The Hall of Fire

So the Republicans who control Louisiana's state legislature, faced with the likelihood that a court would force the creation of a second Black congressional district (in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act), created that district on their own, but they deliberately made it gerrymandered in ...

While I had a general sense that this was true, I'd never seen this particular comparison of Donald Trump speaking in 2015 and speaking in 2020:



Maybe the selections were cherry-picked, but hat certainly appears to show a mental decline.

Another reminder that Donald Trump's awfulness is just taken for granted and not treated as news: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1785740908190736479 He's right. If 51% of Democratic Congressional staff said that they doubted Joe Biden had the mental and physical capacity to serve as preside...

I do think there are people trying to turn us all into nihilists.

This could go in any number of threads, but since he's a sitting Senator, I give you J.D. Vance stepping on a rake:

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 2:42 am Do you think it will matter? People seem to have lost their collective minds.

It is our business to help them find them again.

But the decision as to whether to charge Sally would still be independent of the decision as to whether to charge Jack. One would hope so, but I think one would often be wrong. Edited to add: international bodies don't have the best track record here: "Since the UNHRC's creation in 2006, it ha...

Some levity from South America:



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I agree with this: "It’s weird to organize protests and then complain that they are getting covered."

Arizona Supreme Court rules that a near-total abortion ban from 1864 is enforceable Three weeks later, Arizona's House and Senate have both voted to repeal the 1864 abortion ban. It was a close vote in both chambers (16-14 in the Senate today), with most Republicans voting to leave the 19th century...

If you were once arrested, but the arrest was then expunged, are you required to answer yes when completing a legal document that asks if you were ever arrested? I think the answer should be no, because to me an expungement means the arrest never existed, and I think I'd hold that position consisten...

While I certainly see your point, on the whole I think the analogy does not hold. [... various interesting arguments undercutting my Dresden/Poland analogy ...] Let me try a different analogy. If Jack stabs five of his neighbors to death, including the husband and kids of Sally who lives across the...

I did not know that the Holocaust Museum in D.C., in its Arabic language translations, refers to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis as the "Warsaw Intifada."

Donald Trump today said that on "Day One of the Trump presidency" he will be "restoring the travel ban" and "suspending refugee admissions".

(Video at link. It's from the Biden campaign. I hope they blast that clip all over Dearborn, Michigan.)

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:48 pm The Daily Mail today says that Israel fears that the International Criminal Court is going to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel's actions in Gaza.

More on this:

Donald Trump said last night that "We have to let Israel complete their war on terror," adding, "You have to get the job done. It's a horrible job to do, but they have to respond. When they do, when there's an attack, a sneak attack, like on October 7th, that's so violent, and such ha...

Could have been worse:



Edited to add: "infrastruckersureparauhee."

Having read Cohen's book, it would not surprise me to find out that he was the one who threatened Daniels. Oh, he's definitely the type to threaten folks, but perhaps not physically. There was laughter in the courtroom yesterday when Keith Davidson, the attorney who represented Karen McDougal and S...

President Biden has announced "$6.1 billion in student debt cancellation for 317,000 borrowers who attended the Art Institutes," which were a collection of somewhat shady for-profit universities across the that existed from 1969 to 2023.

Sen. Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, says: "I didn't eat my dog. I didn't shoot my dog. I loved my dog and my dog loved me."

Given Russia's past attempts at and continuing interest in assassinating President Zelenskyy, I'm not sure the AP's sources should have revealed this information in advance, but: " Ukraine’s Zelenskyy preparing to visit DC on Wednesday ." This would be President Zelenskyy's first travel o...