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Schumer says in a statement that it’s cool with him if Netanyahu wants to come speak to a joint session of Congress.

Earlier this week Schumer rejected Netanyahu’s request to address Senate Democrats saying it was inappropriate to handle such discussions in a partisan manner. Senate Republicans held a Zoom session with Netanyahu.

Said Schumer in the latest statement: “I will always welcome the opportunity for the prime minister of Israel to speak to Congress in a bipartisan way.”

Speaker Mike Johnson is now saying he will invite Prime Minister Netanyahu to address the U.S. Congress, dramatically upping the ante in wire crossing between U.S. and Israeli politics. Just after crying foul over Chuck Schumer saying Israel should hold new elections at the end of the Gaza War, Netanyahu yesterday did a GOP-only Zoom session with Republican senators. But here’s the thing. Johnson can’t actually do that. A joint session requires both houses of Congress to agree. So he needs Chuck Schumer’s sign off. What he can do is hold a House-only speech.

The Post has an interesting story today about why both presidential campaigns seem to feel they have an interest in leaning into Biden’s stutter. The stutter is something that earlier iterations of Biden’s political life story narrative treated as a challenge he overcame in the past, in his childhood. But as a President it’s clear he did not entirely overcome it. He may have tamed it. But it’s still there and it’s a component of his sometimes halting or garbled speech. The change — from describing the stutter as something Biden overcame to something he still wrestles with — has a few different drivers. One is that we just think about these things differently today as a society. It’s what we might call the Therapeutic Turn in American culture. It’s that whole mix of the valorization of empathy, the therapeutic overcoming of physical, intellectual or mental challenges and the call for society to loosen or expand the strictures of what is acceptable for full participation in public life. It’s deeply ingrained in what we might call Blue State political culture.

A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Kate and Josh discuss Donald Trump’s recent comments (and how they’re being covered), Mike Pence’s refusal to endorse his old boss and Republicans’ embrace of Bibi Netanyahu.

You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.

There were a few responses to yesterday’s Backchannel about the “everything sucks” era that I wanted to share with you.

The first is from TPM Reader JY …