Good Lord. When I heard that Russia was bringing in Cossacks to brutalize their underpeople and undesirables, I thought it was a metaphor. But no. Cossacks.
Not just for raping and killing Jews in the late 19th century any more …
Is this how it ends? Is this Peak GOP? 70 year old Texas GOP candidate clipped for assault after he attacked his longtime rival who was pulling up his lawn signs and replacing them with ones calling him a RINO.
Right now we’re combing through more than 2,000 pages of documents that were just released in the Chris Christie BridgeGate scandal. We’ve posted them all here. See anything interesting? Email us at the address at the top of the TPM home page and include “Fort Lee Docs” in the subject line.
As we see with dying brands and companies (Blackberry) and even political ideas, when things start to go really bad there’s often a late spasm of what we now call (some of us tongue-in-cheek) rebranding. And with the galloping successes of pro-equality legislation picking up steam, we’re seeing something very similar on the anti-LGBT right. The most prominent Dylan Scott chronicles here in the series of states introducing laws aimed at rebranding hating gay people as “religious freedom.”
GOP House candidate says laws protecting gays are a step back to the days of Jim Crow.
Pope Francis puts poverty at the center of plans to reform Vatican finances. The Church must be “poor for the poor.”
Images from Ukraine, which continue to be as operatic and vivid as they are horrifying and harrowing.
Conor P. Williams argues at TPM Cafe that the “ballooning welfare state” might just be all Richard Nixon’s fault — he did, after all, kill universal pre-K.
Important story from Dylan Scott on how conservatives are reacting to same-sex marriage sweeping the country with a new rearguard legal action to enshrine anti-gay discrimination as protected religious freedom.