Trump, Harvard, research funding and college blacklists… Another robust but very enjoyable debate with Leland Vittert on @ NewsNation’s “On Balance.” (Full clip below.)

If Harvard’s not going to fight Trump, who is?

Tried my best to make an important point as sensitively as I could — youtu.be/bdlj8MFstXM?...

“We’re going to have law and order.”

I’m on Amtrak coming back to DC from NYC. Train conductor announces, twice, “This is Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware” as we pull in.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is the latest in a line of right-wing figures who want Derek Chauvin to be pardoned. Chauvin murdered George Floyd five years ago this month. My thoughts, in this brief clip from today’s “Rising.”

Afrikaners, aka White South Africans, outrageously accorded a warm welcome as “refugees” by Trump …who has suspended refugee resettlement for everyone else.

Corruption on its face. Trump and the $400 million “gift” of a luxury jet from Qatar.

Falls Road, Belfast.

The craven tone of this cabinet meeting would embarrass a Putin or Orban.

Terry Moran handles this very well indeed.

Trump At 100 Days — a quick recap.

My favorite photo from this weekend’s festivities around the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. This one from the ABC News pre-dinner reception. #whca #whcd

Good for Pelley and the team to say this 👏🏼

If Biden or Obama had posted “Vladimir, stop,” right-wing media would have run mockery of such “weakness” on a loop for a week.

“I don’t want to have any favorites,” says Trump, referring to a nation that was invaded (Ukraine) and the nation that invaded it (Russia).

An outright atrocity. And one which it yet again falls to Israel’s Haaretz to expose.

Hegseth’s critics warned about his lack of managerial experience. Now he’s holding on largely because Trump doesn’t want to bow to media criticism. @skynewsrss.bsky.social

Please read every word of this.

Lead of the top story on the Wall Street Journal right now.

Dow fell almost 1000 points today, S&P 500 has lost more than 10 percent in a month, dollar has hit three-year low. The president:

No need for moral equivocation when it comes to Josh Shapiro and arson — — or when it comes to the moral disgrace of what has happened, with U.S. support, in Gaza.

Harvard stands and fights. Over at Columbia, is there any sense of shame at its capitulation?

Bond trader loses $140 million. Keeps job. Target employee buys water bottle quickly. Gets fired.

The tariff drama caused even some Republicans to balk at Trump’s volatility. I enjoyed discussing it all on CBS News with Major Garrett and Politico’s Jake Traylor.

Trump tariffs — Art of the Deal? Or Mad King?

Presented without comment.

The double standards of MAGA-friendly media types are wild — Defending Trump on tariffs when they would have crucified Biden or Obama. (From today’s “Rising”)

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Tomorrow’s White House visitor and accused war criminal.

Trump declines to name the “four or five” biggest tech leaders in the world whom he allegedly talked to. “They said we don’t blame you.”

If current futures hold — which of course they may not — the S&P 500 will have declined by around 15% since Thursday morning. If this had happened under Biden or Obama, the MAGA media figures now defending Trump would be coming down Pennsylvania Ave. with pitchforks.

Stock market futures as of now.

Apple, to take one example, is worth $53 billion less than it was on Wednesday night. Pretty sure they’re not thrilled.

Stock market not convinced Trump’s new “golden age” is at hand. #tariffs

Posted by @niallstanage.bsky.social on another platform: “The recipient of Elon's first $1 million check in Wisconsin, Nicholas Jacobs, has the same name and looks very similar to the chairman of the Wisconsin College Republicans.”

A supportive woman at Elon’s Wisconsin event — at which he has given out two $1 million checks — is expressing concern about paid protesters.

The only example so far given of Rumeysa Ozturk’s supposed “anti-Israel activism” is an op-ed that calls for Tufts to respect free speech, voices common criticisms of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, and calls for divestment. In other words: political opinions. (Op-ed linked below.)

Wealthy institutions folding like a cheap suit. On Columbia and the Paul, Weiss law firm caving to Trump.

— Prominent attorney @markzaidesq.bsky.social told this column a “horrible message” was being sent by Paul, Weiss’s “decision to simply capitulate in fear rather than stand up for the rule of law and the ethical principles that guide lawyers.” By me, today: thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Only need an 8-second clip— from earlier this week — for my full analysis of McGregor.

Astonishing that Columbia, one of the premier universities in the United States, is apparently willing to have Trump dictate that it should put one of its departments into receivership — and that its chief concern with this is merely “the optics.”

NEW: Fired Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter hits back at Trump. “Today the President illegally fired me from my position…Why? Because I have a voice. And he is afraid of what I’ll tell the American people.”

A president, not an emperor. My thoughts on Trump defying a judge with the deportation flight to El Salvador. From today’s Rising…

Arrested for expressing opinions that the Trump administration doesn’t like. My thoughts on Mahmoud Khalil, his arrest and detention, and the ominous implications of it all.

Stock market, so tired of winning.

The Mahmoud Khalil case, massively serious in its own right, is also part of a bigger picture. The reasons to be worried about Trump, Columbia and the kicking away of the pillars of dissent. My take today on “Rising.”

The kind of “minor” Trump moment that often slides by without comment — when it shouldn’t. First, him on Friday, asked by NBC News about the reported clash between Elon Musk and Marco Rubio. And my response on NewsNation tonight with Natasha Zouves.

Feels like someone should look at the efficacy of these government contracts..

S&P 500 closed lower today than on Election Day last November — and more than 4 percent below where it was when Trump was inaugurated.