Three diplomats with contacts in the International Criminal Court tell the AP that top prosecutor Karim Khan has been officially removed from his post following a vote of 125 member delegates following allegations of sexual misconduct involving a female aide and subsequent cover-up fail.

It’s not clear what if anything happens next to the 56 year-old Khan, a British barrister, in terms of further consequences but just getting fired from that kind of job for being unable to ignore the impulses of his loins and then botching the cover-up is pretty embarrassing. If he’s not disbarred then he can always head back home and open up a personal injury practice or divorce firm.

Far more importantly however is what this means for the court’s future amid what the AP writes is “a campaign by the United States to ‘dismantle’ the ICC, which was established to prosecute people responsible for humanity’s worst crimes” which is basically nothing, really. A government headed by Donald Trump of all people trying to undermine the legitimacy of a court because its top prosecutor was a scumbag with a woman is like Jeffrey Dahmer calling BTK a depraved sadist. Instead it’s a “kangaroo court,” which is still fucking ridiculous considering the “8647” case against James Comey, but the push against the ICC is still real nonetheless. Rubio claims he’s in this to “dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court to US sovereignty,” by pressuring member states to withdraw, leveling sanctions, and so on. How successful he’ll be is TBD, but one would think it would take more than two and a half years to unwind a still toothy tribunal with 125 members.

“President Xi, at our recent meeting in Beijing, China, told me that he would not, under any circumstances, give or sell Weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran – And that statement included Chinese Companies. Considering our relationship, I take him at his word and, besides, l am doing him very big favors, also. Likewise, President Putin, despite the horrible War going on in Ukraine (The relationship remains, as it does with President Zelenskyy), told me that he would not sell Weapons to Iran. He understands that I do not sell Weapons to Ukraine, but to NATO Countries. They pay full price, and how those Weapons are distributed, I have no idea. Therefore, two major Countries that people speak of often in terms of Iran are, in my opinion, not participating. If they did, it would be very bad for them – Certainly not in their best interests,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Friday in what sure sounds like a very limited hangout of something far worse for US interests.

Weren’t we told that Trump is so tough on foreign dictators that he would tame them? That they were way more afraid of him than, say, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris, who were weak for relying too much on advisors with expertise in diplomacy and warfare? Rings a bell, right?

Steve Hilton just dropped a BANGER Campaign Ad Defeating the California Democrat Machine.

So good.

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 24, 2026

🚨🚨🚨 HOLY SHIT 🚨🚨🚨 WOW! 🚨🚨🚨 Commenting on Supreme White House Information Minister Karoline Leavitt’s Thursday statement that convicted felon President Trump’s “patience is running out” with Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s inability to get 50 votes to change the chamber’s rules to get Trump’s moronic SAVE Act passed, a “longtime GOP operative” who otherwise went unnamed put it right to Trump in a brief conversation with Punchbowl’s Andrew Desiderio.

“Trump knows full well that he can’t flip these votes. Hell, he personally came to the Capitol to berate Senate Republicans into voting for SAVE, and he left empty handed.” SHOTS FIRED.

“Look at who we’re talking about – Murkowski, McConnell, Tillis, and Collins – all members who he’s savaged at one point or another, now he needs their help. All of this comes back to one thing: What happens when Trump can’t do something himself?” the operative said, letting the rhetorical question hang in the air for a brief moment before the EPIC TAKEDOWN in the form of an answer.

“He blames someone else. John Thune is Mr Someone Else,” the operative then said, his words so searing there was no way his name or actual title could be attached to it as he absolutely mangled the president – who in the daylight the operative no doubt praises effusively. What utter genius.

Convicted felon President Trump’s feckless war against Iran has “taken a personal toll on” the fat bastard and some of his top minions, the Wall Street Journal reports, adding that “some top aides have been advised by intelligence agencies that the Iranians are seeking to kill them and have been told to stop taking car services.” And yeah that probably means what it sounds like, that Stephen Miller can’t take Uber anymore because Iranian intel agents have inserted themselves as drivers.

Trump is also, according to the Journal, extremely fucking pissed at Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu and “at times telling aides that he doesn’t want to talk to him or meet with him,” probably because it finally dawned on Donald that he was manipulated by “Bibi” into the attack on Iran.

Riley Gaines is ripping a USA Today column about Caitlin Clark, calling it "insane" and "defamatory."

Gaines blasted columnist Nancy Armour for comparing Clark's fan base to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, saying there is "zero credibility" behind the claims.

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— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 24, 2026

Convicted felon President Trump’s regime on Thursday withdrew their subpoenas to New York Times reporters who had printed a story about the fat slob’s Qatar Force One 747 having security flaws – itself obvious enough from the plane switch to the real Air Force One in the UK – after a federal judge indicated would nuke the subpoenas, Lawfare’s Anna Bower reports.

Let’s just get the political part out of the way first: There is no political part. Of course being the Villages all suspects are presumed MAGA until proven innocent, but this David Allen O’Brien character is just a slippery bastard with no discernible online footprint and this blogger was extremely thorough in attempting to find something, anything that would confirm his and his readership’s priors. The usually reliable go-to of VoterRecords.com was a dead end and trying to find a Dave or David O’Brien on Facebook is like trying to find a crypto scam on Twitter.

Actually that’s not fair because if you were for some reason looking for a specific crypto scam on Twitter you would have an easier time than you would looking for a specific Dave O’Brien on Facebook. Seriously try to use it to track down someone, anyone, with even a medium-generic name like that for just a few minutes and there’s no other conclusion than that Schmuckerberg and co deliberately designed it to frustrate the fuck out of users seeking any kind of informational value whatsoever out of it. The search box even ignores quotation marks around a specific string…

So yes, it is a goddamned shame that documentary evidence of the 67 year-old O’Brien’s MAGA status remains elusive because hooooo-leeeee shit this very well could be the MAGAest/Villages-est story ever: According to a Sumter County Sheriff’s Office arrest report obtained by Villages-News.com, the sad, lonely senior citizen recently joined Tinder in search of a significantly younger woman willing to physically debase herself in exchange for $1,000 “each visit,” plus gifts and dinner.

Convicted felon President Trump on Thursday told Axios in an “exclusive” that he’s “considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it…” they “want to negotiate” but “they haven’t received enough pain yet… Relations with Bibi are very good. I would meet with him if he is here” and so on and so forth in a stream of consciouness delivered to quasi Trump spokesman Barak Ravid in the interview. Ravid then organized it into bullet points.

What this dipshit Mike Collins omits from his low-energy tirade citing the New Jersey DMV voter registration shitshow as making it “clear that even using a state driver’s license for voter ID has been compromised” is that New Jersey doesn’t actually require voter ID and the fuckup was at the registration level in the state’s DMV system. If the Garden State did have a voter ID law then in all likelihood those 400 or so still would have been able to cast a ballot after having presented a valid driver’s license to the election staffers. But basic logic and MAGA rhetoric’s usual incompatibility aside, Collins’s fairly muted invocation of the systemic error is something of a credit to Gov Mikie Sherill’s swift and transparent disclosure of the fuckup. Getting out in front of it was never going to be the wrong call and likewise there wasn’t much better she could have done in actual execution.

Still, seriously expected much more fire than this beta’s whimpering on Newsmax and thus far Sherill’s handling seems to have done more to blunt the screaming meltdowns than first estimated.

Also worth noting is Collins bitching about how his Senate race opponent, incumbent Dem Jon Ossoff, won in 2020 because of “drop boxes” and “mailing absentee ballots to everyone and their family,” thing that Collins says Georgia Republicans had taken care of since then. Left out of that hollow simulacrum of “optimism” for his chances against Ossoff is that those “reforms” preceded other Dem Senator Rev Raphael Warnock’s reelection to a full six-year term in 2022.

But hey, it was a good bull case for Collins for Senate 2026 if you skip that part.

“A year ago the United States of America attacked, very powerfully, the Houthis, for their interference with commerce and trade, by shooting at ships. Since that time, and during our conflict with Iran, they have acted very responsibly. Unfortunately, now they are starting up again, shooting at two Saudi Arabian ships last night. Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if they do this again, the US will hold Iran responsible, in that the Houthis are a Surrogate and/or Proxy of Iran, and major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis, themselves, who I am very disappointed with in that they have, until now, acted very professionally and smart,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Thursday, very disappointed with Iran as well as the lack of professionalism from the Houthis, an ethno-religious minority in Yemen whose Iran-backed militia have activated to disrupt shipping in the Red Sea, specifically outbound Saudi oil shipments.

Brent Crude oil futures topped $99/barrel in pre-market trading on Thursday due to the attacks.

“A new Emerson College Polling survey of likely 2026 voters finds the Democrats with an 11-point advantage over the Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, leading 53 percent to 42 percent. President Trump holds a 39 percent job approval rating, consistent with the past two months, whereas his disapproval increased another point, to 57 percent,” says the intro to this month’s national survey from the not-terribly-reliable pollster that usually overrates GOP candidates.

Would suck for the GOP if Emerson’s in its usual mode and overrating them here. Really suck.

The headline above is the entirety of convicted felon President Trump’s own comment Thursday morning whilst sharing on Truth Social a John Solomon article about spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan’s Wednesday night criminal referral of former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, underscoring the fat bastard’s utter impotence at his own political objectives.

Why does he have to wait for a dipshit like Gymbo to make a criminal referral? Why didn’t a grand jury hand down an indictment of Smith like 17 months ago? This is the best case they’ve got?

Expanding the mess that convicted felon President Trump created, Yemen-based Iranian proxy scumbags the Houthis attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea on Thursday, the AP reports.

Good God this is stupid… Jackass Steve Scalise didn’t even remember the full line, saying “For God’s sake – you can’t get pasta at Olive Garden without a picture ID! Why not be able to show a picture ID to vote?” when he forgot the “pasta pass” part of that. That’s the key here, in which the establishment requires those who have paid for their unlimited pasta pass promotional membership whatever to present a photo ID to servers in order to be served unlimited portions of pasta, not just to “get pasta.” They wouldn’t fucking card you to simply purchase pasta off the menu but again, this was most likely a case of Scalise simply forgetting the crucial “pasta pass” condition to the ID requirement rather than “truthful hyperbole” like claiming photo ID is required to buy cereal.

Still, even given that this is just so goddamned stupid it’s almost nauseating. First off, despite having an Italian-American surname Scalise seems about as paisano as Whoopi Goldberg is Jewish and as such obviously isn’t averse to legitimizing the faux-Tuscan strip-mall chain. Have some goddamned pride in your heritage, you wanker. Other than that wrinkle it is pretty on-brand that this new talking point is something regular MAGAmericans can relate to since to them Olive Garden is the fancier option than Papa John’s when it comes to “Italian cuisine.” The place you go for your anniversary when Applebee’s and Chili’s are for birthdays or just when you’re tired of pretending to like venison from the deer you shot. Plus you only wanted the antlers for your truck grille anyway.

A new Fox News national survey finds Democrats leading Republicans 53 to 46 percent on the generic congressional ballot ahead of November’s midterms, a delta just one point shy of the 48 to 40 percent lead Dems held in July 2018 and a finding that Fox themselves write ominously that “53 percent is the highest percentage either party has received on the generic House ballot in Fox News polling since 1996.” Dems also have a 68 to 57 percent edge to the GOP on voter enthusiasm.

In related news, a 54 percent majority of Trump 2024 voters told the Economist’s weekly YouGov survey that they approve “of Donald Trump and his family doing business with foreign countries while he is serving as President” while just 26 percent disapproved. Glad they’re happy about that.

Republican West Virginia state House Assistant Majority Leader Elliot Pritt was hit Wednesday with a federal criminal complaint charging him with enticing a minor after an investigation found that he communicated with a girl through Roblox and Snapchat, West Virginia Watch reports, noting that Pritt is a public high school teacher in his day job, so tips and icebergs and all that.

“What Elliott Pritt is accused of doing is shocking, disgusting and disappointing in every way. My heart aches for his family, and if any part of these serious allegations are true, the law should be applied in full force,” said state House Speaker Roger Hanshaw in a statement, skipping the whole “witch hunt” song and dance that usual goes with Republicans closing ranks.

“No child should ever be exploited by anyone, especially by the adults placed in positions of trust and charged with preparing young people, many of whom our statistics tell us unfortunately have no other caring adult figures in their lives. Effective immediately, Delegate Pritt has been removed from all official roles connected with his service as a member of the House of Delegates… I urge Elliott Pritt, for the benefit of his family and the people of his District, to spare his students and his colleagues at every level the continued embarrassments and distractions and to resign from elected office as soon as he is able,” Hanshaw continued, not mincing words as though it were a Dem.

Could be the other crimes that the complaint hinted at: Actual physical sexual abuse since the girl was in eighth grade in 2024, demanding that she send nudes, sending her nudes, etc.