The Hall of Fire

CNN's Ranu Maju reports : "Mitch McConnell, a staunch backer of Ukraine aid, says the anti-Ukraine movement began with Tucker Carlson, 'who, in my opinion, ended up where he should have been all along, which is interviewing Vladimir Putin.'" Apparently the final vote will happen later today.

The Senate foreign aid package will combine the four House bills into one, so there is likely to be some opposition from both the left and right, but an attempt to filibuster the bill just was blocked by an 80-19 vote. And Republican Senate leadership has been sharing this document countering far-ri...

National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified today that he did indeed have an informal agreement with Donald Trump in 2015 to publish derogatory stories about Trump's opponents and to purchase and suppress derogatory stories about Trump. The heart of this trial lies with the latter effort -- ...

The Federal Trade Commission just voted (3-2) to ban non-compete agreements. That's an arrangement reached between a company and an employee that prohibits the employee from working for the company's competition for some period of time after the employee leaves the company. The FTC's ruling applies ...

To be fair, I haven't been particularly keeping up with the trial other than what I've been reading here and I'd heard about Trump's sleepiness and odor issues and I had no idea/was wondering what was being referred to although it is a little TMI. The fact that he apparently fell asleep in court la...

Republicans seem to have convinced themselves that Donald Trump never suggested in 2020 that injecting disinfectant into people's bodies might be a way to stop Covid, but he really did: "And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can ...

To be fair, I haven't been particularly keeping up with the trial other than what I've been reading here and I'd heard about Trump's sleepiness and odor issues and I had no idea/was wondering what was being referred to although it is a little TMI. The fact that he apparently fell asleep in court la...

Okay, had to google that: Blockchain technology is an advanced database mechanism that allows transparent information sharing within a business network. A blockchain database stores data in blocks that are linked together in a chain. It's also the technology that makes cryptocurrency possible. In t...

" Texan Suing Ex’s BFFs Over Abortion Allegedly Promised to Drop Lawsuit for Sex . According to a new court filing, he also allegedly threatened to release intimate videos of his ex-wife unless she did his laundry." That's a new article in Rolling Stone about the law Texas enacted in 2021 ...

RFK Jr. today: "I'm gonna put the entire U.S. budget on blockchain."

One possible answer to Karen Piper's question is that Rep. Barry Laudermilk is attempting to assist future attacks on the Capitol. https://twitter.com/PiperK/status/1782558435650761171B Remember, it was Laudermilk who led a suspicious tour of the Capitol shortly before Jan. 6th. But there also may b...

A witness in this case testified in a deposition that Walt Nauta was told that Donald Trump would pardon him once he's again president.

I hear you. That said, Anthony Kreis later said of his concern with Michael Cohen's post: "It’s not about decorum. It’s about giving unnecessary new impeachment material." So it would seem that Kreis was considering the possibility of Donald Trump's lawyers asking Cohen about this tweet. I...

Celebrity endorsements don't mean much, but the actor Michael Douglas (who once played the U.S. president and currently portrays Benjamin Franklin in a TV miniseries) makes a good point on CNN : it appears that every member of President Biden's cabinet supports him while very few members of Donald T...

The only non-union Volkswagen plant in the world was located in Tennessee. Until the day before yesterday, when workers there voted -- over the warnings of several Republican governors -- to join the UAW. Apparently it's been decades since this happened in a U.S. auto plant. President Biden has iss...

I assume the reason "this is not helpful for the DA" is that Donald Trump's attorneys can now try to enter this tweet into evidence, presumably during Michael Cohen's cross-examination, as evidence that Cohen is biased against Trump. But doesn't that open the door for Cohen to explain why ...

A reminder that the "star witness" is almost as awful as the defendant. ... Two peas in a pod. Agreed, but what's not quite clear from that post, nor previously mentioned in this thread, is that earlier this afternoon, Donald Trump made derogatory public statements about Cohen, almost cer...

There apparently remain lots of unexplained details in the Sep. 11, 2011 triple murder in Waltham, Mass., which is officially unsolved but generally believed to have been committed by Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Ibragim Todashev. Tamerlan and his younger brother Dzhokhar would go on to perpetrate the Apri...

Polls mostly continue to show Donald Trump leading President Biden, although the margin seems to be tightening. These are the most recent polls listed at 538.com: Apr. 14 -- Biden 49% vs. Trump 46% (Echelon) Apr. 14 -- Biden 41% vs. Trump 40% vs. Kennedy 11% vs. West 2% vs. Stein 2% (Echelon) Apr. 1...

I had no idea that it costs reporters in the range of $1,300 per day to obtain New York court transcripts.

But the court today announced that in this case, the transcripts will be made available free to the public by the end of each next business day.