Providers are scrambling to figure out what's covered under the new HHS substance use treatment grant rules. The admin has denounced harm reduction, putting billions of grant $ at risk. One anonymous former SAMHSA staffer told TPM: “It has fatal consequences.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ugly-la...

Floored by the scope, detail, and accompanying interactive on this piece about all the pardoned J6ers who kept committing crimes. author @katherinepomps.bsky.social please come to the front! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Greg Bovino was welcomed like a celebrity at one of the world’s pre-eminent fascist confabs. Some of the organizers and other prominent attendees have: -called the Holocaust a “fairy tale and a lie" -been convicted for hate speech -vandalized a synagogue

Being Black is so funny sometimes because you have to research, report, and explain things that are intuitive to most anybody in the community and, in fact, things that Black people been saying for generations. thoughts reading this Nikole Hannah-Jones piece www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/m...

Trump's CBP has actually done a pretty good job handling the massive task of refunding IEEPA tariffs, several people told me. But the administration plans to appeal to make it harder for thousands of businesses to get what they're owed: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tariff-...

Trump Makes Bill Pulte the Acting Director of National Intelligence

I'm so mad spotted lanternflies exist

“My mother did not give her life. Her life was taken and it shocked the nation enough that they passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/their-l...

People who lost family members in the fight for the Voting Rights Act tell @talkingpointsmemo.com how they feel about the Supreme Court’s decision demolishing it. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/their-l...

Dennis Dahmer was 12 years old in January 1966 when Klansmen stormed his family's home and set it on fire, murdering his father, civil rights activist Vernon. He watched his father die. 60 years later, he watched the Supreme Court gut the Voting Rights Act. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/their-l...

“He can just make up a lawsuit — it doesn’t have to be anything that would survive in court because he simply orders his Justice Department to settle it," David Super told me. "He can build the ballroom this way, he can build his triumphal arch this way, he can fund the Iran war this way.”

a lot of Cherelle voters went with the more progressive Rabb over establishment Street

it's so scary that the Trump DOJ ID'd socioeconomic status as a "racial proxy" while arguing there's been no discrimination against Black and Brown people. which, to me, implies the administration believes we ~belong~ at the lowest economic levels ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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.

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Great economic reporting by @laylaayanna.bsky.social and @talkingpointsmemo.com on one more of the insults and injuries the regime is perpetrating on Americans and Black Americans in particular.

Black people are doing worse than every other racial and ethnic group in Trump's economy, according to a new study from the Fed talkingpointsmemo.com/news/black-p...

Republican Kevin Warsh was confirmed to the Federal Reserve, clearing his path to chair. But current Chair Powell is staying on as a governor. Powell's presence could decrease Warsh's influence and hurt Trump's ability to weaken central bank independence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kevin-w...

This is a real sign from Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville presented just now. He repeatedly implied immigrants in America were destroying the country and “we” as “Americans” need to have a conversation about who “we” let in.

A bit of exciting news! My "Undocumented Underground" series looking at mass deportation and the activists fighting it in New York City just won the NY Press Club's Rev. Mychal Judge award. I am really stoked! talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tpm-w...

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

Microcosm of the horror of this post-Callais moment: the Mississippi House plans to hold its redistricting session in the Old Capitol where they seceded & instituted Jim Crow. They'll meet there aiming to erase Bennie Thompson's district — the one majority-Black district in a state that's ~40% Black

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...

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The extended conflict in Iran has blunted the recovery of the U.S. housing market in all but select markets. Here’s what to know.

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...

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis is choosing to believe the Trump DOJ is truly dropping its investigation of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, even tho U.S. Atty Jeanine Pirro warned her office is willing to reopen the probe talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tillis-...

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-...

Here's what you need to know about the bipartisan coalition of mostly Democratic-led states and conservative legal advocacy groups looking to block Trump's latest tariffs. talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/5...

Is this new Labor Dept. policy the latest Trump administration giveaway to the crypto industry? Some experts think so.

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

We got a new podcast @talkingpointsmemo.com! It's hosted by @joshkovensky.bsky.social and me. It's called The TPM Social Club & it's about what's interesting. 🎙️ Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4dqGDz0... 🎙️ Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... ▶️ YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSY-...

Big firms are first in line for tariff refunds, data released by CBP this week suggests. Smaller businesses have either shut down, face disproportionate administrative challenges, or decided getting a refund is more trouble than it's worth, experts told TPM.

Just 8% of eligible businesses are enrolled in the tariff refunds system. They account for 72% of the refunds, suggesting small businesses are being left behind.

Finally some coffee shops that keep repeatable hours and don't close at 3:00 PM! www.inquirer.com/food/yemeni-...

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

I will be doing a @talkingpointsmemo.com Substack live at 3pm to talk about MMA and the right wing. It's a wild topic that tells us more about Trump than you might have thought! talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tpm-l...

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“For some it is actually scary." Federal workers impacted by DOGE cuts are selling their houses to get money, dropping out of pending home sales because of job loss, and depressing the DC housing market. Rich people in the burbs, on the other hand, are buying million $$ homes in cash

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I can't get over the jiu-jitsu stuff nut Markwayne Mullin has also told exaggerated stories about experiencing the "smell of war." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/markway...

VERY worthwhile

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

BREAKING: Workers at CBS are walking out. The unionized team that works CBS' streaming service are going on a 24 hour strike in New York and San Francisco. The walkout comes after negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded.

Despite the flurry of mostly bad affordability ideas thrown out by his administration, the President isn’t serious about lowering the cost of living and his agenda is making life more expensive. Spoke with @laylaayanna.bsky.social of @talkingpointsmemo.com: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

The Trump administration has been pumping out affordability proposals but the president's spaghetti-at-the-wall approach to U.S. economic policy reveals he himself still doesn’t think affordability is a real concern. Put another way: “He thinks he has a political problem but not a policy problem."