Zack Stanton

EXCLUSIVE @ms.now: Trump administration officials have discussed attaching the president’s name to Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 Officials are circulating a list of government sites that could carry the president’s name www.ms.now/news/trump-f...

One of the most insightful El-Sayed profiles I’ve read Traces his evolution from the 2018 candidate who lost a Dem primary to the one who could win in 2026 By @danielstrauss.bsky.social prospect.org/2026/07/30/a...

“They only gave interview availability for before 9 A.M. or after 7 P.M. on weekdays, or the weekends,” said one person interviewed for the autopsy. It suggested to them the schedule of a volunteer side project, not a professional undertaking.

"In the masculinist paradigm, every woman does HR for cats and every man is a plumber or merchant seaman."

It's an interesting dynamic here: Trump is generally quite unpopular with voters, but if you gerrymander everything, primaries matter even more — so his grip over GOP voters becomes, in many ways, one of the most important things in politics

"Practically overnight, we took an ancient vice — long regarded as soul-rotting and civilizationally ruinous — put it on everyone’s phone, and made it as normal and frictionless as checking the weather. What could possibly go wrong?"

The Trump administration sent negotiators without nuclear expertise to lead talks on Iran’s enrichment program. Now, its public case for war with Iran centers on a nuclear facility that experts say cannot do what officials claim.

“Who is going to make that commitment on the basis of a promise from Donald Trump?” As Trump pressures U.S. oil firms, analysts and former diplomats say Venezuela cannot produce the outcome he wants. www.ms.now/news/trump-o... @ms.now

As Trump tries to blame Biden for the economy, he has a problem: For a year, the WH has worked to show how POWERFUL Trump is — bending things to his will, etc. It’s hard, then, to make the case that on this one issue, he's actually not in control and hasn’t yet made an impact.

Trump's reaction to the killing of Rob and Michele Reiner crystallized a defining feature of his leadership, writes Vaughn Hillyard: "a willingness to withhold empathy from those Americans he views as adversaries and, at times, to seemingly mock their suffering."

A program for deafblind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The Trump administration cut the program’s funding over diversity goals.

What an all-around grim day.

I joined @michiganpublic.bsky.social's Zoe Clark and Rick Pluta (and @freep.com's Nancy Kaffer) to talk all things Gretchen Whitmer. Give it a listen!

"If my professors are unable to teach me, and I’m not able to have candid conversations to get a proper education, what am I here for?” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

One potential difficulty that I see with this is that I think voters tend to think that when wages go up, it's because of their own hard work and effort, while when prices go up, it's because of politicians www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

In a stunning break in one of the FBI’s most high-profile unsolved cases, agents arrested a suspect Thursday morning who investigators believe placed pipe bombs outside Republican and Democratic headquarters in the hours before the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.

"the president worked roughly 50-hour weeks"

"They often sit in the dark with only strings of LED lights on to save on electric costs. She is considering painting rocks to send to friends as Christmas gifts."

Fox News Poll: 76% of voters view the economy negatively. That’s worse than the 70% who said the same at the end of Biden’s term. www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

Trump's promise to send checks to Americans is a political bind: If they aren't sent, voters could resent it. If they *are* sent, it could ramp up inflation. BUT if they argue the checks won't contribute to inflation, it's a sign the economy isn't as strong as they claim.

"Drugs are sold once and gone forever, but girls can be resold indefinitely." What a piece.

“The Democratic midterm campaign ads write themselves: Millions in secretive crypto profits for the Trump family, but Mr. Trump’s famous ‘two dolls’ and ‘five pencils’ for everyone else.” www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

“It’s not like Marc Andreessen and David Sacks and Elon and JD and Trump are all sitting at the dinner table at Mar-a-Lago planning DOGE and in a lightbulb moment, they were like, ‘Let’s just instantiate the ideas of Curtis Yarvin,’” one person added. “It’s more like, Yarvin is the brain.”

SCOOP: President Donald Trump plans to announce details of a major trade agreement with the United Kingdom Thursday morning

NEWS: @aoc.bsky.social won’t seek top Oversight Committee post, @nicholaswu12.bsky.social reports. ”It’s actually clear to me that the underlying dynamics in the caucus have not shifted with respect to seniority as much as I think would be necessary.” www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

I just feel like the only example in this article being this is kind of symptomatic of the problem with financial journalism in general www.thestreet.com/retirement/s...

"The vehicle, which Francis used during a 2014 visit to the West Bank, will be turned into a health clinic on wheels designed to treat Palestinian children."

“Trump’s new-ish material is darker,” says @zackstanton.bsky.social. “It’s not simply the Bukele video, which is so dark it’s practically Vantablack ...”

"In his first administration, he fired James Comey in the second hundred days and then had the Charlottesville 'very fine people' debacle just after Day 200. Who knows what's in store this time around?" says @zackstanton.bsky.social.

Tonight, President Trump will mark his 100th day in office with a big rally in Warren, Michigan. Why has Warren (and Macomb County) become ground zero for so much of American politics the last 50+ years? Here's the hidden history behind that:

A few months ago, Pierre Poilievre appeared poised to become the next Canadian prime minister. Just before 5 a.m. this morning, CBC News declared that he has lost his own bid for reelection.

Canadian PM Mark Carney, a former central banker, might seem like an unlikely political figure. But elements of his unusual background now seem quietly relevant. My latest column, for some Canadian Election Day reading: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“You know at some point, they give up,” Trump said, referring to media owners generally and — we suspected — Jeff Bezos specifically. “At some point they say, No más, no más.” He laughed quietly. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Buick vulnerable to Trump tariffs: 'It could just disappear altogether' via @detroitnews.bsky.social:

“Preserving habeas corpus is not some fever dream of the left wing echo chamber,” said Pritzker. “It’s a fundamental concept of justice that people have fought and died for dating back to the Middle Ages.”

"One of the big projects is figuring out how does global security work when the U.S. is not the guarantor of the free world."

Indiana lieutenant governor calls Three-Fifths Compromise ‘a great move’

WHCD weekend has arrived in Trump's Washington www.politico.com/newsletters/...

This is *quite* the sensationalized headline at Fox News. Click through, and you'll find that the "third party" is… God.

Vivid, affecting writing from Gothamist: gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

“Following Trump’s demand that the FCC inflict ‘punishment’ on CBS over a recent 60 Minutes piece on Greenland and Ukraine, Paramount executives, including Redstone, asked the program to provide a list of upcoming Trump-related pieces it was reporting on” www.semafor.com/article/04/2...