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A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Kate and Josh discuss Donald Trump’s recent comments (and how they’re being covered), Mike Pence’s refusal to endorse his old boss and Republicans’ embrace of Bibi Netanyahu.
You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.
There were a few responses to yesterday’s Backchannel about the “everything sucks” era that I wanted to share with you.
The first is from TPM Reader JY …
Read MoreIt would be great to get to 175 new TPM Members tonight, the end of the second day of our drive. We’re currently at 156. If you’ve been on the fence or maybe just waiting till you have a free minute, maybe just take a second right now and join us. Just click right here.
Late Update: 173! Two more to go for the night!
Yesterday we kicked off TPM’s annual membership drive. Obviously, we hope you will become a member. We also assume you get lots of pitches from all sorts of companies that sell all sorts of products and services. Hell, they are even selling byzantine subscriptions for printers these days. Because every company under the sun is asking you to pay a recurring fee, it seems the sales pitches are becoming downright strange. Cringe, in the lingua franca of today’s youth.
So let’s get back to basics, shall we? (Unless you are ready to sign up now, in which case you can skip the post and click here.)
Read MoreThis post is just to inform or remind you that after Don Lemon was let go by CNN, Elon Musk signed him to a new gig doing a show on Twitter. And then after this debut interview with Musk, which asked a few challenging questions, Musk immediately fired Lemon. If you go to the end of this segment it shows where Musk says “you are upsetting me” just before the interview ends and he fires Lemon.
Living In the Everything Sucks Era—At Least for Now 
The chart below is from something called the CBC 2023 Resident Survey. It’s a survey of New York City residents in which residents share their opinion about the city’s quality of life and government services. It purports to be “the most comprehensive, statistically valid, post-pandemic view into how New Yorkers feel about the City’s quality of life and how they rate City government services.” For the purposes of this discussion, I am going to assume the claim about statistical validity is accurate. And most importantly, it says that the methodology used in the previous two surveys is roughly the same, thus giving us some fair measure of change over time.
Needless to say, the change from 2008 and 2017 to 2023 is quite stark.
Read MoreTPM People, thanks for getting us off to a strong start in our annual membership drive. Coming into our second day we’ve now signed up 125 new TPM Members. We want to get that number to 1,000. So still a long ways to go. But that is a very solid start.
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MSNBC host Joy Reid had Josh Kovensky on to discuss his story, which was published earlier this month. Read the full article here.
Off to a good start, folks. We’ve signed up 70 new TPM Members so far today in the first day of our annual TPM Membership drive. We would love to get to 100 by the end of the day. If you’re not a member, please take a moment to join us. Click here to sign up! Want to know more about the drive? Click here.