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

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

"Sir, Seal Team Six has neutralized the Nobel Prize Committee"

Marco Rubio whispers into Trump's ears

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6h

2/ Good lord, people. All those people saying, “But how can we trust him??” Whah!!! Have some self respect. When someone makes a threat and then says never mind a couple days later that’s a fail. Doesn’t matter what else happens. Did Trump issue an EO that ever has to have their head up their ass?

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6h

2/ Good lord, people. All those people saying, “But how can we trust him??” Whah!!! Have some self respect. When someone makes a threat and then says never mind a couple days later that’s a fail. Doesn’t matter what else happens. Did Trump issue an EO that ever has to have their head up their ass?

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6h

2/ Good lord, people. All those people saying, “But how can we trust him??” Whah!!! Have some self respect. When someone makes a threat and then says never mind a couple days later that’s a fail. Doesn’t matter what else happens. Did Trump issue an EO that ever has to have their head up their ass?

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6h

2/ Good lord, people. All those people saying, “But how can we trust him??” Whah!!! Have some self respect. When someone makes a threat and then says never mind a couple days later that’s a fail. Doesn’t matter what else happens. Did Trump issue an EO that ever has to have their head up their ass?

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6h

2/ Good lord, people. All those people saying, “But how can we trust him??” Whah!!! Have some self respect. When someone makes a threat and then says never mind a couple days later that’s a fail. Doesn’t matter what else happens. Did Trump issue an EO that ever has to have their head up their ass?

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6h

2/ Good lord, people. All those people saying, “But how can we trust him??” Whah!!! Have some self respect. When someone makes a threat and then says never mind a couple days later that’s a fail. Doesn’t matter what else happens. Did Trump issue an EO that ever has to have their head up their ass?

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

This is honestly the stupidest comment

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6h

2/ Good lord, people. All those people saying, “But how can we trust him??” Whah!!! Have some self respect. When someone makes a threat and then says never mind a couple days later that’s a fail. Doesn’t matter what else happens. Did Trump issue an EO that ever has to have their head up their ass?

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11h

Second threat walked back after a couple days.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

Isn't this one of the teaching examples in the MAGA/Tate pick up artist manual?

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14h

There are certain hypotheticals you simply never get to test out. This seems to be an exception. How will a judge and later a jury treat an indictment if you had to fire multiple prosecutors before you could find someone to bring an indictment. I guess we'll find out! www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated Trump in court, indicted by Justice Department | CNN Politics

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted in federal court on Thursday as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department continues to pursue charges against his political opponents, two source...

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 11h

The less elite nepotism we have in politics associated or adjacent to Democratic politics the better. #MEPolitics

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11h

Spotted: Angus King introducing Ron Wyden to his son Angus King III, who is running for Governor

Angus King, an old white man with a moustache, standing next to Angus King III, a younger white man in a black suit, next to Ron Wyden, an older white man in a charcoal blazer

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

There’s a reason academics universally rejected the initial push to canonize Charlie Kirk as a saint devoted to free speech.

We know all too well that’s the exact opposite of reality.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 11h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 12h

👀A Rutgers professor who teaches an anti-fascism class was blocked from leaving the US hours > Trump’s “Antifa” roundtable w/ Jack Posobiec who has called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor.” TPUSA at Rutgers has called him an “antifa member,” a claim he denies. He’s received death threats. 1/

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11h

Second threat walked back after a couple days.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12h

Not just pregnant but after she put her baby in her placenta for the day

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12h

Get the Tylenol monkey off your back

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12h

Trump is either supersizing Obamacare or cutting it, depending on which time of day you ask him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "We'll be making cuts that will be permanent. And we're only going to cut Democrat programs. I hate to tell you."

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12h

We’re doing studies to prove it (* not how studies work)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12h

She mainlined Tylenol because of Trump derangement syndrome. I saw it too. It’s definitely true.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14h

unified executive drake

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 14h

Drake’s lawsuit against UMG over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us" has been dismissed

"The Court concludes that the allegedly defamatory statements in ‘Not Like Us’ are nonactionable opinion, the motion to dismiss is granted”

They also noted that the song had a ‘catchy beat and propulsive baseline’

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14h

who knows on the specifics. But GJ is not an adversary process. Only the prosecutor is there. If they say something misleading there's no one there to give a different view. Also doesn't need to be unanimous. If the prosecutor is stacking the deck it's pretty easy.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14h

There are certain hypotheticals you simply never get to test out. This seems to be an exception. How will a judge and later a jury treat an indictment if you had to fire multiple prosecutors before you could find someone to bring an indictment. I guess we'll find out! www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated Trump in court, indicted by Justice Department | CNN Politics

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted in federal court on Thursday as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department continues to pursue charges against his political opponents, two source...