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Josh Marshall

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Editor and Publisher at Talking Points Memo

Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. ✡️ (Sign up for The Backchannel https://t.co/GpsQ8cC6vk)

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  • 1 week ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Josh Marshall

    Send comments and tips to talk at talkingpointsmemo dot com. To share confidential information by secure channels contact me on Signal at joshtpm dot 99 or via encrypted mail at joshtpm (at) protonmail dot com. Crain’s Chicago has a piece on the law firm deals. It focuses on Chicago-based Kirkland & Ellis. The conclusion is the same. There’s no written document. It’s only the bullet-pointed text they shared internally and which Trump posted on Truth Social.

  • 1 week ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Josh Marshall

    I mentioned earlier that I was speaking with a source who had an NEH grant canceled. These cancelations which happened a couple weeks ago have been widely reported but I wanted to share some of the atmospherics of those cancelations. By the standards of grants we’re hearing about at big research universities, the dollar value of the grant is quite small, not even that far into six figures. The specifics of the grant or the recipient or the nature of the work aren’t what I want to discuss.

  • 1 week ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Josh Marshall

    Our conversations today are full of fairly moralizing claims about anticipatory obedience or obeying in advance. But almost as much of what is happening is what I would classify as failures of imagination. They may have substantively the same effect, similar actions. But they’re different. For instance, today FEMA rejected a request from Washington state for disaster relief funds for a cyclone that hit the state last fall. As these things go the sums are relatively small, $34 million.

  • 1 week ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Josh Marshall

    Send comments and tips to talk at talkingpointsmemo dot com. To share confidential information by secure channels contact me on Signal at joshtpm dot 99 or via encrypted mail at joshtpm (at) protonmail dot com.

  • 1 week ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Josh Marshall

    You’ve likely seen that Harvard officially and publicly refused the Trump White House’s latest set of demands. You can see the letter here. I would say that if you’re going to read only one letter it should actually be the one the White House (notionally the GSA, HHS and Education) sent to Harvard. It’s a very clarifying letter.

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Josh Marshall
Josh Marshall @joshtpm
11 Apr 25

RT @PuckNews: Inside the White House’s white-knuckle pressure campaign to force Hill Republicans not to break with Trump’s tariff policy, n…

Josh Marshall
Josh Marshall @joshtpm
11 Apr 25

Remember that DOGE has already lost the US Treasury more than $500 billion by gutting the IRS. That's the IRS's own estimate. So even if his $150 billion claim were true (which it's almost certainly not) DOGE is $350 billion in the hole.

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Musk: We anticipate savings in FY26 from reduction of waste and fraud by $150 billion. https://t.co/DaL5Sjtj0t

Josh Marshall
Josh Marshall @joshtpm
10 Apr 25

Wow. This is from a Trump II State Dept appointee, Tibor Nagy, unloading on the DOGE shitshow as a "stage production which combined elements of a tragicomedy with the Twilight Zone." Again, this is a Trump guy talking. https://t.co/zBxull8k2V https://t.co/Ne2zlE75ro