You may remember that I wrote back in August about the MAGA Twitter warrior and Trump’s Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bill Pulte. He’d already used that job to finagle his way into becoming chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He’s the third generation princeling of one of the country’s biggest home-building companies and was actively angling to get appointed to the Fed, maybe even as chair.

With the big and (for me) really gratifying and enjoyable events we put on last week all wrapped, I was kind of seeing the whole TPM 25th anniversary thing in the rearview mirror. But with new pieces up on the site today in our 25th anniversary essay series, I remembered that the actual anniversary is tomorrow, Nov. 13. And here’s an interview which just came out this morning that the Columbia Journalism Review did with me about the 25th anniversary. I actually haven’t read it since I just got the link a few moments ago. But here is the link. Hopefully I didn’t say anything dumb.

The House can be expected to pass the government funding bill tonight, which, after President Trump signs it, will end the shutdown. The eight senators — seven Democrats and an independent — who voted for cloture to end the shutdown have been widely condemned. “America deserves better,” likely presidential candidate Gavin Newsom declared. But in my opinion, the eight senators did the right thing and did the Democratic Party a favor.