The Hall of Fire

I think Alito's brain would explode:



Anyway, it sounds like some of the Republican judges are inclined to rule for immunity?

Axios reports : "IDF chief Harzi Helevi and Shin Bet director Ronen Bar secretly visited Cairo on Wednesday for talks with top Egyptian officials about a possible Rafah operation." - - - - - - - - - Meanwhile, the left-leaning Israeli newspaper Haaretz calls for the U.S. to recognize a Pa...

Elon Musk said today that Alex Jones's Twitter account will be reactivated and also streamed a live chat between the two of them plus Andrew Tate (the kickboxer who's been indicted on sex trafficking charges in Romania) and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Edited to add: Michael F...

Rep. Donald Payne, Democrat of New Jersey, has died at the age of 65 after being hospitalized following a heart attack earlier this month.

ABC News has new reporting on how Donald Trump handled classified information as president, based on various sources who apparently have testified in Jack Smith's investigation. Trump has been charged for what he did as a former president, because as president he had an almost unfettered power to re...

NBC reports that earlier this month, the U.S. provided Ukraine with long-range ATACMS ballistic missiles "but did not reveal it publicly for operational security reasons". The missiles were part of a $300 million package that President Biden's administration announced last month. Ukraine h...

Today in The Daily Beast : "Trump is using a GOP compliance firm as a go-between [from five PACs] to pay lawyers, allowing him to hide who he's actually paying. Experts have real questions whether he can do that." Allison Gill points out (citing a 2022 Washington Post article) that this c...

Mother Jones has obtained audio of Steve Bannon on Oct. 31, 2020 discussing election strategy with Guo Wengui, the exiled Chinese billionaire on whose yacht Bannon had been arrested earlier that year.... Guo Wengui (real name Ho Wan Kwok), the exiled Chinese billionaire and Steve Bannon's erstwhile...

The Arizona Republic reports that the state's Republicans today blocked legislation that would have overturned the 1864 law that was upheld yesterday by the state's supreme court and criminalizes almost all abortions. Arizona's House of Representatives voted 32-28 today to repeal the 1864 law. Repu...

And going some 1,600 miles south-by-southwest from Michigan: " Arizona grand jury has indicted Trump allies for 2020 election interference " ( Politico ). Donald Trump is "Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1." (Ken Chesebro is "Unindicted Co-Conspirator 4.") Only some of the ei...

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 9:35 pm Meanwhile, Michigan attorney general charges 'false electors' over efforts to overturn the 2020 election

ABC reports today: "Trump, Giuliani, Meadows are unindicted co-conspirators in Michigan fake elector case, hearing reveals."

Busy news day. Rolling Stone reports on how Trump's defense team expects to lose when the Supreme Court eventually rules on his claims of immunity (which hears oral arguments tomorrow) but still feels that they've won by sheer delay: "we already pulled off the heist." And while that has be...

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...