A Charleston County, South Carolina house described as “log cabin style” burned to the ground on Saturday night, officials with the St Paul’s Fire District told WCBD. “Crews immediately went to work in a defensive mode, establishing tender shuttle operations to maintain an adequate water supply,” the fire department said in a statement, adding “Once the fire was contained and extensive overhaul operations began, crews transitioned the water supply operation to drafting from an on-site water source, allowing firefighters to continue overhaul operations efficiently.” No injuries were reported.

The other “log cabin,” as in the one you might have expected to read about from the headline, did not burn down. It definitely got smaller though as on Thursday its leader, Ross Hemminger, announced in an op-ed printed by Townhall.com that the Log Cabin Republicans will no longer welcome trans individuals into the group. “The transgender movement has ceased focusing on adults at all – nearly all of their efforts and those of their aligned special interest groups focus on minors,” Hemminger wrote as though hardcore MAGA Evangelicals at the core of the GOP wouldn’t just say the same exact thing about cisgender gay men and lesbian women, that they’re all going to burn in hell together for who they are, regardless of which letter in LGBT they identify as.

“The new era of gender identity politics is not the movement we supported and fought for. Gay men and women are losing public support across the country, and support for gay marriage and other once-widely accepted rights is eroding. Why? Because many voters today weren’t alive or cognizant of the politics of gay marriage winding its way through the courts and gaining ground in public opinion. Their view of the gay community is based on today’s radical transgender activists with their unnecessary, discomfiting focus on America’s youth,” Hemminger continued and holy fucking shit.

He actually wrote that, all the lessons of 1930s Germany be damned. So maybe if this article were solely about the Log Cabin Republicans maybe the headline should have been “Log Cabin filled with oily rags and too many appliances plugged into single outlet, at increased risk of burning to ground.”

Republican Senate campaign chair Tim Scott didn’t have a lot of great ideas for how to handle NBC’s Kristen Welker repeatedly telling him that voters are pissed at the Trump Regime and the GOP Congressional majorities’ patent inability to actually make good on all their campaign promises. Still he kind of tried to blame Joe Biden’s four years while simultaneously claiming that his ruling party was also doing a great job delivering for the American people despite the Biden-caused headwinds.

This spinning around in circles led Welker to state the simple fact that the Biden Administration is over and that Trump has been back in office for nearly two years. Scott then continued rambling a shit ton of canned lines that were scarcely responsive to any of Welker’s questions. All in all a pretty solid stretch for the grinning idiot assuming the goal was to not make any major fuckups while also doing nothing to help sell viewers on maintaining the GOP majorities into next year.

A 58 year-old ICE agent, apparently so used to doing whatever he wants to do those on the other end of power imbalances that such habits have begun to bleed into his personal life, found out the hard way that the St Tammany Parish, Louisiana Sheriff’s Department draws the line differently and on Friday arrested Trump Regime stormtrooper Thomas Bailey for entering his ex-girlfriend’s apartment when she was not home, 4WWL reports with scant further details on the crime.

Bailey faces a single charge of unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling. His actions, intent, and timing of when he broke into the apartment were not disclosed to the public.

“Regardless of where you work or what position you hold, the law applies equally to everyone,” said Sheriff Bret Ibert, evidently at least acknowledging Bailey’s occupation. “When someone enters another person’s residence without permission, we are going to investigate the circumstances and take the appropriate action based on the facts of the case,” Ibert continued, leaving a lot of blanks on how many Xboxes and iPads Bailey had acquired from the residences of those suspected of being illegal immigrants. The fact that this bastard even got arrested at all further raises a shit ton of questions about the victim’s position and connections – as in whether she’s Ibert’s sister, cousin, or high school friend – as well as the outright egregiousness of Bailey’s stalkery behavior and whether this break-in was more like the last straw than the worst thing Bailey had done to her.

Rail-thin robber baron Jared Kushner in recent weeks met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to discuss what the New York Times reports was to discuss “potential areas of common ground” ahead of what Kush evidently anticipates a Democratic win in the midterms and then an onslaught of subpoenas aimed at exposing the manifold corruption of the Trump Regime and family.

The Times writes that the meeting was about legislative stuff, mentioning that Kush and Jeffries have remained in contact since the first Trump Maladministration when Jared and Ivanka helped push a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill, but either way it’s pretty obvious that Kushner does not share Mike Johnson’s optimism about the GOP’s midterm outlook and wants to keep a line open for when Jared and his buddies are hit with a wave of subpoenas about their comical corruption.

🚨 FLOCK CEO: “WITHIN UNDER AN HOUR, THAT CHILD WAS RETURNED SAFELY”

CEO Garrett Langley recounts a case where a 5-year-old was ripped from his stroller and driven away.

Police entered the license plate into Flock’s system, tracked the vehicle — and got the child home safely.… pic.twitter.com/8SVQSYEVOx

— Saturday in America (@SatAmericaFNC) August 22, 2026

Opposition to the construction and operation of new data centers in the United States is a Chinese communist social media psyop, according to those whose wealth depends on growth fueled by the construction and operation of new data centers and thus viewed skeptically by a Business Insider report on the matter. Not lost on the outlet is the irony of oligarchs like Kevin O’Leary complaining about the alleged foreign malefaction while failing to direct their complaints at the social media networks helmed by wealthier oligarchs like Elon Musk and Larry Ellison, whose business models are explicitly opposed to throttling foreign malefaction and unfettered propaganda campaigns.

Two things can be true at the same time: One is that Americans don’t want AI data centers in their neighborhoods, spiking utility bills by sucking up electricity and polluting water supplies by cycling it in and out as a sink for the immense heat generated by the processing equipment. The other is that any friction for the American tech industry redounds to China’s benefit as they seek to win the arms race and establish an indefinite state of global dominance in artificial intelligence, so spending a few man-hours here and there stoking the real opposition to the centers could end up paying dividends.

Plus it’s not like their own citizens are allowed to complain, so why not exploit that built-in advantage they have over the US, especially when, as noted, data centers’ unpopularity isn’t Pizzagate. It’s not some basement incel fairy tale picked up from 4chan and spread by bots coded by soulless human automatons working out of a windowless office in Beijing or St Petersburg or Pyongyang or Tehran.

Convicted felon President Trump actually stopped his speech when a heckler interrupted him during his campaign stop for Darlene Graham in South Carolina on Friday night, a noteworthy enough occurrence given the whole aforementioned cult and South Carolina aspects of his rambling bullshit.

Republican National Committee chairman Joe Gruters on Friday made an interesting choice on who’s to blame when confronted with convicted felon President Trump’s approval ratings in Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden, thereby kind of giving away the game. See, it would be one thing to blame Biden for the economic conditions that Americans don’t approve of. In fact Republicans have been doing that for about five years now and that’s the mode Gruters was in when he reflexively trotted out that old chestnut. Problem was that he accidentally laid bare the reality that exists irrespective of the fact that Trump campaigned on being the one who would fix all the economic problems and was completely lying about it, especially to the jackass low-info voters who bought that shit: The poll could literally be asking “Do you approve of the job President Trump is doing with fixing all the inflation that Joe Biden caused?” and the percentages would be more or less the same.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday greenlit convicted felon President Trump’s stupid ballroom construction, writing “UPON CONSIDERATION of the application of counsel for the applicants, the response, and the reply filed thereto, IT IS ORDERED that the preliminary injunction entered on April 16, 2026, by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, case No. 1:25-cv-4316, is hereby stayed pending further order of the undersigned or of the Court.”

The upshot being that the piece of shit will be built before they finally rule on this.

Having long-since moved on to other scams in the crypto, prediction betting, and wireless industries, Donald Trump Jr may or may not even be aware that PublicSquare – the revolutionary “anti-woke” marketplace he helped launch in 2023 and pitched as competitor to Amazon – has seen its stock price crash by 99 percent, lost $160 million, and per the Wall Street Journal is “struggling.”

Per the Journal, PublicSquare execs themselves admit that such a proposition of being the one-stop shop for products with patriotic branding and fulfilled by companies led by racists and far right freaks only really had a chance as long as the Orange God Emperor himself was in a mutually-hostile relationship with the real tech companies. Look no further than Amazon’s incineration of $75 million for the Melania “documentary” as a milestone on PublicSquare’s road to ruin. But that nod at the dependence on their Lord and Savior’s whims still reads as an excuse given the paucity of MAGA “alternatives” to mainstream consumer brands that were launched over the last decade under the explicit imprimatur of that appeal and then became legitimately successful in their own right.

There’s Jeremy’s Razors, launched in 2022 by DailyWire cofounder Jeremy Boering as competitor to Harry’s and EveryLife, an anti-abortion diaper brand founded as a subsidiary marque of PublicSquare and is about to be sold off. That’s the list of post-2016 launches of unquestionably successful MAGA-linked consumer brands. Patriot Mobile and Black Rifle Coffee Company, founded in 2012 and 2014, respectively, later saw major growth during the Trump era by tying themselves to the whole right wing media grifter ecosystem. MyPillow, founded in 2009, saw its fortunes go the other way for precisely the same reason. A number of smaller niche post-2016 brands like Ultra Right Beer and American Beauty cosmetics plod along with their actual viability unclear. The same can’t be said of overhyped and either nearly-dead or already-failed concerns like the FreedomPhone, GETTR, Parler, GloriFi, Bentkey/the Daily Wire’s other entertainment content, and – of course – PublicSquare.

“Today, I concluded a deal to substantially lower the price of ground beef for working American families. As everyone knows, under President Biden, beef prices soared at their fastest rate and the American beef herd fell to its smallest size in modern history. As we work to rebuild this herd and help our ranchers, for the next 90 days, the United States will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef to be imported with no out of quota tariff. We have a commitment that this beef will be sold at 25 percent below current market prices. This deal will reduce prices for Americans while giving space for our Great American Beef Herd to grow again,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Friday, and the Biden part needs a fact check.

Abdul El-Sayed now says "we've got to start taxing wealth for people who have over $100 million"

He previously said he would only confiscate assets from billionaires pic.twitter.com/koo0UvSQIw

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 20, 2026

Top Trump minion Natalie Harp, whose weird role within the Orange God Emperor’s retinue was known to those recognized her as the “Human Printer” who would follow the fat bastard around on the golf course with a cart literally equipped with printer so she could hand him paper copies of tweets praising him, is about as fucking crazy as the renewed coverage of her indicated.

Actually that might be underselling it based on letters from Harp to Trump that the Daily Beast obtained, with one saying “You are all that matters to me… I don’t want to ever let you down.”

“Dear Mr President, I’m sorry. I thought I was the only one left behind last night, and had no idea Margo’s car was also pulled over, and sent back to the Airport. Since I was alone in the van outside Customs without my passport, I panicked, and should have just called Secret Service instead of you. I also am sorry if I was an embarrassment walking the course in Scotland. The first day I was told there were no carts, and people walked, which is why I walked. The second day, I was specifically asked by, I forget who his name was, but one of the main people who worked there, if I could continue walking, and tell any other girls who would head out there to do the same to spare the Course any more Carts. If there is anything else I have done to cause you trouble, please forgive me. I know that some people have said I haven’t been texting them back, and there have been some International cell issues (John was having technical issues on the Plane too, so asked me to help him out),” Harp wrote in another, insanely overexplaining some goddamned picayune mishap from 2023.

Sources within convicted felon President Trump’s regime tell CNN that the USS Doris Miller – an under-construction Ford-class aircraft carrier named for the Black Navy cook who with, zero training, commandeered an anti-aircraft gun and shot down at least one and as many as six Japanese planes during the attack on Pearl Harbor – is to be de-named for Miller and instead christened the USS Donald Trump. “It would be an unprecedented move to name an aircraft carrier after a sitting president,” CNN writes as though the racially-coded disrespect for a hero who later gave his life – Miller was killed along with 701 other sailors when a Japanese sub sank the USS Linscome during a battle off the Gilbert Islands in 1943 – isn’t actually the most fucked-up part.

The Defense Department had no official comment on the matter. So yeah they’re going to do it or they were and now they’re going to back down because of the heat that’s no doubt coming.

Minnesota religious groups are demanding a federal judge hold ICE contempt after some fucking idiot agent dropped a recording device during a “boxing/sparring practice” in the gym of a Minneapolis church in May, the agent’s infiltration mission a clear breach of a February order by Judge Dennis Saylor IV barring such “investigative actions” at houses of worship, Politico reports.

The best part is the scumbag realized he dropped it and returned to the University Baptist Church three minutes later only to find the device gone, scooped up by a congregant. The other best part of this of course is the pearl-clutching and screaming meltdowns after Don Lemon accompanied those activists into that church run by the acting field director of ICE’s St Paul field office, that those libs had been violating the sanctity of a house of worship and all that shit only for ICE to turn around and try to infiltrate a pro-immigrant church. Hypocrisy’s the feature, not the bug of the MAGA Reich.

FBI agents acting on the orders of not an actual apolitical federal law enforcement professional executed warrants on disgraced fromer Congressman Eric Swalewell’s home and devices last weekend, Townhall reports on the investigation into Swalwell’s effing a Chinese spy that became public during the first Trump regime and nobody did anything about it back then.

Too bad being buddies with real estate whiz kids Jared Kushner and those other scumbags couldn’t help Saudi Prince Bonesaw’s multi-trillion project to build a city capped by twin 1,600 ft tall, 106 mile-wide skyscrapers across vast, hostile desert get out of the development phase.

A ridiculous new memo by the NRSC starts off by saying incumbent Ohio Republican Senator Jon Husted and Dem former Senator Sherrod Brown “are in a dead heat. Private polling has been consistent: when voters hear Brown’s positions and his record, Husted pulls away.”

Lol. Note the “private” added in there because Brown leads public polls. “That is still the path in this race. The new ingredient (and the new problem) is data centers. Ohio is one of the leaders in building these AI factories. Brown has made his opposition to them the centerpiece of his campaign against Husted. Brown is using it because it works. More than any other thing in this race, data centers are the anchor hanging around Husted’s neck. If he loses and data centers get the blame, politicians across the country will take notice – and they will not go near the next one.”

“THE DATA CENTER BRAND IS THE ANCHOR: Data centers are the centerpiece in the case Sherrod Brown is litigating; he has made them his de facto opponent, and no one is correcting the record. Brown has put three unique television ads on the air and spent millions doing it, to the tune of more than 6,000 points on television. This is more than a month’s worth of messaging during one of the most critical times in the race. Our polling indicates that this messaging is significantly more effective than traditional messaging tracts, as it introduces new information on a highly relevant, emerging topic. This has become a sleeper issuefor the entire election cycle. WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN: Campaigns or party committees can not fix the toxic brand of an entire segment of the economy,” the memo to tech company PR team urging them to do something, anything continued.

“No one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a Deal than me. TRAGICALLY, for them, they have failed to take it. Therefore, today, I am announcing the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY! This will be Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale. Their navy is gone, their air force is destroyed, their military factories are now rubble, their currency is worthless, and their country is hanging by a thread. Today, I am also announcing that ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences. Oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies – It all needs to stop NOW. You know who you are.”

“This will be an ECONOMIC D-DAY, and we need all of our Allies to stand with the United States of America to isolate, and defeat, the Iran threat. These maniacs are on the ropes, and these HISTORIC MEASURES will cripple them and their ability to project terror worldwide. IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON,” posted the toughest president ever on Wednesday, not explaining why he didn’t already do all this shit months ago if it’s going to be so effective against Iran, lol.