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“Americans who elect to visit any Krispy Kreme® shop throughout the United States on March 5 – Super TWOsday – can receive two free Original Glazed® doughnuts, no purchase necessary. ‘While encouraging everyone to vote, our primary role on Super TWOsday will be to sweeten your day,’ said Dave Skena, Global Chief Brand Officer for Krispy Kreme. Krispy Kreme’s Super TWOsday offer is available nationwide, not just in states conducting primary elections – in-shop and via drive-thru.”

“Show how you’re celebrating ‘Doughmocracy’ and Super TWOsday with Krispy Kreme by using #KrispyKreme and tagging @krispykreme on social media,” says a Krispy Kreme statement with no mention of whether only US citizens or registered voters are eligible to participate in Doughmocracy.

House Republicans are working hard on a set of resolutions symbolically affirming support for protecting American families’ rights to use in-vitro fertilization, NBC News reports.

It’s a bold step forward for the party whose leaders previously only voiced support for IVF in public statements to reporters and in tweets, demonstrating the urgency with which they intend to symbolically address a potentially major political vulnerability. “As someone who struggled with infertility and personally witnessed the miracle of IVF, I strongly believe that IVF should remain protected and accessible,” said Republican California Congresswoman Michelle Steele who last week introduced a non-binding resolution expressing that strongly-held belief. Symbolically.

Her likely Dem opponent Derek Tran questioned Steel’s sincerity. “Just three weeks ago, she signed on to the Life at Conception bill. This is the second time she’s done that. And now she’s saying that she’s pro-IVF when the Life at Conception bill is anything but. So she still is just spilling out lies in order to get voters,” said Tran, referring to Steel’s vote for a non-symbolic bill that would effectively outlaw IVF kind of like how the Alabama state Supreme Court did last month.

A different symbolic resolution supporting access to IVF is supported by swing-district Republicans like Don Bacon, Jen Kiggans, and Nick LaLota. It’s not clear which one is symbolically stronger.

Rolling Stone is nothing but a liberal rag used as a propaganda tool for the far left zealots. They never get tired of lying! They just published another garbage hit piece directed at the Trump administration and based on “anonymous” sources. Pathetic!! Stop lying and name your…

— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) March 4, 2024

Former Trump White House physician turned MAGA Congressman Ronny Jackson seems like he’s experiencing some of the side effects of the prescription amphetamines he’s been eating and handing out like candy all these years. Maybe he should go see a real doctor to get a checkup.

The six fake Trump electors in Nevada will not be facing trial until January 13th, 2025, per a scheduling order issued Monday by Clark County Judge Mary Kay Holthus, the AP reports.

Holthus pushed back the trial for state GOP chair Michael McDonald, national party committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid, Clark County party chair Jesse Law, Storey County clerk Jim Hindle, national and Douglas County committeeman Shawn Meehan, and Lake Tahoe-area GOP member Eileen Rice due to scheduling issues and a hearing to determine whether the charges will stick.

“A civilian employee of the US Air Force assigned to the US Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), at Offutt Air Force Base, was arrested Saturday, March 2, for allegedly conspiring to transmit and transmitting classified information relating to the national defense (National Defense Information or NDI) on a foreign online dating platform beginning in or around February 2022 until in or around April 2022. According to the indictment, David Franklin Slater, 63, of Nebraska, worked in a classified space at USSTRATCOM and held a Top Secret security clearance from in or around August 2021 until in or around April 2022, after retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel from the US Army. It is alleged that Slater willfully, improperly, and unlawfully transmitted NDI classified as ‘SECRET,’ which he had reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, on a foreign online dating platform to a person not authorized to receive such information.”

“According to the charging documents, Slater attended USSTRATCOM briefings regarding Russia’s war against Ukraine that were classified up to TOP SECRET//SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (TS//SCI). Slater then transmitted classified NDI that he learned from those briefings via the foreign online dating website’s messaging platform to his co-conspirator, who claimed to be a female living in Ukraine on the foreign dating website. The co-conspirator regularly asked Slater to provide her with sensitive, non-public, closely held and classified NDI and called Slater in their messages her ‘secret informant love’ and her ‘secret agent.’ In response to these requests, Slater indeed provided classified NDI to her, including regarding military targets and Russian military capabilities relating to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” – Justice Department press release.

President Biden “has told friends he thinks Trump is wobbly, both intellectually and emotionally, and will explode if Biden mercilessly gigs and goads him – ‘go haywire in public,’ as one adviser put it,” Axios reports in a super-insider-y “scoop” about Joe’s intent to make things personal with the fat orange bastard at the eight month mark before an apocalyptic election day.

A Florida conservative radio talk show host who admitted to using AI-created images of Donald Trump surrounded by gleeful Black people to artificially project the Temperamental Tangelo’s popularity among minorities lost his syndication deal days before an article outlining his actions was published by the BBC.

Mark Kaye, a host from Jacksonville who show was distributed through Cox Media Group, was unapologetic for posting the photos online without noting they weren’t real.  “I’m not claiming it is accurate. I’m not saying, ‘Hey, look, Donald Trump was at this party with all of these African American voters. Look how much they love him!'” he said.  “If anybody’s voting one way or another because of one photo they see on a Facebook page, that’s a problem with that person, not with the post itself.”

Published Monday, the BBC story on MAGAts utilizing disinformation produced by artificial intelligence to sway voters focuses on photo-like graphics created online to sway voters. But on Friday, Cox announced they were dropping Kaye, who now lists his unspecified outlets as the “Kayetriot Network.”  Although the two events are not overtly connected–the network didn’t give a cause for Kaye’s dismissal–it’s difficult to imagine people at the network not catching wind of Kaye’s antics.

Max Headroom reject Matt Ga- Ga- Ga-Ga-Gaaaaeetz Gaetz, the Republican Florida Congressman who pals around with corrupt elected officials who sex trafficked teenagers on the side, and who himself is currently under investigation by the Ethics Committee for shit, is indignant that anyone–particularly Hunter Biden–should mock him for asking questions relating to his drug use.

After saying one of his House GOP colleagues was asking about Hunter’s struggles with addiction, Gaetz plays innocent and claims Hunter became “very pious and suggested that it was rude to ask anyone afflicted with addiction these questions.”  No, Matty.  Hunter said specifically to you, “Mr. Gaetz, look me in the eye. You really think that’s appropriate to ask me?”  He found it inappropriate coming from you in particular, after your comments about using drugs, you Venmo-prostitute-paying privileged son of a Florida politician.

Perhaps he’ll consider building a casino there:  Donald Trump won the North Dakota caucus, taking nearly 85% of the–let’s see, now–“less than the number of students at a large high school” number of people who voted, the New York Times reports.  The 29 delegates will inch Trump closer to the official nomination for the GOP.

Remember way back in 2016, when Republicans believed that a presidential candidate who incidentally possessed classified information without authorization should be excluded from office? And they weren’t even nuclear secrets?  Ah, those were the days when all that would happen to such an offender, according to Republicans, would be instant imprisonment: “Lock [them] up!” they chanted.

One of the key FBI officials involved in overseeing the case, former FBI Deputy Director Mark F. Giuliano, 62, dropped dead of a heart attack at his home in Decatur, Georgia over the weekend, adding another name to Infamous(ly Idiotic) Clinton Body Count.  According to the Washington Post, Giuliano reported progress on the hard drive investigation to James Comey, leading to Comey’s actually infamous July 2016 press conference.  “Ooohhh,” you conspiracists out there think.  “Only 62.  He was rubbed out.”

No, doofus, a lot of 62-year-olds have heart attacks, and some of them die.  It happens.  And yes, it happens that a lot of 50-year-olds die in car accidents, too.  But few are like the late sister-in-law of lame-duck Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Foremost Group CEO Angela Chao, whose February 11th “car accident” ended up with her dead in the car… at the bottom of a lake on a Texas ranch owned by the corporation connected to her husband.  [Yeah, we smell a Hulu series, too.]  Though the local sheriff maintains that it “appears to be an unfortunate accident,” officers will investigate the death the sister of former Trump Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.  Antonin Scalia died at a private ranch in Texas, too.  Hmmmm….

Giggly schoolmates Alina Habba and Jesse Watters have a joint flashback to 2016 when Donald Trump was named the winner of the presidential election, to suckle some fleeting glee after the Supreme Court didn’t overturn a lower court’s decision that Donald Trump had participated in an insurrection, a case Habba didn’t argue, incidentally.  And she tries to slide in an assertion that Trump won the last election.

“It’s just a crazy reaction to something everybody knew would happen,” network putz Watters asserts.

“Do you know what it reminds me of, Jesse?” the manifestation of the Jersey Devil responds with her veneers shining.  “Do you remember in 2016 and 2020, you had these, these women, they’re memes now of them crying when Donald Trump won, just the outbreak.  I remember waking up at 2 a.m. and watching liberals just shed liberal tears.”  How sad for her that her happiest moments are behind her.  (yawn.)

“We write regarding ongoing prosecutorial misconduct in connection with the prosecution of President Donald J Trump – in violation of the federal and state constitutions and your ethical obligations – concerning DANY’s simultaneous (1) decision to turn a blind eye to the admitted and repeated perjury of your star witness, Michael Cohen; and (2) vindictive and oppressive pressure and plea negotiations leading, today, to a forced-upon guilty plea for 2 counts of perjury by Allen H Weisselberg. This conduct by DANY was obviously part of an effort to impact the outcome of the flawed proceedings in People by James v Trump and/or Mr Weisselberg’s role at trial in People v Trump, although he does not as of now appear on any witness list.”

“DANY’s conscious choice to ignore obvious and admitted criminal conduct by Cohen and to instead deploy unethical, strong-armed tactics against an innocent man in his late 70s underscores the irresponsibility of your conduct in office. Indeed, while you waste public resources in a desperate attempt to impede President Trump’s ongoing ascent to the White House, in violation of applicable prosecutorial guidelines prohibiting such election interference, you regularly and repeatedly allow those guilty of brutal attacks on law enforcement and murderers to roam free.”

“This dereliction of duty renders you fully unfit to serve as District Attorney, and exposes innocent citizens, like Mr Weisselberg, to irreparable and life-altering harm. Today, your office has forced Mr Weisselberg into pleading guilty to nonexistent perjury offenses by threatening him with years in state prison should he not succumb to your demands. As we understand it, your prosecutors presented Mr Weisselberg with an impossible choice: (1) plead guilty to perjury crimes he did not commit in exchange for another relatively short stint in prison, or (2) face arrest and incarceration, as well as the risk that an unsuccessful effort to fight the unwarranted charges will result in yet another draconian sentence by Judge Merchan,” writes Trump lawyer Todd Blanche in a lengthy, tearful letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Florida Republican Governor and guy who’s only tall enough for about half the rides at the amusement park Ron DeSantis has appointed to oversee the upcoming election in Orange County the same appointee he installed to oversee the Disney tourism district, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

Glen Gilzean, the head of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District which DeSantis created to try to screw over the Disney Corporation for standing up for human rights, will take on the position, which pays $205,000 for a job that runs only until all positions on the ballot are filled by valid candidates, typically ending in January.

Gilzean currently makes more than $400,000 as the head of the tourism district; it’s not clear if he will resign from the district or if he will hold both jobs simultaneously.  The former head of the CEO of the Central Florida Urban League, Gilzean has no experience in either property management or election oversight.

With an order from Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court blocked Texas from using state law enforcement to arrest illegal border crossers and impose criminal penalties up to and including deportation, authorities that are Constitutionally assigned to the federal government, NBC News reports.

The Biden Administration sought the injunction, saying Republican Governor Greg Abbott and his band of renegade conservatives have overstepped their authority by trying migrants for illegally crossing the border, a violation of international law, which is not Texas’s jurisdiction.

Alito’s order gives Texas officials until March 11th to respond, and puts a hold on enforcement of SB4 until March 13th, giving the justices on the Court time to decide their next steps, which damn well better not come before the week of April 22nd.

Modern conservatives hate free-market economics.  They claim they’re for it, but look at what they do, not what they say.  They continue to push protectionist trade policies, and they supported Donald Trump’s lost trade war that saw our trade deficit increase a net $70 billion in his first three years in office on top of the tens of billions in subsidies he gave to the steel and ag industries to compensate their shareholders for his disastrous policy.

“A convicted sex offender was fatally stabbed Sunday (March 3) afternoon at a Lacombe-area laundromat after he tried to assault a female at the establishment. At approximately 3:30 pm Sunday, St Tammany Parish Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the business in the 28000 block of US Highway 190 in reference to an unresponsive man with an apparent stab wound.”

“The man, 40-year-old Nicholas Tranchant, was transported to a local hospital, where he later died. While enroute to the call at the laundromat, STPSO deputies were dispatched to a call in reference to a female claiming she had stabbed a man who had attacked her while she was at the laundromat.”

“An investigation into to the incident revealed that Tranchant, a convicted sex offender, had entered the laundromat armed with a sharp weapon and was attempting to sexually assault the female when she fought back. The female was able to gain possession of the weapon, and used it to stab him before fleeing to safety. She also sustained injuries during the altercation and was transported to an area hospital, where she is being treated. Tranchant was convicted in July 2003 for Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. He was convicted again in May 2008 for Attempted Aggravated Rape and Aggravated Burglary. He was released from jail on those charges on December 21, 2023, and required to register as a sex offender,” says a St Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office press release.

“Now he knows how the pickup ticket feels” their crime scene detective may or may not have said before putting his sunglasses on and “AHH-YEAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”

Incompetent asshole House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer and pals are still working on a public hearing with Hunter Biden, despite House Republicans really hoping he doesn’t, NBC News reports.

“I think that at that point, it’ll be a lot of street theater,” said New York Republican Nick Langworthy, who’s actually on the Oversight Committee and sat in the deposition with Hunter.

“Defendants Robert Menendez (‘Menendez’) and Wael Hana have separately moved for (1) a Franks hearing to assess allegedly material misstatements and omissions in certain of the government’s search warrant applications and (2) an order suppressing evidence from additional warrants seeking electronically stored information on the grounds that they are ‘general unconstitutional warrants.’ (ECF Nos 139 (Hana), 157 (Menendez)) For the reasons set forth below, Menendez’s Motion to Suppress Search Warrant Returns is denied and Hana’s Omnibus Pretrial Motion is denied to the extent he seeks a Franks hearing and suppression of evidence,” ruled a New York federal judge on Monday, totally screwing over Gold Bars Bob on his very MAGA-style effort to evade accountability.

It appears that the PDF of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v Anderson issued Monday was tampered with by probably some right wing clerk who didn’t fully cover their tracks, or at least that’s our takeaway from Slate legal expert Mark Joseph Stern’s analysis of the file’s metadata.

Stern writes that “It looks like the liberals’ opinion was originally styled as a partial dissent written by Justice Sotomayor, but got changed to a concurrence in the judgment authored jointly by all three liberals,” which to us sounds an awful lot like certain parties with an interest in portraying the bottom line of the decision as being “9-0” rather than “6-3 in part” went out of their way to fuck with it to polish the political optics of the ruling. Typical petty bullshit from the MAGA weasels.

France on Monday became the first country in history to enshrine a right to reproductive health access in its constitution following a vote by the national senate that was able to overcome some initial resistance from the right wing to reach the three-fifths majority needed, France24 reports.