Joe Ragazzo

We got a new podcast @talkingpointsmemo.com! It's hosted by @joshkovensky.bsky.social and me. It's called The TPM Social Club & it's about what's interesting. 🎙️ Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4dqGDz0... 🎙️ Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... ▶️ YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSY-...

New: In 2019, *1 day* after Trump rally crowd chanted "send her back!" abt Ilhan Omar, Schumer decried GOP "silence" over "despicable" chant Now, *14 days* after raid on Omar home, part of Trump attempt to literally "send her back," Schumer is silent. My story: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chuck-s...

Latest from @joshkovensky.bsky.social and I. We talked about the ways in which the Trump Admin is doing what we called Light Authoritarianism. Still being sneaky, still trying to justify stuff sorta. Early innnings. 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTVs...

TPM is going live at 1 pm!! Hide your wife. Hide your kids. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tpm-l...

Come hang at 1pm talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tpm-l...

Really moving piece from my colleague @letsgomathias.bsky.social who spoke to Bernadette Greene-Placentia. Her message to women struggling with whether to come forward and report their sexual assault? “You will be believed,” she said.

New: Bernadette Greene-Placentia would like you to know the story of her rape is not an "October Surprise" or a "hoax," as prominent MAGA influencers have suggested, concocted to win votes My interview w/ the congressional candidate, for @talkingpointsmemo.com talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dem-can...

We had some breaking news today on TPM's Untitled Friday Live Show (Name TBD)! We'll be going live every Friday at 1pm. It will (mostly) be some combination of this motley crew of TPMers. Like and subscribe to our channel so you never miss our pretty faces www.youtube.com/watch?v=kORr...

This week on The TPM Social Club, @joshkovensky.bsky.social and I were joined by Justin Miller from @texasobserver.org to catch up on things as we near the midterms. 🍎🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAEg...

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

Going live here in a sec with @dirm.bsky.social @nicolelafond.bsky.social and @hunterw.bsky.social in a few www.youtube.com/live/kORrR48...

dah, dah, everything has a price

Big important story from my @tpmsocialclub.bsky.social running mate @joshkovensky.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-ballr...

A White House ballroom donor who organized meetings for Don Jr. and 1789 Capital in Europe has had a good year: he's been named as chair of a $201 million government-backed enterprise fund, received a waiver on sanctions, and more. Meet Konstantin Sokolov talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-ballr...

“I would ask you to give it serious consideration and put paychecks over politics in this,” developer Josh Abbotoy told the board. Josh Abbotoy is a lunatic who wants take over small towns and turn them into weirdo right-wing christan enclaves. fuck him www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

This is true! We talk about it on the episode. Around 5 cases of bubonic plague in the U.S. every year

if you weren't there with us live, check out the replay!

Someone in Russia died allegedly from THE PLAGUE, allegedly. How does that happen in 2027? @joshkovensky.bsky.social and I spoke to mathematical biologist Dr. Alex Washburne to find out if we should be worried about plague and how people are getting plague. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDEe...

the Free Press depravity has no bottom. Aside from the vile premise, this is the sort of thing they spend money on to boost? What a disgusting publication

Two more individuals with ties to a white nationalist group have turned up in Mike Collins' orbit.

We're doing a special October-only, Youtube-only version of our podcast for the next four weeks where we answer all your questions about different races around the country, how polls work, whether they work and more. First ep from @kateriga.bsky.social and I will be out on YT this afternoon.

‼️💻📺 Looking for the weirdest, worst, most bizarre, funniest 2026 campaign ads! Have already come across some doozies, but if there's a local ad that's been driving you nuts or amusing you, send it to allegra@talkingpointsmemo.com or thread it here! 📺💻‼️

Welcome to Polltober! A TPM YouTube Exclusive Series

We're launching a special limited-run version of the TPM Show With Josh and Kate ahead of the midterms. Introducing: the Polltober Show. Send us all your pressing questions about specific races, candidates, chamber control, the courts, the polls, whatever! talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/were-...

First there was "the negro problem." Now racists are trying to coin a new version: "the Indian question." one of endless examples of why solidarity among Black people and other people of color, along with any socially vulnerable group, would benefit everyone.

Checking in On the House of Mouse

The DOJ is reviewing "whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the famed Watergate break-in committed misconduct, according to people familiar with the matter, more than half a century after that scandal led to Nixon’s resignation."

Under the pretext of an ethics complaint against all but one of the active federal judges in Minnesota, Todd Blanche signaled yesterday that not only will the Trump admin keep running roughshod over the judiciary but that judges had better shut up about it. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

very cool to see my new @talkingpointsmemo.com colleague @joshkovensky.bsky.social joining Posting Through It to talk with @jaredlholt.bsky.social & @michaelehayden.bsky.social about all his great reporting! open.spotify.com/episode/59Tb...

What do Nick Shirley, Nick Sortor, Cam Higby, Katie Daviscourt, Savanah Hernandez, and Tyler Oliveira have in common? They make clickbait in service of, and sometimes collaboration with, the Trump Admin. Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/59Tb...

literally my whole life i thought bebop and rocksteady were in the 2nd ninja turtles movie and i just realized it's not them, it's these two bebop and rocksteady knockoffs. Life is a lie.

This was an absolute joy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWDQ...

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Greg Bovino is at the New York Young Republican Club in Manhattan tonight. He describes one of the city operations last year as “the most violent law enforcement mission in American history”

I asked Greg Bovino about the killing of Alex Pretti yesterday. He blamed a "light touch" towards "anarchists and rioters" in Minneapolis that allowed "lawlessness" to "fester" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greg-bo...

Why is the American right obsessed with the WNBA? This week on the pod @classicjpow.bsky.social and @howardmegdal.bsky.social are joined by @kateriga.bsky.social to discuss why the American right has latched on to women's sports before the 2026 midterms. www.theixsports.com/features/ix-...

TPM's de facto sports correspondent @kateriga.bsky.social joined @theixsports.bsky.social to talk about how the right's WNBA fixation fits into their Christian nationalist worldview and focus on traditional gender roles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UU7...

The team is breaking news every day @talkingpointsmemo.com talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

“I’m not going to platform nonsense,” Newberry, FL mayor + Marshall Rawson endorser told @letsgomathias.bsky.social. "You don’t matter. I don’t matter. The voters do." Another endorser, Fort White's mayor, said “I personally hope he does win the election here” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/marshal...

BY THE NUMBERS... 28: How many Florida GOP elected @letsgomathias.bsky.social contacted about Marshall Rawson, a GOP nom for state rep who marched in Cville 22: How many of those 28 had endorsed Rawson 3: How many responded 0: How many renounced Rawson. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/marshal...

New for @talkingpointsmemo.com: Marshall Rawson, GOP nominee for Florida legislature, marched w/ Nazis in Charlottesville, condoned slavery, & called for execution of gay people. Does GOP even care? Is there a limit to MAGA's "never punch right" ethos? talkingpointsmemo.com?p=1558029&pr...

This morning, Rawson posted a photo of himself w/ members of the University of Florida College Republicans. The group was reinstated by university only few days ago. It was disbanded in March... after two members were photographed performing Nazi salutes. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/marshal...

The Federal Reserve voted unanimously to raise interest rates for the first time since 2023, even after Trump has continued attacking the the central bank's independence and threatened to stop trade if the Fed didn't lower rates. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

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