What The Fuck Just Happened Today?

Your essential guide to the shock and awe in national politics. A sane, once-a-day newsletter helping normal people make sense of the news.

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A political newsletter for normal people

WTF Just Happened Today? is a sane, once-a-day newsletter helping normal people make sense of the news. Curated daily by Matt Kiser and delivered to 200,000+ people every afternoon around 3 pm Pacific.

  • Quite possibly the only email list I’m on that hasn’t annoyed me even once. –Drew H.
  • *I have been on the internet since 1994 and WTFJHT is the best damn political resource I’ve ever come across. Can’t wait to read it each day. Larry B.
  • The only news-related email that I make a point of reading every day. –Lorraine N.
  • WTFJHT is the only newsletter I let into my inbox. It’s brief, clear, and covers the perfect selection of news in the perfect amount of words. –Steffi K.
  • Thanks for staring into the abyss so I don’t have to. –Lynn P.
  • WTFJHT has become my lifeline. I feel like I can tune out the chaos because I know I will receive the newsletter at the end of the day and can pursue further topics with the links you provide. I put aside a quiet time in the evening to do so and it makes all the horribleness that occurs each day a bit more manageable. –Laura K.
  • I don’t need a blow-by-blow accounting of the news. I continue to want a high-level, conversational summary that leaves me informed and I’m willing to forego details in favor of the summary WTF Just Happened Today provides.” –Casey C.
  • Thanks to WTF Just Happened Today I don’t have to read the news more than once a day. My quality of life is higher and I still have a clue about WTF just happened today. –Buster
  • WTFJHT is a lifesaver - a voice of sanity, reliability, and humanity - coming to us out of the darkness and the chaos. –Susan B.
  • I could not deal with the current administration and the mess they create without WTFJHT. Well, I still can’t deal with it, but at least I can understand what is happening because of WTFJHT! –Connie S.
  • Concise, thoughtful newsbites. Without WTFJHT there would be darkness and chaos. –Catherine B.
  • Insightful, clever, and intelligent. WTF Just Happened Today keeps me abreast of all of the political happenings, and is presented with a viewpoint that I can relate to. –Fran P.
  • The spirit of WTF’s attempt to present all of the dumbfuckery in as non-biased a manner as possible is laudable. –Joe D.
  • I have nine news apps on my phone, but WTFJHT is what I look at at the end of the day. –Patricia M.
  • I want to keep current but I cannot bear to hear it sometimes. WTFJHT’s bite-size summaries are perfect. -Cara M.
  • It is a toss up if I just like saying the name or really like the daily recaps. –Dominique A.
  • The daily summation of news paints a clear and pointed picture of the morass. By putting together these various - attributed - articles in one concise blog, even someone who graduated at the bottom of his class at the Wharton School could understand the mess we are in. –Bob G.
  • A shining light in a cave full of shit. –Joe P.