The Hall of Fire

Michael Cohen announced today that he won't be posting or saying anything further about Donald Trump publicly until after his testimony.

I think he should wait until after verdict.

Fox News reports on news from Britain: Ukraine continues to see an international windfall following the passage of a significant U.S. aid package as the U.K. follows suit with a pledge of its single-largest military aid package. "Defending Ukraine against Russia's brutal ambitions is vital for ...

The conservative-leaning New York Post (and other outlets) are reporting today on good news from President Biden for consumers: " Flyers may soon get a break over canceled flights — including instant refunds — thanks to new Department of Transportation rules ." The article specifically men...

The H1N1 bird flu outbreak that has infected cattle in eight U.S. states (plus cats and one human) has revealed some policy flaws: the USDA requires bird flu to be reported when it infects fowl but not when it infects other animals. And in general, there needs to be more coordination between the UDS...

Edited to add a helpful explanation about how that the official protest is limited to one small part of Columbia's campus. See the pictures at the link. Much of what is being shown on the media is happening on the streets outside of campus. I acknowledge that I may be part of the problem, having po...

Yes, but after a couple weeks in which Biden seemed to be slowly improving, today is rough for him. Besides the polls mentioned above, Pew has Donald Trump leading President Biden nationally 49%-48%, and Quinnipiac, which Biden led in each of the past three months, now has him tied with Trump. In th...

There's new reporting in Politico on how this package cleared the House: President Biden "directed his senior aides to employ a two-pronged strategy: (1) privately make clear to Speaker Mike Johnson the stakes if Vladimir Putin takes Ukraine, leaning heavily on intelligence, and (2) lay off att...

Is "the staff" going to testify? I haven't looked at the full list of prosecution witnesses, but the most important Enquirer staffer (besides the owner, David Pecker) involved in the pro-Trump "catch and kill" scheme is the tabloid's former editor, David Howard, who lives in Aus...

Donald Trump leads President Biden in seven of eight possible swing states, per a new Morning Consult poll for Bloomberg, with Pennsylvania the only exception.

Edited to fix link. (This one was wrong.)

The SCOTUS has agreed to take a case regarding the constitutionality of Oklahoma's lethal injection procedure. This comes just a few days after the court refused to stay the executions involved, and one of the inmates who was challenging the procedure was put to death. The three remaining inmates w...

President Biden has signed the long-delayed foreign aid package that includes $61 billion in assistance for Ukraine in its defense against Russia's invasion.

Pennsylvania's primaries were held today, along with a state legislature special election. In the latter, the Republican won by 19% in a district that Donald Trump carried by 28%. Meanwhile, the state's "Squad" member, Rep. Summer Lee from Pittsburgh, held off a centrist primary challenger...

The $95 billion foreign aid bill, including $61 billion for aid to Ukraine, has passed the Senate by a 79-18 vote. "Thirty-one Republicans joined with 48 Democrats to pass the legislation. That's nine more Republicans than supported the aid package when the Senate last considered it in February...

Some early reporting on this whole situation:

Eric Hovde is a hedge fund manager who is the leading Republican candidate vying to challenge Tammy Baldwin (the incumbent Democrat) to be a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. Hovde ran for the same office in 2012 but has lived in California about as much as Wisconsin over the dozen years since. Also he s...

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:03 pm I doubt the new rule with survive legal challenges, sadly. Not with the Roberts court.

That's the world we live in.

One of the stories about Donald Trump for which David Pecker and the National Enquirer engaged in a "catch and kill" is widely understood to be false. Late in 2015, the Enquirer paid $30,000 to Dino Sajudin, a doorman at one of Trump's buildings, for the exclusive rights to a rumor that he...

I think you could use this as the beat for a pop song. It's almost hypnotic: https://twitter.com/AnthonyMKreis/status/1782877460025028976 That's a snippet of something Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba posted on social media today. And here she is on Newsmax explaining the impropriety of Judge Mer...

Actual Fox News caption: "Witness: Trump Dated Beautiful Women."

Sometimes it seems as if there's a symbiotic relationship between Donald Trump and reporter Maggie Haberman of the New York Times . She's printed lots of unflattering stories about him, but he keeps giving her interviews, and he's clearly been an anonymous source for some of her reporting, in what s...