The horror.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and his office have been incredibly tight-lipped about what exactly the state education department found to be so appalling in those 54 math textbooks that the state decided to immediately ban them from public schools.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Those DeSantis-Banned Textbooks Teach Kids To Be Kind And Acknowledge That Black Mathematicians Exist”In the immediate aftermath of the deadly Capitol insurrection last year, congressional GOP leaders reportedly did not mince words when they privately vented about then-President Trump’s central role in stoking the riot.
Continue reading “New Book Claims To Reveal How GOP Leaders Really Felt About Trump Following Jan 6”A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss what Democrats are doing, and what they should be doing to avoid a red wave this fall.
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Amid protests from Black lawmakers, and after shutting down the legislative chamber for a time, Republicans in the Florida House of Representatives passed a heavily gerrymandered congressional map proposed by the governor.
Continue reading “Over Shouts Of ‘Black Votes Are Under Attack!’ Florida GOP Passes DeSantis’ Heavily Gerrymandered Congressional Map”Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) finally weighed in on his damning text messages to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the weeks leading up to the deadly Capitol insurrection last year.
The senator’s weak remarks come almost a week after CNN reported on his aggressive, behind-the-scenes lobbying to help subvert the 2020 election results alongside Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) up until Jan. 6.
Continue reading “Lee’s Defense For Those Damning Texts: Me And Mark Meadows Are Just Old Friends”Amid criticism of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s narrow scope in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 investigation, the DOJ has hired a career federal prosecutor to help decide whether to investigate MAGAland’s election steal schemes.
It’s all part of the DOJ’s broader probe into the Capitol attack, signaling officials may be becoming increasingly interested in post-election events beyond just the violence itself, according to the New York Times.
Continue reading “DOJ Signals Another Step Toward Broadening Jan. 6 Probe To Focus On Bigger MAGA Fish”Ohio Republicans have unlocked a secret of subverting their state’s constitution: Simply ignore your state’s Supreme Court when it tells you things you don’t want to hear.
Continue reading “Ohio Republicans Are Just Ignoring The State Supreme Court’s Anti-Gerrymandering Rulings. It’s Working.”A new AP poll says that 54% of Americans think President Biden has been “not tough enough” on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. These kinds of public perceptions can be shaped by perceptions of a leader as much as they drive them. So you think Biden is weak as your starting point and therefore you think he’s not being tough enough on Russia rather than the other way around. Also notable, Americans’ hawkishness over Ukraine has dipped a bit from a month ago. But the first, second and third most important thing about this poll is that this is what you get when you’re not reminding Americans every day — and I mean every god-damned day — that the GOP has spent the last 7 years boosting, allying with and even conspiring with Russia.
Continue reading “Failing at the Basics”I want to thank everyone, especially Prime members and Prime AF members, for their patience over the last few days as we’ve worked to resolved a number of technical issues tied to moving TPM over to a new server set up. Your memberships and your support are the bedrock of TPM and our team has worked at a fever pace to resolve what are fairly complex technical issues (for tech folks, basically interweaving authentication and caching). As of last night we believe we’ve resolved the issues with ads showing up for people who shouldn’t be seeing them as well as restoring comments. (Yippee! Appreciate the Congrats.) The remaining issue is some subscribers seeing partial RSS feeds instead of the full post RSS. We believe we will have that resolved too as soon as today, assuming no new unforeseen issues.
Continue reading “Site Update: Ads, Comments, RSS Feeds”A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
Gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster (R-NE) insisted to the Omaha World-Herald that the groping allegations from eight women (which have been corroborated by three people speaking on the record) are all lies – but don’t just take his word for it!
Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who’s currently in the process of apparently using bankruptcy filings to try to weasel his way out of paying up in the Sandy Hook lawsuits he lost, has reached out to the Justice Department to offer giving a potential interview on his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection (which included him marching to the Capitol with the crowd while shouting things like “We’ve only begun to fight” through a bullhorn).
Big oops! The U.S. Capitol was briefly evacuated Wednesday evening after a plane carrying the Army Golden Knights for a pre-game jump at Nationals Park was mistaken as a probable threat.
The New York Times reports that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) floated invoking the 25th Amendment in a call with top House Republicans on Jan. 8, 2020. And in another call with them on Jan. 10, McCarthy reportedly said he’d tell Trump, who was facing impeachment from House Democrats at that point, that “it would be my recommendation you should resign.”
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other finance officials from Western nations staged a walkout during a G20 meeting on Wednesday out of protest over Russia’s Ukraine invasion when Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov began speaking.
Trump doesn’t have any of the documents New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is seeking with her subpoena to the ex-president, his legal team claimed in court on Wednesday.
“GOP turns to false insinuations of LGBTQ grooming against Democrats” – The Washington Post
As conservatives attempt to resurrect homophobic tropes smearing LGBTQ+ people as pedophiles, 37-year-old journalist Hunter Walker described in a Twitter thread his experience of growing up with two moms in a time when open discrimination against queer people was acceptable:
Embattled Missouri GOP candidate Eric Greitens’ Senate campaign has amassed more than $43,000 in legal expenses, according to new filings to the Federal Election Commission.
“The First Apple Store in the United States Files for Union Election” – Vice
Dancers at Star Garden, a strip club in Los Angeles, are on strike over unsafe working conditions, and one of the ways they’re protesting is dressing up as the violations they flagged in their complaint to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration:
The President and First Lady Jill Biden will be going to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 30, the White House Correspondents’ Association announced on Wednesday. It’ll be Biden’s first time going to the event as POTUS due to the 2021 dinner being canceled.
54 House Republicans who voted remotely this year had signed onto a lawsuit in 2020 claiming that the House’s proxy voting protocols, which were established to prevent COVID-19 spread, were unconstitutional.
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