- Via LGM: Collaboration, not acquiescence.
- Via The Hill: GOP trust in election accuracy rises after Trump’s victory: Survey. Funny how that works.
- Via the Maine Morning Star: Golden calls for bipartisan committee to rethink winner-take-all electoral system. It is a non-starter, but some discussion is better than none.
- Via ABC News: Trump speaks with Justice Alito amid push to halt criminal sentencing.
- Via NBC News: Elon Musk says DOGE probably won’t find $2 trillion in federal budget cuts. This is my shocked face.
- Via NPR: Growing number of Colombians are fighting — and dying — in conflicts around the world.
- Tuberville has got to be the dumbest current member of the US Senate and has to be in the running for Dumbest Senator of All Time. I recognize this is not an especially deep or analytical statement, but I think it to be empirically true nonetheless. The problems with this 18-second clip are numerous, but let’s especially underscore the notion that he is asserting that we would fight a war with China using assets from the eastern coast of the US because that makes any sense. (Plus, spoiler: China does not control the Panama Canal).
