The Hall of Fire

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.)

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.

I've seen several videos purporting to show some Iranians cheering the news of their president's death. It's very difficult to verify such videos, and even if you could, wouldn't do so put those Iranians at risk of execution?

Donald Trump today for the third time canceled a previously announced campaign event in Arizona.

My favorite line from the SNL opening two night ago: "Trust me, I would love to testify. I'm not afraid to testify at all. I'm just not going to out of fear."

A new January 6th defendant told a federal judge during arraignment today, "Trump's going to be back in office in 6 months, I've got nothing to worry about."

One claim made repeatedly by Donald Trump over the past several years was that Michael Cohen only flipped on him to protect his family. Has Trump's defense team tried to make this point? That Cohen (supposedly) lied to incriminate because he didn't want his wife or father-in-law to go to jail?

I started this post a couple hours ago and returned to find it was already out of date. Lisa Rubin reports on how Donald Trump's legal strategy today is apparently to slow down the trial. Prosecutors have video evidence of Trump speaking that they wish to introduce into evidence. Some of the videos ...

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...

Ivan, did you see the sunrise this morning?

(Enjoying some good old anti-Soviet propaganda on late night TV.)

So what's going on here?



If that's meant to be a dramatic pause, it goes on for an awfully long time.

Iran's president, Ebrahim Raisi, is presumed dead , along with the nation's foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, and seven others in a helicopter crash earlier today. It took many hours for rescuers to find the crash site, but per CNN, Iran's state media is now showing drone footage that sugg...

If this young woman were, say, my sister, I'd want the military to kill every person who stood in the way of rescuing her: https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1791903302235369604 They sliced her heels to keep her from running away?! The question, of course, is who standing in the way, and who is...

Roger Stone posted this about Trump's rally in Wildwood, NJ. ... The problem is that this image was taken on December 31, 1994 at the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at a concert by Rod Stewart in what is known as the world's largest free music concert, with an attendance of over 3.5 mil...

The New York Post reports that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has voted in New York for years based on a Westchester residence he owns but where he seems not to actually reside. And apparently he also said on a podcast that he lives in Los Angeles. Edited to add this question : has RFK been lying on his ball...