The Hall of Fire

The judge said about 45 minutes ago that the jurors agreed to stay until 8 p.m., and the prosecution finished the closing argument at almost exactly that time.

It turns out the Washington Post knew about Justice Alito's upsidedown flag three years ago but didn't report on it. . . . Martha-Ann Alito was really freaked out by reporter Robert Barnes's questions. Justice Alito told Fox News that his wife raised the upside-down American flag in January 2021 &q...

Donald Trump's second son repeats his father's lie that the courtroom is "freezing cold".

" Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators " ( Washington Post ). Former president Donald Trump promised to crush pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, telling a roomful of donors — a group that he joked included “98 percent of my Jewish friend...

As Marcy Wheeler writes about this , Lowell is looking at it backwards: https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1795578660101255448 Reporters should be trying to find out what Donald Trump was really paying Evan Corcoran for. And if Donald Trump thought this example would help his case, you can be sur...

Apparently today's session is going to run well into the evening as the prosecution presents its closing argument.

Texas Republicans seem to be afraid that Democrats will soon be a majority in their state. They want the state's laws to be amended to require that any candidate for statewide office must not only win a majority of votes but also a majority of counties. Five of the nation's twelve smallest counties ...

On Sunday, Donald Trump shared a video of a foul-mouthed supporter saying that if Trump wins the election, "He'll get rid of all you fucking liberals. You liberals are gone when he fucking wins. You fucking blowjob liberals are done." If he regains the White House, Donald Trump plans to ki...

At least 37 Palestinians died after Israeli forces struck a refugee camp near Rafah on Sunday. There were gruesome images of people who burned to death in tents. However, the IDF says the location of the deaths was 100 meters from the location they struck, and they suspect that there were Hamas muni...

I didn't realize that calling for "normalization" of Israeli-Palestinian relations is a crime in the eyes of Hamas. I learned that from these notes on journalist Hind Khouray, who has been reporting on Gaza for the Channel 4 and other outlets. In 2020, Khouray alerted Hamas to the efforts ...

Hillary Clinton's 2016 comment that half of Donald Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was covered twenty times as much on network news, eight times as much on cable news, and nearly 30 times as much in the nation's top newspapers as Donald Trump's 2023 comment that his political opponent...

The latest U.S. consumer confidence report is out. Forecasters were expecting it to be 96. It came in at 102. What do those numbers mean? Well per Wikpedia :  In the United States, The Conference Board, an independent economic research organization, issues monthly measures of consumer confidence bas...

Last week, President Biden announced that he was working with Congress to have Kenya designated a "major non-NATO ally" of the United States -- Kenya would be the first sub-Saharan nation to be so designated -- and he met with President William Ruto, who has led Kenya since 2022 (after hav...

Even before this story, there were already serious questions about Royce White, the Republican candidate for Senate from Minnesota: " Women Have Gotten 'Too Mouthy,' Says This Republican Senate Candidate ." He seems to have misused funds in his previous campaign, spending them for travel a...

The May issue of Vanity Fair features a new story by Gabriel Sherman titled "Running for His Life." The subject is Donald Trump. The message is that a second Trump term would be much more dangerous for the country that the first term was -- and that was plenty bad. The online version has a...

The Libertarian Party ballot is now on its fifth round . Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also spoke to the convention, albeit remotely, and he submitted his name for consideration -- but he was eliminated in the first round with just 19 votes -- about 2% of the 900+ total. Despite speaking to booing Libertari...

Nearly four and a half years later, retired general Kenneth McKenzie, who led U.S. Central Command from 2019 to 2022, has written a memoir that includes a detailed description of the strike on Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in January 2020, excerpted in The Atlantic . It's well worth reading. What ...

Strictly speaking, Trump slurs ("it's time to be [unintelligble]") before he glitches on the word that starts with "liber-" in this clip : https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1794538437426499727 And is it a glitch or just a misstatement? This time he doesn't do the accordion-hands...

Trump still might have gained a few votes, but I wonder if video of the boos will offset that. Meanwhile, President Biden spoke at the graduation of U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, and his speech got much less coverage. https://twitter.com/AHaschi/status/1794573410078806279 To be fair...

Today, a Russian bomb hit a supermarket in Kharkiv, with more than 200 people inside. At least two deaths reported so far, but the death toll is sure to rise. Meanwhile, the US continues to insist that American weapons cannot be used to destroy targets inside Russia, from where these bombs are laun...