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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 52m
It can't be the case that whether we get democracy or fascism, the rule of law or authoritarianism, reform or systemic corruption rides on the result of each election. Yet, here we are.
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With Four Weeks to Go, Dems Are in the Driver’s Seat
In the Stretch Run … With voting coming to a close four...
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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
First there was "the negro problem." Now racists are trying to coin a new version: "the Indian question." one of endless examples of why solidarity among Black people and other people of color, along with any socially vulnerable group, would benefit everyone.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
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A Georgia Election Board employee has allegedly gone rogue and requested that the feds intervene in his state's election.
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Things Get Messy in Georgia After Election Board Director Writes Letter to Todd Blanche
Georgia Election Board Employee Allegedly Goes Rogue, Requests Federal Intervention Last week,...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 4h
Because of federal rules, children covered by Medicaid won't be able to access vaccines that are no longer recommended by the federal government, even as children with private insurance will.
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RFK Jr’s Relentless Anti-Vax Push Will Disproportionately Hurt Children on Medicaid
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already demonstrated his Department of Health and...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 03/10/2026
Candidate Quality
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Candidate Quality
The New York Times and Siena released another batch of polls this...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 03/10/2026
The Bizarre AI Ad Trying to Make an Extremist Candidate Look Like Jesus
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The Bizarre AI Ad Trying to Make an Extremist Candidate Look Like Jesus
[Essay] This election cycle is rife with “slopaganda” — that is, AI-generated “slop” used for political propaganda. In a fascinating recent piece in the…
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Joe Ragazzo @jragazzo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Finally, Toy Story 5 hit streaming recently. Jackie and I have thoughts. Anyway hope you like the ep! Like and subscribe to the YouTube channel!
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Joe Ragazzo @jragazzo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why were we talking about Disney? Jackie and I are both sort of interested observers of Disney's place in American culture. It's kind of a 1-of-1 institution. But there were some recent developments that form a kind of episode syllabus: First up, we discuss this www.sfgate.com/disneyland/a...
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The Disney adult is a made-up problem
Contributing editor Julie Tremaine on why it's time to drop a stigmatized term.
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Joe Ragazzo @jragazzo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This week @xjaywillie.bsky.social filled in for @joshkovensky.bsky.social and we talked about a little thing called Walt Disney. * Disney Adults * Bob Chapek v Bob Iger * Toy Story 5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB1n...
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Checking in On the House of Mouse | TPM Social Club
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
Josh Marshall: Given how much pent-up desire there was in the world of Big Tech to throw money at things that were manifestly silly, it's hardly surprising that they were willing to spend unimaginable sums once something turned up that actually seemed real.
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Remember the Metaverse? Tech’s Hunger for the Next Big Thing Long Predated AI
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
The shock budget cuts are just a continuation of a retaliation campaign by Pulte against internal watchdogs that’s been going on for a year.
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Bill Pulte Guts the IG Office That Investigated Him
Cuts Would Put IG Office Out of Business In a move that...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
Checking in On the House of Mouse
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Checking in On the House of Mouse
Josh is out on vacation and producer Jackie is subbing in! This...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
In 2024, Missouri voters approved a measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. Republican lawmakers are now trying to make Missouri the only state in the country whose constitution explicitly ~bans~ abortion.
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A State That Enshrined Abortion Into Its Constitution Is Now at Risk of Losing It
This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 02/10/2026
Rufo is truly one of the most evil people around, and there’s a lot of competition. I’m glad this article made sure to connect the dots to Nazi-era white supremacism. It’s about as blatant as one can get.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
Yet More …
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Yet More …
We’re seeing article after article now restating in slightly different ways the...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rufo's co-host is Jonathan Keeperman, who @jasonaw.bsky.social unmasked as "Lomez," a “key player and influential tastemaker in a burgeoning proto-fascist movement," who heads up Passage Press, which reprints out-of-print works by fascist authors talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rufo gets to position himself as "respectable." Polite sit-down interview w/ Ezra Klein. Celebrated by Substack as one of platform's "best" writers. Senior fellow at Manhattan Institute. His "Indian Question" podcast is pretty explicitly white nationalist talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't think this line got as much coverage as it should have.
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JD Vance Says Black, Socialist Candidate for Senate Doesn’t ‘Belong in America’
A New Chapter in Vance’s Effort to Police Who’s American JD Vance...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In her response, Angie Nixon referred to Vance as "the most ordinary man imaginable." talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/jd...
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JD Vance Says Black, Socialist Candidate for Senate Doesn’t ‘Belong in America’
A New Chapter in Vance’s Effort to Police Who’s American JD Vance...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
JD Vance said Angie Nixon doesn't "belong in America" during speech in Florida to bail out Ashley Moody and Byron Donalds.
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JD Vance Says Black, Socialist Candidate for Senate Doesn’t ‘Belong in America’
A New Chapter in Vance’s Effort to Police Who’s American JD Vance...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
Rufo often gets treated as a "respectable" conservative. His latest podcast episode — framing Indian-Americans as a problem in need of solving — is more evidence that he shouldn't be.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
Bain Capital Brainstorms Where The AI Revenue’s Gonna Come From
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Bain Capital Brainstorms Where The AI Revenue’s Gonna Come From
A friend sent me this new Bain Capital study on the growth...
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But this trend of Trump inserting himself into the midterms — and Republicans stumbling as they alternately embrace the administration’s failing policies and distance themselves dramatically from the unpopular president — has been a rare moment of levity in our current hellscape.
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Calls for Investigations Into Trump’s Narcissistic Midterm Ads Pile Up
‘Nearly Every Claim Uttered in These Ads Is False’ Rep. Jamie Raskin...
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Raskin joined other Dems in demanding investigations into Trump's narcissistic taxpayer funded midterms ad blitz in a letter to the GAO & OSC. He suggests several federal statutes may have been violated in the creation of the ads & also fact checks them lol talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
Raskin and Whitesides sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) on Tuesday to look into the reported shuffling of funds.
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Calls for Investigations Into Trump’s Narcissistic Midterm Ads Pile Up
‘Nearly Every Claim Uttered in These Ads Is False’ Rep. Jamie Raskin...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
What Hoskins did was not Trumpian fire and brimstone, bellowing about the criminality of Democrats and immigrants to try to overturn elections. It’s the unsexy, quietly effective cheating made possible by placing party loyalists in key bureaucratic positions.
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Old-School Republicans Are Responsible for Trump’s Attempts to End American Democracy 
Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise The Missouri gerrymandering fight felt...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
Attorney General Todd Blanche signaled yesterday that not only will the Trump administration continue to run roughshod over the judicial branch but that judges had better shut up about it.
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Trump DOJ Doubles Down on Attacking Judges
Blanche targets Minnesota judges Under the pretext of an ethics complaint against...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
The GOP ran for decades on attacking the nuts and bolts of governance. There is no such set of priors or rhetorical commitment from Democrats.
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Why All the Handwringing About a ‘Tea Party of the Left’ Was So Misguided
This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. As...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
In order to execute their illegal pocket rescission scheme, the Trump White House is breaking federal laws, “openly saying that they did illegal activities to get here,” experts tell TPM.
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Russ Vought Insists He Has a Neat Trick to Override Congress. It’s More ‘a Confession,’ Experts Say
Following a failed bid by Senate Democrats to block it, President Donald...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) gave the green light to Russ Vought's latest effort to seize Congress' power of the purse, saying that all government spending should be reduced.
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Republican Senator Greenlights Russ Vought’s Latest Impoundment
A Republican Gives a Thumbs Up to White House Effort to Seize...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
Rusty Republicans and Ruthless Democrats
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Rusty Republicans and Ruthless Democrats
Kate and Josh talk September surprises for some Republican incumbents, SCOTUS’ return...
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
TPM's @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social was up on the Hill this afternoon as senators headed in to vote on the bill. She caught Sens. Murphy & Warner, who each slammed the measure and the GOP’s last-minute attempts to do clean up on its past support for accelerated nationwide AI development. More here:
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Dems Block Data Center Bill Designed to Boost Husted’s Campaign: ‘A Proxy for Corruption’
‘They Are the Party of Data Centers’ Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) has...
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) has some major data center skeletons in his closet from his time as lieutenant governor of Ohio.
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Dems Block Data Center Bill Designed to Boost Husted’s Campaign: ‘A Proxy for Corruption’
‘They Are the Party of Data Centers’ Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) has...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
The bill would have merely *encouraged* our nation's Big Tech oligarchs to cover the cost of rising utility expenses tied to data centers and AI model training.
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Dems Block Data Center Bill Designed to Boost Husted’s Campaign: ‘A Proxy for Corruption’
‘They Are the Party of Data Centers’ Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) has...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
An IRS proposal to add a citizenship and work authorization question to a crucial tax form coincides with Census Bureau efforts that would use tax information to exclude most immigrants from the 10-year population count.
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New IRS Citizenship Question Could Make It Easier for Census Bureau to Shift Political Power
A proposed change to a key tax form could help the Trump...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
Josh Marshall: A lot of these bright red states have gone a pretty long time without a seriously contested partisan election, and it shows. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rusty...
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Rusty Red State Candidates With Rusty Values
This afternoon I saw an ad being run by a SuperPAC supporting...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
The proposed bill would also prevent the president from attempting to use a pocket rescission in the future.
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Senate Dems Will Attempt to Stop Trump White House’s Latest Illegal Pocket Rescission 
Senate Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senate Budget Committee...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
Doubts About the AI Boom Are Seeping Into Elite Headlines
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Doubts About the AI Boom Are Seeping Into Elite Headlines
In my recent writing about LLMs and AI, I’ve mainly focused on...
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And I think he's right. People are repulsed by the regime. I'll also note that white evangelicals are some of the biggest supporters of Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown, so I get Talarico's strategy here. See: talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/homan-s...
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Homan Stumps for Georgia GOPers by Promoting ICE Brutality in Speech to Evangelicals
In Church, Merch, and State, Sarah Posner writes about the intersection of religion and...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt just kept doubling down on his Jack Smith conspiracy even after that painful moment in the hearing. Now, we have concrete evidence he misunderstood his own evidence. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We've uncovered some definitive proof Eric Schmitt's supposedly blockbuster texts were not about an Atlanta Hawks game. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-evi...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
Yesterday's developments in three important Trump II cases are datapoints in favor of a tentative working theory that appeals courts are slowly coming around to the urgency of the current moment.
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Appeals Courts Slowly Awaken to Trump II Threat
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back In the defining legal struggle of...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There was no “109 Row 1” at the Atlanta Hawks game Senator Eric Schmitt was fixated on today talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
5 Points About a Senator’s Disastrous But Hilarious Attempt to Accuse Jack Smith of Perjury talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/5-...
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5 Points About a Senator’s Disastrous But Hilarious Attempt to Accuse Jack Smith of Perjury
By now, I assume you’ve read about what happened. Maybe you’ve seen...
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If a claim doesn’t implode quite as spectacularly as this one did, it’s easy enough for the right-wing influencers who promote it to brazen it out for audiences who may never make contact with reality. Initially, that seemed to be the plan.
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5 Points About a Senator’s Disastrous But Hilarious Attempt to Accuse Jack Smith of Perjury
By now, I assume you’ve read about what happened. Maybe you’ve seen...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
They’re campaigning on keeping them out of sports, even in states where trans students have been blocked from competition for years.
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Republicans Can’t Stop Talking About Banning Trans Athletes
This story was originally reported by Brooke Migdon of The 19th. Meet...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
Schmitt's staff may have set their boss up for a big day around his big moment. But, to echo another famous conspiracy theorist, the intel on this wasn't 100%.
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5 Points About a Senator’s Disastrous But Hilarious Attempt to Accuse Jack Smith of Perjury
By now, I assume you’ve read about what happened. Maybe you’ve seen...
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congress’ top Democratic appropriators demanded answers from the Department of Homeland Security and threatened investigations Tuesday as more details of the egregious shuffling of taxpayer dollars surfaced.
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Dems Vow to Investigate Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Midterms Ads Promoting Himself
‘Shockingly Corrupt’ PSAs House and Senate Democratic appropriators are unleashing on the...
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