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“Pursuant to this Court’s order of April 19, 2022 (ECF 328), Plaintiff has assembled a consolidated privilege log which lists the unresolved privilege claims, the Select Committee’s objections, and plaintiff’s brief responses to the objections. The privilege log is ready to be filed with the Court under seal and shared with opposing counsel pursuant to this Court’s previously established procedures. In preparing the consolidated privilege log, plaintiff has identified documents for which the claim of privilege could be withdrawn in light of this Court’s March 28 ruling and other factors. Plaintiff will withdraw privilege claims with respect to approximately 800 documents totaling over 10,000 pages. The documents will be produced to the Select Committee and accordingly are not included on the consolidated privilege log” writes MAGA laywer John Eastman’s team in a late Friday filing. The weasel is still contesting another 37,000 pages of emails on his claims of a non-existent attorney-client relationship with the Donald between November 2020 and January 2021.

A grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia will finally convene Monday to consider evidence against fat former President Donald Trump over his now infamous January 2, 2021 call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, examining whether the Donald committed a crime when he tried to intimidate the state elections chief into overturning the election, CBS News reports.

Of course the Orange Degenerate committed a crime, all the statutes are very clear. However given his habit of getting away with shit normal people would get prosecuted and convicted for, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis appears to be playing this carefully. Hopefully not too carefully, as her counterpart in Manhattan Alvin Bragg did, allowing his case to fall apart for now this week as the grand jury expired there on Friday, leaving the criminal case against Trump there dead for now.

• The internecine fighting in the Republican Party needs to continue.  The remaining sane conservatives need to separate from the Greene-Gaetz-Gosar-Boebert caucus.  Both sides would be smart to ditch the Republican name.  
• Marge is adamant that the text she sent to Mark Meadows didn’t call for “Marshall law.”  She’s insistent on that.  She may have a point, because in that one, specific text, she says other members are talking about it (in the classic “Some people are saying…” way).  But she hasn’t answered if she sent text messages to or had conversations with other members calling for Marshall Law, which is why she’s still maintaining she “doesn’t remember” if she called for Marshall Law.  And why hasn’t anyone asked her which of her colleagues was talking about it.
• Republicans:  “Our children are falling behind foreign kids in education.”  Also Republicans:  “We don’t want our children to learn science or social studies or literature or math unless those lessons conform with our very narrow religious beliefs.”
• Conservatives are more concerned that a child will be convinced he/she wants to “try” being gay or trans because they learn about it in school than they are worried about that same child getting shot in that same school.  Better dead than trans-aware, in their world.
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Perpetual grifter Donald Trump could not wiggle out of a fine of $10,000 per day a New York state judge imposed on him for his refusal to comply with a subpoena to turn over documents to state Attorney General Letitia James, NBC News reports.

Trump filed an affidavit with the court claiming he didn’t have the documents, and his statement was accompanied by sworn statements by his attorneys, Alina Habba and Michael Madaio, claiming they did not have access to the requested records.

“To the best of my knowledge, (i) I do not have any of the documents requested in the subpoena dated December 1, 2021 in my personal possession; and (ii) if there are any documents responsive to the subpoena I believe they would be in the possession or custody of the Trump Organization,” Trump, who is the President of the Trump Organization, said in his affidavit.

Fox host, Trump advisor and animated canned ham Sean Hannity sent an average of more than a text message per day to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows prodding him on ways to undermine the 2020 election outcome and reinstall Trump to office, but the messages turned hostile to the people pushing the election fraud lie as Biden’s inauguration neared, CNN reports.

Meadows had multiple text exchanges with various Fox personalities, showing a direct relationship with the messaging developed by the Trump cabal with the help of the right-wing network’s on-air hosts.  But the messages with Hannity show the host’s increasing frustration with Trump’s ongoing fixation with his Big Lie.

“Guys, we have a clear path to land the plane in 9 days. He can’t mention the election again. Ever,” Hannity wrote in a text group to Meadows and Republican Ohio Congressman and sexual abuse misprisioner Jim Jordan. “I did not have a good call with him today. And worse, I’m not sure what is left to do or say, and I don’t like not knowing if it’s truly understood. Ideas?”

WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. A Russian unit commander filming a TikTok video expounding on the success his unit was having in Ukraine when a shell explodes on top of him and his unit, presumably killing them all as blood covers the phone’s camera lens.

God has decided She’s heard enough bloviating, so She’s sent a bucket of bad weather–thunderstorms, hail and possible tornadoes–to Greenwood, Nebraska where a gathering of perpetual whiners and alleged sexual abusers was going to be held tonight.

Donald Trump was going to hold a rally at a dirt track raceway Friday night to support fellow accused sexual abuser Charles Herbster, a Republican who is running for Nebraska governor who is accused of groping multiple women, which is a prerequisite for gaining Trump’s endorsement–unless, allegedly, you let him grope you.

Former Republican Idaho state legislator Aaron von Ehlinger was convicted of raping an intern in his office in March 2021, the Associated Press reports, ending a case that caused Republican cultists to harass and threaten the victim of the crime.

Von Ehlinger was convicted of rape but acquitted of of sexual penetration with a foreign object.  He was handcuffed and led from the courtroom after the verdict was announced.  Sentencing will be July 28; in Idaho, sentences for rape range from one year to life in prison.

In an incident that split the Idaho Republican Party over support of von Ehlinger, the legislator took the intern out to dinner, supposedly to talk about the office’s political agenda.  While at dinner, he tried to insert his fingers into her.  When she abruptly demanded to end the dinner and be taken home, von Ehlinger instead took her to an apartment he kept in Boise, where he again attempted to assault her. 

Oath Keeper Brian Ulrich, one of eleven members of the far right MAGA terrorist group charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to the January 6th, 2021 Capitol riot, became the second one to plea guilty to the crime and agree to cooperate with federal prosecutors on Friday, Politico reports.

Ulrich follows Oath Keeper Joshua James in giving up and turning against his former brothers in white nationalism by providing information about their batshit plan to hold Congress hostage at gunpoint for days or even weeks during the certification of the 2020 election. It’s quite possible that the Capitol riot actually helped thwart the plan, as crazy MAGA assholes cosplaying as shamans and Mormon religious figures storming the Capitol caused too far much traffic and chaos to allow for any such tactical-ish operation to succeed – and gave members of Congress the chance to shelter within the complex, beyond of the reach of the Oath Keepers.

“I immediately call for the release of all text messages sent to and from Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff during their attempt to overturn the 2016 Presidential Election. They spied on my campaign, they spied on my transition team, and they even spied on the White House while I was in the Oval Office. They did everything they could to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, and stop the ‘Will of the People’ with their Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, Mueller Scam, and more. I wonder what the texts would reveal? Unlike my Chief of Staff, which show patriotic Americans concerned about illegal and massive Election Fraud in 2020, I say bad things would be revealed,” whines the Fat Bastard without realizing that Mark Meadows simply gave his text messages to the House January 6th Select Committee and that were then leaked to and published by CNN this week.

In another statement, he seemingly unintentionally shades Right Side Broadcasting Network, the right wing propaganda outlet that cover all of his rallies, saying “Remember when Bernie Sanders used to draw crowds of 3,000, 4,000 or even 5,000 people, and the press would go absolutely wild talking about how big Bernie’s crowds were showing them from all different angles and making it sound like the greatest show on earth—but when I draw 30,000, 40,000, 50,000 or in one case 87,000 people, reporters do not report it and cameras are not allowed to show how big the crowds are. It is a constant complaint I make during speeches. Turn the cameras, I say, turn the cameras to show the crowd, but they refuse to do it, not even the networks that are even a little bit on our side. The good news is, the people of our Country get it, and they get it like never before!” Per usual, neither statement was posted on Truth Social.

I don’t think people are fully understanding the severity of what a Ministry of Truth organized by DHS truly means.

This is Stalin level.

This is Mao level.

This is the hill to die on.

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) April 29, 2022

What are this dumbass and her pal Don Jr complaining about again? Is this like the “crack pipes” thing where the fucking morons freaked out for a week because some douchebag at Fox News noticed a line in some government budget document and then wildly spun it out of proportion until they got distracted by something else and forgot about it? Is the Department of Homeland Security really planning to create an agency called the “Ministry of Truth” where they send out hit squads that locate and eliminate Americans who knowingly propagate false information in order to stir panic among less educated voters for simple electoral gain? That’d be pretty cool actually.

Like wouldn’t it be pretty badass to see the First Amendment rights of those who knowingly abuse them for political and financial gain abrogated in a brutal fashion? Who wouldn’t get a laugh seeing the assholes who engage in seditious libel with bullshit stories about FEMA labor camps actually thrown into a FEMA labor camp for seditious libel? Isn’t it past time to consider that maybe those with no respect for democracy should no longer be subject to its protections?

Ahem… Anyway, we could look it up, but sometimes its more fun to guess and we’re thinking that DHS is setting up some bureau or panel designed to fact check disinformation about national security issues with nothing even remotely resembling an enforcement or operational arm to it, that its functions are solely responsive to bullshit in the right wing media, yet the right wing media are freaking out performatively regardless simply because they’re cunts and that’s what they do.

To cut off a significant supply of cash to the Kremlin, European Union countries will vote next week to implement a phased elimination of Russian fossil fuel imports as punishment for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the New York Times reports.

While it was generally agreed among the member to stop the flow of Russian energy, the European nations had to develop plans to offset the loss of Russian fuel from other sources because the countries rely heavily on those sources.  Last week, Lithuania deployed a floating liquid natural gas processing ship that converts LNG back to gas for distribution through their gas system, allowing the nation to use LNG tankers instead of the Russian pipeline.

The immediate impact of the embargo will be scores of Russian tankers turned away from European ports.  The second stage will be weening European countries away from Russian pipeline supplies, with gas likely coming from the United States and other allied nations. 

In a Thursday floor speech, Democratic Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin lambasts Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-Georgia) for claiming in a floor speech that the US is sending arms to “Nazis” in Ukraine and referred to America’s European allies as “NATO Nazis” in yet another demonstration of her ignorance.

What would they say if Trump created a #MinistryOfTruth?

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 29, 2022

“The Florida state government’s move to dissolve several independent special districts on June 1, 2023 creates significant risk to the credit quality of these districts, including Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID), says Fitch Ratings. In response, Fitch placed the ‘AA-‘ rating on RCID’s ad valorem tax bonds and the ‘A’ rating on its utilities revenue bonds on Rating Watch Negative due to uncertainty in servicing the RCID debt post-dissolution. We expect the state will ultimately work with various stakeholders to resolve the uncertainty in a way that ensures timely repayment of RCID debt, with reconstitution of the district as one option specifically offered in the bill. The failure to do so could alter our view of Florida’s commitment to preserve bondholder rights and weaken our view of the operating environment for Florida governments” says Fitch Ratings in a wire update.

Working for a private military contractor, former US Marine Willy Joseph Cancel was killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces against invading Russian military, becoming the first known American to die fighting in the war, CNN reports.

According to his mother, the 22-year-old traveled to Poland on March 12th and was in Ukraine by March 13th.  His mother said he was fighting in a unit of international volunteers, but had little information about where he was killed or the circumstances of his death.

“They haven’t found his body,” his mother, Rebecca Cabrera, said. “They are trying, the men that were with him, but it was either grab his body or get killed, but we would love for him to come back to us.”

The US Department of Education has opened an investigation into far right diploma mill Liberty University’s mishandling of reports of sexual assault on campus, ProPublica reports. Numerous reports over the years in the media and in multiple lawsuits against the school indicate a pattern of assaults being buried and victims cowed into signing acknowledgements that they broke the school’s “moral code” by putting themselves in the situations in which they were raped or assaulted, even though until 2020 the school was led by a guy who would fondle himself while watching a younger dude bang his wife, which isn’t a very moral lifestyle choice.

For example, last November a sign language professor was arrested for sexually assaulting a student – fully 66 days after the assault allegedly occurred, and the arrest was only acknowledged by the University in December after a local TV reporter just happened to have come across the arrest record. Just days later a student sued the school alleging her report was “swept under the rug” by the “Christian” school after she became pregnant by a student who drugged and raped her.

US Army soldiers stationed in Italy visited Meri Mion of the village of San Pietro in Northern Italy to wish her a happy 90th birthday on Thursday – and to sheepishly apologize for soldiers from the 88th Infantry Division stealing her 13th birthday cake off her home’s windowsill in 1945 after a brutal firefight with the Nazis, the AP reports. The cake return ceremony took place amid the celebration of the 77th anniversary of the nearby town of Vincenza’s liberation in the closing days of World War II in Europe. Back in 1945, Mion, who turns 90 on Friday, had hidden with her mother in her home’s attic overnight amid gunfire being exchanged between American and German troops, leaving the cake unprotected the next morning from hungry, possibly drunk GIs who had been feted with wine by locals in Vincenza. “Tomorrow, we will eat that dessert, with all my family remembering this wonderful day that I will never forget,” said Mion. Details of the cake’s provenance were unknown but we can only hope the soldiers were thoughtful enough to pick it up from a quality local bakery rather than baking it in an Army mess kitchen, as a cake made from boxed Duncan Hines cake mix and “funfetti” frosting would be nothing short an international embarrassment.

German federal police executed a raid on the Frankfurt global headquarters of corrupt blood money laundromat Deutsche Bank on Friday, Bloomberg reports. Cops took documents and evidence relevant to an ongoing investigation into the bank’s involvement in – surprise! – money laundering.

“This is an investigative measure by the Frankfurt public prosecutor’s office in connection with suspicious activity reports filed by the bank. Deutsche Bank is fully cooperating with the authorities,” some asshole public relations flack who obviously can’t find work at a more reputable company wrote in a statement. Shares of the bank’s stock fell 3.8% on news of the raid, which was reportedly smaller in scale than the 2018 storming of the same building, in which at least 170 cops carted out boxes and boxes of papers in another money laundering investigation.

QAdulteress Marjorie Taylor Greene and high school dropout Lauren Boebert are not actually friendly with each other privately, Politico reports. The issue specifically is that Boebert resents being publicly tied to Greene in the media and reportedly called out her fellow QAnon fan colleague over Greene’s February appearance at that pro-Putin white nationalist event with Nick Fuentes during a recent Freedom Caucasians meeting, a confrontation so heated that another member even had to physically get in between to stop them from coming to blows.

It sort of makes sense because we’ve noticed that, aside from them sitting next to each other and together jeering Biden during the State of the Union speech (which was a few days after the America First-fest), we don’t have any memorable record of the two conspiracy shitbirds otherwise making joint appearances. This never really stood out as noteworthy and certainly didn’t indicate enmity between them, but was kind of weird considering how friendly Greene appears to be with far right dipshits Matt Gaetz and Paul Gosar, for example. Per Politico however, Boebert is the one seen as more of a “team player” than Greene among the rest of the Freedom Caucasians.

Our money’s on Greene if they ever do throw down. She’s a fucking animal and would probably kill Boebert with her bare hands via strangulation after a quick flurry. We think the edge goes to Boebert in an armed conflict however, as she seems handier with an AR-15 than the QAdulteress.