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Pentagon Threatened Pope After He Criticized Trump
2+ hour, 22+ min ago (682+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. In January, a senior Pentagon official summoned the Vatican's ambassador to the United States and issued a stunning threat, The Free Press reported this…...
How RFK's War on Fluoride Is Taking Over the Dentist's Office
4+ hour, 28+ min ago (622+ words) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has maintained that the target of his war on fluoride is ingested fluoride " specifically that from fluoridated drinking water and oral supplements. But the misinformed policy efforts to ban community water fluoridation and…...
Open" Is in the Eye of the Beholder
21+ hour, 8+ min ago (208+ words) One of Trump's Truthed conditions for a ceasefire was the "SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz." The White House appeared ready to declare that condition met. But even this morning, before reports emerged that Iran was once again closing…...
Even Republicans on House Oversight Panel Insist on Testimony from Fired AG Bondi
18+ hour, 24+ min ago (690+ words) It appears as though members of the House Oversight Committee, including some Republicans, are not going to let ousted Attorney General Pam Bondi get away with skipping her deposition now that she is no longer attorney general. The DOJ reportedly…...
New Labor Department Rule is Trump's Latest Favor to the Crypto Industry
21+ hour, 3+ min ago (826+ words) The U. S. Department of Labor has proposed a rule designed to make it harder to sue retirement plan fiduciaries that invest in risky, more volatile assets. The rule is also President Donald Trump's administration's latest giveaway to the Trump family's favorite…...
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1+ day, 2+ hour ago (16+ words) Declaring Victory and Walking Away Can't Conceal the Scale of Trump's Folly'Talking Points Memo...
Trump Wants to Build Massive New Detention Centers. States Are Blocking Their Construction.
23+ hour, 11+ min ago (204+ words) This article is part of'TPM Cafe,'TPM's home for opinion and news analysis. But while Washington absorbs the daily torrent of executive orders, social media provocations, and congressional paralysis, something significant is happening at a different level of American government....
Dem-Backed Judge Will Win Wisconsin Supreme Court, Expanding Its Liberal Majority
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (201+ words) Unlike similar Wisconsin court elections in 2023 and 2025, this month's race did not have the power to determine the court's majority, as the outcome of those previous races cemented a liberal majority until 2028." In 2023, after voters elected Democratic-backed Justice Janet Protasiewicz,…...
Abrego Garcia Case Goes Off the Rails Yet Again
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (645+ words) In retrospect, it's clear that U. S. District Judge Paula Xinis of Maryland came in to the conference call already annoyed with the Trump administration for trying to bum-rush her into making a quick decision on removing Abrego Garcia to Liberia, and…...
Tactical Victories, Strategic Calamities'Another Day in Trump's Iran War
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (258+ words) Talking Points Memo Tactical Victories, Strategic Calamities'Another Day in Trump's Iran War Here are a few additional thoughts about the state of the war between the U. S. (and Israel) and Iran. First, we had news from Reuters over the weekend that…...