Senate candidate Mehmet Oz is ginning up his own mock controversy over the Philadelphia Inquirer’s decision to – now you might need to sit down to absorb this – refer to him in stories by his real first and last names. It’s a total and utter outrage that is perfectly suited to the “Fox and Friends” couch.
Continue reading “Mehmet Oz: How Dare You Call Me By My Real Name!”TPM’s Director of Audience Zainab Shah: 5 Books (Or Series) I Return To Every So Often
We’re asking our fellow TPMers to share their own personal reading recommendations: books they love or that have shaped their lives.
Continue reading “TPM’s Director of Audience Zainab Shah: 5 Books (Or Series) I Return To Every So Often”Jan. 6 Was ‘Deplorable,’ Meadows’ Lawyer Argues—But Meadows Still Won’t Cooperate
Hours before the Jan. 6 committee is set to refer former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with its subpoena, Meadows’ lawyer George Terwilliger III hit back at the panel in a letter arguing that “such a referral would be contrary to law.”
Continue reading “Jan. 6 Was ‘Deplorable,’ Meadows’ Lawyer Argues—But Meadows Still Won’t Cooperate”A Trump Aide Is Now Stonewalling Congress On COVID, Too
It’s not just the Jan. 6 committee: Trump administration alumni are also stonewalling a congressional investigation into the governments’ response to COVID-19.
Continue reading “A Trump Aide Is Now Stonewalling Congress On COVID, Too”Mystery Solved???
Earlier we noted the mystery of congressional candidate George A. Santos’ driving habits. Despite having a short commute (in miles if not in time) of 15 miles from Queens into Manhattan he apparently manages to drive at least 1,000 miles a week. And it’s costing him a ton of money. But now TPM Reader AL may have solved the mystery: Santos might be commuting each day to work in Florida!
Continue reading “Mystery Solved???”Clyburn Backs Boebert Committee Removal But Punts It To GOP
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) says he supports the idea of stripping far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) of her committee assignments over her Islamophobic attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) — but he wants the job of doing so to be left to Republicans.
Continue reading “Clyburn Backs Boebert Committee Removal But Punts It To GOP”Jan. 6 Committee Offers Sneak Peek At The Meadows Evidence
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.
Care To Explain, Meadows?
The Jan. 6 committee is moving to hold former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with its subpoena, per the panel’s new resolution released on Sunday. But as we’ve pointed out before, Meadows has already cooperated to a limited extent, and the committee is now teasing some of what Meadows coughed up.
- Among the tantalizing bits of new evidence: Meadows sent an email on Jan. 5 stating that the National Guard would be present at the Capitol the next day to “protect pro-Trump people,” according to the committee.
- The revelation of this and Meadows’ other communications was mentioned late Sunday in the committee’s resolution recommending to hold Meadows in criminal contempt.
- It’s unknown to whom Meadows sent the National Guard email. The committee’s resolution doesn’t provide a lot of detail on it.
- The Jan. 6 panel is slated to forward the recommendation for Meadows (who meanwhile has filed a lawsuit against the committee and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)) to the House for a vote today.
Chris Wallace Ditches Fox For CNN
The longtime Fox News anchor announced during his “Fox News Sunday” program yesterday that he was leaving Fox.
- Wallace is joining CNN+, CNN’s streaming platform that’s slated to launch next year, according to CNN’s press release, which came after the (now-ex) Fox News anchor said his goodbyes on air.
- He didn’t say he was joining CNN in his announcement, only that he was “ready for a new adventure” and wanted to go “beyond politics.”
- Wallace will anchor a weekday show that’ll include interviews with “newsmakers across politics, business, sports and culture,” CNN’s communications office said.
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“The judges drawing America’s political maps” – Politico
GOPer Vanishes Amid COVID-19 Treatment
Washington state Sen. Doug Ericksen’s (R-WA) whereabouts and condition have been unknown for about three weeks after he was reportedly admitted to a hospital in Florida to be treated for COVID-19.
- The secretary of the Washington Senate told the Bellingham Herald on Friday that Ericksen hasn’t reached out.
- Ericksen’s legislative assistant said on Thursday that she didn’t have any information on the GOP lawmaker’s status.
- The lawmaker’s family has not publicly responded to inquiries.
AP Describes Crime-Ridden Hellhole Before Admitting Crime’s Actually Gone Down
The Associated Press put out this article about how people are growing just so darn tired of all the criming in San Francisco and all the crimes they’re subjected to and won’t anyone please do something about the crime–before the AP mentions this lil factoid more than a dozen paragraphs into the article:
“Overall, though, crime has been trending down for years. More than 45,000 incidents have been reported so far this year, up from last year when most people were shut indoors, but below the roughly 60,000 complaints in previous years.”
Biden Approves Kentucky Disaster Declaration After Devastating Tornadoes
The President approved a disaster declaration for Kentucky on Sunday, which makes federal funds available to assist individuals and business owners in especially hard-hit counties.
- These maps show where the tornadoes wreaked havoc in Kentucky and five other states this weekend.
- The official death toll from the disaster is still fluid, but it’s been confirmed that six workers were killed at an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, and at least eight workers died at a candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky.
Welcome To Hell!
There was a “Dash for Cash” during a hockey game in South Dakota on Saturday in which teachers crawled on the ice and scrambled for $5,000 to use in their classrooms, a very normal state of affairs in the greatest country in the world:
Cops Are Very Proud Of Their ‘Drug Bust’
This photo of several stern officers at the Tenaha Police Department in Texas posing behind a table of the weed they found during a bust in 2018 went viral on Saturday:
- Wow, they also nabbed a whole $70 and an empty pill bottle and a bottle of water!
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Curious George
Spiking gas prices have been an issue for many Americans over the last six months. Both on their own and as a primary driver of inflation they’ve hit President Biden’s popularity hard. But one New York City candidate, George Santos, apparently got a little carried away with himself trying to illustrate the point.
Santos is running in New York’s 3rd congressional district, currently represented by Tom Suozzi (D). The 3rd is basically the North Shore of Long Island in Nassau County, suburbs of New York City. But it also includes a slice of northeastern Queens (i.e., New York City proper) and a bit of Suffolk County, which is eastern Long Island.
Which brings us to Santos’ lament.
Meadows Says He Rage Dialed Fox News Editor After Network Called Biden’s Arizona Victory
In his newly released book about his time serving in the Trump administration, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows wrote that he was so infuriated when Fox News first called Joe Biden’s electoral win in Arizona on election night that he proceeded to angrily dial an editor at the network to contest Trump’s projected loss, according to Insider.
Continue reading “Meadows Says He Rage Dialed Fox News Editor After Network Called Biden’s Arizona Victory”California Governor Vows To Model Gun Crackdown Bill After Texas Abortion Law
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Saturday announced a plan to crack down on the gun industry that would be modeled after Texas’ abortion law that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers.
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