Trump just claimed that the police have shut down the streets around the courthouse for blocks & that his protesters can’t be here.

Just…not true. There is one pro-Trump person here & the main street along the courthouse is open to traffic.

This is just not helpful for the DA.

We are aware of reports claiming that the United States conducted airstrikes in Iraq today. Those reports are not true. The United States has not conducted air strikes in Iraq today.

The Daily Beast Merchan now serving up a dish of reality to the former president's legal team, which seems to think they can still avoid the inevitable.

'There's nothing else to reargue. We're going to have opening statements Monday morning. This trial is starting.'

Per reporters in the room, after the Sandoval hearing & dealing with largely repetitive motions from Trump asking for do-overs on rulings the Judge has already made against him, Merchan says, 'we're going to have opening statements on Monday morning. This trial is starting.'

Spoke with Iranians in Isfahan and Tehran today to see what the mood was following Israel’s early morning strike in Isfahan — with susannah george wapo.st/3UqXTaM

Ladies and gentlemen, there is a jury (and alternates).

incredible stuff

Truly amazing how incredibly mundane every single 'scandal' related to Obama is. Just the most miniscule, negligible, forgettable nonsense.

fuckin dream team right here

Marjorie Taylor-Greene making demands about 'Hungarians in Transcarpathia' is like when Elon Musk referred to Crimea as 'Khrushchev's mistake' while trying to stop Ukraine from attacking Russian ships.

Must've gotten the phrasing from Russia, or someone into Russian propaganda.

Perfectly normal stuff going on over in MAGA cult Twitter, where Mike Johnson is apparently being blackmailed by the Deep State™ with threats to murder his family and the proposed solution is to 'ship them abroad' for their protection.

Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of a crash techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/tes…

Excuse me.

'Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure....said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks.'

It should be made clear over and over that no one is asking to be excused from the jury because they think they might be harassed, assaulted, or killed by angry anti-Trump people.

Only Trump and his supporters that have created this environment and fear in prospective jurors.

'axis of evil'

I don't disagree, but hard to take in that phrase without ALL the baggage it carries.

NEW: It’s 9:12 pm, and Don Hankey’s Knight Specialty Insurance Company has not yet filed court papers to justify their $175 million bond in Trump’s civil fraud case. That filing is due *today.*

This is not sage advice unless you also enjoy being prosecuted and/or tort liability.