1/ House Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to force an immediate vote limiting Trump’s war powers over Iran. Republicans ended a brief pro forma session before Democrats could seek unanimous consent on a war powers resolution, delaying any House votes until lawmakers return from recess. Senate Democrats said they would force a vote on their own measure. Trump, meanwhile, said he was “very optimistic” about a deal with Iran as Democrats said Congress had to “step in and take control of the wheel.” (NBC News / Wall Street Journal / Semafor / The Guardian / Reuters / NBC News / Axios / Wall Street Journal)
\nArmy survivors of the Iranian drone strike in Kuwait disputed the Pentagon’s account, saying their unit was left exposed at an unfortified post where six U.S. service members were killed. They rejected Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s claim that one drone slipped through defenses at a fortified site, saying the position had no real protection from aerial attack. (CBS News)
\nTrump said the U.S. military was “loading up and resting” for its “next conquest” even as American forces remain deployed around Iran until Tehran honors what he called the “real agreement.” (CNBC)
\nThe Selective Service System plans to automatically register eligible U.S. men ages 18 to 26 for a military draft by December. There are no formal plans to reinstate the draft. (CNBC)
\n2/ The Strait of Hormuz remained effectively closed despite the U.S.-Iran ceasefire. The head of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. said the strait was “not open” and that access was being “restricted, conditioned and controlled,” and shipping data showed that about seven ships had passed through in the previous 24 hours compared with about 140 a day before the war. Iran’s military and state-linked outlets have signaled that Tehran plans to “manage and intelligently control the Strait of Hormuz.” It’s unclear, however, whether Iran had formally imposed a toll system or was restricting passage. While Trump had said the truce depended on the “complete, immediate and safe opening” of the strait, he later said Iran “better not be” charging tankers tolls and that, “if they are, they better stop now.” (NBC News / CNBC / Semafor / Reuters / Axios / Bloomberg)
\n3/ Trump – again – threatened to leave NATO and then used a closed-door meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte to complain that U.S. allies “weren’t there when we needed them.” Rutte responded by claiming allies were “doing everything the United States is asking” and that “the exact structure is less important than the speed here.” But it’s not clear what, exactly, Trump was asking for as a White House official insisted that Trump had “zero expectations for NATO” and “did not ask them for anything.” Britain, meanwhile, is now assembling a roughly 40-country coalition and France said about 15 countries are planning a “strictly defensive” shipping mission. (Reuters / CNBC / Bloomberg / Washington Post / Wall Street Journal / Politico / New York Times / Semafor / Wall Street Journal / Politico)
\n4/ Melania Trump denied any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, saying “the lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.” She said she had “never had any knowledge” of Epstein’s abuse, called a 2002 email to Maxwell “casual correspondence,” and said “Epstein didn’t introduce me to Donald Trump.” She said she was responding to “lies” and “fake images” linking her to Epstein that have been circulating on social media for years, but it’s not clear why she chose to respond now. She also called on Congress to hold “a public hearing specifically centered around the survivors.” Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said he agreed and urged Chairman James Comer to schedule one “immediately.” (CNN / Bloomberg / Reuters / Associated Press / Politico / Washington Post / Wall Street Journal)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 208 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 943 days.
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\n2/ Iran said the two-week ceasefire with the U.S. was already being violated and warned that further talks were “unreasonable” after Israel struck Lebanon in its heaviest attacks yet, killing at least 182 people. Iran’s parliamentary speaker said Washington had breached three parts of Tehran’s framework by allowing the “massacres in Lebanon,” an alleged drone incursion into Iranian airspace, and insisting that Iran wouldn’t be allowed to enrich uranium. But Trump, the White House, and Benjamin Netanyahu said Lebanon was never part of the deal, with Trump calling it “a separate skirmish.”Meanwhile, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Lebanon was “not part of the ceasefire agreement,” and JD Vance saying Iran “thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn’t.” (Washington Post / Associated Press / Reuters / NBC News / New York Times / Bloomberg / CNBC / The Guardian / CBS News / Axios / Politico / The Guardian)
\n3/ Iran will limit traffic through the Strait of Hormuz to about a dozen ships a day and require a toll payment during the two-week ceasefire. Ships would have to coordinate with Iranian forces and pay the equivalent of about $1 per barrel of oil on board in crypto. Trump and the White House, however, demanded that the strait reopen “without limitation, including tolls.” Charging for passage through Hormuz would violate the longstanding principle of peaceful navigation through an international strait. (Associated Press / Wall Street Journal / The Hill / New York Times / CNBC / Politico)
\n4/ Former Attorney General Pam Bondi won’t sit for her scheduled April 14 deposition before the House Oversight Committee on the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The department she now longer works for said the subpoena no longer binds her to appear because Trump fired her, claiming she was summoned in her official capacity as attorney general. Rep. Robert Garcia, the committee’s top Democrat, said the subpoena applies to Bondi “whether she is the Attorney General or not” and threatened contempt if she refuses to appear. (ABC News / CBS News / Bloomberg / Politico / Axios / Associated Press / Washington Post)
\n5/ Chris Taylor won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, expanding the liberal majority and effectively locking in control of the court until at least 2030. Taylor, a state appeals judge and former Democratic lawmaker, defeated conservative appeals judge Maria Lazar for the 10-year term. (NBC News / Washington Post / CNN / New York Times / Politico)
\n6/ Republican Clay Fuller won the special runoff election for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. Fuller won by 12 percentage points – smaller than Trump’s 37-point win in the district in 2024. (Politico / NBC News / Washington Post / New York Times)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 209 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 244 days.
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About 30% said you weren't buying the ceasefire, and 9% were cautiously optimistic. Two important things to note about my Very Scientific™ survey: First, the "waiting to see" option was broken and received zero votes. lol my bad. Second, and on a more serious note, it was in poor taste to emphasize the "TACO" joke when we're talking about Trump's threat to bomb Iranian civilians... I can do better.
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\n2/ More than 50 House Democrats and at least two Democratic senators called for Trump’s removal through impeachment or the 25th Amendment after he threatened to destroy “a whole civilization.” Democratic leaders including Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer said Trump’s threat to “intentionally destroy the power, water, or basic infrastructure” used by civilians “would constitute a war crime” and “a moral failure.” Jeffries demanded Congress return to session “immediately” to stop a “reckless war of choice.” Any 25th Amendment move, however, would still require JD Vance, a majority of Trump’s Cabinet, and potentially two-thirds of both chambers. (Axios / MS Now / New York Times / The Guardian / HuffPost / The Hill / The Guardian)
\n3/ The U.S. struck military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island, stopping short of hitting the island’s oil infrastructure. U.S. officials said the operation hit more than 50 sites, while other accounts put the total above 90. The targets appeared to include sites that had already been bombed in earlier rounds. (Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / New York Times / Reuters)
\n4/ Trump and JD Vance publicly intervened in Hungary’s election campaign, rallying support for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán days before a vote that could end his 16 years in power. Vance told supporters in Budapest to “stand with Viktor Orbán,” while Trump called Orbán “a fantastic man” and said he’s with him “all the way.” Orbán is trailing in polls ahead of the April 12 election. (Semafor / New York Times / CNBC / BBC / The Guardian / Bloomberg / Associated Press / Washington Post)
\n5/ The Education Department terminated six civil rights settlements that had required schools to protect transgender students. The agreements covered preferred names and pronouns, anti-harassment training, and access to bathrooms aligned with gender identity. The move stripped away federal enforcement of protections negotiated under the Obama and Biden administrations and, in at least one case, pressured a Pennsylvania district to repeal its own anti-discrimination rules under threat of investigation and possible funding cuts. (Associated Press / Reuters / NBC News / New York Times)
\npoll/ 35% of Americans are confident in Trump’s ability to make good decisions when it comes to Iran, while 64% are not. (Pew Research Center)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 210 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 945 days.
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15:12:16 -0700", "day": "07", "month": "April", "year": "2026" } },{ "id" : "/2026/04/06/day-1903", "slug" : "day-1903", "title" : "Day 1903", "description" : "\"An unhinged madman.\"", "titleDisplay": "Day 1903: \"An unhinged madman.\"", "contentHtml" : "1/ Trump demanded that Iran “Open the Fuckin’ Strait” in the next 48 hours or it would be “living in Hell” when he was done “blowing up the entire country.” Trump said Tuesday would be “Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” warning that “There will be nothing like it!!!” He ended his Easter Sunday Truth Social post with: “Praise be to Allah.” At the White House on Monday, he doubled down, saying Iran had until 8 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday or else “every bridge in Iran will be decimated” and “every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again” by “12 o’clock tomorrow night.” He added: “We may even get involved with helping them rebuild their nation.” Trump had already threatened to strike Iran’s power plants and other infrastructure, but postponed the action at least twice, first by 48 hours, and later by 5 more days, before resetting the deadline for Tuesday evening. Trump called another extension “highly unlikely.” When asked if the war with Iran is winding down or escalating, Trump responded: “I can’t tell you, I don’t know. I can’t tell you.” Democrats, meanwhile, called Trump “an unhinged madman” who was “dangerous and mentally unbalanced” for “threatening possible war crimes and alienating allies.” (New York Times / Wall Street Journal / New York Times / Axios / Washington Post / Bloomberg / Politico / Associated Press / New York Times / Bloomberg / ABC News / NBC News / NPR / CNN / Associated Press / Washington Post)
\n2/ Iran rejected a U.S.-backed 45-day ceasefire, sending mediators a 10-point counterproposal that demanded a permanent end to the war, sanctions relief, reconstruction, and guarantees on passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump called the response “significant,” but “not good enough.” (NPR / Axios / Bloomberg / CNBC / Reuters / Axios / ABC News)
\n3/ Iranian forces downed a U.S. F-15E over Iran and hit a separate A-10 during the rescue effort, forcing its pilot to eject in or near Kuwaiti airspace. All three U.S. aviators survived. The F-15 pilot was recovered within hours, and the wounded weapons systems officer was rescued nearly two days later. Two rescue helicopters were also hit, but both returned safely. The U.S. had already lost three other F-15s earlier in the war to friendly fire. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have repeatedly claimed that Iran had “no air defenses” and that the U.S. had total control of Iranian skies. Meanwhile, Hegseth forced out Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, Gen. David Hodne, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr. in the middle of the Iran war. (Axios / New York Times / Associated Press / Washington Post / Axios / Washington Post / NBC News / Axios / Wall Street Journal / NBC News / ABC News / Axios / Washington Post / New York Times / CBS News)
\n4/ Trump asked Congress to approve roughly $1.5 trillion for defense – a record request – while cutting non-defense programs by about $73 billion. The proposal would direct more than $1.1 trillion through regular appropriations and another $350 billion through reconciliation, a move meant to bypass a Senate filibuster. The fiscal 2027 budget would also cut $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health, put a 15% cap on NIH indirect costs, and reduce HHS spending by 12.5%. The White House said it was eliminating “wasteful” or “woke” spending, but Congress rejected similar domestic cuts last year. (Washington Post / Bloomberg / New York Times / Associated Press / Politico / Axios / ABC News)
\n5/ The Supreme Court vacated an appeals court ruling upholding Stephen Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction. Bannon, who was convicted in 2022 on two misdemeanor counts for defying a House subpoena from the Jan. 6 investigation, has already served his four-month prison sentence and paid a fine. The Trump administration told the court in February that dismissing the case was “in the interests of justice.” (New York Times / NBC News / Washington Post / Associated Press)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 211 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 946 days.
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","onThisDay": [{ "yearsAgo": 9, "title": "Day 77", "description": "Filibustered.", "url": "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2017/04/06/Day-77/" },{ "yearsAgo": 8, "title": "Day 442", "description": "TOTALLY under siege.", "url": "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/04/06/day-442/" },{ "yearsAgo": 6, "title": "Day 1173", "description": "\"Not a big Trump fan.\"", "url": "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/04/06/day-1173/" },{ "yearsAgo": 5, "title": "Day 77", "description": "\"Irritating.\"", "url": "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2021/04/06/day-77/" },{ "yearsAgo": 4, "title": "Day 442", "description": "\"Outraged by the atrocities.\"", "url": "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2022/04/06/day-442/" },{ "yearsAgo": 3, "title": "Day 807", "description": "\"Something is going to go boom.\"", "url": "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2023/04/06/day-807/" }],"date" : { "isoDate": "2026-04-06", "isoDateTime": "2026-04-06 16:08:29 -0700", "day": "06", "month": "April", "year": "2026" } },{ "id" : "/2026/04/02/day-1899", "slug" : "day-1899", "title" : "Day 1899", "description" : "\"We can't take care of day care. We’re fighting wars.\" ", "titleDisplay": "Day 1899: \"We can't take care of day care. We’re fighting wars.\"", "contentHtml" : "1/ Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi and named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as the acting attorney general, abruptly ending a 14-month tenure derailed by Bondi’s mishandling of the Epstein files and failure to win cases against Trump’s perceived political enemies. Trump called Bondi “a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend,” saying “We love Pam.” Bondi had claimed an Epstein “client list” was “sitting on my desk right now to review,” but the Justice Department later said the list didn’t exist. The House Oversight Committee, meanwhile, had already subpoenaed Bondi and still expects her to testify. Blanche, a former Trump defense lawyer, said Bondi led the department with “strength and conviction” and promised to keep “doing everything in our power to keep America safe.” (Reuters / Associated Press / NPR / Politico / New York Times / NBC News / CNN / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / Washington Post / Axios)
\nThe Justice Department said Trump doesn’t have to comply the 1978 Presidential Records Act, claiming that the post-Watergate law requiring presidents to preserve official records and turn them over to the National Archives is unconstitutional. The law clarifies that presidential records belong to the government, not the president. (CBS News / NBC News)
\nTrump privately asked advisers whether he should replace Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The White House said Trump still has confidence in Gabbard, while Trump said she was “a little bit different” and “softer” than him on Iran, but still “available to serve.” (The Guardian / Reuters)
\n2/ In a 19-minute address, Trump tried to sell the U.S.-Israeli war to the nation five weeks into it, saying the campaign was “nearing completion,” but also that the U.S. would hit Iran “extremely hard” for another two to three weeks to “bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong.” He called the war a success, said U.S. forces had delivered “swift, decisive, overwhelming victories,” and claimed “never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered such clear and devastating large-scale losses in a matter of weeks,” even as Iran continued firing missiles and drones across the region. But he offered no clear path to end the war and dismissed the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the shipping route through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes, as a problem for others while insisting that it would “open up naturally.” (New York Times / Washington Post / Wall Street Journal / CBS News / NPR / ABC News / NBC News / Bloomberg / Semafor / Axios / Politico)
\n3/ The U.S. struck a major bridge in Iran a day after Trump threatened to bomb the country “back to the Stone Ages.” Trump celebrated the strike and warned that “much more” would follow unless Iran made a deal. The attack expanded the war to infrastructure that Iran claimed was civilian, but U.S. officials, without evidence, described as a military supply route. It’s unclear whether the bridge was open to civilian traffic or used by Iran’s military at the time. (Axios / The Guardian / New York Times)
\n4/ Trump said it was “not possible” for the federal government to fund child care, Medicaid, and Medicare because “we’re fighting wars” and “we have to take care of one thing: military protection,” adding that the U.S. “can’t take care of day care” and that states “should pay for it too.” Trump suggested states “have to raise their taxes” to cover the costs and that maybe the federal government “could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up” for it. He added that he told Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought: “Don’t send any money for day care, because the United States can’t take care of day care. That has to be up to a state. We can’t take care of day care. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people.” The White House later said Trump was referring to fraud in those programs, despite his earlier promises to protect Medicare and make child care more affordable. (NBC News / New York Times / Washington Post / New Republic / The Hill)
\n5/ Trump will sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees who’ve missed pay during the record-long partial shutdown. The move comes as Republican leaders have settled on a two-step plan to first pass a Senate bill to reopen most of DHS, and then later use reconciliation to fund ICE and Border Patrol separately. The House, however, hasn’t acted on the Senate-passed bill as conservatives oppose funding DHS without ICE and Border Patrol. It’s not clear how the administration would pay all DHS workers, though White House guidance suggested it could draw on existing funds, as it did for TSA employees last week. (Associated Press / CBS News / ABC News / Wall Street Journal / New York Times / Reuters / CNBC / Semafor)
\n6/ An appeals court threw out the nine-year prison sentence of the former Colorado county clerk who tampered with her county’s voting equipment while trying to prove false claims about the 2020 election. Tina Peters’ conviction still stands and the judges ordered her to be resentenced, saying the trial court improperly considered her protected speech when imposing the sentence. The panel also rejected Trump’s attempt to pardon her, saying a president’s clemency power doesn’t apply to state crimes. Peters will remain in prison for now while the case returns to the trial court where a judge will decide her new sentence. (Colorado Sun / Associated Press / New York Times / Washington Post / NBC News)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 215 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 950 days.
\n", "dayLabel": "Day 1899", "dayNumber": "1899", "url" : "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2026/04/02/day-1899/","image" : "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/uploads/day1899trump-d11eff.jpg","todayInOneSentence" : "Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi and named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as the acting attorney general; in a 19-minute address, Trump tried to sell the U.S.-Israeli war to the nation five weeks after starting it, saying the campaign was “nearing completion,” but also that the U.S. would hit Iran “extremely hard” for another two to three weeks; the U.S. struck a major bridge in Iran a day after Trump threatened to bomb the country “back to the Stone Ages”; Trump said it was \"not possible\" for the federal government to fund child care, Medicaid, and Medicare because “we’re fighting wars”; Trump will sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees who've missed pay during the record-long partial shutdown; and an appeals court threw out the nine-year prison sentence of the former Colorado county clerk who tampered with her county’s voting equipment while trying to prove false claims about the 2020 election.", "todayInOneSentenceFormatted" : "Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi and named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as the acting attorney general ¶ in a 19-minute address, Trump tried to sell the U.S.-Israeli war to the nation five weeks after starting it, saying the campaign was “nearing completion,” but also that the U.S. would hit Iran “extremely hard” for another two to three weeks ¶ the U.S. struck a major bridge in Iran a day after Trump threatened to bomb the country “back to the Stone Ages” ¶ Trump said it was \"not possible\" for the federal government to fund child care, Medicaid, and Medicare because “we’re fighting wars” ¶ Trump will sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees who've missed pay during the record-long partial shutdown ¶ and an appeals court threw out the nine-year prison sentence of the former Colorado county clerk who tampered with her county’s voting equipment while trying to prove false claims about the 2020 election.","author" : "Matt Kiser","copyText": "What the fuck just happened today?\n\n⚡ Day 1899: \"We can't take care of day care. 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I'll be back in your inbox Monday, April 6. Before you go, how are you holding up?
","onThisDay": [{ "yearsAgo": 9, "title": "Day 73", "description": "Incited violence.", "url": "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2017/04/02/Day-73/" },{ "yearsAgo": 8, "title": "Day 438", "description": "DACA is dead.", "url": "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/04/02/day-438/" },{ "yearsAgo": 7, "title": "Day 803", "description": "\"Incompetent or corrupt.\"", "url": "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/04/02/day-803/" },{ "yearsAgo": 6, "title": "Day 1169", "description": "\"Here we go again.\"", "url": "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/04/02/day-1169/" },{ "yearsAgo": 5, "title": "Day 73", "description": "\"Low risk.\"", "url": "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2021/04/02/day-73/" },{ "yearsAgo": 2, "title": "Day 1169", "description": "\"This happens in war.\"", "url": "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2024/04/02/day-1169/" },{ "yearsAgo": 1, "title": "Day 1534", "description": "\"Trump has chosen to blow up the system.\"", "url": "https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2025/04/02/day-1534/" }],"date" : { "isoDate": "2026-04-02", "isoDateTime": "2026-04-02 15:28:38 -0700", "day": "02", "month": "April", "year": "2026" } },{ "id" : "/2026/04/01/day-1898", "slug" : "day-1898", "title" : "Day 1898", "description" : "\"STUPID.\"", "titleDisplay": "Day 1898: \"STUPID.\"", "contentHtml" : "1/ Trump threatened to pull the U.S. out of NATO, saying leaving the alliance was “beyond reconsideration,” and complained that support for the U.S. war in Iran “should be automatic” because “we were there for them” but “they weren’t there for us.” He called the 32-nation alliance a “paper tiger,” said “I was never swayed by NATO,” and added that “Putin knows that too.” Trump also mocked Britain’s military, saying, “You don’t even have a navy,” and dismissed Prime Minister Keir Starmer, saying, “He can do whatever he wants. It doesn’t matter.” Trump, however, can’t legally withdraw from NATO on his own, because U.S. law requires either a two-thirds Senate vote or Congress passing a law allowing the withdrawal. (The Telegraph / Financial Times / New York Times / Politico / Wall Street Journal / CNBC / Bloomberg / CBS News / The Hill)
\n2/ Trump said the U.S. would consider a ceasefire with Iran only when the Strait of Hormuz is open, a day after saying the war could end in “two weeks, maybe two weeks, maybe three.” He added that Iran “doesn’t have to make a deal” for the U.S. to leave. Instead, Trump said Iran will be “put into the stone ages” and “then we’ll leave.” Trump also claimed Iran had asked for a ceasefire, which Iran has denied. (Politico / Bloomberg / Reuters / Financial Times / CNN / Axios / Bloomberg)
\n3/ Trump will deliver an address “to the nation to provide an important update on Iran.” Trump’s speech will be broadcast live across all four major networks – CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox – beginning at 9 p.m. Eastern, and he’s expected to say the war was winding down, argue that U.S. forces had already met their main military goals, and repeat that the U.S. could leave in “two or three weeks.” Trump’s address will interrupt the two-hour season finale of The Masked Singer and a two-hour special episode of Survivor. (Politico / CNBC / ABC News / Bloomberg / Washington Post / New York Times)
\n4/ Trump called the United States “STUPID” for allowing birthright citizenship after it appeared likely that the Supreme Court would reject his effort to end it. Trump, who was the first sitting president to attend Supreme Court arguments, left shortly after Solicitor General D. John Sauer finished defending the administration’s attempt to narrow the 14th Amendment. Chief Justice John Roberts called the government’s reasoning “quirky” and said, “It’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution,” while several conservative justices also questioned the administration’s reliance on “domicile” and how officials would determine citizenship at birth. The order, which lower courts have blocked and has never taken effect, would deny automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. unless a parent is a citizen or green card holder. A ruling expected by late June or early July. (CNBC / Axios / New York Times / Bloomberg / NBC News / ABC News / Associated Press / Washington Post)
\n5/ Senate and House Republicans agreed to end the partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown, reviving the Senate plan that House Republicans and Trump rejected last week. The bill would fund DHS through Sept. 30, push ICE and Border Patrol funding into a separate budget reconciliation bill that wouldn’t need Democratic votes. Trump directed Republicans to send him that immigration enforcement bill by June 1. (Reuters / NBC News / Politico / New York Times / Wall Street Journal)
\n6/ Trump signed an executive order to create state-by-state lists of eligible voters and to limit mail ballots to people on those lists. The order directs the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to help compile the lists, requires ballot tracking barcodes, and threatens federal funding for states that don’t comply. State election officials in Arizona, Oregon, and elsewhere said they would challenge the order in court. (NBC News / Politico / Associated Press / New York Times / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / CNBC / Reuters)
\npoll/ 33% of Americans think Trump has a clear plan for handling the Iran war, while 67% say he does not. (CNN)
\npoll/ 31% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the economy – a record low. (CNN)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 216 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 951 days.
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He then warned that “the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore,” while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said other countries “ought be prepared to step up.” But Trump later said he wasn’t pulling the U.S. military out of the strait “quite yet,” saying U.S. allies would eventually have to “come in and take care of it.” (Politico / New York Times / Wall Street Journal / The Hill / Bloomberg / CBS News / Washington Post / CNBC / Associated Press / ABC News / Axios)
\n2/ U.S. gas prices rose above $4 a gallon for the first since the summer of 2022, which was caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. One month ago, the national average price for a gallon of gas was less than $3. The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to the Iran war has pushed oil above $100 a barrel, tightening global fuel supplies. (Axios / NPR / Associated Press / Washington Post / New York Times)
\n3/ The Supreme Court ruled against Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors. The justices sent the case back to the lower courts, finding that the law was an “egregious assault” on free speech and the First Amendment. The law banned licensed mental health providers in Colorado from trying to change a minor’s sexual orientation or gender identity through talk therapy. More than 20 states have similar laws. (ABC News / NBC News / Associated Press / New York Times / Washington Post)
\n4/ A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop construction on the White House ballroom, ruling that Trump can’t proceed with the $400 million project without congressional authorization. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the National Trust for Historic Preservation was likely to succeed because “no statute comes close” to giving the president the authority he claimed, writing that the president is the White House’s “steward,” not its owner. The ruling comes after the East Wing had already been demolished and two days before the National Capital Planning Commission was expected to consider the project. (ABC News / Associated Press / Washington Post)
\n5/ A federal judge ruled that Trump’s executive order cutting off federal funding for NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment and permanently blocked the administration from enforcing it. The judge said the government can’t use “the power of the purse” to punish speech, writing that the order amounted to unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination, because targeted broadcasters over coverage that Trump described as biased. Congress, however, has already rescinded public media funding and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has shut down. (Associated Press / NPR / New York Times / Wall Street Journal / CNN)
\n6/ Rep. Eric Swalwell demanded that the FBI stop any release of old investigative files tied to his contacts with a suspected Chinese operative. The cease and desist letter followed reports that FBI Director Kash Patel had agents review and redact the files for possible public release, even though Swalwell was never charged and the House Ethics Committee later closed its review without action. Swalwell, a Trump critic, is running for governor of California. (Washington Post / New York Times / NBC News / Washington Post / New York Times / Associated Press)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 217 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 952 days.
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\n* A significant number want me to stay in my lane and continue doing what you come here for: a concise, factual summary of what happened today in national politics. There was concern that tilting toward activism would compromise that, while others said connecting the news to what people can do about it would be a natural extension of the work.
\n* But the biggest group fell somewhere in between, telling me to not change the core product, but make it easier to take the next step. The suggestions were pretty consistent on this front: a resources or take-action page linking to established organizations; an occasional section with voter information, major protests and rallies, ballot initiatives, and civic resources; making sure national mobilizations like No Kings Day are part of the editorial scope; etc.
\nSo I think the path forward looks something like this: cover major civic mobilizations as news. Build a resources page linking to established organizations. And keep the core of WTFJHT exactly what it is. That all seems doable and an appropriate next step. What are your thoughts?
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\n2/ Hackers linked to Iran accessed FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email account, posting photos, a résumé, and what appeared to be more than 300 old emails online. The FBI confirmed the breach and said the material was “historical in nature,” but contained no government information. The leaked messages appeared to date from roughly 2010 to 2022 and mostly covered personal matters like travel, housing, and family. It’s not clear when the account was breached, whether the hackers are holding back more material, or whether every file they posted is authentic. (New York Times / CBS News / Politico / Axios / Reuters / Bloomberg / TechCrunch / CNN)
\n3/ House Republicans are considering cutting health care spending to help pay for a reconciliation bill that could provide as much as $200 billion for the Iran war and immigration enforcement. The options under discussion include proposals Republicans describe as targeting “fraud and waste and abuse,” including a revived Affordable Care Act payment change that the Congressional Budget Office previously said would save more than $30 billion, but leave 300,000 more people uninsured. (Axios / Rolling Stone)
\n4/ The Department of Homeland Security remained shut down after 44 days, setting a record for the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history. Senate Republicans declined to advance the House’s stopgap funding bill, days after House Republicans rejected a bipartisan Senate measure that would have reopened most of DHS but excluded ICE and Border Patrol. Trump, meanwhile, called on Congress to return from recess to “permanently fix this problem,” while the White House said he wants lawmakers to “fund and reopen the Department of Homeland Security entirely.” (New York Times / Associated Press / NBC News / Axios / NPR / Punchbowl)
\n5/ The Trump administration’s Supreme Court case against birthright citizenship relies in part on legal arguments advanced by white supremacist and anti-Chinese activists in the late 1800s. The administration wants to deny automatic citizenship to U.S.-born children if their parents were in the country illegally or in the U.S. temporarily. The brief cites Alexander Porter Morse, who argued for segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson, and other 19th-century figures who tried to ban citizenship for the children of Chinese immigrants. A ruling is expected by summer, which could affect hundreds of thousands of future U.S.-born children each year. (Washington Post / NBC News / Reuters / Wall Street Journal / Associated Press)
\n6/ Trump’s White House ballroom project includes a “massive” military complex under the site of the demolished East Wing. Trump said the ballroom “essentially becomes a shed for what’s being built under.” But what exactly is being built below the ballroom is unclear. The site sits above the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, which is the emergency bunker under the former East Wing. The White House only confirmed that the military is “making some upgrades” to its facilities there. (NBC News / Reuters)
\npoll/ 33% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as president, the lowest rating of his second term in office. (University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 218 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 953 days.
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You know, the 3,100 rallies across all 50 states that an estimated 8 million people participated in. Instead, I learned about it from a freakin' Seattle emergency alert text message about "a major traffic disruption." While kind of funny, it also revealed something explicitly that I think I've always felt: being informed is not the same thing as participating in the civic process. After all, democracy doesn't run on vibes.
\nAnd, I suspect that a lot of people have also experienced this sort of "gap" between being informed and concerned with doing something that matters. WTFJHT has always been about helping people develop a better, healthier relationship with the news, but knowing what happened only gets you to the first rung of that ladder.
\nSo I guess I'm curious... should I be doing more? Does connecting the news to what's at stake to a specific action or activity result in a better reader experience? Or is that a bridge too far for WTFJHT? Is it really my place to tell people what to do? I'd love get your take on this. [Let me know here](https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/api/pulse?ed=*|DATE:Y-m-d|*&s=*|UNIQID|*&q=no-king-day&t=open-ended&p=heat-check).
\n🌡️ Last week's Heat Check: On Thursday, I asked what's been on the mind of WTFJHT readers lately. 1,373 readers responded, with 44% saying the Iran war was top of mind. “I feel like we’re in Schrödinger’s war, and I don’t know if the president even knows if it’s ongoing or not,” one person wrote. 16% named elections and voting-related threats (“I’m in a mail-in vote only state, so I’m really curious to see how this shakes out”), 10% were concerned about the TSA disruptions from the DHS funding lapse (“Between TSA not being paid, ICE overcrowding the terminal, and the recent collision at my home base airport, going to work is very difficult right now”). Everyone else named something else or just wanted to see the results! Thanks for voting!
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\n2/ Trump, denying he was “desperate” to make a deal with Iran, said Tehran had “better get serious soon, before it is too late.” After threatening to “obliterate” Iran’s energy infrastructure, he then announced a five-day pause and today extended it by another 10 days, saying that the latest delay came at Iran’s request and that talks were “going very well.” He also insisted Iran was “begging us to make a deal” to end the war. But Iranian officials publicly denied direct negotiations with Washington, saying messages were being passed through mediators. “We’ll see if they want to do it. If they don’t, we’re their worst nightmare,” Trump said. “In the meantime, we’ll just keep blowing them away.” (ABC News / CNBC / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / Axios / Associated Press / Washington Post / Axios / Reuters)
\n3/ The Iran war and higher energy prices will push U.S. inflation to 4.2% this year, up 1.2 percentage points from its December forecast, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD said the disruptions tied to the conflict, including reduced shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, are raising oil, gas, and fertilizer costs, will push up the costs of food and consumer goods. Markets, meanwhile, suffered their largest daily decline since the war began, with the S&P 500 falling 1.7% and the Nasdaq sliding into correction territory. (Bloomberg / Axios / New York Times / Wall Street Journal / NBC News / CNBC / Associated Press / New York Times)
\n4/ Trump interrupted a Cabinet meeting discussing the war in Iran, long security lines at airports, and rising oil prices to explain how he’s replaced White House pens with custom black-and-gold Sharpies. “See this pen right here?” Trump said. “This pen is an interesting example.” He said the White House had once stocked “beautiful” ballpoint pens that cost $1,000 each, and that he contacted Sharpie and insisted on paying $5 per marker. Online searches, however, show that typical Sharpies usually sell for about $1 to $2 apiece. “We’ve gotta get our priorities straight,” Trump said. (Associated Press)
\n5/ Trump’s signature will be added to U.S. dollars to mark the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence. It’s the first time in U.S. history that the sitting president’s signature appears on American currency. The Treasury Department said the first $100 bills with Trump’s signature will be printed in June, with other bills to follow. The overall design of the notes will remain unchanged, but Trump’s name will appear on the bills until a future administration decides to remove it. (Reuters / Vanity Fair / New York Times)
\n6/ Despite referring to the mail voting as “mail-in cheating,” Trump defended voting by mail in Florida’s special election, saying “because I’m president” and “I had a lot of different things” to do. He explained that his mail-in ballot qualified as part of an “exception,” but he didn’t say which one, even though he had been in West Palm Beach during the early voting period and his polling place was near Mar-a-Lago. (NBC News / New York Times)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 222 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 957 days.
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I'll see you all again on Monday, March 30th. In the meantime, I'm curious what's been on your mind this week.
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\n2/ Iran rejected Trump’s ceasefire offer, saying the Americans were “negotiating with yourselves.” Iranian state media and Iran’s foreign minister said Tehran would not entertain “a temporary cease-fire,” wanted “reparations for war damage,” and “recognition of Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.” The White House, meanwhile, said talks with Tehran remained “productive.” Karoline Leavitt added that if Iran refused a deal, Trump was prepared to have it “hit harder then they have ever been hit before.” (CNBC / Bloomberg / New York Times / Axios / Associated Press / Politico / NPR / Wall Street Journal)
\n3/ Former special counsel Jack Smith’s team wrote in a 2023 memo that Trump kept classified documents “pertinent to certain business interests” after leaving office, giving investigators what prosecutors described as “a motive for retaining them.” Rep. Jamie Raskin called the memo “damning” and said Republicans, in a “frenzied search” for material to discredit the inquiry, instead turned over evidence about “your boss’s conduct.” Raskin demanded more records from Attorney General Pam Bondi and said the department must stop “cherry-picking investigative materials.” The memo further said investigators identified a classified map Trump “may have shown to individuals on board” a 2022 flight to Bedminster, with Susie Wiles cited as a witness. The White House and Justice Department, meanwhile, said Trump “did nothing wrong” and dismissed the claims as “salacious and untrue” and a “political stunt.” (Axios / Politico / MS Now / NBC News / The Hill / The Guardian / Washington Post)
\n4/ Trump’s Justice Department agreed to pay Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn about $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging he was maliciously prosecuted in the Russia investigation. Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to FBI agents about his contacts with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, then later tried to withdraw that plea. Trump pardoned him in 2020. The settlement reversed a position the department had taken under Biden, when it won dismissal of Flynn’s civil suit in 2024. Flynn was seeking at least $50 million in damages and the DOJ called the deal an “important step in redressing” what it described as a “historic injustice.” (Associated Press / ABC News / Bloomberg / CBS News)
\n5/ Senate Republicans rejected Democrats’ latest offer to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, extending the five-week partial shutdown that’s been disrupting airport screening. Democrats said any deal must include limits on ICE tactics, including rules on masks and judicial warrants. Republicans, meanwhile, said the proposal was “not even close to being real” and accused Democrats of trying to pair DHS funding with ICE restrictions while refusing to fund ICE enforcement. (Politico / New York Times / Bloomberg / CNBC / Wall Street Journal)
\n6/ Democrats flipped a Republican-held Florida House seat that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Emily Gregory beat Jon Maples 51% to 49% in a special election after Mike Caruso resigned to become Palm Beach County clerk. Trump carried the district by about 11 points in 2024 and Caruso won by 19 points that same year. Gregory, a first-time candidate, centered her campaign on affordability, insurance, and health care. (NBC News / Associated Press / Politico / New York Times / Wall Street Journal / CNN / Washington Post)
\npoll/ 59% of Americans say Trump’s military action against Iran has gone too far, while 26% say its about right, and 13% say it has not gone far enough. (AP-NORC)
\npoll/ 58% of voters disapprove of Trump’s military action against Iran, while 42% support it. (Fox News)
\npoll/ 42% of voters think the war with Iran will make the world less safe, while 35% think it will make the world safer, and 20% think it will make no difference. (Quinnipiac)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 223 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 958 days.
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The administration hasn’t said what the troops will be used for and a decision to send troops into Iran hasn’t been made. But the move gives Trump an ready ground force that could be used to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by force, seize strategic islands or coastal territory, or support an operation targeting Iran’s highly enriched uranium. The 82nd would join about 50,000 U.S. troops already in the region, along with thousands of Marines now heading there. (Politico / Wall Street Journal / Bloomberg / The Guardian)
\n2/ The U.S. sent Iran a 15-point proposal to end the war as Trump claimed “this war has been won” and that Iran had agreed it would “never have a nuclear weapon.” He said negotiations were underway, that Tehran wanted “to make a deal so badly,” and that the U.S. was “talking to the right people” as Iran was “talking sense.” Trump also said Iran had delivered a “very big present” tied to “oil and gas,” but he did not explain the claim. Iran, however, publicly denied that any negotiations were happening. The proposal, sent through Pakistan, appeared to address Iran’s nuclear program, ballistic missiles, and the Strait of Hormuz. But it wasn’t clear whether Tehran would accept it, whether Israel supported it, or who in Iran could authorize a deal after Israeli strikes killed senior leaders. The fighting, meanwhile, continued, with Iran launching more missile attacks on Israel, Iraq, and Gulf states. (New York Times / Washington Post / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / NBC News / The Guardian / Axios / CNBC)
\n3/ Senate Republicans proposed a plan to fund and reopen most of the Department of Homeland Security while excluding ICE’s deportation operations. The shutdown began Feb. 14 and has led to long airport lines, missed paychecks, and rising absenteeism among TSA workers. The framework would fund TSA, FEMA, Border Patrol, and ICE’s non-deportation operations. Republicans would then try to use the filibuster-proof reconciliation process to restore funding for ICE’s deportation arm and pass parts of the unrelated SAVE America Act. The two-step strategy, however, still faces an uphill battle with Democrats saying the plan still lacks the immigration enforcement limits they’ve demanded, and Sen. Mike Lee, the Republican sponsoring the SAVE America Act, saying: “It’s hard to imagine how the SAVE America Act could be passed through reconciliation. And by ‘hard’ I mean ‘essentially impossible.’” Trump, meanwhile, said he would take a “hard look” but was “pretty much not happy” with “any deal.” Congress is set to leave town Friday for a planned two-week Easter recess, but Majority Leader John Thune has warned the Senate may have to stay until DHS is funded. (NBC News / Politico / CNBC / Washington Post / New York Times / Associated Press / Wall Street Journal / ABC News)
\n4/ Minnesota sued the Trump administration to force the release of evidence in three shootings by federal officers during the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, including the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. State and county officials said federal agencies blocked access to basic investigative material, leaving Minnesota unable to determine whether federal officers violated state criminal law. The suit also seeks evidence in the nonfatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, who was initially charged with assaulting federal agents before prosecutors dropped the case after conflicting evidence emerged and authorities began examining whether agents lied about the incident. The suit names Attorney General Pam Bondi and outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said the federal government had adopted an unprecedented policy of “categorically withholding evidence,” while Minnesota argued that the state could not let federal agents investigate themselves. (Associated Press / New York Times / Politico)
\n5/ Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 2022 investigation into Kash Patel subpoenaed more than two years of his phone metadata, text logs, online account details, billing records, IP addresses, and bank account information. The subpoenas were part of Smith’s investigation into Trump’s election interference and classified documents cases. At the time, Patel defended Trump’s claim that the Mar-a-Lago documents had been declassified. Patel is now the FBI director. A magistrate judge also approved a nondisclosure order in 2022, finding disclosure could risk flight, evidence tampering, witness intimidation, and serious harm to the investigation. (Reuters)
\n6/ A Justice Department prosecutor conceded that the government didn’t have evidence of fraud or other criminal misconduct in the Federal Reserve’s $2.5 billion renovation project. Prosecutors argued that a $1.2 billion overrun justified scrutiny because “it doesn’t seem right,” but Justice Department lawyers “do not know at this time” what evidence there is of fraud or criminal misconduct. The Fed, meanwhile, said the rising costs reflected a long renovation of historic buildings, labor inflation, and asbestos problems. (Washignton Post)
\n7/ Trump voted by mail in a Florida special election after declaring that “mail-in voting means mail-in cheating” and “we got to do something about it all.” Palm Beach County records showed Trump’s ballot was counted in the special election, even though he had spent the weekend in Palm Beach while early in-person voting was available. The White House didn’t say why Trump chose to mail his ballot, but instead argued that the SAVE America Act allows for “common-sense exceptions,” like illness, disability, military service or travel. (New York Times / Washington Post / Associated Press / CBS News / ABC News)
\npoll/ 36% of Americans approve of Trump’s job performance – his lowest rating since returning to the White House. 29% approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, the lowest rating in either of his terms and lower than any Biden economic approval rating. (Reuters)
\npoll/ 49% of U.S. workers were classified as “struggling” in their lives, while 46% were classified as “thriving” — the first time Gallup found more workers struggling than thriving. 28% said it was a good time to find a quality job, down from nearly 70% in mid-2022, while employee engagement fell to 31%, the lowest reading in a decade. Even so, 51% of workers said they were either actively looking for a new job or watching for opportunities, while 43% said leaving would be too difficult or costly. (Gallup)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 224 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 959 days.
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Tehran, however, denied that there were any direct or indirect negotiations, calling it fake news, market manipulation, and “psychological warfare.” Nevertheless, Trump said Iran “wants to settle” the war and “very much” wants a deal, and that the two sides had “major points of agreement,” including reopening the Strait of Hormuz, banning Iran from ever having a nuclear weapon, and removing its enriched uranium. Trump also suggested that any deal would amount to a “very serious form of regime change.” (NBC News / Bloomberg / NPR / Washington Post / Politico / CNBC / Associated Press / Wall Street Journal / Reuters / Axios / ABC News)
\n2/ Trump deployed ICE officers to more than a dozen U.S. airports to help with TSA staffing shortages during the partial DHS shutdown. Trump said the officers were meant to ease delays, but suggested he could send the National Guard next, while airports and administration officials said ICE was not screening passengers and no arrests had been reported. The move came after more than 400 TSA officers quit and about 3,450 called out on Sunday as the partial shutdown has forced TSA workers to keep working without pay. Trump and congressional Republicans have insisted on fully funding DHS, including ICE and CBP. Democrats, however, have pushed to pay for TSA while leaving ICE and CBP unfunded, demanding new limits on ICE tactics, including clearer identification, mask restrictions, and tighter rules for forced home entries. Trump, meanwhile, said he wouldn’t support a DHS funding deal unless it also included the Republican SAVE America Act, saying Congress should “lump everything together as one, and VOTE!!!” (New York Times / Associated Press / Politico / Washington Post / Wall Street Journal / CNBC)
\n3/ The Supreme Court appears likely to limit mail-in voting in federal elections. The case could force Mississippi and at least 13 other states to stop counting ballots mailed by Election Day but received later. At issue is a Mississippi law that allows absentee ballots to be counted if they arrive within five business days after Election Day and were postmarked by then. The Republican National Committee argued that federal law requires both submission and receipt by Election Day. Justice Samuel Alito said late-counted ballots can undermine “confidence in election outcomes” and create an “appearance of fraud,” while Justice Neil Gorsuch called it “a contradiction” to say ballots must be cast by Election Day, but need only be mailed by then. But Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett questioned whether that logic could also threaten early voting. A ruling is expected by late June. (NBC News / Washington Post / New York Times / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / ABC News / CNN / CNBC / Associated Press / Politico)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 225 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 960 days.
\nA federal judge ruled that the Pentagon’s policy of restricting press access violated the First Amendment. Judge Paul Friedman said the rules let the Pentagon revoke journalists’ credentials as “security risks” under vague standards and banned reporters from seeking information from military employees who were not authorized to speak publicly. (New York Times)
\nVoice of America journalists sued Trump administration officials, alleging they tried to turn the federally funded news outlet into a pro-Trump “mouthpiece.” The complaint named Kari Lake and other U.S. Agency for Global Media officials, saying they pushed for favorable coverage of Trump, censored or suppressed reporting they didn’t want aired, and pressured staff to show “loyalty” or risk losing their jobs. (NPR / New York Times)
\nThe Interior Department agreed to pay about $1 billion to abandon two planned offshore wind projects. Instead, they’ll redirect the money to U.S. oil and gas investments. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the money had been tied up in what he called “expensive, weather dependent offshore wind.” (Washington Post)
\nA far-right activist who spread conspiracy theories about voter fraud and now leads FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery claimed that he was involuntarily “teleported” to a Waffle House. Gregg Phillips made the claims on multiple podcasts. “Teleporting is no fun,” Phillips said on one podcast. “It was real.” FEMA, meanwhile, said the comments were taken out of context or reflected private, informal, and “somewhat spiritual” discussions made before his current role. (CNN / The Guardian)
\nRobert Mueller, the former FBI director who later led the special counsel investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, died Friday at 81. He spent 22 months investigating Trump’s campaign and Russia, concluding that Russia interfered in the election and that Trump’s campaign had multiple contacts with Russians, but there was “insufficient evidence” to establish a criminal conspiracy. Mueller’s office also chose not to charge Trump with obstruction of justice out of “fairness concerns,” because “a federal criminal accusation against a sitting President would place burdens on the President’s capacity to govern and potentially preempt constitutional process for addressing presidential misconduct.” However, Mueller, citing numerous legal constraints in his report, declined to exonerate Trump, writing: “If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment.” Trump, meanwhile, responded: “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.” (MS Now / Reuters / Politico / Associated Press)
\n1/ The Pentagon asked for more than $200 billion in additional funding for the Iran war. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said “it takes money to kill bad guys […] for what’s being done, for what we may have to do in the future,” adding that the number “could move.” Trump said the large funding request was necessary for “vast amounts of ammunition” and “beyond even what we’re talking about in Iran.” The request hasn’t yet been formally transmitted to Congress, where it faces broad Democratic opposition and growing unease among Republicans anxious about an open-ended conflict, mounting costs and the prospect of ground troops. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said it “remains to be seen” whether the package could pass, with Democrats calling it a blank check and some Republicans saying the administration still had not explained the cost, timeline or strategy. (Washington Post / Associated Press / Politico / New York Times / CNN / Reuters / Wall Street Journal / Bloomberg / ABC News / CNBC / Axios)
\nWhat else could $200 billion buy?
\nMore than six years of rent help for millions of low-income households; roughly 23 years of federal childcare funding; about 16 years of Head Start for young children and families; fill the Pell Grant program’s projected 10-year shortfall and still leave roughly $100 billion left over; enough to fix the country’s entire bridge-repair backlog; and fund more than 60 years of programs aimed at ending veteran homelessness. (FHWA / HUD budget highlights / First Five Years Fund / CRFB / HUD vouchers)
\nTrump said “I’m not putting troops anywhere,″ but then immediately added: “If I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you.” (New York Times / Politico)
\npoll/ 65% of Americans believe Trump send troops into a large-scale ground war in Iran. 7% support sending ground troops to Iran. (Reuters)
\n2/ Iran attacked Gulf energy sites after an Israeli strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field, damaging Qatar’s Ras Laffan complex and knocking out 17% of Qatar’s LNG export capacity for 3 to 5 years. Brent crude briefly jumped above $119 a barrel before retreating, as markets priced in the risk that damage to oil fields, refineries, and export terminals could last longer than reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. The Trump administration, meanwhile, said it may lift sanctions on about 140 million barrels of Iranian oil already at sea to ease the market. (Washington Post / Reuters / Associated Press / CNBC / Wall Street Journal / Axios / Politico / New York Times)
\n3/ Israel said it would stop attacking Iran’s South Pars gas field after Trump said he told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “don’t do that,” and later declared on social media that “NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL.” Netanyahu confirmed the pullback, saying, “Trump asked us to hold off on future attacks,” after the Israeli strike set off Iranian retaliation against energy sites across the Gulf and sent oil prices higher. Iran, meanwhile, warned it would show “ZERO restraint” if its energy infrastructure was struck again. (Bloomberg / Associated Press / Wall Street Journal / Politico / New York Times)
\n4/ The Justice Department subpoenaed former FBI Director James Comey as part of a “grand conspiracy” case against the former officials who investigated and prosecuted Trump. The subpoena was issued last week and seeks information about Comey’s role in the January 2017 intelligence assessment on Russian election interference. More than 130 subpoenas have been issued in the probe, including to former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page. It’s unclear what crime prosecutors believe the subpoenaed officials committed. (NBC News / Axios / CBS News / Bloomberg)
\n5/ About 9% of people who had Affordable Care Act insurance in 2025 are now uninsured after the enhanced federal subsidies expired at the end of 2025. Of those who kept ACA plans, 17% aren’t confident they can afford the premiums for the full year, and 28% switched plans, often to cheaper coverage with higher out-of-pocket costs. Average ACA premiums more than doubled for subsidized enrollees in 2026, and more than half of returning policyholders said they have cut or plan to cut basic household spending to keep coverage. (CNBC / Wall Street Journal)
\n6/ A coalition of 24 states and more than a dozen cities and counties sued the EPA over its repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding, the legal basis used to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The case aims to restore the finding and reverse the repeal of vehicle emissions limits, arguing the agency ignored settled law, Supreme Court precedent, and longstanding science on climate harm. (New York Times / Associated Press / Reuters / Los Angeles Times / The Guardian)
\n7/ Trump’s hand-picked federal arts commission approved a commemorative 24-karat U.S. gold coin depicting Trump leaning on a desk with clenched fists – a design that Trump personally approved. A separate bipartisan coin advisory panel, however, already refused to consider the proposal. (Washington Post)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 229 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 964 days.
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Instead, she told senators that “the only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president.” Gabbard, however, confirmed the intelligence community’s view that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was “obliterated” in last year’s strikes and that there had been “no efforts” to rebuild it, undercutting Trump’s claim that Tehran was “starting it all over.” She also said Iran’s regime appears “intact but largely degraded” and acknowledged it had “long been an assessment” that Tehran could use the Strait of Hormuz as leverage, while declining to say what warnings Trump received before the war. (Bloomberg / CBS News / ABC News / Washington Post / Axios / NBC News / Associated Press / New York Times)
\n2/ Oil prices jumped after an Israel airstrike on Iran’s South Pars gas field and Iran later attacked Qatar’s Ras Laffan liquefied natural gas facility, two of the region’s most important gas sites. Brent crude settling above $107 a barrel, up from about $103 a day earlier and roughly 40% to 50% above prewar levels. Prices later topped $111 in after-hours trading as traders priced in greater risks to regional oil and gas supply. QatarEnergy said Ras Laffan suffered “extensive damage.” (CNN / Bloomberg / Axios / New York Times / Associated Press / Wall Street Journal)
\n3/ Trump waived the Jones Act for 60 days in an effort to contain rising fuel prices caused by the war in Iran. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the move, which lets foreign-flagged ships carry fuel and other energy products between U.S. ports, was meant to ease “short-term disruptions” in the oil market. But analysts and shipping executives said the effect on pump prices would likely be modest because crude prices, not domestic shipping costs, remain the main driver. (Politico / New York Times / Axios / CNBC / Reuters / Bloomberg / CBS News)
\n4/ The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady at 3.5% to 3.75%, acknowledging increased uncertainty due to the Iran war. “It is too soon to know the scope and duration of the potential effects on the economy,” Fed Chair Jerome Powell said. “The thing I really want to emphasize is that nobody knows.” He said “higher energy prices will push up overall inflation” and that the Fed was “balancing these two goals in a situation where the risks to the labor market are to the downside, which would call for lower rates, and the risks to inflation are to the upside, which would call for higher rates, or not cutting anyway.” Fed officials raised their 2026 inflation forecast to 2.7%, kept unemployment at 4.4%, slightly lifted their growth outlook, and still project one quarter-point cut this year. (ABC News / New York Times / Washington Post / NBC News / NPR / CNN / CNBC / Associated Press / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / Axios)
\n5/ The FBI is buying Americans’ data and location histories – again. For the first time since 2023, the FBI publicly confirmed it’s actively purchasing commercially available information, giving agents a way to obtain location data from brokers without going to phone companies for records that would ordinarily require a warrant. Director Kash Patel said the purchases are lawful and have yielded “valuable intelligence,” but he did not say how often the FBI buys the data, what exactly it acquires, which brokers sell it or what limits govern its use. (Politico / TechCrunch)
\n6/ The United States was downgraded from a liberal democracy to an electoral democracy due to Trump’s “rapid and aggressive concentration of powers in the presidency.” The Varieties of Democracy Institute report said the U.S. suffered a “derailment of democracy” driven by “suppression and intimidation of media and dissenting voices,” while freedom of expression fell to “its lowest level since the end of WWII.” It also cited Trump’s “attacks on the press, academia, civil liberties, and dissenting voices” and said a Republican-controlled Congress had weakened the legislative checks that might have slowed him. (CNN)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 230 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 965 days.
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So it's settled. We'll vote on more things in the future. Not because punctuation is a matter of national importance or whatever. But because a lot of you said these silly little polls feel “therapeutic,” “strangely grounding,” and like “a semblance of control in the chaos” that make you feel “less isolated” and more connected to the other sane people reading this too. I'll find a way to weave these simple polls in without going overboard or having them become distracting. Promise!!
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\n2/ Trump – twice – said that a former president told him he wished he’d been the one to attack Iran, but all four living former presidents denied talking to Trump about Iran. Representatives for Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Biden said they hadn’t spoken with Trump recently. Nevertheless, Trump first made the claim at a White House meeting with Kennedy Center board members, then repeated it in the Oval Office, saying, “I spoke to one of the former presidents” and that the person told him, “I wish I did what you did.” When asked who it was, Trump ruled out Bush, wouldn’t say whether it was Clinton, and said he didn’t want to identify the person because “I don’t want to get him into trouble.” (NBC News / New York Times / Associated Press / The Hill / The Guardian)
\n3/ The top U.S. counterterrorism official resigned over the Iran war, saying Iran posed “no imminent threat.” In his resignation letter, Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said: “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” Kent claimed Israel “deployed a misinformation campaign,” which “sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran,” and “was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, and that should you strike now.” In response, Trump said Kent was a nice guy, who “was weak on security, very weak on security.” Kent is the first senior Trump administration official to publicly quit over the conflict. (Axios / Wall Street Journal / NPR / Politico / Washington Post / Reuters / CNBC / NBC News / Bloomberg / New York Times / Associated Press)
\n4/ The Senate voted 51-48 to open debate on the House-passed SAVE America Act, launching what Republicans said could be days of floor speeches on Trump’s “No. 1 priority.” The measure would require proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote, but Senate Republicans lack the 60 votes needed to break a Democratic filibuster. Senate Majority Leader John Thune also said that “the votes aren’t there” for the more aggressive talking-filibuster strategy. Democrats called the measure “a naked attempt to rig our elections” and vowed to block it “all day, all night.” (Politico / NBC News / Washington Post / New York Times / Wall Street Journal / CBS News / The Hill)
\n5/ The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi to appear for a closed-door deposition over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and its compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The move followed a bipartisan committee vote earlier this month, when five Republicans joined Democrats to compel her testimony. Chairman James Comer said the panel has questions about possible mismanagement of the Epstein probe and Bondi’s role in collecting, reviewing, and releasing the files. The Justice Department called the subpoena “completely unnecessary,” and said Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche would brief committee members Wednesday, and didn’t say whether Bondi would comply. (New York Times / Washington Post / Politico / CNN / CNBC)
\nThe 2026 midterms are in 231 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 966 days.
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Semicolons win. After two rounds and some 9,000 votes, our final result is 46% red semicolons, 29% semicolons, and 25% pilcrows. But as many readers pointed out, the red semicolon probably isn’t the most accessible option. So we'll stick with what's been working for the last, oh, nine years.
\nThat said, I do want to acknowledge that voting on the punctuation of a run-on sentence is not exactly a matter of national importance. But maybe that's the point? As one reader put it: “Being invited to vote about punctuation is one of the most sane things that has happened these last few weeks.” Another wrote: “Thanks for allowing us to have an opinion on something that doesn’t matter at all in the grand scheme of things.”
\nAfter all, nearly 9,000 of you voted on punctuation. Punctuation!!! It's like a small reminder that WTFJHT isn’t just about the news, but about the people who read it. Or, as the late, great St. Joe Strummer put it: “Without people, you’re nothing.”
\nAnyway, should we vote on more things?
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