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Cold Open

A bubbling conventional wisdom has been taking shape in the recent weeks that might best be stated as a question: what happened to all the Republican… → Read More

Unanswered Questions

TPM Reader EG notes a post from our friend Barry Ritholtz in which he notes ten questions or current unknowns about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. You can find them here on this page. → Read More

Rough Verdict

One of our TPM Readers had a good sum-up of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the implosion of which started in Silicon Valley, literally and figuratively, but likely won't end there. It' → Read More

The Tucker Carlson Origin Story: Beyond the Fish Sticks

I mentioned last week that there is this ironic backstory to Tucker Carlson. Even as he is today daily exposed in the non-Fox/Trump bubble universe as the… → Read More

Tucker Carlson and No Crying in Baseball

I understand that people are outraged by the Tucker Carlson/Kevin McCarthy video stunt. It's natural and understandable to react negatively and angrily to liars… → Read More

Readers on the “Lab Leak Theory” #7

From TPM Reader NB … I wanted to comment with a slightly different perspective on your recent discussion of the “lab leak” theory of the origins of COVID: The FBI is terrible at molecular bioscience. → Read More

The Deep Archeology of Fox News

The evidence emerging from the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News has the quality of liberal fever dreams. What's the worst you can possibly imagine about Fox? → Read More

Outside the Bubble

At a conference today in New Delhi, Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, even now the smiley face of the Russian state, was discussing the Ukraine war as the… → Read More

Readers on the “Lab Leak Theory” #5

From TPM Reader AS … I am a neurobiologist PhD, not a virologist, but I may be able to provide some perspective on what is spilling into your inbox. → Read More

Readers on the “Lab Leak Theory” #2

From TPM Reader SM … I’m a physician and clinical researcher. Viruses are not my specific area, but I have some interest in them and their origins. I am a bit… → Read More

Readers on the “Lab Leak Theory” #1

From TPM Reader KR … The two studies, published last year in Science, are highly technical but Dr. Steve Novella breaks down at Science Based Medicine. → Read More

Department of Drag

Shortly after announcing he will sign a drag show banning bill Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is confronted with a high school picture showing him dressed as a woman. → Read More

We’ve Seen This Movie Before

Lots of headlines this evening that FBI Director Christopher Wray says the FBI also believes COVID originated in a leak from a Chinese lab. As I' → Read More

Top GOPer Upset Beau Biden Wasn’t Indicted Either

Chatting with Fox Business's Lou Dobbs, chief Republican investigator Rep. James Comer (R-KY) got so frustrated that Trump DOJ appointee David Weiss hasn' → Read More

Ignore the Noise. It’s Still Trump’s Nomination to Lose

Every day we see more evidence that Donald Trump has jumped the shark – poor fundraising, deteriorating elite GOP support, mounting criminal legal peril and… → Read More

More on the DC Elite’s Latest Biden White House Shiny Object

As a follow-up to the that ludicrous Times op-ed yesterday about an open primary for vice president, TPM Reader JS shares some thoughts … I was never a Kamala… → Read More

Murdoch Passed Confidential Biden Info To Kushner

There's lots of coverage, quite properly, of Rupert Murdoch's admitting that he knew from the beginning that all the Big Lie claims were bogus while allowing… → Read More

Does This “Bipartisan” Group Include No Democrats?

I am very curious about this. Semafor's Joseph Zeballos-Roig reports that what the article calls a "bipartisan group of Senators" is working a plan for various… → Read More

Greg Craig’s Hopelessly, Inexplicably, Unbelievably Stupid OpEd in the Times

Greg Craig, impeachment lawyer for Bill Clinton and briefly the White House Counsel for Barack Obama, has fallen a lot in standing among Democrats over the last decade. But there' → Read More

Does It Matter What AI ‘Knows’?

I haven't published so many reader replies in a while. But I'm doing so in this case because I find them very interesting and think some of you will too. But there's a bit more than that. → Read More