The Hall of Fire

The link I put here: This morning, President Biden informed the Commission on Presidential Debates that he would not be participating in any events they scheduled this year, and his letter made a decent case as to why the Commission's format doesn't serve the Amercian people... is a link to a tweet ...

Sen. Bob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey facing a twice-superseded indictment on corruption charges, gave a speech in the Senate today complaining about that. "Senator Menendez, Charged in Bribery Scheme, May Blame His Wife" ( New York Times ). And in the opening statements of Sen. Bob M...

Mark Joseph Stern expects SCOTUS will restore the legislature's map for this year's election in accordance with the "Purcell principle" (which says maps shouldn't be changed too close to an election) but there's a good chance that next year the Court will use this case to scrap what remai...

Israel's defense minister, Yoav Gallant, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party, today publicly demanded that Netanyahu "make a decision and declare that Israel will not retain civilian control of Gaza, that there will be no Israeli military rule, and that an alternative to Hamas...

Meanwhile, the New York Times:

A bill reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration was held up for a long time because Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, insisted that the bill allow for more flights from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, despite concerns from the FAA, Dept. of Transportation, and other agencies...

And not just in Tblisi... I haven't been closely following the news from Tblisi, where there have been large protests almost every night https://twitter.com/revishvilig/status/1790838593851732434 Not sure whether or not it would be cool to live in a "Black Death city," but that's a typo: R...

Sunsilver wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 8:02 pm

Trump says he’ll arrange his own transportation. I’ll bring my plane, too. I plan on keeping it for another four years.

Love Biden's low-key sense of humor!

Biden also said, "I hear you're free on Wednesdays," but June 27, the date of the debate on CNN, is actually a Thursday.

I haven't been closely following the news from Tblisi, where there have been large protests almost every night against the Georgian parliament's "foreign agents" law that apparently is a pro-Russian measure that will "set back the country's ambitions to join" the European Union. ...

" S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, Dow Jones Shatter Record Highs In Unstoppable Bull Market Rally" ( Business Insider ). After a dip in April, the Dow Jones average closed at 39,908 today, breaking the record of 39,807 set on March 28. (The peak during Donald Trump's presidency was about 31,000 i...

"Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom recorded a $6.8 billion loss in 2023, the first loss since 1999." (That's U.S. dollars.)

I like this effort to bring the truth about Donald Trump's presidency out of the memory hole: Trump's first term turned out much worse than anyone feared. He did the mean tweets and some racist stuff. He deployed armed, masked, and unbadged federal agents to grab citizens off the streets. He did his...

The hatred for Ukraine among some on the American right is just so weird:



I didn't realize that Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" was as recent as 1989. I think when I first heard it, I assumed it was a 70s song.

After the much-publicized news last week that President Biden's administration had paused one particular weapons shipment to Israel, last night it was reported that the White House has just authorized another $1 billion in military aid to Israel, specifically "$700 million in tank ammunition, $...

Where in the world is Rudy Giuliani? " 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 eighteen people who have b...

"And then there's Ukraine. I want you to consider the following : If Donald Trump wins [the 2024 election], then Vladimir Putin will have executed one of the greatest geostrategic coups of the last century. He will have pushed all of his chips into the center of the table and, though a combinat...

In fact, those are rare bright spots in a long, bleak history . The only years that saw a decrease in the number of fatal drug overdoses in the past five decades (1974-2023) were 1976 (the last year of Gerald Ford's presidency), 1977-1980 (all four years of Jimmy Carter's presidency), 1987 (the seve...

Drug overdose deaths in the United States increased every year from 2019 through 2022, i.e., for the last two years of Donald Trump's presidency and the first two years of Joe Biden's presidency, but ABC reports that they fell in 2023, and while that's only a 3% decrease from the 111,000 deaths in 2...

I think so. The deal seems to have been that in exchange for Johnson allowing a vote on the foreign aid package, Democrats would block Greene's attempt to oust him. Democrats kept their word. But disagreements and criticism are otherwise to be expected.

This morning, President Biden informed the Commission on Presidential Debates that he would not be participating in any events they scheduled this year, and his letter made a decent case as to why the Commission's format doesn't serve the Amercian people -- I appreciate the reminder that the famous ...