BRB, gonna go vigorously shake some salad for lunch.

Brick by brick, Jeff Bezos is dismantling the Washpost. With no stated game plan for how to turn it around.

A very Trump 2 sequence of events here: 1. Trump creates problem 2. Senate resolves problem, exercising constitutional authority of Congress 3. House GOP rejects solution 4. Trump takes unlawful steps to "solve" problem, seizing the rightful authority of Congress with the assent of the House GOP

The fight over historical memory in Argentina is wild. www.batimes.com.ar/news/argenti...

Like I wrote in 2024, America's actual publication of record, for people who want to understand the Republican Party's ratchet into authoritarianism over the last twenty- five years, is Taking Points Memo. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

DOGE's damage to DC's economy is lingering — and, in some ways, worsening — with the middle class, once propped up by government workers and contractors, falling behind a growing wealthy elite.

Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY), the vice ranking member on House Appropriations and a member of its Defense subcommittee, goes into great detail this morning with @hunterw.bsky.social and @joshkovensky.bsky.social about the administration's ham-fisted attempts to force Congress to fund the Iran war.

NEW: Ex-CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou wants a Trump pardon—appearing on the same podcasts Trump used in 2024 to get it. While he waits, he’s become a TikTok celebrity for telling outrageous CIA stories. I spoke with Kiriakou about his newfound Gen-Z fame: www.wired.com/story/that-e...

NEW: DOJ has reached a financial settlement with Michael Flynn, the conservative activist and former Trump adviser who sought millions for what he alleged was a politically motivated prosecution. No $ details in court notice today, more to come buff.ly/ccz6Hj3 Prev: buff.ly/sWZrlKV

“An epidemic of suspicious trading has emerged around President Trump’s most consequential decisions — each time, just minutes or hours before he rattles global markets.”

Some States Already Preparing for Potential Supreme Court Ban on Late Ballots

“Each day since the start of the war in Iran, U.S. military officials compile a video update for President Donald Trump that shows video of the biggest, most successful strikes on Iranian targets over the previous 48 hours.” War for the spectacle. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Read an excerpt from Strange People on the Hill here and then come see me and Jared on April 11 at 5PM at Politics and Prose (Conn Ave) in Washington DC. Be there! talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/a-white...

Trump's obsession with passing the SAVE Act, an odious piece of voter suppression legislation, has bedeviled Senate Republican leadership for months. Maybe they have a plan to get him off their backs? We'll see.

SEC's ex-enforcement chief clashed with bosses over Trump cases before leaving, sources say www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Democratic States Seek to Block Massive TV Station Merger

Our editor at large @davidkurtz.bsky.social has, each day, been the only person covering these hugely important hearings, which journalists must attend in person to access. Consider funding our work so we can do more of this. We have a discount right now as part of our annual membership drive.

The J.O.P. class action settlement requiring ICE not to deport people who came as unaccompanied children before deciding their asylum claims. Now the Trump admin admits this settlement was repeatedly violated in their rush to deport asylum seekers.

For more than a year now, we've been getting indications that DHS is deporting people without being totally clear on who it is deporting and if doing so violates any court orders.

The problem of Supreme Court justices fretting over how things will *appear* to the contingent of Americans who watch too much right-wing news — vs. the facts at stake — seems to get worse every year.

Every news outlet gets to use "dire strait" in a headline one time! These are the rules! Pick your moment carefully!!

Can’t wait until Google auto-writer not only makes things worse, it actively gets something wrong and commits defamation.

What Joe Kent and Candace Owens Are Really Up to in Their Critiques of the Iran War

A good reminder to support independent media, perhaps specifically @talkingpointsmemo.com during its membership drive. If @davidkurtz.bsky.social hadn’t been putting in the work, this crazy admission of incompetence and contempt might have flown under the radar. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

This judge, furious at ICE for deporting people in violation of a class action settlement, was appointed by Trump, by the way.* *a significant number of Trump appointees to district courts were conservatives but not zealots, and have strongly-held nonpartisan beliefs against government misconduct.

This is a very important report from @davidkurtz.bsky.social, who was in court for this shocking hearing today. And, Judge Gallagher has, in an order, made clear what she expects tomorrow: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Will we ever learn wtf Mullin's whole "classified" claim is about?

The Trump DOJ is using terrorism statutes against protestors. These charges were never designed for this. TPM has invested in tracking it from the start. All of this reporting is what your subscription makes possible. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/tr... talkingpointsmemo.com/creating-the...

We get results. @kateriga.bsky.social and I revealed a secret letter that John Fetterman sent asking Israel's President to pardon Netanyahu talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fetterm...

At TPM these days, most of our time is spent attempting to do one of two things: We’re trying to unearth new information, or to pull little-noticed but important information into context and elevate it.

Over the past 12 months, how many times has the admin announced/leaked that they're going to do this? I have lost count www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-irs...

"Mullin said he can’t comment on hypotheticals and would not give a clear answer on whether ICE or other federal law enforcement would be sent to the polls."

A far-right extremist, Kent appears to represent a growing faction of Trump’s base of supporters who were there with President Trump all the way — until he got the U.S. involved in another war in the Middle East.

Markwayne Mullin may exaggerate a little.

Wild story.

Democrats (and, at times, a handful of Republicans) spent much of the fall trying to save Obamacare subsidies that lowered the cost of care for millions of Americans. Now the political effort to do so is dead.

Trump's affordability policies aren't helping people afford things because his admin doesn't think it's a real problem exhibit 258784573688763

The DOJ won the first terrorism case that it brought as part of its crackdown against anti-Trump activists talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-c...

It's not clear who's paying for the UFC's big weekend for the FBI. Experts say that creates a potential legal conflict of interest - and the MMA promotion is currently embroiled in a gambling investigation with the bureau. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-fbi...

Trump Crackdown on ‘Terrorist’ Left Notches a Victory in Texas

Right-wing activists are extremely excited about the possibility of using the "talking filibuster" to pass the SAVE Act. But a "talking filibuster" isn't going to work the way they seem to think it will.

One of the right-wing provocateurs in the federal judiciary saw his big moment.

As Republicans and some Democrats prepare to vote for weapons funding that could be viewed by Trump as a kind of backdoor war authorization, documents prepared by the Pentagon, sent to Congress and reviewed by TPM suggest the DoD already has the money it needs.

NEW>> Trump nominated State Dept. official Sarah Rogers as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America, days after a judge rebuked Kari Lake for illegally running the agency. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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The Trump administration has expanded its 2020 election probe to Arizona — specifically, Maricopa County, ground zero for 2020 election conspiracy theories. Read the latest edition of The Franchise from @talkingpointsmemo.com: talkingpointsmemo.com/the-franchis...

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