because of the hollowed out husk of what was once the republican party. but it is not. because at the same time that all of this was happening in the senate today, republicans in the house of representatives were also tripping all over themselves to benefit a strongman. only this time, the strongman wasn t donald trump. right now, speaker mike johnson is facing a revolt from inside his own party over his decision to finally put aid to ukraine up for a vote in the house. johnson had resisted doing that for months, but this week, he finally relented. here he was explaining the reality of what he is facing just a few hours ago. i m operating with the smallest margin in u.s. history. i have a one-vote margin. listen, we re not going to get 100% of what we run right now, as we have the smallest majority in history, and we only have the majority in one chamber. despite what speaker johnson understands here, far right members of his party are now
donald trump was not in court today, but his criminal hush money trial was clearly top of mind this morning. he took to truth social to rant about what he considered unfairness during jury selection yesterday. specifically that his lawyers were not allowed unlimited opportunities to strike prospective jurors. now, remind the fact that trump s legal team was alauded the same number of so-called frontry challenges as prosecutors, and they ve used the same number of those to weed out what they think would not be impartial jurors. what donald trump is actually upset about is that he s being treated so far like any other criminal defendant. he s had to sit through the repetitive questions and after trump spoke and gestured in the
it would take the entire year and next year and the year after that but he d have to sit there. but that s classic donald trump. donald trump thinks the rules don t apply to him. so far it really feels like and you wrote to this in the atlantic this is proceeding in a pace in an almost humdrum fashion with the exception of these outbursts. judge merchan has not been playing around with this gag order, right? we know i think it was a few hours ago trump reposted on truth social this claim from jesse waters of fox. they are catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge in order to get on the trump jury. so sayth, jesse waters. does that run up to the line of violating the gag order? does that flirt with it, or is that fair game? it s not fair game because it s a lie.
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and all the other things that happen in a normal academic year. is there a conversation about, i mean, president shafik got at this in the hearing today, that the conversation needs to be about what is free speech and was discriminatory speech. is that a debate that is happening to any and at this point? at the columbia university campus? so the irony of this, and this is the debate that we ve had she really, you know, long before this conflict began. this was a debate, a robust issue that we should be debating on college campuses. now, of course, the irony of this is that, you know, the president was being questioned by congress, which actually has purview over this, that makes legislation, laws, and, you know, the supreme court, which determines, you know, by precedence what is acceptable and what s not acceptable. and so, really, universities are being beaten up, you know, in columbia in particular being beaten up over things that we have really no control over. we re following