I’m appalled.

@RadioFreeTom Remember when we were appalled by [fill in appalling thing here]?

Update from the land of the free:

No way the fall of Rome was this cringe

FT Exclusive: A broker for the US defence secretary attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. ft.trib.al/HIiu9Tx

FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling ft.trib.al/5jnFcCt

Additional raw footage from new angle. 👇 This woman is U.S. citizen traveling with her young daughter—according to witness who filmed video. She could not prove her citizenship to satisfaction of the agents—and was violently taken into ICE custody. San Francisco Airport

Len Deighton, one of the greatest espionage writers of our time, has passed away at age 97. The Royal Air Force veteran and illustrator once served coffee to Agatha Christie on a flight to Beirut while working as a flight attendant before the publication of what is still probably his most well-known novel, THE IPCRESS FILE, in 1962, a book that introduced an unnamed working-class protagonist, a man who would become Harry Palmer in the Michael Caine films. He would go on to write over thirty books spanning the decades. On the cusp of his rise to the pinnacle of literary prominence, he lunched with Ian Fleming at the White Tower restaurant in London, a meal Deighton notes in “James Bond: My Long and Eventful Search for His Father.” He also lent his extraordinary talents to screenwriting, became the travel editor for Playboy magazine, wrote “cookstrips” and cookbooks, produced films, and penned multiple works of non-fiction. In the 1980s he created Bernard Samson, a character who would thrill readers through three trilogies into the 90s. I came across an interesting story on the @spywrite website by Jeff Quest detailing a surprise 75th birthday lunch for author Eric Ambler on June 29, 1984 at the Savoy Hotel in London. Len Deighton had organized it in Ambler’s honor. In attendance were John le Carré, Frederick Forsyth, John Gardner, Anthony Price, Kingsley Amis, Gavin Lyall, Ted Allbeury, Lionel Davidson, Miles Tripp, Julian Symons, and H.R.F. Keating. The group photo above was given to author Mike Ripley by Anthony Price’s family and published in Ripley’s article for Shots Magazine. No one knows the exact details of what was discussed or what libations flowed, but what a lunch that must have been! Le Carré, Forsyth and Deighton paid the bill. I understand that a menu from the lunch survived…and it was signed by all in attendance. An inspiration and a true master of the craft…Deighton’s legacy remains. He will be missed. All of today’s thriller writers and writers of espionage have been influenced by Len Deighton, whether they know it or not. Len Deighton February 18, 1929 - March 15, 2026

California now-Independent Congressman Kevin Kiley's resignation from the House Republican Conference was announced in the House today as well as his removal from his three House committee assignments by the Speaker: Education and Workforce, Judiciary, and Transportation and Infrastructure. @cspan

It’s Déjà vu all over again. The Scotsman, October 29th 1987…

For decades, Elbridge Colby wrote that attacking Iran was “a recipe for perpetual war” that would be pointless and counterproductive. It's how he made his name in DC. Now he's helping carry out Trump's second strikes on Iran in less than a year. puck.news/how-elbridge-c…

Ten years ago today, Marco Rubio cried when Pope Francis called on America to respect the dignity of immigrants seeking a better life in the United States.

Today one Russian newspaper writes of a world leader who has “made a mistake as old as the world. It’s a feature of personalistic regimes. He comes to believe in his own genius & takes a decision in a narrow circle of trusted persons...the blitzkrieg didn’t work.” #ReadingRussia

We were told NIH funding cuts were about eliminating DEI. But the data now shows grants are down across nearly every field of medicine: cancer, diabetes, mental health, brain disorders. With the greatest cuts hitting Alzheimer’s research, down more than 50%.

Trump: "The prime minster of UK told me 'I'm meeting with my team to make a determination.' I said, 'You don't need to meet with a team. You're the prime minster. You can make your own. Why do you need to meet with your team to find out if you're gonna send some mine sweepers or boats to us?' It's the same thing here."

"If you compare the United States to every other industrialized country and you rank them from the very best to the very worst, the American stock market comes 21st out of 23."

This is insane — DHS apparently went so far in their lie that Columbia University President Claire Shipman says the agents apparently brought faux flyers of a "missing child" so they could force themselves inside a campus residency to detain a college student.

DHS spent today replying to individual tweets saying they left this man in a coffee shop "determined to be a warm, safe location" only for video to emerge tonight showing it was the middle of the night, cold and the coffee shop was closed.

Gorsuch: "Are we really to believe that the patriots that night in Boston Harbor considered the whole of the tariff power some kingly prerogative?" Boom.

🚨 REPUBLICAN APPOINTED JUDGE PATRICK SCHILTZ: “ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence."

Job Growth Before and After Liberation Day

Earlier this week, Kristi Noem told me under oath that she has not deported veterans. I then introduced her to one that she did deport. But it’s much worse than that: @RepMoulton got DHS to admit that they’ve deported at least 8 vets and are planning to deport dozens more.