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Bravely, even heroically, as one can get within the confines of anonymity and thus protection from political retribution for questioning the wisdom of the Holy Orange Messiah, an unnamed Republican senator tells Semafor that if the Supreme Court does not make the constitutional no-brainer call and decide to nuke convicted felon President Trump’s unilateral imposition of tariffs on the American people, then “Congress doesn’t have a role in determining what constitutes an emergency. This president, and future presidents, will take it upon himself to creatively define and redefine that.”

The senator – a member of a majority too chickenshit to publicly meaningfully assert its constitutional birthright and actual responsibility to serve as a separate and coequal branch of government – then added “This should be Congress’ call if you’re increasing taxes on the American people through tariff policy. We are the ones who dictate tax policy. This is a form of taxation.”

On Tuesday – after the Semafor story was printed – five Republican Senators voted yes on Senate Joint Resolution 81 “terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Brazil”: Moscow Mitch, Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Thom Tillis. The chances that any of those five are the anonymous senator quoted above are extremely slim given their previous public statements making plain their opposition to the fat bastard’s tariff regime.

Transgender rabbi booted from Biden WH headlines pro-Mamdani ad ahead of Election Day https://t.co/oEhNooE4an

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 29, 2025

A California federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Acting US Attorney for the Middle District of California Bill Essayli is serving unlawfully and disqualified him from the position.

The US Senate on Tuesday voted 52 to 48 to pass Joint Resolution 81, a measure to terminate convicted felon President Trump’s stupid tariffs on Brazil, which Mike Johnson will not be taking up.

Brainwormed idiot Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr last summer ordered the Centers for Disease Control to study the potential adverse health effects of offshore wind turbines, Reuters reports on the Trump Regime’s latest attempt to put an imprimatur of government authority on the deranged obsessions of their gravely mentally ill liege.

It’s not like Bobby’s ever said anything about wind turbines. In fact it’s easy to imagine him rolling his eyes and telling top CDC officials “Just look busy on the offshore wind turbines thing. Whatever we’ve gotta do to make the Old Man think we’re going to validate his ridiculous theories while we conduct the real science of proving that fluoride in toothpaste is making children turn trans.”

Convicted felon President Trump’s regime is ordering military officials involved with ongoing operations in/around Venezuela and the greater Latin American region to sign non-disclosure agreements, Reuters’ Phil Stewart reports on this most Trumpian of stupid bullshit gestures.

First off, military officers involved in these kinds of operations have all already signed what’s called a SF-312 Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement, so it’s redundant. If these new NDAs are instead trying to impose some kind of civil penalty for breaking it – and what else is supposed to be the enforcing mechanism – well then it’s also meaningless because courts have repeatedly ruled that government personnel cannot be held to a personal NDA like they’re Google employees.

So yeah it sure sounds like the fat bastard is signaling that he’s going to be ordering troops to commit war crimes and thinks that the same kind of document he gets pornstars to sign after he effs them for two minutes max is going to deter any leaks of extralegal operations in Latin America.

BREAKING NEWS: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has ordered the army to immediately carry out "powerful strikes" in Gaza, in a new test for a U.S.-brokered ceasefire. pic.twitter.com/TtZBBPjl30

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) October 28, 2025

Christ, these assclowns. How is it still a “ceasefire” when there’s actual fire? Nobody with a functioning brain thought this was ever going to last and now the fanboys are going to be pissed at “Bibi” for ruining their Orange God Emperor’s historic achievement. A smarter version of this cult would’ve kept the goalposts firmly planted on the release of the 20 remaining living Israeli hostages who’d been abducted by Hamas during the October 7th, 2023 attack. Trump suckered Hamas into giving up that last real piece of leverage and it will be a very, very long time before they’ll have that many Israeli hostages again. Probably never, really. That was a big deal and it won’t be undone, so maybe the MAGA propaganda-industrial complex should’ve hyped that real, historically-significant achievement over brokering a “permanent” ceasefire that didn’t even last into the next month.

No fewer than 25 states on Tuesday – Kentucky and Kansas included under Dem governors Andy Beshear and Laura Kelly, respectively – signed onto a pretty solid case filed in a Massachusetts federal court against convicted felon President Trump’s regime’s stated plan to simply cut off the disbursement of SNAP benefits to recipients nationwide during the shutdown to create political pressure on Democrats, arguing that the money’s already been appropriated, the Reich is statutorily bound to disburse it, and that the USDA has $6 billion in reserve that can be applied to the program.

In the complaint the Dems point out that the USDA website has a banner that says “Senate Democrats have now voted 12 times to not fund the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance” which, in addition to being sub-Fox News-level horseshit, directly contradicts the official memos that claimed they actually do have money lying around, but cited some made-up legal justification for not sending it out to SNAP cards on Saturday.

White nationalist Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday spoke up during the House GOP’s conference call on Tuesday and, per Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman, said “she is tired of people listening to the White House political staff,” adding that she wants Senate Majority Leader John Thune to finally nuke the filibuster for good and get the government reopened already.

Speaker Mike Johnson then expressed displeasure with the comment, as well as Greene’s recent shitposting about him and the party’s shutdown strategy. “How does that help us, Marjorie?”

Sources in Axios‘s conservative donor class demo tell the “Be Smart” outlet that the MAGA establishment has already decided who’s to blame for the impotent nothing burger that was the party’s campaign against California Dems’ all-but-certain to pass Proposition 50, the ballot measure allowing the state legislature to temporarily override the independent redistricting commission and kill as many as five Republican-held US House seats to offset Texas’s gerrymandering.

In one of their bullet points Axios writes that “some senior Trump political advisers and party strategists say a top operative of a pro-Trump group undermined their efforts to defeat a plan that could help Democrats gain five congressional seats,” before identifying the scapegoat as Ashley Hayek, president of MAGA slush fund America First Works. Last month Hayek had gathered a few dozen California GOP donors at a hotel in DC to pitch them on writing checks to support various MAGA propaganda campaigns. When one brought up Prop 50, Hayek cited public polling and gave an honest assessment, saying “There’s probably going to be redistricting in California,” prompting the plutocrats to deem it a lost cause and to instead look forward to the midterms.

Why exactly a high-level operator in a political power ecosystem that eats, sleeps, and breathes grift would’ve fucked up and momentarily spoke with such candor isn’t clear but the damage was unmistakeable – and worsened by the would-be donors’ impression that it’d been a White House-sanctioned event. “Because AFW has the imprimatur of White House support, Trump advisers worried donors would think they were bailing on California and close their wallets,” Axios writes. It may’ve been as simple as Hayek just wanting to preserve her relationships with these donors and not sell them a bill of goods on a doomed effort, but she also could’ve just told the puppetmasters that AFW wasn’t doing any anti-Prop 50 work and she’d connect them with people who were.

With the fall of a fan from the upper concourse seating of the Penguins’ home PPG Paints Arena early in the first period of the squad’s 6-3 win over the St Louis Blues on Monday night, Pittsburgh’s pro sports teams completed an impressive record of gravity-related incidents at their venues in 2025. Per the Associated Press, an unidentified male Penguins fan was hospitalized in critical condition after plummeting about 20 feet from the upper tier onto the mezzanine, possibly whilst cheering forward Anthony Mantha’s goal that put the home team up 2 – 0 over the Blues.

The fall came just two days after a man performing work on the scoreboard at the Steelers’ Acrisure Stadium fell 50 feet from his perch onto a lower catwalk. The man, also unidentified, was also hospitalized in critical condition after the Saturday night mishap. That awful incident came months after 20 year-old Kavan Markwood drunkenly fell over the railing and onto the field at PNC Park celebrating a two-run double during the 7th in the Pirates’ 4-3 May 1 win over the Chicago Cubs.

Markwood has since recovered from his injuries and hopefully the other two guys will as well.

Convicted felon President Trump’s lawyers are working to get the first two words of this lede erased for good and are appealing to New York State courts to overturn last year’s 34 count guilty verdict in the Stormy Daniels payoff/2016 election interference case, Politico reports.

…Bushart is clearly one of the unhinged voices on the Internet who trolls and inflames others. At his arrest, even Bushart admitted that he is a bit of “an a**hole,” but insisted that he is not a criminal. He appears correct on both counts.

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 28, 2025

Right wing legal academic and TheHill.com columnist Jonathan Turley on Tuesday figured it was time to replenish his credibility tank as he’d been neglecting it for quite some time with nonsense about how NPR is a racket for disclosing its sponsors and that it was “disturbing” that one of former CIA Director John Brennan’s top aides once said he’s “not a Trump fan.” Seeing the legitimately disturbing story about how a retired Tennessee cop has been in jail for over a month on a charge of Threats of Mass Violence on School Property – because he posted a verbatim Trump quote “We have to get over it” in a Facebook comment under a planned vigil for Charlie Kirk – Turley picked the low-hanging fruit of a “principled free speech argument” and distilled it to fuel his credibility tank.

It’s not clear when the half-gallon of low-quality regular unleaded credibility will be squandered but the how is probably as simple as him going on Fox News and arguing the founders intended for convicted felon President Trump to loot $230 million from the Department of Justice.

A privately-owned Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane known to have previously transported weapons for Russian military and Wagner Group mercenary operations in Africa landed in Caracas over the weekend, DefenseNews reports while noting the probably-not-coincidental timing given convicted felon President Trump’s increasing threats of action against Putin-allied dictator Nicolas Maduro’s regime. The plane, which took off from Moscow on Friday, landed in Venezuela’s capital after two days of stops in Armenia, Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, and Mauritania before crossing the Atlantic.

Whether these stops had been pickups, deliveries, or both – as well as what it was carrying – is unknown. DefenseNews however notes that the route was definitely one that would have avoided NATO/NATO-allied airspace or possible customs/cargo inspections in not-as-corrupt countries.

Also not in question is that the plane’s owner/operator, Aviacon Zitotrans, is under sanctions by the United States, Canada, and Ukraine for its ties to the Russian military and the Wagner Group.

“As Orkin’s annual Top 50 Rattiest Cities List enters its second decade, a new city is claiming the top spot for the first time in the list’s history. Chicago’s decade-long reign at No 1 is over, with Los Angeles knocking the Windy City off its long-held perch. In true Hollywood fashion, Los Angeles has taken center stage. With year-round warm weather, a booming culinary scene and dense neighborhoods that offer ample access to food and shelter, the City of Angels checks every box for rodent survival. From bustling commercial corridors to hidden alleyways, Los Angeles’ signature blend of glam and grit creates a perfect storm for rodent activity,” says a new press release from Orkin pest control that sounds almost like a real estate pitch brochure for rats if they could read.

“The shake-up in rankings signals a shift in rodent activity, likely influenced by weather patterns, urban infrastructure and human behavior. While Chicago has held the top spot since the list’s inception, this year’s data shows other major cities are seeing increased pressure, particularly as more moderate climates improve rodent survival rates and urban sprawl opens new pathways for infestations,” the triumphal story of feral rodent gentrification in the City of Angels continued.

Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said he was consulting with his war machine to respond after Hamas handed over the remains of a hostage whose body “Bibi” claims was already recovered two years ago, Reuters reports on the coming resumption of violence in Gaza.

“Today in Virginia, we filed a landmark, powerful, and necessary $150,000,000 defamation lawsuit on behalf of Paul J Ingrassia against Defendants Politico and Daniel Lippman. Our suit arises out of the following article: Daniel Lippman, Key Trump nominee accused of sexual harassment, POLITICO (Oct 9, 2025), https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/09/ingrassia-trump-harassment-dhs-00596545. Paul has never sexually harassed anyone-full stop. This is a historic first step on Paul’s road to complete vindication. Although the last two weeks have been extraordinarily difficult for Paul and his family, he has displayed incredible composure under fire, even as he has faced challenges including the derailment of his nomination and death threats. We look forward to sharing more details very soon. I want to thank the other incredible members of Paul’s legal team for their tireless efforts,” says a statement from the Nazi streak guy’s lawyer Ed Paltzik.

Oooooooooohhhhh man this is gonna be a good one. Politico absolutely should NOT try to get it tossed before discovery. They have to take it at least that far if not before a jury.