Attention TPM Prime readers: If you liked former employment attorney Sheila Bapat’s excerpt from her book Part of the Family? Nannies, Housekeepers, Caregivers and the Battle for Domestic Workers’ Rights, then good news! She’ll be here Friday at 3 p.m. Eastern to talk about her book along with Demos’ Sharon Lerner. Get your questions in for the live chat now!
Neo-Nazi holocaust denier takes seat on EU Parliament civil rights committee.
We’re now down to 165 sign ups short of our final membership drive goal of 2000 new members of TPM Prime. That’s 111 new sign ups since yesterday. Thank you to all 1835 of you who’ve signed up. Can you help us get to the finish line. Click here.
Religious right conservatives are prepping a crop of post-Hobby Lobby ‘religious freedom’ bills to turn back gay rights gains.
Whatever you think of the name “Redskins”, the epically hapless response from the Redskins organization and more pratfalls like this one only becomes comprehensible when you remember that the team hired Lanny Davis and Ari Fleischer to direct their public campaign to defend the name.
Mississippi certifies Cochran win over Chris McDaniel. Ted Cruz calls for investigation of ‘illegal voting.’
Was the Daily Caller’s discredited Menendez/hooker story really the work of a Cuban intelligence operation? The CIA has reportedly obtained evidence that the Caller was actually an unwitting accomplice in a Cuban intelligence operation aimed at discrediting one of the most anti-Castro Democrats in the Senate just as he was about to take over the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Arresting, fascinating, horrifying photos of ‘Breaker Boys’, young boys usually between 8 and 12 years old, employed in coal mining until the early decades of the 20th century. Amazing photos. Take a look.
Update: We’re currently at 83 sign-ups for the day. So we’re within 200 of our final goal (see below). Help us finish the day with an even 100. And thank you!
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I told you little over a month ago that we were launching a membership drive for Prime. We have one week left. We’ve done well. 1728 of you have signed up. But we really need to get to 2000. So we have 272 sign ups to go and a week to get there. If TPM matters to you, if you want to join us, if you just want a premium, less cluttered TPM experience, please take a moment to sign up. Just click right here.
It really matters a lot. And I personally thank you in advance.
I’ll keep you posted on our progress.
Not sure I’ve seen much that better captures the cultural moment than this: ‘rolling coal’, the new anti-environmentalism fad in which you trick out your diesel truck to pour out as much black smoke as possible.