Politics: Left

Today's edition of quick hits....

The Arizona Supreme Court has declined much of Republican Kari Lake's appeal over her loss in the governor's race....

All eyes have been on the Manhattan district attorney's office this week to see whether Donald Trump will become the first former American president to be indicted on criminal charges. It appears unlikely that an indictment will come this week. And ev...

The Justice Department argued Williams, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was an "accelerant" of the mob, and "gleefully directed and mobilized" violence during the attack....

Senators rejected the amendment 86-9 as they are debating a separate repeal of two authorizations of military force in Iraq....

A spokesperson said Fetterman is getting better and that the recovery is going well....

All eyes have been on the Manhattan district attorney's office this week to see whether Donald Trump will become the first former American president to be indicted on criminal charges. It appears unlikely that an indictment will come this week. And ev...

The Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature has given final approval to a Medicaid expansion agreement....

"We've never had that kind of situation where a minor has tried to book a helicopter," the manager of chartering services at HeliNY, told The Daily Beast....

A new lawsuit against Fox News, filed by a booking producer, highlights the network's misogynistic and hostile work environment and details how it affects all of its employees, including some of its biggest names. The lawsuit demonstrates that Fox'...

Former President Donald Trump has been lashing out at every top official investigating him for several potential crimes. And, of course, Trump sycophants Rep. Jim Jordan and other Republican leaders are demanding that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bra...

A lawyer for Fox News and Fox Corp. told a judge in Delaware that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a top advertiser for the network, was not a reliable source of information when he appeared on Tucker Carlson's show in January of 2021, during a hearing held...

Minnesota last week became just the fourth U.S. state to guarantee universal free school meals, triggering a fresh wave of demands and arguments for a similar federal policy to feed kids. "Universal school meals is now law in Minnesota!" Democrati...

The sudden collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank have brought the 2018 rollback of banking reforms back into the public eye. That year, in a bipartisan vote supported by then-President Donald Trump, 67 senators and 258 representatives agreed...

Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters if a reporter uses anonymous sources in a story or article, it could be considered a malicious act subject to a lawsuit for defamation. Florida, led by DeSantis, is trying to undo First Amendment protections for journalism...

Former president Donald Trump has chosen the first stop on his reelection tour: Waco, Texas, where religious cult leader and anti-government extremist David Koresh led an infamous clash with federal...Former president Donald Trump has chosen the first sto...

Mark Robinson, who attacked gays, Jews, and other minorities in Facebook posts, is running for governor.North Carolina Lieutenant Gov. Mark Robinson (R), who has a long history......

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office pushed back on House Republicans' recent demand that he provide sworn testimony on his investigation into Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush money...Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg'...

Online trolls got a pro-DeSantis hashtag trending on Truth Social to make Donald Trump mad. Within hours, the site went offline, Vice News first reported. This week, a trio of friends who are also...Online trolls got a pro-DeSantis hashtag trending on Tru...

As Nicole LaFond explains in today's Morning Memo (David Kurtz is on vacation), Ron DeSantis has got his first big fumble in his presidential roll out. He staked out an aggressively anti-Ukraine...As Nicole LaFond explains in today's Morning Memo ...

Trump promised to investigate and fire all government employees he deems unfaithful and disloyal if he is re-elected. "Fourth, to expose the hoaxes and abuses of power that have been tearing our country apart, we will establish a Truth and Reconciliat...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM's home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. The National Rifle Association's financial firepower, which arose in part...This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM's ho...

Former President Donald Trump broke out in an all-caps rant to lash out at Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg. Trump posted last week that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday, but that never came to fruition. He did, however, send out an email blas...

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell expressed the fear artificial intelligence (A.I.) systems would take control of humankind if voting machines are not destroyed. During an interview on Wednesday, Lindell and War Room host Steve Bannon discussed why A.I. could be ...

Insider is reporting that while the New York City grand jury dealing with the Trump Insider is reporting that while the New York City grand jury dealing......

Tucker Carlson unwittingly described what other Fox News hosts, including himself, constantly do and say to their audience -- while attacking CNN for reporting on the new UN Climate Change report. Via The Washington Post , "The U.N. Intergovernmental ...

Donald Trump's reported "soft ban" from Fox News is at an end, and he's getting the band back together for the 2024 Republican presidential primary....

Clay Travis, a regular Fox News guest and founder of Fox-owned sports website Outkick, has used Outkick's YouTube channel to repeatedly spread COVID-19 misinformation, and the platform has done nothing about it....

There's a dark coda to one of the latest tales in the legend of Rep. George Santos (R-NY). As you will remember, a good bit of December and January were taken up by the ongoing saga of Santos and the...There's a dark coda to one of the latest tale...

As Fox News faces a lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems over its lies about the 2020 election, the network has also had a notable presence in another legal arena: the criminal proceedings against January 6 insurrectionists. Several people involved with Jan...

After a slew of whale deaths along the east coast of the U.S., right-wing media have been promoting false fossil fuel industry talking points about offshore wind projects on Facebook....

The Daily Show 's Jordan Klepper went looking for all of the supporters that Trump called on to flood the streets of downtown Manhattan. Trump told all of them that he was going to be arrested this week. Klepper found just a handful of nuts out there ...

The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected most of unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's latest attempt to overturn the results of the state's 2022 election.The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected most of unsuccessful guber...

Former New York City Mayor and ex-Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani told a bizarre story about his infamous trip to Ukraine in 2019 via Budapest, Hungary. The Covid farter told one of Trump's attorneys, Christina Bobb, about billionaire philanthropist Geor...

Arizona's Supreme Court has rejected failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's challenge to her election loss but kept the case somewhat alive by sending one of seven of Lake's claims back to a county judge to review. Maricopa County Superior...

Sinema made the comments to a group of Republican lobbyists, explaining why she stopped attending her caucus' weekly luncheons. Sinema called them "ridiculous" and she had better uses of her time than "those dumb lunches. '"Old dud...

We used to have a lot of national systems that used to work and didn't gouge consumers. Now we have "free market" everything, and life has changed for the worse. (Remember how cheap and reliable phone lines used to be?) Via Business Insider: C...

Now Rhonda Santis is referring to Putin as a "war criminal" after Republican pols piled on him after he referred to the Ukraine war of self-preservation as a "territorial dispute." Via the Washington Post: In an interview with "Piers M...

House Oversight Chair James Comer pretended on Fox News he has a right to investigate and browbeat NYC DA Alvin Bragg in a Congressional hearing. Yes, Bragg is likely, though not certain, to bring charges against Trump over his corrupt and fraudulent hush...

Trump defense attorney Evan Corcoran is scheduled to testify Friday before the grand jury investigating classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago after a new order from a federal appeals court, according to CNN: The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals said that...

On this day in 1985 former Creedence Clearwater Revival front man John Fogerty went to No.1 on the US album chart with his third solo studio album Centerfield. Just an Earth-Bound Misfit, I : The Evidence is In: Cal Thomas is Addled (and More) Strangely B...

Jason Selvig along with Davram Stiefler make up the liberal-leaning "The Good Liars" comedians. They have made a splash on social media with videos interacting with the MAGA world across the country and exposing the often bizarre and always ignora...

Everyone has heard of service dogs, who can help people with the most amazing things. They can be their eyes, their hands and their early warning medical alert systems. I have also heard of other service animals, such as horses and even pot-bellied pigs. ...

MAGA creep Charlie Kirk begged Ron DeSantis to make Florida a sanctuary state for Trump so that if he gets indicted, he can hide from the law. "Can Red States do anything?" Kirks asked. "Can Ron DeSantis do anything?" What a dweeb. "So...