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We just published my swan song for The Post: Congress nears tipping point of irrelevance. It’s been an amazing 19-plus-year run, especially last decade of this @PKCapitol column. The Post has been family, giving me this perch to cover Congress. So lucky … washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

A "life skills" university with 6,500 students, and on-campus steakhouse, and a $70,000 cost to attend is upending March Madness. The private school that shocked Wisconsin in the first round—and will now play Arkansas for a trip to the Sweet 16—is the talk of college basketball.

Hello Politico, You’ve published 1,500+ words about Senator Mike Lee and the SAVE America Act. Your headline conditioned the reader what to think before the first paragraph: "This is about attention." Your sourcing: five anonymous Republican senators, and a section titled "Leadership ambitions?" whose only function is to ensure the reader leaves believing Lee is just putting on a performance. The SAVE America Act requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. It passed the House 218-213. The President called it his "#1 priority." Harvard CAPS/Harris found in February 2026 that 75% of Americans support it. Your article does not contain the phrase "proof of citizenship." It does not mention any polling. It barely has any policy analysis. You have to remove the substance for the false personality smears to land. Now let’s examine the real reason you wrote this hit job. In January 2021, three of your staff left and founded Punchbowl News. They took your model with them. Then Jake Sherman said something you never have: on a podcast, he described Punchbowl's revenue as "nearly 90%" from corporate sponsorships." The documented sponsors include PhRMA, ExxonMobil, JPMorgan, Meta, and the American Investment Council. Turns out, you have the exact same sponsors. PhRMA pays for Politico Focus branded content. JPMorgan Chase is a Politico Focus client. The American Investment Council is a Politico Focus client. Meta sponsors your shows. You have Politico Pro, which charges K Street $10,000 to $30,000 a year for legislative intelligence — and accounted for approximately half your revenue as of 2015, with a 93% renewal rate. Your subscriber base is the lobbying community. They are also your subject matter. The same corporations fund both outlets. The same K Street audience reads both outlets. And both outlets produce the same framing: leadership is realistic, insurgent senators are attention-seekers, the SAVE Act has "almost no chance." Punchbowl's Andrew Desiderio wrote that. Your Jordain Carney wrote that Lee "doesn't have a realistic path." Two outlets, same sponsors, same audience, same conclusion. Your own article admits, buried below 1,500 words of anonymous attacks: Lee's pressure produced an open-ended floor debate "next to unheard-of in the modern Senate" and moved Chuck Schumer to concede ground on voter ID. You framed both as asides. An anonymous senator told you Lee's motivation is "the clicks." Lee does midnight livestreams explaining his position to anyone who wants to listen. Your anonymous senators called Politico. Your alumni left, built the same thing, and told the world what it was. You never had to. The article does it for you. Like @PunchbowlNews, you are a K Street sham, Politico. You should have all your Capitol press credentials revoked, because your entire existence is one giant violation of undisclosed lobbying restrictions.

Yep. Also, the future host for the NFL on CBS is one of the biggest job openings in the industry. While people previously viewed Burleson as the top candidate, new CBS ownership has shown a different taste than the previous. I would expect Ellison to make major changes to CBS Sports after he settles down with the News revamp. I also don't think Burleson is very good as a host. James Brown is 75. He will likely anchor the 2028 Super Bowl, but that could be his last. I could see CBS trying to poach one of ESPN or Fox's top hosts, or sign someone from the outside.

Kalshi and Polymarket have multi-billion-dollar valuations and serious partnerships with the likes of MLB, the NHL, UFC, and CNN. And they use misinformation, vulgar memes, and shitposting to stand out on the internet. From @readDanwrite in December ⬇️

What a day to be in Florida. I’m so tan that George Hamilton is gonna compliment me…

With Truth Predict, the Trump family is betting on prediction markets — an industry his admin is supposed to regulate and which Trump's old allies in the casino business oppose. Read @scontorno and @MarshallCohen: cnn.com/2026/03/21/pol…

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10. Jake Tapper is doing 5pm hour shows from his messy office because he believes that he can simply flavor his arrogant journalism school pedigree by imitating a podcast to make it appealing. But Tapper's studio is not why we are on his heels & gaining—It's Jake himself.

7. Right now, many people want the relevance, recency, and polish of live network news reporting coupled through a lens of personality-driven analysis, normal human character, and intimate attention of a podcaster. That's the only reason I can think of to explain how my side-hobby 1 hour a day radio show out of Indianapolis grew (in just two years) into a nationally-syndicated radio/TV/livestream & simulcast that somehow charted "Apple's Top 5" in politics, is currently (all platforms combined) hitting 250k-350k daily (100k's on YouTube alone, where we have begun regularly trending). And we've never spent money advertising the livestream. Ever. I'm not special, that's not false-modesty. Little bit of sarcasm + fitting a podcast-style news/analysis show in an FCC-Spectrum radio & TV clock. Past that, all you have to do is be right more than you're wrong.

6. Here's what appears to be next: broadcast-structured but podcast-atmospheric livestreams/news shows. They're hybrids, and so far appear maddeningly tricky to get right. It's likely why @WillCainShow has been wildly successful so far at Fox News, and definitely why Fox licensed @RuthlessPodcast (check the @Mediaite & @Newsweek articles). Others from Axios to Daily Wire are tightening up their livestreams to more broadcast-succinct but livestream-viewer focus. It is why Jake Tapper is broadcasting from his cluttered office on freaking CNN from 5pm to 7pm.

5. Now, the influencer age is waning. It's not enough to be a personality with tons of followers. People are once again starting to be judged by what they bring to the table. Audiences don't want two things: They don't want a stuffy, stale broadcast anchor to briefly read the same thing (written by committee) that other networks have on, just to have analysts that regurgitate the same, old talking points. Boring. Additionally, no one wants to watch a podcaster hem and haw for 3 hours just to get 15 minutes of news (and find most of it debunked as regurgitated/AI/bot-pushed feces by the next day).

As always, there is a 'technical reason' the mistake happened. But strange that it always happens to one party. nypost.com/2026/03/20/us-…

CNN having its anchors cosplay as podcasters is one of the surest signs yet that the MSM is dead. No one buys this. It isn't going to work. But, fuck me, it's funny to watch the long slow march towards total irrelevance...

Tony Robinson is an inspiring man, teacher, & patriot. American colleges were once ladders to success for citizens like him. Today, would his alma mater, Univ of Illinois, even provide that opportunity? With 6,000 Chinese nationals taking coveted spots from American kids???

In honor of the great Hal Linden's 95th Birthday, please enjoy the ABC You and Me Promo. This promo features all the stars of ABC's hit and new shows from 1980. Your childhood flashes before your eyes.

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CNN Execs: “Do we replace our failing on-air talent that has driven our ratings into the ground?” Intern: “What if we just stick Jake Tapper on a goofy podcast set?” CNN Execs: “Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.”

I’ve never heard a coach say some sh*t like this on live Television

#KevinHart will take the hot seat for a live roast on Netflix, following the breakout success of its 2024 Tom Brady event: • Hosted by Shane Gillis, the special will air Sunday, May 10, closing out the Netflix Is a Joke Fest • Like the Brady roast, it will be filmed at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles variety.com/2026/tv/news/k…