Diplomatic leaders in Norway, Ireland, and Spain on Wednesday announced they would recognize and independent Palestinian state formally on May 28th, the AP reports on a historic shift underway.
“There cannot be peace in the Middle East if there is no recognition,” said Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in a statement, adding “Norway supports the Arab peace plan [and regards] Palestine as an independent state with all the rights and obligations that entails.”
The final day of testimony ended with the final defense witness Robert Costello offering nothing exciting, enlightening or even memorable to denigrate Michael Cohen’s testimony–and may have harmed Donald Trump’s defense in the process. Later, lawyers did lawyering, arguing about what will go into the jury instructions.
Conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer and future NFL Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers told reporters he chose to return to his job as a quarterback with the New York Jets instead of becoming Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s running mate, according to the Washington Post.
“I love Bobby,” Rodgers said during a team off-season training event at the team facility in New Jersey. “We had a couple of really nice conversations, but there were really two options: it was retire and be his VP, or keep playing, and I want to keep playing.”
Rodgers reportedly was on a “short list” that included former professional wrestler/Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura; former Democratic Congresswoman from Hawaii and perpetual Fox network auditioner Tulsi Gabbard; and annoying motivational speaker Tony Robbins. Kennedy eventually chose tech lawyer Nicole Shanahan.
A man who literally looks up to Ron DeSantis–He’s short. Really, really short–Corey Lewandowski has apparently been brought back into the fold at the Trump-led Republican National Committee despite a long record of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior, Politico reports.
An RNC filing shows Lewandowski’s firm getting $20,000 in April, which a spokesperson for the Trump campaign said was for consulting on the “delegate and convention process,” something you would think wouldn’t be an issue given the presumptive nominee hit the threshold months ago.
In 2021, Kristi Noem’s rumored side thang was fired from Trump’s Super PAC after a donor, Trashelle Odom, filed a police complaint alleging Lewandowski improperly groped her. In a plea deal, prosecutors agreed to drop the charges against Lewandowski once he completed impulse control counseling, community service and paid a fine.
The first American-made arms and munitions authorized by Congress’s $61 billion aid bill passed last month began arriving at Ukrainian units this week, Reuters reports, giving the forces fighting invading Russians more options at their disposal. Units manning howitzers received crates of shells, refilling stockpiles and alleviating pressure on dwindling supplies.
“We were positioned in the Bakhmut area before, now we have been transferred here. It’s much ‘hotter’ here. We didn’t have shells there. Here, at least we have shells, they started delivering them. We have something to work with, to fight,” a gunner named Pavlo said, noting that GOP stubbornness to support Trump’s anti-Ukraine policy benefitted the Kremlin.
It didn’t seem like it would ever get here, and thanks to the usual bureaucratic delays, when it did, we didn’t even notice, but April 2nd was the first day that the state of California did not record a single death due to the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
The state recorded its first Covid death on March 18th, 2020, and in every one of the ensuing 1,476 days; on January 12th, 2021, the state recorded its peak of 712 coronavirus deaths. But as the days passed, no death certificate showing Covid as the cause of death were dated April 2nd. More than 107,000 Californians have died from the virus.
In an unprecedented proposal, the Republican-dominated Louisiana legislature passed a bill that would reclassify medication used to induce abortion as “dangerous controlled substances” like opioids and other highly-addictive drugs, the Washington Post reports. Louisiana already bans all forms of abortions except if the life of the mother is in danger or if the pregnancy is not viable, and this bill would now outlaw even possessing mifepristone and misoprostol.
The addendum was attached to a popular bill, S.B. 276, that could be called the Jason Miller bill: it outlaws giving someone an abortion medication without their knowledge or permission. A Republican in the state legislature inserted the language into the Senate bill, raising alarms among the medical community around Louisiana.
Doctors around the state signed a letter opposing the measure, saying many of the drugs covered by the provision are also useful in other medical applications, including inducing labor. The doctors argue, “Given [Louisiana’s] historically poor maternal health outcomes, Louisiana should prioritize safe and evidence-base care for pregnant women.”
Voting machine manufacturing company Smartmatic claims C-list conservative propaganda network Newsmax destroyed evidence sought in its defamation lawsuit against the network that would demonstrate Newsmax executives and hosts knew the misinformation they were broadcasting in the wake of the 2020 election was false, NBC News reports.
In the filing, Smartmatic says Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy intentionally deleted texts relating to Trump lawyer Sidney Powell. The plaintiff says they received copies of texts from other witnesses who saved the texts Ruddy deleted, leading Smartmatic to believe additional communications were deleted.
Smartmatic lawyers alleged Newsmax engaged in a “cover-up,” saying the network deleted emails, texts and other communications after the network had been notified of the lawsuit. The case is being heard in US District Court for Delaware, the same jurisdiction that heard the Dominion Voting System case against Fox that resulted in a $787.5 million settlement.
Fat former President Trump fundraised off of the “DEADLY FORCE AUTHORIZED” line in the FBI’s search warrant affidavit for Mar-a-Lago being unsealed on Tuesday, and that even though this is standard language and they purposely went there in August when the place was deserted and knew full well that he was not present and none of that shit matters because facts are for libtards…
Anyway, in a Tuesday email shaking down his fans, Trump’s lackeys wrote “BREAKING FROM TRUMP: BIDEN’S DOJ WAS AUTHORIZED TO SHOOT ME! It’s just been revealed that Biden’s DOJ was authorized to use DEADLY FORCE for their DESPICABLE raid in Mar-a-Lago. You know they’re just itching to do the unthinkable… Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger. He thinks he can frighten me, intimidate me, and KNOCK ME DOWN! But worst of all? They think their THUG TACTICS will cause proud supporters like YOU to abandon me.”
The subject line says “They were authorized to shoot me! I nearly escaped death. Biden’s DOJ was locked & loaded for deadly force at Mar-a-Lago…” Emphasis ours on the “nearly” because if only Trump had nearly escaped death from an FBI agent’s submachine gun. Fucking dumbasses.
The fat fuck himself posted “WOW! I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the ‘Icebox,’ and was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE. NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE – 25TH AMENDMENT!” Too bad Trump didn’t threaten any violence in return.
The street cordoned off by the NYPD, Senator Bob “Gold Bars” Menendez was briefly stuck in the Manhattan federal courthouse waiting for fat former President Trump’s motorcade to depart from the adjacent state criminal courthouse on Tuesday, InnerCityPress’s Matt Russell Lee reports.
Per a brief livestream narrated by Lee, the corrupt Dem Senator held back inside the Southern District of New York’s federal courthouse while cops put up barricades preventing other vehicles from stopping in front of the building. Lee spotted Menendez’s legal team exiting the premises and suggested that Menendez himself probably did not want to step out and have to wait on the sidewalk while a dozen or so hardcore Trump fans cheered the fat fuck’s Secret Service convoy.
Donald Trump posted an ad echoing the language of Nazi Germany.
He only cares about holding on to power.
I care about you. pic.twitter.com/XSmGKaQhJ1
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 21, 2024
“On the afternoon of Sunday, May 19, Teton Interagency Dispatch received a report of a 35-year-old male visitor from Massachusetts who was seriously injured by a bear in the area of the Signal Mountain Summit Road. Grand Teton National Park rangers and Teton County Search and Rescue personnel responded to the scene to provide emergency medical care and air lifted the patient via helicopter to an awaiting ambulance where he was transported to St John’s Hospital.”
“The patient is in stable condition and is expected to fully recover. Based on initial reports from the injured visitor and preliminary information conducted as part of an ongoing investigation of the site, law enforcement rangers and park biologists believe the incident was a surprise encounter with two grizzly bears, with one of the bears contacting and injuring the visitor. The Signal Mountain Summit Road and Signal Mountain Trail are currently closed to all public entry,” says a National Park Service press release inadvertently putting a spotlight on the second bear’s sedentary sloth and lack of predatory instinct. They had him right where they wanted him and one of the bears simply fucks off and watches him get away without helping to tear the Masshole apart. What a lazy shitbag.
The cases have been rested, the witnesses done being needled on the stand, now all that remains is the extremely crucial matter of the jury instructions (or charging conference) in the People of the State of New York v Former President Pornstar fucker in his felony trial. This is big as convictions live or die on appeal over proper instructions on how juries can deliberate the charges.
Trump’s press secretary claims Trump’s ad calling for a “UNIFIED REICH” was posted by a random unknown “staffer.”
Here is Trump saying that only he and his top right-hand man, Dan Scavino, have access to post on his social media accounts pic.twitter.com/AtU6UnzFBm
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 21, 2024
Alcoholic shitbrain former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to nine felony counts over their post-2020 election coup attempt, the Associated Press reports.
Rudy was arraigned remotely and his trial will begin in October. Former Arizona GOP chair “Chemtrails” Kelli Ward and 11 of her accomplices appeared in person to enter their not guilty pleas.
A newly unsealed filing in fat former President Trump’s stalled espionage act violation reveals the orange slob still had classified documents at Mar-a-Lago even after the FBI’s 2022 raid.
“Santa” spotted outside of the courthouse in Manhattan in Tuesday morning.
Asked Tuesday morning by a local Pittsburgh TV station whether he supports “any restrictions on a person’s right to contraception,” fat former President Trump said “We’re looking at that, and I’m going to have a policy on that very shortly and I think it’s something that you’ll find interesting.”
Trump also said he’ll be releasing a “very comprehensive policy” on contraceptives “within a week or so,” adding “Things really do have a lot to do with the states and some states are going to have different policies than others,” whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean. At least he’s promising a quicker response this time, saying “within a week or so” instead of two weeks.
But it’s true, according to Newsweek, who report that former top Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson has signed with state-owned outlet Russia 24 on a joint project with “Carlson TV.”
Disgraced former President Trump’s criminal trial for paying off a pornstar to stay quiet about two minutes of horrible sex winds down Tuesday as his defense is expected to rest after further abuse of his only fact witness, shitty MAGA lawyer Robert Costello, during cross-exam. It is 99.99999 percent certain the fat fuck won’t testify in his defense. Shame he doesn’t have the balls to do it.
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