Trump's first year in office brought the smallest growth in U.S. jobs since 2013, outside of the 2020 pandemic. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/january...

The job market under Trump's 1st year saw the smallest increase in job creation in 10 years, outside of the 2020 pandemic unemployment spike. U.S. industries haven’t added fewer jobs than were added under Trump since 2013-2014. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/january...

GOP Sen. Tillis said he'll still BLOCK Trump's Fed pick until the DOJ stops investigating Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Sen. Lisa Murkowski initially said she'd block Trump's pick, too, but hasn't commented since Warsh's nom. Her office didn't respond to my inquiry. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kevin-w...

After getting beat up by some teenage girls no less.

The DOJ is charging Black Lives Matter activists and members of a supposed "Antifa cell" with material support for terrorism talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-d...

Breaking News: The Washington Post began sweeping layoffs that were slated to shrink the scope of the publication.

Former race and ethnicity reporter for WaPo: “This wasn't a financial decision, it was an ideological one.” He also says “hundreds of people” were laid off today, and I’ve seen it reported elsewhere that layoffs affected one third of the staff.

Tillis has said he will oppose Warsh’s nomination until the DOJ drops or concludes its bogus investigation into Chairman Powell. Warsh can’t be confirmed without Tillis’ support. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kevin-w...

“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious LUST FOR UNBRIDLED POWER and the IMPOSITION OF CRUELTY IN ITS QUEST know no bounds and ARE BEREFT OF HUMAN DECENCY” ~ The Federal Judge

A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying." "You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"

States are stepping in with legislation to combat Trump's ICE overreach. How the bills fare in places like Michigan -- which will see a number of competitive races in 2026 -- could help predict the impact of Trump's violent immigration enforcement on midterms talkingpointsmemo.com/news/state-a...

Lindsey Graham is holding up the Dem-White House deal over DHS funding bc of a provision that repeals a law allowing senators to receive cash payouts if their phone records were seized during Jack Smith’s investigation. More from @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/ic...

Full house at Morning Memo Live hosted by @talkingpointsmemo.com in DC. One takeaway: Legal experts including a former 18-year DOJ veteran tell @davidkurtz.bsky.social that courts no longer presume that what DOJ lawyers say is true. Courts are experiencing unprecedented lies from Trump’s DOJ.

The price of gold reached a record high on Monday, surging above $5,000 an ounce, as investors sought a safe haven amid heightened geopolitical tensions and rising global risks.

@davidkurtz.bsky.social: The administration's incendiary propagandizing not only "offers no accountability for what has happened, but guarantees more such incidents in an ever-escalating assertion of absolute power." talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Twice in two weeks the Trump administration has outright lied, with witnesses and video evidence offering direct contradiction to official law enforcement accounts. As with police violence and Black Lives, the mainstream media needs to figure out how to report without regurgitating false narratives.

and what are they gonna put up in its place? this isn't just a few signs. it's a built, interactive structure. asinine. www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

Pitiful. I lived in Philly when organizers campaigned for this, remember when it was installed, and worked across the street from it for several years. tourists from all over the world visited the site thoughtfully. it showed info about GW's slaves, their lives, and a re-creation of their quarters.

A secret internal ICE memo dated May 12, 2025 gave unconstitutional guidance allowing federal agents to forcibly enter homes without judicial warrants to detain undocumented immigrants. Legal experts were aghast at the ICE memo and its implications. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Justices contended with the idea that a president who virtually lives online need only post to social media to kick off the due process required under law for removing a Federal Reserve governor.

Several constitutional law scholars and SCOTUS experts told me everyone needs to chill out about the Supreme Court's IEEPA tariffs decision, basically. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

To block modern gun laws, justices only need to invoke concerns loosely tied to the 19th century.To pass gun laws, legislators must rely on history, and be sure to set aside any history the Republican justices wish to forget. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-sup...

The most recent estimates from 2023 found that nearly 450,000 infants and toddlers in the United States were in families that lacked a stable place to live. hechingerreport.org/homelessness...

My colleague @kateriga.bsky.social and I are live-blogging SCOTUS oral arguments on the case that'll basically determine whether or not Trump can basically takeover and politicize the Federal Reserve and monetary policy. Catch up and follow along here: talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/sc...

A Trump takeover of the Federal Reserve could give the president power to slash interest rates at will, punish blue state banks, influence lending to his corporate allies, and more talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

A least 4 officials in the DOJ Civil Rights Division have resigned over its handling of the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon decided not to investigate the shooting even tho it’s the bread-and-butter work of that unit. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

From a 2015 fraud allegations focused on Minnesota day care centers overbilling state welfare agencies to an ICE agent killing a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, @laylaayanna.bsky.social provides a definitive unpacking of how we got here:

What's unfolding in Minnesota started as legitimate local and federal fraud investigations and has devolved into violent ICE operations, the pausing of federal funds to blue states, and the end of Walz’s gubernatorial tenure. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...

@laylaayanna.bsky.social: "As has become common in the Trump era, a serious situation was dispersed throughout the unserious realm of right-wing media and content creation, catching the attention of the president and yielding very real consequences." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...

I wrote about January 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-mom...

RFK Jr. just changed to the childhood vaccine schedule and is now recommending fewer shots for kids. Doctors and experts already told me all these changes are confusing physicians and parents, and risk making kids less safe talkingpointsmemo.com/news/parents...

Tuesdays jobs report showed a 4.6% unemployment rate, the highest more than four years, while tariff-sensitive industries shed thousands of jobs. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/latest-...

For the past few months, I have been looking at what President Trump's mass deportation agenda really looks like on the ground in NYC for a TPM series. We're about halfway through it and I'd like to show you what we've done so far. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/life...

The latest jobs report shows the U.S. unemployment rate has risen steadily since June 2025 (with a gap in October). That's the longest stretch of rising unemployment since 2009 during the global financial crisis. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/latest-...

To all of you readers who submitted noxious nominations for the 17th annual Golden Duke awards, we thank you for your service. Now it’s time to vote! May the sickest sleazebag win. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/grift...

Since Nov. 5, Trump has removed tariffs for several goods imported from at least 7 countries. It seems like he's rushing to close trade deals in case the administration’s tariffs leverage is taken off the table by SCOTUS talkingpointsmemo.com/news/it-sure...

Trump's anti-DEI crusade hit healthcare when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, under Dr. Mehmet Oz, removed race questions from its kidney failure patient form. The problem is, those questions weren't about DEI. That data informed actual medical breakthroughs talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...

6/ from the record keeping because it counted as "DEI". So it's put all these advances in jeopardy. This specific case has gotten remarkably little press attention for something that affects so many people. But sure to read @laylaayanna.bsky.social's report.

5/ The data the government collects (having unique access to all data) is key for that study and other efforts to deal with the huge toll of kidney disease in the African American community. But back in June Mehmet Oz, the head of CMS which runs the dialysis program removed race/ethnicity ...

4/ they account for roughly a third of dialysis patients. Some of that may be accounted for disparate access to health care earlier in life. But it seems clear there is a genetic component. And there are studies now zeroing in on how to grapple with that improve and improve health outcomes.

3/ disease. Because the whole population is in the system. The other fact is that African-Americans suffer from end stage kidney disease at dramatically higher rates than the rest of the population. @laylaayanna.bsky.social reports that while African-Americans make up ~13% of the US population ...

2/ It's a fascinating and intricate set of interconnections. End stage kidney care (dialysis) is basically the only part of health care in the US covered entirely by the federal govt. In addition to the health care provision that creates a critical source of data about people with end stage kidney..

Really important article about how the White House's anti-DEI crusade is cutting off data for new potential breakthroughs for African-Americans who disproportionately suffer from end-stage kidney disease. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...

Data on race and ethnicity has put us on the cusp of breakthroughs in treating kidney failure, which disproportionately affects Black Americans. But the Trump administration has halted that data collection as part of its war on supposed "DEI." Important new story from @laylaayanna.bsky.social

RIP Joan Didion, you would've hated this Olivia Nuzzi saga.

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history came to an end Wednesday night after 43 days. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-v...

Wednesday's SCOTUS hearing about Trump's sweeping tariffs saw liberal justices troll conservatives using two of their own most favored legal doctrines -- most often employed against Democratic presidents -- to imperil the validity of the tariffs talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-i...

"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...