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Trump: I’m not allowed to testify. I’m under a gag order pic.twitter.com/4qeH81ERWo

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 2, 2024

Chickenshit criminal defendant Donald Trump on Thursday either laid the groundwork for or just outright backed out of testifying in his defense at his trial, using the gag order as an excuse even though it does not actually preclude him from testifying in any way, shape, or form.

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs on Thursday signed into law a repeal of Arizona’s draconian 1864 abortion ban just weeks after the state Supreme Court ruled it remained in effect.

Bankrupt (in multiple ways) former Trump attorney and not coincidentally co-conspirator Rudy Giuliani spent more than $120,000 for personal expenses in January despite pledging to a bankruptcy court to limit his spending to “just” $43,000 per month, the New York Times reports.

In a plan given to the court in January as he sits on more than $150 million in debt, Giuliani provided an outline of his spending including $5,000 in alimony payments to his last ex-wife and $13,000 for nursing home expenses for his mother, who later died in March.  Giuliani did not budget anything for entertainment, subscriptions, or club memberships.

Giuliani’s reality, however, was different, and it’s pissing off the multitude of creditors he has.  After first submitting incomplete records as part of required court documentation, Giuliani then filed accounts for January showing more than 60 Amazon transactions, multiple car service rides, various entertainment subscriptions, and more than two dozen American Express transactions.  Curiously, one of the expenses Giuliani lists is paying off a business associate’s debt; what assets Giuliani used to pay that person’s debt is unclear.

“Contrary to the FAKE NEWS MEDIA, I don’t fall asleep during the Crooked DA’s Witch Hunt, especially not today. I simply close my beautiful blue eyes, sometimes, listen intensely, and take it ALL in!!!” posted fat former President Trump during a Thursday break in his trial/naptime.

In related news, before getting back to hearing testimony, the tired old man’s lawyers asked Judge Juan Merchan if a stack of printed opinion pieces by Jonathan Turley and the other MAGA assclowns were okay for Trump to share on Truth Social, the implication being that the pieces probably contain criticisms of witnesses like Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen, bitching about the jury pool, and more conspiracy bullshit about former DOJ official-turned-Manhattan prosecutor Matthew Colangelo. Per Just Security’s Adam Klasfeld, Merchan simply said he’s not going to give rulings in advance and “When in doubt, steer clear” of posting any of that bullshit.

Cuck pic.twitter.com/TdvcQPu9WV

— Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) May 2, 2024

Here’s a non-comprehensive list of various Republican “establishment” figures that have appeared on the very Nazi-ish streamer Stew Peters’ show: Mark Meadows, Congressmen Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, and Pete Sessions, Kari Lake, Charlie Kirk, Kash Patel, George Santos, and Robert F Kennedy Jr… even if he’s technically not a Republican… But you know, “Libs are the real antisemites!”

GB News anchor Narinder Kaur on Thursday filed a police report against British far right dickbag Laurence Fox after he tweeted a paparazzi’s old pic of Kaur sitting in the back seat of a car not wearing any underwear, apparently a criminal offense now that the UK has outlawed upskirting and that very photo in particular was ordered removed from the internet, The Mirror reports.

Fox is a former actor who just about an hour ago tweeted “I can’t wait to see the Marxists blood boil when we have him back. The best president since Reagan and the finest living stand up in one perfect marmalade coloured hero” about fat Donald, just so you know what kind of guy he is.

Fat former President Trump faces another contempt hearing Thursday morning on four separate gag order violations he committed last week. Then testimony from former Stormy Daniels lawyer Keith Davidson resumes in Donald’s criminal 2016 election interference trial, building towards hotly anticipated bits from former lawyer Michael Cohen and Daniels herself. Not clear which goes first.

An unspecified number of House Republicans, four of them actually quoted, tell Semafor they’re not particularly concerned with Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s vow to use their votes against vacating Jesus Dork House Speaker Mike Johnson as a purity test in still-ongoing primaries and in November.

“Even if it did, I wouldn’t care,” Texas Congressman Jake Ellzey – who already won his primary on Super Tuesday and thus does not have to worry – said in response to a question of whether backing the speaker could cost him the votes of disaffected Catturd followers who hate Johnson. “There is no support for this.” Freedom Caucasians chair Bob Good, a far right asshole who faces a possibly tough primary challenge back home in Virginia (one backed by Greene and at least four other incumbent House Republicans) for the sin of having endorsed Ron DeSantis before switching back to Trump, is at least not outwardly worried about the “distraction,” saying “We have a three-vote margin. We should be focused on reelecting President Trump. This does not help President Trump.”

Former Nikki Haley backer South Carolina Republican Ralph Norman similarly brushed off any potential backlash. “In this business you get some happy, you can get some mad. That what comes with the territory,” said Norman. “Moderate” shitbag Don Bacon said Greene and antisemite Thomas Massie’s Wednesday presser was “just two people being dumb and hurting the whole team.”

A “senior GOP aide” told Semafor that even if “the crazies won’t like” members siding with Johnson, it wouldn’t be a “nail in the coffin” for any of them. And goddamn it, that an anonymous high-level staffer describes the Republican base as “the crazies” should’ve been the lede here because it says so freaking much about the relationship between GOP leadership and the Americans whose votes they rely on to maintain their power. Opportunity cost is such a cruel and unforgiving bitch.

Records show Archives official met with Biden WH counsel the day of indictment against Trump https://t.co/t6tXGK7HJk

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) May 2, 2024

Antisemitic anti-vax candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr this week qualified for the ballot in California and said he’ll accept the nomination of the American Independent Party, a far-right outfit with a history of supporting fringe candidates such as segregationist former Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1968 and racist extremist President Donald Trump in 2016, the Washington Post reports.

The party “had its own rebirth, even before I came along,” Kennedy said in a video posted Monday, adding that the group had recently drafted a new charter and thus now “represents not bigotry and hatred, but rather compassion and unity and idealism and common sense.”

A 78 year-old The Villages, Florida man pleaded no contest Wednesday to a charge of indecent exposure for having been “nude from the waist down masturbating in front of an open kitchen window” on January 4th when he “knocked on the window” to get a passing woman’s attention, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff, and then “began vigorously masturbating while looking at the victim,” Villages-News.com reports. A judge slapped James L Martin of the Village of Sanibel to six months probation and 50 hours of community service.

Negotiators with Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas on Thursday rejected US Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s terms for a ceasefire in the besieged territory, Jewish Insider reports on a reminder that Benjamin Netanyahu’s regime isn’t the only obstacle to peace.

Fulton County co-conspirator John Eastman lost his latest bid to push off the inevitable revocation of his law license in California on Wednesday when a judge ruled against his latest gambit to continue his practice while essentially being unlicensed.  Eastman wanted to retain his license, which was revoked for various ethical breaches concerning his role in Donald Trump’s 2021 coup attempt, while he appealed his law license’s revocation. But the court wasn’t playing games, saying Eastman continues to be a threat to the public:

The court’s decision determined that Eastman made deceptive and misleading claims in legal documents, public forums, and other contexts concerning the 2020 presidential election and the extent of Vice President Michael R. Pence’s authority to override the electoral process. Eastman’s motion fails to demonstrate that he no longer presents a threat to the public. Despite his clients’ desire for Eastman to continue representing them, based on the gravity of Eastman’s transgressions, particularly those involving moral turpitude, and the increased likelihood of future misconduct due to his refusal to acknowledge any wrongdoing, there is insufficient evidence to justify a stay of his involuntary inactive enrollment.

We’ll spare you the fifty-second build-up the King of Victimization Framing and Trump advisor Sean Hannity provided unrepentant dog killer Kristi Noem to help her clean up her political disaster.  And that’s why we know that the real victim of the roadside gravel pit slaughter was Kristi Noem, not Cricket, not the Goat (not named Sylvia).  The Republican is always the victim.

Nearly two months after the primary election was held and four weeks after the race was called a draw, the second-place finisher in the jungle primary for California’s 16th Congressional District has been named:  Democratic state assembly member Evan Low beat fellow Democrat Joe Simitian, a county supervisor, by five votes, 30,261 to 30,256, NBC News reports.

Although the race was poised to be a three-way election in November with the two second-place finishers on the ballot with Sam Liccardo, the Democratic former mayor of San Jose, a former campaign staffer of Liccardo filed paperwork demanding a hand recount to determine a single second-place finisher, as any voter in the district could do.

Both Jonathan Padilla, the voter who requested the recount, and the Liccardo campaign denied they were in contact or coordinated ahead of the announcement of a recount.  It’s unclear how having a single challenger would benefit Liccardo; he would have an easier campaign if his opposition were split between two candidates.  It’s also unclear who paid the cost of the recount.

Following an announcement of a school shooting threat on Wednesday morning at a middle school in Mount Horeb Area School District west of Madison, Wisconsin, police announced that the threat, a student from the district, had been “neutralized” using “deadly force,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul during a press conference said the unnamed suspect did not enter the school and no one in the school was injured, but that “a number” of officers were put on leave following the shooting.  It’s unclear if the suspect, identified as a male and a minor, fired any shots or how many officers were involved in the incident.  Witnesses told reporters that they heard “a number” of shots fired.

Texas Republican Trey Nehls tells everyone what the agenda for the Republican House Conference is, and you won’t be surprised to learn the GOP mission is not to provide competent governance for all Americans.  “Everything that we do in the House of Representatives should be in the best interests in getting Donald Trump reelected–this guy, right here,” cult member Nehls says displaying a necktie feature a miscolored image of Trump’s typically orange face.

The law firm that has represented Donald Trump in various sexual harassment cases including the E. Jean Carroll case that has cost Trump at least $90 million to date, has asked a federal judge to release them from representing Trump and his campaign in a little-followed sexual discrimination case filed by former Mediaite and 2016 campaign staffer A.J. Delgado.

Delgado got pregnant by Trump advisor Jason Miller–the same man who allegedly induced an abortion in a pregnant former lover by slipping her medication in a smoothie without her knowledge–while working on the campaign in 2016.  She claims Miller raped her; Miller denies the rape charge but doesn’t deny fathering the child.  After she became pregnant, Delgado claims the campaign, directed by Stephen Bannon, Sean Spicer, and Reince Priebus, took responsibilities away from her.

Per the Daily Beast, the firm, LaRocca, Hornik, Greenberg, Kittredge, Carlin & McPartland, claimed its relationship with its clients has suffered an “irreparable breakdown” that precludes the firm from acting as counsel.  It did not specify the event, but Donald Trump has repeatedly ignored counsel’s advice, leading to deeper legal troubles.

Researchers saw promising results in tests for a new mRNA-based vaccine to treat an aggressive form of brain cancer, with the treatment helping dogs as well as humans in early trials, IFL Science reports.  The process extracts mRNA from the patient’s tumor and manipulates it to spur that patient’s immune system to attack the cancer cells after it’s reinjected.

The tests have shown promise in human patients as well as dogs in the clinical test, but these aren’t typical animal testing.  Because dogs, like humans, are one of the rare animal species known to develop spontaneous brain tumors, the treatment was tested on ten dogs recently diagnosed with cancer tumors in their brains that were volunteered by their owners.

It was a rare case of animal drug testing benefiting the animal patient as well.  While dogs had a typical 30 to 60 day lifespan after diagnosis of the cancer, dogs treated with the mRNA vaccine lived for a median 139 days. “The demonstration that making an mRNA cancer vaccine in this fashion generates similar and strong responses across mice, pet dogs that have developed cancer spontaneously and human patients with brain cancer is a really important finding, because oftentimes we don’t know how well the preclinical studies in animals are going to translate into similar responses in patients,” said study co-author Dr. Duane Mitchell.

Enjoy the LIVE feed of these adorable little aquatic mustelids frolicking around and eating mollusks on their bellies in their habitat in the Monterrey Bay Aquarium in California.