Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, who presided over its failed reform and subsequent collapse, has died at the age of 91. An immensely, immensely consequential life.
Still Waiting
TPM Reader LS from Georgia …
Continue reading “Still Waiting”Just to let you know I called Jon Ossoff’s office (Atlanta and DC), and got through. I guess nothing has changed. They said he supports The Women’s Health Protection Act, but won’t say what he would do regarding the filibuster. I explained I had 2 daughters with essentially no rights in Georgia. That we are unlikely to ever have 60 votes. But you know they are just taking the message.
Top Secret Service Official At Center Of Hutchinson’s Testimony Leaves Agency
U.S. Secret Service Assistant Director Anthony “Tony” Ornato left the Secret Service on Monday.
Continue reading “Top Secret Service Official At Center Of Hutchinson’s Testimony Leaves Agency”The Trump/Mar-a-Lago Story Comes into Focus
Yesterday Rolling Stone published an article about President Trump and French President Macron. The ex-President has reportedly bragged that he had “intelligence” on Macron’s sex life. And these brags seems to coincide with documents seized from the ex-President’s estate which, according to the search inventory, contained a dossier of information about the French President. I’ve been particularly interested in this because a French expat fellow reader of ours has been focusing my attention recently on how the French far-right rumor mill went to town on this subject in 2017 when Macron was first elected. The French far-right and Trumpworld are all part of the same far-right, authoritarian, revisionist world, often more or less openly allied to Russia. People immersed in the world of French politics and the French far-right perked up immediately when they saw that item on the search inventory.
Continue reading “The Trump/Mar-a-Lago Story Comes into Focus”What Do We Know About Where The Mar-a-Lago Probe Is Headed?
Prosecutors continue to bear down on Mar-a-Lago, weeks after they seized reams of government documents that former President Trump was holding at his South Florida estate.
Continue reading “What Do We Know About Where The Mar-a-Lago Probe Is Headed?”Enabler-in-Chief Lindsey Graham And The Echoes Of Fascism
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
Continue reading “Enabler-in-Chief Lindsey Graham And The Echoes Of Fascism”Where Things Stand: Don’t You Dare Move On From 2020
He was several days late to the party, but the former president appears to have finally gotten wind of some remarks that Mark Zuckerberg made during a Joe Rogan podcast that had conservatives up in arms last week.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Don’t You Dare Move On From 2020”Five Points On How Republicans May Still Blow A Winnable Seat In New Hampshire
It’s hard to put a positive spin on the Republican Senate candidate class when the party’s Senate leader can’t even muster the energy to pretend.
Continue reading “Five Points On How Republicans May Still Blow A Winnable Seat In New Hampshire”Greenland Ice Sheet Is Shrinking Faster Than Forecast, Locking In Sea Level Rise: Study
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was first published at The Conversation.
I am standing at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, mesmerized by a mind-blowing scene of natural destruction. A milewide section of glacier front has fractured and is collapsing into the ocean, calving an immense iceberg.
Continue reading “Greenland Ice Sheet Is Shrinking Faster Than Forecast, Locking In Sea Level Rise: Study”Parched
I want to recommend to you this piece on the global water crisis (a subset of the climate crisis) and how that plays out specifically in the American Southwest and the various areas fed by the fast depleting Colorado River. There’s so much that is easy to get horrified by as the climate crisis not only bears down on us but does so faster than even a lot of pessimists expected. It’s in our nature to think of politics as the present just indefinitely spread out into the future. But this piece, an interview with a water use expert, is a view into the radical changes coming for that whole part of the country. It’s certainly bad news for mega-cities like Phoenix which we’ve essentially built in the middle of the desert. But as this discussion makes clear cities aren’t even the main issue. Where the water really goes is to food production. And that’s about to change dramatically because no matter how politically powerful agro-business may be there simply isn’t enough water now to sustain it.