The Alison Lundergan Grimes campaign apparently raced into court in Kentucky late today to try to get a state judge to order the Mitch McConnell campaign to stop distributing these “despicable” mailers.
As many of you have told us, the speed of the TPM website has been an issue of late. So we spent some time auditing the different components of the site to improve performance. And over the last week we’ve been able to cut download times by just over 30%. We think we can cut it even more. And we’re working on doing that.
Most of the boost will be felt by non-Prime members. But Prime members should see improvement too.
Bad Luck is hard. It seems like only yesterday that I was telling you about that leader of the whacko Texas border ‘militia’ who got arrested and then had his hotel room raided where the feds found a cache of arms and ammonium nitrate used in making car bombs and other good-time explosives. Actually, it was only yesterday. Well, now it turns out, just a few days earlier ‘militia leader’ Kevin “KC” Massey had his photograph taken with Texas governor candidate Greg Abbott.
A state judge in Maine just drop-kicked out of his courtroom the arguments from pseudo-scientists like Paul LePage and Chris Christie for quarantining Kaci Hickox, ruling that the nurse should not have restrictions on her movement.
“The court is fully aware of the misconceptions, misinformation, bad science and bad information being spread from shore to shore in our country with respect to Ebola,” he wrote, according to the AP. “The court is fully aware that people are acting out of fear and that this fear is not entirely rational.”
Party groups around the country are sending voters mailers telling you if you don’t vote they’ll find out and they may tell your neighbors. There’s exactly a body of social science data showing this works. But, just creepy and dumb.
Columnist who lost his job over saying Michael Brown was “an animal” who “had to be put down” now says he always thought Brown “deserved to die and I was right.”
The Redskins are suing 5 Native Americans over use of term “Redskins.”
Jon Stewart: Dems trying to flip Texas like a drunk man hitting on a lesbian. Watch.
Candidate: Despite my Neo-Nazi past, “I am not a hater.”
Today’s must-read: Rick Hasen takes on putting Texas back under federal voter supervision.