Dean Fuleihan, who Mamdani has picked as first deputy mayor, held the same role under de Blasio and was the one who wrangled the money out of Albany that made universal pre-K possible gothamist.com/news/mayor-e...

Two ways to read that - 1) the instinct to cave is strongest with the departing generation; or 2) the retiring members are taking the heat for non-retiring members who agree with them but are scared of being primaried

At TPM's 25th anniversary event, staff and alums reflected on 25 years of US politics, and how we always believed the fringe extremists were the driving force of the American right rather than the titular Republican party. Read @joshtpm.bsky.social ky.social's dispatch:

Bill Ackman to *holds earpiece* continue living in Chappaqua.

I think deep down he likes when Republicans lose. It feeds his ego

lol

JD Vance's half-brother has lost by an overwhelming margin as he tried to become the mayor of Cincinnati. Democratic incumbent Aftab Pureval wins reelection.

There is some sad irony in McClatchy shutting its DC bureau the same day that Dick Cheney died. That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time. www.cato.org/commentary/q...

One of those where the subhed undercuts the hed. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Wrote about Condé ending Teen Vogue as we knew it. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

Former Teen Vogue politics editor Allegra Kirkland pays homage to ... what ... OUUUUCH: talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

"What stings the most is the loss of one of the only publications that allowed young people to share their own stories and took them seriously as political actors." Former Teen Vogue Politics Director @allegrak.bsky.social on the loss of the publication in a disintegrating media landscape.

This is the first time I've seen someone suggest so clearly that the Venezuela military buildup is at least partly linked to the belief that Maduro teamed up w Biden to steal the 2020 election youtu.be/71EB1dgvRwU?...

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section. www.thecut.com/article/teen...

My friend @andrewjparsons.bsky.social on what it is like working in an industry that is clearly experiencing a bubble. His experience was in podcasting, but there was a lot of this in digital journalism over the last two decades — all abruptly ending in recent years.

"It is not a coincidence." The Trump admin is stalling the rollout of a new race and ethnicity policy. Experts warn the delay could interfere with the 2030 census, ultimately helping the GOP in high-stakes fights over redistricting. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-r...

I wrote a thing

Slow Burn producer @andrewjparsons.bsky.social saw his show become a hit + a boom in podcast investing By 2023, the industry was shrinking. Ad revenue + Hollywood IP acquisitions declined + everyone was getting laid off. "The podcast bubble had finally popped" talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/watch...

As a teenager pissed off about politics, @talkingpointsmemo.com became my go-to website. Really grateful for @joshtpm.bsky.social and @allegrak.bsky.social for letting me take part in the 25th anniversary retrospective on how the internet changed media.

oh God, this is like that scene in all the presidents men when woodstein spent a couple hours asking a random lady’s opinions abt watergate in her apt and then finally realize she’s not the woman who works at CREEP.

I’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

This colossal Times of London/de Blasio screwup gets more amazing at every turn. Scoop via @maxtani.bsky.social www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

My contribution to TPM's 25th Anniversary edition: One reason we bloggers don't have the oomph we used to is bc of Trump's trolls. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/witho...

@joshtpm.bsky.social spoke to Brian Morrissey of the Rebooting podcast about 25 years of @talkingpointsmemo.com and weathering the headwinds of digital media Check it out: open.spotify.com/episode/3eHv...

I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...

@kellyweill.bsky.social talks abt how coverage of the far right + Internet trends was often siloed outside politics verticals "'Extremism'" suggested that our subject matter was somehow divorced from meaningful power, even as politics grew visibly more extreme" talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

Essayli is one of several Trump-installed U.S. Attorneys without Senate confirmation or judicial approval in jurisdictions where judges are reviewing whether they're serving unlawfully. Two, Essayli and Habba, are monitoring polling sites in Nov., along with 2020 election denier Harmeet Dhillon.

Spoke to two of Jack Smith's top deputies about the launch of their new firm this week. Read: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

If anyone speaks the words "woke right" to me I will immediately vomit. This is a warning.

DOJ showing up in NJ ahead of a tight governors' race and after a very stop-the-steal coded request from the state GOP, which asked for the administration to “oversee the receipt and processing of vote-by-mail ballots” and “take steps to monitor access to the Board of Elections around the clock.”

Trump keeps teasing that he might invoke the Insurrection Act. But his government is stretching the law to such an extent that doing so might not get him much more than he's already gotten.

“I stuck with my newsletter in order to stay in journalism. I didn’t have any other marketable skills. I had to keep writing to make sure I could keep writing.” For the @talkingpointsmemo.com 25th anniversary, I was asked to write about going independent and the future of journalism. Read here:

Come see! www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/talk...

"Access to news and information has become a luxury good, no different than the comfortable seat you must pay to access on an airplane." talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/dcs-a...

I was pleased to be asked to participate in TPM's 25th anniversary. My story is about paywalls and the privatization of news. The average news consumer today has more available to read than at any time in human history, yet less ability to understand what’s really going on.

"Why were we so cold-hearted as to demand the equivalent of a cup of coffee each month for full access to our website?" My @hellgatenyc.com colleague @maxrn.bsky.social on why, in an era of "free" journalism, a low-dollar paywall might not be such a bad idea. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...

For @talkingpointsmemo.com on building @hellgatenyc.com: Is the cure to local news starting really small, building up subscribers day after day, & breaking stories, until one day everyone has health care, good salaries, and no threat of being laid off??? MAYBE! talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-f...

A Bush-era story I had never heard before about Pat Fitzgerald, James Comey and TPM. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-p...

"Never over the course of our long history has a President attempted to pass off such ordinary circumstances as an emergency justifying the domestic deployment of military forces.” The 9th circuit is starkly divided after some of its judges upheld Trump's military crackdown.

somehow you just knew that the Paul Ingrassia discourse would eventually include teacup parenting www.notus.org/trump-white-...

"It made perfect sense for news outlets to preserve some of the specialness of what they write by putting the most important stuff out of the reach of the ordinary reader. But withholding access, bit by bit, has turned the fourth estate into a gated community." - @ddayen.bsky.social

To celebrate making it 25 years in this generally cursed industry, TPM asked 25 writers we admire to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media. Introducing 💻 Pivots, Trolls and Blog Rolls 💻 Take a break from the abysmal news to check it out! talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25

Extremely excited about this series TPM is doing in concert with our 25th Anniversary, reflecting on 25 years of digital journalism .. the good, the bad, the awful, and where we are now. Our first two essays are out. We’ll be publishing 25 over the next month.

For our first essay, @espiers.bsky.social writes about starting Gawker, the heyday of blogging, and how blogs changed her worldview: “There were people I started out reading whose views I began to reject, and some of which I eventually found abhorrent.” talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we asked 25 writers we admire—from @jeetheer.bsky.social to @anamariecox.bsky.social—to reflect on a moment from the past 25 years of digital media. Read @joshtpm.bsky.social's intro to the project: Pivots, Trolls + Blog Rolls talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/the-o...

The story of NSPM-7 and its many tendrils continues not to get enough attention.

The plan seems to be to keep shooting the hostages (in this case, important government services) until the public prevails on Dems to do something about Vought shooting hostages. It's convoluted, and seems to depend on the public thinking the shutdown CAUSED these layoffs, which it didn't.

If Trump has ICE to brawl in the street on his behalf, does he still need the Proud Boys? The Proud Boys are wondering that too.

NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...