Josh Marshall
Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
- Feral House GOPer Chuck Edwards whacked a conference attendee with a binder at Rotary Club event in Asheville, say witnesses talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rep-chu...
- wow, wonder who was president when no one was flying during covid?
- I'm confused why anyone would think Elon Musk is "off the hook" for his campaign of criminal conduct just because he's "stepped back" from 5 days a week to 2 days. Weird.
- So whatever happens it will be important to remember that Trump tried to take a half billion dollar bribe in the form of a blinged out pimpmobile 747 from the princes who fund Hamas.
- I think there's some tendency among Dems to say well we don't want to make it harder for him to retreat from these terrible policies. But that's silly. Every Dem shld be saying nonstop that Trump blinked and is getting nothing for lighting the US economy on fire.
- Putting Blanche in charge as an acting maybe be too illegal even for some federal judges. I think the vacancies act is explicitly and solely for executive branch? Library of Congress isn't in the executive branch. You can see it right there in the name.
- i find this statement very credible
- The Trump superfan showcased as one of the first Afrikaner refugees from anti-white racism in South Africa.
- Okay, so in huge victory the likes of which has never been seen before Trump puts back on the ground the rake he stepped on four weeks ago. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/12/u...
- this is an extremely good point. as is so often the case the American right is recapitulating and realizing its own conspiracy theories only on its own behalf. They're literally importing people who are already overt Trump superfans in their country of origin.