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3:50 PM ET, April 22, 2024

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New York Times:
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.”
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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.
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.
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
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.
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Yale Daily News:
LIVE: Yale police arrests 47 pro-divestment student protesters, demonstration moves to block intersection  —  The News obtained a message sent to protesters who were arrested this morning on where to claim their belongings that were cleared off of Beinecke Plaza throughout the morning by Yale police and maintenance workers.
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
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 …
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 …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The next president may be chosen by indifference
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.
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Newsom proposes law to help Arizonans get abortions in California
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 …
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
Naomi Hartono / NASA Blogs:
NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth  —  For the first time since November, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems.  The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again.
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
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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
 
 
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Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
‘Our Revolution’: Far-left lawmakers host event taking aim at ‘anti-peace’ pro-Israel group
Discussion: Washington Examiner
The Hill:
California launches unprecedented targets to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The GOP's Pro-Russia Caucus Lost. Now Ukraine Has to Win.
Discussion: The Economist and Raw Story
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Marjorie Taylor Greene's “space lasers” show how the GOP gets away with escalating violence
Leah Willingham / Associated Press:
In race for his Senate seat, Joe Manchin endorses West Virginia Democratic Mayor Glenn Elliott
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
Saul Zimet / Human Progress:
The Simon Abundance Index 2024
Discussion: National Review and Reason
Austin Sarat / The Hill:
Americans who want to protect democracy need to stand up for public libraries
 Earlier Items: 
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court to decide if Biden administration can regulate ‘ghost guns’
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Vance versus McConnell defines GOP Ukraine fight
Discussion: Defense One, RedState and Politico
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Ron Filipkowski / The Daily Beast:
Trump's a Fraud When It Comes to Law and Order and ‘Backing the Blue’
The Daily Beast:
Russian Who Bankrolled Trump's Truth Social Set Up Dodgy Sex Pill Sites
Discussion: Alternet.org
 

 
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