Handle what ballots, where? For what purpose?

I'm a teacher in Tennessee. I was an active duty Marine. I know how to handle a weapon. I can assure you these people have never experienced an actual working high school classroom or they wouldn't be passing this nonsense. A child will die because of this.

An off-script moment in Florida: a UPS employee tells Joe Biden 'the only reason I have a pension is because of you.' He adds: 'You stood strong with us and we'll stand strong with you, sir.'

Don’t inject bleach.

And don’t vote for the guy who told you to inject bleach.

NEW: A unanimous appeals court panel, acting on a POLITICO petition, clears the way to unseal details of Trump's bid to block top aides from testifying to D.C. grand jury in probe of 2020 election.

w/ Josh Gerstein

politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

Given what we have learned about how DJT operates, I see it as a zero chance he gets through this TS stock exchange venture without ending up with insider trading charges and probably money laundering charges.

Blanche: 'President Trump is being very careful to comply' with the gag order.

Merchan, sharply: 'Mr. Blanche, you are losing all credibility.'

Given this latest post from Trump, a reminder of his own efforts to ban TikTok four years ago.

There's some wild stuff in this newly unsealed (but heavily redacted) FBI interview from a high-level Trump-world person related to the classified docs investigation.

For example: the witness was afraid to have the interview recorded for fear of reprisal storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

NOTE: Rachel is *in the courtroom right now* and will share her insights from being there in person tonight.

The Prosecution's Opening:

'This case is about a criminal conspiracy. Trump orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election. Then he covered up that criminal conspiracy by lying in his NY business records over and over and over again.'

And the Trump trial has begun...

The People have advised that their Opening Statement will take 45 minutes.

The defense says 25 minutes for its Opening.

JUST IN: Liz CHENEY is out with a NYT op-ed pushing for the Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claim in a way that does not allow him to delay his D.C. trial past the 2024 election.

nytimes.com/2024/04/22/opi…

What a ghoul

Cheers erupt as the Ukraine aid package passes in the House of Representatives

310-112

Lol. Go ahead and put Avenatti on the stand. The prosecutors can use all of his own statements against him pretty easy. And it's not hard to press his buttons and make him turn ugly in front of the jury.

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump has been incredibly mad in private about how the first week of his criminal trial went, sources tell us. Targets of his rage have included Maggie Haberman, the courtroom sketch artist, and late-night hosts.

More: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

JUST IN: The DC Circuit has upheld the conviction of former Ron/Rand Paul aide Jesse BENTON for orchestrating an illegal payment from a Russian national to the Trump campaign and RNC. documentcloud.org/documents/2455…

Has anyone done, Tom's shirts don't be Fitton yet?