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An interview with TPM's Josh Marshall on the political blog turning 25, lessons from being an outsider, staying independent, ads vs. memberships, and more (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/how-talking-po…

How Talking Points Memo lasted a quarter century.
Josh Marshall reflects on building “a tabloid for smart people” and how his politics blog survived in a “chaotic and unstable and bad business.”

Dick Cheney spent decades as the ultimate GOP insider. He died an outsider. (Karen Tumulty/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/04/dick-cheney-insider-outsider-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p85#a251104p85

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#OperaOn3
- Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Tchaikovsky's passionate thriller from Garsington Opera, starring Aaron Cawley as the obsessive outsider Herman and Laura Wilde as his doomed lover Lisa.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kddj

As an outsider, watching from Europe, I am wondering whether the democratic leadership will give in to Trump’s demands to prevent a government shutdown.
What do you think?
#governmentshutdown #trump #democrats

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/115611262294196579
Molly’s gloriously-outsider take on “crypto treasury” companies is excellent. For an insider take on the same issue, see Matt Levine, who in the same column covers sports betting, various colorful fra…