Highlight of this morning’s judge-and-lawyers discussion of whether the criminal defendant has violated the gag order meant to prevent him from smearing and intimidating witnesses and jurors.

Absolutely pathetic excuses and an absolute delight to behold. nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/…

Shame about New York. Next time I want to catch a Broadway musical, get a glimpse of Starry Night on a museum wall, have the tasting menu at Le Bernadin and end my night at an all-night Bushwick rave, I'm driving straight to New Jersey, where I know I'll be treated okay.

Highlights of Trump lawyer’s opening statement: “You've seen President Trump for years. He's larger than life…We call him President Trump. He earned to: he was President…The evidence in the trial is from years ago, pre-COVID.”

Huh. I hadn’t known of this particular tape.

Simply no impulse control, or does he think miming his disapproval will somehow get the jury on his side?

The battalion to be sanctioned is a special ultra-orthodox unit formed for West Bank occupation & per ⁦Axios⁩ includes “many Hilltop Youth, radical right-wing settlers” no other IDF combat unit will accept. Sanctions mean they’ll be denied U.S. aid. nytimes.com/2024/04/21/wor…

Watching @msnbc’s good The Weekend, imagining the awfulness of hosting a show where you & cohosts & guests pore over every detail of a corrupt politician’s Manhattan criminal trial—conscious every second of your corrupt politician father’s Manhattan criminal trial in May. Yeesh.

8 of 12 of the jurors and 5 of 6 alternates read the Times? Really?

Versus 4 of 18 who read the Wall Steeet Journal and only 1 or 2 who get news from any other news organization.

But funny that the Times took the time to create and publish this chart.

Told ya.

#TrumpSmells

“That’s how stupid you can be on Fox.” Lawrence O’Donnell rips “liar” Jesse Watters to shreds. (Video: MSNBC)

Naomi Wolf has evolved into her final form, a seminarian with six weeks of Greek who thinks the entire New Testament has been translated wrong.

This is amazing. Would be highly implausible as a scene in a movie or TV show. Go Rep. Jamie Raskin. youtube.com/watch?v=WlNjiu…

Reading story after story about “conservatives vehemently opposed to backing Kyiv” & “Republicans bitterly opposed to more aid to Ukraine,” I wonder: really? I mean pro- or anti-Israel, OK, I get. But MTG & Gaetz & Vance et al—actually vehement or bitter, or just Trump-obedient?

OK, absurdly low bar, but he’s better than most of them.

Good to see so many of the bad guys still doing everything they can to lose in November.