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The Federal Election Commission have unanimously tossed the Republican National Committee’s complaint against Google claiming their Gmail inboxes correctly rejecting their batshit fundraising emails as spam was an “in-kind contribution” to Democrats, the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Google has credibly supported its claim that its spam filter is in place for commercial reasons and thus did not constitute a contribution,” the FEC wrote in its ruling. One study cited by the RNC in their complaint showed that nearly 70 percent of emails from Republican candidates in 2019 and 2020 were caught in the filter compared to only about 10 percent of those from Democrats.

Of course, like with pretty much everything for Republicans in this day and age, the problem is never with them, it’s always with somebody else. It can’t be that maybe Republicans should maybe reduce the amount of spammy bullshit in their emails, it has to be that Google is rigging it for Democrats. It can’t be that maybe normal parents simply don’t want their children around deeply racist Fox News-brainwashed grandparents, it has to be that those snot-nosed punks are being indoctrinated by the liberal media and education system. It can’t be that John Durham brought a bad case against some Dem lawyer nobody had heard of, it has to be that all 12 jurors were biased somehow because two or three of them donated to Hillary and AOC. It can’t be a trillion different variables across billions of people, places, and institutions in a deeply imperfect system of a capitalist democracy collectively express antipathy to fascist extremism, it has to be “cancel culture,” Antifa intimidation, Chinese bamboo ballots, and Jewish space lasers controlled by the Rothschilds rigging it against the GOP.

The content of a memo detailing social media platforms’ failures to fully crack down on extremism in the lead up to the Capitol insurrection out of fear of reprisals from MAGA Republicans was left out of the final House January 6th Select Committee’s final report as the committee themselves were reluctant to get into the weeds with Big Tech, the Washington Post reports.

“The sum of this is that alt-tech, fringe, and mainstream platforms were exploited in tandem by right-wing activists to bring American democracy to the brink of ruin. These platforms enabled the mobilization of extremists on smaller sites and whipped up conservative grievance on larger, more mainstream ones,” said the 122-page memo written by committee staffers and obtained by the Post.

On one level it made perfect sense to keep the investigation’s focus on Trump and his minions. Twitter and Facebook may have failed to help prevent the attack but so did the Capitol and DC Metro Police and the Justice Department. There’s only so much responsibility you can hang on the people who saw four years of MAGA shitposting not backed up by any actual significant action against government institutions. On another level, some of these details in the report about how the pre-Musk Twitter still treated Trump and his fanboys with kid gloves internally even while cracking down publicly is shocking and the report probably should have been published separately.

Defeating socialism starts with retiring Joe Biden for good in 2024.

— GOP (@GOP) January 17, 2023

Nine out of nine of the candidates for Michigan state Republican Party chairperson who appeared at a forum in Midland last weekend said they believe there’s a massive election theft ring in the state that steals every election that Republican candidates lose, the Detroit News reports on the kind of situation that will probably end up with eight of the nine candidates saying the Democrats somehow infiltrated the state GOP and rigged the leadership election against them.

Among the lowlights of the chair candidates’ statements on the matter were the QAnon freak 2022 Secretary of State loser Kristina Karamo calling fighting election fraud a “matter of national survival” and Macomb County GOP chair Mark Forton saying he believes in his “heart of hearts” that disgraced former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election in a “landslide.” Another candidate, Lena Epstein complained about “ballot dumping” by blue counties, adding “There is not one person on this stage that can fix it. The almighty can fix it.” Candidate Michael Farage touted his record of leading a protest in which MAGA Michiganders mass burned absentee ballot applications in 2020, encouraging the crowd to search for “Operation Incinerator” on Google.

One candidate, Matthew DePerno, who got crushed by incumbent Dem Dana Nessel in his 2022 bid for Attorney General, apparently received zero pushback from the other candidates for being under criminal investigation for trafficking in stolen election equipment, almost as if facing felony indictment would not in any way interfere with his ability to run a state Republican Party.

Far right Indiana Congressman Jim Banks on Tuesday launched a bid for the seat being vacated by Republican Mike Braun as he runs for the Governor’s office, Politico reports, posing the first challenge to Governor Mitch Daniels who himself was reportedly looking to switch jobs with Braun.

White nationalist QAnon fan Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert had a screaming match in a House ladies’ room earlier this month at some point during the several days it took to elect coward Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House, the Daily Beast reports.

Naturally it had to do with the QAdulteress’s completely fake support of McCarthy to serve her own ends while Boebert stuck with Matt Gaetz and the other Freedom Caucasian holdouts opposing the weakling’s titular ascension to the Speaker’s gavel. “Greene questioned Boebert’s loyalty to McCarthy, and after a few words were exchanged, Boebert stormed out,” one source told the Beast.

“You were OK taking millions of dollars from McCarthy but you refuse to vote for him for Speaker, Lauren?” said Greene, according to another source, adding Boebert “ran out like a little schoolgirl.”

The Englewood, Colorado public library last week became the second in the state this month closed by officials due to meth contamination following the closure of the Boulder public library over the same issue, the AP reports. Officials say nobody got high from the contamination, nor are there any long terms health issues caused by exposure, but they had to close down to scrub surfaces and ventilation to de-meth-ify the libraries after some homeless weirdos spilled powered meth.

Indiana is quickly becoming North Florida:  An Indiana man has been arrested and charged with neglecting a dependent after his toddler son, wearing a diaper, was caught on film wandering around the second-floor apartment landing carrying a loaded handgun, NBC News reports.  Shane E. Osborne, the 45-year-old father, was arrested Saturday by Beech Grove Police, who were coincidentally being followed by a camera crew for a police-response reality show for the Reelz network.  The gun, reported a Smith & Wesson 9 mm was loaded with a magazine one round short of full, but there is no evidence the toddler fired the gun.

China’s population dropped by about one million people, a relative drop in the bucket related to the 1.4 billion citizens, but believed to be the first time since the 1950s that the nation has acknowledged a population drop, the Associated Press reports.

The Chinese National Bureau of Statistics reported the population of mainland China dropped by 850,000, to 1.412 billion, after the nation experienced more deaths than births in 2022.  Men account for 51.17% of the mainland population.  The data did not count the populations of self-governing territories including Macau and Hong Kong, nor did it include Taiwan.

The body of the last person listed as missing from Hurricane Ian battering Florida last September has been identified after being found in the wreckage of a sailboat found in Matanzas Pass, the channel of water that separates Fort Myers Beach from the mainland, the New-Press of Fort Myers reports.

The family of 72-year-old James ‘Denny’ Hurst last heard from him hours before Ian reached landfall on September 28th, with Hurst telling them he was going to ride the storm out on his boat.  It’s unclear where Hurst had been docked before the storm and if he intentionally set sail or was pushed away from the dock by the storm.

More than seventy people were killed in Lee County when Ian struck in September.  Hurst was the last one unaccounted for and the last direct casualty of the storm.

An Albuquerque, New Mexico man was arrested Monday in connections a series of shootings targeting four Dem politicians’ homes area and – Surprise! – he’s a failed Republican candidate for the state legislature who sought revenge for his defeat by hiring four men to terrorize the Dems.

Solomon Peña, who lost the race for New Mexico’s 14th State House District in November, was arrested at his home Monday following a lengthy standoff with a SWAT team. At least two of the four shootings at the homes of two state House members and two county commissioners have been definitively linked to Peña through ballistics evidence. The man who was arrested last Monday in connection appears to be one of the goons Peña hired to carry out the attacks. Fortunately no one was injured in any of the shootings, the targets of which strangely did not include Democrat State Representative Miguel Garcia, who defeated Peña by 47 percent in the November election.

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A former “high ranking” mercenary with Russia’s Wagner group who was arrested by Norwegian authorities near the border with Russia last week is now seeking asylum, the AP reports. The man, Andrey Medvedev, is reportedly willing to tell Russian human rights groups everything he knows about the Wagner group and its owner, oligarch Putin crony Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Fat former President Trump on Monday told some right wing douchebag host on “Real America’s Voice” that he’s not afraid to take on Florida Gov Ron DeSantis for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. “I got him elected, pure and simple. And there was no reason to go wild about endorsing him… So, now I hear he might want to run against me. So, we’ll handle that the way I handle things,” said the Orange God Emperor in an atypically honest and candid statement. Trump is indeed handling DeSantis in his way of handling things – through fraud and subterfuge.

An Atlanta judge on Thursday ordered an unidentified juror being considered to sit for rapper Young Thug’s upcoming trial to write a 30-page essay on the importance of jury service after she skipped out on a selection appearance to go on vacation in the Dominican Republic, Fox News reports.

Juror Number 64 was arrested after landing at the airport and immediately hauled before Judge Ural Glanville to explain why she blew off the court date. Glanville then gave her the homework assignment in lieu of a 20 day jail sentence and $1,000 fine for disrespecting a sacred duty to the common law justice system. “You have to do APA style. You’re going to have to use at least 10 primary sources, 10 secondary sources,” Glanville said, adding “We’re going to run it through a plagiarism check – you gotta write it yourself. And you have to come back and talk to me about it.”

House Oversight Chairman Congressman James Comer kind of went off-script on Monday, telling Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum that “every President has accidentally taken documents that were deemed classified.” When MacCallum asked if that was really true of Bush and Obama, Comer doubled down, saying “Our research shows that every president has accidentally taken documents.”

This was always going to be an extremely hard needle to thread, but the House GOP are already showing themselves not up to the task of showing how what Biden did was any worse than Trump, especially if this jackass is making it sound like a common mistake. This so-called “political gift to Republicans” isn’t going to mean shit if and when Jack Smith agrees that it is a common mistake and then charges Trump with obstruction of justice for willfully and overtly refusing to correct it.

Evil MAGA Republican Arizona 2022 gubernatorial loser Kari Lake is considering a 2024 run for the Senate seat occupied by useless “independent” Kyrsten Sinema, CNN’s Kate Sullivan reports, which is weird because we were to understand that Lake is the “rightful” governor of Arizona.

Anyway it’s great news for Senate Dems because, as we’ve written before, Dem Congressman Ruben Gallego would be in a good position against Lake, with or without Sinema running again in a three-way (obviously better for Gallego without Sinema, of course). And it’s not like Lake is going to be any less batshit the second time she runs for statewide office, how else is she supposed to appeal to Republican primary voters? She should totally run for Senate.

Various national and international media outlets are reporting that there’s yet another massive winter rainstorm headed for California and that the White House doesn’t keep visitor logs for Presidents’ private homes and that 68 passengers and crew were killed in a plane crash in Nepal on Monday. Meanwhile the Davos international money something meeting with Soros and that World Economic Forum guy is happening in Switzerland which is like catnip to the “New World Order” conspiracy freaks who were already having a good time with some poor kid who used to be an American Idol contestant dying from heart failure because they can blame that on the COVID vaccine.

Other media outlets reported that a family of six have been gunned down in California, which is horrible and a different one reported that another family in Connecticut is okay with having a black bear live under their porch which is kind of cute and quirky. Also the death toll in the Russian strike on an apartment building in Ukraine has climbed to 40. Biden said a bunch of stuff in his Martin Luther King Day speech. You could definitely say there’s a lot going on in the news.

Staff with the “Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels” wildlife advocacy group are sounding the alarm over a suspected outbreak of “squirrelpox” which amazingly only affects squirrels, Sky News reports.

Unlike chickenpox, monkeypox, cowpox, bird flu, swine flu, tomato flu, and all sorts of other pathogenic ailments named for flora and faunae, only squirrels – specifically red squirrels – can be infected by squirrelpox. There is no current danger to humans from squirrelpox. In fact grey squirrels can’t even get sick from it, though they are apparently carrying it around and infecting the red ones. Of course should this change and the squirrelpox find its way to the United States, we’ll be ready with predictable jokes about Appalachian hillbillies getting it from eating squirrel meat.

Happy Robert E Lee’s birthday to Alabama! Well officially on the state 2023 calendar it’s listed as “Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert E Lee’s Birthday,” but why the fuck are we going to acknowledge that in the headline if they’re going to make the most important American civil rights leader, a man who was literally killed for his efforts to build a more equitable society, share a day commemorating him with that of a dead traitor who fought to maintain a deeply barbaric and inequitable society?

The calendar also includes “Confederate Memorial Day” on May 4th, “[Confederate President] Jefferson Davis’ Birthday” on June 5th, and “Mrs Rosa L Parks Day” on December 1st, which isn’t an actual state holiday but a day “to commemorate her accomplishments. Each resident of this state is requested to observe the day with appropriate activities,” whatever that means. Sure doesn’t sound like state employees get the day off, unlike on the Confederate holidays.

Also President’s Day on February 20th is not President’s Day in Alabama, but “George Washington and Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday,” apparently as they don’t want to honor Abraham Lincoln because he freed the slaves and all that. It’s stupid because even though the national President’s Day is an observed holiday to honor both Washington and Lincoln’s February birth dates, it doesn’t expressly mean that Lincoln need be honored too. And Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13th, 1743.