Best way to end pub day for Minority Rule: talking democracy with Chris Hayes on All In with Chris Hayes

.Chris Hayes: On April 23, 2020, Trump suggested you could combat the coronavirus by injecting disinfectant into your body, or by shining UV light inside various orifices— all while thousands of people were dying a day.

So, are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?

WATCH: LaDoris Hazzard Cordell says if she were the judge in Trump’s trial, she would give Trump jail time for violating his gag order—and she would impose the sentence at the end of the trial, “maybe while the jurors are deliberating,” as not to delay the proceedings.

Ah wow. Look at that. Aged well.

Everyone remembers inject bleach, but for my money, in terms of pure comedy, the winner of that press conference is brainstorming about how to shine UV light into your orifices to kill the covid virus.

One reason abortion is hard to move past politically: It runs through so many different offices. I wrote after Dobbs you'd see local prosecutor races become critical votes in addition to governors, legislators, judges, AGs, etc. nbcnews.com/meet-the-press…

Today, Ari Berman’s fantastic new book Minority Rule is out and I’m excited to talk him about it tonight on All In with Chris Hayes.

Evan gave a thumbs-up when asked by the press how he was. And later shared this moment with his lawyers after the judge announced the decision. The legal team said they held out hope the next hearing would be the last.

Want to know how badly the gag order hearing went for Trump? 'Mr. Blanche, you're losing all credibility with this court,' says Judge Merchan, right after Blanche argues Trump's team is trying hard to comply with the gag order.

“The business model in tech is monetizing surveillance… And if you want to focus seriously on privacy… you cannot be pressured by commercial incentives.” -Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, in the latest #WITHpod w/Chris Hayes.

It's a really fascinating conversation about

“When he’s giving the instructions to the jury, he’s giving them a methodology for divining the truth,” says Chris Hayes on Judge Merchan’s jury instructions for the Trump trial.

Let’s take a little looksee on how Young Kim and Michelle Steel voted on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that funded this project

clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021369

WSJ is reporting that Israel plans to evacuate civilians from Rafah to Khan Younis for 2-3 weeks, then start their attack on the city. Khan Younis has been decimated, but new tents were set up a few days ago in the city's south. Image from Apr 18 - tents weren't there on Apr 16.

i'm sorry everyone i think my head is going to explode

Chag Pesach Sameach!

It’s too late to put the genie back in the bottle, but legalization was a mistake and at the very least we need far-reaching federal regulation of sports betting. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

TONIGHT at 8pm ET: Following opening statements in former President Trump’s New York criminal trial, Rachel Rachel Maddow MSNBC and team break down the latest in this case. Tune in tonight at 8pm ET on MSNBC.

The head of Israeli military intelligence on Monday announced his resignation more than six months after the massive intelligence failure preceding Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. My report on Axios
axios.com/2024/04/22/isr…

fwiw, my cousin is a student at Columbia. Months ago, he said that other kids knocked the yarmulke off his head as he crossed campus. The weaponization of bogus anti-Semitism charges to suppress dissent against mass murder is awful. But there are real problems on some campuses

'Just swap out your normal junk algorithmic content for junk in a different language and eventually you will find yourself learning effortlessly without even knowing it.'

mazmhussain.substack.com/p/how-to-teach…