Big GOP Money Man Bails on DeSantis

One of the small community of moneymen who fund the Republican Party is pulling his support from Ron DeSantis. Thomas Peterffy, the wealthiest man in Florida until Ken Griffin relocated there, tells The Financial Times that “because of [DeSantis’s] stance on abortion and book banning … myself, and a bunch of friends, are holding our powder dry.”

Though numerous press reports and a letter to employees say Griffin moved to Florida for tax purposes and the better corporate environment, Griffin told Fortune magazine, in an interview sent to TPM in response to this article, that taxes were not the reason he and his company moved to Florida.

Continue reading “Big GOP Money Man Bails on DeSantis”

‘Invasion’: Texas GOP Struggles Over What Crisis To Manufacture At Border

One of the more insidious elements of Texas’ attempt to annex immigration enforcement away from the federal government comes down to its justification.

Continue reading “‘Invasion’: Texas GOP Struggles Over What Crisis To Manufacture At Border”

Let’s Not Kid Ourselves

From the Journal

The people in the online spaces where Airman First Class Jack Teixeira spent his time and allegedly leaked highly classified documents had many things in common. In obscure game forums and private online chat rooms, his friends posted slurs against minority communities, Ukrainians and pretty much everyone else. 

Everyone, that is, except Russians.

Members of that small community, hosted on the social-media app Discord, admired President Vladimir Putin’s regime and its war on Ukraine. 

Trump Youth.

Anti-Mifepristone Court Decisions Rely On Medical Misinformation And Questionable Legal Reasoning

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation.

An early April 2023 decision by a U.S. district judge in Texas to reverse 23 years of approval of the abortion pill mifepristone has sparked explosive debate.

Mifepristone is a medicine that blocks the receptors for the hormone progesterone, which is needed for fetal development. It is part of a two-step medication abortion regimen along with misoprostol, a drug used to prevent stomach ulcers that also causes uterine contractions. Medication abortion with this two-step approach or a slightly less effective misoprostol-only regimen is now used in more than half of all abortions in the U.S.

Continue reading “Anti-Mifepristone Court Decisions Rely On Medical Misinformation And Questionable Legal Reasoning”

Washington Judge Tears Apart Right-Wing Texas Counterpart Amid Abortion Drug Legal Frenzy

Drastic rulings potentially altering the future of medical abortions in this country have been coming near daily in the last few weeks, resulting in a furious frenzy of filings that quickly made their way up to the Supreme Court. 

Continue reading “Washington Judge Tears Apart Right-Wing Texas Counterpart Amid Abortion Drug Legal Frenzy”

Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Mifepristone Restrictions

The Supreme Court issued a stay Friday afternoon on a ruling that would have imposed onerous restrictions on mifepristone, putting it on ice until Wednesday just before midnight.

The Justice Department had filed its request for an emergency administrative stay this morning, in which it was joined by makers of mifepristone, a coalition of blue states and pharmaceutical companies.

Without the high court’s intervention, the lower court order would have gone into effect early Saturday morning.

Supreme Court Issues Stay, At Least Temporarily Blocking Mifepristone Restrictions From Taking Effect 

The Supreme Court granted the Department of Justice’s emergency request to temporarily halt lower court rulings that would have reimposed restrictions on mifepristone that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had lifted in recent years.

Continue reading “Supreme Court Issues Stay, At Least Temporarily Blocking Mifepristone Restrictions From Taking Effect “

Danny Boy, You Must Go, And I Must Bide

Washington Commanders’ owner Dan Snyder’s sale of the team was greeted enthusiastically by Washingtonians and by sports journalists and commentators. In cheering Snyder’s departure, most of the journalists cited what ESPN called “a culture in Washington that was toxic and predatory” — in plain language, the way that Snyder treated his female employees. Many of those who followed the Commanders, alias Redskins, had been fed up with Snyder for years before the revelations in The Washington Post that led to his being forced to sell. For me, as a journalist, the last straw was what happened in 2010.

Continue reading “Danny Boy, You Must Go, And I Must Bide”

Leaked Audio Shows Tennessee GOP Infighting After Being Labeled ‘Racist’ For Expulsion Vote

Tennessee House Republicans were frustrated and fighting amongst themselves after the majority of them voted to expel Democratic Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson — two Black men — but spared Rep Gloria Johnson — an older white woman —  for protesting lax gun laws on the House floor, according to an audio recording obtained by The Tennessee Holler.

Continue reading “Leaked Audio Shows Tennessee GOP Infighting After Being Labeled ‘Racist’ For Expulsion Vote”