Biden's Clearest Electoral College Path -- in today's Washingon Washington Monthly newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/washington…

Still amazed by this twitter.com/slisker/status…

The most terrifying interview transcript you’ll ever read. Eric Cortellessa talks to Donald Trump for TIME about his second term agenda. time.com/6972022/donald…

Seems bad

Newsy Jonathan Katz dispatch from the White House theracket.news/p/interview-pr…

The Jonathan Alter’s courtroom diary in which which Pecker Survives Cross-Examination, Trump’s lawyer tries and fails to break a key witness, and a rare rearview examination of the 45th president’s combover—all in the Washington @Monthly.

washingtonmonthly.com/2024/04/29/day…

'Scenes of border chaos ... James Lankford touting that bipartisan deal as a win for stricter border controls. The Trump-friendly Border Patrol union endorsing the deal
... Trump saying Republicans would be 'STUPID' to support it ... The tagline: 'Donald Trump did this.''

An irony of the success of the South Africa anti-apartheid divestment movement in the '80s/90s is colleges now hold fewer direct investments that could be seen as objectionable, and more indirect holdings like index and hedge funds and private equity.

Georgia gained about 13,500 more likely Democratic voters than Republican voters since the last presidential election, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of voter registration data from L2, a political data vendor. #gapol

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So you’re telling me a group of people occupied a patch of land, drew arbitrary borders, and tried to push out anyone they didn’t want there?

Will the Supreme Court Kill the National Labor Relations Board? As Starbucks—and Elon Musk’s SpaceX—take aim at the New Deal-era body, the Roberts Court could severely curtail the right of workers to organize. Here’s how. Ruben Garcia explains.
washingtonmonthly.com/2024/04/29/wil…

ICYMI: I wrote about Geoff Killebrew, a Worcester man who is trying to bring the city into a renaissance that helps vendors and performers who are black, indigenous and of color thrive. This is a new Worcester Renaissance: masslive.com/worcester/2024…

Not entirely. Washington Monthly has devoted an entire issue to a detailed comparison of the policy achievements of Joe Biden and Donald Trump and boiled down the findings to this one graph. washingtonmonthly.com/trump-vs-biden…

I’ve listened to and read a lot of the coverage of this weeks Pecker testimony, but this is the first that clearly explains the evidence and logic that connects it to the case for Trump’s illegality. Washington Monthly Jonathan Alter

NEW📺 'HILARIOUS!! Republicans' New FETISH? ENRAGING Master Trump!!'

🔥The schadenfreude is delicious.

👊WATCH! youtube.com/watch?v=0vYNkS… #TrumpIsNotFitToBePresident

#FridayFeeling #FridayMorning #SCOTUSIsCorrupt
#Election2024 FAFO Kavanaugh Howard Stern

Republicans losing the possibility of pretty red ME-02 is a bigger loss than Democrats losing the possibility of swingy NE-02. Trump won ME-02 twice by 10 and 7 points. Clinton lost NE-02 by 2 then Biden won it by 6.5.

Polling third-party candidates is worse than challenging. It’s worthless and deceptive until the candidates have proven they can get on state ballots, as Bill Scher wrote Washington Monthly. washingtonmonthly.com/2024/03/14/mem…

Why Biden and Most Americans Should Welcome the Latest GDP Report. Despite the Gross Domestic Product growing at a sluggish 1.6 percent rate, the Biden economy still has plenty of zing. Robert J. Shapiro explains in the Washington Monthly.

washingtonmonthly.com/2024/04/26/why…

'oh NOW we don't want to cover the hostages?'

Why the divestment encampments don't make sense

* To sell assets requires someone to buy them
* Colleges invest in complex financial vehicles not single corps
* Media attention not providing moral clarity, exposing unsavory elements among activists

More: washingtonmonthly.com/2024/04/25/the…