I think this is absolutely correct. Trump will pick someone completely beholden to him, not someone with a potentially rival power base.

Another video from UCLA where “protestors” are blocking access to the library.

“are you a Zionist?”
“Yes of course I am a Zionist”
“Well yeah, we’re not gonna let Zionists in.”

NEW: Senate GOP leadership hopefuls are swimming to Kari Lake to boost their MAGA creds.

Both Thune and Cornyn have raised over six figures for the Lake campaign.

Thune was in Arizona on Friday.

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I can't tell if this dunk is pro- or anti-Golden Corral

'Johnson called her bluff and we all got to enjoy watching Greene doing in public something she is not accustomed to doing at all: learning. What she learned was that she doesn’t have the kind of power she thought she did.'

Kevin Williamson's latest:
thedispatch.com/newsletter/wan…

Amid all of Trump's almost freakish good luck, don't forget he *is* standing trial in a criminal case right now, and it's not going too well for him. thebulwark.com/p/lucky-trump-…

Obviously a point a million others have made before but the combination of the naked use of force and the safetyist language ('we're not engaging with agitators') that you see in every one of these videos is so chilling

facebook AI is on a whole other plane of existence, my god

Interesting--

PYM is one of the orgs behind the anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses across America. After Columbia University President Shafik spent weeks negotiating with them, here is how they responded to her entreaty today. As they say, a picture is worth 1000 words.

These people are literally shameless. So is anyone that pays for this

NEWS: As ⁦Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸⁩ faces a put-up-or-shut-up moment on ousting ⁦Speaker Mike Johnson⁩, some Rs think she’s gonna back down.

Not so, her aide NICK DYER tells me:
“Anyone who is saying she is backing down is high, drunk, or simply out of their mind.”
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This is beyond silly. Banana allergies mostly cause mild symptoms (itchy throat etc) and are triggered by eating a banana, not seeing one.

People are making fun of your drama queening.

Pinged a relative of mine who used to breed hunting dogs for his thoughts on Kristi Noem:

“We want to make sure everyone here feels safe and supported and that can only happen if all of the people inside are participants.”

A reporter from the New Haven Independent was also asked to leave.

White House National Security Spokesperson John Kirby:

'There's not going to be an independent Palestinian state with Hamas in control of Gaza. Can't happen.

If they really cared about the Palestinian people, if they really cared about an independent state, they'd lay down…

This is the start of Keon Coleman's first press conference as a member of the Buffalo Bills.

Covering this man is going to be a real treat.

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