A brilliant pick by @CSPAN — Sam Feist is the best of the best

REMINDER: It was exactly two weeks ago today TIME Magazine published an interview w/ Trump in which he said he’d be making a statement on the Comstock Act—which could be used to enact a federal abortion ban—within 14 days.

He doesn’t appear to have said anything yet.

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As if this weren't already a bizarre reality show, now we have celebrity guest courtroom gallery appearances of acolytes looking to punch their card with the Boss. axios.com/2024/05/14/mik…

Donald Trump and Michael Cohen's coverup has been exhaustively covered for years — yet we're STILL learning brand new details through Cohen's testimony this week. Pretty incredible

On Monday, jurors met a reinvented Michael Cohen, one who seemed to manifest in real time on the witness stand: mild-mannered, self-deprecating, just-the-facts-ma’am. (In fact, he said “ma’am” more than 100 times when addressing prosecutor Susan Hoffinger) politico.com/news/2024/05/1…

Truly incredible. Thanks to Roaring Kitty and the meme stock rally yesterday, AMC Theatres was able to raise $250 million. Did Kitty just save a movie theater business? sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archiv…

GameStop is up over 130% pre-market.

It's 70% away from its all-time high.

Wild stuff.

$AMC out of control again this morning (and yes, I felt the FOMO, I bought some)

Broadway news: George Clooney will star next spring in a stage adaptation of his film “Good Night, and Good Luck.” Clooney will play Edward R. Murrow. nytimes.com/2024/05/13/the…

If memory serves, especially this one.

Demand > Supply

If I had to boil down my frustration w/ the state of media criticism into one suggestion it would be: If you're the sort of person constantly complains about the media, see what happens if, for 1 day, each time you're about to criticize 'media' you instead say 'audience'

If you step back for a second and think about it, one thing is really clear about Michael Cohen's testimony today.

Donald Trump's greed and stinginess fueled this entire hush money scandal.

Story The Daily Beast:

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Trump campaign trumpets reports from CNN and The New York Times — apparently they are reliable sources today and not “fake news.”

Time for an angry Trump to read through a bunch of printouts his assistant gave him of Fox News pundits complaining about his hush money trial.

I went to a sold out sea shanty concert in New York last week and had some big thoughts about how thoroughly TikTok has changed the way the world works.
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The biggest divide in the electorate isn't white vs. nonwhite, or college vs. noncollege.

It's between normal people and the WEIRD vote.

That's what I called it on CNN just now — Liar Olympics — Michael Cohen v. Trump