Despite being a deranged quack who makes Rand Paul look like Maimonides, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladopo this week managed to dispense some common sense advice to Sunshine Staters currently seeing a spike in leprosy cases, telling them that the flesh-eating disease of medieval suffering can be easily prevented by simply avoiding wild armadillos, WFTV reports.

The Florida Department of Health has confirmed 17 cases statewide so far in 2026, following an uptick in reported infections during 2025, with the armadillo advice actually based in scientific research identifying the small, scaly mammals as a known vector for the bacteria.

Unable to completely suppress his rage at his ex-son-in-law and fellow Republican Ohioan member of Congress Max Miller, Buckeye State Senator Bernie Moreno on Thursday instead channeled it at Anthony Fauci, the retired 85 year-old public health bureaucrat that convicted felon President Trump failed to fire in 2020 even while blaming him for Trump’s gross mismanagement of the pandemic.

The Spanish enclave of Cueta – one of a small number of extant territories remaining after Europe decolonized Africa in the 20th Century – was stormed by as many as 60,000 migrants crossing the border with Morocco by swimming around the fencing on Thursday and Friday, completely overrunning the small city of 84,000 and prompting officials to declare an emergency, El Pais reports.

“John Cornyn never had a problem with the so called ‘Fund,’ which will not benefit me, but rather the great American Patriots who were hunted down like dogs and whose lives were unfairly and illegally destroyed by the Crooked Joe Biden Administration, until after I decided to Endorse and Support his Republican primary opponent in Texas who easily won the Nomination for the United States Senate.”

“Perhaps there has never been a group of people treated so badly in our Nation’s history. They are suffering still, many ruined, and I felt that they should be given compensation for what has been done to them. I gave up any payments for myself, which would have been substantial, including for the illegal and unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago, my home in Florida, even though many legal experts, and others, including John Cornyn, said it was a shocking and disgusting display of ‘weaponization’ against me. Such an event has never happened before, and hopefully will never happen again! I will always feel that these victims of government abuse should be paid back for what they were forced to endure, their lives have been ruined! Millions of people agree with me, as was proven in my landslide Presidential win, where this was a major subject of debate, and so did John Cornyn, until he lost his Election to an opponent that I Endorsed. Todd Blanche, a good man, should be immediately approved as US Attorney General,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Friday, who maybe should’ve thought about this before the whole interfering in a primary thing.

You want to know why Republicans hate CNN? Well here it is, eight minutes of absolute hell for spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan, squirming helplessly when confronted with his condemnation of now-former Dem Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner while being asked to reconcile it with his silence on the horrible domestic abuse accusations against fellow Ohio MAGA Congressman Max Miller. The new domestic abuse allegations from his now ex-wife, Emily Moreno.

Not the old domestic abuse allegations from former White House Press Secretary Steph Grisham, who the then-White House staffer Miller punched in the face when they were cohabitating in DC. That was before Miller went back home and was elected to Congress because Trump needed someone to run in a primary against one of the Republicans who had voted to impeach him in 2021.

So there’s Gymbo falling back into his old habit of ignoring abusers when convenient, admitting that he’s not a lawyer, just looking like the UTTERLY weak and pathetic simp Americans have known and hated for a decade. So it’s no wonder MAGA World hates the network and wants it gutted, leaving only the question of why Jim Jordan thought it was a good idea to go on camera.

It’s because he’s stupid. He’s just fucking stupid. That’s all. There’s no larger picture here,

A new Fox News survey of Texas voters finds Dem state Representative James Talarico leading corrupt sinner Attorney General Ken Paxton 51 to 48 percent in the extremely crucial Senate race.

If you like that then you’ll love the part where the propaganda network – whose polling is widely considered to be serious and reliable in contrast to its news-ish content – writes that “Talarico’s advantage in the horserace grows to 6 points among both extremely motivated and extremely interested voters (53 percent vs 47 percent in each group).” Take that for what you will, that in a world where sometimes the Democratic candidate’s lead in polling, whether they won or lost, turns out to have been overstated, that it’s always something to chalk up to response bias. Seems Fox’s pollsters are trying to correct for that, thus making the 51 to 48 look more realistic in contrast.

The upshot being that nobody should be surprised if Talarico wins by like 1.5 percent. If anything you might want to seriously consider this race to be “lean Democrat” and a flip as more likely than not.

“Todd Blanche is a STAR, and everyone knows it! He has the potential to go down as one of the Greatest Attorney Generals of All Time. However, John Cornyn, of Texas, and Thom Tillis, of North Carolina, both of whom I refused to Endorse, and whose political careers have been ended by my action, are refusing to vote for this Great Nominee, who will remain, in any event, as Acting.”

“Remember, both Cornyn and Tillis voted for Merrick Garland, and others too numerous to mention. I have no objection to temporarily withdrawing Todd’s name, if they do not do the right thing, and putting him back after Cornyn and Tillis are out of office,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Thursday as Blanche’s confirmation process stalled amid an impasse with the two lame duck Republicans over the self-dealing provisions of the Orange God Emperor’s rigged settlement with the IRS. Lol at the “political careers have been ended by my action” part, both for being mostly true and an MSM trope being appropriated by Trump himself in his words. That is legitimately hilarious.

But on the rigged settlement: The $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” part Trump can kind of take or leave for a multitude of reasons, like the fact that he can and regularly does order his minions’ bullshit cases against the government to go effectively uncontested one-by-one.

The audit immunity side is a different story, because it extends to his corrupt shitbag sons’ crypto scam operations and, as Cornhole Cornyn said earlier, isn’t a precedent he wants set.

Evidently having realized that the “you need to show ID to use your Olive Garden Never-Ending Pasta Pass” line had only so much mileage in it as a pitch for the still-stalled SAVE America Act, Virginia MAGA Congressman John McGuire on Thursday floated to Newsmax viewers a new, more politically relevant one with “you can’t go to the Obama museum without a photo ID,” therefore the Senate GOP should abolish the filibuster and pass the draconian bill that imposes significantly more burdens on American voters than simply having to show a driver’s license before casting a ballot.

The invocation calls into question why the Olive Garden one went first since, well, it’s Barack Obama’s presidential library. That last month management told Snopes that “The Obama Presidential Center’s campus is free and accessible to all without a photo ID. The only ticketed area of the campus is the four floors of the museum. No ID required to get into the museum, unless you want the discounted rate for Illinois residents or the Illinois free day” and thus McGuire is full of shit doesn’t matter. It’s simply more effective than Olive Garden and there’s no good reason why the party as a whole hasn’t been sticking with acting as though the Illinois resident discount nuance represents the entirety of the Center’s entry policy. It’s not like the Newsmax lady fact-checked him or anything.

Nor did she question whether McGuire is off his meds when he claimed that ivermectin would have been a more effective ingredient for the COVID vax than fetus body parts.

In a report compiled by Dems on the Senate Homeland Security Committee obtained by MS Now, Ranking Member Gary Peters and staff write that “since the first day of his second term, President Trump and his Administration have dismantled critical national security agencies and programs and diverted significant resources and attention away from the fight against terrorism. These actions are the result of a combination of ideologically motivated firings and realignment of personnel and the wielding of government resources – from grants to counterterrorism authorities – as a weapon against political opponents. The Administration’s actions have left Americans far more vulnerable to a potential terrorist attack, and left law enforcement without the tools to protect our nation.”

Unsaid in the report is how this is going to make it harder to blame Biden for any attack.

With just over 12 hours before they were supposed to convene to vote on advancing Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to the post ahead of a full floor vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday abruptly announced the postponement of the “markup session.”

“Chairman Grassley works to set President Trump’s nominees up for success in committee, not failure. Senators Cornyn and Tillis want written assurances from the Department of Justice regarding the Trump-IRS settlement. Tomorrow’s markup is postponed as work continues to secure sufficient support in committee to favorably report Attorney General-nominee Todd Blanche, who is highly qualified for the job,” a spokesman for Grassley said in a statement.

Quick semi-correction to Tuesday night’s article about convicted felon President Trump reaching the lowest approval rating in the Economist/YouGov weekly survey: The sentence “this week’s Economist/YouGov national survey finds Donald at his lowest approval rating ever in their history” is technically true because 34 percent approve is the lowest ever. It’s just not the first time they found him at 34 percent, since a May sampling did come back with that same approval number. However the finding was still a “new record” because net approval at negative 28 is indeed the lowest ever.

The same problem does not exist with Thursday’s Quinnipiac national survey as 32 percent approve is the lowest ever for the fat fuck in absolutes. “Thirty-two percent of voters approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president, while 58 percent disapprove, with 10 percent not offering an opinion. Trump’s 32 percent approval is an all-time low approval rating for him in a Quinnipiac University poll,” the write-up says, making the record unambiguous.

Also on Wednesday CNN dropped a new survey finding Donald at 34 percent approval overall and at 78 percent among Republican respondents, which they write is an all-time low with his party.

Convicted felon President Trump’s minions ordered Secret Service agents to monitor former FBI Director James Comey’s location on a warrantless “exigency tracking” of his cell phone, justified by an “imminent threat to life or limb,” that supposedly existed when Comey drove home to Northern Virginia from North Carolina in May 2025 in the immediate aftermath of the “8647” seashells Instagram post, Politico reports as though the whole situation wasn’t fucking stupid enough.

It gets better than Team Orange acting as though Comey was going to storm the White House with an AR-15: FBI agents were ordered to pore over Bureau records to find any and every reference to find out that Comey “knew” that “86” means “kill” in mafia parlance, something nobody actually “knows” and – surprise! – they couldn’t find shit so they interviewed Sammy “The Bull” Gravano. The once-famous turncoat told them that mobsters would never actually use “86” in conversation because it would be too obvious, so really the case is that Comey is both stupid and nefarious.

For over a decade now, convicted felon President Trump’s approval ratings as president and candidate were always stuck in a band often described as “low ceiling, high floor” by the same class of tiresome and mediocre political pundits that would also throw around “take Trump literally but not seriously” and then not do anything to explain what the fuck that was supposed to mean. That that it might in fact actually be “seriously but not literally” says about everything you need to know.

But the first of those cliches of the highly overrated and deeply uninteresting in the opinion class was, on top of being more accessible, largely pretty true with very few exceptions during Trump’s ignominious reign atop the Republican Party and the most powerful office in the world. Trump’s approval very rarely stayed above or below the low 40s in most mainstream polls, which itself was a sticky layer on top of that low-30s range of overall respondents that would always agree with the most maximalist MAGA positions, like 32 percent who last July told the same pollster he was never involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes to 40 percent approve. The 30 percent overall respondents last September – also an Economist/YouGov survey – who called Trump honest vs the 39 percent who approved. The 36 percent (slightly above the range) who in 2024 told ABC/Ipsos the fat fuck won his sole debate against Kamala Harris vs 46 percent who said they were going to vote for him.

Could continue with plenty more examples but you got the gist and more important is the reality that decade-old delta appears to be closing as this week’s Economist/YouGov national survey finds Donald at his lowest approval rating ever in their history: 34 percent to to 62 percent disapprove.

Two Florida seniors citizens, James Duckett, 68, and Dominick Occhicone, 80, are set to become part of state history on Tuesday after Goverbor Ron DeSantis signed special orders recognizing them for their unique life stories, Local10.com reports on an exciting day for in the Sunshine State.

Okay, sure. DeSatnis signed their death warrants. Both are set to be executed via lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Bradford County – Duckett at noon for the 1987 rape and murder of an 11 year-old girl and Occhicone later on in the day for the 1986 double murder of his ex-girlfriend’s parents. Both are notable for separate reasons as the case against Duckett – an on-duty police officer on the night of the murder – is still the subject of some lingering doubts, although in 2003 one of his most outspoken advocates publicly did a 180 and concluded Duckett was indeed guilty.

Occhicone meanwhile will be the oldest inmate executed in Florida history. Put together the two’s capital punishments will mark the first double execution day in the state since 1964. So it really is kind of a special occasion – even without the obnoxious omissions in the headline and lede.

A new survey of likely voters from Texas Public Opinion Research shows Dem James Talarico leading Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton 45 to 40 percent in the Senate race, the Texas Tribune reports, adding it’s Talarico’s largest lead in any public poll taken since Pax’s primary win in May.