Plowing the Sea of News
Re-upping this post from this morning. People are comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. But let's give Benito Mussolini his due as the true proto-Trump.
Meanwhile we have three weeks to go in our 2015 Prime sign up drive. We have just 14 sign ups to go to get to 2500 new members and just 514 new members to get to our admittedly wildly aspirational goal of 3000 new members. Today was a day I was really proud of our whole crew. We had Tierney Sneed up at the Supreme Court to hear today's oral arguments and Justice Scalia's comments about affirmative action condemning black students to schools that are too advanced for them. I think she was one of the first and perhaps the first to file a story on it. Then later in the day, Lauren Fox was up on the Hill pressing far-right Rep. Steve King (R-IA) about Donald Trump's Muslim immigration ban and captured this priceless, bizarre and quite sad exchange between King and one of the two Muslims currently serving in Congress, Rep. Keith Ellison (R-MN).
That mixed with a lot of amazing work from our team of Sneed, Fox, Caitlin Cruz, Sara Jerde, Allegra Kirkland, Katherine Krueger, Caitlin MacNeal and our new New York City editor Catherine Thompson to put together a day we felt very good about even as the news itself left little to feel good about. As I've mentioned a few time in recent posts, our whole team is focused on reconnecting with what we do best, the specific way we cover the news and ways to do it faster, smarter and better in the new news and technology environment we're in on the cusp of 2016. Prime is the way we invite you to join us, become part of what we do, get more from TPM and help us build the resources to do even more. If you're a regular reader and you haven't had the chance yet or haven't found the right moment, click here and join Prime.
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