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President Biden extended Temporary Protective Status to 472,000 Venezuelans living in the United States because of unrest in their home country, allowing the migrants to get work permits and access to other services, the Washington Post reports.

Under the program previously, only Venezuelans who entered the country before March 2021 were eligible to apply for TPS.  The redesignation of the program allows the record number of Venezuelans who have applied for asylum to be able to work, something local officials around the country have requested to help ease the migrant crisis.

“Our administration and our partners across the city have led the calls to ‘Let Them Work,’ so I want to thank President Biden for hearing our entire coalition, including our hard-working congressional delegation, and taking this important step that will bring hope to the thousands of Venezuelan asylum seekers currently in our care who will now be immediately eligible for Temporary Protected Status,” New York Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday.

A new liberal advocacy group vowed to spend $10 million in the 2024 and 2025 local school board elections to draft candidates and push voter turnout for vital down-ballot races that shape education policy on a local level, the Daily Beast reports.

Run For Something cofounder Amanda Litman said the group identified “a real hole in the ecosystem on the left, particularly around school and library board races in the electoral space.”  These offices have been targeted by conservative groups for years, allowing them to dominate in certain regions where far-right censorship stifles free speech.

“There are some organizations that show up at school and library board meetings to protest or speak up. There are some that train volunteers. There is no one actually asking people to run for school board and then helping them do that,” Litman said.  The group will use $3 million to test processes and messages in 2024 local races for school and library boards.

The Russian government released an app this week via the national government portal to enlist the public’s participation in its defense against the increasing number of drone attacks against the homeland from Ukraine, the Washington Post reports.

Called The Radar app, the platform allows people to report when and where they saw a suspicious aircraft flying overhead, as well as other information like the drone’s direction and a photo. The app will collect information and the Kremlin hopes, will give defense forces time to react.

The Radar also allows people to report non-aerial suspicious activities to authorities, who have been at a loss to stop a number of drone attacks and other targeted strikes, including car bombings.

The US Senate on Wednesday voted to confirm Air Force General CQ Brown to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making Brown the first Black man to serve at the post and an at least temporary break in dickhead MAGA Senator Tommy Tuberville’s ongoing tantrum over military abortion policy.

Well she didn’t exactly use the word “weaponized,” but we thought it sounded good because former US Attorney Nora Dannehy’s actual description to the Connecticut state Assembly during her confirmation testimony for a seat on the state’s Supreme Court of why she quit her old job does kind of fit neatly with the kind of shit Jim Jordan constantly accuses the Justice Department of doing.

The AP reports Dannehy told Connecticut lawmakers that she “simply couldn’t be part of it. So I resigned” from her post in September 2020 after then-Attorney General Bill Barr began pressuring her then-boss John Durham to slap together an interim report to be released before the election as the Orange Slob then in the White House had been screaming at them to do. “I had been taught and spent my entire career at the DOJ conducting any investigation in an objective and apolitical manner. In the spring and summer of 2020, I had growing concerns that this Russia investigation was not being conducted in that way. Barr began to speak more publicly and specifically about the ongoing criminal investigation. I thought these public comments violated DOJ guidelines,” Dannehy said.

Disgraced former President Trump will skip the third Republican 2024 presidential primary debate set for early November in Miami, sources close to the fat bastard tell Bloomberg, citing his commanding lead in the polls and unwillingness to engage with the pitiful worms of the primary field.

A Delaware federal magistrate judge on Wednesday ruled that Hunter Biden must show up in person in court for his arraignment on three felony gun charges, denying the irresponsible crackhead’s request to attend via Zoom from California to avoid the hassle of traveling, CNN reports.

“In the end, the Court agrees with both Defendant… and the Government… that Defendant should not receive special treatment in this matter – absent some unusual circumstance, he should be treated just as would any other defendant in our Court. Any other defendant would be required to attend his or her initial appearance in person. So too here,” wrote Magistrate Judge Chris Burke.

We’ll note here that fat former President Trump was permitted to skip an in-person arraignment in Florida on the superseding indictment when he was caught telling his guys to delete the incriminating surveillance camera footage of them hiding stolen classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

“Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr, and Ivan Arvelo, Special Agent in Charge at Homeland Security Investigations, New York, today announced the return of seven artworks to the family of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer whose art collection was stolen by the Nazi regime. The drawings, all from Austrian artist Egon Schiele, were seized by the Office’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit in 2023 from the Museum of Modern Art; The Ronald Lauder Collection; The Morgan Library; The Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and the Vally Sabarsky Trust in Manhattan.”

“The seven pieces were officially returned to the legal heirs and Trustees of Grünbaum’s art collection at a ceremony in the District Attorney’s Office. All seven drawings were seized and voluntarily surrendered by the holding institutions and estates after they were presented with evidence that they were stolen by the Nazis,” says a press release from the Manhattan DA’s office.

That’s so awesome. Bragg got to be like Indiana Jones while Jim Jordan, who had failed to derail Bragg from charging his Orange Master, just bitched and cried at friggin Merrick Garland for hours.

Just a day after he was hit with the indictment, non-CIA agent Ray Epps on Wednesday pleaded guilty via Zoom to the single disorderly conduct charge he’d been hit with for his participation in the January 6th, 2021 MAGA insurrection at the US Capitol, CBS News’s Scott MacFarlane reports.

It’s not clear why Epps, who’s looking at anywhere from zero to six months in the slammer for the crime, wasn’t allowed to plead down to a misdemeanor. But at most a few weeks in jail and a felony rap probably isn’t going to be a big deal for a guy who can reasonably expect a nine-figure payout after getting defamed over and over and over again by Tucker Carlson and others on Fox News.

Having already won the Arizona Governor’s mansion by over a billion votes in 2022, former newscaster Kari Lake is looking to kick ass in another election, this time for the Senate seat currently occupied by useless “independent” Senator Kyrsten Sinema, sources tell Politico.

Financial news network CNBC on Wednesday left viewers in a state of agonizing suspense over the latest twists and turns of the Federal Reserve Bank’s meeting and their decision to keep rates unch-

“House GOP Chairwoman Elise Stefanik and a Republican and Conservative coalition, which includes members of the New York Republican Congressional delegation, sued Gov Kathy Hochul and the State of New York for attempting to remove basic safeguards on absentee voting and allowing unregulated mass mail ballots in clear violation of the state constitution. You can read the Complaint filed in court here. ‘Kathy Hochul and extreme New York Democrats are trying to destroy what is left of election integrity in New York. Under Kathy Hochul’s failed leadership, elections are less secure and less transparent and will now be unconstitutional. As a New York voter, I am proud to lead this coalition in defending basic election integrity on behalf of all New Yorkers'” says screechy and miserable Republican New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik in a Wednesday press release.

It comes just hours after Governor Kathy Hochul signed a law allowing New Yorkers to vote early by mail and allow same-day voter registration on the first day of early voting which is so totally unconstitutional and definitely cost Trump the 2020 election like Stefanik says it did.

For whatever reason, maybe it’s a catfight, Stefanik doesn’t mention RNC Chairwoman Ronna Not-Romney in her tweet or press release announcing the lawsuit. Ronna tweeted about it too, of course not bothering to explain how its in any way consistent with her stupid “Bank Your Vote” campaign.

Don’t miss my exclusive interview with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tonight on #SpecialReport pic.twitter.com/YmV05agi8o

— Bret Baier (@BretBaier) September 20, 2023

Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson wrote in her upcoming memoir that drunken shitbrain Rudy Giuliani put his hand up her blazer and skirt “like a wolf closing in on his prey” as similarly evil and deranged MAGA lawyer John Eastman leered on while they waited backstage during disgraced former President Trump’s raging speech to his cultists at the Ellipse on January 6th, 2021, the Guardian reports from a preview of Hutchinson’s book Enough.

“I feel his frozen fingers trail up my thigh. He tilts his chin up. The whites of his eyes look jaundiced. My eyes dart to John Eastman, who flashes a leering grin. I fight against the tension in my muscles and recoil from Rudy’s grip… filled with rage, I storm through the tent, on yet another quest for [her then-boss Mark Meadows],” Hutchinson wrote, describing the moment as just another shitty experience amid “a creeping sense of dread that something really horrible [was] going to happen.”

Fat former President Trump has been querying minions about what it’ll be like if (hopefully when) he’s convicted of a major felony and has to be incarcerated, sources tell Rolling Stone.

Chief among Trump’s concerns are if he’ll have to wear “one of those jumpsuits” and whether he would end up in a “Club Fed” or a “bad” prison, with Rolling Stone describing such conversations as “a departure from the air of supreme confidence invincibility Trump has projected” and “it’s clear the gravity of his mounting legal peril is getting to Trump, regardless of whether the former president can admit to it in public,” which of course is the main reason why he’s running again.

Another question Trump has raised is whether he’d be stripped of Secret Service protection and the answer is no, barring an act of Congress which is unlikely or if he voluntarily gives it up, which is definitely not happening. Just to spitball it, our guess is that the fat bastard would ultimately be housed on a remote military base, somewhere like Guam or Puerto Rico, far from where any of his terrorist fanboys would be able to gather to rush and try to break him out.

US Attorney General Merrick Garland will sit for a live session of baseless accusations of politicized federal law enforcement and other such verbal abuse from Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee led by jock-strapped fascist Jim Jordan who will no doubt grow angrier and angrier as Garland states facts about the ongoing criminal prosecutions of Hunter Biden and Donald Trump.

Deranged QAnon fan and now former attorney Lin Wood’s name comes up as among the “witnesses for the state” listed in a filing on potential representation conflicts by Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis’s RICO case against disgraced former President Trump and his minions for their failed attempt at overturning President Joe Biden’s narrow 2020 election win in the Peach State.

It’s not clear why Wood, himself having been recommended for indictment in the case, would testify against Trump or, maybe more importantly, what value such a deeply unwell person would have for the prosecution. Just months ago Wood declared himself “probably the second most persecuted person in America” after his Orange Messiah, so it’s also hard to see if or why he would suddenly turn “heel.” But putting two and two together, it’s still worth considering he may have quietly secured an immunity deal. Maybe more likely is that Wood will simply testify against the Kraken and other lower level peons. There were some tensions (including gross sexual ones) in the “Stop the Steal” crew that Wood was for whatever reason very happy to share secretly recorded audio of.

“If I would have made that speech yesterday at the United Nations, for all of the World to see, including the HORRENDOUS delivery, I would have been run out of politics! An EMBARRASSMENT to our Country,” fat former President Trump on Truth Social on Wednesday, still seething over President Biden’s well-received speech to the United Nations General Assembly nearly 24 hours earlier.

He’s definitely mad the other world leaders didn’t laugh at Biden like they did to him back in 2018. That’s really the only explanation for this, like he’s trying to will non-existent ridicule into existence to somehow vindicate the still painful wound of being so brutally humiliated on the global stage.

Having posted tweets like “I’m sad to announce, my father Donald Trump has passed away. I will be running for president in 2024,” and “Fuck @JoeBiden Stupid Ass N*gga” on Wednesday morning, it’s possible Donald Trump Jr’s account was hacked. Or he’s just coked out of his mind. Who knows.

It may end up being the former however since one of the tweets said “Richard Heart is innocent, when I become president I am going to burn down the SEC,” referencing some crypto douchebag who in July was hit with charges by the regulator for “conducting unregistered offerings of crypto asset securities that raised more than $1 billion in crypto assets from investors” and having misappropriated “at least $12 million of offering proceeds.” Crypto chodes are big on hijacking people’s social media accounts, so yeah Don Jr probably was hacked. Probably.