Sign up

TPM – Talking Points Memo

Not verified No WebSub updates No webmention support Not yet validated

Breaking News and Analysis

Generator
https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5
Public lists
davewiner/blogroll
Fetched

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Derick Dirmaier, Hunter Walker and Allegra Kirkland

Are Politicians Ready to Stop Turning Back the Clock?

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Josh Marshall

New WSJ Article Paints Trump in ‘Downfall Video’ Type Scenes in the Oval

The Journal has an article today about the increasing unreality of the strategy, if one can call it that, the...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Kate Riga

Federal Judge Rules That FDA’s Mifepristone Restrictions Are Excessive, Unscientific and Unlawful

A federal judge in Virginia ruled in favor of an abortion provider Thursday, finding that the Food and Drug Administration’s...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Layla A. Jones

Trump’s New ‘Forced Labor’ Tariffs Were Set Under Sham Pretenses

President Donald Trump has made clear from very early in his second term that he intends to reorder global trade...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Josh Marshall

Important Drive Update!

We need to get to $325,000 today to stay on track for our goal in this year’s Annual TPM Journalism...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Josh Kovensky

Extremely Online: Minnesota ‘Antifa’ Cases Born of Internet Beef With Far-right Activists

In two cases this year, federal prosecutors announced that they had finally done it: charged the “antifa” cells and its...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• David Kurtz

A Huge Win for the NYT In Air Force One Subpoena Debacle

Blanche and Clayton Own This Mess The responsibility for the Trump DOJ’s unlawful use of subpoenas as a tool of...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Kate Riga

Troy Jackson Cruises Towards Maine Senate Nomination 

Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson is on track to become the official Democratic Senate nominee as the Saturday convention...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Nicole LaFond

DOJ Was Never Not Gonna Use New Jersey Noncitizen Error to Bolster Trump’s Delusions

‘Working Very Hard to Protect Them’ The Trump administration has been salivating for something — anything! — that could help...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Josh Marshall

From a Correspondent in Wisconsin #2

Another take on the governor’s race in Wisconsin, from TPM Reader BC … Just listened to this week’s podcast and...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Kate Riga

Tennessee Gerrymandering Challenge Fails, Just as Supreme Court Intended

A panel of judges on Thursday unanimously rebuffed Black Tennesseans’ attempt to block the state’s new 9-0 Republican gerrymander. The...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Khaya Himmelman

Election Deniers’ Grip on the Republican Party Strengthens in Arizona

Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Three prominent 2020 election deniers won GOP primary elections in Arizona for secretary...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Candice Norwood

Trump Is Reshaping Immigration Courts With Help From a Brutal Comic Book Character

This story was originally reported by Candice Norwood of The 19th. Meet Candice and read more of their reporting on...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Josh Marshall

Bubble Don

Perhaps some of this is by design. But Trump adding Israel normalization to an apparently already signed nuclear deal with...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Josh Marshall

From Our Correspondent in Wisconsin

Longtime TPM Reader JB gives us a rundown on the rather suboptimal gubernatorial situation in Wisconsin … If I may,...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Josh Marshall

Democratic Activism in an Anti-Institutional Age

A few days ago I wrote about popular constitutionalism and Slate’s new podcast series on that topic. This is a...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• David Kurtz

What’s Really Behind Trump’s Corrupt US Attorney Scheme

Only Loyalists Need Apply A new and ironic development in the first-of-its-kind legal challenge to President Trump’s U.S. attorney scheme...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Nicole LaFond

Lindsey Graham’s Sister Pledges Her Allegiance to Trump by Way of SAVE Act

Freshly sworn-in Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) made her loyalty to President Trump and the rest of the MAGA movement...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Hunter Walker

A Key House Dem Breaks Down the White House’s ‘Unfathomable’ Iran War Funding Requests

Weeks after the Iran War began, Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY) predicted to TPM that it would become a billion-dollar-a-day “mess.”...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Josh Marshall

Is This Really a “Forever War”

With the US and Iran now clearly back to “war” from “ceasefire” we’re seeing a host of stories arguing that...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Emine Yücel and Josh Kovensky

Cornyn Threatens to Block Trump Noms Over Unreleased PEPFAR Funds — And Quickly Relents

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Tuesday threatened to vote against President Donald Trump’s ambassador nominees for Jamaica and Slovakia unless...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Layla A. Jones

5 Points on Trump’s Loyal Labor Secretary Nominee

Keith Sonderling has been acting Secretary of Labor since ex-secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned amid a flurry of misconduct allegations ranging...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Allegra Kirkland

Only a Handful of Tickets Left

We’re one week out from our upcoming event in Brooklyn, and there are only a handful of tickets left. On...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• David Kurtz

New Attack Launched Against Trump’s Corrupt U.S. Attorney Scheme

A Low-Key U.S. Attorneys Scandal Eighteen months in, President Trump’s strategy to circumvent the Senate on the appointment of U.S....

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Mike McIntire

The Right’s New Country Club: Inside the Bizarre World of Luxury Gun Clubs

This book excerpt is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. The story of modern gun culture...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Josh Marshall

Trump is an Angry, Violent Man … And Canada is His Battered Wife

Donald Trump has announced that he will impose in 30 days a new round of tariffs on Canada. Those tariffs...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Nicole LaFond

Trump Has to Beg Two GOPers He’s Spurned to Get Blanche Over Finish Line

Republicans Can’t Afford to Lose One Vote The White House is being forced to court a Republican senator who President...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Josh Marshall

LOL

I’ve got to give Mike Lindell credit for engaging our questions about whether he’s actually registered to vote in Minnesota,...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Emine Yücel

Hegseth Sidesteps Murkowski Question About Backdoor War Authorization

Almost five months into President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, the Trump administration still has not asked for authorization from...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
• Khaya Himmelman

Mike Lindell Is Not Registered to Vote in Minnesota. He Claims His Temp ID Registers Him.

Pillow magnate and election denier Mike Lindell, who is also the Trump-endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota, is reportedly not...