Judge rules Georgia Republican Party vice chairman voted illegally  —  Brian K. Pritchard voted nine times while serving probation for felony forgery charges  —  A judge ruled Wednesday that the Georgia Republican Party's first vice chairman, Brian K. Pritchard, violated state election laws …

Jan. 6 Architect John Eastman Roasted By Judge In Disbarment Case  —  A lot of things happened.  Here are some of the things.  This is TPM's Morning Memo.  —  Thanks for reading Morning Memo!  Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.  —  The Closest We Get To A Jan. 6 Verdict Before November?

These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021  —  Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.  —  Then, according to the report of the bipartisan January 6 Commission, Trump engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 Presidential election.”

Trump calls his globe-trotting ex-diplomat ‘my envoy.’ Neither is in office.  —  Richard Grenell is meeting with far-right foreign leaders, attacking President Biden and offering a glimpse at what U.S. foreign policy could be like in a second Trump term  —  After an anti-corruption crusader …

The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse  —  Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news.  The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.  —  Line up a few years' worth of tragedies and disasters …

Trump's Unbearable Temptation to Dump His Truth Social Stock  —  Remember in Godfather II when the mobster Hyman Roth tells Michael Corleone, his co-investor in President Fulgencio Batista's Cuba, “Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel”?  U.S. Steel is no longer the colossus it was in 1958, when that scene takes place.

South Carolina to use congressional map deemed unconstitutional  —  The Supreme Court heard arguments on the redistricting case in October but has yet to rule, essentially running out the clock for this year's election  —  A federal court ruled Thursday that time had run out to draw …

RFK Jr.'s vice presidential pick calls IVF 'one of the biggest lies being told about women's health'  —  She has weighed in on in-vitro fertilization many times through her nonprofit work.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate has been a harsh critic of in-vitro fertilization …

NBC Proves the Media Can't Save Democracy  —  The decision to hi former RNC chair is a symptom of a larger problem  —  Sometimes, a piece of news pops up that is so up my alley that I have so much to say/write/Tweet/Thread about it that I become paralyzed.

GOP scrambles to organize early and mail voting despite Trump's attacks  —  Republicans are playing catch-up to Democrats on voting before Election Day in battleground states, but Trump disparages those methods  —  In December, Donald Trump called for the end of mail-in voting in presidential elections.

US Census changes how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity  —  Story at a glance  — The census will include checkboxes for “Hispanic or Latino” and “Middle Eastern or North African” starting in 2030  — Revisions mark the first change to ethic and racial demographic collection since 1997.

Trump Bibles make a mockery of Christianity — and that's exactly why MAGA will eat them up  —  Faith without morality or theology, much less that “soyboy” Jesus?  Sign MAGA Republicans up!  —  Earlier this week, Donald Trump unveiled his newest grift to squeeze money out of his cult followers: Trump-branded Bibles.

MI GOP Launches ‘Migrant Invader Bus’ Hoax on Gonzaga Hoops Team  —  Their stupidity never ends.  —  Republican paranoia over migrants has reached a new level of absurdity, as a State Representative and the State GOP Chair launched a conspiracy that buses of migrants were invading Michigan.

Elon Musk gets SLAPPed  —  He got his ass handed to him in federal court for — irony alert! — trying to stifle speech.  —  Read →  —  Top First  —  CCDH: X provides ads appearing next to neo-Nazi content on the site.  —  MEDIA MATTERS: X provides ads appearing next to neo-Nazi content on the site.

States moving to require schools to show inaccurate fetus video  —  At least four states are considering legislation to follow North Dakota in mandating the showing of an animated fetal development video in elementary school classrooms.  —  The particular video suggested, Meet Baby Olivia …

Judge Forges Ahead With Pretrial Motions In Trump Georgia Election Interference Case  —  Lawyers for Trump argued that the charges in the Georgia election interference case seek to criminalize speech that is protected by the First Amendment.  —  LOADING  —  The charges against former …

Here's What It Would Look Like to Remove Judge Cannon  —  THE JUDGE PRESIDING OVER Donald Trump's classified documents prosecution just gave Special Counsel Jack Smith a gift that he desperately needed: a fresh opening to seek her removal from the case.  —  Last week, Judge Aileen Cannon …

Liz Cheney warns U.S. can't ‘survive’ another Donald Trump presidency  —  Rep. Liz Cheney, a one-time Wyoming lawmaker turned fierce critic of former President Donald Trump, said the Republican party is currently threatening democracy and that the nation is undergoing a political shift during …

Tale of a Tampon  —  Scenes from a sit-in at Vanderbilt.  —  Let me tell you about some Vanderbilt girl's tampon.  —  It all started yesterday morning, when a wave of undergrad students rushed Kirkland Hall, where Vanderbilt's chancellor's office is located.

Trump aims to outraise Biden-Obama event with $33mn fundraiser  —  US president's team says rival star-studded New York gala on Thursday will pull in $25mn  —  Donald Trump's campaign is expected to raise $33mn from a blockbuster fundraiser next week in Florida, according to two people familiar …

Does the Left Think Young Left-Wing Protesters Matter or Not? … This week, The Atlantic published an account of how the war between Israel and Hamas has convulsed a campus (in this case, that of the author, Stanford sophomore Theo Baker).  The most explosive details in the story showed …

DOD in early talks to fund a peacekeeping force in Gaza  —  U.S. officials have been clear the plan would not include American boots on the ground.  —  Biden administration officials are in preliminary “conversations” about options for stabilizing post-war Gaza, including a proposal …

Legal experts worry about presidential abuse of the Insurrection Act.  Here's why  —  A bipartisan group of legal experts is sounding an alarm about presidential power this election season.  —  They're pushing Congress to update a cluster of laws known as the Insurrection Act and limit …

Republican committee to select Buck's likely replacement, adding a challenge to Boebert's campaign  —  A panel of Colorado Republicans will select a candidate Thursday who will likely serve out the final months of U.S. Rep. Ken Buck 's term — and could pose a challenge to Rep. Lauren Boebert's bid for another term in Congress.

Trump Attacks Judge's Daughter After Gag Order in Hush-Money Case  —  Donald Trump said a photo of him behind bars on Loren Merchan's X account meant he could not get a fair trial, but a court official said someone had appropriated the account.  —  It was an explosive claim from Donald J. Trump …

Republican: ‘Outrageous’ for Biden to promise feds will pay for Baltimore bridge  —  Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) criticized President Biden on Thursday for pledging that the federal government will pay for the replacement of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, which collapsed earlier …