Josh Marshall

Josh Marshall

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Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.

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kind of agree. it's a totally outside the box approach

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Clyburn’s Daughter Will Have to Wait As Her Dad Decides to Run for 18th Term ‘We’ll Just See How Things Go’ A few days ago, Rep. Jim...

Sort of captures the state of generational politics in America today. How long does Jim Clyburn's daughter have to wait to inherit his seat? talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

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It took the White House about 8 days to get to: actually high gas prices are awesome.

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New White House line: actually high gas prices are good for America*.

(If you're in the oil business.)

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4 days ago

Watch this video.

This is the start of the MAGA Nuremberg tribunals.

We will put Nathan Cavanaugh on trial for breaking the law, and we will put him in prison for a long time. It’s the only way to prevent this from happening again and restore rule of law.

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2 days ago

TPM is a strange, special place to work. We're small and scrappy and built around some big personalities. We have a ton of editorial freedom and independence. Staff stick around. And we're lucky to have close relationships with our readers, many of whom have been reading the site since the 2000s.

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it really is amazing. if you've been a steady watcher of CNN for the last few decades you know all about this. even the most meager knowledge of the regional and the sea lanes and you know this

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Yeah. Even beyond simulations. Basically every crisis in the Gulf for the last 40 years has had a big starring role for the effect of one war to a conflict cutting off the gulf oil tanker transit at the strait of hormuz.

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The idea that the White House didn't figure Iran might try to cut off oil out of the Gulf is comical. They didn't figure for what has now become the fulcrum point of the whole conflict. Iran's leaders are now showing that regime change can work in both directions.

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2/ One cld go further to note that if yu're worried Iran wld use a nuclear weapon you should certainly worry that they'd use an infinitely less dangerous (to them) cudgel to apply pain to Washington, Europe, Asia which they can't hope to do with weapons.

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First this is a good piece. But this is hardly a "worst case scenario". Once you start a war with the goal of overthrowing the regime, it's almost a certainty. This is their best leverage. www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

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Trump Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict

Wow huge break for russia. so weird. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

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Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN Politics The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, accord...

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes, according to three sources familiar with the closed-door session."

How is this real life? AYFKM

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1 hour ago

Yeah, my sense on the evidence they've made public was they have to know they're going to lose here, but that guidance from above must say they have to see it thru. There are ICE cases they've lost where in a narrowly factual sense the charge was fairly strong andthey still lost. This seems weaker.

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Do Global Oil Markets Have Trump Derangement Syndrome? Donald Trump may have started his war with Iran with the aim...

Do Global Oil Markets Have Trump Derangement Syndrome? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/do-gl...

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3 hours ago

It at least seemed from those earlier revelations that the case is pretty thin and I feel like it will be very hard to impanel a jury symp to the govt/ICE. Is there any consensus among court watchers how likely this case is to go to trial?

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Interesting. Yes, I saw those earlier disclosures and what the govt said. I didn’t realize that there was a consensus that the case was weakest agst those two. So I went to the other still being active electorally.

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4 hours ago

2/ what stands out is that the others are all politicians or have active campaigns whereas the one woman is a performer and the other dropped her campaign over this. Am I missing something?

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Have all your tweets and the piece and others. Is there any clarity on why the charges were dropped in the case of these two? None of the reporting I’ve seen gives any sense that the evidence for these two made their cases weaker.

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7 hours ago

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Wow

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7 hours ago

Kate Riga bobblehead too, pls

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7 hours ago

I’ve wondered the same. A lot of these inputs are very hard to evaluate in traditional terms. How do you favor Trump saying war is over as often as tomorrow and saying it yesterday?

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TPM is one of my favorite subscriptions. Def recommend

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I’ve been a reader since the very hand coded html beginning. Worth it for the hilarious scandals uncovered over the years.

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Okay we may add that

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Do Global Oil Markets Have Trump Derangement Syndrome? Donald Trump may have started his war with Iran with the aim...

Do Global Oil Markets Have Trump Derangement Syndrome? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/do-gl...

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Borderline Personality Trump and the Uses of Press Myopia Every president wants favorable press coverage. Most feel a surprising level of...

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