The Hall of Fire

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...

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...

Some early reporting on this whole situation:

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...

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.

That's the world we live in.

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...

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...

Actual Fox News caption: "Witness: Trump Dated Beautiful Women."

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...

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...

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...

Actual National Enquirer headline from that period: "It's Over for Pervy Ted".

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.

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...

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 -- ...

The Federal Trade Commission just voted (3-2) to ban non-compete agreements. That's an arrangement reached between a company and an employee that prohibits the employee from working for the company's competition for some period of time after the employee leaves the company. The FTC's ruling applies ...

To be fair, I haven't been particularly keeping up with the trial other than what I've been reading here and I'd heard about Trump's sleepiness and odor issues and I had no idea/was wondering what was being referred to although it is a little TMI. The fact that he apparently fell asleep in court la...

Republicans seem to have convinced themselves that Donald Trump never suggested in 2020 that injecting disinfectant into people's bodies might be a way to stop Covid, but he really did: "And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can ...

To be fair, I haven't been particularly keeping up with the trial other than what I've been reading here and I'd heard about Trump's sleepiness and odor issues and I had no idea/was wondering what was being referred to although it is a little TMI. The fact that he apparently fell asleep in court la...

Okay, had to google that: Blockchain technology is an advanced database mechanism that allows transparent information sharing within a business network. A blockchain database stores data in blocks that are linked together in a chain. It's also the technology that makes cryptocurrency possible. In t...