On Los Angeles Times front page today: Radiant photo of Asna Tabassum, USC valedictorian who was denied opportunity to deliver commencement address but showed up and got a standing ovation. ⁦via Christina House⁩

Not sure what’s worse: that Trump thinks Hannibal Lecter was a real person, or that he thinks a cannibal and serial killer is a ‘wonderful man’?

Can you imagine if Biden said nonsense like this? It would be wall to wall coverage on every network. But we have normalized Trump.

Peter Baker don’t need no stinking sources. nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/…

I remember seeing street videos from Moscow after Navalny was jailed and they looked exactly like this

What are we doing people?

Nobody ever went septic in a hospital parking lot because of nastiness and lies tho did they?

“Accusations of antisemitism are the tip of the spear in a frightening illiberal project serving an autocratic agenda” theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Funny how an undisputed fact (Trump sleeping in court) is now just something that's alleged but has turned into a 'narrative' yet somehow 'Biden is too old to be President' (a 'narrative' with no grounding in fact) has taken hold w/the help of reporters like this 🙃

Every word of this post is indisputably true and everyone in America ought to be freaking out about it, but from what I can tell we're just sleepwalking into it.

I'll say it once. Vote for who you like, or don't vote. But Trump in the White House during a Mideast war may mean World War III, and species extinction. Which is worse than genocide. The inability of some on the Left to grasp this is a self-regarding failure of the imagination.

Just hours after Axios blasts out a “scoop” about Nikki Haley, trump claps back. It’s yet another example of reporters relying on anonymous trump sources & getting it wrong:
“two people familiar with the dynamic told Axios”
Good grief.

Re: UCLA & LAPD: 'law enforcement agencies did not move in to stop the violence until 3 hours and 34 minutes after Tabibian’s first 911 call— a delay that prolonged one of the most violent altercations since' encampments began.' washingtonpost.com/investigations…

OK I love this: 'This account was pieced together from a collection of public documents, including filings from the NY AG’s suit against Trump in 2022, a passing reference to the audit in a congressional report... and an obscure 2019 IRS memorandum.'

NEW: IRS Audit of Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million

The tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower.
propublica.org/article/trump-…

UW-Madison said in a statement it understood the encampment 'was motivated by understandably passionate feelings about the devastation in Gaza, and was a source of community for many participants.' jsonline.com/story/news/edu…

I wrote about some of the access issues for press covering the Trump trial.

Two reporters recently got kicked out of the overflow room for taking photos. One of those was Olivia Nuzzi, who has not been able to cover the case from the court as a result

washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

Several journalists in attendance have confirmed Trump falling asleep multiple times and WaPo reports this as liberal online gossip. I am very confused.

The NYT editorial board says universities are not being harsh enough with protesters. Shameful. Do not ever again call them liberal. nytimes.com/2024/05/11/opi…

WaPo finds the most cowardly (and yet labor-intensive) way to write about Trump constantly falling asleep in court. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

In The Washington Post, Biden is isolated. In The New York Times, Israel is isolated.

The technical political science term for this is 'lying.'