I got a lot of shit for this reporting. But it is indeed the case that lots of republicans are considering retiring mid term because of frustration/unhappiness.

game, set, match, @dccc

It's a bit surprising that Pete Hegseth asked for two shots when he usually asks for four or five.

Debrief of shipwreck attack by Ranking Member of House Armed Services Adam Smith: "The idea is supposed to be that if they could get assistance, they could get back 'in the fight,' ...But Smith said the officials confirmed...they have no recording of these communications." 1/

2/ “Smith said the video shows two men, sitting without shirts, atop a portion of a capsized boat that was still above water. ... ... He called it a 'highly questionable decision that these two people on that obviously incapacitated vessel were still in any kind of fight.'”

3/ Rep. Smith: “The broader assumption that they were operating off of was that the drugs could still conceivably be on that boat, even though you could not see them ... and it was still conceivable that these two people were going to continue on their mission.”

4/ Rep. Smith said that Hegseth’s declared mission “was, ‘Destroy the drugs, kill all 11 people on board.’” Rep. Smith: “It is not that inaccurate to say that the rules of engagement from Hegseth were, ‘Kill all 11 people on that boat.’”

5/ Rep. Smith: “They have an unbelievably broad definition of what ‘the fight’ is.”

6/ source: interview with @GregTSargent https://t.co/CXkYWmkINM

New from @CarolLeonnig and me: A grand jury in Norfolk today declined to indict New York Attorney General Tish James on mortgage fraud charges, but the Justice Department is determined to try again.

NEWS - A federal grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia, refused to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud on Thursday, sources said, rejecting DOJ's attempt to refile the case just ten days after a federal judge dismissed an earlier case based on the

Anyone who naps all day is bound to feel peaceful. 😴

Please help make @AnnieAndrewsMD Senator from South Carolina and the Entire Known Universe https://t.co/juPDYx5FLB

Explaining the “fog” of war…the reality of Clausewitz. My latest in the ⁦@BulwarkOnline⁩

Or, especially in an era of instantaneous and recorded high-definition video, there may be no fog, but rather only moral blindness.

Sounds like … a good argument? 😵‍💫😬

NEWS The Roberts Court rescues Trump’s agenda on the emergency docket again — this time, with a stay of a lower court order blocking racially gerrymandered Texas maps. The liberal justices dissent.

@kyledcheney

NOTABLE: Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch say they view California's new map as "indisputably" driven by the pursuit of partisan advantage, as opposed to impermissible race-based goals. Could bode well for Newsom in legal challenges to the CA map.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has permitted Texas to keep its newly redistricted, GOP-favorable congressional map in 2026. Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. https://t.co/XCzbZBBhzH