Our Ed Lavandera notes the UT-Austin protest is relatively small, including as compared to last week’s, and has many onlookers as opposed to participants. It’s important perspective which he shows on camera.

And Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 has quite personal experience of what he’s talking about here:

New: US State Dept determines five Israeli security units committed gross violations of human rights prior to outbreak of the war with Hamas, but still deciding whether to restrict military assistance to one of the units under U.S. law. ⁦Jennifer Hansler⁩ cnn.com/2024/04/29/pol…

Thanks very much General / Général Wayne Eyre - that’s high praise from you

A cluster munition on a civilian target is about as ruthless as you can get - it’s a reminder that Russia’s military campaign is as much about inflicting pain on the civilian population as it is about military gains.

If AI is so all-powerful, why does Apple Autocorrect still insist on substituting “fish” for “guys” in my texts?

New: Sen. Bernie Sanders to Netanyahu: 'It is not anti-Semitic to hold you accountable for your actions'.

'What Netanyahu's right wing, extreme and racist government is doing is unprecedented in the modern history of warfare,' Sanders told Dana Bash Bash today on CNN's State…

“My vice president actually endorsed me,” says Biden re Trump. #WHCD before turning more serious: “I’m not asking you to take sides but to stand up to the seriousness of the moment.”

#WHCD weekend meets Regis High School with my fellow grads Colin Jost, Mike Memoli and Austin Lowe

So why the arrests? Why the handcuffs? Why were they knocked to the ground? It is force with little justification or ultimate use or impact.

George Packer gets at something important here on the campus protests: neither side has been taught to listen to the other. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Thank you The Onion!

“Were killed” is my least favorite phrase in news writing - when you know the actor, note it.

POTUS has no official role in the 1/6 count. When a candidate pressures/threatens the President of the Senate (Pence), pressures and lobbies state legislatures & members of Congress, and oversees a fraudulent elector scheme, his acts are private. And plotting to appoint an AG in…

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

I’m wondering about the soft power implications of the Supreme Court entertaining arguments for some presidential immunity from prosecution for crimes as extreme as assassinating a rival or selling nuclear secrets to an adversary. How would Americans react to a similar ruling in…

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Why so many police for half a dozen tents?

Important thread:

The script-flipping here is a remarkable: rather than focus on the severity and precedent of what’s before them - whether Trump should be prosecuted for allegedly attempting to overturn the 2020 election - they appear focused on the potential for a future president to be…

Truly remarkable argument from Alito there that a president would be expected to appoint an attorney general who would reliably advise him what’s against the law given we know Trump was attempting to appoint one who agreed with his attempts to overturn the election.