Jonathan Martin
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Jonathan Martin
@jmart
Senior political columnist @politico. Best email for audio files, documents, tips and provocative ideas: https://t.co/VmkJz2G3tS or DM for text/signal

Today is the four year anniversary of Rex Chapman on CBS talking about Pete Gillen’s death during March Madness. One problem: Pete Gillen is alive and was working for CBS during the segment.


Reporter: Why didn't you tell allies about the war before attacking Iran? Trump: We wanted it to be a surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?



Trump says people with learning disabilities are “dumb.” We are not.

@jmart @jmart you do realize you’d have to go all the way to Amarillo for this challenge? 🥺


Sounds like a task for @jmart

If I’m Talarico’s campaign manager, he starts training today to win the Big Texan 72oz steak challenge.

In 2022, James Talarico said it’s “existential” to reduce meat consumption to fight climate change. "I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign... We are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses."

The Director of National Intelligence says that an imminent threat is whatever the president says is an imminent threat …. But nowhere in this statement, does she say that she agrees that Iran posed an imminent threat — or that the intelligence supports such a conclusion.

White House says they asked Tulsi to fire Joe Kent. Her team says they didn’t. Kent says there was no imminent threat to justify war with Iran. Tulsi says Trump decided there was based on intelligence, without clearly stating the intel showed one. Now WH and ODNI officials are leaking conflicting accounts. The split over the core case for war is hard to miss.

I paid my way through Youngstown State and went on to teach at OSU. Ohio has the best colleges in the country, and Vivek Ramaswamy plans to get rid of them. dispatch.com/story/news/pol…

1 of the most remarkably enduring Covid rites: UA flight attendants handing ya a wipe upon boarding so you can sand down the arm rest, wipe that corona away



