Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY) said on Tuesday he would stand with Rep. George Santos’ (R-NY) challenger if the embattled congressman decides to run for Congress again in 2024.
Continue reading “D’Esposito Warns New York GOP Won’t Support Santos If He Makes ‘Foolish Decision To Run And Lose In 2024’”Senate Republicans Break With DeSantis Over Remarks On Pulling Support From Ukraine
Top Senate Republicans went after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Tuesday in response to the likely 2024 hopeful’s recent comments about U.S. involvement in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Continue reading “Senate Republicans Break With DeSantis Over Remarks On Pulling Support From Ukraine”Buoyed By Newly Conservative Court, North Carolina Reaches For Fresh Chance To Gerrymander Maps
Just over a year ago, the North Carolina Supreme Court struck down the congressional and legislative maps Republican state lawmakers had produced, calling them “unconstitutional beyond a reasonable doubt.” The dispute eventually made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and was argued in December 2022.
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A bubbling conventional wisdom has been taking shape in the recent weeks that might best be stated as a question: what happened to all the Republican investigations? From one perspective it’s early: the new Congress has only been seated for a bit over two months. There have been hearings. There was one just last week into the so-called “Twitter Files.” But they’ve been low energy and mostly a bust. Outside of the right-wing media bubble they’ve been met more with derision than headlines and follow ups. A March 6 Axios headline read: “Jim Jordan scrambles amid claims ‘weaponization’ probe is a dud.” But the reaction inside the bubble hasn’t been any different. As far back as a month ago, Fox News’ host Jesse Watters angrily denounced the underwhelming show.
Some point to Jim Jordan not having the organizational abilities or chops to run impactful hearings. Others point to Jordan getting crosswise with the other top GOP investigator, Jim Comer. The most obvious explanation is that they’re just lame and underwhelming because they don’t have the goods. But even that doesn’t work as an explanation because the same could be said about the previous times we did this under Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Something’s different.
Continue reading “Cold Open”FBI Report: Hate Crimes In US Spiked To Highest Level Yet In 2021
In 2021, hate crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level since the federal government began tracking the data more than 30 years ago, according to the FBI’s most recent Supplemental Hate Crimes Statistics report.
Continue reading “FBI Report: Hate Crimes In US Spiked To Highest Level Yet In 2021”Founder of Voter Roll Maintenance Program Leaves Board After Onslaught of Far-Right Conspiracy Theories
David Becker, an election law advocate who helped create the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), is vacating his position on its board as a flurry of far-right conspiracy theories about the voter roll maintenance program prompted a handful of red states to withdraw from its services.
Continue reading “Founder of Voter Roll Maintenance Program Leaves Board After Onslaught of Far-Right Conspiracy Theories”DeSantis Engages In ‘Complete Gaslighting’ Over Florida Book Bans
Florida educators and advocates are up in arms after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) called news that books are being banned in Florida schools a “hoax.”
Continue reading “DeSantis Engages In ‘Complete Gaslighting’ Over Florida Book Bans”WH Demands Pence Apologize For ‘Homophobic Joke’ About Pete Buttigieg
The White House called on former Vice President Mike Pence to apologize to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for mocking him for taking paternity leave after he and his husband adopted twins.
Continue reading “WH Demands Pence Apologize For ‘Homophobic Joke’ About Pete Buttigieg”Here’s What Happened When Judge Kacsmaryk Told Lawyers About Secret Hearing In Mifepristone Case
On March 10, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in the northern district of Texas gathered the lawyers in a banner case on mifepristone, the abortion drug, to tell them of an upcoming hearing — that he was keeping secret.
Continue reading “Here’s What Happened When Judge Kacsmaryk Told Lawyers About Secret Hearing In Mifepristone Case”Unanswered Questions
TPM Reader EG notes a post from our friend Barry Ritholtz in which he notes ten questions or current unknowns about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. You can find them here. As Barry points out, if past financial crises are any guide, we currently — that is to say, in real time — have only a very limited understanding of just what happened here and why. Presumably decision-makers at the Fed and FDIC had substantially more information that was the basis of the decisions they made on Sunday. But their understanding is almost certainly limited too. Check his post out. Often a knowledgable set of questions is far more illuminating than opinion and assertion in advance of any real understanding and context.
A few general observations.
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