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Pam Bondi Is Out: Catch the latest on The Josh Marshall Podcast
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What Trump Might See in Lee Zeldin This is your TPM evening briefing.

Zeldin demonstrated early on in Trump’s second term that he was willing to use his post at the EPA to do Trump’s retribution work, whether it made sense or not. I unpack that here:

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What Trump Might See in Lee Zeldin This is your TPM evening briefing.

Trump’s interest in tapping the EPA head to replace Bondi may be rooted in more than comradery, if reports about the reason for Bondi’s firing are true — that she wasn’t taking enough successful strides in Trump’s political revenge death march.

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What Trump Might See in Lee Zeldin President Trump fired Pam Bondi as attorney general on Thursday, just hours...

Zeldin demonstrated early on in Trump's second term that he was willing to use his post at the EPA to do Trump's retribution work, whether it made sense or not.

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What the Difference Between Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories Tells Us About American History—and About Now On March 24, the Paris-based offices of Swiss bank Edmond de Rothschild...

Really enjoyed reading this @rothschildmd.bsky.social piece, walking us through decades of American conspiracy theory history to explain the difference between a "conspiracy theory," a "conspiracy," and some popular myths that are neither.

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Trump: Bring Iran ‘Back to the Stone Ages Where They Belong’ The Racism Is Front and Center Every single day of the Trump...

Every single day of the Trump II presidency is another display of performative racism, but today’s news — punctuated by last night’s address on the Iran War — is especially saturated with the casual white nationalism that has come to define the Trump era.

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Dems Immediately Sue to Block Trump’s Ominous New ‘Citizenship List’ Executive Order Welcome back to The Franchise! I (Nicole LaFond) am tag-teaming this week’s...

Dems Immediately Sue to Block Trump’s Ominous New ‘Citizenship List’ Executive Order talkingpointsmemo.com/the-franchis...

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Always Stuck in the 1950s, Trump Courts His Own Suez Iran said today that after the war with the US and Israel...

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Trump’s Word Is Not His Bondi Kate and Josh talk Pam Bondi’s ouster, Trump’s Iran stemwinder and the...

Kate and Josh talk Pam Bondi's ouster, Trump's Iran stemwinder and the birthright citizenship oral arguments on the latest episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast, out now!

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Always Stuck in the 1950s, Trump Courts His Own Suez Iran said today that after the war with the US and Israel...

Always Stuck in the 1950s, Trump Courts His Own Suez

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Dems Immediately Sue to Block Trump’s Ominous New ‘Citizenship List’ Executive Order Welcome back to The Franchise! I (Nicole LaFond) am tag-teaming this week’s...

Dem leaders have sued to block Trump’s attempt to pare back mail-in voting ahead of the midterms, arguing the orders are unconstitutional and an attempted power grab over states’ rights to administer their own elections.

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We’ve Only Got a Handful of Tickets Left for Our Austin Show In less than a week, the TPM team is heading down to...

In less than a week, the TPM team is heading down to Austin to hang with our Texas readers and friends at the Observer. If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, now is the time!

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What the Difference Between Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories Tells Us About American History—and About Now On March 24, the Paris-based offices of Swiss bank Edmond de Rothschild...

NEW: In my column for @talkingpointsmemo.com, I unpack some of the basics of what a conspiracy theory is and is not, where the term came from (spoiler: not the CIA), and why people find comfort in someone telling them who the enemy is.

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Schrödinger’s Attorney General News is breaking now that Trump has ousted Pam Bondi from her...

Schrödinger’s Attorney General

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Trump: Bring Iran ‘Back to the Stone Ages Where They Belong’ The Racism Is Front and Center Every single day of the Trump...

"Morning Memo is just one part of TPM's commitment to chronicling the depredations of the Trump II presidency: We bear witness, we uncover new facts, we speak truth to power, we refuse to be cowed or to distort or to retreat. Your support makes it all possible"

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@davidkurtz.bsky.social : Independent journalism is an "indispensable redoubt right now against Trump's authoritarian push to cow corporate media, silence dissent, bury facts, distort data, + undermine knowledge itself."

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Trump: Bring Iran ‘Back To The Stone Ages Where They Belong’ The Racism Is Front and Center Every single day of the Trump...

Every single day of the Trump II presidency is another display of performative racism, but today's news — punctuated by last night's address on the Iran War — is especially saturated with the casual white nationalism that has come to define the Trump era.

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TPM Live: Please Explain What the Hell Congress is Doing Airports in chaos, Senate Republicans caving to Senate Democrats, House Republicans caving...

TPM Live: Please Explain What the Hell Congress is Doing

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Donald Trump on April Fool’s Day There were two revealing moments during Donald Trump’s speech to the nation...

Donald Trump on April Fool’s Day

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Next Day Trump Speech Re-Reax I want to reiterate all the points I made about Trump’s speech...

Next Day Trump Speech Re-Reax

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What the Difference Between Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories Tells Us About American History—and About Now On March 24, the Paris-based offices of Swiss bank Edmond de Rothschild...

Unlike in conspiracy theories where citizen journalists reveal the truth only to be called crazy by the establishment, the conspirators in real plots usually get away with it.

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Trump Mini-Speech I think any press person who watched President Trump’s Iran cheer-up session...

Trump Mini-Speech

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As Trump Struggles to Carry Out His Voter Suppression Goals, DeSantis Picks Up the Slack This is your TPM evening briefing.

The Florida governor is one of a handful of red state leaders who has stepped up to demonstrate his own ability to disenfranchise wide swaths of voters.

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As Trump Struggles to Carry Out His Voter Suppression Goals, DeSantis Picks Up the Slack Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping new voter suppression bill...

Florida is just one of several red states that are picking up the voter suppression slack while Congress figures out how to pass the SAVE America Act.

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Nativists Loom Over SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Arguments The hard right has long wanted to end birthright citizenship in the...

The Trump admin brought nativist, white supremacist arguments to its fight to end birthright citizenship.

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Republicans Don’t Actually Have to Make Social Safety Net Cuts Again In Emine Yücel’s newly published piece about Republicans struggles to pass a...

Republicans Don’t Actually Have to Make Social Safety Net Cuts Again

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Justices Express Skepticism over Birthright Citizenship Case They Never Should Have Taken in The First Place The conservative justices on Wednesday were, at times, appropriately skeptical of the...

The conservative justices were on Wednesday, at times, appropriately skeptical of the Trump administration’s patched-together attempt to undermine birthright citizenship, a bedrock of American life for well over a century.

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Justices Express Skepticism over Birthright Citizenship Case They Never Should Have Taken in The First Place The conservative justices on Wednesday were, at times, appropriately skeptical of the...

let's not give them too much credit here talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

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A Few Timely Thoughts on Birthright Citizenship I wanted to share a few thoughts on questions that are adjacent...

Josh Marshall: "Quite apart from the constitutional and civic merits the whole fabric of U.S. citizenship falls apart without the anchor of birthright citizenship."

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I'm really excited about this. I'll be writing for TPM about conspiracy theories, their role in modern politics and culture, and what we can do about it.

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