“Trump’s claim that he has absolute immunity for criminal acts taken in office as president is an insult to reason, an assault on common sense and a perversion of the fundamental maxim of American democracy: that no man is above the law,” b-boy bouiebaisse writes. nyti.ms/4bdxh2E

At an Atlanta Chick-fil-A, Trump is asked whether physicians should face punishment for performing abortions. “Let that be to the states. Everything we’re doing now is states, and states’ rights. And what we wanted to do is get it back to the states. Because for 53 years, it’s…

Not doing a full CPI thread today, but seems notable that the rent-OER gap has persisted for three months now. Still unclear if that's the result of random noise, a methodological quirk, or something more fundamental in the housing market.

U.S. employers added a stronger-than-expected 303,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.8%.
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.Rhiannon Giddens, featured on Beyoncé's 'TEXAS HOLD 'EM,' discusses the media's perception of the banjo

'It's basically tennis for babies, but for adults.'

UCLA had this at around the 3:45 mark and then Betts came out of the game.

That all seemed about right except that Flau'jae Johnson should be ejected as well.

I feel seen.

Nobody in the GOP camp can even begin to provide any explanation of why the bipartisan border security bill is worse than the status quo — if it doesn’t work you can still use the issue against Biden and pass something else in 2025, the fear is clearly that it *will* work.

U.S. employers added 275,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.9 percent.
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Didn't expect Sen. Britt to go Michelle Obama with 'your word is your bond' and Barack Obama with 'moral arc of the universe' but here we are.

I'm not sticking around for the post commentary- I know what I've just seen- if he had a bad night I'd say so - but Joe Biden was strong tonight and anyone who says otherwise is wrong and I've been clear about my own concerns as to his age/alacrity -not tonight

Good speech.

Shorter Biden: Sign the treaty, baby.

'Same size bag. Put fewer chips in it.'

Props to President Biden for saying 'good paying jobs' and not 'well paying jobs.'

Not the Swedish PM.

Did Speaker Johnson mean to nod in agreement with the president when he said that it won't stop with Ukraine?

There was early voting, mail-in voting and no recounts of Super Tuesday results. Trump has not however questioned them, challenged them in court or pushed his followers to doubt them.