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A Few Day After the Election Thoughts
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few-day-after-the-election-thoughts
Published: November 5, 2025 17:53
The clearest read of what happened last night is that, as far as I can tell, Democrats won every race...
In First Chance For Voters to React to Trump II, All Kinds of Democrats Steamrolled Republicans
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/elections-trump-takeaways-democrats
Published: November 5, 2025 15:18
All kinds of Democrats won all kinds of races Tuesday night, as the party swept governors’ mansions, clinched the New...
Chasing the Dress Into the Viral Traffic Abyss
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/chasing-the-dress-into-the-viral-traffic-abyss
Published: November 5, 2025 14:25
Gawker Media’s Nolita office, where the blog conglomerate was located until the summer of 2015, was always dank and weird:...
What a Glorious Time for Criming in America
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/kash-patel-fbi-purges-jeanine-pirro
Published: November 5, 2025 14:13
The Purges: FBI Edition The MAGA feedback loop continues to decimate the senior career ranks of the FBI. A quick...
California Voters Approve Measure to Offset Damage of Trump’s Red-State Gerrymandering Blitz
Published: November 5, 2025 04:11
In the first substantial blow to the Trump administration’s redistricting power grab in red states across the country, California voters...
Voters Reject Republican Push for Voter ID and Restricted Vote by Mail in Maine
Published: November 5, 2025 03:06
On Tuesday, Maine voters rejected Question 1, a Republican-backed measure primarily about voter ID, that, if approved, would have restricted...
Zohran Mamdani Easily Wins the NYC Mayoral Race. What Comes Next?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/nyc-mayoral-zohran-mamdani-easily-wins-the-nyc-mayoral-race
Published: November 5, 2025 02:45
By electing Zohran Mamdani, New Yorkers have just launched one of the most high-profile experiments on the future of the...
DC Conventional Wisdom Goes Down to Defeat in State after State
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dc-conventional-wisdom-goes-down-to-defeat-in-state-after-state
Published: November 5, 2025 02:36
Elections are hard to predict. But even with that, some of the notional “surprises” we’re seeing tonight are less surprises...
Mikie Sherrill Demolishes Trump-Backed Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey Governor Race
Published: November 5, 2025 02:26
Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D) is projected to win a decisive victory against Jack Ciattarelli (R) in New Jersey’s race for...
Democrat Abigail Spanberger Cruises to Victory in Virginia Governor Race
Published: November 5, 2025 01:05
Democrat Abigail Spanberger is projected to become the next governor of Virginia, securing a resounding win for her party in...
Schumer Never Endorsed Mamdani
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/schumer-never-endorsed-mamdani
Published: November 4, 2025 23:09
Baffling Political Miscalculation It is now Election Day in New York, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) never endorsed...
Time Capsule: Our Dick Cheney Obituary … From 2012
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dick-cheney-obituary-1941-2025
Published: November 4, 2025 19:57
Editor’s Note: I mentioned in today’s Morning Memo that while TPM doesn’t do obituaries, we had for years a draft...
Trump Says He’ll Defy Court Order, Withhold SNAP Until Dems Drop Demands and Reopen Gov’t
Published: November 4, 2025 19:37
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday SNAP benefits will not go out to the nearly 42 million Americans who rely...
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we-lost-when-conde-nast-unceremoniously-shuttered-teen-vogue
Published: November 4, 2025 16:50
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. If you just skimmed the press release,...
Pam Bondi Waves Magic Wand to Solve Her Lindsey Halligan Problem
Published: November 4, 2025 15:23
Big Oops Energy In a remarkable filing in both the Jim Comey and Letitia James cases, Attorney General Pam Bondi...
Headlines About a Potential Senate Deal?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/headlines-about-a-potential-senate-deal
Published: November 4, 2025 14:06
The insider DC sheets this morning all have news of a coming deal to reopen the government. The outline of...
Traditional Media Never Took the Christian Right Seriously
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/traditional-media-never-took-the-christian-right-seriously
Published: November 4, 2025 14:00
Back in the early 2000s, when we were outraged by the excesses of authoritarian dilettantes George W. Bush and Dick...
Zohran Mamdani Congratulates Cuomo on Trump Endorsement
Published: November 3, 2025 23:34
Kiss of Death President Trump acknowledged during his “60 Minutes” interview that aired on Sunday that if he had to...
Feds Drop Case Against Man Accused of Injuring Greg Bovino’s Groin
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/feds-drop-case-against-man-accused-of-injuring-greg-bovinos-groin
Published: November 3, 2025 22:48
The man who federal agents accused of dealing Greg Bovino a groin injury from which the Border Patrol commander purportedly...
DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks
Published: November 3, 2025 21:50
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Making Sense of That Weird Detail in the Latest Polls
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/making-sense-of-that-weird-detail-in-the-latest-polls
Published: November 3, 2025 19:34
Tomorrow we’re going to get our first widespread read on what actual voters think of the Trump presidency. Of course,...
Trump Admin Tells Judge It’ll Disburse Half of SNAP Benefits for Eligible Households in November, With ‘Significant’ Delays
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/snap-50-percent-delays-november
Published: November 3, 2025 18:42
The Trump administration told a federal judge on Monday that it plans to use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)...
Big Win for Voting Rights as Judge Blocks Trump EO
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/big-win-for-voting-rights-as-judge-blocks-trump-eo
Published: November 3, 2025 15:00
‘The President Does Not Feature At All’ In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of D.C. permanently barred...
After 3-Day Trial, Trump Appointee Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Blocking Guard from Portland
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/three-day-trial-immergut-preliminary-injunction-guard-portland
Published: November 3, 2025 14:22
Judge Karin Immergut handed down a preliminary injunction late Sunday night, keeping the National Guard out of Portland. “Based on...
Early Bloggers Changed the Public’s Perception About the Iraq War
Published: November 3, 2025 13:59
War is an accelerant of change, not least in the media. In the last century, every major war has helped...
Rob Ford Was Back at the World Series
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekender/rob-ford-was-back-at-the-world-series
Published: November 1, 2025 12:00
Hello, it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️ This is a TPM deep cut. As some of you may...
White House Limits Media Access to West Wing Offices in Latest Indignity for the Trump Press Corps
Published: October 31, 2025 22:30
On Friday evening, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sent out a memo announcing a...
Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate …
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-wants-to-abolish-the-filibuster-please-proceed-degenerate
Published: October 31, 2025 17:05
As you’ve probably already heard, Donald Trump went on Truth Social late last night and announced that the time had...
A Hunger Cliff Is Days Away. Women, Children and Food Banks Will Feel It First.
Published: October 31, 2025 15:03
This story was originally reported by Barbara Rodriguez of The 19th. Meet Barbara and read more of their reporting on...
Trump-Appointed Judge Praises Suspended DOJ Prosecutors
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-appointed-judge-praises-suspended-doj-prosecutors
Published: October 31, 2025 14:27
Down The Memory Hole During the sentencing of a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant in an unrelated case, U.S. District Judge...
‘Biblical Justice’: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Published: October 31, 2025 14:12
This post first appeared at ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that...
Watching the Podcast Bubble Burst From the Inside
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/watching-the-podcast-bubble-burst-from-the-inside
Published: October 31, 2025 12:58
I started my first podcast in 2009. It wasn’t anything special, just a venue to practice documentary audio and force...
On Project 2025’s Recommendation, Trump Admin Targets New Census Initiative With Widespread Potential Impact
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-redistricting-census-spd-15-voting-rights-race
Published: October 31, 2025 11:30
Quyen Dinh didn’t even remember that, in 2024, she was selected as one of 23 appointees to the Census 2030...
One Amicus Brief May Have Given Supreme Court an Out in Chicago National Guard Case
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/amicus-brief-supreme-court-national-guard
Published: October 31, 2025 11:00
The Supreme Court is, apparently, reading its amicus briefs — and one of them may provide an offramp from immediately...
Portland Points to Random Use of Force by Fed Officers as It Fights Nat’l Guard Deployment
Published: October 30, 2025 22:28
Startling to Watch One figure has emerged repeatedly in the first two days of a trial over President Trump’s attempted...
The MAGA Disinfo Machine Takes New Aim at Jack Smith
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/jack-smith-arctic-frost-donald-trump
Published: October 30, 2025 14:45
The Retribution: Arctic Frost Edition Republicans on the Hill and right-wing media, in tandem with the Trump administration, are creating...
Anti-Vax Facebook Groups Ushered in Our Current MAHA Nightmare
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-vax-facebook-groups-ushered-in-our-current-maha-nightmare
Published: October 30, 2025 12:56
In 2007, Oprah Winfrey featured Jenny McCarthy, the former Playboy model turned anti-vaccine activist, on her show to talk about...
Federal Prosecutors Suspended for Not Using MAGA-Approved Verbiage to Describe Jan 6
Published: October 29, 2025 22:13
The Latest Whitewashing of Jan. 6 Since President Trump first came back to the White House, he has predictably taken...
Listen to This: The Book Tour From Hell
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/listen-to-this-the-book-tour-from-hell
Published: October 29, 2025 19:23
Kate and Josh discuss Trump’s lust for an eternal presidency, the redistricting wars and Karine Jean-Pierre’s disastrous book tour. You...
Is Trump’s Epic Middle East Peace Deal Falling Apart?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-trumps-epic-middle-east-peace-deal-falling-apart
Published: October 29, 2025 15:24
I still have some relative confidence that the Gaza ceasefire deal will make its way through the current flare-ups. That’s...
Judge Gives LA U.S. Attorney the Alina Habba Treatment
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/judge-disqualifies-los-angeles-u-s-attorney-bill-essayli
Published: October 29, 2025 14:48
Essayli Ruled Ineligible In what is now the third such ruling, a federal judge disqualified Bill Essayli as acting U.S....
Almost Gone!
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/almost-gone
Published: October 29, 2025 13:51
We’ve got about 20 tickets left for our 25th Anniversary Live Show next Thursday Nov. 6 at Metrograph in Manhattan....
Without Online Trolls, There Would Be No Donald Trump
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/without-online-trolls-there-would-be-no-donald-trump
Published: October 29, 2025 11:00
On July 8, something happened to Donald Trump that I’ve not seen happen in the entire decade he has dominated...
911 Audio Reveals Harrowing Chicago Escalation
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/911-audio-reveals-harrowing-chicago-escalation
Published: October 29, 2025 11:00
The Trump administration wants everyone to see what it’s doing in Chicago. The city is bearing the brunt of mass...
9th Circuit Vacates Trump Judges’ Ruling Allowing National Guard Troops To Deploy To Portland
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/9th-circuit-portland-vacate-rehear
Published: October 29, 2025 00:56
The full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals voted Tuesday night to vacate a panel’s decision allowing the National Guard to...
Trump Again Promises Greater Retribution Against Dem-Led US Cities on Global Stage
Published: October 28, 2025 22:00
President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to U.S. cities that are led by elected Democrats, under the guise of...
There Is No Democratic Future Without Supreme Court Reform
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/there-is-no-democratic-future-without-supreme-court-reform
Published: October 28, 2025 18:27
I’ve made versions of this argument here in the Editors’ Blog and on the podcast many times. But it’s critical...
The Administration’s Ghastly Game Plan For Savaging Abrego Garcia
Published: October 28, 2025 15:03
The Savagery Is The Point It’s difficult to convey the full scope of the Trump administration’s misdeeds in the case...
Responses on Mamdani and Those Rabbis #2
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/responses-on-mamdani-and-those-rabbis-2
Published: October 28, 2025 13:04
From TPM Reader AF … From my perch as a rabbi’s kid, a decently religious Jew, not an anti-Zionist, and...
Responses on Mamdani and Those Rabbis #1
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/responses-on-mamdani-and-those-rabbis-1
Published: October 28, 2025 13:04
Publishing two very different responses, first from TPM Reader JS … I bet you’re not surprised that I disagree about...
The Cabinet in My Apartment That Explains How Journalism Broke During COVID
Published: October 28, 2025 11:00
There’s a cabinet in my apartment that tells the story of how journalism broke during the pandemic. Vitamins, supplements, mushroom...