The Hall of Fire

Donald Trump was interviewed by Time and gave alarming answers on several topics, including abortion rights. On that subject: 1. He won't rule out a national abortion ban (which many Republicans promise to pass if they control Congress). 2.a. He says he has a "very strong" opinion about wh...

Tesla is laying off 10% of its workforce, including the "supercharger" department that just won a competition for the biggest share of installation of a national car charging network.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the rest of the House Democratic leadership have officially announced that if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene moves to vacate the House Speaker position held by Republican Mike Johnson, Democrats will vote against it.

Typo. (or perhaps wishful thinking) Heh. Thanks for confirming. I wondered if maybe there was some other provision that hadn't been previously reported. So it's $9,000 total this time. Meanwhile, Lisa Rubin reports on how Donald Trump's legal strategy today is apparently to slow down the trial. Pro...

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:52 pm Justice Merchan has ruled that Trump violated the gag order on 9 of the 10 alleged occasions and fined him $10,000 for each, warning that further violations will potentially result in incarceration.

I thought the law limited the penalty to either jail time or just $1,000 per instance?

Contra this piece , saving democracy is in fact a responsibility of journalism, and the statement that "Journalism is about observing bad things happening, not trying to stop them" is wrong, unless journalists seriously think their job is to sign their own death warrants. (Most of them wil...

New York Post Rep. George Santos allegedly drag queen named ‘Kitara’ in Brazil Sure. Why not. Video shows drag-denier George Santos dressed in drag, boasting about drag shows After denying that he had ever performed in drag, Rep. George Santos today admitted that he had done so but only because he ...

This could be a glimmer of hope for the long-term situation in Israel and Palestine. Speaking at a conference in Saudi Arabia, Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, which is the governing party in the West Bank, said that "Israel has the right to complete security, and Pal...

The Daily Mail today says that Israel fears that the International Criminal Court is going to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel's actions in Gaza. Believe me, I have no love for Netanyahu, but any such warrant that isn't issued simultaneously with warr...

The Arizona Republican Party yesterday elected as its co-chairs Liz Harris, a former state representative who was expelled from her office by her colleagues (in a 46-13 vote) for having used her position to promote 2020 election conspiracy theories, and sitting state senator Jake Hoffman, who was ch...

The Daily Mail today says that Israel fears that the International Criminal Court is going to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel's actions in Gaza. Believe me, I have no love for Netanyahu, but any such warrant that isn't issued simultaneously with warra...

Four years ago yesterday, Donald Trump threatened to block states and citie swith Democratic governors and mayors from receiving Covid-19 relief funds.

Negotiations by proxy between Israel and Hamas have been ongoing. Hamas was reported to have been willing to accept the two-state solution -- something which they'd previously refused in favor of the elimination of Israel -- but don't get your hopes up, because they also said that it would be depend...

I didn't realize that NBC reporter Kelly O'Donnell is the president of the White House Correspondents' Association, whose annual gala dinner was tonight. I remember O'Donnell when she was a local reporter here in Cleveland back in the early 1990s. President Biden spoke at the event: "Of course,...

" Donald Trump Has Never Sounded Like This . No major American presidential candidate has talked like he now does at his rallies — not Richard Nixon, not George Wallace, not even Donald Trump himself." That's the headline of a new analysis in The New York Times by a reporter who attended s...

" Biden Just Saved the 40-Hour Work Week " ( The New Republic ). April 23 marked a defining moment for the Biden administration, a watershed of multiple significant actions to protect the interests of working people. We know, from Michael D. Shear of The New York Times , among others, that...

I'm not sure you and I are defining "worst" the same way.

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Edited many hours later to add: this is just the start of what I think the worst will entail.

Should President Biden hint to the Supreme Court that he's willing to play hardball to force them to do the right thing? No. Emphatically no. While I am disappointed with some of the oral argument on this case, I am far more disappointed by the response to it. Whereas I fear that nine months from n...

Should President Biden hint to the Supreme Court that he's willing to play hardball to force them to do the right thing?

Speaking (two weeks ago) of the Golan Heights: About three hours ago, Iran reportedly launched hundreds of drones in an attack on Israel. ... I've seen reports indicating that the expected target is the Golan Heights. Some observers believe this attack may be meant as a face-saving measure by Iran ....