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In The Weekender: @joshkovensky.bsky.social on the White House officially making Nick Shirley a paid man. @laylaayanna.bsky.social on why some billionaires are pledging to help kids by contributing to Trump Accounts. Don Jr's presidential ambitions and more! talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Between Mar a Lago, the White House, Trump Tower, and his hotel I have been to more than my share of these parties. Basically been waiting ten years to find a way to write this. talkingpointsmemo.com/minipost/the...

In The Weekender, I wrote about Polymarket’s push to become a media company and speculated a bit about what kind of media company it might want to be. You tell me the odds that I'm right. Also, @hunterw.bsky.social on The Millers’ demonic house parties + more! talkingpointsmemo.com/minipost/the...

today we discussed tech bro cigs, george costanza's place in the MAGA movement, @dirm.bsky.social's baboon lore, @hunterw.bsky.social's pic of Trump's messy desk & how i almost got caught up in the evangelical college ---> trump blonde girl slippery slope. come laugh into the abyss with us

@allegrak.bsky.social is working on something fun for The Weekender. Please help her out if you've come across any good (i.e. bad) campaign ads this midterm season

Check out yesterday’s episode and follow the links in the description to see the great work done on this topic by our guest, @joshkovensky.bsky.social. The figures we discussed are sure to be critical in stirring chaos and confusion around 2026 midterms. Learn who they are before they make news!

In the Weekender: I break down the different flavors of GOP midterms cope @laylaayanna.bsky.social on Republicans blaming data center opposition on China -The Nvidia CEO not knowing his own address -The cancelation of Freedom Fest w/Kid Rock and more talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Also in this week's Weekender @hunterw.bsky.social looks at the world of Charlie Kirk AI slop merch, including a crochet pattern to make dolls of Kirk and Jesus Trey Gowdy's wild comments about how we can't rename Lake Ontario cause of...Hamas + more talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Very sorry to share that next week includes the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and the RNC’s first-ever midterms convention. Gonna be a rough one! talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

In the Weekender: Me on RFK's remarkable damage as HHS Sec TPM's resident Canadian @dirm.bsky.social on Trump's trade war @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social on Darline Graham's Universal Healthcare Is Bad + Also My Parents Died When I Was a Kid comments + more! talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Next month, prolific chronicler of the American right @letsgomathias.bsky.social will be joining TPM as our new reporter. Chris is the author of To Catch a Fascist and has spent nearly a decade covering the right. We're so excited to have him on the team! talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/bi...

In the Weekender... Does a book that appears in the leaked video for Apple’s new AI camera-equipped AirPods tell us anything about how the company is thinking about their role in popularizing personal surveillance? talkingpointsmemo.com/minipost/the...

In this ep, my colleague @dirm.bsky.social and I talk about what it's like to be someone who loves sports. When ask "Are sports getting worse?" we're taking a broad view: What it's it like as a sports fan? What's going on in youth sports? Sports media? There's so much ground to cover.

In this week's issue of The Weekender, don't miss @jragazzo.bsky.social's provocative claim that the MBA is a failed idea and it's time to get rid of it. It's got @talkingpointsmemo.com comment section more excited than I've seen in awhile! talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

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In this issue of the Weekender … I wrote about the politics of nostalgia and exhaustion over being told everything is in decline. @hunterw.bsky.social has some thoughts for what Dems can do with a new wave of voters. Also: Bad Posts, trivia, and more!

the 'post-literacy'/'new orality' consensus is getting so strong im feeling positive its wrong 😎

If you've been wondering what is happening in Cuba but haven't found a good source, or have been avoiding the topic because the news is already too grim, I highly recommend you give this a listen. Andrés Pertierra is informative, entertaining, and just knows his shit. The other guys are good too

‪This one is for and about the dads. I wrote about how MAGA merch props up the big daddy of the movement while also teaching us something about the MAGA dads who covet it. @allegrak.bsky.social ranks the most bonkers ambassador appointments. And more! talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Latest Weekender why Gywneth + Reese are pushing to AI women @laylaayanna.bsky.social on how "the DOJ’s disingenuous college admissions crusade reeks of antebellum beliefs about Black intelligence" @dirm.bsky.social on Muskism + our trillionaire overlord + more talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

In The Weekender: @allegrak.bsky.social on “the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend” and the bad advice Dems get for winning elections. Me on what AI detection software Pangram is really selling us. Also, a great Hunter Biden tweet and more! talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

In today’s Weekender: A Trumpian arch Bitcoin boosting Republican rake-stomping A galaxy-brained book on truth A sighting of the Trumpuffalo Along with some trivia and some very bad tweets. If any of this sounds good, you can read and SUBSCRIBE, for free! talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Why would one of the best golfer's in the world choose to make YouTube videos instead of playing on the PGA Tour? I wrote about it for TPM's mini-magazine, The Weekender, which also has great stuff from @allegrak.bsky.social and @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social. talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Highly recommend you listen to this conversation. Understanding LLMs to be a cultural technology and interrogating them through the humanities, Leif’s work may change (or blow) your mind with regard to the current super intelligence discourse around AI. The other guys on the pod aren’t bad either.

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We @talkingpointsmemo.com are raising money for our journalism fund! We're almost halfway to our goal of $500k. Contribute at the link below, and I'll lay out a few reasons in this thread for why I think you should accounts.talkingpointsmemo.com/contribute