Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

So many bastards, so little time.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

In after Baud. Damn.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Let there be snark.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

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Trump’s NY Criminal Trial, Day 21

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It’s Day 21 of the trial.

We are closing in on the end of Trump’s NY Trial.

This should be interesting.  Just closing arguments and jury instructions, and then jury deliberation begins.

Best sources of live blogging that I have found.

Josh Kovensky (TPM)   live blogging

Mark Sumner (Daily Kos)  live blogging

Tyler McBrien (Lawfare) on twitter

Anna Bower (Lawfare) on twitter

Adam Klasfeld on twitter

Lisa Rubin on twitter

 

AP Live blogging

Still loving this awesome guy who carries this sign.

Trump’s NY Criminal Trial, Day 20: Jury Instruction Discussion at 2:15 Eastern

Open thread.

Update:

Witness testimony refresher from ABC.  h/t Jackie or Scout211, I think.  It was in a thread yesterday and I have slept since then!

Over the last five weeks, the jury in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial witnessed a marathon of testimony.

Among the 22 witnesses who took the stand, jurors heard from Trump’s former lawyer, an adult film actress, two of Trump’s executive assistants, a tabloid executive, a top White House aide, and a flurry of custodial witnesses as prosecutors sought to show that Trump falsified business records to hide the reimbursement of a hush money payment his then-attorney Michael Cohen made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to boost Trump’s electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election.

Trump’s NY Criminal Trial, Day 21

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I Understand It’s a Lovely Day in the Bronx Today

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Well, if you’re not Donald Trump, that is.

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Speaking of Jack Smith, if someone asked me which one I would rather meet with, I’m not sure what my answer would be. Meet? Definitely the real Jack Smith. But I’m sure I wold be tongue-tied. To meet and hang out with? Fake Jack Smith, no question.

Raise your hand if you are starting to get the feeling that some of Trump’s supporters are no longer as enamored of him as they used to be.

Totally open thread.

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Late Night Open Thread: The Fanbearer & the Fluffers

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I think this is the best caricature of ‘Leader’ Mike Johnson I’ve seen. Not, as he flatters himself, a Moses, just another untrustworthy servant to a a cartoonish pharaoh…
The Fanbearer & the Fluffers - STOCKPILE

(Ann Telnaes via the Washington Post)

 

On Monday [May 13th], Sen. J.D. Vance, the Appalachian memoirist from the suburbs of Dayton, showed up at Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan wearing a blue suit and plain red necktie, and proceeded to say the sorts of things that a gag order is supposed to be preventing the defendant from saying in public anymore. As the week went on, more synthetic Trumps kept showing up, a parade of major and minor Republican figures—some of them major and minor at the same time, like House Speaker-by-default Mike Johnson, or the media-penetrating failed presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

The men were decked out like Vance, which is to say like costume-store versions of Trump, to varying degrees of fidelity. Johnson finessed it with a striped tie in equal proportions of red and navy, but with the red naturally catching the eye; centimillionaire Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who turned up last week, went with a red-dominated repp tie. But a Tuesday lineup of Ramaswamy, Florida Reps. Byron Donalds and Cory Mills, and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum stood shoulder to shoulder in nearly matching, fully blank red neckwear, like groomsmen, or backup singers looking for a band.

Or—in the most widespread interpretation—they looked as if they were auditioning for a part. Specifically, they were supposed to be auditioning for the role of Trump’s running mate. This seemed like a reasonable reading of the spectacle, but the details were hard to pin down….

The first, non-negotiable thing that Trump wants in a running mate is the guarantee that there won’t be another Mike Pence—that his new vice president would never turn against him, no matter what the law or constitutional duty might say. Already, under pressure from Trump, Republicans are refusing to say they’ll accept the results of this year’s balloting. He needs a crook he can trust.

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Trump’s NY Criminal Trial, Day 20: Jury Instruction Discussion at 2:15 Eastern

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It’s Day 20 of the trial.

Discussions / debate on jury instructions begin at 2:15 this afternoon.

I am not a lawyer, but it seems like this could be the whole ballgame.  Yes?  No?

Best sources of live blogging that I have found.

Josh Kovensky (TPM)   live blogging

Mark Sumner (Daily Kos)  live blogging

Tyler McBrien (Lawfare) on twitter

Anna Bower (Lawfare) on twitter

Adam Klasfeld on twitter

Lisa Rubin on twitter

not up yet

AP Live blogging

AP Live blogging

Still loving this awesome guy who carries this sign.  Seems to be in a different place in this one!

Open thread.

Update:  Court will be back in session at 2:15 Eastern to sort out jury instructions.  There will be live blogging for that, too, so stay tuned.  Or maybe I’ll put up a new post for that.

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Trump’s NY Criminal Trial, Day 20

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It’s Day 20 of the trial.

Hoping for more bad behavior from the defense today.  Is that wrong?

Best sources of live blogging that I have found.

Josh Kovensky (TPM)   live blogging

Mark Sumner (Daily Kos)  live blogging

Tyler McBrien (Lawfare) on twitter

Anna Bower (Lawfare) on twitter

Adam Klasfeld on twitter

Lisa Rubin on twitter

not up yet

AP Live blogging

Still loving this awesome guy who carries this sign.

Trump’s NY Criminal Trial

Open thread.

Update:  Court will be back in session at 2:15 Eastern to sort out jury instructions.  There will be live blogging for that, too, so stay tuned.  Or maybe I’ll put up a new post for that.

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Trump’s NY Criminal Trial, Day 18 (Michael Cohen Cross)

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 It’s Day 18 of the trial.

Is it still possible that the prosecution could rest as soon as today?  Stay tuned!

Michael Cohen cross continues today!

Best sources of live blogging that I have found.  It looks like some of them are only live blogging for the “big” witnesses, but I think the Michael Cohen cross qualifies as a big witness.  Stormy Daniels had her Wednesday off last week, and she was able to come back and be even better as she handled the cross from the defense.

Hoping the defense didn’t use their Wednesday to improve their performance from Tuesday!  Wondering if they are going to have Bove do the cross, which would not be as good for our side.

Josh Kovensky (TPM)   live blogging

Mark Sumner (Daily Kos)  live blogging

Tyler McBrien (Lawfare) on twitter

Anna Bower (Lawfare) on twitter

Adam Klasfeld on twitter.

AP Live blogging

NBC live blogging

Still loving this awesome image.

But I may need to find a new one for when the defense puts on their case.

Open thread.

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Trump’s NY Criminal Trial, Day 17 (Michael Cohen)

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 It’s Day 17 of the trial.

Hard to believe it’s possible that the prosecution could rest as soon as Thursday.  That would be trial days on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday this week.  Trump has Friday off to go to Barron’s graduation.  Odds on Trump skipping graduation to go to his own rally that night?

Michael Cohen will be back testifying today!

I think the trial must be making Trump jumpy!

Trump’s NY Criminal Trial, Day 17 (Michael Cohen)h/t Subaru Diane

Best sources of live blogging that I have found.  It looks like some of them are only live blogging for the “big” witnesses.  Pretty sure that Michael Cohen counts as a big witness.  This is gonna be lit, as the kids used to say.  (What do the kids say these days?)

Josh Kovensky (TPM)   live blogging

Mark Sumner (Daily Kos)  live blogging

Tyler McBrien (Lawfare) on twitter

Anna Bower (Lawfare) on twitter

Adam Klasfeld on twitter.

AP Live blogging

NBC live blogging  (not seeing it yet this morning)

Still loving this awesome image.  When you get tired of it, let me know.


So easy to find the image in the media library.  I just search for bitch, and it comes right up.

Open thread.

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