The Hall of Fire

Some interesting but disheartening details here about Israel-Hamas negotiations being mediated by Qatar.

The South Carolina decision looks pretty bad (that's a link to a quick recap by Mark Joseph Stern). Although apparently not bad enough for Justice Thomas, who would take away courts' ability to block gerrymandering and maybe would overturn Brown v. Board of Education?

Donald Trump is openly boasting that Vladimir Putin is holding Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as a hostage until Trump is elected:



Isn't that conspiracy to commit kidnapping?

It turns out that President Biden also tried to assassinate himself.

Oh look, Rep. Lauren Boebert is taking credit for a $51 million bridge project that she voted against.

(And I see that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has noted this.)

Rep. Andy Ogles, Republican of Tennessee, has made some questionable financial disclosure filings. A watchdog group has called for an investigation. Today Republican Congressman Andy Ogles of Tennessee filed amended FEC reports which show that he was lying when he said he loaned $320,000 to his 202...

This is bluster born of fear:

Indeed, that the flag has a "long and often respectable history" (as I wrote above) is probably the defense that Alito will make, but this is a guy who in one day sold thousands of dollars of Anheuser Busch stock and then bought Molson Coors stock -- just as conservatives were decrying Anh...

Donald Trump told an interviewer today that Judge Merchan "made rulings that make it very difficult to testify. Anything I did, anything I did in the best, they could bring everything up then." (He goes on for a few more sentences.) He's referring to the ruling below from early in the tria...

The Congressional Record will show that these words spoken today were never uttered:



Republican cancel culture strikes again.

" Egypt changed terms of Gaza ceasefire deal presented to Hamas, surprising negotiators, sources say " (CNN). Remember when a ceasefire deal seemed close and then fell apart a few weeks ago? Turns out that was the fault of Egyptian intelligence and surprised negotiators from the United Sta...

Graphic video here, newly released at the request of hostages' families, of their loved ones being abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7th.

Also most people have no idea what this flag means. In other words, Alito is apparently pretty deep into insurrectionist waters.

I didn't realize that Donald Trump's adviser Stephen Miller has compared Trump's plan to remove 15 million immigrants to Israel's invasion of Gaza.

The flag in question does have a long and often respectable history, but as shown in this picture (h/t Allison Gill), it has become associated with the insurrectionists:



It's the white flag with the tree on it.

Not really for this thread but there's no 2032 election thread yet, so... "Minnesota Just Became The Latest State to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering." Counting incarcerated people as residents of white rural areas where prisons are located rather than the diverse urban areas where they mos...

A new poll from Quinnipiac finds President Biden narrowly leading Donald Trump (48%-47%) and doing even better with RFK Jr. in the race. And new polling from Bloomberg finds Trump leading Biden in all but two of six swing states, but in all six, Biden is doing better than he was a month ago. Thus 53...

Should the Senate Judiciary Commitee subpoena Martha-Ann Alito?

"Another Provocative Flag was Flown at Another Alito Home" (New York Times).

Oh my. I can't imagine what Harbach was thinking; they are in precarious enough a situation with Cannon without antagonizing her more. Florida hearing in Trump classified documents case devolves into shouting match ABC's version: " 'Garbage argument': Classified docs hearing gets heated over c...

It's easy to blame the media, or rich people, or whoever else. I advocate looking in the mirror. That's a very optimistic view, because if it's us who are the problem, then we can solve it, but if we are up against a sophisticated disinfo machine, state funded troll a farms, strategically design al...