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Municipal officials in the ancient Italian port city of Venice began charging selfie-stick holders a €5 admission fee on Thursday, finally profiting directly from the sunglasses-wearing, Instagramming invaders for trampling the town’s rich cultural heritage, Sky News reports.

Non selfie-stick-holders are being charged as well. “We need to find a new balance between the tourists and residents,” said the city’s top tourism official, Simone Venturini, adding “We need to safeguard the spaces of the residents, of course, and we need to discourage the arrival of day-trippers on some particular days.” Sky News’s article describes the selfie-stick people as “angry” over being charged a nominal fee to Instagram themselves in and around important sites.

Still silent regarding being named an unindicted co-conspirator in another election fraud case, Donald Trump can’t help but insult those whom he feels are subjugated to the powers endowed to him in his position as the presumed Republican nominee for president.  In this case, King Donald takes his wrath out on Bill Barr, who recently turned tail and said he would “support the Republican ticket,” without actually endorsing Trump.

“Wow! Former A.G. Bill Barr, who let a lot of great people down by not investigating Voter Fraud in our Country, has just Endorsed me for President despite the fact that I called him ‘Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy’ (New York Post!). Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word ‘Lethargic’ from my statement,” The Don rambled before ending with, “Thank you Bill. MAGA2024!”

We can imagine someone propping their phone up to record the historic scene of eleven Arizonans signing fake Electoral College ballots, believing they’re capturing the moment the righteous fight of the wronged Donald Trump was won.  As it turns out, it’s evidence in the conspiracy case brought against them by the State of Arizona Wednesday.

Scandal!  Sex!  Politics!  Money!  It sounds like a story David Pecker would’ve loved to cover while publisher of the National Enquirer–assuming, of course, he wasn’t helping to quash the scandal.  Pecker’s up on the stand again starting Thursday morning, and it’s possible that prosecutors’ questioning will wrap up.  

On top of all that, Trump may face sanctions from the bench for his social media posts mentioning witnesses in the case, a no-no for his gag order.  But before Pecker rises tomorrow, let’s review what we’ve learned so far in the first partial day of testimony.

• Pecker and Michael Cohen worked directly with Trump to create a system to “catch and kill” stories detrimental to Trump.  They discussed it in a conversation in a room together; Cohen can provide corroborating testimony.
• The National Enquirer had never pursued a “catch and kill” relationship with a potential story subject on behalf of a celebrity before Trump.  
  Read More ▶ “A recap before Day 2 of Pecker exposés on stand”

Fox “News” is scrambling.  Their political god is likely to get bench slapped tomorrow by a New York judge and the Arizona Republican Party was disassembled after eighteen people got indicted for trying to overturn the 2020 election, so what does host Jesse Watters present to his viewers:  he has a tic in his eye.

“If anyone has any home remedies… pollens, ointments, tricks–standing upside down and drinking water to get rid of hiccups, that kinda stuff.  Washing your hair to get out peanut butter, that kinda stuff.  Old wives tales.  Text me.”  (Would “ice pick” be gauche?)

A Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris’s protection detail was removed and taken to a hospital after exhibiting “disturbing behavior” at Joint Base Andrews prior to the Vice President departing for a trip to Wisconsin, CBS News reports.

The agent in question reportedly started to speak incoherently, said gibberish and became aggressive with a supervising Special Agent suddenly around 9 a.m. ET on Wednesday morning.  The individual was restrained and handcuffed then removed from the scene while medical teams were called.

Secret Service officials say the agent did not exhibit signs of drug use or intoxication, and was being held at the hospital for testing and observation.  Officials say the individual will be taken off protection details until the incident is thoroughly investigated.

Per the Arizona indictment, there are five unindicted co-conspirators who are not facing charges (as of now) for their roles in the effort to overturn the 2020 Arizona presidential election outcome which has led to the indictment of 18 others.

• “Unindicted Coconspirator 1. A former president of the United States who spread false claims of election fraud following the 2020 election.  [Obviously Donald Trump.]
• “Unindicted Coconspirator 2. A former member of the Arizona Legislature who spread false claims of election fraud following the 2020 election. Unindicted Conspirator 2 helped organize and distribute a false document on December 14, 2020, titled, ‘Joint Resolution of the 54th Legislature.’  [Editor’s note:  22 then-members and eight members-elect at the time signed that resolution.]
• “Unindicted Conspirator 3. A former member of the Arizona Legislature who spread false claims of election fraud following the 2020 election. Unindicted Coconspirator 3 helped organize a ‘hearing’ at a hotel in Phoenix on November 30, 2020, that both [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] attended. Unindicted Conspirator 3 additionally signed the false December 14, 2020, ‘Joint Resolution of the 54th Legislature.’

The Arizona Attorney General’s office on Wednesday dropped an indictment against all 11 Republicans who served as fake electors for fat former President Trump after the 2020 election.

The indictment is for at least 99 counts–nine counts against each of the named individuals–as well as seven other people who are listed on the indictment but whose names have been redacted.  The charges include single felony counts of Conspiracy; Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices; and Fraudulent Schemes and Practices; as well as six counts of Forgery.

Apparently unaware that publicly traded securities have an entire independent regulatory body to investigate Securities & Exchanges, Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes decided to literally call for a federal investigation into the short sellers of his company’s explosively overpriced stock.

Noting that four trading houses have taken significant negative positions in the DJT stock–which is massively overvalued with a current market cap of $4.9 billion on annual revenues of $4 million and a net operating loss of $50 million–Nunes asserts that it must be a conspiracy to undervalue the stock, not free market capitalists banking on the company’s inevitable failure.

“Overall, we assess there are strong indications of unlawful manipulation of DJT stock,” Nunes wrote in a letter sent to GOP chums Jim Jordan, Jamie Comer, Jason Smith and Keebler elf Patrick McHenry, the respective chairs of the House Judiciary, Oversight, Ways & Means, and Financial Services Committees.  “As such, I respectfully request that you open an investigation of anomalous trading of DJT to determine its extent and purpose, and whether any laws including RICO statutes and tax evasion laws were violated, so that the perpetrators of any illegal activity can be held to account.”

The Trump campaign and its affiliated PACs apparently made an unreported $8 million payment for legal fees to a single vendor, funneling the expenditure through a common accounting company, the Daily Beast reports.  The amount would also be more fees than paid to Trump lawyers like Alina Habba and John Lauro over that time.

For more than a year, the Trump campaign and its linked groups have sent more than $8 million to Red Curve Solutions, a firm that does the political accounting for the organizations.  The payments were categorized as “reimbursements” for legal expenses but Red Curve Solutions had never provided legal advice to the groups before. It could indicate that Red Curve Solutions is pre-paying legal fees for its clients and getting repaid, but that may be a violation of campaign finance laws.

While Republicans continue to resurrect the Steele dossier being paid by Hillary Clinton’s law firm, it appears their own Party leader and his cabal are hiding an exceptional amount of legal fees that may or may not be associated with one of the various legal tribulations currently besetting their leader .

Looking at from a very, very far distance, you can kind of see why the House GOP would want to visit to Columbia University on Wednesday: It’s politically charged chaos fueled by far left elements and it jibes easily with their Zionist bullshit, thus theoretically beneficial to them, especially if Fox News is covering it… Except neither they nor Fox seem to have any idea how to make it actually help move the ball down the field for Red versus Blue. We don’t pretend to have any idea either, though we can say that showing up at Columbia and getting booed is not helping.

The plan was solid. Perfect, even. Jacob Henson, 31, an inmate at Washington State Prison, who was being treated for a stab wound at the nearby Washington County Regional Medical Center knew what he was doing when he found just the right moment to steal a can of pepper spray off the belt of a Georgia Department of Corrections officer and blast him in the face with it. Hell, the stab wound might’ve even been staged just so Henson could get the guard right where he wanted them.

And Henson pulled it off without a hitch. He sprayed that bastard good and incapacitated him.

However, his other plan, “Spray the second GDC officer present,” did not go so smoothly. You could say it hit a few speed bumps. Or, more accurately, a few bullets from that guard’s service weapon hit Henson, per a Georgia Bureau of Investigation press release. Henson may have also had some other plans like “Steal civilian clothes and controlled substances from closet,” “Find keys to ambulance,” and “Drive away from hospital with live hostages,” that might’ve came to fruition if he had been successful with his second pepper spray attack. You also can’t really say “Better luck next time, jailbird” because Henson was pronounced dead at the scene after the unplanned bulleting.

Three Republican members of the Arizona state House on Wednesday joined all Democrats in voting to pass a repeal of the state’s 1864 abortion ban, ABC15’s Garrett Archer reports.

We’re not saying that the Republican Party creates conspiracies out of whole cloth based on nothing but greed, grievance and a need to get camera time, but when pop music participant and co-chair of the Republican National Committee Lara Trump breathlessly explains to a conservative news ham hock that the RNC is already suing for election irregularities in 31 states that don’t exist, it’s reasonable to conclude the Republicans are just making shit up again:  “Instead of these poll workers, we’re gonna have lawyers in all the major polling locations across the country.  We have lawsuits in 81 states right now.”  Editor’s note:  there are only 50 states in the United States of America.

A new Quinnipiac University national survey of registered voters finds President Biden and fat former President Trump tied at 46 percent in a head-to-head and also tied at 37 percent when the full field of Russian assets Robert F Kennedy Jr, Jill Stein, and Cornel West are included.

What’s awesome though is that, among the not small number of respondents who answered either Joe or Donald in the first question and then switched to Bobby Jr in the second question, 47 percent came from Trump and 32 percent from Biden, making this the second national poll showing the raspy-voiced weirdo is more of a liability than an asset to the Orange Tyrant. Also good was Biden holding up leads among independents by 2 percent in the head-to-head and 4 percent full field.

Donald Payne Jr., a six-term Democratic Congressman representing New Jersey’s 10th District, died of a heart attack that was likely a complication of his diabetes, Politico reports.  Payne took office at the end of the 2012 session, taking the seat of his father, Donald Payne, who died of colon cancer.  The 65-year-old Payne is survived by his wife Beatrice and their three adult triplets Donald III, Jack and Yvonne.  His district is a solid blue seat, and it will be up to the local Democratic Committee to determine who will take Payne’s spot on the ballot for the November election.

“TGP Communications, the parent company of The Gateway Pundit, recently made the decision to seek protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of Florida as a result of the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outlet.”

“This is not an admission of fault or culpability. This is a common tool for reorganization and to consolidate litigation when attacks are coming from all sides. It allows TGP to consolidate this lawfare in one court for ultimate resolution. Despite the radical left’s efforts to silence The Gateway Pundit through censorship, de-platforming, de-banking, cut-off from advertisers, and other financial strategies, we will not be deterred from our mission of remaining fearless and being one of the most trusted independent media outlets in America today. We do not expect that to change,” writes Jim Hoft, the fake news conspiracy theorist who founded that shitty fake news site.

Prosecutors with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office named disgraced former President Trump, his fucking scumbag former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and incompetent alcoholic shitbrain lawyer Rudy Giuliani as unindicted co-conspirators in the case against the 15 Republicans who tried to jam in 16 fake electoral college votes (one has since flipped) and steal the Great Lakes State for the Orange God Emperor following his defeat in the 2020 election, ABC News reports.

Slovakia’s new right wing populist government is making some changes in the way your average Slovak gets his or her news and entertainment, starting with trashing public broadcaster Radio and Television of Slovakia (RTVS) with Slovak Television and Radio (STVR), the BBC reports.

“We’re returning the adjective ‘Slovak’ to the name, which is a declaration of the unequivocal national and state-forming nature of our public broadcaster,” said ultra-nationalist Slovak National Party Culture Minister Martina Simkovicova in announcing the change. Simkovicova, a former journalist who looks kind of like Kayleigh McEnany, said there was too much “political activism” in RTVS’s coverage and that reporters weren’t objective enough. Also – shocker – her most recent gig was on a streaming channel known for pro-Russian narratives and disinfo about the COVID-19 vax.