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A State Department memo viewed by the Associated Press ahead of the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York proposes putting serious restrictions on the movements of delegations from Iran, Sudan, Zimbabwe and, in what the AP points out as noteworthy, Brazil – almost certainly due to convicted felon President Trump’s serious hard-on for the traditionally-allied South American country over the criminal cases against disgraced former President Jair Bolsonaro.

What also stuck out to the AP in the memo was an idea to ban the Iranians from shopping at wholesale stores like Costco and Sam’s Club without the express permission of the State Department – stores that are regular stops for the delegation because they can pick up large quantities of products not normally available in Iran because of sanctions and what not.

Now while no one in their right mind should think the Iranian regime are the good guys or even necessarily victims of the Trump Reich this is still pretty fucking stupid. Like does anyone realistically expect that the Iranian diplomats won’t just pick up the phone and find just a handful of ambivalent US citizen Shiites living in New York City who’d want to make a few thousand bucks by doing Costco runs for them? How’s the friggin State Department going to stop a U-Haul full of Tide Detergent and Kirkland Value peanut butter from making a delivery to the hotel with all the Iranians? Isn’t the fact that they WANT to shop at Costco more of an indictment of their system than forbidding them from doing so is “a boss move”? Let them fucking go there and get their small taste of the fruits of what’s supposed to be a free market capitalist society as an annual reminder that living in an Islamic theocracy constantly waging a cunty little proxy war with Israel and the Saudis actually sucks.

In a footnote in an evidentiary filing in her bid to get courts to nix convicted felon President Trump’s attempt at firing her, Fed Board of Governors member Lisa Cook’s lawyers on Thursday wasted no time pointing to ProPublica reporting on how at least three of the fat fuck’s cabinet members are guilty of the same misconduct. “Indeed, on the same day that the Government filed its Supplemental opposition calling Governor Cook’s pretext argument ‘baseless,’ public reporting indicated that at least three officials in President Trump’s cabinet have listed more than one primary residence on their loan papers. See ‘Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them,’ ProPublica (Sept 4, 2025). Apparently, these same ‘facial contradictions’ in cabinet officials he can fire at-will were not enough for him to do so, but the President claims they are sufficient to support a firing when real, adequate ’cause’ is required.”

Now this was 20 minutes before the jobs report was officially released that obese Florida MAGA Congressman Randy Fine was telling CNN’s Kate Bolduan that “the numbers always tend to benefit the left” which sure as hell sounds like he had the heads-up like Larry Kudlow did on Thursday.

US non-farm payrolls rose by 22,000, well short of 75,000 expected according to the Dow Jones consensus estimate in August while the unemployment rate edged up to 4.3 percent, CNBC reports.

“President Trump’s attempt to rebrand the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act can’t mask a grim reality: His economic approval is collapsing, and the data underneath is only getting worse,” writes Axios in the lede to a Friday morning article with a buzzy, rizzy headline of “Trump’s economic doom loop.”

“Why it matters: Trump is in danger of getting trapped in the same ‘vibecession’ dynamic that doomed President Biden – only this time, the structural signals are flashing red and Trump’s signature legislation is toxic,” says the first bullet point of the story. All the vibecession indicators are off the charts here people. If Axios says it then the vibecession is inevitable. There’s no escaping it.

“Arizona State Senator Jake Hoffman announces the filing of a formal ethics complaint against Senator Analise Ortiz following her repeated attempts to undermine federal immigration enforcement operations in Arizona. ‘Senator Ortiz’s actions were not only reckless – they were dangerous,’ said Senator Hoffman. ‘By publicly posting alerts about federal law enforcement activity, she actively tipped off individuals being pursued by ICE, jeopardizing the safety of officers and law-abiding citizens. The complaint details how Senator Ortiz used her official platform to broadcast real-time alerts about ICE activity, urging people to evade lawful enforcement operations. When called out, she doubled down with inflammatory language, instead of showing accountability for endangering lives,” says a press release from rapey-looking fake Trump 2020 elector Republican state Senator Jake Hoffman, who still faces multiple felony charges in his failed coup attempt caper.

Two armed Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets flew over the USS Jason Dunham in the Carribbean on Thursday, CBS News reports citing Defense Department officials who called the action a “show of force,” in response to the destruction of a random boat leaving Venezuela this week.

Despite publicly denying on Wednesday that he would drop out of his doomed reelection bid and take a job with convicted felon President Trump’s regime, sources tell the New York Times that Mayor Eric Adams “is seriously considering job opportunities” that would necessitate him throwing in the towel on his campaign and help get disgraced former Gov Andrew Cuomo elected – and that Adams this week met with dipshit Trump minion Steve Witkoff to hear the reich’s pitch.

The other candidate, Curtis Sliwa, whose exit theoretically might accrete more support to Cuomo than Adams was asked Thursday morning if he was open to any similar offer by moronic right wing 770 WABC host Sid Rosenberg. “Yeah, if somebody puts a bullet in the back of my head, and I’m in a casket, and you’re giving me the greatest eulogy of all time,” said Sliwa, also a host on the station.

“Whoever, directly or indirectly, promises any employment, position, compensation, contract, appointment, or other benefit, provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of Congress, or any special consideration in obtaining any such benefit, to any person as consideration, favor, or reward for any political activity or for the support of or opposition to any candidate or any political party in connection with any general or special election to any political office, or in connection with any primary election or political convention or caucus held to select candidates for any political office, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both,” says 18 USC § 600 – Promise of employment or other benefit for political activity, lol.

Fox Business News cocaine enthusiast Larry Kudlow on Thursday told viewers “don’t hang your hat on tomorrow’s jobs report. President Trump’s economy is doing better than you think,” as if this wasn’t the whole point of firing the chief of the BLS and replacing her with that Nazi incel.

Epstein survivor Marijke Chartouni on Thursday was boarding a flight from DC to Chicago when she texted Substacker Tara Palmeri to tell MAGA Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet “I am not George Santos” Hageman was on the same flight. “A politician I recognize just gave me a long look,” wrote Chartouni to Palmeri, adding that she was going to approach Hageman to ask her to vote yes on the bill to compel the release of all the files on convicted felon President Trump’s dead friend.

“This was Chartouni’s moment to make history. To make her plea in person. Maybe Hageman missed their rally on the lawn. Maybe she needed to see that Epstein’s victims are real human beings – not a ‘Democratic hoax,’ as Trump called them,” Palmeri, an advocate for the survivors, writes.

“I did it. She said yes. I got all teary,” Chartouni texted. “When I called her, she was still crying. She believed she had convinced a Republican — one of the many under pressure from Trump’s team, who warned members that voting for Massie’s bill would be seen as ‘a very hostile act to the administration’ – to do the right thing,” Palmeri writes… And you already know what happened next.

“Hageman asked her name, where she lived, reassured her it was okay to be upset, and then crucially told her she had ‘voted for the bill.’ But she didn’t say which one.” And yeah this is EXACTLY why Jesus Dork set up that non-binding resolution affirming support for the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the Epstein files. So Republicans can say that they voted yes.

Chartouni had been asking her to support the Massie-Khanna discharge petition to compel the full release, which Hageman does not support. “It was hard to break this to Chartouni. She had just been spun by a politician. That’s something I’m used to as a journalist – but she’s not. And it felt deeply unfair. I suggested she go back and clarify, but she told me: ‘I think she’s hiding,'” Palmeri continued.

“On Aug 29 at 5 pm., Ray Brook Dispatch received a 911 satellite text via Ulster County from a hiker reporting a group of four was lost near Giant Ledge in the Slide Mountain Wilderness. The original caller admitted the group had consumed mushrooms and one of them was experiencing a debilitating high. At 6:45 pm, Forest Rangers Franceschina, Jeffery, and Martin located the group of hikers. Rangers and the Pine Hill Fire Department assisted the subjects to the trailhead where they were evaluated by Shandaken Ambulance. Somewhere along the way, the hikers also lost their car keys. Rangers provided a courtesy ride to the subjects’ rental lodging. The following day, Ranger Martin hiked back up and found a sling bag with the keys under a log in tall ferns,” says a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Forest Rangers press release.

DC Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui ripped into Trump DOJ prosecutors on Thursday after a grand jury returned a no bill against some drunk guy who supposedly threatened convicted felon President Trump, with Fauruqui saying in court “It’s not fair to say they’re losing credibility. We’re past that now. There’s no credibility left,” the AP reports. DC US Attorney Judge Box-o-Wine was not pleased:

Let me tell you about this Judge Faruqui…

This is a judge who by his own words is trying to justify felons illegally carrying firearms in one of the most violent cities in America.

He has repeatedly indicated his allegiance to those who violate the law and carry illegal…

— Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) September 4, 2025

Continued: “He has repeatedly indicated his allegiance to those who violate the law and carry illegal guns, justifying the possession of these guns and constantly pushing for the release of these dangerous criminals back into our communities. In speaking about a defendant possessing an illegal gun in his view if you are a felon just holding an illegal gun ‘I don’t think that makes you a danger’ and ‘They said the worst thing a judge can have is (sic) they release somebody and they go out and they do something terrible. I don’t think that’s the worst thing. I think the worst thing is that I don’t give you a shot.’ This judge took an oath to follow the law, yet he has allowed his politics to consistently cloud his judgment and his requirement to follow the law. America voted for safe communities, law and order, and this judge is the antithesis of that.”

Sur-fucking-prise: ProPublica has determined that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy have all claimed multiple homes as their primary residences on their mortgage applications, thereby making them guilty of the same “crime” member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors Lisa Cook is under investigation for.

The White House responded in a typically butthurt statement, writing “This is just another hit piece from a left-wing dark money group that constantly attempts to smear President Trump’s incredible Cabinet members. Unlike Lisa ‘Corrupt’ Cook who blatantly and intentionally committed mortgage fraud, Secretary DeRemer, Secretary Duffy, and Administrator Zeldin own multiple residences, and they have followed the law and they are fully compliant with all ethical obligations.”

“On August 21, 2025, the district court issued a preliminary injunction barring Florida and the United States from engaging in any additional construction at the detention facility known as ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and ordering the site closed and dismantled within sixty days. The State and Federal Defendants have filed motions to stay that injunction pending appeal. After careful consideration, we GRANT the Defendants’ motions, and we STAY the preliminary injunction and the underlying case itself pending appeal,” writes the Eleventh Circuit staying the closure of the Everglades gulag.

BREAKING: DOJ Deputy Chief Admits Government Will “Redact Every Republican” While “Leav[ing] All the Liberal, Democratic People” on the Epstein Client List; Says Ghislaine Maxwell Was Moved to a Lower-Security Prison As “A Benefit… to Keep Her Mouth Shut”

“She [Maxwell] got… pic.twitter.com/QzSEdxnBqR

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) September 4, 2025

In response to this video the DOJ posted an email from the mark telling his superiors how he was duped by the honeypot scheme: “I met a woman named Skylar on Hinge, a dating app, in July 2025, her profile is no longer findable. We had two dates (August 4 and August 16). She claimed to be an au pair in Georgetown. She gave no clues that she was a reporter or recording our dates. Had I a clue, the first date would have ended immediately and there never would have been a second one.”

“My profile indicated I did ‘Government’ work but did not specify for which agency. I never discussed what I do at DOJ. The comments I made were my own personal comments on what I’ve learned in the media and not from anything I’ve done at or learned via work. I have no knowledge of the circumstances surrounding Ms. Maxwell other than what is reported in the news. I also never divulged anything about what I do at work. I recall that she asked if I had any knowledge about Maxwell and I specifically said I only know what’s been reported in the media,” wrote Joe Schmitt.

House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer on Thursday continued to try to undermine Dems’ funding platform ActBlue by subpoenaing three executives from the organization, the New York Post reports.

The Trump Regime on Thursday quietly floated a trial balloon to Newsmax to print in an “exclusive” that the MAGA Justice Department is “reviewing possible steps to restrict firearms access for individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria,” the last words simultaneously fancier and crueler term for transgender people. Newsmax then quotes an official as saying Democrats have long pressed for “common sense” gun control and adding “this seems pretty common sense to me.”

In all likelihood this is just aspirational fapping/feeding content to a loyal state media outlet than it is any serious discussion of banning trans people and trans people only from owning guns. The MAGA propaganda industrial complex loves it when some vaguely transgender asshole blasts kids in a school because it feeds this exact kind of fucking “content” AND serves as diversion from the problem of the guns themselves. Then there’s the practicality of “diagnosing” the disorder, as in does the ATF go door-to-door inspecting gun owners’ genitals to determine their gender?

But the biggest reason why this is most likely just performative circlejerking is what the policy – if it isn’t struck down by the Supreme Court – opens the door to the next time a Dem is in the White House: If “gender dysphoria” is a reason to abrogate a gun owner’s right to bear arms then pretty much anything is – like the kind of shit right wing gun owners are prone to post online.

“Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Kasai Province where 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including four health workers, have been reported as of 4 September 2025. The outbreak has affected Bulape and Mweka health zones in Kasai Province where health officials have been carrying out investigations after the cases and the deaths reported presented with symptoms including fever, vomiting, diarrhea and hemorrhage. Samples tested on 3 September at the country’s National Institute of Biomedical Research in the capital Kinshasa confirmed the cause of the outbreak as Ebola Zaire caused by Ebola virus disease,” says the World Health Organization in a bulletin.

“A national Rapid Response Team joined by World Health Organization (WHO) experts in epidemiology, infection prevention and control, laboratory and case management has been deployed to Kasai Province to rapidly strengthen disease surveillance, treatment and infection prevention and control in health facilities. Provincial risk communication experts have also been deployed to reach communities and help them understand how to protect themselves. Additionally, WHO is delivering two tonnes of supplies including personal protective equipment, mobile laboratory equipment and medical supplies. The area is difficult to reach, taking at least one day of driving from Tshikapa (the provincial capital of Kasai), with few air links,” the WHO bulletin continued.