Like the OJ Simpson trial almost twenty years ago, there are some public events which not only divide people but divide you against people you didn’t expect to be divided against. As a Republican you may be used to disagreeing with Democrats and vice versa. But with these other kinds of public events you have the shock of realizing you had very different sets of assumptions or even values than people you were used to agreeing with. I’m not sure of how TPM Readers in general feel about the Snowden story. But there’s no question that a lot of readers are surprised and in many cases angry about what I’ve written on the subject. Read More

Not totally surprising but worth noting. The GOP antis on the immigration bill appear to be writing off the Senate as a place to stop or significantly change the bill. They’ll try to kill it in the House.

Sen. Franken defends NSA program, says “This is not about spying on the American people.”