Thrilled to return to the great team @politico to launch a reported column on politics From the Hill and WH to state capitols and city halls, i’m going to write about both the inside conversation big-picture trends At the heart will be news Send some: jmartcolumn@gmail.com

This is the funniest, most rewatchable five minutes in the history of recorded comedy It is perfection and never gets old

Anthony Bourdain: “…the world is, in fact, filled with mostly good and decent people who are simply doing the best they can. Everybody, it turns out, is proud of their food (when they have it). They enjoy sharing it with others (if they can). They love their children...”

Look fwd to joining the roundtable Sunday

A couple of legends in the house! @CoachBobStoops and @Barry_Switzer stopped by to put some numbers up for @OU_Baseball!

Omg this is insane

This also means we have #CD11 where apparently every precinct was won by either @Scott_Wiener or Connie Chan. And, yes, Scott won the Castro decisively, with 53% of the vote. And interestingly Scott won all but one Supervisor districts - he even won Chan's seat - but she beat him in Sup Dist 4.

🚨🚨🚨ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 Dutch fans are at Buc-ee’s in Madisonville ahead of their match in Arlington.

Remembering the great Tim Russert, 18 years after his passing.

Brazil/Morocco at MetLife will end around 8:15pm, putting fans back in Manhattan by ~ 10:00pm if the Knicks win the title tonight, we're on tap for a once-in-a-generation Saturday night in the greatest city in the world a championship-starved fanbase colliding with some of the most passionate/fun soccer fans in the world 🇧🇷 MANIFEST IT.

Sir….the Japanese World Cup tourists discovered Texas Roadhouse and are calling it the "best cost-performance steak"

Ben Affleck says The Town’s coldest cop scene came from a real bank robber in prison "for The Town, I went through all the prisons... Massachusetts federal prisons, state prisons, and sat down and talked to guys who robbed trucks and banks" "after talking for two hours, I was like, is anything just fucking weird ever happened? and one guy said, we robbed this truck, we had the mask, we got the switch car" "we pull up, we get out, fucking guns, the masks, whole thing... we look over and this cop's sitting there doing construction duty... he looked at us, we looked at him, he looked the other way... he didn't want to end up on the wall at the VFW" "I was like, I'm putting that in the movie... that's straight from research"

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

NEW: I spoke with the Iranian Ambassador to Mexico Abolfazl Pasandideh: - His message to Trump: “If the U.S. closes its eyes to Israel’s interests, Iran and the U.S. can be very good friends.” - Says Iran's presence in the U.S. for the World Cup should be read as a gesture of goodwill - Visa denials impacting some coaching staff may have a negative impact on the team’s performance - But expects his team to advance out of group stage - Team will begin travel to U.S. two days before the match so the head catch can attend press conference the day before, per FIFA regulations politico.com/news/2026/06/13…

Go see the bears in pigeon forge!

Fun read by @ShawnMcCreesh on the sponsor-filled "Claw," ready for its UFC debut, on the White House lawn: nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/po…

It’s a game of Guess Who. If U.S. Senator Michael Bennet becomes Colorado governor he has said he, as Gov, will appoint his Senate replacement. The clues he has given: Not Jared Polis and younger than 50. Joe Neguse: ✅ Jason Crow: ✅ Brittany Pettersen: ✅

Pigeon forge looks cool!

"Biden surprised everyone — including his publisher — when he made a comment about his own book landing in September, which would have really rattled swing-state Democrats had a spokesman not quickly clarified that the date is still TBD." @bterris reports nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

Wait till she hears what happened after the irish potato famine At the back table, Setys Kelly, who is the Ramaswamy campaign’s captain in nearby Clark County, clapped throughout his speech. But when he brought up the notion that anyone could come to the United States and achieve the American dream, she shook her head. “I’m going to be a hard no on that. You need to be an American to do the American dream,” said Kelly, a white woman. “I come from Springfield, land of the Haitians. … I just don’t want any more of that kind of immigration where they just dump them on you.” politico.com/news/magazine/2…