memeorandum: Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, says she's homeless, cries poverty after suspension from $90K-per-year college over anti-Israel protests (New York Post)

3:40 PM ET, April 22, 2024

Top Items:

Live Updates: Jurors in Trump Criminal Case Told That He Lied ‘Over and Over and Over’ — Donald J. Trump is charged with falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened to derail his 2016 campaign. A lawyer for Mr. Trump insisted that the former president “did not commit any crimes.”

Discussion: NBC News, The Hill, Fox News, Metro.co.uk, Breitbart, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, IJR, Mediaite, Raw Story, Forbes, Voice of America, Alternet.org, The Mahablog, Daily Caller News Foundation, CNBC and Althouse

Washington Post:

Live updates Opening statements expected in Trump hush money trial — NEW YORK — Opening statements are expected Monday morning in Donald Trump's trial for allegedly falsifying business records to hide a hush money payment during the 2016 presidential election campaign.

Discussion: USA Today, The Hill, CBS News, Semafor, Washington Times, Forbes, Business Insider, Fox News, Alternet.org and Balloon Juice

Chauncey DeVega / Salon:

“The alternate reality Trump lives in is crumbling” with first criminal trial: ex-federal prosecutor — “I think that Donald Trump is probably trying to get himself thrown into prison” — With a jury now impaneled, Donald Trump's hush-money trial can finally begin in earnest.

Discussion: New York Magazine, Washington Times, PoliticusUSA, Raw Story and abc7NY

David Axelrod / The Atlantic:

What Donald Trump Fears Most — Donald Trump's biographers all seem to agree that he didn't get a lot of love from his father. But what Fred Trump did impart to his son was an indelible lesson: There are two kinds of people in the world—killers and losers—and like his father, Donald had to be a killer.

Discussion: Raw Story

Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Opening statements to show the stark personal and political stakes of Trump's first criminal trial

Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and The Hill

Minouche Shafik / president.columbia.edu:

Statement from Columbia University President Minouche Shafik — Dear Members of the Columbia Community, — I am deeply saddened by what is happening on our campus. Our bonds as a community have been severely tested in ways that will take a great deal of time and effort to reaffirm.

Yale Daily News:

LIVE: Yale police arrests 47 pro-divestment student protesters, demonstration moves to block intersection — Justin Farmer, a former Hamden Town Councilor and local activist, is on-site in support of protesters' demands. He told the News that he is angry with how Yale police shutting …

Discussion: YaleNews, Vanity Fair, Boston Herald, CNN, The Michigan Daily, Washington Examiner, The Harvard Crimson, UPI, RedState, Breitbart, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, Hartford Courant, Axios and WHDH-TV

CNN:

Columbia University faces full-blown crisis as rabbi calls for Jewish students to ‘return home’ — Columbia University is facing a full-blown crisis heading into Passover as a rabbi linked to the Ivy League school urged Jewish students to stay home and tense confrontations on campus sparked condemnation …

CNN:
Tensions are so high at Columbia ahead of Passover that all classes will be virtual today

Discussion: The Hill, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Examiner, New York Times, Politico, Boston Herald, UPI, The Daily Caller, Fox News and New York Daily News

Liz Cheney / New York Times:

The Supreme Court Should Rule Swiftly on Trump's Immunity Claim — On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Donald Trump's arguments that he is immune from prosecution for his efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election. It is likely that all — or nearly all …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Guardian, HuffPost, Washington Examiner, New Jersey Online, Raw Story, Plain Dealer, The Hill, WHDH-TV, Bloomberg and Alternet.org

Marist Poll:

Biden Edges Trump in Two-Way Presidential Contest; Opens Up Lead Among Definite Voters — Despite a still close contest between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Trump's support among white voters and independents has splintered. Biden is doing better …

Discussion: Washington Post, nationalinterest.org, Raw Story and NBC News

Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The next president may be chosen by indifference

Discussion: PJ Media, New Jersey Online and NBC News

Walter Shapiro / New Republic:

The GOP's Worst Fears About the End of Roe v. Wade Have Come True … Nearly two years after the leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade, abortion refuses to step out of the spotlight on center stage in American politics.

Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Newsom proposes law to help Arizonans get abortions in California

Discussion: NPR, Washington Times, The Hill, Democrats, The Gateway Pundit, BizPac Review, Axios, Politico, Washington Examiner, New York Times, Sacramento Bee and al.com

Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:

Republicans Are Suing for the Right To Harass Election Workers — You might think that even in today's highly polarized election environment there would be a bipartisan consensus to protect election workers from intimidation and harassment. If you thought so, you would be wrong.

New York Post:

Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, says she's homeless, cries poverty after suspension from $90K-per-year college over anti-Israel protests — The privileged daughter of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar amazingly claims she's homeless and can't get food after being kicked out of her prestigious $90 …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Hill, American Greatness, PJ Media, One America News Network, Breitbart, BizPac Review, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, HotAir, Fox News, Exposing the role …, Twitchy, RedState, The Daily Beast and Teen Vogue

Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:

‘Civil War’ is terrifying not for what it says about America, but about journalism — Around 2 p.m. on Friday, I opened my laptop and bought a ticket on Fandango for that night's showing of Civil War, the No. 1 movie in America that depicts a not-too-distant U.S. future of killing fields, refugee camps and bombed-out shopping malls.

Discussion: Scripting News and Variety

Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:

John Legend says Trump believes ‘to his core’ that ‘Black people are inferior’ — Singer John Legend says former President Trump is a racist down “to his core.” — Speaking to MSNBC's Jen Psaki on Sunday, Legend spoke of Trump's response to the Black Lives Matter protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd.

Discussion: MSNBC and The Daily Beast

Hanna Trudo / The Hill:

Abortion-rights group launches ad in Michigan, Wisconsin warning about RFK Jr. — An abortion-rights group is attacking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as extreme and unfit to serve over abortion rights, as the health issue takes focus in the presidential election. — Reproductive Freedom …

Discussion: The Michigan Daily

Hugh Jackson / Nevada Current:

Trump, RNC promise ‘aggressive’ election interference in battleground states — Workers at the Washoe County Registrar of Voters counting early ballots in 2020. The process was live-streamed online. (Screengrab via YouTube) — Policy, politics and progressive commentary

Discussion: BizPac Review and Associated Press

The Hill:

Harris discusses reproductive freedom at campaign event: Watch live — Vice President Harris will address abortion access Monday afternoon in a campaign stop in La Crosse, Wis., during her third visit to the critical swing state this year. — Harris has taken the lead in the White House's efforts …

Ana Ceballos / Miami Herald:

Some migrants flown by DeSantis to Martha's Vineyard qualify for victim visas, feds say — Some of the 49 migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard by the state of Florida are now able to legally work in the United States and have temporary protections from deportation — because they are considered victims …

Discussion: Sacramento Bee

Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:

Unite the Right tiki torch man pleads guilty to assaulting cops on Jan. 6 — A man convicted of burning a tiki torch while chanting white supremacist slogans at the Unite the Right rally in 2017 has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors and has admitted to assaulting two police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Discussion: NBC News

Washington Post:

How Trump has become angrier and more isolated on Truth Social — For years, Donald Trump was among Twitter's loudest and most inescapable voices: a brash, bomb-throwing businessman turned president who could capture the global news cycle with a single tweet.

Discussion: Raw Story

Pluralistic:

Paying for it doesn't make it a market (permalink) — Anyone who says “If you're not paying for the product, you're the product” has been suckered in by Big Tech, whose cargo-cult version of markets and the discipline they impose on companies. — Here's the way that story goes …

Angela Dewan / CNN:

The world dumps 2,000 truckloads of plastic into the ocean each day. Here's where a lot of it ends up — Photographs and video by Edu Ponces/RUIDO Photo — The western coast of Java in Indonesia is popular with surfers for its world-famous breaks. There's a majestic underwater world to explore, too.

Discussion: The Hill, New Jersey Online and Sun-Sentinel

Associated Press:

Papua New Guinea leader takes offense after Biden implies an uncle was eaten by cannibals — MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape accused Joe Biden of disparaging the South Pacific island nation by implying that an uncle of the U.S. president had been eaten by …

Discussion: Reuters, Fox News, RedState, New York Times, New York Post, The Hill, Forbes, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Washington Examiner and Politico

William Kristol / The Bulwark:

How Biden Can Press His Ukraine Advantage — A great new spot from our pals at Republican Voters Against Trump is out this morning. “I was wondering if you guys are hiring right now,” the narrator toting the hidden camera asks a sequence of mall-store managers. “I'm currently facing 88 felonies.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Daily Kos, The White House, Center for Security Policy and Wall Street Journal

Joseph Choi / The Hill:

White House moves to protect patient abortion records — The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule Monday blocking the disclosure of protected health information to aid in the investigation or litigation of patients or providers involved in legal reproductive health care.

Discussion: The 19th

The Hill:

California launches unprecedented targets to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 — California on Monday released a first-of-its-kind plan to harness more than half of the state's land to decrease carbon emissions. — Over the next two decades, the state will be working to accomplish 81 nature-based goals …

Discussion: California Governor and Los Angeles Times