Kash Patel confirms UFC fighters will train FBI agents this week, calling it a "historic opportunity'
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TPM's coverage has anticipated some of the biggest stories of the second Trump administration.
@joshkovensky.bsky.social predicted the occupation of blue cities, and was early to highlight Greg Bovino as the posterchild for Trump's immigration crackdown.
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This was clear from the jump, but the Venezuela invasion going as smoothly as it did, from a pure operational perspective, is going to prove catastrophic in the long run.
Pleased to speak with @joshkovensky.bsky.social for @talkingpointsmemo.com about Iran and war powers.
"The ultimate war power is the power of the purse."
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My latest at @talkingpointsmemo.com:
War With Iran? A Blood Moon on Purim? For Some Christian Influencers, That Can Mean Only One Thing: The End Times talkingpointsmemo.com/news/iran-bl...
The admin started off by saying the war would last a few days, then a few weeks, then four weeks. Now, Hegseth is saying eight weeks
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"There is scarcely even the pretence that it was compelled by evidence of an Iranian dash for a bomb or an imminent attack. Such claims do not survive scrutiny; they barely withstand repetition." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
Not enough being said about how little preemptive work the Trump admin put into getting Americans evacuated from countries near Iran. Only telling people on a long list of nearby countries to leave yesterday "via commercial means" when it was already too late to fly out?
Congressional candidate Brandon Herrera — also known as "the AK guy" — thanked Trump in an interview with TPM for clearing a path for him to make offensive jokes
Saw a bad argument yesterday from a Trump 1.0 Iran hawk that the 2001 AUMF authorizes the use of force against Iran.
Nope.
Amongst other things, the argument ignores verb tense and the stated purpose of the AUMF.
The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017-25 and the number of US billionaires jumped 50% to more than 900. Overall, the top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the GDP of the US and China combined. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
It's hard to read this 2024 campaign piece and not gag www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/u...
Read @kateriga.bsky.social on SCOTUS gutting the Voting Rights Act and the groups preparing for the day after
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“This is the eighth military intervention of Trump’s second term in office”
Imagine if we lived in a world where powerful media figures faced professional consequences for being badly wrong on important issues.
Under no circumstances do you "gotta hand it to" to the Bush admin. But they did still make a case for invading Iraq. Trump reneging on anything more than a video released in the middle of the night is a reminder of how contemptuous he and his admin are of the public
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It's still a mystery to me why anyone believed Trump's "no new wars" line. Wishful thinking is powerful, but his first-term record was enough to show that his rhetoric during the campaign was as opportunistic as anything else
In a statement, Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, accuses the Trump admin of peddling "misrepresented intelligence" to justify war with Iran
FBI Director cites NSPM-7 as enabling its crackdown on left-leaning activists.
Here's what went on at that Pentagon service yesterday: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/doug-wilso...
Wilson opened a DC outpost of his church in July; I was there for the first service, which Hegseth attended. He and his followers see Trump II as a generational opportunity to spread christian nationalism aggressively
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Doug Wilson, who once told me that he is trying to "get back to America in 1892," spoke at the Pentagon yesterday.
A few stories from the archive, including our scoop last year on when he first met Pete Hegseth
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
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A protester accused of being part of a Texas "antifa cell" was held in solitary confinement for three months.
“They went and poisoned everyone against the defendants before we ever even knew what was going on,” her sister told
@joshkovensky.bsky.social
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Defendants form a version of “antifa” that a prosecutor in the case described as an “anti-President Trump and anti-ICE movement,” but that experts warn tips dangerously toward an attempt to prosecute based on ideology. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/guilt-b...
