Maggie HabermanTrump's base responds to him claiming he's the victim of a weaponized justice system w Bragg, Georgia and DOJ. As president, he tried repeatedly to use the levers of power to target enemies for prosecution. @nytmike and me nytimes.com/2023/03/29/us/…
Reid WilsonThe day before Florida lawmakers voted to create a new board overseeing Disney, the Disney-aligned old board passed an agreement basically neutering the new one, to be in effect until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of King Charles (?!?) orlandosentinel.com/news/os-ne-dis…
Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸Twitter herded a lot of the world’s smartest and most interesting people into one place for a while.
But that moment is over. I wrote about how this app became like the Silicon Valley Bank of the attention economy, where a lot of us deposited our time: latimes.com/entertainment-…
Charlie SykesJudge Luttig on @BulwarkOnline podcast:
If Trump is not indicted for 1/6, "I will believe that's a great disservice to democracy and to the rule of law in America."
Sahil KapurNew @AP poll neatly captures the paradox of budget politics. Americans say abstractly the government should cut spending, but show them the list of things it actually spends money on and they say nice, spend more on that.
Frank Thorp VSCOOP: Senate security officials have taken new steps to protect the secrecy of senators’ weekly closed-door lunches after a contract employee was arrested for allegedly recording audio of a GOP lunch in early March, via @JulieNBCNews, @GarrettHaake & I -> nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Texas Observer Lives!WE DID IT! The Texas Observer will remain open!
Our board voted to rescind both layoffs and the closure. We'll have more news soon, but we believe this is the start of a very positive transformation—and you were made it possible! #TexasNeedsAnObserver! texasobserver.org/texas-observer…
Jacob RubashkinTrump vs. DeSantis trend in Quinnipiac polling:
11/22/22: DeSantis 45, Trump 43
2/16/23: Trump 43, DeSantis 41
3/15/23: Trump 51, DeSantis 40
3/29/23: Trump 52, DeSantis 42
Alec MacGillisHospitals are closing at disprortionately high rates in Mississippi and the other nine red states that have refused to accept Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, even though the fed gov't picks up 90 pct of the cost and has further sweetened the pot recently.
Greg Miller“This is the victory that belongs to all of us man — to the entire team. Today we f---ing drink!!!”
Russian spy Sergei Cherkasov emailing his GRU handlers after being admitted to @SAISHopkins grad school in DC.
Anne ApplebaumIf you are going to call yourself a realist, at least base your arguments on reality. Weird how so many"realists" prefer myths theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Matthew GertzIt is good and important to tighten laws that keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, but the enforcement mechanism is arresting and prosecuting violators. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…
Peter BakerJoining Biden democracy summit are India, which is jailing its opposition chief; Israel, where Netanyahu wants to curb courts; and Mexico, where elections are at risk. "With friends such as these" says @EdwardGLuce "democracy hardly needs enemies." ft.com/content/8e1b77…
Kevin M. Kruse“It grants enormous power to a single bigoted individual to dictate and control what books other parents’ kids have access to.”
Great piece by @ThePlumLineGS washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…
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Bill GrueskinWe each have a small but vital role to play in this world, and -- as @charlottetklein has apparently learned from @sarahellison -- mine is to provide kicker quotes to media reporters. vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/g…
Jonathan Martin.@katieglueck from Bay City and B’ham on Mich creeping blue > nytimes.com/2023/03/29/us/…
David FrenchThis is an absolute gut-punch of an article. The story of extremism in this country isn't just about tearing apart our body politic, it's also a story of intense and dreadful personal cruelty and harassment. Horrible. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
David ShepardsonNotable passage in @WSJ wsj.com/articles/its-n…
Daniel DaleA handy way to make the states with the most people, like Florida, look like they’re very bad on crime: use absolute totals rather than per-capita figures. (People also do this to attack the most populous cities.) cnn.com/2023/03/29/pol…
Josh MarshallThis is an absolute must-read. I've put it outside our paywall. The same Ukrainians, working for Russia, who were feeding anti-Biden "dirt" to Rudy in 2019/2020 were tasked with running Russian preparations for the invasion in 2021/22. talkingpointsmemo.com/prime/the-same… via @TPM
Stop Sharing Viral College-Acceptance Videos
Don’t make them, don’t “like” them, don’t pass them on.
"Some people might find these videos harmless or uplifting but that has not been my experience, nor does it resemble what I have heard from other teens...These videos only exacerbate the already over-the-top stress students feel around college admissions." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
