From a source: Former NYC mayor, ex-Turkish Airlines high flyer, recently minted Albanian citizen Eric Adams on a flight from West Palm Beach to NYC the other weekend

South Carolina Senate Republicans became the first to buck President Trump’s demand for a post-Callais redraw Tuesday, sinking the amendment that would have tacked redistricting on after the official end of the legislative term. talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/sc...

In March 2025, Noem and Miller scheduled a meeting to “Realign Elements of Foreign Aid for Border Enforcement and Repatriation." It was one time of many the Trump admin attempted to route aid funds to its border crackdown. TPM is reporting the meeting and other details for the first time.

1. there is no war 2. but if there is a war, it costs $29 billion.

TPM Wins 2026 New York Press Club Award for Undocumented Underground Series

It is wild how shameless this has become.

Texas Republicans leaned into a slate of policies that election conspiracy theorists tend to recommend. It led to the chaos we saw in the recent primary election.

Allen West put the demands of 2020 election conspiracy theorists into practice for a Dallas primary in March. The result was a fiasco; now the same people who pushed voter fraud conspiracy theories want him prosecuted talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dallas-...

Gorka's long-awaited and much-postponed counterterrorism strategy (he is the White House "counterterrorism czar," after all) is heavy on targeting the left, and anyone else "whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist."

Indiana Republicans Who Wouldn’t Cave to Trump Pressure See Sweeping Losses in Primaries talkingpointsmemo.com/news/indiana...

The Roberts Court has been wildly inconsistent in applying its own principle that federal courts should not intervene in redistricting cases too close to elections. The court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais came after mail-in voting in the House primary elections were already under way.

BREAKING: SCOTUS grants the Callais plaintiffs' request to issue the judgment now, meaning the ruling goes into effect and back to the district court immediately. This was done over a strong dissent from Jackson — prompting Alito (w Thomas & Gorsuch) to author an opinion concurring with the grant.

Also... kinda seems worth noting that half the reason so many Silicon Valley VCs lined up behind Trump was because a pretty toothless AI policy plan from Biden that basically told companies "be more thoughtful." If the Biden admin had talked about pre-vetting models, it would have been a HUGE story.

When federal agents came to the home of David Morens on Monday with an arrest warrant for allegedly concealing federal records related to the debate about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, they behaved as if the 78-year-old retired scientist was a violent criminal. https://scim.ag/4cIEXhc

David Super, a professor at the Georgetown Law School, called the administration’s argument “absurd.” Through the naval blockade, the White House is still using the military for the purposes of the law.

NEW: A House Dem task force focused on Trump's efforts to manipulate elections has identified 150 scenarios for how he might interfere with the vote They're running war games and preparing responses ranging from snap legal filings to floor fights at the Capitol talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-d...

Every part of President Trump’s attempts to commandeer the independent U.S. central bank has blown up in his face. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fed-nom...

Today in two sentences via @kateriga.bsky.social: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

Supreme Court Rules in Lockstep with Trump Admin’s Vision of a Whiter America talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

Three major developments in Donald Trump’s retribution campaign yesterday laid bare more than ever before—as hard as that may be to believe—the depths to which the DOJ will go under acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to do the president’s bidding. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

There's been a lot of debate on here about whether it's "doomer" to pay attention to the president's desire to stop elections. This digs into how people who have to deal with this view the situation. They're not ignoring it - and they're not giving up either. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-d...

The Voting Rights Act is dead smh "The Roberts Court finally achieved its years-long goal of killing the Voting Rights Act, publishing a ruling that, the liberal justices say, will make proving racial discrimination in redistricting virtually impossible." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alito-c...

Unsurprising authorship. Alito is the most corrupt member of the Court - though it's hard to rank among the six GOP members. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alito-c...

The gutting of the Voting Rights Act makes this work much more important. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-d...

The multi-decade campaign to destroy the Voting Rights Act reaches its conclusion.

Of all the various theories of court reform, I think term-limits for justices, with a new one appointed on a schedule, like every four or six years or something, is something normies will get behind. It's hard to cast that as court-packing. People hate how old everyone in positions of power is.

Details here about: -A few of the more than 150 scenarios House Dems are prepping for -What WH pressure on red states not to certify some congressional elections would result in -A potential floor fight over the next Congress on Jan 3rd, 2027 -and more talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-d...

Our conversation, which took place earlier this month, is the most in-depth look thus far at House Democrats’ efforts to confront threats to the vote. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-d...

Inside House Democrats’ task force on countering interference in the midterms, w/ @hunterw.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-d...

House Democrats have formed a task force to game out how Trump might meddle with the midterms, and what to do if Republicans refuse to seat new, Democratic members of Congress in January.

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Trump admin informed Congress last week that it would use money originally appropriated for global health to deal with the costs of shutting down USAID, including paying off contractors who were screwed by the DOGE rampage and are now suing. Congress, reasonably, is calling this "impoundment."

Fun fact: The Elvis impersonator who was arrested for sending ricin to Obama often recommended my work on Facebook. Fortunately (for me!), he was innocent. A different Elvis impersonator sent the ricin to frame the innocent Elvis impersonator b/c the latter falsely claimed to be a member of Mensa.

The special services soldier appears not to have understood that insider betting on Polymarket and similar fora is reserved as a privilege for members of the president's family and immediate entourage. abcnews.com/US/doj-arres...

Super interesting piece from @aksandovalstrausz.bsky.social about the history of immigration panics in Texas and elsewhere talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-a-...

In March, the FBI began investigating NYT reporter Elizabeth Williamson after her February story on the use of bureau resources by Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Will shoppers get tariff refunds? House Dems tried to get the Trump admin to commit to repaying consumers who paid tariff-inflated prices this last year. Based on the admin's response, it's not happening. wherethingsstand.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/rfk-jr-is-...

F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend

These Getty Images of Vance's ill-fated Hungary trip really captures what's amusing about both leaders.

Although the proposal was approved on Tuesday, the state Supreme Court has been waiting to see if the measure would pass before ruling on a handful of legal challenges brought against it by Republicans.

Kevin Roberts at Heritage praises Paul Gottfried and Chronicles.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/paleos-asc...

The Federalist's editor in chief wrote a hagiographic biography of Alito that is premised on the idea that leftists are trying to kill conservatives at all times.

A bunch of right-wing influencers spent several hours yesterday freaking out that Amazon had "censored" Camp of the Saints. Except maybe Amazon didn't. The whole episode turned Camp of the Saints into a bestseller.

JUST IN: FBI Dir Kash Patel loses libel suit he filed against former FBI agent Frank Figliuzzi for saying Patel "reportedly" has been "visible at nightclubs far more" than at FBI HQ. Judge George Hanks (Obama/TXSD) says it was "rhetorical hyperbole." Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Senate Republicans keep looking for a way to save face and vote for Trump's fed pick, who insists he will be independent. But Trump keeps repeating that he won't be. And so everyone is stuck.

Mollie Hemingway's new Alito book, a gushing hagiography of the Court's most open partisan, reveals the depth of right-wing fantasies about leftist violence. Fascinating look at the threats a movement premised in grievance but in complete control has to invent talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alito-h...

This lead from @joshkovensky.bsky.social is so good talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-r...

While congressional Republicans have done a lot to help erode Congress’ power as a check on the executive branch during Trump II, Vought has made their authority-ceding easy. More from @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social in tonight's edition of Where Things Stand:

GOVT ASKS DC CIRCUIT TO VACATE CONVICTIONS AND REMAND FOR DISMISSAL IN OATH KEEPERS AND PROUD BOYS CASES. Stewart Rhodes, Ethan Nordean, everybody. ... www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...