#BREAKING Two months after announcing it, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she’s finally going to file a motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Jonhson sometime next week The New Republic

tinyurl.com/bdkemmn6 by Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling | "if hotel was a verb"

Donald Trump has been fined $9,000 for violating the gag order in his hush-money trial.

The judge warned that if Trump violates the order again, the court must 'consider whether...jail may be a necessary punishment' The New Republic
tinyurl.com/4v3pp736 by Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling | "if hotel was a verb"

There have now been Palestine solidarity & anti-war student actions on at least 120 U.S. college campuses in the past week and a half

In a scathing opinion dissenting to overturning Harvey Weinstein's NY conviction, Judge Madeline Singas wrote that the court appeared “oblivious to, or unconcerned with, the distressing implications” of the ruling The New Republic

tinyurl.com/ystf49rt by Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling | "if hotel was a verb"

Trump lawyer Todd Blanche was strategically quiet today after being told he was 'losing all credibility.' (tinyurl.com/yv7n695j)

That strategy is not paying off, it seems

Front page for the ages.

oh my god. harvey weinstein’s conviction has just been overturned.

they’re basically saying the trial was unfair. because he was held accountable for the broader context of his decades of rapaciousness.

Breaking: Harvey Weinstein's Manhattan conviction is overturned by NY's top court: nytimes.com/2024/04/25/nyr…

Really just gotta repeat endlessly that the whole 'Columbia students are antisemitic' thing is so clearly being ginned up to distract from the fucking mass extermination graves being uncovered in Gaza

This legislation is misguided.

The underlying issue here is a legitimate concern to most Americans: data privacy.

No social media company should have access to our data.

We need legislation that addresses data privacy, not TikTok alone.

🌏Happy Earth Day, here are a few environmental topics we have covered at AFP Fact Check 🔎 lately👇

Send in the House Freedom Caucus, they have a team that specializes in this kind of thing

public radio legend Diane Rehm tried to ask WAMU leadership about the shuttering of DCist and their confusing, inconsistent messaging around it. They muted her microphone during an all staff call and then, when asked about it, pretended not to know what the reporter was talking

Absolutely dying at this video from the UCLA women’s soccer team.

10/10

No notes

have Columbia Journalism and dean jelani cobb come forward to publicly express concern or dismay over the mass arrests of hundreds of peaceful protesters at Columbia University today??

for a university dept comprised of our leading journalists, if there’s any time to speak out, it would be now…

Several Democrats are calling to repeal the Comstock Act, a 'zombie' law from 1873 that Republicans want to use to ban abortion.

But repeal efforts are getting pushback from mainstream abortion rights groups The New Republic

tinyurl.com/33ppxum4 by ben metzner

Columbia University is brutally cracking down on student protests against Israel’s ruthless war on Gaza, sending in city police officers to arrest some demonstrators The New Republic

tinyurl.com/bdfeu9py by Hafiz 🇵🇸 Rashid

The botched FAFSA rollout leaves millions of low-income students in limbo, uncertain of their financial aid—and, by extension, whether they will be able to attend college at all. My latest on what the FAFSA debacle means for students and institutions:
newrepublic.com/article/180727…

This is just to say

I am still
waiting to
see a bill
be written

that which
you have suggested
you
would write

Forgive me
I just thought
that was
a lawmaker’s job

No one memes quite like Prem Thakker