5.10 Rolling Stone: “Near the beginning of Donald Trump’s time in office, the then-president had a pressing question for his national-security aides and administration officials: Does China have the secret technology — a weapon, even — to create large, man-made hurricanes and then launch them at the United States? And if so, would this constitute an act …
4.30 Sports memorabilia firm Hunt Auctions purchases at auction the bat used by Jackie Robinson in the 1949 MLB All-Star Game for $1.08 million. 4.29 Samuel Goldman in The Week: “The prominence of college graduates in the new school of labor activism could make it difficult to find the sort of broad coalition that Democrats enjoyed during …
3.28 Federal Judge David Carter wrote in a ruling that [Attorney John] Eastman‘s strategy was “a coup in search of a legal theory” and that “[b]ased on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress” and conspired with Eastman to defraud the United …
2.28 Jennifer Rubin in the Post: `”We set up a perfectly unified alliance with the singular goal of making Putin pay a crushing economic price and inducing him to abandon his fixation on rebuilding the Russian empire. Our diplomatic work created unprecedented collaboration in the West, collectively imposing formidable sanctions. We overcame the European Union’s usual political …
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1.25-27 A quick trip to NYC. Tuesday night: The Music Man, with Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster.. Wednesday: Moulin Rouge, followed by dinner at Red Hat on the River in Irvington with Paul and Anne. Thursday: Breakfast at the Suburban Diner in Paramus with Cara and Ivy, then right back home.
1.31 On The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast, Stewart and journalist Gabriel Gatehouse attempt to understand why so many people bought into the QAnon conspiracy theory. The Financial Times: ““”They ended up in some unexpected places. If you take the main conspiracy theory points literally — Hillary Clinton and other global elites are in a cabal of blood-drinking pedophiles — then obviously it’s nonsense. But …
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My friend and colleague from Spy days, John Connolly, died on Saturday at age 78. John was a great guy and great investigative reporter. He was energetic, enthusiastic, incredibly fun, and highly skeptical. John spent the first part of his career as an NYPD detective, and I think that turned him into a connoisseur of …
1.17 Ben Affleck in EW: “Judge me for how good my good ideas are and not how bad my bad ideas are.” 1.15 The Bills beat the Patriots 47-17. All seven of the Bills’ possessions (except two kneel-downs as timme expired) ended in a touchdown–no field goals, punts or turnovers. This had never happened in …
12.31 Betty White dies at 99. 12.31 Becky Hammon named head coach of the Las Vegas Aces 12.31 “”You should be ashamed.” 12.30 Francis Collins, quoted in the Washington Post: “Maybe we underinvested in research on human behavior. . . I never imagined a year ago, when those vaccines were just proving to be fantastically …
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