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Oath Keepers leader Stewie Rhodes and one of his lieutenants were found guilty Tuesday by a DC jury on charges of seditious conspiracy for their role in the January 6th insurrection over disgraced former President Trump’s humiliating defeat in the 2020 election, Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports.

Jurors had deliberated for three days following the weeks-long trial of the far right terrorist militia leaders Rhodes and his lieutenant Kelly Meggs were convicted while Jessica Watkins, Kenneth Harrelson, and Thomas Caldwell were found not guilty of the most serious charge. All five were convicted of obstruction of a government proceeding. On conspiracy to obstruct a government proceeding, Watkins and Meggs were found guilty while Rhodes and Caldwell walked.

The South Carolina state Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously ordered shitweasel former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to testify to the grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia investigating the failed coup attempt in the state, Politico reports. Investigators want to question Meadows on why the fuck he let Trump call Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in an attempt to coerce the election chief into overturning Joe Biden’s surprise win in the state.

“We have reviewed the arguments raised by Appellant and find them to be manifestly without merit,” wrote the justices in their ruling upholding a lower court’s order. It’s not clear if Meadows will try to take his attempt to bitch out of questioning to a federal court as Lindsey Graham did before the US Supreme Court ultimately ruled he had to suck it up and testify like a big boy.

A highly trained team of uniformed American personnel on the ground in the Middle East overcame resistance from fanatic Iranian defenders and emerged from the battle victorious on Tuesday.

Decorated Captain Christian Pulisic, whose very name is an insult to Islam, fired the winning shot, and will lead his men further into the multinational warzone against an unknown enemy next week.

Court documents filed Tuesday ahead of the scheduled final, for real this time, sentencing on Thursday for Matt Gaetz’s former bro Joel Greenberg indicate that there is in fact still an ongoing criminal investigation into the far right Congressman, contrary to reports that it had been dropped.

“Mr. Greenberg has been cooperating with federal prosecutors in active investigations currently being conducted by the United States Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Florida, the State of Florida and the Department of Justice in Washington DC,” wrote Greenberg’s attorney in a sentencing memo. Additional materials about the cooperation were filed under seal.

Of course I denounce Nick Fuentes and his racists anti-semitic ideology. I can’t comprehend why the media is obsessed with him.

Do you actually report real news or just use CNN for your political activism?

Have you questioned Democrats if they denounce Israel hating Ilhan Omar? https://t.co/avPmrCXSOE

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 29, 2022

“We can build things like this. But we can’t count votes accurately”

– The current top comment on the Gateway Pundit article “MIT Engineers Invent Robot Capable of Building ‘Almost Anything’ Including Replicating Itself,” posted Tuesday afternoon. It’s literally almost the only one out of the past 100 articles on the site’s Disqus feed whose subject matter isn’t somehow connected to right wing political and cultural grievances. You have to scroll back to Sunday’s “2,500 Australians Strip Naked for a Photoshoot to Raise Awareness About Skin Cancer” to find a piece that isn’t intended to fire up the site’s demented MAGA-QAnon fan readership.

Legendarily uncourageous House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy swayed back and forth endlessly while facing a barrage of unwelcome questions from reporters about his Orange God Emperor’s embrace of hardcore anti-semites Kanye West and Nick Fuentes outside the White House following his meeting with President Biden and other Congressional leaders on Tuesday. It’s unclear why he couldn’t control his movements or at least mask the impulse to do so with a less perceptible shifting of his stance to expend nervous energy while he lied and claimed Trump has since “condemned” Fuentes four times (it was actually zero). McCarthy should probably get that tic looked at.

Feeling as though the city has been left behind on developing exciting and innovative new ways to kill criminals, officials with the San Francisco Police Department are asking the Board of Supervisors to reconsider its ban on use of lethal robots in law enforcement, NBC Bay Area reports.

“Robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers are imminent or outweigh any other force option available to the SFPD,” the department wrote in its draft proposal to the board, smartly leaving out that their future lethal robot cops’ programming might be a little overly broad in its interpretations of what constitutes a “risk of loss of life.” Like if a future robo-patrol unit incinerates a junkie before he can die of an overdose from the syringe of super-fentanyl he’s carrying his pocket that would kind of technically fit the letter of the proposal. That’s the type of forward thinking law enforcement needs these days.

“In the midst of Russia’s continued brutal attacks against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, Secretary of State Blinken announced today during a meeting of the G7+ on the margins of the NATO Ministerial in Bucharest that the United States government is providing over $53 million to support acquisition of critical electricity grid equipment. This equipment will be rapidly delivered to Ukraine on an emergency basis to help Ukrainians persevere through the winter. This supply package will include distribution transformers, circuit breakers, surge arresters, disconnectors, vehicles and other key equipment,” says a State Department press release.

“This new assistance is in addition to $55 million in emergency energy sector support for generators and other equipment to help restore emergency power and heat to local municipalities impacted by Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s power system. We will continue to identify additional support with allies and partners, and we are also helping to devise long-term solutions for grid restoration and repair, along with our assistance for Ukraine’s effort to advance the energy transition and build an energy system decoupled from Russian energy. Since Russia’s further invasion on February 24, working together with Congress, the Administration has provided nearly $32 billion in assistance to Ukraine, including $145 million to help repair, maintain, and strengthen Ukraine’s power sector.”

Trump-loyal former Secret Service agent/White House Deputy Chief of Staff Tony Ornato on Tuesday will interview with the House January 6th Select Committee, months after the shitweasel retired from the agency following explosive testimony about his Orange Allah’s meltdown on the day of the MAGA insurrection and revelations about an attempted coverup, the New York Times reports.

Ornato and another MAGA former Secret Service agent, Bobby Engel, had previously interviewed with Committee investigators in the spring of 2022, prior to former aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s hilarious public testimony in which she related secondhand an account from both Ornato and Engel that Donald had tried the grab the steering wheel and then assaulted Engel when told they weren’t going to be taking him to the Capitol as his fans marched toward the attack. Hours after Hutchinson’s testimony the two put out a leak to the press claiming they were ready and willing to go back under oath to dispute the account, testimony which never materialized until this month when first Engel and now Ornato finally returned to tell their side of the story.

It’s not clear why the two took so long to come back. You would think that since both were supposedly so eager to “debunk” the story about Donald getting violent that they would’ve used any and every means available to them to do so, even if not under oath, and especially since they’re now-former Secret Service agents and thus no longer bound by any legal or professional code of silence. Like how about just fucking go on Fox News and say “We never told Cassidy Hutchinson that Trump tried to strangle us”? Was that really so hard for them to do? It’s also hard to see how the onus for testifying again sooner would’ve been on the committee, and even if it was, why wouldn’t they simply go public and say they were being stonewalled? Something’s not adding up here.

The Republican National Committee is putting together a “where we fucked up” panel to review the 2022 midterms and figure out a winning strategy going forward, Politico reports. The panel will include Alabama Senator-elect Katie Britt, Michigan Congressman-elect John James, and Arizona Senator-not-elect Blake Masters among others examining why the “red wave” turned into a ripple.

Masters, aka “Beijing Blake” for his business connections to China, is a particularly solid choice given his unique perspective on how nominating shitty candidates cost the GOP its chance at the Senate.

A DC federal judge on Monday ruled that disgraced former President Trump’s “absolute immunity” defense against a lawsuit brought by the NAACP and the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization over the 2020 election is complete bullshit, CNN reports. Judge Emmett Sullivan found that Donald’s attempts to disenfranchise voters and overturn his humiliating defeat to Joe Biden was political activity and the defense that he was acting in his official capacity as president as such was moot.

The lawyer for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sent a letter Monday night to two Democratic members of Congress who stated Congress would open a probe into ethics and leaks at the Supreme Court if the Court didn’t do it themselves, claiming Alito had nothing to do with a reported leak of a Supreme Court decision in 2014.

Alito was accused by a minister of providing information relating to a case involving retailer Hobby Lobby’s desire to not pay for birth control pills, claiming the store had a Constitutional right to practice its religion freely.  (Hobby Lobby’s specific denomination and the name of the parish it attends are unavailable.)  Rev. Rob Schenck wrote a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts last week informing him that a benefactor of Schenck’s had been told the outcome of the case at a dinner party at Alito’s house prior to the decision’s release.  The Court ultimately found in Hobby Lobby’s favor in a controversial decision.

“Justice Alito has said that neither he nor Mrs. Alito told the Wrights about the outcome of the decision in the Hobby Lobby case, or about the authorship of the opinion of the Court,” Alito’s attorney wrote to Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson.  “Gail Wright has denied Mr. Schenck’s allegation in multiple interviews, saying the account given by Mr. Schenck was ‘patently not true.'”

Virginia Dem Congressman Don McEachin died Monday after a long battle with colorectal cancer, just 20 days after winning a third term to the seat from the Richmond-area 4th District.

More than 21,000 Russians have sought asylum in the United States at the US’s southern border with Mexico since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, an increase of nearly 4,500% since 2020, the New York Times reports.

The Times reports that most of the Russians seeking asylum in the United States are anti-war protesters or people who are fleeing likely conscription.  The Times story centers on two young doctors, both anti-war activists in Russia, who flew to Mexico planning to seek asylum in the US.  They turned themselves in at a border port-of-entry, and spent the next six months in separate migrant detention facilities.  They were released when they each posted $15,000 bonds.

The US had seen a boost in migrants and asylum seekers from Russia over the last two years as the Kremlin has cracked down on the LGBTQ community, political activists and even religious groups like the Jehovah’s Witnesses.  Unrest with the Putin regime has been simmering for years, and the poorly-run invasion of Ukraine, with the subsequent mandatory conscription of tens of thousands of people to fight at the front.

“For this year’s holidays at the White House, we hope to capture the spirit embodied in the very idea of America: We the People,” First Lady Dr. Jill Biden tweeted Monday, with photos of the White House holiday decorations; note Dr. Biden doesn’t use the word “Christmas” in her message, something that will undoubtedly implode more than one conservative skull.  “As our country gathers for the holidays, traditions may vary, but our shared American values — a belief in possibility, optimism, and unity — endure each season.”

A group of Arizona voters on Monday filed suit against the Board of Supervisors of Cochise County, Arizona for refusing to certify the results of the 2022 election, Dem lawyer Marc Elias reports. The board tabled certification “based on nothing more than vague and unsubstantiated allegations that the county’s electronic voting machines could not be trusted” per the complaint.

Oh, poor Elon Musk.  First, he tweets out a parody story from a satirical website from a site called Genesius Times that claims CNN reported that Musk would ruin free speech.  Like a true conservative, Musk believes he’s a martyr when he does something, so him picking up on a fake story that demonized him is right on brand for him.

But to add insult to injury, Musk’s own toy, Twitter, corrected his claim and noted that the world’s richest man isn’t very discerning, as evidenced by his getting duped by a parody site.

The military of the Central African Republican have put neighboring Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, and Cameroon on notice after one of them – they’re not sure which – conducted an air raid Monday on a town in the country’s northwest held by CAR government troops and the Russian mercenaries supporting them, AFP reports.

They think it might be Chad. It is a total Chad thing to do as the border is close to the town, Bossangoa, which until recently was held by rebels who have been operating from inside Chadian territory. No one was reported injured in the attack, but the bombs damaged an abandoned cotton factory the Wagner Group goons have been using as their base. Still sounds like an easy gig for those guys compared to getting blasted to kingdom come by American-made missiles in Kherson.