The Hall of Fire

"Governor, if Valerie Sununu were raped and murdered by Donald Trump, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?" No that's not what George Stephanopoulos asked New Hampshire's governor, Chris Sununu this morning, but I do wonder, given Sununu saying today that, as a Repu...

Also, in that speech in Pennsylvania, Trump noted the state's historic significance. For example, George Washington and his army famously wintered at Valley Forge in 1777-78, and Pennsylvania is also: where our union was saved vy [sic] the immortal heroes at Gettysburg. Gettysburg: what an unbeliev...

Iranian state TV broadcast footage tonight that it claimed showed that it's drone and missile attack had successfully destroyed targets in Israel, but the video actually is old and shows a fire in Texas.

Also this :* https://twitter.com/madrid_mike/status/1779320459441614889 - - - - - - - - - - - Donald Trump also said the U.S. should follow China's tough-on-crime approach to drugs: "Quick trial!" - - - - - - - - - - - Curiously, he didn't say much if anything about abortion, which was a b...

Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch attended Trump's windswept rally in an effort to understand the "74 million people who want to live under a dictator." Two quotes: A Trump rally has become an Orwellian celebration of an upside-down world where the lowest unemployment rate in mor...

The United States " intercepted more than 70 Iranian drones and at least 3 ballistic missiles" that were launched toward Israel tonight. And there is some indication that American diplomacy played a role in getting Jordan to help defend Israel. But President Biden has warned Prime Minister...

Also, in that speech in Pennsylvania, Trump noted the state's historic significance. For example, George Washington and his army famously wintered at Valley Forge in 1777-78, and Pennsylvania is also: where our union was saved vy [sic] the immortal heroes at Gettysburg. Gettysburg: what an unbelieva...

In a campaign speech tonight, Donald Trump again fixated on wind turbines and also more or less admitted that he doesn't really care if biological males participate in women's sports (but he'll ban that anyway to make his base happy).

Donald Trump tonight said President Biden isn't strong enough in his support for Israel, but Trump's supporters apparently feel Biden is too supportive of Israel? https://twitter.com/alaynatreene/status/1779299432309129455 Edited to note this interpretation : maybe they're using "genocide"...

About an hour ago: "IDF lifts order for Israelis to stay near safe rooms, indicating Iran attack over for now."

(This means the drones arrived faster than the nine-hour timeline I mentioned above.)

Even if Donald Trump loses every appeal, look to the example of O.J. Simpson as a reminder that Trump may yet find a way not to pay that $464 million. Simpson, who died a few days ago, was an athlete and actor who murdered two people in 1994 -- his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman -- ...

Reportedly Jordan's air force shot down some of the Iranian drones en route to Israel. Also reading that Iran also launched some missiles, most of which were shot down by Israel's counter-missiles, but some of which struck an Israeli military base causing some minor damage. And apparently an Iranian...

In 2015, Tom Sheehy, now the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Montana, "was cited for illegally discharging a weapon in a national park". But in campaign ads, Sheehy has said "I got thick skin — though it’s not thick enough. I have a bullet stuck in this arm still from Afgha...

About three hours ago, Iran reportedly launched hundreds of drones in an attack on Israel. Apparently it's a nine-hour flight (over Iraq and Syria or Jordan), so any strikes are unlikely to happen for another six hours. The U.S. has already shot down some drones over Iraq. I've seen reports indicati...

Elon Musk and Ken Paxton were handed a joint loss today when a federal judge issued an injunction preventing the Texas attorney general from getting documents from Media Matters in an investigation that seems to have been launched on behalf of Musk after Media Matters published an article about Twit...

The judge in one of Hunter Biden's two federal criminal cases -- the one in California -- has ruled against Hunter's various motions to dismiss and did so well ahead of schedule. This was not unexpected (such motions usually fail). One of the decisions the judge made, however, was that the pre-tria...

Donald Trump says Republicans don't need to push for a national ban on abortions because "we broke Roe v. Wade."

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I think this advice (written more than twelve hours before Biden's speeech) is right: President Biden has improved people's lives and they haven't noticed. That's because people's understanding of the world is determined by their information diet, not their material conditions. President Biden need...

The Biden campaign certainly seems to believe that access to abortion remains a potent issue for voters: