With his own hashtag, Mitch McConnell is asking Republicans across the country to engage in DIY Eastwooding, photographing themselves having a drink next to an empty chair representing Barack Obama.
Despite an overnight fire at Labor Department HQ in DC, the monthly jobs numbers for April were just released: 165,000 new jobs; unemployment at 7.5 percent. Big upward revisions for February and March.
Arizona passes law making guns a protected species, thus effectively ending all gun buyback programs in the state.
We’re taking applications for our summer cycle TPM internship. Former TPM interns have gone on to jobs at The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, The New York Sun, The Verge, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and more. And usually a third to a half of our staff is made up of former interns. Full listing after the jump. Read More
Fox News hosts wondered why there are so many “low-information voters” and then proceeded to answer their own question spectacularly.
My initial hopes that the second ricin suspect would be exonerated and we’d move on to an Englebert Humperdink impersonator appear to have been dashed by the allegedly copious amounts of evidence seized by federal investigators. But there’s another interesting turn in the case.
James Everett Dutschke’s lawyer, George Lucas (not the Star Wars guy) seems to be exploring the theory that Dutschke’s produced a special variety of non-toxic ricin and thus, no harm, no foul. Thus the legal phrase fata bona illi. Read More
PPP says red state Dems who voted for the background checks law actually boosted their standing with constituents.
I think when the prison’s top gang leader manages to get four of the guards pregnant and two of those to get tattoos of his name, you’ve probably got a serious management problem at the prison.
Top filibuster reformer Merkley says January’s Reid-McConnell experiment has “failed” and that it’s time to do real reform.