Jay Nordlinger

Some people speak of the "Before Times" -- a period before Trump. There will be "After Times." In these times, can the Oval Office look like the Oval Office again? Can we restore Radio Free Asia, PEPFAR, the National Endowment for Democracy, etc.? https://t.co/CWYgPjThBL

Once this administration is staffed, will there be anyone left at Fox?

Gateway to the Supreme Court. #JusticeJeanine #MAGA

Katherine Faulders @KFaulders

NEWS - President Donald Trump is strongly considering installing Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Reporting w/ @wsteaks https://t.co/LXWNavq3vx

Is New Mexico going to be okay? Even with that "New," the name's a little -- you know: Mes'can. #AmericaFirst #MAGA https://t.co/HksH2MAQ3h

Thank you, Congressman Bacon.

Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon

I’m not into doing silly stuff. It is sophomoric.

The recovery of national reason — the ascent from idiocracy — may take a long, long while.

Dominic Pino @DominicJPino

So the first "deal" that's supposed to reduce trade barriers and eliminate the trade deficit is to keep higher tariffs than we had before on goods from a country with which we have a trade surplus. Got it.

A quick language note: “the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.” I would have said “in the 250-year history of his country” (or something like that). https://t.co/QDZGTc4fdq

Oh, my gosh, yes.

Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin

i think one of the hardest things to explain to a politically aware zoomer is how controversial michelle obama's version of this was

"Don't know much about history."

Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social @TrumpDailyPosts

From Donald Trump Truth Social 05/08/25 09:00 AM https://t.co/9dvHSopevb

Important. https://t.co/CYJ11dLjuu

Kash Patel: "As the first public defender who's ever served the FBI as its director, I am more aware of due process than any predecessor in my seat." I bet Judge Webster knew as much about due process. At least as much.

Trump, paying tribute to Laura Loomer last year: "You don't want to be Loomered. If you're Loomered, you're in deep trouble. That's the end of your career, in a sense." The latest Loomeree (sister-in-law of Mike Waltz, another Loomeree) ... https://t.co/IuDISvIqRZ

Sounds bad.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

Powell: "If the large increases in tariffs that have been announced are sustained, they are likely to generate a rise in inflation, a slowdown in economic growth, and an increase in unemployment." https://t.co/UZF8EM9RRu

RT @jaynordlinger: Are your views on trade with China settled? Mine aren't (and I have had years -- decades -- to think about it). I'm not…

RT @jaynordlinger: A mélange of a column, including the political, the linguistic, and the musical (and the typographic, believe it or not)…

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Noah Rothman @NoahCRothman

It’s probably the antisemitism.

There are good people in the world, resisting evil. On them does a decent society — a society worth living in — depend.

Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit

RIP Chris @Swampy_EOD_Ukr 💔 https://t.co/Fr3hO4euoZ