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ICE Takes on New Role in Suppressing Online Dissent Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. This story has been percolating in local media since last month — credit to Syracuse.com, which appears to be the lead dog on this story — but it just hit the national radar over the last 24 hours or so.
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It Doesn’t Have to be Like This Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Many thanks to the eminently capable Sarah Posner for standing in for me here the past two weeks while I was on vacation in Copenhagen. You outdid yourselves with recommendations, tips, and dos/donts for Copenhagen and the surrounding area. Copenhagen’s food scene remains vibrant, and we ate extremely well, but thanks to you, we landed in some gems we otherwise would not have encountered.
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Trump’s Iran ‘Deal’ Doesn’t Measure Up To Obama’s and He Knows It Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Amid all the justified criticism of his flimsy deal to end his reckless and unlawful war against Iran, nothing seems to get under President Trump’s skin quite like unfavorable comparisons to President Obama’s deal on Iran’s nuclear program. Trump famously pulled the plug on the JCPOA in one of the worst disasters of his first term, so the comparison is more than apt.
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Thailand vill locka färre men mer lönsamma turister

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By David Kurtz Verified
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Thailand vill öka turismens värde snarare än antalet besökare. Det var huvudbudskapet när Thailand Travel Mart Plus (TTM+) 2026 samlade den internationella reseindustrin i Chonburi den 10–12 juni. Under temat ”Healing is the New Luxury” presenterade Thailand en strategi med fokus på välmående, hållbarhet och upplevelsebaserat resande. Mässan samlade 429 internationella köpare, 428 thailändska utställare och fler än 60 internationella medier. Totalt genomfördes över 15 400 förbokade affärsmöten.
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Broadview Six Seek Special Counsel to Probe Trump DOJ Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. In a flurry of new filings overnight, attorneys for the Broadview Six continued to press their advantage in seeking a full accounting for the Trump DOJ’s misconduct and subsequent alleged cover-up in the now-dismissed case against ICE protesters.
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Trump Ballroom Costs Balloon and Taxpayers Foot Half the Bill Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. President Trump’s oft-repeated claims that no public monies will be involved in his vanity ballroom project appear to be untrue, according to a new Washington Post report that also reveals the cost of the project has ballooned. The newspaper obtained copies of detailed project summaries prepared for the White House by its contractor, Virginia-based Clark Construction.
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Now’s the Time to Prepare for the Great Post-Trump Renewal

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. In typically shitty Trump fashion, he mounted a late bid to fight the removal of his name from D.C.’s Kennedy Center, blew the court-ordered deadline Friday for taking it down, and mostly shielded his loss from public view with a tarp. But before the new deadline of noon Saturday, the center notified the court that the work was completed.
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Now’s the Time to Prepare for the Great Post-Trump Renewal

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Yahoo Verified
David Kurtz Mon, June 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM UTC 7 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trump's name was removed from D.C.'s Kennedy Center after a court-ordered deadline was missed, marking the first step in a long process to erase his influence from American public life. Federal courts have been slow to confront Trump's rapid actions, with judges now questioning their own decisions that allowed his administration to move forward with projects.
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TPM Live: David Kurtz and Chris Geidner on the Trump Admin’s Anti-Trans Crusade

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By David Kurtz Verified, Chris Geidner
| Talking Points Memo Verified
The Trump administration’s unrelenting anti-trans crusade has many familiar Trump II elements: performative cruelty; using the powers of the state to bully a vulnerable, marginalized, disfavored group; and outrageous misconduct in pursuit of poisonous policy objectives. I was joined by Chris Geidner, publisher of the Law Dork newsletter and the leading American journalist covering these issues, to talk about this sweeping assault on transgender Americans. Available for iOS and Android
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Judge Blocks Anti-Weaponization Slush Fund Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA — In a major blow to President Trump’s anti-weaponization slush fund, a federal judge in Virginia issued a preliminary injunction blocking the fund. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema gave the administration a week to file a declaration, under penalty of perjury, that the fund is not going forward. Brinkema issued her ruling from the bench after a brief Friday hearing in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria.
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Trump DOJ Hit With a Wild Series of Bench Slaps Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. The judicial branch’s response to the Trump rampage has been slow but as The Atlantic’s Quinta Jurecic suggests, there are signs that it’s gathering steam. The more judges that dispense with the government’s presumption of regularity, the wider the door opens to investigating irregularities.
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The Broadview Six Fallout Spreads to Other Cases Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. The prosecutorial misconduct with the grand jury in the Broadview Six case is threatening otherwise unrelated cases handled by the same prosecutor, Sheri Mecklenburg.
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David Kurtz goes live after hearing to block Trump's slush fund

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By David Kurtz Verified, John Light Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
The essential political news roundup from David Kurtz and the team at TPM. The essential political news roundup from David Kurtz and the team at TPM.
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LIVE: Judge Declines to Block Trump Slush Fund

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
I was just in DC federal court, where Judge Richard Leon declined to block President Trump’s $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” — but in a way that might actually have some teeth. I’ll be live on Substack at 6 p.m. ET to talk about what went down and why it might be a pyrrhic victory for the administration. See you there.
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What the Broadview Six Case Reveals About the Corrupt Trump DOJ Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Shortly after the 2024 election, I offered a framework for making sense of the coming chaos, dividing Trump’s transgressions among what I called the three horsemen of the Trump II apocalypse: retribution, corruption, and destruction. That has proven in the subsequent months to be a durable framework, not perfect, but generally reliable.
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The Most Important Nomination the Senate Has Ever Considered Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. By formally nominating Todd Blanche as attorney general, President Trump set the stage for a late summer tableau in which Republican senators — in the midst of a midterm election — will be asked to ratify the unprecedented corruption of the DOJ by the Trump White House. It fits a pattern of the Trump II presidency: move quickly, break things, and then get the compliant GOP Congress to paper it over later.
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DOJ to Courts: Don’t You Dare Touch the Already-Dead Slush Fund Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. A big week ahead for the “anti-weaponization” slush fund that President Trump and his Justice Department insist is dead. In similar filings on Friday in two of the cases challenging the “anti-weaponization” slush fund, the Trump DOJ finally put in writing what acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had refused to do: commit that the slush fund is now dead.
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Senate GOP Gives Trump Green Light on Slush Fund Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. In an early morning vote, the GOP-controlled Senate passed the reconciliation bill funding immigration enforcement — but without any language in it barring President Trump’s $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund. Hours earlier in the marathon session, Republicans had defeated an attempt by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to explicitly ban the slush fund.
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Cue Up the Mother of All Confirmation Battles Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s elaborate audition to out-degenerate Pam Bondi has apparently won him President Trump’s nomination for the permanent position. In his short time as acting AG, Blanche has re-indicted James Comey, indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center, and turbocharged the South Florida investigation into a supposed “grand conspiracy” against Trump.
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The Mounting Toll and Absurdity of Trumpism Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Laying awake last night processing the Supreme Court’s latest galling decision, I reflected on how many evenings over the past decade have been consumed by late breaking bad news of another historic setback.
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Will We NEVER Learn the Lessons of Trump? Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. A confusing mishmash of reporting Monday afternoon inadvertently revealed that Donald Trump can still play Congress and the press like fools. The flurry of reporting, mostly from Capitol Hill, was about whether the political heat around the corrupt “Anti-Weaponization Fund” had become too much to stomach, especially for GOP senators.
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Judge Demands Answers on Trump’s Collusive IRS Deal Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Friday was a blitz of important news on the accountability front — an ICE agent arrested on state charges, a federal judge demanding reasons from the Trump DOJ for dismissing the Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy indictments, another federal judge ordering Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center — but the biggest development came in the previously closed case of Trump v. Internal Revenue Service.
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BREAKING: Judge Blocks Anti-Weaponization Fund Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. In a ruling just out this morning, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the creation of the $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” that emerged as part of the purported settlement of President Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS.
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Trump Sics DOJ on Famed Victim of His Sexual Abuse Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. I wish I could say we have reached the nadir of President Trump’s abuse of his office and debasement of the Justice Department. But the news, first reported by CNN, that the Trump DOJ has launched a criminal investigation of E. Jean Carroll, the high-profile victim of Trump’s sexual abuse, feels like a downward spiral with no end in sight.
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Trump Targets Seize on Abrego Garcia’s Vindictive Prosecution Win Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Friday’s ruling that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was the victim of vindictive prosecution by the Justice Department has already been cited by two other Trump targets under criminal prosecution. In a new motion to dismiss the indictment against it on vindictive prosecution grounds, the Southern Poverty Law Center extensively cited from the U.S. District Judge Waverly D.
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Trump Races to Bury Jan. 6 Under More Lies and $1.776 Billion Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is just a part of the broader rewriting of the history of Jan. 6, the pace of which seems to be accelerating ahead of the midterms. Among the things that make the $1.776 billion reparation so toxic is that it builds off the Big Lie fantasy that the Jan. 6 defendants are victims to create a slush fund to perpetuate the Trump regime.
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BREAKING: Abrego Garcia Prevails on Vindictive Prosecution Claim Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
A federal judge in Nashville has dismissed the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ruling that he was the victim of vindictive prosecution by the Trump Justice Department. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr. found that the Trump DOJ failed to overcome the presumption of vindictiveness despite a day-long evidentiary hearing in Feburary during which federal prosecutor Robert McGuire took the stand.
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Craven Self-Preservation Puts Senate GOP at Odds With Trump Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Senate Republicans have always felt like the weakest of the political bulwarks protecting Trump and Trumpism, but real signs of senators crumbling en masse have remained few and fleeting. Yesterday’s developments were more real and may not be so fleeting.
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New Frontiers in Venality, Graft, and Abuse of Power

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Yahoo Verified
How Bad It Really Is Even normally temperate legal experts and political observers are aghast at the ways in which the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” deal — and its broad release of claims against Trump, his family, and his businesses — crosses into new territory of venality, graft, and abuse of power (even for Trump). Former DOJer Jennifer Ricketts: “I have never heard of the department ever being willing to grant blanket immunity. That seems blatantly corrupt.
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What Will Drop Next in the Corrupt Trump-IRS Deal? Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. President Trump’s corrupt $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is the gift that keeps on giving … to Trump. New details continue to dribble out about the so-called settlement agreement resolving Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.
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Microsoft Cares About Your Privacy Picking through the wreckage from the worst day of Trump II so far

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By David Kurtz Verified
| MSN Verified
Not Possible in a Functioning Democracy A whirlwind of developments closed the deal yesterday on what is arguably the single most corrupt scheme of the Trump II presidency to date. In broad daylight, President Trump raided the U.S. treasury to the tune of $1.776 billion, to be disbursed at his discretion to an assortment of insurrectionists, pardoned criminals, and disgraced former officials whom he counts among his political allies.
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Picking Through the Wreckage From the Worst Day of Trump II So Far Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. A whirlwind of developments closed the deal yesterday on what is arguably the single most corrupt scheme of the Trump II presidency to date. In broad daylight, President Trump raided the U.S. treasury to the tune of $1.776 billion, to be disbursed at his discretion to an assortment of insurrectionists, pardoned criminals, and disgraced former officials whom he counts among his political allies.
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Trump Drops $10B IRS Lawsuit to Avoid Scrutiny of Corrupt Settlement Deal Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. In a new filing this morning, President Trump attempted an end run around a federal judge by purporting to dismiss his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns. The move comes just days before this week’s deadline set by the judge in the case for Trump and the government defendants to explain how they are truly adverse, rather than all on Trump’s side.
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Trump’s New $1.7 BILLION Slush Fund Boondoggle Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. A corrupt agreement is in the works between President Trump and his underlings at the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service that would settle his pending personal claims against the U.S. government by creating an unchecked $1.7 billion discretionary slush fund to pay his allies who have been “victims” of the Deep State, including the pardoned Jan. 6 defendants, according to an ABC News report.
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Big Round of New Trump Administration Smackdowns from Federal Judges Original

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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. I want to give you the flavor of a handful of new smackdowns of the Trump administration from federal judges across the country in an array of cases, involving violations of the law, defiance of court orders, and assorted shenanigans.
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Abrego Garcia judge upbraids Trump DOJ

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Abrego Garcia Judge Upbraids Trump DOJ Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Talking Points Memo Verified
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Hello to the 300+ new Morning Memo readers who have signed up after seeing Josh Marshall and Kate Riga interviewed by Heather Cox Richardson. A quick word on what to expect: a rundown of the day’s essential political news in your inbox midmorning on weekdays. Over the past year, that’s meant mostly chronicling the worst depredations of the Trump II presidency.
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Trump Uses Leak Probes to Target Press Freedoms Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Rattled by leaks from within his own administration about the Iran War, President Trump has directed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to target reporters and news organizations who are the recipients of the leaks, according to new reporting.
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What Dems Must Now Overcome to Win the House Original

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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. The impact of the redistricting decisions by the U.S. and Virginia supreme courts is beginning to get factored into analyses of the 2026 House elections, but let’s start with this top line: their effects on the Mid-Decade Redistricting War, since that sets the structural conditions on which the election will be run.
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The Great Whitening Comes Without Irony or Shame Original

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Republicans stripping majority-Black Memphis, where 39-year-old Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated 58 years ago, of its majority-Black congressional district takes its place in a rancid arc of American history that seems to be bending backwards.
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GOP Races to Entrench Structural Power Advantages Original

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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. From the racist redistricting rush across the South to the weaponization of the Justice Department to the criminalizing of opposition ideology, we’re witnessing Trump Republicans using the power of the state to consolidate and entrench their own political power and squeeze out Democrats’ ability to meaningfully contest that power. It’s happening at the federal and state level simultaneously.
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Trump DOJ Appears Ready to Drop Case Against GOP Rep Original

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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. It appears the Trump DOJ is 86-ing the campaign finance investigation into Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), Phil Williams of Newschannel 5 in Nashville reports. There were already signs that the investigation, which began before Trump was re-elected, had stalled out since his second inauguration.
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Roberts Court Tosses GOP One More Midterm Gift Original

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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Destroying the Voting Rights Act wasn’t enough. The Supreme Court gifted Republicans another partisan political advantage Monday, deviating from its normal procedure by immediately certifying last week’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais and sending it back to the lower court, rather than waiting the usual 32 days under its own rules. The court offered no real explanation for its ruling.
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5th Circuit Pulls a 5th Circuit on Abortion Pill Original

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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. By now, you’ve seen the Friday p.m. news that a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals effectively instituted an immediate nationwide ban on the prescribing of the abortion pill mifepristone by telemedicine and on sending it to patients by mail.
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What Sam Alito Has Wrought on the Map of U.S. Politics

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By David Kurtz Verified
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. The map of American politics is about to change more dramatically than at anytime since Reconstruction. This week’s Supreme Court’s decision, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, has unleashed a re-gerrymandering of the House that will eventually extend to state and local political districts across the country.
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What Sam Alito Has Wrought on the Map of U.S. Politics

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By David Kurtz Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Supreme Court decision on gerrymandering will lead to immediate changes in congressional district maps in states like Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. The long-term impact of extreme gerrymandering post-2026 could result in solidly red or blue states adopting vigorous gerrymanders, leaving only a few competitive districts across the country. Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v.
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SCOTUS Gifts GOP a Fighting Chance to Hold the House Original

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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. The Roberts Court’s decision to effectively neuter the Voting Rights Act gives Republicans new life in their bid to hold on to their fragile House majority in 2026. Consider just a few of the developments in the 24 hours since the decision in Louisiana v. Callais was handed down: Louisiana: Gov.
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Trump’s Retribution Cases Are Fundamentally Weak Original

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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Three major developments in Donald Trump’s retribution campaign yesterday laid bare more than ever before — as hard as that may be to believe — the depths to which the Justice Department will go under acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to do the president’s bidding. And yet … amid the carnage was proof positive that the Trump vendettas are fundamentally weak cases that can be effectively fought and won.
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Is Trump Now Personally Dictating DOJ’s Filings? Original

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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. I’ve spent years now warning of the dangers of Donald Trump taking over the Department of Justice, and yet I feel like I’m stuck in the denial stage of grief. What I initially envisioned — Trump obliterating the Chinese wall between the White House and DOJ and putting undue pressure on DOJ leadership to do his corrupt bidding — certainly came to pass but now seems quaint.
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Judge Skeptical of Corrupt IRS Settlement with Trump Original

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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams of Miami expressed skepticism on Friday that President Trump and the IRS he oversees are sufficiently adverse to give her subject matter jurisdiction over his $10 billion claim for the leak of his personal tax information. To put it more plainly, if there’s not a true controversy between adverse parties, there’s no case here.
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