A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
TPM’s series on the Meadows Texts continues to be the dominant news story of the week. A big shoutout to the entire TPM team for the hard work and long hours required to pull this off. It was an all-hands-on-deck effort. Special kudos for lead reporter Hunter Walker and lead editor John Light.
First. Congratulations to TPM for the Prime Time recognition. The Rudy and Hannity segment last night was a great way to end the day. About that NC real estate deal…do we know anything about that?
QAnon sees new life in Musk’s Twitter ownership - The Washington Post
Logan Strain, a conspiracy theory researcher who uses the name Travis View on the podcast “QAnon Anonymous,” said Musk’s “conspiracist dog whistles” have galvanized a group that was fractured after 2020, when major social networks including Twitter started banning QAnon accounts and Trump lost the White House.
“He’s responding to and validating a rogues’ gallery of right-wing conspiracists … [and] going through a checklist of far-right grievances in a way that has certainly energized them,” Strain said. For QAnon believers, “what they view as a major battlefield in the information war just opened up again.”
34 members of Congress, eh? Thinking back to the formation of the 1/6 Commission, the motive for the GOP attempts to “fix” it are even clearer. It is a good thing that 1) pols craven enough to shill for Trump are by definition too stupid to mount an effective coverup, and 2) a generational leader like Rep. Pelosi knew just how to take advantage of that.
Trump making a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT today.
I’m thinking that he’s decided to scrap the Presidential run and go on tour with the recently reformed Village People.
Something interesting in the background: Media are shedding jobs. Wapo’s newsroom is livid over impending cuts. Musk, NYT, Wapo, are floundering and it shows.
Then TPM pops up with a big scoop, big because it was sitting there waiting to be put together by clear-eyed journalists who have the skills to see what’s going on.
Thank you, TPM.
Not first, but in the top ten is good enough today.
Good Lord, all those people absolutely DISGUST me, with their desperate attempts to cling to power, wrapped up in their phony piety. And then top it all off with their rantings about “Antifa” gives me the dry heaves.
As for the Nancy Pelosi portrait – I wish she was dressed in the white pantsuit (and the necklace) that she wore to the SOTU when she tore up TFG’s speech.
Great job, TPM. I was very happy to see Madam Speaker’s portrait here as well as the news about the John Lewis stamp. Good people deserve good things is a perfect reminder against the backdrop of the Meadows texts.
But that would make it about Trump, wouldn’t it?
"You’re not allowed to get my number. "
Oh we got you’re number Sean.
The GOP and right wing choices of words to oppose really mystifies me. 1st, they are against ‘Antifa’. As this term means ‘Anti-fascist’, does this mean they are pro-fascist? Next, conservatives hate the term ‘woke’. Does that mean they want to be ‘asleep’? And finally, they despise the term ‘progressive’. Does that mean they want to be ‘regressive’ (The last question was rhetorical…:))?
Love both the portrait of Nancy Pelosi and of John Lewis on the commemorative stamp!
Very strong images.
Interesting that so much info here is still tied to twitter. Great coverage and I’m sure Elon is grateful for the traffic.
Yes.
I, for one, am gleefully watching Tesla stocks go down hill. I’m sure Elmo is too!
212-JAC-KASS!
This series gives us a much fuller and more persuasive portrait of the internal culture of the GOP’s radical congresspersons. Clearly they’ve sworn an oath to ‘God’s Law’ and not the Constitution.
In this world of immediate gratification in which we live - one wonders what the impact will ultimately be.
This ongoing tsunami exposing of the massive relentless bad faith, irresponsible, dishonest, grotesque attempts to baslessly overturn an election - should ( in a sane soceity) have monumental impact … but… these are weird times.
Will this just be an extended period of “can you believe this crap?” … and then the short attention span media moves on … or do the repeated punishing blows begin to finally crumble the core structure of Trump disease. Will it become the identifiable turning point?