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Some Fox News writer must’ve felt satisfied enough with the line “Now you might remember she suspended her campaign last month after ballots had been printed” as a means of soothing the anxieties of Trump-loving viewers who might feel a little uneasy over Republican primary voters in a crucial swing state knowingly voting for someone other than their Orange God Emperor. Also helps that the MAGA media industrial complex have pretty much already written off these Haley voters so strongly implying that they’re too fucking stupid to know their candidate of choice had already dropped out isn’t going to do any real damage to the Trump base’s morale. Good job Fox News writer.

“After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — for the first time in five months — check the health and status of the most distant human-made object in existence. For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again. The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between stars). Voyager 1 stopped sending readable science and engineering data back to Earth on Nov 14, 2023, even though mission controllers could tell the spacecraft was still receiving their commands and otherwise operating normally. In March, the Voyager engineering team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed that the issue was tied to one of the spacecraft’s three onboard computers, called the flight data subsystem (FDS). The FDS is responsible for packaging the science and engineering data before it’s sent to Earth,” says NASA in a press release announcing that their nearly five-decade old probe is not quite dead yet.

An anonymous Republican Congressman tells CNN that House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer is “hoping Jesus comes so he can get out,” and “He is fed up,” not just with his failed impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden but apparently his job altogether, as the incompetent fraud of an investigator has his eyes on the governor’s mansion in Frankfort for when incumbent Dem Governor Andy Beshear is term-limited out from running again in 2027. Comer had lost to dipshit former Governor Matt Bevin in the 2015 Republican gubernatorial primary by like 80-something votes.

Anyway, the CNN story is about the bigger picture of the failure to find a pretext for evening the score for fat former President Trump’s two impeachments, hastily announced in a panic move by loser former Speaker Kevin McCarthy as he saw his support ebb in the conference and now he literally isn’t even a Congressman anymore. Even though we and all of our readers know that it’s still pretty freaking mind-boggling to write a sentence like that. They really do fucking suck that badly.

“I don’t even want to talk to you,” Comer said to CNN when asked if his colleagues had complained to him personally about just how badly he had fucked this whole thing up. “If you don’t think they were influence-peddling, there’s nothing to say. My God.” Oversight member and batshit sorceress Anna Paulina Luna admitted that Hunter Biden and his lawyer skated circles around them. “I feel like this was slow-rolled, and it’s been very frustrating for me as a new member because I feel like there’s way more that we could have done, and it just hasn’t been done in a timely fashion.”

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki “Birdbrain” Haley took 155,829 votes – or 16.5 percent – in the 2024 Republican primary at 95+ percent reporting in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. This was a closed primary in which early voting began more than a month after she dropped out, and still she was able to pull a not-insignificant piece of the Keystone State’s registered GOP electorate.

How did “quasi-incumbent” fat former President Trump do versus his turnout when he was the actual incumbent four years ago? Fucking awful. He’s down 25.3 percent, from 1,053,616 votes in 2020 to 786,485 this year. Joe Biden also took more votes this year overall than Trump, at 920,000.

“The Biden-Harris Administration today announced that the US Department of Transportation has issued a final rule that requires airlines to promptly provide passengers with automatic cash refunds when owed. The new rule makes it easy for passengers to obtain refunds when airlines cancel or significantly change their flights, significantly delay their checked bags, or fail to provide the extra services they purchased. ‘Passengers deserve to get their money back when an airline owes them – without headaches or haggling,’ said US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. ‘Our new rule sets a new standard to require airlines to promptly provide cash refunds to their passengers.'”

“The final rule creates certainty for consumers by defining the specific circumstances in which airlines must provide refunds. Prior to this rule, airlines were permitted to set their own standards for what kind of flight changes warranted a refund. As a result, refund policies differed from airline to airline, which made it difficult for passengers to know or assert their refund rights. DOT also received complaints of some airlines revising and applying less consumer-friendly refund policies during spikes in flight cancellations and changes,” says a statement from the US Department of Transportation announcing more torment and suffering for greedy cocksucker airline executives.

“We have a Rigged Judge, who is working for the Democrat Party and refuses to terminate this ‘case,’ which should have never been brought by Soft on Crime Alvin Bragg. Judge Merchan should immediately removed, and the Appellate Courts have to take over. That also applies to Corrupt Judge Engoron, who knew I did nothing wrong, and still fraudulently fined me $500 Million Dollars while having no knowledge of Valuation, Finance, or in any way what he was doing. Same with Judge Kaplan, who allowed a woman, who I have never met (celebrity photo line does not count!), and know nothing about, to get a lawless judgment of $90 Million Dollars. New York Justice is in shambles, and only the Appellate Courts can save it. A Republican doesn’t stand a chance – This is not Justice…” posted fat former President Trump early Wednesday, continued “This New York Cabal, run by Crooked Joe Biden’s White House, is a hit job on a Political Opponent the likes of which the USA has never seen before. For the Good of our Country, it must be stopped. The Crooked Joe Biden Witch Hunts have to be ended. REPUBLICANS IN WASHINGTON MUST TAKE ACTION!”

With close to 90% of the vote in for both Parties, Pennsylvania’s primaries ended the way people expected:  incumbent Joe Biden will take about 93% of the Democratic vote, and Donald Trump will win the GOP side, according to the tally from the New York Times.  Trump’s share of the Republican vote is just 84%, with one in six GOP voters–in a closed primary–casting ballots for long-gone candidate Nikki Haley.

The numbers are consistent with what’s happened in other primaries on both sides:  Biden dominates and Trump struggles through in the mid-80s.  And that should trouble the Trump camp.  Nikki Haley has officially out of the race for nearly fifty sleeps–more if you’re Mr. Trump–and the resistance to him within the Party is steady in primaries.

Let’s start in reality:  Donald Trump lost the 2020 election in Pennsylvania.  Trump lost; that’s the truth. While he had heavy turnout of faithful Republicans, it was not enough to overcome the Democratic machine being built in the state that would turn the state house blue and supply a Democratic gubernatorial win in 2022. 

With a 3-2 vote along Party lines, the Federal Trade Commission banned the enforcement of non-compete agreements for rank-and-file employees of private businesses, a rule that will provide millions of workers greater flexibility and power to determine their wages, CBS News reports.

While the law for senior executives will remain in place, all other non-competes will be voided in 120 days when the rule takes effect.  The right-wing US Chamber of Commerce said it would immediately appeal “this unnecessary and unlawful rule and put other agencies on notice that such overreach will not go unchecked,” adding that giving workers greater mobility would “undermine American businesses’ ability to remain competitive.”

For most salaried and hourly employees who are not represented by a union, their ability to quit their job and find another–or to open their own shop–is their only power to negotiate new wages or work conditions.  As the FTC heard through tens of thousands of public comments, non-competes limit and sometimes eliminate opportunities for workers to improve their conditions.

By a 79-18 vote, the Senate passed a bill providing $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan as part of a package that also set a one-year deadline for Chinese government interests to sell the social media platform TikTok or face a ban in the US, the Associated Press reports.

The bill won support of some conservatives after around $10 billion in aid for Ukraine was converted to a form of a loan.  Including the TikTok ban in a companion bill allowed some more conservatives to save face and support a bill they previously vowed to block.  Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio–a senior Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee–voted against the bill, which will now go to the Oval Office for President Biden’s signature.

The Republicans running the Tennesee legislature pushed through both chambers a bill that allows teachers and school staff to carry loaded concealed firearms on school grounds while students are there as protestors chanted “Blood is on your hands,” USA Today reports.

Critics of the bill say that the required training specified in the legislation is inadequate to ensure the safety of students and others at the school.  Opponents also note that the law does not require parents to be notified if a teacher is strapped during class, even when their child is in that teacher’s classroom.  Teachers who want to carry guns will have to complete a safety class, as well as get the approval of the school superintendent, the school principal and the head of local law enforcement.

Speaking out for the first time about some of the claims Donald Trump has made regarding the role of federal law enforcement, FBI Director Christopher Wray, who was appointed to the job by Trump in 2017, told NBC News he would not allow any investigations that does not follow “our rules, our procedures, our best practices, our core values.”

In charge of the agency that searched Trump’s Earth-bound Purgatory in Palm Beach, Florida, Wray was never a favorite of Trump’s but Wray became another target of Trump’s ire after the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.  He rejected much of Trump’s characterizations of FBI activities relating to the investigation of January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress.

“I see the defendants in the January 6th cases as criminal defendants who are being charged with federal crimes, and are in front of independent courts as part of our legal system,” Wray said. “In our country, there are all sorts of people who are upset and angry about all sorts of things, about all sorts of people. But there is a right way under the First Amendment to express how upset you are. And violence, violence against law enforcement, destruction of federal property, is not it.”

If we were a conservative, we’d be offended at how stupid Jesse Watters is.  The Tucker Carlson replacement can’t seem to raise his intellectual level above that of a fifth grader, and his complaints about his perceived injustice toward Donald Trump dumbs-down his objects to below “Idiot” on the scale.  While he tries to claim the gag order on Trump is absolute, Watters finally states an absolute truth in Fox world:  “People will say anything for a paycheck.”  Yes, we know:  we learned that in the Fox $787.5 million defamation settlement.

A new rule introduced by the Department of Labor extends overtime pay coverage to four million additional salaried workers, a move that is expected to transfer $1.5 billion from employers to employees who worked extra hours without compensation, CNN reports.

The rule extends overtime work regulations to salaried workers who make $43,888 annually, or around $840 per week, on July 1st, 2024, and increases the minimum salary range covered to $58,656 annually, or around $1,130 per week.  The current level is $35,568 a year, or $684 per week.

After recent FEC filings showed he raised exactly zero dollars in the last quarter, expelled New York conman and Carnival dancer George Santos has ended his attempt to reenter Congress as a representative for New York’s 1st Congressional District, CNN reports.

“Although [his Republican opponent] and I don’t have the same voting record and I remain critical of his abysmal record, I don’t want to split the ticket and be responsible for handing the house to Dems,” Santos posted online without noting that he’s facing nearly two dozen felony counts including for defrauding donors in his last campaign.  Running as an independent, Santos overestimated his impact in the race adding, “Staying in this race all but guarantees a victory for the Dems in the race.”

Quality control checks of consumer products by the Food and Drug Administration found traces of the bird flu virus in milk supplies going to grocery stores, but the agency says the milk supply remains safe, the Washington Post reports.  Bird flu had previously been found in 26 dairy herds in eight states, so the presence of genetic material in milk is not unusual.  The problem, officials say, is that evidence of the virus is being found in more samples at more points of the production cycle, indicating the virus is far more widespread than currently reported.  Officials, however, say the homogenization process used for dairy milk renders the flu inactive.

Trump attorney and SuperPAC spokesliar Alina Habba seems to be taking a page from her mentor Rudy Giuliani’s playbook, using her social media account (not on the Trump Media platform) to promote her own Cameo-esque on-demand videos. Not known for her legal acumen, Habba exhibits that she’s not paid for her kitchen skills, either.  And maybe she’s putting out softcore kitchen fetish vids on Twitter as a soft market intro for a future OnlyFans page for her legal commentary.

“Thousands of people were turned away from the Courthouse in Lower Manhattan by steel stanchions and police, literally blocks from the tiny side door from where I enter and leave. It is an armed camp to keep people away. Maggot Hagerman of The Failing New York Times, falsely reported that I was disappointed with the crowds. No, I’m disappointed with Maggot, and her lack of writing skill, and that some of these many police aren’t being sent to Columbia and NYU to keep the schools open and the students safe. The Legal Scholars call the case a Scam that should never have been brought. I call it Election Interference and a personal hit job by a conflicted and corrupt Judge who shouldn’t be allowed to preside over this Political Hoax. New York Justice is being reduced to ashes, and the World is breathlessly watching. Hopefully, Appellate Courts can save it, and all of the companies that are fleeing to other jurisdictions. They can no longer take a chance on New York Justice!” posted fat former President Trump on Truth Social on Tuesday, seething over just one MAGA protestor showing up for him in the park across the street as of 9:30 EDT that morning.

No need to source others’ reporting here to demonstrate that Trump is full of shit on the claim of an “armed camp” when we have our own: There’s no screening required to get in the park. As of last week, the layout of the demonstration pens is exactly the same as it was a year ago when the fat bastard was first arraigned. Now MAYBE if “thousands” of fanboys tried to show up they would be turned away given the space constraints. But since that never happened this is the first you’re hearing about it, in a social media post by a demented and angry old man who makes shit up.

The actual governor of the Bizzaro state of Anozira, the Republican nominee for the Arizona Senate seat Kari Lake hasn’t decided on what her public position on abortion access in the state should be, telling an Idaho newspaper on Saturday that Arizona’s Democrat governor should implement the 1864 ban on abortion, NBC News reports.

“The Arizona Supreme Court said this is the law of Arizona. But unfortunately, the people running our state have said we’re not going to enforce it,” Lake told the Idaho Dispatch on Saturday prior to speaking at an Idaho county GOP event.  This contradicts Lake’s April 11th social media video post in which she said, “This total ban on abortion that the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled on is out of line with where the people of this state are.”

And that April 11th post contradicted a July 2022 statement in which Lake expressed support for reinstating the 1864 law, and demanded prison sentences of two- to four years for anyone who performed an abortion, though in October 2023, she declared she was against a national abortion ban.  Tune in again tomorrow for the vacillations of the Vaseline-smeared lens queen.

“He bragged at how proud he was to get rid of Roe v. Wade, he took credit for it,” President Joe Biden says of his presumptive GOP opponent for the November election, adjudicated rapist and perpetual denizen of the defendant’s table Donald Trump.  “He said there has to be punishment for women exercising their reproductive freedom.  His words, not mine.  He described the Dobbs decision as a miracle.  Maybe it’s coming from that bible he’s trying to sell.  Whoa.  I almost want to buy one just to see what the hell’s in it.”