Texas House provisionally approves strict new restrictions on abortion.
Not really sure how to describe this. A woman testifies against the new Texas abortion law, which just passed tonight, goes on quite a rant about everything awful about the bill and the legislative process and then gets physically removed from the hearing room by police officers. After the jump … Read More
Former chief of Fukushima reactor who led life-risking battle to avoid catastrophe dies of cancer at age 58.
The IRS scandal may be crumbling. But a conservative think tank is trolling state agencies looking for the new IRS-like scandal.
Air Force pulls brochure advising sexual assault victims to submit rather than resist.
Today at 1 PM eastern we’re hosting a live chat with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at TPMPrime. Get your questions in now and please join us live at 1.
My question was if she could explain from her vantage point why the House GOP appears set to kill immigration reform.
When a fishy paramilitary firm run out of a Real Estate Agency in Scottsdale, Arizona shows up in the North Woods of Wisconsin to protect some mining equipment with a slew guards sporting Death Squad chic, that’s, I have to say, a story I want to know more about. But there’s more to it than just the gonzo freakishness of the story. Read More
Let’s kick things off on a high note today: A body doesn’t become a corpse until sometime after it loses its pulse. That might not be strictly correct biologically speaking. Biologists probably don’t refer to dead bodies as corpses. But metaphysically, it’s possible for a human who has flatlined to be resuscitated and then return to health.
Which brings me to immigration reform. Read More
House Republican introduces legislation that would block federal funding to schools that ban imaginary guns.