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Fear and Loathing as Trump Payment Deadline Looms

Mar 21, 2024 | washingtonmonthly.com | Jennifer Taub

We were somewhere around Donald Trump’s third Truth Social rant on Tuesday morning, on the edge of his court-ordered deadline to secure a $464 million bond, when I remember saying, “I feel a bit lightheaded; I think Trump really is broke.” I’m no Hunter S. Thompson, but I smell fear and loathing in Mar-a-Lago. To wit:Judge Engoron actually wants me to put up Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for the Right to Appeal his ridiculous decision. . . Nobody has ever heard of anything like this before.
Old Dumb & Broke

Feb 1, 2024 | jentaub.substack.com | Jennifer Taub

You know the song by Khalid, “Young Dumb & Broke.” It came out in 2017 and was and still is an instant ear worm. Apologies in advance. Here’s my rewrite of that cloying chorus:While he’s old dumb. Old, old dumb and broke. Old dumb. Old, Old dumb and broke. Old dumb. Old, old dumb and broke. Old dumb broke Donald Trump. Magadadadadadada. Magadadadadada. Magadadadadadada. Old dumb broke Donald Trump.
Pay Up and Shut Up

Jan 28, 2024 | jentaub.substack.com | Jennifer Taub |E. Jean Carroll

I’ll have much more to say in tomorrow’s “On the Money Monday” column about how Donald Trump will soon be hemorrhaging cash with no tourniquet in sight. But for now, just taking this moment to thank my dear friend and her stellar legal team led by Robbie Kaplan who did something no one has every been able to do before: shut him up. Will it work? Maybe this time, yes. So far, since the $83.3 million verdict came in, something he had to sit and listen to on Friday afternoon, he has not said her name.
Aquilino Gonell

Jan 9, 2024 | jentaub.substack.com | Jennifer Taub

Today nearly three years after the attack on the US Capitol my guest is American hero, Aquilino Gonell, author of the new book American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy. You know Staff Sergeant Gonell as one of the brave members of the Capitol Police who defended our country and our constitution when insurrectionist mobs attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. You saw Sergeant Gonell testify in July of 2021 at a televised Congressional hearing.
A Taxing Question for the Roberts Court

Dec 7, 2023 | washingtonmonthly.com | Jennifer Taub

Champions of a future billionaire wealth tax can breathe a small sigh of relief after Tuesday’s Supreme Court argument in Moore v. United States. Additionally, those worried that the justices could be eager to blow up the current federal income tax system can sleep better, too. While juris doctors don’t take the Hippocratic Oath, the justices’ questions suggest that the Court’s liberals and conservatives are adopting a “first do no harm” approach regarding the tax code.
Why Won’t the World’s Feminists Show Up for Israeli Victims?

Nov 30, 2023 | slate.com | Dahlia Lithwick |Mimi Rocah |Tamara Sepper |Jennifer Taub

Politics Of all of the horrors coming out of the Israel-Hamas conflict, among the most horrible are the barbaric murders, rapes, sexual assaults, and kidnappings of women and young girls in Israel during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. And yet, deepening this distressing event, there has been a disheartening silence about, or worse, denial of these evils; reticence from the voices here at home in the U.S. who have, in the recent past, embraced other women who needed their support.
Why Won’t the World’s Feminists Show Up for Israeli Victims?

Nov 30, 2023 | news.yahoo.com | Dahlia Lithwick |Mimi Rocah |Tamara Sepper |Jennifer Taub |Joyce White Vance |Julie Zebrak

Of all of the horrors coming out of the Israel-Hamas conflict, among the most horrible are the barbaric murders, rapes, sexual assaults, and kidnappings of women and young girls in Israel during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. And yet, deepening this distressing event, there has been a disheartening silence about, or worse, denial of these evils; reticence from the voices here at home in the U.S. who have, in the recent past, embraced other women who needed their support.
You Can Go Your Own Way

Nov 10, 2023 | jentaub.substack.com | Jennifer Taub

Freedom of speech does not prevent social consequences that flow from that speech. I am fully aware that what I say, in particular as it relates to what should be uncontroversial statements that Israel has the right to exist and that Hamas is a terrorist organization –– may alienate some (or many) people and make them not want to associate with me. I am fine with that. Similarly, something others say may make me avoid them as well.
Hey Threaders! Is Twitter in Your Retirement Account?

Jul 7, 2023 | jentaub.substack.com | Jennifer Taub

Whew. It’s been less than 48-hours since Zuck opened the gates to Threads and we all came crashing through. Well, not all of us, but something like 70 million users. By now you’ve read many (already dated) hot takes on the user experience, seen and shared numerous brutal (but fair) memes of Elon getting metaphorically cage-match-trounced by his billionaire-bro rival. But you know all that. Here’s something new to consider, Twitter quitters. You might be an investor in Twitter and not even know it.
Bribes Gone Wild

Jun 23, 2023 | jentaub.substack.com | Jennifer Taub

Long before Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito jetted around and vacationed with billionaires who would have matters before them, the Supreme Court gutted the federal anti-bribery laws. It’s time to get educated on how that happened and ask our members of Congress why they failed to fix it.