The sequence of this WNCN article is all wrong, it buries the causal chain of North Carolina Republicans’ failures to cross the Ts and dot the Is on their “election integrity theater.” You can’t properly appreciate it if you don’t know the underlying processes for implementation.

First and foremost, state law requires that any new rule being added to election procedure can be objected to and a recording of just 10 formally lodged citizen objections means that a rule need then be codified legislatively. The Republican-controlled State Board of Elections last month put out 15 such new rules, including a particularly draconian one regarding the approval of voter ID waivers.

Any voter who cannot furnish a photo ID need fill out and sign one of the forms to explain why they could not do so, all such forms are self-effecting in that submitting one with a ballot validates the vote unless the county board of elections – every single one in the state 3-2 Republican majority-controlled – unanimously gives it the thumbs down. One of the new rules was to make it a simple majority, effectively giving Republicans a veto over however many ID-less votes count or not.

Pretty clever, except that they fucked up and forgot to kill the whole objection thing, neutering that and another six of the 15 total new rules. The Republican super-majority state legislature could just sit down and hammer the rules into law but there’s one wrinkle: They won’t be back in session again until November 16th. Oh and 5pm Friday’s the deadline to lodge objections to the other rules, so maybe don’t bet the farm against the rest of them getting knocked down.

ICE agent Christian Castro – wanted in Minnesota on charges of assault and falsely reporting a crime in the January 14 shooting of 24 year-old Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, who Castro lied about attempting to attack him with a shovel – was released from a jail in Brownsville, Texas on Thursday after a federal judge ruled that the Lone Star State isn’t legally bound to any timeframe to make a decision on whether or not to extradite Castro up north to face the charges, the Associated Press reports.

Castro shot Sosa-Celis in the leg through the front door of a Minneapolis house during the siege of the city by convicted felon President Trump’s legions of white nationalist stormtroopers, deployed there after that incel kid claimed a Somali-operated daycare center was siphoning millions in taxpayer money because they wouldn’t let him in to film toddlers. Sosa-Celis was one of the luckier victims compared to Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both of whom were murdered in cold blood.

Pussy Governor Greg Abbott, evidently fearful that sending Castro to Minnesota could cost him support with just 10 weeks left before voters decide to keep him in office for a fourth term, has dragged his wheels and thrown up all sorts of circular bureaucratic roadblocks such as ordering a review to determine whether Castro is “legally a fugitive.” The ICE agent may actually be in Mexico already – Minnesota AG Keith Ellison had argued to a federal judge that he could flee south of the border if released from the clink in Texas. Which he was a few hours ago, from a jail just miles from the border. So maybe that’ll be the determination Abbott needs to sign the extradition order, that Castro fled to Mexico. Pretty standard operating procedure for a fugitive evading law enforcement.

There are more than 100 million illegal aliens living in the United States. Donald Trump has no intention of deporting them. Greg Bovino ran the Border Patrol until earlier this year, and saw the betrayal firsthand. Now he says the administration is threatening his life. pic.twitter.com/n2Sy98Vch5

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 27, 2026

“Today, we honor the 13 brave American HEROES who were tragically killed five years ago by evil Jihadi terrorists in Kabul, Afghanistan. This catastrophe was a result of Sleepy Joe Biden’s totally botched Withdrawal, which left our wonderful Servicemen and women defenseless, and allowed the Taliban to free thousands of bloodthirsty terrorists and criminals held at Bagram Prison. This was one of the greatest atrocities in the History of our Nation, and we can never forget that it was the result of the sheer incompetence of Joe Biden and the Democrats who were in charge.”
 
“During my 2024 Campaign, I met with the Abbey Gate Gold Star Families, wonderful people and Great Patriots, who were totally ignored and disrespected by the Democrat Party. I promised them we would deliver Justice when I returned to the White House — and we have! We quickly apprehended the evil mastermind responsible for the deaths of our Service members, and it has been one of my Greatest Honors as Commander in Chief. May God Bless America, and God Bless the Abbey Gate Gold Star Families. You will NEVER be forgotten!” posted Fat Nero on Wednesday.

He REALLY wants Democrats to demand he extend the same treatment to the greater number of families of those killed in action or in accidents since the Iran now doesn’t he?

Texas Dem James Talarico’s campaign on Wednesday filed motions to unseal depositions that his Picasso-faced opponent Ken Paxton gave in 2019 and 2022 civil cases, under which it is widely believed that Pax admitted to having committed multiple crimes, the Texas Tribune reports.

At least 17 people are dead and hundreds are missing – as many as 400 international tourists among them – on Wednesday after a flash flood tore through the high valleys of the Himalayas along the border between China and Nepal, CNN reports. Calling it a “flash flood” is actually underselling it as the deluge was not from a rainstorm but a tertiary effect of an earthquake. Nepalese officials say a 4.4-magnitude tremor – mild for the seismically-active region – caused a landslide which in turn blocked a river until the natural dam gave way and sent all the accumulated river flow downhill.

How much time between the quake and when the landslide blockage on the Lhende Khola River collapsed is unclear, but just from footage it may have been at a volume significantly greater than any one downpour of rain could trigger in a single burst. Among those missing are 60 members of a crew building a hydroelectric dam along another river downstream, guys whose project managers and engineering leads’ most important mission is mitigating the very terrifying hazard that befell them, evidently without warning. That and China’s declaration of a “mass casualty incident” on the Tibet side of the border could tragically serve as an ominous sign of a far greater cataclysm across a vast, rugged region than any anodyne headline about the “missing” could. Pretty fucking depressing.

Female Cops Jump in an Uber, Demand Help Chasing Down Male Suspect (and He Gets Away Anyways) https://t.co/A90Ad5hKML

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 25, 2026

South Carolina US Senator Darline Graham on Tuesday captured the Republican nomination for the November special election for her late brother Lindsey’s seat, though probably not by an overwhelming margin over now two-time 2026 statewide primary loser Congressman Ralph Norman, National Zero projects based on a 7.8 percent lead for Graham with 36 percent of votes counted.

Norman, a Freedom Caucasian who made the mistake of endorsing Nikki Haley for president in 2024, was otherwise a hardcore Trump loyalist who famously begged then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to get the Orange God Emperor to declare “marshall law” to remain in office in a text message sent on January 17, 2021. Why Norman then sided with his former governor three years later is not all that clear but here he is, neither the gubernatorial nominee nor the senate nominee and losing to Lindsey Graham’s sister who openly admitted she doesn’t know shit about national security, anointed by Trump just to reciprocate Lindsey’s mostly fierce loyalty to him.

Legendary country music star and theme park proprietor Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, the Associated Press reports on the death of the wrong campy, flamboyant octogenarian.

Convicted felon President Trump’s regime is considering simply demolishing the Kennedy Center and replacing it with an outdoor amphitheater if courts won’t let him have his way with the storied Washington DC performing arts institution that the fat fuck claims is decrepit. This is not some CNN or Washington Post report, but in a DOJ court filing submitted on Tuesday.

“The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed two measles-associated deaths in Pennsylvania. Both individuals were unvaccinated. These mark the first deaths related to measles in the Commonwealth in 35 years. The best protection against measles is getting fully vaccinated. The MMR vaccine, administered over two doses, boosts a person’s immune system and provides 97 percent lifetime protection,” said the Pennsylvania Department of Health in a Tuesday press release.

“‘My deepest sympathies are with the loved ones who are facing this unimaginable loss,’ said Secretary of Health Dr Debra Bogen. ‘Because measles was largely eliminated in the Commonwealth for more than three decades, people are not familiar with this disease and don’t fully understand the potential severity of the illness. We want to ensure every Pennsylvanian has the information they need to protect themselves, their loved ones and their communities. As a physician, I want to make sure people understand the MMR vaccine is safe and provides the best protection we have against measles.’ DOH confirmed both individuals were unvaccinated residents of Lancaster County.”

“To protect the privacy of the individuals and their families, DOH will not release any additional details that could personally identify these individuals and their families. Protecting Pennsylvanians’ privacy is a core responsibility of DOH,” the release continue, all but screaming “YES THEY WERE AMISH OR MENNONITES, WHO ARE BASICALLY AMISH. YOU GUESSED IT BECAUSE LANCASTER.”

Abdul El-Sayed wants to abolish private insurance.

🧵 Here are at least 10 times El-Sayed has said so himself. https://t.co/058zRhCmKH

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 25, 2026

“The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer,” posted an increasingly desperate and dying old dictator on Tuesday as he feared his impending doom.

The Hawk Wildfire, which had prompted more than 90,000 evacuations in Reno, Nevada over the weekend was at 27 percent containment and the affected were reduced to 63,000 as of Tuesday morning, the AP reports. Still the progress does not mean victory and fears remain that the blaze – which had already consumed at least 30 homes in the area – could flare up again.

The MAGA majority US Supreme Court on Monday allowed convicted felon President Trump’s order commanding Homeland Security to edit the lists of voters eligible to cast ballots via mail to remain in effect while challenges to its constitutionality proceeded. “The court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the government to implement the order will necessarily be lawful. On that score, time will tell. But the order itself does not harm the states, so the District Court lacked jurisdiction to bar the govern­ment from trying to implement it. And for the reasons dis­cussed, that injunction is likely to irreparably harm the government if it remains in place while the appellate pro­cess runs its course,” the court wrote in the order sticking it to the woke libtards.

“Lots of ‘bluster’ from Doug Ford, who is the Premier of the Canadian Province of Ontario, but who is better known as the less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother of the late, great, Rob Ford. America has been carrying Canada for decades, but no longer! The USA will always be far bigger, richer, and stronger than Canada. Without the US, Canada couldn’t survive – It’s where they get all of their money and, because of their current bad leadership, primarily Gov Carney, and his Flunky, Ford, they will not be allowed to keep taking advantage of the United States – Their key to survival. Remember, much of the Electricity, Oil, and Gas that Canada gets is transported through the USA Someone should get these clowns to ‘fall in line’ or, the consequences for Canada will be far WORSE! Canada’s Unemployment Rate is now at 10 percent, and rapidly rising. Their businesses are fleeing for the United States, and it’s all because of their failed policies, and inept leadership! The days of ripping off our Farmers, and other Businesses, are OVER!” posted Mao Smalldong on Monday, fucking up bilateral relations because improving it would take actual work and attention.