iPhone users experience brief text message outage Thursday iPhone users in multiple states are experiencing problems sending text messages Thursday afternoon. The issues were noted around 6:15 p.m. According to Downdetector, multiple carriers reported ... 05/16/2024 - 3:57 pm | View Link
Trump trial live: Michael Cohen admits he was ‘knee deep in the cult of Trump’ during fiery cross-examination Former president to come face to face with estranged ex-‘fixer’ in Judge Merchan’s Manhattan courtroom in what promises to be another explosive week of testimony ... 05/12/2024 - 9:22 pm | View Link
Trump trial live: Trump’s mistrial and gag order motions denied after Stormy Daniels’ fiery cross-examination Adult film actress concludes testimony after firmly refuting inconsistencies in her account of the alleged sexual encounter between her and the former president in 2006 ... 05/9/2024 - 10:09 am | View Link
Roy Cohn: Ruthless McCarthy lieutenant-turned-Trump mentor so universally loathed he was ‘a new strain of sonofab****’ Decades before Trump erected his Tower, an insidiously well-connected New York power-player was cutting a ruthless path through US society, politics and courtroom battles. A new film debuting at ... 05/9/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
[INTERVIEW] 'Trump's possible return will be mixed bag for South Korea' The U.S. presidential election is six months away. U.S. allies worldwide, including South Korea, are closely monitoring the race, which appears to be a tight contest between the incumbent President ... 05/8/2024 - 10:09 pm | View Link
Rep. Jamie Raskin called for an investigation after Melanie Stansbury, a Democrat, said non-committee members were drinking in the chamber during a hearing where Marge Greene kicked things off by insulting lawmaker Jasmine Crockett. Via the Independent:
“I didn’t see the drinking but the gentlelady from New Mexico, Melanie Stansbury, raised it,” Mr Raskin told Fox News outside the US Capitol on Friday.
The Drain the Swamp fabulist spoke at the wholly corrupt National Rifle Association's event on Saturday in Dallas, Texas, and went on to brag about doing absolutely "nothing" about gun violence. Trump is very proud of that, just as he is proud of overturning Roe. Trump can't feel empathy, and he's sucking up to the NRA out of desperation for votes to keep him out of prison.
Crooked Timber - Originalism for Realists;
Just an Earthbound Misfit - they're called 'self-inflicted wounds';
No More Mr. Nice Blog - Yastreblyansky for the record;
Reveal - shot by a civilian with a police gun;
Tell Me a Story - Hairy Butthead talks at female graduates.
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Sometimes I just feel like remembering why I blog at DWT. And in the end, it always comes down to economic inequality and how it’s one of the most pressing and divisive issues facing our country. Imagine a nation, our nation, where the top 1% possess more wealth than the bottom 90% combined— a nation, our nation, where the gap between the haves and the have-nots widens with each passing year.
“The deaths of President Ebrahim Raisi and Iran’s foreign minister leave the country without two influential leaders at a particularly tumultuous moment of international tension and domestic discontent,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday, Iranian state news media reported.
“Secretary of State Antony Blinken directed his top staff to crack down on leaks about diplomacy relating to the Israel-Hamas war, saying clearly that he was ‘angry’ with the constant stream of press reports revealing sensitive information,” Politico reports.
“Not only did classified materials make it into press reports, he chided State leadership earlier this month in a small team meeting, but also fresh proposals to broker a cease-fire and secure the release of hostages held by Hamas.