Progress in the Lawfare Hype House
Trump New York Trial Diary, Entry #10
Good Evening:
You see a lot of protesters around the Trump trial. This one is my favorite so far. He showed up yesterday ringing a Liberty Bell replica loudly and blessing everyone.
He seems to like Trump.
I don’t do selfies. It’s increasingly a near-religious principle. People are too interested in taking and sharing pictures of themselves and not interested enough in taking and sharing pictures of other people, things, beasts, and oddments. That said, occasionally, other people snap pictures of me that I like. And yesterday, I wore my most outrageous dog shirt to court, and the estimable Tyler McBrien snapped this one:
I have been consumed this week with trial matters, but I haven’t forgotten about the sunflowers, which I am committed to getting into the ground in a timely fashion:
When Did the DC Metropolitan Police Start Working for Vladimir Putin?
“An’ you, Jake, always so loudmouth at church-meeting, tell me when did you start workin’ for de devil?” —Porgy & Bess, Act III Good Evening: I could not be prouder of the third annual sunflower planting outside the Russian embassy, which took place Saturday evening.
As I mentioned the other day, my priorities with respect to this matter are twofold:
First, I want to get the sunflowers planted as soon as possible. Every day that goes by, the birds and squirrels pick off a few more seeds and the Russians score a win in the Battle of Wisconsin Avenue. No, it isn’t Avdiivka, but it’s my front in this war, and I don’t want to retreat.
Second, I want an explanation for what happened on Saturday, specifically on the point of how the DC Metropolitan Police Department happened to be dispatched to the block on which sits the front gates of the Russian embassy with apparent instructions to prevent people from planting flowers in city tree beds.
I hope to have an update for you all shortly on what steps I will be taking to accomplish both objectives. In the meantime, many thanks to those who have reached out about helping with the second phase of the planting. I will be sure to announce when it will be.
For those who want to help in the meantime, particularly residents of the District of Columbia, please bring the dog shirt above to the attention of Mayor Muriel Bowser and your city council members—either by email or on social media. A certain degree of political attention to what happened would be useful.
Today’s #BeastOfTheDay is a rhinoceros getting its nose booped:
Trump Trial Diary, May 3, 2024
The week in court is over and I am on the Amtrak heading home for a couple of days. The estimable Anna Bower and the estimable Tyler McBrien and I will have our dispatch on Lawfare on the last two days of proceedings up on Lawfare tomorrow afternoon. I’m not going to pre-tread here the voluminous territory we will cover in that article.
Today’s daily livestream dispatch is available here:
We are still working on our Lawfare “hype house” studio, but we’re getting there. The livestream today was technically seamless. No connectivity or streaming problems.
Anna and I were able to roll out of court around 3:45 pm and be live at 5:00 pm with Tyler hosting remotely and the estimable Anna Hickey producing from Washington. You used to have to be a network to do that.
Now, ironically, no network can compete with the quality of Lawfare’s content offerings on a day-in-day-out basis. The reason is not our technical capacity. It’s the willingness to devote time to seriousness and to go deep, instead of cutting to ads.
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