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 With Trump and his silk pajamas in recess, the political story of the day must be Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., sharing the story that a worm crawled into his brain, ate some of it and died.  The New York Times says it obtained a deposition from his 2012 divorce case and came across this nugget.  At the time of the parasite's discovery, doctors said he also had mercury poisoning, probably from eating a lot of fish.  In the deposition Kennedy says, "I have short-term memory loss and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me."  At least he doesn't blame the worm on vaccines. 

Even before his stalking horse earned the nickname Worm Brain, things were going Trump's way.  His boutique judge Aileen Cannon postponed indefinitely the stolen documents case that mean old Jack Smith is waiting to present because she has to study eight pending motions from the defense and she's just stumped by their "novel and difficult questions."  It turns out he can go to Barron's commencement and make the event in Minnesota at night, by which time his sundowning should be on full display.  The New York jury has all day to bleach their brains of Stormy's testimony about what a lousy date he is.  The Georgia appeals court agreed to consider his farcical attempt to disqualify Fani Willis, already denied by Judge McAfee.  

But all's not rosy.  Indiana held its primaries yesterday and Nikki Haley got more than twenty percent of the vote.  They haven't forgotten "Hang Mike Pence."  Haley has done better since ending her campaign than at the beginning.  There's a lesson there, I can't quite put my finger on it...

Aileen Cannon's latest ruling may be just the thing that enables Smith to get the case transferred to a judge who isn't a member of the Federalist Society and thinks stashing national security secrets in the bathroom is a big fucking deal.  There must be one in Florida.

The jury may not remember "I was staring at the ceiling wishing I was somewhere else" when they retire to deliberate.  They may not remember the weird discussion of STDs, long a Trump obsession because he refuses to use a condom.  (Remember how he thought he should have a medal for not contracting HIV in the Eighties?)  But they're bound to remember his offer to put Daniels on The Apprentice, the show he's so proud of ("Don't worry, it's scripted").  It was Charles Van Doren all over again, I tell you.  Jurors watch television.

If they're still watching during the trial -- Judge Merchan may have told them to avoid it -- sooner or later Kristi Noem has come into view, relentlessly plugging her book.  Someone should have told her book tours can be cancelled if they begin to convince people that bubonic plague would be preferable to buying your book.  On Newsmax Eric Bolling tried to give her a way out, suggesting that her editor might be a "liberal plant" sneaking in repellant stories of animal slaughter and fictions about her adventures with world leaders.  Because editors are paid to oversee books that lose money for the publisher, of course.  To her credit, Noem took responsibility for the book -- she's twice the man Bolling is.  (Stuart Varney on Fox Business was much more aggressive.)  Justin Baragona at the Daily Beast says Fox News is taking revenge on Noem because she cancelled an interview with Gutfeld!, citing a snowstorm in the Black Hills.  But she's still in New York; she didn't rush back to South Dakota.  It's all just good fun.  I don't imagine she's booked on Seth Myers.

Trump told Stormy, "You remind me of my daughter," but the yuck factor is high all over the family values party.  How about this?

"...If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couples?"

No, not Kentucky.  That's state representative Jess Edwards speaking against a bill to raise the marriage age in New Hampshire from sixteen to eighteen.  He responded to angry emails by apologizing for "an inappropriate word" but went on, "I don't want to feed the beast.  I don't care to apologize to the haters."  New Hampshire celebrates freedom right on the license plate but in this case the bill passed.  The ripe and fertile will have to wait until they're eighteen to marry because this is not 16th century Verona.  (Edwards's Wikipedia page doesn't give his date of birth but he could play Friar Laurence without makeup.)

Not that Trump pays any attention to it but Judge Merchan's gag order needs to be amended to include courtroom sketch artists.  Jane Rosenberg told CNN she is getting "strange emails" from Trumpers who think her drawings are insufficiently flattering.  I could have told her the hair needs more Sherwin Williams Sunburst Yellow.

This just in:  Either the snowstorm is worse than reported or the author of No Going Back is cutting her losses and going back to South Dakota.  When she gets home the governor will find that the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux have also banned her from tribal land.  That's five.

Citing safety concerns, United Airlines has cancelled its daily flights to Tel Aviv through June 5.  I suppose Lindsey Graham will demand that they also be investigated for "terrorism."

According to Mayor Eric Adams, Rikers Island is ready to receive Defendant Trump when Judge Merchan gives the word.  Since he spent the day raging about the judge and yesterday's testimony on his punkass platform, I'll be up early tomorrow.