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Text • David Kurtz

Canada Sits the United States Down for an Intervention

What Your Friends Say About You Saturday’s extraordinary speech by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was ostensibly about the collapse...

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Text • John Light

The Pending Supreme Court Decision Hanging Over the Midterms

Good morning! I hope this morning dispatch, focused on the latest updates about ongoing TPM storylines, has been useful. Starting...

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Text • Josh Marshall

The US-Canada Trainwreck and the Limits of American Power

A few more thoughts on the collapse of US-Canadian trade negotiations and the over-the-top US predation that led to it....

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Text • Josh Marshall

What Did Trump Do That Made Carney Walk Away?

You’ve probably seen that Canadian PM Mark Carney has walked away from trade talks with the US. That has led...

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Text • Kate Riga, Derick Dirmaier, Joe Ragazzo and Allegra Kirkland

Why the Right Is Going All-in on Stoking the WNBA Culture Wars

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Text • Hunter Walker

Colorado GOP Gov Nominee Claims to Have Battled ‘Demons’ With ‘Reptilian’ Eyes

Victor Marx was deep in the jungle and crippled by a fever when he was attacked.  The self-described “high-risk missionary”...

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Text • David Kurtz

How Trump’s Corruption Makes Everything DOJ Does Suspect

No One Is Safe One of the most pernicious effects of corrupting federal law enforcement is that it undermines public...

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Text • Charles R. Davis

Trump Administration to Support ‘Independent Journalism’ in Europe With Anti-Immigrant Focus

This piece was originally published at The Redoubt, a reader-supported publication based in Vienna, Austria. If you appreciate this reporting, consider a paid...

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Text • John Light

Trump Administration Fails to Substantiate Its Claims of Noncitizen Voting (Again)

Good morning! I hope this morning dispatch, focused on the latest updates about ongoing TPM storylines, has been useful. Starting...

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Text • Layla A. Jones

Biggest US Retailers Use $5 Billion in Trump Tariff Refunds to Appease Investors

This week saw some of the country’s largest retailers report their quarterly earnings and the impact of some several billion...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

Greg Abbott Grasps At Anything to Stir Up Anti-Islam Panic for His Reelection

Abbott’s Only Campaign Strategy For over two years now, the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas has had facilities...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Is There a Polling ‘Crisis’ and Why Should We Care If There Is?

I wanted to follow up on my post about Pat Ruffini’s deep dive about the accuracy of Senate race polling...

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Text • Josh Kovensky

DHS Exempted Itself from Normal Law for Undercover Investigation Into Protesters

Tucked in at the bottom of a bombshell document released last week detailing DHS’ undercover operations in Minneapolis is a...

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Text • Khaya Himmelman

California’s Dem Senators Write to SoS Expressing ‘Grave Concerns’ About Tina Peters

Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Election officials in Shasta County — a deep red California county that has...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Security Blankets and the Mad, Mad King

If you’ve been online in the last few days you’ve undoubtedly been exposed to Natalie Harp Discourse (NHD), the phenomenon...

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Text • David Kurtz

A Disturbing Peek Into Trump’s Kafkaesque Immigration Courts

Wrong, Wrong, and Wrong Again Today we begin with a particularly striking example of the bleak inanity of executive branch...

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Text • John Light

The Second Trump Admin Has Not Yet Gone All-Out in Attacking Abortion. That May Soon Change.

Good morning! I am back, and excited to get back into it. The Next Trump Attack on Abortion? President Donald...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

New Report on Carr Communications With White House, Right-Wing Media Affirms What We’ve Know All Along

Meetings With Murdoch and Sinclair Chief I’ve been making the case in Where Things Stand for some time now that...

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Text • Layla A. Jones

Trump Is Using a New, Highly Unusual Census Bureau Report to Claim He Won the 2020 Election

President Donald Trump lost the popular vote in the 2020 election by 4.4%. That hasn’t stopped him, though, from latching...

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Text • David Kurtz

Trump Admin and Its Allies Throw Up Roadblocks to Prosecuting ICE Agents

The Long Tail of Operation Metro Surge The mostly below-the-radar effort to block Minnesota’s effort to prosecute federal agents for...

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Text • Emine Yücel

After Chaotic Primary, Sen. Sullivan, Mary Peltola Head for the General Elections in Alaska

Former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) and incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) are set to face off in the general elections...

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Florida Voters Reject Cory Mills’ Reelection Bid Amid Dating Violence Allegations

This story was originally reported by Mel Leonor Barclay of The 19th. Meet Mel and read more of their reporting...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

Slotkin Asks Hegseth to Confirm He Won’t Send Troops to Polls

‘Laying the Breadcrumbs’ Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and to Gen. Dan Caine,...

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Text • Josh Marshall

From the Annals of Polling, Part 2

In my last post I mentioned this data analysis GOP pollster and consultant Pat Ruffini has put together looking at...

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Text • Josh Marshall

From The Annals of Polling, Part 1

Today I’m going to discuss two tidbits from the world of polling. In a second post I’m going to discuss...

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Text • Madiba K. Dennie

How the Supreme Court Kicked Off America’s Sports Betting Addiction Crisis

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. In 2017,...

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Text • David Kurtz

Appeals Court Blocks Trump Scheme on US Attorneys

It’s All Part of Retribution on Blue States The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

Blanche Hints Trump Admin Might Try to Take Voter Roll Fight to SCOTUS

‘We’re Not Going to Stop’ Newly-confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche made headlines over the weekend for other, arguably, more alarming...

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Text • David Silver

Anthropic’s Fight With the Pentagon Shows How AI Could Threaten a Crucial Safeguard of Democracy

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The...

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Text • Josh Marshall

The Era of Literal AI Book-Chomping Has Begun

Here is an update on a story you may not yet have heard of. It manages to be at once...