At first I hesitated to write this post because it introduces as a meta conversation something that is all too real. Yesterday I was prepping for a TPM editorial retreat out on the North Shore of Long Island and did a series of tweets asking where people were, what they remembered about 9/11. And in a stream of tweets with recollections and comments of various sorts, I got this tweet in response …
I don’t know josh,this feels like link bait to me.While the day demands remembrance,most USA doesn’t want revisiting. Do better pls
We’re about to relaunch the TPM website on our new purpose-built publishing platform. On the surface, the visuals looks quite similar – this is not a redesign. The big changes at the first are in the platform that runs the site – changes that will allow us over time to build a host of new features and ways to bring you the news. The big changes at the outset are to TPMPrime – a host of new features and new page layouts with fewer ads for Prime members. (If you’re a Prime subscriber, log on to the new main site with your Prime username and password.) But even if you’re not a Prime member and have no intention of becoming one, we think you’ll like this a lot because the site is dramatically faster than the current TPM website.
Today we’re putting the new version of the site into public beta release. Here’s the link right here. We’re eager to hear what you think.
John Stewart gushes over the de Blasio family. Watch.
Always full of surprises. Pope’s number 2 in the Vatican, Archbishop Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, suggests openness to priests being able to marry.
Possible shift in House GOP strategy. If you didn’t like “We’re going to shutdown the government unless you defund Obamacare,” then you’re gonna love “We’re going to make the U.S. government default if you don’t delay Obamacare for a year.” Fun times.
Dylan Scott has a piece up for us this morning on a battle line emerging in terrorism prosecutions over what, if anything, the government must disclose to criminal defendants about the secret NSA programs used to gather evidence against them.
A few of the remarkable stories of 9/11 that I’ve come across today — some old, some new, all indelible: Read More
For some Republicans, Sept.11 is a day to … try to score political points on Benghazi.
By essentially taking the Syria ball out of Congress’ court last night, President Obama has freed lawmakers to return to the agenda they had anticipated dealing with when they returned from the August recess. For House Republicans, first thing on the agenda is the defund Obamacare measure that leadership is hoping will placate conservatives while not forcing a government shutdown.
A vote could come as soon as Thursday. Not looking very good for this gambit so far. Sahil Kapur reports.
Hunter Walker wrote for us last month about the possibility of a close finish in the Democratic primary for NYC mayor and the legal and political chaos likely to follow — which is about where we are today.
To pinpoint the issue: Bill de Blasio has just enough votes right now to avoid a runoff. But just barely. And there are, according to the AP, some 30,000 absentee, provisional, and other ballots remaining to be counted. Plus a mandated recount of all the ballots.
All of this to determine whether de Blasio has to go through a runoff three weeks from now, on Oct. 1, or can move straight to the general election Nov. 5, in which he is expected to defeat Republican nominee Joe Lhota handily.