David Kurtz
President Zelensky is saying publicly that Turkey has agreed to shut down transit to the Black Sea for Russian warships.
Apparently Zelensky and Erdoğan spoke by phone today. So far as I can tell, Erdoğan has not confirmed this potentially important news.
Read MoreOver the holidays, you may have missed this important new reporting from Josh Kovensky.
I want to expand on what I mentioned in Morning Memo about some really good work from the Just Security guys on better understanding the delay in the deployment of the National Guard.
From the get-go, TPM’s coverage has been more circumspect about the decision to involve the military in the response to the attack.
Why?
Read MoreNo overarching Jan. 6 news today but a lot of incremental developments over the last 24 hours to catch up on, in no particular order:
Read MoreTPM Reader TD fled the country under Trump and isn’t coming back anytime soon:
Read MoreHi, Josh. I agree with your post. The country’s in a bad way, and Dems generally and Biden specifically need to find a better way to talk about it. I wanted to add my thoughts about where we are, how we got here, and where we’re going.
TPM Reader PT checks in on Manchin, BBB, and the current swoon:
Read MoreFor pretty much the entire time of the Biden Administration legislative activity, I’ve been of the opinion that the whole issue of the BBB was best understood as a kind of culture war. The problem that the Manchin caucus really has with the BBB is that it represents a Democratic Party in which the moderate / conservative / Manchin caucus is not firmly in the driver seat all the time, for all things.