Going on MSNBC now re Trump Trial. I got a good look at the jury. For fuller account of inside tje ckurtroom: oldgoats.substack.com

Going on MSNBC now re Trump Trial, which i am covering from the courtroom.

The Judge Tells Donald Trump to Sit Down. Day four of the hush money trial underscored how little control Trump has as both sides get ready for their opening statements. Follow Jonathan Alter's courtroom diary in the Washington @Monthly.

washingtonmonthly.com/2024/04/20/the…

No Jews no news

FYI.

You bet that history will remember the Columbia University protests.

Slam meet dunk.

Imagine being a Jewish student at Columbia University and finding yourself tormented by Anti-Israel extremists who call for October 7th to be repeated—10,000 times!

Calling for 10,000 October 7 massacres is tantamount to calling for the murder of 12 million Jews.

Does

My Times take last night...nytimes.com/live/2024/04/1…

WATCH THIS AND SHARE PLEASE! open.substack.com/pub/robertreic…

Privilege is when you hold a loudly disruptive, all-night hate festival in the center of campus, sleep in cozy, matching tents, and when the grown-ups finally force you to leave, custodians who work hard for a living are called in to clean up your mess.

Aviva Klompas Jake Tapper

My latest right-out-of-the-oven take from the courthouse for the New York Times. nytimes.com/live/2024/04/1…

My complete wrap-up on the amazing achievement of seating more than half the jury on the first real day of jury selection. Please subscribe, free or paid. oldgoats.substack.com/p/day-two-it-i…

You never catch mike luckovich sleeping on the job. Byron Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 Jonathan Alter Mike Barnicle Bill Kristol Molly Jong-Fast Glenn Thrush George Conway Glenn Kirschner Jonathan Reiner Joe Scarborough Mika Brzezinski Don Gonyea NPR Jonathan Karl

The Steady Judge Merchan and The Desperate Trump Defense. @JonathanAlter—the journalist, historian, and Washington Washington Monthly contributing editor—reports from the first day of Trump’s hush money trial.

washingtonmonthly.com/2024/04/16/the…

From the Times obit: 'Holtzman, as a Cub, and Koufax, with the Dodgers, faced each other once, at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Sept. 25, 1966.' Holtzman had a no-hitter into the 9th and won, 2-1. I was there as an 8-year-old with my dad.

My inside-the-courthouse take on jury selection--and the judge rebuking Trump in an angry voice. nytimes.com/live/2024/04/1…

Terrific column by Jill Lawrence seeing the affinities between Paul Gosar and RFK Jr. The parallelism had never occurred to me. But it works. Spoiler alert: Both families hate their relative for wallowing in the fever swamps of conspiracy theories: thebulwark.com/p/crank-politi…

Jury tampering. That’s what they do. *It’s a felony.