- Many items about the apparent assassination attempt last night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and how many people on social media detected signs of a staged attack;
- Why posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms doesn’t work, as conservatives think it should;
- Jerry Coyne explores evidence about whether reality has a liberal bias, and my take on that;
- Listening again to Philip Glass & Robert Wilson’s Monsters of Grace.
Within an hour or so of my finishing yesterday’s post, which ended about how many people, even Trump supporters, think the 2024 assassination attempt was staged, another apparent assassination attempt occurred at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, in of course Washington DC. And while mainstream news coverage is fairly uniform, Facebook (and elsewhere on the internet, apparently), has been full of speculations and even claims that it was staged.
First, links to some reasonably consistent coverage, remarkable because many of these news correspondents *were there*! All of these posted today or late last night.
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- The Atlantic, Missy Ryan, Matt Viser, and Michael Scherer: A Shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, subtitled “The president is safe after chaos at the Washington Hilton, and a suspect is reportedly in custody.
- Vox, Benjy Sarlin: What we know about the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, subtitled “Violence keeps stalking American politics.”
- Heather Cox Richardson: April 25, 2026
- The New Yorker, Antonia Hitchens: Inside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as Gunshots Rang Out, subtitled “I thought a caterer might have dropped a stack of plates, but then I heard shouts of ‘Shots fired!'”











