iran's right to ballistic missiles, saying, "the Iranians don't give up the right of self-defense in their country."

Iran’s military leaders have greeted the ceasefire agreement with President Donald Trump as a triumph, crowing that “through the imposition of their divine and iron will” they had “humiliated American and Zionist enemies.” Mostly, they’re right. www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...

Ossoff: The president has been humiliated on the world stage. Many Americans are increasingly concerned about his stability and his capacity for the office. It’s deeply distressing to Americans to see a president so incompetent attempting and failing to represent the nation.

March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil." April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil, much more than we need." June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks..."

“With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world. The roles of China and Russia, as Iran’s allies, are strengthened; the role of the United States, substantially diminished.” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The war helped Iran weaponize the Straight:“Whatever piece of paper the Americans and Iranians…sign, the ayatollahs and the Revolutionary Guards will always have that potential for blackmail easily at their command. And that is why America has lost this war.” www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

'Absolute Trash': Critics Rip Trump UFC Event After Fighter's 'Disgusting' Comments www.huffpost.com/entry/josh-h...

The shock victory of Modi's BJP party in West Bengal, long led by one of his biggest critics, followed a highly controversial exercise by his government to revise the state's electoral roll to "purge" it it of illegal voters. More than 2.7 million were removed. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Trump’s memecoin is down 40% this year and 93% from its peak in the days after his inauguration. Trading in it can still get you lunch with the president. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

And yet Meta in 2025 brought in over $201 billion in revenue and posted a profit of roughly $60 billion. And Meta is a major beneficiary of the "job encouraging" One Big Beautiful Bill, with estimated tax savings of roughly $15.7 billion for the current cycle. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Overall, 37% of adults approve of Trump’s performance as president, while 63% disapprove — including 50% who said they disapprove strongly — putting his job rating at the lowest point of his second term in NBC News Decision Desk polling. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

The art of the deal… www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

Orban “spent the past decade and a half stoking fears and campaigning against those he described as the enemies of Hungary: liberals, free press, universities, migrants, minorities, including LGBTQ+ people and, most recently, the European Union and Ukraine.” www.cnn.com/2026/04/12/w...

This is mind-boggling: The same regime is in power in Iran; the straight is still effectively closed; and the president of the United States is musing about a "joint venture" with Iran to collect tolls from ships that previously weren't required? "Overwhelming victory"? thehill.com/policy/inter...

BBC: The deal allowed Trump to extricate himself from what was shaping up to be a treacherous choice – either escalating with his promise that a "whole civilization will die tonight" or backing down and undermining his credibility. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Depending on the outcome of the negotiations over the next two weeks, the regime could actually be in a stronger strategic position than it was before the war. Iran may have lost every military battle, but the war appears to have ended on Tehran’s terms." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

“In any matter where I can be of assistance, I am at your service," Victor Orbán, the rightwing populist leader of Hungary, said in a call to Putin. He is the EU’s most Moscow-friendly leader, leading some critics to refer to him as Putin’s Trojan horse. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Renowned civil rights activist Dolores Huerta said that Cesar Chavez, the celebrated labor leader, sexually assaulted her — an allegation she made public due to a New York Times investigation that reported Chavez sexually abused two girls. www.usatoday.com/story/news/c...

“I just wonder if someone who applauds violence against their political opponents is the right person to lead an agency that has struggled to accept limits to the proper use of force.” thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Pro-Israel group AIPAC notched its first real 2026 Democratic primary wins in Illinois, after largely disguising the millions it spent across four House races by funneling it through PACs with anodyne names like Elect Chicago Women and Chicago Progressive Partnership www.axios.com/2026/03/18/a...

fortune.com/2026/03/11/d...

If Trump has already won the Iran war, why does he need foreign ships to help him end it? www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/p...

No mainstream media outlets reported on the destruction of the USS Abraham Lincoln as fact; rather, reports indicated that claims of its destruction were disinformation and hoaxes driven by Iran and social media users, bolstered by artificial intelligence www.thedailybeast.com/trump-demand...

“A mountain of evidence suggests that the government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning [while] the government has produced essentially zero evidence to suspect Chair Powell of a crime" -judge www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

President Trump says Russia’s Vladimir Putin might be helping Iran “a little bit”. I think he might be helping them a little bit,” Trump says in a Fox interview “And he probably thinks we’re helping Ukraine,” he adds www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

Analysts say Moscow could emerge the clearest winner from the war so far in the Middle East, and it could not come at a more crucial time for Putin. The conflict is driving up the price of oil, helping Moscow to fund its military campaign in Ukraine www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

looks like we traded generations of healthcare for 4 days worth of missiles

"As Trump continues to struggle to explain why he’s bombing Iran, the author of a new piece on his awful justifications explains why this conflict is the most unpopular war in U.S. history." newrepublic.com/article/2076...