I love the orange sun on the grip section and cap. Glorious Phoenix and stunning pen! 🧡

“Manhattan prosecutors have argued that the Stormy Daniels case—the first criminal trial of a former President in American history—is about much more than hush money. And legal experts believe that a conviction is likely.”

Donald Trump’s Trial of the Century

Manhattan prosecutors have argued that the Stormy Daniels case—the first criminal trial of a former President in American history—is about much more than hush money. And legal experts believe that a c...

Read this. What Began as a War on Theater Won’t End There www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/o...

Andrew Weismann: An informative primer on David Pecker — reported to be the first prosecution witness tomorrow. Smart move to start with him.

“Maybe he gets hit by a truck,” Trump said to Michael Cohen on a 2018 phone call about David Pecker, then publisher of the National Enquirer, who was considering ending his longtime arrangement w/ Trump to keep accusations of the President’s sex crimes out of the press." - Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen

The Small Miracle That Is Trump's Trial, And The Challenge It Poses To His Authoritarian Personality RUTH BEN-GHIAT APR open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

The Small MIracle That Is Trump's Trial, And The Challenge It Poses To His Authoritarian Personality

Being held accountable and forced to abide by someone else's rules are intolerable outcomes for authoritarians,

Ukraine aid just passed the House with a majority of Republicans voting against it.

Republicans have become indistinguishable from cartoon villains. "Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks from child workers." Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, said he filed the bill "because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks." www.nola.com/news/politic...

Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits

A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans

“Jared Moskowitz moved an amendment to the Ukraine bill calling for Taylor Greene’s office in the Cannon Building to be renamed the Neville Chamberlain room – in homage to the pre-WWII British PM notorious for appeasing Hitler – & asking she be appointed ‘Vladimir Putin’s special envoy to the US.’”

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Republicans erupt into open warfare over Ukraine aid package vote

As the speaker of the House finally allows a vote to go forward on aid, the GOP’s internecine warfare is tearing apart the party Republican divisions over military support for Ukraine were long simmering. Now, ahead of Saturday’s extraordinary vote in…

Right out of Oliver Twist.