Hunter Biden comes for Jake Tapper — and Ivanka

For the first time, the House voted to end U.S. military action against Iran, 215-208, with four Republicans crossing the aisle. The resolution now goes to the Senate, which is legally required to take it up promptly — and where GOP leadership is already under pressure to kill it quietly. The win is real but fragile: this is a Congress that just confirmed a federal judge rated "not qualified" by the American Bar Association to a lifetime seat in Montana. Marco Rubio, who just last week was declaring the Iran war "over," was simultaneously caught lying to Congress about Trump falling asleep in meetings — confronted with multiple video clips mid-testimony — and then ran out the clock rather than answer whether Trump might invade Cuba next. Four Republicans voted to check a president who is, by his own Secretary of State's admission, running foreign policy in his sleep.

Trump nominated Todd Blanche — his former personal criminal defense attorney — to be the next Attorney General of the United States. In the same news cycle, Blanche told Sean Hannity that Trump would "absolutely" have gone to prison if he hadn't won the 2024 election. The man who kept Trump out of prison will now run the department that decides who goes to prison. Meanwhile, Trump is reportedly undercutting his own advisers on the January 6 slush fund — insisting it will still happen even after Blanche and Bessent signaled it was dead — because there is apparently no bottom to what this administration will do for the people who stormed the Capitol. The attorney general is now, officially, the president's personal lawyer with a federal budget.

Scott Pelley, fired from "60 Minutes" after criticizing new CBS leadership, did not go quietly. He publicly publically accused CBS’s new editorial overseer Bari Weiss of lying to staff — a charge Weiss disputes but has not convincingly rebutted. Rachel Maddow interrupted her own broadcast to deliver what she called a warning about the "oligarchic takeover" of CBS News. Pelley's firing is the most visible symbol yet of a corporate press collapse under pressure from MAGA and its billionaire allies. This is the media accountability story of the week.

Trump's endorsement lost in Iowa’s Republican gubernatorial primary — businessman Zach Lahn beat Trump's pick Randy Feenstra, a rare and meaningful crack in the MAGA grip on the GOP. On the Democratic side, Sam Forstag won Montana's Democratic primary with endorsements from Bernie Sanders and AOC — and is being described as Democrats' potential ”next blue-collar sensation.” The Guardian rounded up the broader roster of new Democratic primary winners: an army doctor, a Paralympian, and a wave of first-time candidates.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's purchase of a luxury island off the Albanian coast has escalated from a bad look to an active corruption investigation.

Albanian authorities have opened a formal probe as thousands of people take to the streets to protest the development. The Daily Show has already called her out for failing to "read the room" while Americans are getting squeezed.

Nobody is connecting these dots more sharply than Hunter Biden, who has quietly become one of the most effective truth-tellers in Democratic politics. In a scorched-earth post yesterday, Hunter called out Jake Tapper for attacking his mom while ignoring that Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land — and kept going.

He noted that Don Jr. married the daughter of Epstein's banker and a startup his fund backs just received a record $620M Pentagon loan, while Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran.

Here’s the tweet:

Hunter has been doing this for months — calling out nepo-baby corruption, defending his family, and trolling his haters with unfiltered candor — and he's doing it more directly than virtually any elected Democrat in Washington.

That’s it for today. We’ll see you tomorrow.