Search found 6800 matches
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:20 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 118128
Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
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...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 217
- Views: 32653
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
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...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:43 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1063
- Views: 117028
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Capital punishment
- Replies: 535
- Views: 251931
Re: Capital punishment
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...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 118128
Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
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.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:49 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1063
- Views: 117028
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
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...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:36 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 118128
Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
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...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:18 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 217
- Views: 32653
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:44 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1063
- Views: 117028
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
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...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:00 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2006
- Views: 291103
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
That's the world we live in.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.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:39 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 217
- Views: 32653
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
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...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:51 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 217
- Views: 32653
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
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...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:29 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 217
- Views: 32653
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Actual Fox News caption: "Witness: Trump Dated Beautiful Women."
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:26 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 217
- Views: 32653
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
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...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1063
- Views: 117028
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
I was just polled, mostly about the Ohio Senate race, via a call to my cell phone. I think it was by a Republican-leaning firm. I wasn't sure at first. There were lots of questions about supposed bad things that both Sen. Sherrod Brown and Bernie Moreno have done, but while there were questions abou...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:55 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Roe v Wade has been overturned. How do you feel about that?
- Replies: 1315
- Views: 398662
Re: Roe v Wade has been overturned. How do you feel about that?
Speaking in Tampa today, President Biden urged Floridians to vote for the abortion rights issue that will be on the ballot in November. It requires 60% to pass. After making a joke about the Bible that Trump is selling ("I almost wanted to buy one just to see what the hell is in it"), Bide...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:28 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 217
- Views: 32653
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Actual National Enquirer headline from that period: "It's Over for Pervy Ted".
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:45 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 118128
Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
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.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Replies: 1023
- Views: 118128
Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
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...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 217
- Views: 32653
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
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 -- ...