Latest ep is OUT! We were joined by @peltzmadeline.bsky.social who helped us understand what's going on in the MAHA movement. Are they happy with Trump? Are they happy with RFK Jr? How did the Dems cede anti-corporation sentiment to the GOP around Big Food? www.youtube.com/watch?v=nce9...

Trump plans to steal $1.7B from taxpayers to pay off the terrorists he already freed from prison. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

👀Russia's prison service says the Russian inmate population has fallen 39 percent since the start of the all-out war on Ukraine, per @istories.bsky.social. The drop is due overwhelmingly to inmates being coerced to sign up to fight in Ukraine. t.me/istories_med...

Visits from Canada to the United States declined by *42%*, according to new data. In South Carolina and Florida, it's more like 50%-65%. Mamma mia. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

apart from everything else, it's very surreal to see this guy try to reclaim the word "chud" for the far-right

Meet Chud the Builder — a rising star on the right and, as of yesterday, an alleged attempted murderer.

Black people saw the largest decline in financial stability for nearly every category compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new Federal Reserve survey.

New — The Senate has just voted against advancing an Iran War Powers Resolution for the seventh time, 49-50. This time though, a Democrat was the *deciding vote.* Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski voted to advance it. John Fetterman voted against it.

Adding Sen. Lisa Murkowski to the list. She just voted for the first time in favor of the war powers resolution, joining Dems. Collins and Paul also voted YES as they have before.

"The biggest donor in the midterm elections is not Elon Musk, or George Soros, or any of the other billionaires who are often thought to wield the fattest wallets in politics. It is a venture capital firm: Andreessen Horowitz."

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

W/ @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social: A deep look into how foreign aid has become yet another tool for mass deportations talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...

Per this letter from @raskin.house.gov, the FBI reinstated/paid a settlement to an agent who: -was fired for not working on a probe into Patriot Front, a neo-nazi group, claiming that it was politically motivated -paid for sex on a work trip overseas democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

crazy story www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/w...

Heather Cox Richardson Talks to Kate and Josh About What It’s Like to Cover the News Now and the Future of Independent Media

Over the last few weeks, we've launched a new podcast at TPM: @tpmsocialclub.bsky.social I host it along with @jragazzo.bsky.social. We talk about whatever is interesting in politics and beyond

super fun conversation with Joe and Josh! wide-ranging: AI, culture, is Aaron Rodgers cooked? (yes)

We repeat: definitely NOT an idol. defector.com/pastor-clari...

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The great @joshkovensky.bsky.social just had this deep dive on how DHS has been working in concert with far right influencers. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

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The Supreme Court of VA invalidates the state's new pro-D gerrymander (www.vacourts.gov/static/opini...), which (with new maps in FL and TN this week) updates the redistricting playing field to something like: D +5 R +14 Net R+9 Will do some math on the impact to the pop vote threshold and blog it

".. Federal government payrolls lowest since May 1966." - Schwab #NFP

Important story from @laylaayanna.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/news/u-s-wor...

Really curious how this plays out, both in the inevitable court battles but also on the ground -- what happens if ICE officers wear masks in violation of this? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/n...

This is an interesting read about the Dallas GOP being overtaken by conspiracy madness.

"Much of what happened next was made possible by a unique feature of Texas’ electoral system, what some regard as a vestige of the 19th century: county political parties run primaries ... giving the local GOP a sandbox in which to build its ideal election." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dallas-...

Dallas Republicans Warned That Texas Was Turning Blue. Then They Wrecked an Election. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dallas-...

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.

"Texas is no longer a Hard RED state," Allen West warned the Dallas county GOP in November. They wrecked the next election. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dallas-...

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-...

"Texas is no longer a Hard RED state," Allen West warned his party in November. His plan to change election rules ended in chaos. The election conspiracy theorists who supported him now want him prosecuted.

George Zoley, the CEO of GEO Group — which detains 21,000 people in ICE custody — complained on an earnings call today about "fundamentally unconstitutional" lawsuits about conditions in immigration detention www.huffpost.com/entry/prison...

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."

The WH wants counterterrorism agencies to focus on the "neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gorka-f...

We Aren’t Paying Enough Attention to What the SCOTUS VRA Decision Means for State Legislatures talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/we-aren...

We're following the national assault on black electoral power unleashed by the Supreme Court in the Calais decision, below: talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/sc...

RFK Jr clears path for minors to use tanning beds www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Reminder that @joshkovensky.bsky.social and I host a new @talkingpointsmemo.com called The TPM Social Club. We bring on guests from TPM and elsewhere to talk about whatever is interesting It's super dope tbh Catch us wherever you listen to podcasts or on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32L...

During the financial crisis, Obama missed a crucial opening to start rebuilding the Great Society coalition that Democrats since Lyndon Johnson had abandoned.

I am currently live on Substack with @joshkovensky.bsky.social and @brianbeutler.bsky.social talking about our exclusive report on how @morelle.house.gov and House Dems are trying to confront MAGA election interference www.offmessage.net

New reporting from @talkingpointsmemo.com takes a deeper look at the work I'm leading on the Committee on House Administration to prepare for threats to our elections. This is about protecting the will of the voters, and making sure we’re ready for Donald Trump's corruption and chaos.🧵

Greg Bovino calls Minneapolis protestors ‘cannon fodder’ in new interview talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Pleased to speak again with @joshkovensky.bsky.social about war powers, Iran, and why the administration’s termination of hostilities argument doesn’t work. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/experts...

Bovino: "Minneapolis, we didn’t hit them hard. And when you don’t hit them hard, guess what? That empowers…those funding streams, those individuals, those leaders of those organizations. It empowers them. That’s what happened in Minneapolis." talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Former Border Patrol official Greg Bovino can't keep away from the limelight.

Was notable to @joshkovensky.bsky.social and I how quickly conspiracy theories popped up about the WHCD shooting. So, on The Social Club we had a chat with conspiracy theory expert & TPM contributor @rothschildmd.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32L...

Three Dems on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance a judicial nominee who refused to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. At least one judicial advocacy group is fuming. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

A point I made this morning in my conversation with @joshkovensky.bsky.social about the 60-day clock. The “legislative history makes clear that Congress wanted it to be broader” and to include “armed confrontations where there haven’t been any shots fired.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...