The Hall of Fire

Posted without comment (because I don't trust myself to comment). I saw that an Israeli opposition leader called on Netanyahu's government to reverse this decision, and now there's an update: " Israel cancels order to cut AP live feed, will return camera equipment it seized " (CNN). - - -...

For those who didn't want to bother with math... Truth Social stock continues to hold about the same value ($48.38 at the close of business today), but today the company released its financials for January-March 2024, which reveal "Revenue of $770,500 and Net Loss of $327.6 Million." That ...

Donald Trump tonight posted images on his social media network seemingly implying that he will oversee a "Unified Reich" as president. Will this be the official flag of the Trumpreich? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOHGe6BWQAASXJB?format=jpg&name=small Edited to add that someone found t...

" Biden releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from Northeast reserve in bid to lower prices at pump " (Associated Press). This move, announced by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, is not a campaign stunt meant to lower gas prices and improve President Biden's electoral chances (though ...

Maryland's former governor, Larry Hogan, a moderate Republican running for U.S. Senate, claims in a new pro-choice campaign ad that he will introduce federal legislation to codify the abortion rights in Roe vs. Wade . He probably genuinely means that, and it's gratifying that both major candidates i...

Matt Yglesias explains , again, why Donald Trump's presidency would increase inflation, particularly for the cost of food: Trump proposes to "tax imported fertilizer and deport 10-20 percent of the agricultural workforce," apparently on the theory that in "Trumptopia, native-born Amer...

A newly unsealed March 2023 opinion by Judge Beryl Howell, who at the time was the Chief Judge in the District of Columbia, reveals that even after the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, there were two further occasions of multiple classified documents being found there. That included four documents that Tru...

In a new interview, Donald Trump says he's considering limiting access to contraception: https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1792925742885372172 I guess after his Manhattan trial more widely disseminated the fact that he didn't use a condom when cheating on his wife, he's decided to go all in on that...

Asked why his father didn't testify in his own defense, Donald Trump Jr. today said this proceeding is a "kangaroo court," adding "You don't subject yourself to that." So why did Donald Trump repeatedly lie and claim that he would testify? Edited to add: If Trump is convicted, he...

It seems the International Criminal Court has yet to issue any warrants in the Ethiopian civil war , which has been raging since 2018 and resulted in 600,000 civilian deaths. Some people say this is because Ethopia never signed the Rome Statute that created the ICC. But while Israel signed, its leg...

Recent polls show Donald Trump's lead on President Biden growing: it's up to 1.4% in the 538.com average. - - - - - - - - - - Meanwhile, Trump advisor Peter Navarro says , in an interview from prison , that Donald Trump as president would immediately fire Jerome Powell, the very successful Federal R...

Wasn't he supposed to be a witness for the defense? And not just for the email I quoted but for another one the prosecution in which Robert Costello, having yet to lock down Michael Cohen as a client, wrote to Jeff Cintron that Cohen "is playing us and the President. What should I say to this ...

This is old news (confirmed under oath in court today), but I hadn't heard this story before. Robert Costello is an attorney who was angling to represent Michael Cohen in 2018 as part of a joint defense defense agreement with Donald Trump and others. Cohen and Costello communicated at some length ab...

Rachel Maddow interviewed Fani Willis tonight.

On March 26, 2024, the first day that Truth Social was on the stock market, it peaked at $74.79 per share. At the close of business today, April 5, 2024, Truth Social was trading at $40.57 per share, which is 46% below its peak. And it had dropped to $37.17 at close today. Blame it on the eclipse? ...

Melinda Gates resigned last week from the Gates Foundation. It was widely speculated that she did this in order to become more politically active.

Today Melina Gates donated $400 million to the Be a Hero PAC, the left-leaning organization founded by the late health-care advocate Ady Barkan.

I like to see Joe Biden embracing Donald Trump's characterization ("If the radical Democratic extremists get their way, they will have a federal law for abortion").

The Wall Street Journal editorial board is big mad about the commencement address that President Biden gave at Morehouse College (a historically Black institution in Atlanta), which presumably means they're afraid it was effective. Sample passage: He also told the graduates that Republicans don’t wa...

Donald Trump tonight posted images on his social media network seemingly implying that he will oversee a "Unified Reich" as president. (I'm willing to accept that this was borne of incompetence rather than actual Nazism,* even though Trump is a Hitler-curious racist.) * Edited to note Matt...

The United States says the International Criminal Court has violated its own rules by asking for warrants on Netanyahu and Gallant.

And the prosecutors who requested the warrants were actually supposed to visit Israel today on a fact-finding mission but at the last minute didn't board their flight.