The Hall of Fire

Strictly speaking, Trump slurs ("it's time to be [unintelligble]") before he glitches on the word that starts with "liber-" in this clip : https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1794538437426499727 And is it a glitch or just a misstatement? This time he doesn't do the accordion-hands...

Trump still might have gained a few votes, but I wonder if video of the boos will offset that. Meanwhile, President Biden spoke at the graduation of U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, and his speech got much less coverage. https://twitter.com/AHaschi/status/1794573410078806279 To be fair...

Today, a Russian bomb hit a supermarket in Kharkiv, with more than 200 people inside. At least two deaths reported so far, but the death toll is sure to rise. Meanwhile, the US continues to insist that American weapons cannot be used to destroy targets inside Russia, from where these bombs are laun...

As I was saying...

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 4:29 am Donald Trump spoke at the Libertarian Party convention today. It was contentious: many Libertarians don't care for him.

Donald Trump spoke at the Libertarian Party convention today. It was contentious: many Libertarians don't care for him. But he may have won some of them to his side by promising to pardon Ross Ulbricht, who is serving two life sentences plus 40 years after being convicted by a jury in 2015 of multip...

David Frum points out that if FBI agents had been acting in accordance with Donald Trump's own statements during the George Floyd protests, they would have shot him.

A report from Lviv, in Ukraine's west (far from the fighting), captures something of what life is like there now:



More at the link. The images from the new military cemetery at the end get pretty overwhelming.

Here's a different kind of Supreme Court story. Justice Sotomayor describes crying after some Supreme Court decisions "'There are days that I've come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried,' Sotomayor told the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard...

Often there are no good overhead pictures of these events, which lets Trump's people inflate the numbers. (It's also true that there are seldom shots from above of Biden's events, but Biden doesn't make a thing of boasting about attedance.) Trump's rally in the Bronx was not quite as well attended a...

"In a phone call with President Biden, Egyptian president el-Sisi agrees to resume delivery of aid trucks to Gaza through Israel."

The "deliveries were halted two weeks ago in protest of Israel's takeover of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing."

Thursday was the busiest day ever at Atlanta's Hartsville-Jackson Airport -- already the busiest airport not only in the United States but in the world -- as the previous record of 104,174 passengers set on February 4, 2019 (right after that year's Super Bowl, held in Atlanta) -- was exceeded by mor...

Further on this point: Let me explain at more length why Donald Trump is at least pretending to be committing a very serious crime. Donald Trump is publicly saying that he and Vladimir Putin have an understanding that Putin will hold an American citizen hostage until an agreed-upon time. Just think ...

Matt Schlapp, on whose behalf an insurance company paid $480,000 to a man who alleged (as others have) that Schlapp groped him, has a message for America:



No, wait, here it is:

The judge in the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat with the gold bars stashed in his house, has blocked prosecutors from using some evidence that Menendez was using his office to further the interest of the Egyptian agents who bribed him, because the Constitution's "speech and...

" Women Have Gotten 'Too Mouthy,' Says This Republican Senate Candidate ." The candidate, Royce White of Minnesota, has had a strange and meandering career in the twelve years since he was drafted as a professional basketball player in the NBA. He quickly rose to fame for championing menta...

The flip side of the Alito news is that perhaps it will help spark CJ Roberts to a more favorable decision. For the record, I asked the Lawfare crew on their Trump Trials and Tribulations podcast (as a supporting member I get to ask questions) and they unanimously rejected the idea. Senators Whiteh...

" Stocks Rebound as Consumers Revise Inflation Path ." Equities extended gains as University of Michigan data showed US consumers expect prices to climb at a 3.3% annual rate over the next year, down from the 3.5% that was expected earlier in the month. In April, respondents expected year-...

Edited to add: what the hell? " Brooklyn rappers accused of murder conspiracy join Donald Trump at Bronx rally ." Also, why on earth is Trump campaigning in New York? Why was he campaigning in New Jersey a couple weeks ago? He has no shot at winning either state, and after the defense in ...

As one can see from clicking on the link, Donald Trump's supporters will flood the replies with videos of President Biden's gaffes in response to posts like this one from the Biden-Harris campaign. The campaign surely knows that, but presumably they're banking on replies getting less circulation tha...

Here are a couple items on the nature of Donald Trump's supporters and one likely outcome should he be elected: