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Icelandic officials on Monday said the spectacular explosion of a lava fissure on the Reykjanes peninsula in the island country’s southeast appears to be sparing the evacuated fishing town of Grindavik for now, a Christmas miracle for those kept from their homes, Reuters reports.

Besides reaffirming the finding from the January 6th Committee’s hearings that Donald Trump planned to call for his mob to march on the Capitol (p. 19) and it was spontaneous as he claimed, a new report from the Department of Interior Inspector General concentrating on the actions of National Park Service personnel lays out a few details worth noting.

On January 6th, Park Service personnel were shown text messages by a representative for the group organizing the January 6th rally on the Elipse, Woman for America First, reportedly from a White House representative, saying Trump intended to “unexpected” urge people to march to the Capitol and the Supreme Court, where they would set up a second stage for more speeches.

Around 9 a.m. on January 6th, long before the Capitol attack, Park Police members arrested a protester who had moved a bike rack barrier by the Washington Monument.  Police and Park Rangers were forced to retreat to a security area near the Monument when a crowd started menacing them.  After they secured themselves in the facility,  “people outside banged on the glass with flagpoles, sticks, and fists.”

After being shown a clip of Trump using Nazi imagery during weekend rallies, second-term New York Republican Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis does her sycophantic best to defend Donald Trump’s use of the Nazi’s “blood poisoning” theme, first asserting that Trump wasn’t *really* talking about immigrants–using a GOP version of “some of his best friends are immigrants” (whom he married)–before trying to say Trump wasn’t referring to immigrants; he was referring to Democrats… ’cause that makes it better.  (We added the Trump clip to the end for clarity.)

We’ve covered a lot of these stories, but they never seem to learn:  43-year-old Neal Brij Sidhwaney of Fernandina Beach, Florida pleaded guilty to making an interstate threat to kill for a voicemail message he left for the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court John Roberts in which he helpfully left his name:  “Yeah, hi, my name is Neal Sidhwaney uh, this message is for [Roberts]. … I will fucking kill you. … Go ahead tell the Deputy US Marshals, you pussy.  I will fucking talk to them and then I’ll fucking come kill you anyways, you fucking cunt.”  Despite being stupid enough to leave his name on a death threat, a court-appointed psychiatric exam found him not just competent to stand trial, but “very intelligent.”  For Florida, I guess.

Usurping federal power to establish and enforce immigration laws, Republican Texas Governor and man who seems to hate just about every group he’s not a part of Greg Abbott signed a new state law that gives local and state law enforcement more powers to arrest, detain and deport undocumented migrants in the state, the Associated Press reports.

Claiming without evidence the law would reduce illegal border crossings by “well over 50%, maybe 75%,” Abbott’s law would demand any suspected undocumented individual could submit to a state or local judge’s deportation order–oh, did I fail to mention he’s giving his state and local judges unprecedented powers to deport people, too?–or the individual would be turned over to federal officials, who would charge the individual with a misdemeanor and deport them, which could lead to stiffer sentences if caught illegally in the US again.

This is clearly an effort to get local law enforcement to harass migrants, both documented and undocumented, due to the ambiguous language that allows local cops to arrest anyone they “suspect” of being in the US illegally, whether they have cause to question people for other reasons besides “lookin’ Mexican.”  It’s the most blatant overreach of a state governor on immigration since Arizona’s 2010 “Show Me Your Papers” law.

Hunter Biden, the private citizen son of President Joe Biden whom the Republicans are making the focus of their 2024 campaigns because they have no policies, will face arraignment on tax charges in a California federal court on January 11th, NBC News reports, the same date as the closing argument in Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial.  Hunter Biden faces three felony and six misdemeanor counts on charges the GOP plan to made the focus of the 2024 campaign season.

“Michael Lee Tomasi, 37, of Rio Verde, Arizona, was arrested on Friday after a grand jury indicted him on three counts of threats against a federal official and three counts of making interstate threats. According to court documents, from May 2021 through November 2023, while living in Colorado and Arizona, Tomasi used a social media platform to express a desire to incite violence and threaten a variety of individuals and groups, including elected officials, a judge, and federal officials and law enforcement officers. The charges against Tomasi relate to threats he made in Arizona to federal law enforcement agents and employees,” says a Justice Department press release posted Monday which goes on and on with all these very anodyne quotes from Merrick Garland, FBI Director Chris Wray, and Arizona US Attorney Gary Restaino and then like nothing else.

They don’t say shit about who Tomasi threatened, not even any oblique hints. There are no news stories about the threats. Not even any quotations from his threats. No link to the indictment.

We all know who this asshole worships, but we couldn’t put “MAGA terrorist” in the headline on the very off-chance that he’s some Antifa libtard. That’s unethical even for fake journalists to do.

Fuck yeah. It is ON up in this motherfucker. That lava is FIRE 🔥🔥🔥 and shit is burning fucking everything in its path in Southeast Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula. FINALLY after like a month.

Southwest Airlines was fined $140 million for the company’s travel problems that led to more than 14,000 flight delays during the 2022 holiday season, stranding tens of thousands of passengers at airports around the country, CNN reports.

Although less than the amount awarded to Rudy Giuliani’s defamation victims to date, most of the fine–$90 million–will be put into a fund to pay inconvenienced Southwest passengers in the future.  The airline reported it has paid more than $600 million already in compensation, refunds and reimbursements to its passengers impacted by the service system malfunction.  In its financial reports, Southwest said the weeks-long problem cost the airline nearly $1 billion from the end of 2022 into 2023.

Sheriff’s deputies in Beltrami County, Minnesota on Sunday had to rescue 35 morons stranded on an ice floe that broke off in Upper Red Lake, taking three hours to corral the fuckers, KLVY reports without any explanation of how the people were rescued or what the hell they were doing on the ice.

Wait, so it’s weaponizing government and election interference to try to kick Trump off the ballot but not DeSantis?

Trumpers act more and more like the left every day: hypocrites. https://t.co/SdS7Un6hcI

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) December 18, 2023

Mother-daughter former Georgia election worker duo Ruby Freeman and Shae Moss on Monday filed a federal defamation complaint seeking “injunctive relief enjoining [drunken shitbrain Rudy Giuliani] from making or publishing, or causing to be made or published, further statements repeating any and all false claims that Plaintiffs engaged in election fraud, illegal activity, or misconduct of any kind during or related to the 2020 presidential election” after the fucking idiot continued saying the shit they sued him over during the brief trial last week that ended with a nearly $149 million award.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday said “lol, no” to disgraced former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ bid to move his trial on his charges stemming from the post-2020 election coup attempt from Georgia state court in Fulton County to a federal court.

That the removal ability does not apply to former federal officials was bad enough, but considerably worse for the worm was the part where the court ruled that Meadows was not acting in his capacity as an official when he fucked around in Georgia after the 2020 election. Which is bad if and when Jack Smith decides to ding Meadows with federal charges for the same crimes nationally.

Disgraced former President Trump on Monday refiled to the full bench of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals his bid to have the gag order imposed by Judge Tanya Chutkan and mostly upheld by a three-judge panel at the higher court, Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports, commenting that it’s “inconceivable” the fat fuck would win but seems to be “fishing for a dissent” to take to the Supreme Court. For a guy who’s been pissing and moaning about having to spend so much in legal fees maybe being characterologically unable to just let something like this go is the bigger problem.

Federal prosecutors on Monday unsealed an arrest warrant for South Florida “GOP strategist” and former intern for dipshit Marco Rubio for obstructing an official proceeding, knowingly entering and remaining in a restricted building, and engaging in disorderly conduct in a Capitol building with the intent to impede a session of Congress on January 6, 2021, the Miami New Times reports.

Barbara “Barby” Balmaseda, who appeared on Fox and Friends six months after the attack to talk about Cuban American anti-commie protests, was cuffed last week at her home in Miami Lakes. She was spotted by Sedition Hunters entering the building alongside Vice City Proud Boys captains Gabriel Garcia and Ethan Nordean, the latter of whom was convicted of seditious conspiracy earlier this year. Balmaseda also worked on heels-wearing Florida Gov Ron DeSantis’s 2018 campaign.

“Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers are searching for a mule deer buck that attacked a 67-year-old woman outside the door of her home and gored her on Saturday evening. The attack occurred in the center of Silver Cliff. The victim told CPW officers that she was attacked by a small buck mule deer after leaving the front door of her home. The buck was described as having two spikes on each antler. Luckily, the victim was able to get back into her home and call her husband for help. She sustained a puncture wound to her left leg and significant bruising on the right leg. She was taken to a hospital in Pueblo for treatment,” says Colorado Parks and Wildlife in a statement.

“After the attack, two young bucks were seen sparring in the yard, common behavior during the deer rut, or mating season. ‘A wildlife officer went to investigate and found a bird feeder in the yard,’ said Mike Brown, CPW Area Wildlife Manager in the region. ‘The victim told a CPW officer that she feeds birds and had thrown out bread earlier that day.’ Brown said there had been no recent reports of aggressive deer in Silver Cliff. He said the nature of the attack – so close to a house – immediately raised concerns that someone had been feeding the deer, causing it to lose its fear of people. ‘I believe this is a good example of what happens when deer lose their natural fear of humans,’ Brown said. ‘They become aggressive and dangerous. This is a good reminder that wild animals should always be treated as such and that people need to give wildlife the space they need.'”

Very passive aggressive statement there, Ranger Rick. How the fuck was the woman supposed to know she shouldn’t feed the birds when “there had been no recent reports of aggressive deer in Silver Cliff” like you actually said? Why do you act like her bird feeder is the smoking gun here when the bucks were just beating the shit out of each other and didn’t care where they were? Why can’t it just be “Hey watch out for these fuckers” and then say “Also don’t toss food out”?

I was honored to meet Jake Chansley this weekend, and I want to explain why I say honored.

The entire country knows Jake as the face of the Jan 6th “Insurrection” because the media plastered his image and slandered him all over the world, the Biden regime’s DOJ wrongfully… pic.twitter.com/eg1o5JgVX7

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 18, 2023

Too often do some of us in the media blithely copy and paste the shit that we see in court documents without taking the time to try and truly appreciate it. Laziness and a layperson’s feeling of intimidation when confronted with the jargon familiar only to legal practitioners can only fly so far as an excuse however, especially when it comes to the tribulations of one Donald Trump and the shit that his lawyers slap together in attempting turn his base urge to simply escape the consequences of his actions into something, anything, legal-ish sounding. We had been looking forward to this motion to dismiss the Georgia RICO case as we had anticipated Trump’s attorneys would concede their client is the fucking idiot and scumbag even large numbers of his fans all know him to be.

And man does it not disappoint. From page 8:

Right off the bat this is stupid bullshit. Speech in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy is not and cannot ever be “free.” You don’t need to look up US v Alvarez to know that. We looked it up though.

Bringing the Church into the late 20th Century, Pope Francis announced the Vatican will allow priests to bless relationships between same-sex couples, saying that while the couples are in “irregular” relationships living in a state of sin similar to unmarried heterosexual couples, they should be not be denied God’s presence in their lives and relationships, the Associated Press reports.

In a letter to two leading conservative priests who have vociferously challenged the Church’s increasing acceptance of gay Catholics, Francis said clergy should not avoid practicing “doctrinal or disciplinary schemes, especially when they lead to a narcissistic and authoritarian elitism whereby instead of evangelizing, one analyzes and classifies others, and instead of opening the door to grace, one exhausts his or her energies in inspecting and verifying.”

The directive appears to be Francis’s direct response to a 2021 directive issued by a Vatican liturgical committee–whose origins date back to the Inquisition–which said unequivocally,  “God cannot bless sin,” which is how the Vatican characterizes any sexual contact outside marriage or any same-sex relationship.  However, Francis will allow priests and deacons to bless same sex relationships as long as it is not done as part of a civil or other religious marriage ceremony and it does not include key sacramental elements or phrases implying the Church’s approval.  

The assclown who plowed his car into the presidential motorcade as Joe Biden was leaving a private fundraiser in Wilmington, Delaware on Sunday has been charged with DUI, Fox News reports to the deep disappointment of the no doubt many who wanted it to be something more interesting.

No further details about the identity of the 46 year-old boozebag were made available. We’re probably not going to follow up either as DUI being the sole charge indicates there’s no there there.