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Politically POMP is a calm, context-driven podcast for people who want to understand what’s happening in politics without the panic, outrage, or talking points.
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The Mail in Ballot Fight (opens the original)
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The Supreme Court did not end mail-in voting or issue a final ruling approving Trump’s executive order. It said the original lawsuit came too early. Then USPS finalized the rule. In this episode, I unpack the new federal mail-ballot requirements, the lawsuit filed by 24 states and Washington, D.C., and the bigger issue underneath the headlines: How much power should a president and federal agency have over election systems traditionally run by states and local officials? We can care about ballot
AM Brief: Border Walls, Campus Pressure, Carroll & the FCC (opens the original)
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This morning’s AM Brief examines four stories tied together by power and accountability: the pause of a border project in Big Bend National Park, whistleblower allegations about federal antisemitism investigations of universities, the Supreme Court leaving the E. Jean Carroll verdict intact, and ABC’s lawsuit against the FCC. The larger question is not whether government has authority. It does. The question is whether that authority is being exercised with evidence, restraint, and accountability
Power Without Restraint | AM Brief (opens the original)
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This morning’s AM Brief is up. We’re looking at three very different stories, but they all raise the same question: What happens when people in power start treating oversight, legal limits, and dissent as obstacles instead of safeguards? In the occupied West Bank, U.S. officials reportedly pressed Netanyahu to condemn an alleged settler siege that left Palestinian families trapped without water or electricity. Trump is asking the Supreme Court to let construction resume on his proposed White Hou
The PM Brief: Taxes, Troops, and the Human Cost of Power (opens the original)
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Tonight on Politically POMP, we’re looking past the headline and asking a harder question: When government uses power, who lives with the consequences, and who is held accountable? In this PM Brief: An appeals court allows New York City to resume its rollout of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s luxury second-home, or pied-à-terre, tax while the legal challenge continues. President Trump threatens to sue the Center for American Progress after its report found no measurable evidence that National Guard deplo
The Brief AM 8/13 (opens the original)
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When systems stop telling the whole truth, ordinary people are left carrying the risk.In today’s Politically POMP AM Brief, we look at four stories that deserve more than a passing headline:Families of sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are raising urgent concerns about reported mental-health crises during an extended deployment.DHS confirmed the death of José Chajon-Raxon after a medical emergency connected to ICE detention, while pointing to a policy that no longer requires public reportin
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