Ben Jacobs

It’s the Symbol of MAGA Washington. All Is Not As It Seems. It has become shorthand for Trump II's Washington. Everyone is missing something.

In 2017, it was Rust Belt diners. Today, it's a restaurant that serves bone marrow on Capitol Hill. slate.trib.al/Z7u281U

It’s the Symbol of MAGA Washington. All Is Not As It Seems. It has become shorthand for Trump II's Washington. Everyone is missing something.

In 2017, reporters flocked to Rust Belt diners to understand Trump voters. Now, they just have to take the metro to Capitol South for their safaris. I write about the Butterworth's phenomenon for @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

U.S. was only country in a worldwide survey to say most fellow citizens are bad people A new Pew survey shows that other countries’ citizens tend to look more favorably on their neighbors.

A Pew Research survey found that 53 percent of Americans view their fellow citizens as morally or ethically “bad,” the only country with such a majority.

In the 24 other countries polled, most people said they see other residents as ”good.”

Iranian women's soccer team labelled 'wartime traitors' by state TV

Iranian women’s soccer team labelled ‘wartime traitors’ by state TV after anthem silence www.nytimes.com/athletic/709...

Trump says he will soon endorse in TX-Sen and will ask the other candidate to drop out

Was away for a bit, see that some on here decided to outrage farm about a tweet I didn't write for an article of mine they didn't read or link. Since that seems to be the preferred mode of consumption, here are a few other headlines! Always do the reading; don't let the engagement farmers con you.

Exclusive: The Trump-Netanyahu call that changed the Middle East The call answers the question the world has been asking since Saturday: why now?

Last Monday, Netanyahu gave Trump a stunning tip: the ayatollah could be killed in a Tehran sneak-attack

The CIA confirmed it

Trump ordered the strike Saturday, altering the Middle East

The inside story of this historic week w/@barakravid

www.axios.com/2026/03/03/t...

Trump just posted on Truth Social that the U.S. has sunk nine ships in the Iranian Navy

Amazing scene by White House. There are couple of hundred people rallying supporting strikes in Iran holding either American flags or Lion and Sun Iranian flags, many with pictures of Reza Pahlavi. Handful of counter protesters, one of whom is vainly shouting “Trump is a pedophile” into a bullhorn.

The tiny islands that could change the world

I talked to @benjudah.bsky.social for @politico.com about the Chagos Islands deal and why he thinks it is good for both the UK and the US www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Retiring Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is going to New Hampshire next week for Politics and Eggs

Rep Troy Nehls, wearing a tie with Trump’s face on it, tells me he hopes the speech is three hours long

A 30-year search for a long-lost baseball player comes to an unexpected end: ‘I could finally exhale’ The only thing that stood in between Randy Kula and his decades-long quest to find the mysterious Shorty Gallagher? A typo.

A 30-year search for a long-lost baseball player comes to an unexpected end: ‘I could finally exhale’ www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...

How the sewer line collapse unfolded and spread millions of gallons of wastewater One local resident, Bob Ward, was an early witness to what would become one of the largest sewage spills in modern U.S. history.

How the sewer line collapse unfolded and spread millions of gallons of wastewater into the Potomac River www.thebanner.com/community/cl...

Trump withdrawing his endorsement from Jeff Hurd, the Republican who won the competitive district in Colorado abandoned by Lauren Boebert, and backing a primary opponent. This comes after Hurd voted against Trump's tariffs on Canada

Question for the room, testing how much the normal information flow has changed:

Are you following the congressional GOP's push for the SAVE Act? The effort to blow up the Senate filibuster to pass it? This is top of every hour on Fox, all over X, but I check newspapers and it's a small story.

Conan O'Brien on why Trump jokes aren't funny. YouTube video by Sasha Stone

youtu.be/GfYyBpQP6fU?...

Shipwreck Found at the Bottom of Lake Michigan After Nearly 150 Years

The steamer Lac La Belle, which was carrying passengers and cargo, sank in a storm in 1872. Eight people died when one of its lifeboats capsized. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

Why are you assuming that they still think you are sane?

French coin found near Culloden may have been used to pay Jacobite Ian Deveney made his find on land between Inverness and the 280-year-old battlefield.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Deer are out of control in Baltimore. The city plans to shoot them. Deer in Baltimore are out of control. Starting this spring, the city plans to deploy sharpshooters in three parks to begin culling the population.

Baltimore’s overrun by deer. The city plans to kill them. www.thebanner.com/community/cl...

Carrie Prejean Boller Is Not Going Quietly The former beauty queen, dismissed from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, says that it’s “anti-Christian” to accuse her of anti-Semitism.

I talked to Carrie Prejean Boller about the attempts to remove her from Trump's Religious Liberty Commission, why she rejects charges of anti-Semitism, her views on Zionism, and why she insists Candace Owens has never said anything anti-Semitic. I recommend reading to the end. It takes a turn.

BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Pirro Taps Photographer-Lawyer in Lawmaker Video Case (Correct) Washington’s US Attorney Jeanine Pirro tapped a dance photographer who worked for her decades ago as one of the prosecutors who tried—and failed—to convince a grand jury to indict six Democratic lawma...

Not saying this is why DOJ failed to indict the six Dem lawmakers it targeted...but one of Pirro's prosecutors is a dance photographer specializing in "Dance Puppetry" and circus performers.🤔

Via Bloomberg: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

War Came to Ukraine and Its Dogs Are Not the Same

War Came to Ukraine and Its Dogs Are Not the Same www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/s...

Will Lewis steps down as Washington Post publisher and CEO after job cuts British journalist’s tenure was controversial after being appointed by Jeff Bezos to turn around the newspaper

According to the Financial Times, it was the Super Bowl photos.

Any thoughts on the trade overall?

Column | Good news: We saved the bees. Bad news: We saved the wrong ones. Honeybees have never been in danger of extinction. But scientists are finding that they can accelerate the demise of native bee populations.

Honeybees were never in existential trouble.

Well-meaning efforts to boost their numbers with backyard beekeeping have accelerated the decline of native bees that actually are.

MS NOW’s Crooked Play MS NOW’s push into video podcasts is accelerating, with the progressive network now in advanced discussions to license popular digital shows for air from Crooked Media and others, Status has learned.

Scoop: As Washington Post leadership laid off hundreds of staffers this week, exec editor Matt Murray blocked the paper’s media desk from covering the cuts, spiking a pre-written story despite internal lobbying

www.status.news/p/ms-now-cro...

Scoop: FBI chief heads to Tucson as Trump pledges help to find Savannah Guthrie's mom Trump said he's "directing ALL Federal Law Enforcement" to be at the family's and local law enforcement's disposal "IMMEDIATELY."

Scoop: Kash Patel heads to Tucson to search for Savannah Guthrie’s mom

AG Pam Bondi, who has known Guthrie for 25+ years, spoke to her on the phone today & is getting constant updates, @Axios has learned

And Trump has pledged support

w/@BecFalconer

www.axios.com/2026/02/05/s...