'I had a weird dream last night. Roy Cohn was in it. He was one of my favorites. And I was thinking, he began with McCarthy, he advised Nixon, but I’m gonna to outdo them all. Roy would be proud of me. He was ahead of his time. But now it’s my time.' thebulwark.com/p/reading-trum…

“As Trump has trashed the legal system, it has bowed to him, not the other way around.” thebulwark.com/p/lucky-trump-…

“This is all familiar though. Because Trump has the best luck. Flukes, twists of fate, cowardice, and interventions along the way have dramatically smoothed his path through the legal peril he unleashed with 88 alleged crimes.” thebulwark.com/p/lucky-trump-…

No other Trump case is likely to go to trial before the election, and now the Supreme Court appears to be considering rewarding Trump for January 6 with even more power. When will it start getting worse for this guy? New from A.B. Stoddard: thebulwark.com/p/lucky-trump-…

I don’t understand why more ACTUAL progressives aren’t speaking up about the cultural dead end we’ve hit.

✅ No, it doesn’t make sense to link reproductive healthcare to Palestine. It’s stupid.
✅ Yes, you should vote for Joe Biden, and stop being a child.
✅ No, the United…

Just went into a D.C. deli/bakery to get a coffee before my meeting. Cheered up to be greeted by a colorful Happy Passover! sign…right above an array of wonderful looking pastries.

You decide. Was the store being…

So his Ukraine takes are copied from the Kremlin and his inferiority complex is copied from Musk. Pathetic. The worst part of MAGA profiteers like Vance is that they aren’t stupid, they just want exploit people who are.

Are you or is someone you love suffering from Partisan Derangement Syndrome? Bill Barr, Chris Sununu, and Leader McConnell live with it every day.

“I’m a two-time Trump voter. I do not plan on supporting him this year because I do not find him trustworthy, and I don’t feel like he can move the country forward…It seems like every single person that served under Trump comes away with a negative impression of the man.”

Here is the video of today's discussion of Strauss

youtu.be/DRGcBc4MOQM

Thank you Alex Priou Alexis Carré 🇲🇫 Hannes Kerber Rasoul Namazi, Marco Menon, and Eric Buzzetti and the 100+ attendees!

Order of speakers (about 30 min each):
Eric Buzzetti, Concordia University, Montréal,…

“All of us together are confronting the shocking reality that a group of Yale students has declared the center of Yale off-limits to those who do not share their political views – particularly since their intent and effect is to rid parts of Yale of Zionist Jews, among others,”…

The atheists of early modern Britain lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

CCNY once had a better class of Trotskyists. nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-…

If we happen to face our founding fathers in the afterlife, the question we better have a good answer to is, “What the hell happened? How’d you end up with Trump? And now perhaps for a second term? So much for all of our hard work.”

Ulysses Grant’s birthday. The finest soldier to ever wear US Army blue. Captured three armies - Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Appomattox. Destroyed slavery, “the cause and pretext for the rebellion.” Saved the United States and democracy.
Huzzah!
#Grant

The tents are back at Yale: