Eric Columbus

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Obama appointee at DOJ/DHS. Litigator for Speaker Pelosi and Jan. 6 Committee. Counsel for then-Sen. Biden. Yankee Stadium hot dog vendor. Wannabe historian. Dad joker.

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Senator who last week promoted a tweet that called his legislative opponents traitors punishable by death now asks “to take the political temperature down.”

Roses are red, Grey is Poupon,

LE PEN IS SHRIVELED

JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

This lady is *scandalized* by Musk making likes private (IYKYK)

Fred Trump III, Donald Trump’s nephew, will publish a memoir about the Trump family, according to his publisher. “All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way,” is set to come out on July 30.

Memoir by Trump’s Nephew Will Shed Light Into ‘Darker Corner’ of Familywww.nytimes.com Fred C. Trump III’s “All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way” will hit shelves July 30.

More remarkable than how old these men are now is how young they were then.

Every year at this time I revisit Chief Justice Roberts’ commencement speech at his son’s middle school. It’s worth reading/watching in full: time.com/4845150/chie... m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzu9...

Trump’s lawyers asked for a sentencing date in “mid to late July” and never mentioned the 7/15-18 Republican National Convention as a conflict. pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTr...

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“Maybe they had other qualities that we wanted to celebrate, and clearly Robert E. Lee had extraordinary qualities of leadership.” RFK Jr's uncle is pretty famously buried at Lee's old estate, which the federal government took from him due to the traitoring and whatnot.

Confederate memorials were a key part of the revisionist Lost Cause campaign of the early 1900s to whitewash the role of slavery. The monuments themselves were efforts to “erase history” & anyone still defending them today is defending the lies of racists. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

RFK Jr. had a ‘visceral’ reaction to tear-downs of Confederate statueswww.washingtonpost.com Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on a podcast that he doesn’t think “it’s a good, healthy thing for any culture to erase history.”

On Memorial Day weekend, the son of the former president reflects on the meaning of sacrifice.

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This is a thing that happened recently www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/n...

How a Profane Joke on Twitter Spawned a Legal Armywww.nytimes.com A litigation team built from the sharpest, funniest tweeters is suing Elon Musk.

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Here’s my Trump at LP convention wrap, as LP presidential candidate Chase Oliver takes the stage and denounces “the neocon war criminal” and “charlatan grifter” who just spoke www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

Trump promises Libertarians a cabinet slot — and clemency for a notorious drug kingpinwww.semafor.com In a highly unusual speech to a third party gathering, Trump offered to release Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht.

Flashback to 2016 and the Star of David that Trump ludicrously insisted was a sheriff’s badge www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-ch...

Like there are many reasons that the Biden campaign has yet to accidentally tweet any pro-nazi content or swastikas from the POTUS account. It's actually very easy to avoid doing that.

That 17% of voters blame Biden for Roe's downfall is actually a growth opportunity for the campaign! Of the various ways to boost support over the next 174 days, convincing voters who back legal abortion that Trump killed Roe has to be among the easiest. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/u...

17% of Voters Blame Biden for the End of Roewww.nytimes.com The mistaken belief, in a new poll, shows how even as abortion is mobilizing Democrats, confusion over the issue is also a challenge.

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This is the best photo in the @nytimes.com. The Unwanted Shelter Dog Who Found His Way to Westminster www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/s...

As a lawyer who represented the January 6 Committee (and worked on an amicus brief supporting DOJ in Bannon's prosecution), this is great news. But Bannon won't go to jail yet -- he can still seek rehearing en banc (zero chance) and SCOTUS review (unlikely).

Steve Bannon loses DC Circuit appeal of contempt of Congress conviction fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

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In 1860, Shenandoah county was home to 753 enslaved people and 316 free people of color, who may not have felt Robert E. Lee, Turner Ashby, and Stonewall Jackson were fighting to protect their "land, buildings and lives."

Last night in a 5 to 1 vote, the Shenandoah County, Virginia school board decided to reverse an earlier decision to rename three schools that honor Confederate leaders. Stonewall Jackson HS opened just a couple years after Brown v. Board of Ed. 🗃️ #CivilWarMemory www.cnn.com/2024/05/09/u...

Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two schools | CNNwww.cnn.com School board members in Virginia’s Shenandoah County voted early Friday to restore the names of two schools that previously honored Confederate leaders – four years after those names had been removed.

THEY CALL IT STORMY MONDAY, BUT TUESDAY’S JUST AS BAD youtu.be/tv0J-H7VoGo?...

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors call porn actor Stormy Daniels to testify, a key witness in the hush money case against Donald Trump.

Judges Ho and Branch are now simultaneously boycotting: --Yale Law School, --Stanford Law School --Columbia Law School --Columbia College. I hear they also won't hire anyone from the law schools at Princeton, Brown, and Dartmouth.

James Ho, Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, and 11 other right-wing federal judges write to President Shafik that Columbia has become an "incubator of bigotry" and that "absent extraordinary change" they will no longer hire graduates of Columbia—undergrad or law school—as clerks freebeacon.com/wp-content/u...

Kristi Noem joins Charles Barkley on the very short list of folks claiming to have been misquoted in their autobiography

Official portrait of the Governor of South Dakota

Wait until Axios learns we had a President who couldn’t walk at all yet ended the Great Depression and crushed the original Nazis

TRUMP TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS for the first two days now available at these links. I’ve never heard of a court system doing this! (Although posting one downloadable pdf for each day would be easier to handle.) pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTr... pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTr...

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NEW: First full transcript from Trump’s NY criminal trial, including opening statements pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTr...

Another small piece of evidence that RFK Jr. will wind up taking more votes from Trump than Biden.

Rob Schneider at RFK Jr. fundraiser: "Everyone knows what a woman is. A woman is someone who gets mad at you for something you did three fucking years ago.”

It’s an extremely strained parallel— Johnson would have been “doing his job” either way — and a key distinction is that Johnson hasn’t been slammed by Trump.

Kudos to Taylor Swift for releasing “The Tortured Poets Department” on the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death.

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www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/o...

Two days apart