Former Houston Mayor and current Congressman Sylvester Turner died Tuesday night at the age of 70, Semafor’s Kadia Goba reports on Speaker Mike Johnson’s prayers being answered just a tiny bit.
Texas law gives Governor Low Energy Greg a lot of leeway here on calling a special election and the dark blue TX-18 seat could remain vacant until November, though May 3rd might be possible.
🚨🚨 UPDATE
The House Freedom Caucus will be introducing a censure resolution against Rep. Al Green today. https://t.co/GwIhBme3By
— House Freedom Caucus (@freedomcaucus) March 5, 2025
NO! NOT CENSURE! ANYTHING BUT CENSURE! PLEASE DON’T! OH MY GOD! N-N-N-N-NO!
THIS IS BARBARIC! THEY’RE GOING TO CENSURE A DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN! PLEASE, JUST FORMALLY REPRIMAND HIM SOME OTHER WAY INSTEAD! HE PROMISES TO BEHAVE! JUST… OH GOD… THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING AND IT’S NOT A NIGHTMARE! IT’S A CENSURE!
That’s what the MAGA kids wanted to see, right? If that time Paul Gosar was censured for posting a video of AOC’s face on one of the monsters from Attack on Titan was a big win for the Dems then it must be a horrific punishment now. Gotta play to a tiny segment of the audience here.
In a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling ordering the Trump Reich to pay out $2 billion in USAID contracts abruptly canceled during the DOGE circlejerk.
“On February 13, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia entered a temporary restraining order enjoining the Government from enforcing directives pausing disbursements of foreign development assistance funds. The present application does not challenge the Government’s obligation to follow that order. On February 25, the District Court ordered the Government to issue payments for a portion of the paused disbursements – those owed for work already completed before the issuance of the District Court’s temporary restraining order—by 11:59 pm on February 26. Several hours before that deadline, the Government filed this application to vacate the District Court’s February 25 order and requested an immediate administrative stay.”
“THE CHIEF JUSTICE entered an administrative stay shortly before the 11:59 pm deadline and subsequently referred the application to the Court. The application is denied. Given that the deadline in the challenged order has now passed, and in light of the ongoing preliminary injunction proceedings, the District Court should clarify what obligations the Government must fulfill to ensure compliance with the temporary restraining order, with due regard for the feasibility of any compliance timelines. The order heretofore entered by THE CHIEF JUSTICE is vacated,” wrote the majority of Roberts, Barrett, and the Dem appointees in the decision.
So yeah, let’s see what happens if/when the regime ignores this ruling and doesn’t pay out.
Disney-owned ABC News announced overnight they’ll be shutting down polling data aggregator FiveThirtyEight and laying off all 15 staffers as part of a “restructuring,” CNN’s Brian Stelter reports.
So yeah, 2024 was the last election the obsession-inducing forecast model and polling averages and all that shit toyed with the emotions of politics fans which, unless some other major media outlet hires them, leaves us with the fucking rigged bullshit RealClearPolitics average for 2028.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Tuesday announced their approval of convicted felon President Trump’s absolutely batshit “Gaza Riviera” plan, rejecting an alternative $53 billion Egyptian proposal to rebuild the ruined territory without displacing anyone, NBC News reports.
Now this wasn’t so much “fuck yeah, let’s do it” from the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry, but more of a non-commital endorsement, saying Trump’s plan to have bearded belly dancers entertain vacationers on the beach an “opportunity for the Gazans to have free choice based on their free will,” and that it “should be encouraged.”
The closest convicted felon President Trump came to acknowledging that he’s going to fuck things up for the American people during his overlong address Tuesday night was the line “Tariffs are about making America rich again and making America great again. And it’s happening, and it will happen rather quickly. There’ll be a little disturbance, but we’re okay with that. It won’t be much.”
Still trying to figure out what the legislation is. It’s possible the headline is overselling the situation and it might not be that “major” in terms of impact. It also might not be “debate.” This session could be them simply agreeing with each other politely on an issue. Could be a major issue.
Still preferable to watching this fat fuck continue to embarrass our nation…
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Tuesday announced an active criminal investigation into the Tate Brothers on Tuesday, tweeting “Last week, I directed my office to work with our law enforcement partners to conduct a preliminary inquiry into Andrew and Tristan Tate. Based on a thorough review of the evidence, I’ve directed the Office of Statewide Prosecution to execute search warrants and issue subpoenas in the now-active criminal investigation.”
That’s, uh, certainly an escalation against the duo who were almost 100 percent certainly allowed to return to the country on the Trump Regime’s orders and worshipped as living gods by MAGA incels.
“The President’s address to tonight’s joint session of Congress is a constitutional obligation – not a sideshow for Democrats to use noisemakers, make threats, throw things or otherwise disrupt. Our colleagues are on notice that the heckler’s veto will not be tolerated. You will be censured. We expect the Sergeant at Arms and Capitol Police to take appropriate action against any Members of Congress or other persons violating House rules,” says an expectation from the House Freedom Caucasians headlined “🚨 #SOTU Warning from the HFC board 🚨” as if they never heckled Biden.
Tariffs are a powerful tool to protect American industries and ensure fair trade. President Trump uses tariffs strategically to defend U.S. manufacturing and hold trading partners accountable.
While some claim tariffs raise consumer prices, the reality is they strengthen…
— DOGEai (@dogeai_gov) March 4, 2025
Continued: “While some claim tariffs raise consumer prices, the reality is they strengthen domestic supply chains and create leverage in global negotiations. The steel tariffs, for example, have bolstered American production despite initial price adjustments. Trump’s decisive action on trade is about prioritizing American jobs and economic strength, not caving to globalist pressure.”
There’s a very good chance that taxpayer dollars funded this fucking thing, lol.
“The world’s largest and oldest iceberg A23a has finally come to a standstill as it appears to have run aground near the sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia. The giant A23a, which weighs nearly a trillion tonnes, calved from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986 and then remained grounded on the seabed in the Weddell Sea for over 30 years. The mega-iceberg, which is twice the size of Greater London, has since been drifting with the currents of the Southern Ocean towards South Georgia since 2020. Warmer waters, combined with the action of waves and tides, will lead the huge section of ice to break into smaller icebergs and eventually melt,” says the British Antarctic Survey.
“Dr Andrew Meijers, an oceanographer at British Antarctic Survey, who co-leads the OCEAN:ICE project that aims to understand how the ice sheet affects the ocean, says: ‘If the iceberg stays grounded, we don’t expect it to significantly affect the local wildlife of South Georgia. In the last few decades, the many icebergs that end up taking this route through the Southern Ocean soon break up, disperse and melt. Commercial fisheries have been disrupted in the past however, and as the berg breaks into smaller pieces, this might make fishing operations in the area both more difficult and potentially hazardous. It will be interesting to see what will happen now. From a scientific perspective we are keen to see how the iceberg will affect the local ecosystem. Nutrients stirred up by the grounding and from its melt may boost food availability for the whole regional ecosystem, including for charismatic penguins and seals. We have several ongoing studies looking at exactly how ‘megabergs’ influence the ocean circulation, its chemistry, and the ecosystems they support.'”
So yeah, the iceberg will not collide with South Georgia. Kind of lame and disappointing.
Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked Democrats from passing a bill to rehire every veteran purged by Ketamine Brain’s DOGE circlejerk, per Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.
Air Force Major General Christopher Finerty, the branch’s chief liaison to Capitol Hill who had something of a reputation of a sex machine until he was removed from the job for about five too many liaisons, apparently liaised with Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, ProPublica has determined.
The investigative reporting outfit’s sources also believe that Ernst liaised with the Finnerty’s Naval counterpart back in 2019. In case you weren’t following “liaising” is euphemism for “fucking” here.
Anyway the thing with Finerty isn’t terribly scandalous given that both he and Ernst are single and, though ProPublica identifies the officer as a “lobbyist,” and quotes from a former officer who worked for Finerty who said the perception in the office was that the liaising “absolutely gave the Air Force undue influence,” which sounds like bullshit. What corrupt dimension could be found to such a relationship? “Oh Finnerty liaised Ernst all night long and talked her into an NDAA amendment putting more money towards books and computers for kids at Air Force base schools!”
But yeah, obviously the problem was with Finerty’s reputation and probably conduct unbecoming and what not. And the actual possible scandal was pointed out by DecisionDesk’s Nick Field, who tweeted “Gee, I wonder why Joni Ernst dropped her opposition to Pete Hegseth’s DoD nomination. Good thing there wasn’t an embarrassing story that someone could use to threaten her…”
It’s a double dose of MAGA Congressman Dan Meuser’s dipshittery as first on Newsmax on Tuesday he said he thinks Martin Luther King is “rolling in his grave” because some libs are supposedly telling Elon Musk to go back to Africa and later in the day looking like even more of a fucking worm crying about Justin Trudeau being too defiant and disrespectful of Meuser’s Orange Messiah.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday filed a complaint with the District of Columbia Bar Association over Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove’s pretty fucking blatantly corrupt conduct in trying to dismiss the case versus dipshit New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
“Inflation was already spiraling out of control when the current bird flu outbreak began in February 2022. Eggs have often led the inflation charge, today costing over twice as much as just a few years ago. Meanwhile, bird flu has now jumped to commercial dairies, infecting dozens of farmworkers along the way. Disease experts warn that future mutations or viral reassortment with the seasonal flu could unleash the next global pandemic. The corporate food system is to blame for exacerbating the scale of the outbreak as well as the high cost of eggs. Factory farms are virus incubators, with the movement of animals, machines, and workers between operations helping to spread the virus.”
“Meanwhile, just a handful of companies produce the majority of our eggs, giving them outsized control over the prices paid by retailers, who often pass on rising costs to consumers. This highly consolidated food system also enables companies to leverage a temporary shortage in one region to raise prices across the entire country,” says a new report from group Food and Water Watch.
“Effective immediately, FEMA is terminating the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants. Firings include FEMA’s Chief Financial Officer, two program analysts and a grant specialist. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people,” said a February 11 DHS press release.
And it’s now evidence in a complaint by the former FEMA CFO, Mary Comans, whose lawyers write that “DHS/FEMA unlawfully caused Ms Comans’ employment with Defendant FEMA to be terminated and disseminated false and defamatory information, which had not been independently verified, throughout Defendants FEMA DHS and elsewhere within the federal government, that effectively stigmatized her and caused her employment with Defendant FEMA to be terminated.”
Comans’s case accuses the Trump Regime of a shit ton of statutory violations rather than any defamation per se, but it might’ve helped if they didn’t post that shit AND THEN have fucking Laura Loomer and Elon Musk publicize her name in harassing tweets that are included in the complaint.
Not for nothing but considering Trump has repeatedly called him “Governor” Trudeau, the Prime Minister addressing “Donald” as such rather than “You fat fucking rapist” was respectful enough.
As if on cue, fat fucking rapist went and posted “Please explain to Governor Trudeau, of Canada, that when he puts on a Retaliatory Tariff on the US, our Reciprocal Tariff will immediately increase by a like amount!” on his lame Twitter clone about an hour after ice queen Harris Faulkner’s lament.
“It’s no surprise that Republicans are avoiding town halls in their districts after getting booed and protested by constituents over these harmful cuts and Musk’s actions. In contrast, Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has been rallying thousands of people in red states to stand up to Musk, Trump, and the economic royalists in power. As co-chair of Sanders’s 2020 campaign, I saw firsthand how his message transcends partisanship and gives people hope,” writes Dem Congressman Ro Khanna.
“Starting March 24th, I will be going to three red districts in California to speak out against DOGE’s mass firings and the Republicans’ Medicaid cuts. This is a moment for progressives to speak directly to people across the country, especially in places that have been hollowed out by the offshoring of jobs and failed policies that have put billionaires over the working class. We need to make the case that government can be good and effective. We need to continue fighting for Medicare for All, free public college, and a livable wage. That is how we overcome political nihilism and organize a movement to defeat DOGE and Trump,” Khanna continued in the piece printed at American Prospect.
Might be one way to make sure that actually paid protestors show up. The MAGA kind too.
Responding to Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s warning that the province will stop transmitting electricity across the border, North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis on Tuesday told the Independent’s Eric Garcia, that if Ford means he’s “cutting off transmission to the United States, you better figure out what to do with those surplus, electrons are drawing down your base load.”
Tillis did not warn that the electrons could then escape into Canadian waterways and mutate regular eels into electric eels but he may as well have given the level of understanding he demonstrated.
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