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“An indictment charging Russian nationals Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, 31, also known as Kostya, and Elena Afanasyeva, 27, also known as Lena, with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and conspiracy to commit money laundering was unsealed today in the Southern District of New York. Kalashnikov and Afanasyeva are at large,” says a DOJ press release.

“According to the court documents, RT, formerly known as Russia Today, is a state-controlled media outlet funded and directed by the Government of Russia. Over at least the past year, RT and its employees, including Kalashnikov and Afanasyeva, deployed nearly $10 million to covertly finance and direct a Tennessee-based online content creation company (US Company-1). In turn, US Company-1 published English-language videos on multiple social media channels, including TikTok, Instagram, X, and YouTube. Since publicly launching in or about November 2023, US Company-1 has posted nearly 2,000 videos that have garnered more than 16 million views on YouTube alone. Many of the videos posted by US Company-1 contain commentary on events and issues in the US, such as immigration, inflation, and other topics related to domestic and foreign policy. While the views expressed in the videos are not uniform, most are directed to the publicly stated goals of the Government of Russia and RT – to amplify domestic divisions in the United States.”

These fucking people, man. All of them. Not just Tim Walz’s relatives, but the entire MAGAverse acting like the rules of spelling don’t apply to them. Forget acting like whoever the hell these Walzes are and how closely they are related to him are somehow more significant than Donald Trump’s own niece and nephew, former running mate, former lawyer, and so on opposing his campaign. And what goddamned t-shirt printer is going to take their money without correcting it.

Brainwormed independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr on Wednesday sued the Wisconsin Election Commission to remove himself from the ballot, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.

“The only way he gets to not be on the ballot is to up and die, which I’m assuming he has no plans on doing. The statute is absolutely clear on this,” WEC chairwoman Ann Jacobs, a Democrat, said last week after denying Bobby’s pleas to strike his name from the ballot. A court in Michigan on Tuesday tossed his lawsuit seeking removal from the ballot in the Great Lakes State.

“The US House Committee on Education and the Workforce (Committee) is engaged in ongoing oversight of the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) and the Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) administration of federal child nutrition programs and Feeding Our Future.”

“As the chief executive and the highest ranking official in the state of Minnesota, you are responsible for the MDE and its administration of FCNPs. Article V Section 3 of the Constitution of the State of Minnesota which lays out the powers and duties of the governor, states in part that the governor ‘may require the opinion in writing of the principal officer in each of the executive departments upon any subject relating to his duties,’ and ‘he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.’ Copies of our letters to the MDE were sent to you for your awareness of our oversight of the USDA’s and the MDE’s administration of the FCNP and oversight of FOF. You are well aware of the multi-million-dollar fraud that has occurred under your tenure as Governor” and blah blah blah, writes evil old hag MAGA Congresswoman Virginia Foxx to Minnesota Gov Tim Walz in a subpoena.

Fun fact: Foxx is from North Carolina where GOP gubernatorial candidate and current Lt Gov Mark Robinson did not oversee a state food aid program scammed by a non-profit he and his wife actually ran a scam non-profit that paid them at least $830,000 in salaries over the last decade. The operation served meals to “child care providers,” so it’s not totally clear if that’d be in Foxx’s bailiwick or not. But it doesn’t matter because she wouldn’t subpoena him either way.

Fox host: Kamala Harris’ new plan for a $50,000 tax credit for small businesses coupled with less red tape, I've got to say that is a good idea

RNC Chair: Well, that may be a good idea… pic.twitter.com/0OLP0T9Ocv

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 4, 2024

The Biden Administration on Wednesday will publicly condemn the ongoing Russian election interference efforts to return convicted felon former President Trump the White House, identifying the actors and networks involved, and announcing a federal criminal investigation into Russian assets, CNN reports on shit suddenly getting realer than Team MAGA would like it to.

Maybe it’d be too much to expect, but it would be especially awesome if they would call out specific propaganda ops to help Jill Stein and Cornel West split votes off from Kamala Harris.

“I am proud to represent our Failing Nation in fighting the GREATEST POLITICAL WITCH HUNT IN HISTORY. REMOVE THE GAG ORDER SO THAT I CAN SHOW HOW CORRUPT OUR COURT SYSTEM IS. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ARE NOT TO BE GAGGED!” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Wednesday morning. It’s not even clear which gag order he’s referring to. Our guess is it’s Manhattan and he thinks that telling his fans that Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter works for a firm connected to Kamala Harris’s campaign is going to be a total game-changer, but it could also be the DC gag order imposed by Judge Tanya Chutkan – which we’re pretty sure he violated last week.

Whatever. Any time he’s upset and raging like this is a good time, especially with his campaign still spinning its wheels. On that note, top Trump Campaign Reichsminister Chris LaCivita on Tuesday dropped another memo on their website, promising a breakthrough is coming soon, hopefully.

Like literally he used the words “hope” and “breaks through” in it. “Most recently, the media is running cover for Kamala as she shamefully attacks Gold Star Families who invited President Trump to a wreath-laying in honor of their children… Despite the bias, if the election were held today, Donald Trump would be reelected,” and blah blah blah “President Trump and his growing team of American patriots remain focused and will spend the next nine weeks traveling the country bringing hope and the promise of endless opportunity to an America in decline. We hope it’s only a matter of time before the public – through the Trump Campaign, millions of citizen journalists, and alternate media – breaks through and hears the real Kamala Harris record. The American people deserve no less,” LaCivita wrote, emphasis ours on the hopium words. Great way to rally the MAGA troops.

MSNBC's Kornacki says Trump trailing Harris but in better shape than previous two elections https://t.co/AXIZn5E2gG

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 4, 2024

In audio of a July 31st meeting obtained by ProPublica, a leader of a far right group tasked with lobbying against efforts to impose an ethics code on Supreme Court justices read aloud an email Karen extremist Ginni Thomas thanked the group for pushing back against Democrats moving to impose accountability for her and her husband Clarence’s willful whoring to MAGA billionaires.

“YOU GUYS HAVE FILLED THE SAILS OF MANY JUDGES. CAN I JUST TELL YOU, THANK YOU SO, SO, SO MUCH,” Ginni wrote to Kelly Shackleford, director of the First Liberty Institute, a $25 million-a-year operation that bills itself as “the largest legal organization in the nation dedicated exclusively to defending religious liberty for all Americans,” for which also defending the liberty of jurists to engage in naked corruption is a means to that end. After reading the email out loud, Shackelford told donors he saw Thomas’ support as evidence that judges, who “can’t go out into the political sphere and fight,” were thankful for First Liberty’s work to block reforms. “It’s neat that, you know, those of you on the call are a part of protecting the future of our court, and they really appreciate it,” he said.

Shackelford then attacked Justice Elena Kagan as “treasonous” and “disloyal” for her recent public endorsement of an enforcement mechanism for the court’s newly adopted ethics code. appearance, decrying that such an ethics code would “destroy the independence of the judiciary.”

In a column headlined “The GOP is Actually Better Off if Kamala Harris Wins,” Politico’s Jonathan Martin on Wednesday writes that he’s been speaking to Republicans in Congress on background and found that “the most fervent private debate I came across in the party was how best to accelerate Trump’s exit to the 19th Hole. One high-level Republican, conceding it may only be ‘wishful thinking,’ even floated the idea of a Harris victory followed by Biden pardons of both his son, Hunter, and Trump. That would take the issue of both cases off Harris’ plate and, more to the point, drain the energy behind Trump’s persecution complex so that Republicans can get on with the business of winning elections.” Lol at that Trump pardon wishcasting.

Martin points out that they’re not going to shake the fat bastard as long as their voters won’t, and quotes from former GOP strategist Terry Sullivan, who says “You’re assuming Republicans have a top of the ticket problem and not a voter base problem. It’s not like our leaders have been leading the voters to the wilderness against the voters’ judgment,” as if Trump isn’t a leader himself.

In hyping the piece, Wednesday’s Politico Playbook morning edition quotes an anonymous “conservative leader” as saying “There’s a lot of anxiety about what Trump does to Republican ability to win in 2028 – and what he also may do to the party in terms of policy long-term. There is just this concern that like, ‘OK, if the party just goes in that direction, then what kind of party is it going forward? And can conservatives, then, have a home going forward?'”

Obese North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un ordered as many as 30 public officials executed for failing to prevent recent floods from destroying more than 4,000 homes as well as road and rail infrastructure in the communist kingdom’s northwestern regions last month, Fox News reports.

It’s not clear what the officials’ failures were specifically, as in whether they maybe neglected to open up the drainage channels of a dam that ended up bursting or something like that, or if they were simply executed because Kim needed a scapegoat. Probably safer to assume the latter.

A new set of swing state likely voters polls by CNN/SSRS finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 50 to 44 percent in Wisconsin, 48 to 43 percent in Michigan, 48 to 47 percent in both Georgia and Nevada. In Pennsylvania they’re tied at 47 percent each while in Arizona the fat fuck leads Harris 49 to 44 percent, which is probably an outlier.

The smarter half of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Trump and the RNC co-chair who totally got the job based on her extensive resume, former television segment producer Lara Trump wasn’t going to let the Republican National Convention, nationwide Congressional races and a presidential campaign get in the way of hitting the studio for an afternoon to lay down a track, corrected by Autotune®, which follows the theme of her previous song, if horrid is the theme.

In this case, Trump’s market is the burgeoning market of dead firefighters, as the song Hero commemorates the sacrifice of men and women who served as first responders.  Trump wants to corner the royalties from firefighters memorials and low-budget uniform fetish rom-coms.

The Republican-led governments of seven states have filed suit to halt a Biden Administration student loan forgiveness program that could save as much as $20,000 in accrued interest for each of 25 million borrowers, the Washington Post reports.

Introduced in April, the executive rule has yet to go into effect, but the Republicans from seven states–Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina and Ohio led by Missouri Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey–says they have evidence the Administration is illegally planning to implement the loan forgiveness before the rule is issued.  They claim they have communications between the Department of Education and loan servicers directing them to wipe $73 billion in interest payments off the books days before the rule is to be issued.

The last six weeks haven’t been kind to rapist and GOP standard-bearer Donald Trump.  Sure, his polls are tanking after the Democrats violated the Consitution and did the ol’ switcheroo after the Republican Convention and put radical Marxist former prosecutor Kamala Harris in the top slot instead of Sleepy Joe.  But what’s really hurt Don is his stock price tanking.

With three weeks remaining in the lockout before Trump can sell any or all of his personal portfolio of 114.8 million shares of DJT stock, but doing so would certainly tank the stock; when the guy who owns more than three-quarters of the outstanding shares starts dumping stock, lower level sellers are jumping ship.

The Trump Media stock closed at $18.08 on Tuesday, a drop of more than seven percent for the day.  That brings loses for the stock to 55% over the last six weeks.  For Trump, that’s a “paper loss” of $2.6 billion.  And it will get worse when Trump starts selling to raise cash for his existing and future civil judgments.

Only in the Party attempting to say they represent American Working Families:  the billionaires funding the conservative Club for Growth will buy $12 million in ads to help Bizarro World’s Arizona Republican Governor Kari Lake’s financially strapped campaign, Politico reports.

With Friend of Clarence billionaire Harlon Crow as a co-founder, the Club for Growth has already purchased commercials attacking Democratic nominee Ruben Gallego, a former Marine and current Congressman who is leading in the polls.

The group is running two different spots:  one in English, saying Gallego is violating his oath as a Marine to defend the nation by supporting “open borders,” and one in Spanish blaming high gas and food prices on Gallego and Democrats.

Reality show “star” Amy Slaton, one half of the titular duo in TLC’s 1000-Lb Sisters, was hospitalized in Tennessee after being bitten by a camel Monday and then subsequently arrested for possession of psychedelic mushrooms because when cops responded to the petting zoo where she was bitten they walked by her car and smelled weed she had sitting out on the front seat, People.com reports.

Slaton, 36, and her male companion Brian Scott Lovvorn were both arrested and face charges of illegal possession of schedule I, illegal possession of schedule VI and two counts of child endangerment, since her sons Gage Deon, 4, and Glenn Allen, 2, were present, according to a statement from the Crockett County sheriff’s department. It’s not clear if Lovvorn and Slaton are dating because a separate report by InTouch says Slaton had in February announced she was dating a man named Kevin after having divorced Michael Halterman, father of Gage Deon and Glenn Allen.

“Michael and me are sharing custody,” Amy said on a February episode of 1000-Lb Sisters, filmed as she finalized the divorce. “I get the boys 70 percent of the time, Michael gets ’em 30.” Michael, 41, had requested 50/50 custody, which Amy shot down. “I was the chef, I was the cook, I was the nanny, I was everything in that house,” she insisted. “He was the video game player. I raise those kids. I made the bath waters. You don’t know how your fucking son likes his bath water, don’t play with me. There should be no reason why he needs extra days with the kids when he’s not even gonna take care of ’em. It’s not you gonna be having the kids, it’s gonna be [Michael’s] mother.”

A federal judge on Tuesday spiked convicted felon former President Trump’s attempt to move the 2016 election interference case he already lost to the federal court system, finding that there’s nothing in the Supreme Court’s bullshit Trump v US ruling that applies.

“The Justice Department announced today the unsealing of terrorism, murder conspiracy, and sanctions-evasion charges against six senior leaders of Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization. The charges relate to the defendants’ central roles in planning, supporting, and perpetrating the terrorist atrocities that Hamas committed in Israel on Oct 7, 2023 (the October 7 Hamas Massacres), involving the murders and kidnappings of countless innocent civilians, including American citizens, which was the culmination of Hamas’s decades-long campaign of terrorism and violence against Israel and its allies, including American citizens. The defendants are either deceased or remain at large,” says a Justice Department press release.

Fox News cut away from their nepo hire White House reporter Peter Doocy being made to look like a complete asshole by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre after he asked her to comment on Vice President Kamala Harris allegedly switching accents depending on which audience she’s talking to.