Weekend!

 Have an excellent weekend and see you bright and early Monday morning.

'Daft Punk'

Pentatonix

Meidas Touch - Trump Loses Biggest Supporter Because Of This…

Ari Melber - Trump Lawyer Indicted For Elector Fraud After Admitting It On Live TV

John Flannery - April 26, 2024

Meidas Touch - Trump Lawyer Makes A Fool Of Herself At Interview On Trial

'April'

MSNBC - 'Purpose Was To Influence The Election' - Prosecution 'Scored A Lot Of Points' In Trump Trial Today

Talking Feds With Harry Litman - Supreme Court Conservatives Show Their True Colors

MSNBC - 'Gold Mine Of Information' - Trump's Former Assistant Rhona Graff Called To Stand

MSNBC - 'Gag Order Is A Big Part Of This Case' - Friend Of Judge Merchan Weighs In On Hush Money Trial

Corals

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 Washington Post: Can corals be saved? As record ocean heat threatens corals off Florida and across the globe, conservationists are shifting their strategy By Amudalat Ajasa, Whitney Leaming and Carolyn Van Houten

Taunt

 NY Times: Biden Taunts Trump, Calling Him a ‘Loser,’ Trying to Get Under His Skin - President Biden has been trying to hit his opponent where it hurts, critiquing everything from his hairstyle to his energy levels in court. Katie Rogers By Katie Rogers - Katie Rogers has covered the Trump and Biden administrations. She reported from Washington.

Net Neutrality

 NPR: Net neutrality is back: U.S. promises fast, safe and reliable internet for all By Emma Bowman

The Lincoln Project - Freezing

Brian Tyler Cohen - Lifelong Republican Drops Nightmare News On Trump

The Warning With Steve Schmidt - Rudy Giuliani Indicted For Election Interference

MSNBC - 'Scary And Mortifying' For Trump If Hope Hicks Takes The Witness Stand

'Ain't Nobody's Business'

 Tuba Skinny playing at The Hyatt Hotel Pool in New Orleans

Ponlop Rinpoche At Google - Why Are We Distracted?

Arkansas

 Washington Post: Inside the long-odds push to undo an abortion ban in ruby red Arkansas - After winning campaigns in both red and blue states, abortion rights activists are facing a test of the limits of their success in what is sometimes ranked as the most ‘pro-life state in America’ By Hannah Knowles

Direction

 NY Times: Conservative Justices Take Argument Over Trump’s Immunity in Unexpected Direction - Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing was memorable for its discussion of coups, assassinations and internments — but very little about the former president’s conduct. By Adam Liptak - Reporting from Washington

The Onion - Mall Still Hasn’t Removed Rotting Santa Claus

 The Onion: Mall Still Hasn’t Removed Rotting Santa Claus

What To Know About A Pecker

 Axios: What to know about David Pecker, the first witness in Trump's trial By Sareen Habeshian, Natalie Daher

Mickey

 “During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.” — Mickey Mantle

Calm

 Paul Klee 1879 - 1940 - 'Calm Sea'

 

 

'Love'

Have An Excellent Friday

"Flying under the south pole of Jupiter, taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft"

 

BBC News - China’s Xi Jinping Meets US Secretary Of State Antony Blinken

Rachel Maddow - Murder, Coup, Bribery - Trump Team Stands By Extreme Hypotheticals In Supreme Court Immunity Case

Lawrence O'Donnell - Supreme Court Justices Can Protect The Constitution Or Trump

Brian Tyler Cohen - Bombshell Update At US Supreme Court

Meidas Touch - Fed Up Navy Vet Done With MAGA Sellouts

John Flannery - April 25, 2024

Friends

 Get Pocket: Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden - Toxic masculinity—and the persistent idea that feelings are a “female thing”—has left a generation of straight men unable to forge intimate relationships with other men. It’s women who are paying the price. By Melanie Hamlett

Pluto

 Good News Network: Did You Know Pluto Has a Heart? Scientists Solve Mystery as to Why By Andy Corbley

Transform

 The Bulwark: Supreme Court Poised to Transform the Presidency, Empower Trump if Re-Elected - Based on oral argument in the presidential immunity case, the Court’s conservative justices seem prepared to effectively reward Trump for January 6th. By Kim Wehle

Lost Chance

 Inside Climate News: Nixon Advisers’ Climate Research Plan: Another Lost Chance on the Road to Crisis - A 1971 plan for a global carbon dioxide monitoring network never came to fruition. The proposal is detailed in a document newly unearthed by the National Security Archive. By Marianne Lavelle

NOAA

Guardian UK: Trump will dismantle key US weather and science agency, climate experts fear - Plan to break up Noaa claims its research is ‘climate alarmism’ and calls for commercializing forecasts, weakening forecasts By Dharna Noor

Verdict

 Guardian UK: Judge upholds $83m E Jean Carroll defamation verdict against Trump - The former president’s motion for a new trial was denied and his argument deemed ‘entirely without merit’ By Coral Murphy Marcos

Rallies

 Washington Post: More arrests and a canceled commencement as college antiwar rallies spread By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Jennifer Hassan, Richard Morgan and Karin Brulliard

Those students on Thursday showed little appetite for folding up their tents and signs as the academic year comes to a close. In some places, the police action drew recruits to their cause.

 

Asia

 Washington Post: Asia’s next war could be triggered by a rusting warship on a disputed reef By Rebecca Tan, Regine Cabato and Laris Karklis

The BRP Sierra Madre, which has remained on Second Thomas Shoal ever since, has now become the epicenter of escalating tensions between the Philippines and China...

Agenda

 NY Times: Xi Meets Blinken With Tough Issues on the Agenda - The direct meeting with China’s leader is a sign of continued effort to ease tensions, but officials expect little progress on core issues like Taiwan, trade and Chinese support of Russia. By Ana Swanson and Vivian Wang - Reporting from Beijing

“China is happy to see a confident, open, prosperous and thriving United States. We hope the U.S. can also look at China’s development in a positive light,” Mr. Xi said, according to Chinese state media.

King

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 NY Times: This Whole King Trump Thing Is Getting Awfully Literal By Jamelle Bouie

In delaying the trial, the Supreme Court may well have denied the public its right to know whether a former president, now vying to be the next president, is guilty of trying to subvert the sacred process of presidential succession...

The Market On Friday

 Good morning. At 6:22 a.m. ET DOW futures are +60, S&P futures are +35.25, and NASDAQ futures are +163.75. The market is poised to open significantly higher.

 Salon: Trump's isolation deepens after his coup crew is hit with Arizona criminal indictments - The January 6 co-conspirators are likely too wrapped up in their criminal cases to help Trump with another coup By Amanda Marcotte

Black

 

Meidas Touch - Trump Gets Crushed By Pecker At Trial

CNN - 'Big Mistake' - Former Trump Lawyer Reacts To Trump's Remark Outside Court

Five

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 NY Times: Five Moments That Have Defined Donald Trump’s Trial So Far - Trials are wars of words. These are some of the most memorable that have been spoken as a jury hears the criminal case against Donald J. Trump. By Wesley Parnell

Nicolle Wallace - Trump Administration Officials Were Consulted On ‘Catch And Kill’ Well After 2016 Election

MSNBC - ‘Complete Lack Of Remorse’ - Weissman Breaks Down David Pecker’s Testimony

Andrea Mitchell - Not Just About 'Business Records' But 'Election Interference' - Paul Butler On Hush Money Trial

J-L Cauvin - Donald Trump Responds To David Pecker's Testimony

Meidas Touch - Trump On Trial - Day 7 Recap

Soon

 Washington Post: Supreme Court seems poised to allow Trump’s D.C. trial, but not soon

Bullsh*t

 NY Times: Supreme Court Live Updates: Conservative Majority Seems Ready to Limit Election Case Against Trump - Such a ruling in the case, on whether the former president is immune from prosecution, would probably send it back to a lower court and could delay any trial until after the November election.

The arguments signaled further delay and complications for a Trump trial.

Immunity

 NPR: Supreme Court appears skeptical of blanket immunity for a former president By Nina Totenberg

A Real S**t Show

 Salon: MAGA begins to panic: Trump may not make it to the ballot “It’s a real s**t show to consider” By Brian Karem

Crayons

"Diem Chau sculpts detailed figures on the top of crayons"

 

 

Meidas Touch - Trump Caught In New Possible Hush Money Scheme

CBS Mornings - Inside Knicks Star Jalen Brunson's Journey As A Franchise Player Under His Father's Coaching

Morning Joe - Neal Katyal - I Really Hope The Supreme Court Moves Fast On Immunity Case

Brian Tyler Cohen - Republican Group Hit With Humiliating News

Rallies

 Washington Post: Police arrest 108 at Emerson College protest as antiwar rallies spread By Jennifer Hassan, Justine McDaniel and Emily Davies

A total of 108 arrests were made, and four officers were injured, Sgt. Detective John Boyle of the Boston Police Department said in an email. He said there were no reports of injuries among the protesters. 

Trial

 NY Times: Live Updates: Tabloid Publisher Resumes Testimony in Trump Trial - David Pecker is testifying about concealing the Playboy model Karen McDougal’s claim of a sexual relationship with Donald J. Trump. Prosecutors say the deal to buy her story and bury it was part of a broader conspiracy.

Pecker said that Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, encouraged Pecker to buy her story, and that Trump described McDougal as “a nice girl,” leading Pecker to believe Trump knew her. 

The Onion - Teenagers Explain What It's Like Partying With Matt Gaetz

 The Onion: Teenagers Explain What It's Like Partying With Matt Gaetz

Downtown

 Axios: Visitors are returning to most — but not all — of America's downtowns By Alex Fitzpatrick, Alice Feng

'Harvest Bell Ride'

Have An Excellent Thursday

 Artwork By Max Ernst 1891-1976

 

CNN - Former Trump Aide Describes Impact Of Being Attacked By Trump

The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle Highlights - April 24