LEE KRAMER'S ROOM: With Views

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In the Bad, Stupid News department: today Nikki Haley announced that she'll vote for Trumpty.

Though maybe it isn't all bad. I suspect most of the people who've continued to vote for her in Republican primaries will now end up either staying home or voting for Biden.

And who's got a New York Times subscription? Breaking news from them about Alito:

Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home

The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6 and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government.

The “Appeal to Heaven” flag flew outside the Alitos’ New Jersey vacation home last summer, along with a “2022” Phillies flag and a Long Beach Island flag.

By Jodi Kantor, Aric Toler and Julie Tate

May 22, 2024
Updated 5:25 p.m. ET

Last summer, two years after an upside-down American flag was flown outside the Virginia home of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., another provocative symbol was displayed at his vacation house in New Jersey, according to interviews and photographs.

This time, it was the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which, like the inverted U.S. flag, was carried by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Also known as the Pine Tree flag, it dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into obscurity until recent years and is now a symbol of support for former President Donald J. Trump, for a religious strand of the “Stop the Steal” campaign and for a push to remake American government in Christian terms.

Three photographs obtained by The New York Times, along with accounts from a half-dozen neighbors and passers-by, show that the Appeal to Heaven flag was aloft at the Alito home on Long Beach Island in July and September of 2023. A Google street view image from late August also shows the flag.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html#:~:text=Last%20summer%2C%20two%20years%20after,according%20to%20interviews%20and%20photographs.

That may be all there is; I'm not sure.