Prospective jurors (who were dismissed) knew, once they saw what case it was, that there would be media attention on the defendant. What they didn't expect was for so much attention to be on them. nytimes.com/2024/04/21/nyr…

TikTok has done incredible things for the Manhattan Chinatown. Huge lines of people waiting in front of deeply normal and unremarkable Chinatown mainstays to eat like, “the viral dumplings” or whatever. I love it unironically and with all my heart

Great day to be online

“We had a lot of wars before, but this one is just different,” one said. “Usually it would affect people, but not people that you know. This war took everyone.”

nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The lawyers are arguing about documents the prosecution wants sealed related to Michael Cohen's phone. In the course of discussion, prosecutor Susan Hoffinger says there are 39,000 contacts in Cohen's phone.

open the schools

New/different information; new/different responsibility; new/different stakes. It's just a fundamentally job than being a rank and file member that reorients your approach to governance in profound ways. You can be partisan, but you don't have the luxury of being provincial.

For the past month, I've thought about these women and what they went through every night as I rocked my own baby to sleep.

If you've experienced or witnessed anything similar, I'm here to listen.

apnews.com/article/pregna…

It's also been heartening to learn about some potential jurors' discerning media consumption.

One juror had an 'interesting routine,' he says, 'I listen to NPR and Fox News in a single walk' to get both sides, the juror says. 'They're remarkably different.'

Perhaps the real reason I’ve said yes to Manhattan court assignments my whole career:

The Conservative Partnership Institute, home of Mark Meadows and Jim DeMint, left exposed and vulnerable every resume updated to its job bank for the past several months. Info included social security numbers, identities of TS/SCI clearance holders, cell numbers/addresses and

NEW: Judge Mehta has *denied* Donald Trump's motion to pause the Jan. 6 lawsuits against him filed by members of Congress and police officers.

Trump wanted them put on hold until his criminal case is resolved.

politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

As MTG gaggles, Miss. USA getting a photo with the dome.

Wish I could take photos in the chamber because directly above them against the wall are a group of tourists almost dozing off with one with their head in their hands.

A second juror is being challenged by prosecutors; that juror has yet to arrive in court. In the meantime, prosecutors say Trump has violated the gag order seven more times, but Merchan still declines to rule before an Apr 23 hearing nytimes.com/live/2024/04/1…

The Trump jury is at six people selected, as a woman said overnight expressed concerns about her identity being trackable because of questions posed in the jury questionnaire that were then reported on nytimes.com/live/2024/04/1…

New: Facebook's AI chatbot told a parent in a group asking for advice that it has a gifted, disabled child who attended school in New York City

404media.co/facebooks-ai-t…

spotted by Aleksandra Korolova

If you did not want to read the whole piece and simply wanted to distill it to its essence, it would be one line:

Everyone seemed to have a podcast.

motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

A NICK GALLO bark to close out the regular season 😂

'The U.S. quarter had roughly the buying power in 1980 that a dollar has today...More than half of the coins in the U.S. are sitting in people’s homes, according to the Federal Reserve.' wsj.com/finance/americ…