The Hall of Fire

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? ...

This probably won't make sense to casual readers without some explanation: [ Tweet from Marcy Wheeler: "Has anyone called Corey Lewandowski and asked if he was ever concerned Noem would shoot him?"] That would be South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, viewed by some as a possible running mate...

Guo Wengui (real name Ho Wan Kwok), the exiled Chinese billionaire and Steve Bannon's erstwhile funder and host ... was charged today in a $1 billion fraud scheme. Additional charges filed against Steve Bannon's backer, Guo Wengui. "Bannon is not referenced in the indictment, but the companies...

Rep. Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas, is expected to be indicted. Apparently something to do with business deals in Azerbaijan?

It's bad news for Democrats' chances of retaking the House. If he resigns, any would-be Democratic successor would need to run as a write-in candidate, I think.

Very interesting comments by Ben Wittes of Lawfare today on their podcast about this case. He was one of those people who felt that is case was the weakest and least important of the four cases in which Trump was charged, but after sitting through the first week of the case, he has changed his mind...

President Biden today announced the expansion of two national monuments in California by more than 100,000 acres:

I don't know enough about this subject to discuss at length, but I would imagine genocide is not determined by sheer numbers alone. I would think the percentage of the population would be more descriptive. In WWII, by number, more Jewish people were killed than Roma peoples, but by percentage, beca...

I had no idea that Samuel L. Jackson, probably the most financially successful actor ever, kidnapped Martin Luther King Sr. in 1969. (That's the father of the famous civil rights activist, who had been killed in a year before that.) I think this piece is very good as it urges the public to redirect ...

So the Republicans who control Louisiana's state legislature, faced with the likelihood that a court would force the creation of a second Black congressional district (in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act), created that district on their own, but they deliberately made it gerrymandered in ...

While I had a general sense that this was true, I'd never seen this particular comparison of Donald Trump speaking in 2015 and speaking in 2020:



Maybe the selections were cherry-picked, but hat certainly appears to show a mental decline.

Another reminder that Donald Trump's awfulness is just taken for granted and not treated as news: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1785740908190736479 He's right. If 51% of Democratic Congressional staff said that they doubted Joe Biden had the mental and physical capacity to serve as preside...

I do think there are people trying to turn us all into nihilists.

This could go in any number of threads, but since he's a sitting Senator, I give you J.D. Vance stepping on a rake:

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 2:42 am Do you think it will matter? People seem to have lost their collective minds.

It is our business to help them find them again.

But the decision as to whether to charge Sally would still be independent of the decision as to whether to charge Jack. One would hope so, but I think one would often be wrong. Edited to add: international bodies don't have the best track record here: "Since the UNHRC's creation in 2006, it ha...

Some levity from South America:



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I agree with this: "It’s weird to organize protests and then complain that they are getting covered."

Arizona Supreme Court rules that a near-total abortion ban from 1864 is enforceable Three weeks later, Arizona's House and Senate have both voted to repeal the 1864 abortion ban. It was a close vote in both chambers (16-14 in the Senate today), with most Republicans voting to leave the 19th century...

If you were once arrested, but the arrest was then expunged, are you required to answer yes when completing a legal document that asks if you were ever arrested? I think the answer should be no, because to me an expungement means the arrest never existed, and I think I'd hold that position consisten...

While I certainly see your point, on the whole I think the analogy does not hold. [... various interesting arguments undercutting my Dresden/Poland analogy ...] Let me try a different analogy. If Jack stabs five of his neighbors to death, including the husband and kids of Sally who lives across the...

I did not know that the Holocaust Museum in D.C., in its Arabic language translations, refers to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis as the "Warsaw Intifada."