A state judge in Georgia laughed former U.S. senator and Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate David Perdue out of court, saying in essence that he had no idea what he was talking about when he filed suit late last year over the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Continue reading “Georgia Judge Laughs David Perdue’s 2020 Election Lawsuit Out Of Court”Alito Calls Landmark Supreme Court Decision Expanding LGBTQ Worker Rights ‘Indefensible’
Justice Samuel Alito is evidentially toting around an old grudge.
Continue reading “Alito Calls Landmark Supreme Court Decision Expanding LGBTQ Worker Rights ‘Indefensible’”Judgment Day: Durham Finally Gets 2016 Conspiracy Theories Before Jury
Michael Sussmann, the Democratic-aligned attorney, was indicted in September 2021, days before the five-year statute of limitations would have expired.
Continue reading “Judgment Day: Durham Finally Gets 2016 Conspiracy Theories Before Jury”How Baby Formula Shortage Turned Into Racist Attack On Immigrants
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
Just Add Water And Presto!
Just like that you can turn the baby formula shortage into a … racist attack on immigrants?
It played out quickly Thursday. The “credit” for the bank shot from baby formula shortage to xenophobic attack on immigrants to blaming Biden for it all appears to belong to Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL). Well played, well played.
But she wasn’t alone.
- The NYPost was ON IT: “Border detention center looks stocked with baby formula despite shortage”
- It gets 4 Pinocchios from the WaPo factchecker.
Where Things Stand: Some Updates On Those Impending Jan 6 Panel Hearings
When the Jan. 6 select committee begins holding hearings on their investigative findings in about one month, we may see video testimony from some members of the Trump family.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Some Updates On Those Impending Jan 6 Panel Hearings”NYT: DOJ Now Investigating Trump Stashing Classified Docs At Mar-A-Lago
A Justice Department investigation into ex-President Donald Trump and White House staffers’ handling of 15 boxes of classified documents that were taken to Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida at the end of his presidency is now reportedly underway.
Continue reading “NYT: DOJ Now Investigating Trump Stashing Classified Docs At Mar-A-Lago”Trump’s 2020 Coup Failures Could Be 2024 Successes
Donald Trump’s 2020 coup-plotting crew wasn’t exactly an A-Team: You had Rudy Giuliani reaching peak incoherence, Sidney Powell seemingly taking strategic advice from online message boards, the ex-Overstock.com CEO shuttling operatives around the country in a private jet… it was a mess.
And yet: They got pretty close.
Continue reading “Trump’s 2020 Coup Failures Could Be 2024 Successes”Tucker Carlson Pulls From An Old Playbook As He Stokes Anxiety About A Masculinity Crisis
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation.
Promotions for “The End of Men,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s forthcoming documentary, lament “The total collapse of testosterone levels in American men.”
Carlson’s central premise is that modern society has devitalized American men. Strength, drive and aggression are no longer in vogue, and Americans, as a result, are become weaker. This, the film implies, has ramifications for the country itself.
Continue reading “Tucker Carlson Pulls From An Old Playbook As He Stokes Anxiety About A Masculinity Crisis”RonJon Distances Self From Own Anti-Abortion Position
When now-Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) first ran in 2010, he had a zinger for his opponent, then-Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI).
Continue reading “RonJon Distances Self From Own Anti-Abortion Position”Trapped
Biden is thinking about and asking the right question: “[Putin] is a very, very, very calculating man. And the problem I worry about now is that he doesn’t have a way out right now, and I’m trying to figure out what we do about that.”
The quote is courtesy of this piece by Friend of TPM Olivier Knox.