The bird is the word. USCP capture an errant bird near the House chamber. Note that there “Byrd Rule” does not apply in the House. Only the Senate.

Mayor Adams releases information on Tuesday’s arrests: NEARLY 50 PERCENT OF COLUMBIA/CITY
COLLEGE PROTESTS INCLUDED UNAFFILIATED PARTIES

'What have we done?': Lawyer recounts hush money deal struck before 2016 election nbcnews.com/politics/donal… via @nbcnews

Replacing Key Bridge could cost nearly $2B and take multiple years, state official says bit.ly/3xYESDT

Inbox: Reps. Moskowitz, Mace, and Wild Launch Congressional Dog Lovers Caucus. The announcement of its formation comes shortly after the Gov. Noem puppy shooting scandal.

It's getting toasty, DC! Current temps well into the 80s in most spots. Highs near 90 are probable.

Antisemitism is wrong, but I will not be voting for the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 (H.R. 6090) today that could convict Christians of antisemitism for believing the gospel that says Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews.

Read the bill text and…

I love that a beekeeper saved a baseball game last night, threw out a first pitch, amped up the crowd, and did postgame interviews. Make him the MLB commissioner.

Binoculars in hand, reporters go Trump-spotting at New York trial nbcnews.com/politics/donal… via @nbcnews

>Rep Josh Gottheimer, Rep. David Kustoff, Anthony P. D'Esposito, Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️, Rep. Brad Schneider, Rep. Dean Phillips 🇺🇸 and Max Miller are leading a tour of the Holocaust museum this evening.

Spotted leaving Chuck Schumer’s office: Jeff Zients Jeff Zients, Steve Ricchetti and other senior admin aides.

Fifty-six years ago today, New York City police officers stormed Columbia University and arrested nearly 700 student protesters who had taken over five campus buildings — including Hamilton Hall, the building currently occupied by pro-Palestinian activists.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c…

Donald Trump called into Hannity to attack Joe Biden and to suggest that the protesters at Columbia are paid actors.

Progressive N.Y. Rep. Jamaal Bowman releases a statement saying he is “outraged by the level of police presence” at Columbia University and City College.

“I call upon the Columbia administration to stop this dangerous escalation before it leads to further harm”:

Columbia University just released a new statement saying once the university 'learned overnight that Hamilton Hall had been occupied, vandalized, and blockaded, we were left with no choice.'

I was a student at Columbia University in 1968 when students occupied Hamilton Hall.  My classmates, who were draft age and deeply concerned about Vietnam, had a real and personal stake in the protests.  And even then, I felt the occupation of campus buildings was wrong—because it violated…

SCHUMER: 'Free speech, discussion, and even strong disagreement are fundamental American values and campuses should be places where those values are cherished. Campuses cannot be places of learning and argument and discussion when protests veer into criminality, and those who…

Chuck Schumer on Columbia University. “Smashing windows with hammers, taking over university buildings is not free speech. It is lawlessness and those who did it should promptly face the consequences that are not merely a slap on the wrist,” he said on the floor

Update: All of the Truth Social and campaign website posts that Judge Merchan ordered former President Trump to remove by 2:15 pm ET today have been taken down.

Merchan had ruled earlier that Trump had violated his gag order and would be fined $9,000. nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

“A worker who was in the building exited the building at around 12:40 a.m., after shouting at the protesters occupying the Hamilton lobby to let him go.

As he left Hamilton, he hit someone’s camera and yelled at the crowd, “They held me hostage.”
columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/3…