Josh Marshall
@joshtpm.bsky.social
Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
pretty stunning
Wow: A top GOP candidate for governor in Minnesota just announced that he is dropping out from the race. *And* that he is leaving the Republican Party.
He blamed the GOP's "stated retribution on the citizens of our state."
www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...
He blamed the GOP's "stated retribution on the citizens of our state."
www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...
Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal ‘retribution’ against Minnesota
His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.
www.startribune.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:06 PM
pretty stunning
You don't have to know anything about what the Supreme Court says to understand that the federal government has no legal warrant extort through violence what it is not legally entitled to under constitution and law.
January 26, 2026 at 4:28 PM
You don't have to know anything about what the Supreme Court says to understand that the federal government has no legal warrant extort through violence what it is not legally entitled to under constitution and law.
Reposted by Josh Marshall
📣 NEW: Following up on #ACA Open Enrollment data, and just as I predicted a month ago...
acasignups.net/26/01/26/fol...
acasignups.net/26/01/26/fol...
Following up on ACA Open Enrollment data, and just as I predicted a month ago...
Me, December 26th: ...I'm bringing all of this back up again today because I strongly suspect that the situation is about to reverse itself, with the Trump Administration already preparing to brag abo...
acasignups.net
January 26, 2026 at 1:07 PM
📣 NEW: Following up on #ACA Open Enrollment data, and just as I predicted a month ago...
acasignups.net/26/01/26/fol...
acasignups.net/26/01/26/fol...
Reposted by Josh Marshall
John Roberts struck down the ACA’s Medicaid expansion as a 10A violation because the law was, as he called it, a “gun to the head” of the states who did not want to help their residents.
Now Trump’s putting *literal* guns to the heads of Minnesota’s residents to force their gov’t to betray them.
Now Trump’s putting *literal* guns to the heads of Minnesota’s residents to force their gov’t to betray them.
Carter turns to the voter roll demand, which they lost in the courts.
Per Carter, the government responds: "We don't care. We're going to put violence and chaos in the streets and we're going to force it with illegal conduct."
"If THAT doesn't violate the 10th Amendment...."
Per Carter, the government responds: "We don't care. We're going to put violence and chaos in the streets and we're going to force it with illegal conduct."
"If THAT doesn't violate the 10th Amendment...."
January 26, 2026 at 4:19 PM
John Roberts struck down the ACA’s Medicaid expansion as a 10A violation because the law was, as he called it, a “gun to the head” of the states who did not want to help their residents.
Now Trump’s putting *literal* guns to the heads of Minnesota’s residents to force their gov’t to betray them.
Now Trump’s putting *literal* guns to the heads of Minnesota’s residents to force their gov’t to betray them.
Reposted by Josh Marshall
@davidkurtz.bsky.social: The administration's incendiary propagandizing not only "offers no accountability for what has happened, but guarantees more such incidents in an ever-escalating assertion of absolute power."
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
When the Propagandists Are Armed and Dangerous
Morning Memo Live! Details and tickets here for the Thursday evening event...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:20 PM
@davidkurtz.bsky.social: The administration's incendiary propagandizing not only "offers no accountability for what has happened, but guarantees more such incidents in an ever-escalating assertion of absolute power."
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
When the Propagandists Are Armed and Dangerous talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
When the Propagandists Are Armed and Dangerous
Morning Memo Live! Details and tickets here for the Thursday evening event...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
When the Propagandists Are Armed and Dangerous talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
For at least a decade the stupidest, most frivolous columnist in America.
Don’t worry tho it’s still the Post we‘ve come to expect
January 26, 2026 at 5:29 AM
For at least a decade the stupidest, most frivolous columnist in America.
Good they're getting their voice. The city is besieged by an army of violent degenerates. History will remember.
‘We are the Good Samaritans’: Minneapolis hits back at ICE ft.trib.al/bUa0oFl
‘We are the Good Samaritans’: Minneapolis hits back at ICE
A network of ordinary people is trying to hold officers involved in Donald Trump’s sweeping Minnesota crackdown to account
ft.trib.al
January 26, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Good they're getting their voice. The city is besieged by an army of violent degenerates. History will remember.
Reposted by Josh Marshall
‘We are the Good Samaritans’: Minneapolis hits back at ICE ft.trib.al/bUa0oFl
‘We are the Good Samaritans’: Minneapolis hits back at ICE
A network of ordinary people is trying to hold officers involved in Donald Trump’s sweeping Minnesota crackdown to account
ft.trib.al
January 26, 2026 at 5:16 AM
‘We are the Good Samaritans’: Minneapolis hits back at ICE ft.trib.al/bUa0oFl
Reposted by Josh Marshall
Americans must be eyes wide open that blocking the DHS funding bill will not shut down ICE.
ICE is now sitting on a massive slush fund it can tap, whether or not we pass a funding bill.
ICE is now sitting on a massive slush fund it can tap, whether or not we pass a funding bill.
Federal agents cannot murder people in broad daylight and face zero consequences.
I will NOT support the DHS bill as it stands.
The DHS bill needs to be split off from the larger funding package before the Senate—Republicans must work with us to do that.
I’ll keep fighting to rein in DHS and ICE.
I will NOT support the DHS bill as it stands.
The DHS bill needs to be split off from the larger funding package before the Senate—Republicans must work with us to do that.
I’ll keep fighting to rein in DHS and ICE.
January 25, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Americans must be eyes wide open that blocking the DHS funding bill will not shut down ICE.
ICE is now sitting on a massive slush fund it can tap, whether or not we pass a funding bill.
ICE is now sitting on a massive slush fund it can tap, whether or not we pass a funding bill.
JD has some of the best made up stories. In this doxxed now means someone says hey there are some guys at a restaurant. Good times. you can sort of see the direction they're going that murdering protestors has gone from awesome to tragic, only its tim walz fault.
January 25, 2026 at 11:46 PM
JD has some of the best made up stories. In this doxxed now means someone says hey there are some guys at a restaurant. Good times. you can sort of see the direction they're going that murdering protestors has gone from awesome to tragic, only its tim walz fault.
Reposted by Josh Marshall
this is right. you don't have to work out every detail. start with no. go from there.
Senate Dems needn’t come to agreement on everything right now. That’s a path to the lowest common denominator. They simply have to agree to filibuster DHS approps. As to which of a host of anti-brutality and anti-authoritarian proposals to advance, let a thousand flowers bloom.
January 25, 2026 at 6:21 PM
this is right. you don't have to work out every detail. start with no. go from there.
MAGA is at heart a terror movement
ICYMI: Following Renee Good’s murder by ICE, her son’s Minneapolis charter school was forced to go fully online due to right-wing attacks
sahanjournal.com/education/mi...
sahanjournal.com/education/mi...
January 25, 2026 at 7:57 PM
MAGA is at heart a terror movement
White House Terror Tactics Are Pushing Blue State Leaders to Active Resistance talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white...
White House Terror Tactics Are Pushing Blue State Leaders to Active Resistance
There is another point I want to note about what has happened...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:56 PM
White House Terror Tactics Are Pushing Blue State Leaders to Active Resistance talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white...
Reposted by Josh Marshall
I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say "The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the fuck they want and make shit up as they go along."
January 25, 2026 at 6:25 PM
I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say "The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the fuck they want and make shit up as they go along."
White House Terror Tactics Are Pushing Blue State Leaders to Active Resistance talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white...
White House Terror Tactics Are Pushing Blue State Leaders to Active Resistance
There is another point I want to note about what has happened...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:59 PM
White House Terror Tactics Are Pushing Blue State Leaders to Active Resistance talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white...
Reposted by Josh Marshall
Update: In the evidence preservation lawsuit, the current Civil Chief at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office (who appears to be Ana Voss, based on the letter), refused to accept email service of the lawsuit last night and then refused to accept in-person service until Monday.
Ridiculous behavior.
Ridiculous behavior.
January 25, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Update: In the evidence preservation lawsuit, the current Civil Chief at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office (who appears to be Ana Voss, based on the letter), refused to accept email service of the lawsuit last night and then refused to accept in-person service until Monday.
Ridiculous behavior.
Ridiculous behavior.
Vance Endorsed Slashing Civil Liberties Protections During Minneapolis Visit talkingpointsmemo.com/news/vance-e...
Vance Endorsed Slashing Civil Liberties Protections During Minneapolis Visit
If you read mainstream coverage of Vice President JD Vance’s trip to...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Vance Endorsed Slashing Civil Liberties Protections During Minneapolis Visit talkingpointsmemo.com/news/vance-e...
this is right. you don't have to work out every detail. start with no. go from there.
Senate Dems needn’t come to agreement on everything right now. That’s a path to the lowest common denominator. They simply have to agree to filibuster DHS approps. As to which of a host of anti-brutality and anti-authoritarian proposals to advance, let a thousand flowers bloom.
January 25, 2026 at 6:21 PM
this is right. you don't have to work out every detail. start with no. go from there.
kinda funny with this dumbass piece of shit. he circles his way around to saying maybe Trump should retaliate by withdrawing ICE from Minneapolis and letting the population rise up against Walz and Frey and having them demand that ICE come back. moron.
FOX: "We do not have evidence that he was waving a gun or doing anything to threaten Border Patrol. He had his phone and he was viewing and recording the incident."
Rep. James Comer: "They got all these white liberals coming in trying to run over ICE, trying to spray them and do everything..."
Rep. James Comer: "They got all these white liberals coming in trying to run over ICE, trying to spray them and do everything..."
January 25, 2026 at 6:18 PM
kinda funny with this dumbass piece of shit. he circles his way around to saying maybe Trump should retaliate by withdrawing ICE from Minneapolis and letting the population rise up against Walz and Frey and having them demand that ICE come back. moron.
Reposted by Josh Marshall
Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents?
Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
January 25, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents?
Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?
Reposted by Josh Marshall
CNN's State of the Union: Sen. Murphy: ‘We cannot fund a Department of Homeland Security that is murdering American citizens’
January 25, 2026 at 4:12 PM
CNN's State of the Union: Sen. Murphy: ‘We cannot fund a Department of Homeland Security that is murdering American citizens’
Reposted by Josh Marshall
8/8 The House Committee on Homeland Security, chaired by Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), is requesting the acting head of ICE and the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to testify at a congressional oversight hearing on border security and immigration enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 7:18 AM
8/8 The House Committee on Homeland Security, chaired by Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), is requesting the acting head of ICE and the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to testify at a congressional oversight hearing on border security and immigration enforcement.
Reposted by Josh Marshall
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
January 25, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939