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In yet another demonstration of their fourth-grade intellectual capacity, Tipp City, Ohio Republican school board member Anne Zakkour, takes offense when board president Simon Patry, a fellow Republican, instructs her to remain quiet as he had the floor after she repeatedly interrupted with interjections.  Zakkour, ever the exemplar of rational conservatism, responds by throwing the Nazi raised-arm salute in his direction and declaring “Sieg Heil,” because that is the appropriate response when being called out for being rude.

Responding Thursday to spandex wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan’s recent letter demanding she allow him to interfere in her ongoing criminal prosecution of disgraced former President Trump and 18 of his minions for their failed post-2020 election coup attempt in Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told Jordan to get bent, calling him out specifically and personally for ignoring a subpoena from the House January 6th Select Committee, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

“Its obvious purpose is to obstruct a Georgia criminal proceeding and to advance outrageous misrepresentations. As I make clear below, there is no justification in the Constitution for Congress to interfere with a state criminal matter, as you attempt to do… Your letter makes clear that you lack a basic understanding of the law, its practice and the ethical obligations of attorneys generally and prosecutors specifically,” Willis wrote at various points in the letter to the turgid Congressman.

It was on the first page however she dickpunched Gym the hardest. “Your note calls to mind another letter recently submitted to a House select committee: ‘This unprecedented action serves no legitimate legislative purpose and would set a dangerous precedent for future Congresses… the American people deserve better,'” Willis wrote, quoting directly from Jordan’s January 2022 letter to House January 6th Select Committee Chair Congressman Bennie Thompson in which he openly refused to comply with a subpoena to testify as to his involvement in Trump’s coup attempt.

Well she might’ve punched even harder on page 6 with “For a more thorough understanding of Georgia’s RICO statute, its application and similar laws in other states, I encourage you to read ‘RICO State-by-State.’ As a non-member of the bar, you can purchase a copy for two hundred forty-nine dollars [$249],” ragging on Jordan for getting a JD but never passing the bar exam.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s defense lawyer Tony Buzbee on Thursday complained in Instagram post that “the media” was making him look too “tan” in video and still images of the ongoing trial in which his client faces expulsion from office over his eight year political crime spree.

“Here are two pics from two different reputable news organizations, taken on the same day, within minutes of the other. I am out in the sun a lot, but I don’t think my skin has ever been that ‘tan.’ Why would they doctor my pic? I’m sure you could take a guess. So you think the news isn’t bias? Think again,” wrote Buzbee, evoking the complaints of another certain Ken Paxton ally who’s also supposed to have more important things to do than constantly obsesses over his appearance.

Texas Tribune reporter Robert Downen notes that the more orange-y image on the left is actually from the official livestream of the Texas state Senate, which doesn’t exactly qualify as a “news organization” (nor is it “reputable,” especially if they fail to convict this piece of shit). We would also add that irrespective of how much a broadcast feed or camera might oversaturate an image, Tony Buzbee looks like a douchey 1990s-era movie villain with his stupid slicked-back hairstyle and angry scowl. He’s just asking for Bruce Willis or Jean-Claude Van Damme to kick him out of an upper-floor window of a burning skyscraper and say “Buzz off, Buzbee!” or something just before the credits roll.

Marking four straight weeks of declines, jobless claims reached their lowest level in more than six months, coming in below expectations, while worker productivity jumped to its highest levels in three years, a new Labor Department report shows, per Reuters.

Jobless claims fell 13,000 to 216,000 in the week starting August 28th, according to reports, the lowest level since February 11th. Last week’s job creation report showed better-than-expected growth with downward modification on previous reports, increased wages, and growing labor participation rates.  Combined, the data demonstrate a job market with strong foundations devoid of signals of a reversal in the near future.

The foundations that manage the thirteen Presidential Libraries for former presidents–from Herbert Hoover through Barack Obama–issued a historic joint statement calling on Americans to unite, see past our differences, and work toward a more stable nation.

Noting the US role as not just an economic leader but as a beacon of democracy around the world, the statement notes that apparent weakness in the US political system–caused by Republicans undermining the foundations of American democracy, although the letter does not specifically call out the current GOP campaign to sow doubt in elections–give rise to outside threats from those looking to topple democracies worldwide.

“Americans have a strong interest in supporting democratic movements and respect for human rights around the world because free societies elsewhere contribute to our own security and prosperity here at home,” it reads. “But that interest is undermined when others see our own house in disarray. The world will not wait for us to address our problems, so we must both continue to strive toward a more perfect union and help those abroad looking for U.S. leadership.”

The federal grand jury that handed down the four count indictment of disgraced former President Trump over his post-2020 election coup attempt has been spotted meeting again at the courthouse on Friday, CNN reports on another indication that Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith isn’t done yet and that his dipshit co-conspirators ought to be afraid. Very afraid.

British Conservative MP Chris Pincher, whose drunken, Matt Schlapp-like habit of groping other men led directly to the downfall of Prime Minister Boris Johnson last year, finally resigned his seat in Parliament on Thursday, the BBC reports in a final epilogue to the Pinchygate scandal.

The open seat triggers a by-election and another headache Prime Minister Rishi Sunak doesn’t need right now as the Tories slide toward an absolute fucking nightmare of a general election at some point next year with their economy in the shitter and inflation still running rampant.

Taking the stand in his still-ongoing California disbarment trial on Wednesday, fascist MAGA lawyer John Eastman asserted attorney client privilege when an investigator asked specifically if he had any discussions with Trump or his minions about one still-murky subplot in Congressional GOP plans to object to the electoral college certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election:

Why the hell did Old Man Senator Charles Grassley announce on January 5th, 2021 that he was going to preside over the session rather than Vice President Mike Pence, only to almost immediately “clarify” that Grassley, as the Senate President Pro Tempore, was just saying it in case Pence was unavailable? Politico reports that Eastman only deepened the mystery by telling the Bar investigator that the client he’s asserting privilege for is none other than Inmate P01135809 himself.

Both Eastman and fellow co-conspirator Kenny Chesebro had looked into getting Grassley in the role, and Politico notes it’s not so extraordinary for the President Pro Tempore to fill-in for the Vice President on Electoral College vote day, having happened several times in history. Still for Grassley to have asserted that he was going to be the one running the show only to quickly walk it back and then for Eastman to dodge potentially further incriminating himself and his fat former client speaks to another fresh line of criminal liability for Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith to pursue if (more likely when) he drops the hammer on Eastman. For his part Grassley was not among the Republican Senators who voted to object to certifying before or after the MAGA insurrection disrupted the session nor does it appear he planned to do so even as he claimed he would preside.

A new CNN/SSRS survey finds that 61 percent of respondents believe that Joe Biden had some level of involvement in Hunter Biden’s business schemes while Joe was Vice President while 38 percent say he was not involved at all. Among the 60 percent who say he was involved, 42 percent say he acted illegally and 18 percent say it was unethical but not illegal. That last one percent is not a rounding error as those repondents said he did nothing illegal nor unethical despite being involved.

On the question of whether Joe Biden has acted inappropriately in regard to the investigations into Hunter, 55 percent said yes while 44 percent said no. CNN’s write-up of the poll includes no quotes from individual respondents to explain what makes them believe Joe acted inappropriately.

Saudi agent Jared Kushner and confirmed bachelor Senator Lindsey Graham have been feverishly working their 77 year-old toddler, fat former President Trump, pleading with him to at the very least keep his mouth shut if he can’t publicly affirmatively support the Saudi-Israeli peace deal President Biden is working on, trying to sell it as a natural extension of the “Abraham Accords” the Republicans hyped to no end during the last year of the Trump Administration, Axios reports.

“I told President Trump, listen, this is the natural extension of the Abraham Accords and if we can do it, let’s do it. It doesn’t matter how it gets done, on whose watch it gets done. It’d be a good thing for the stability of the Middle East and our own national security and President Trump deserves his fair share of credit,” said Lindsey, adding that it’s “the highest sign of flattery” for Biden to replicate Trump’s diplomatic strategy in the Middle East, a message he claims Donald appreciated.

So yeah, it’s only a matter of time before Trump has a public meltdown over Biden stealing his idea and claiming that he could do a much better one if reelected and he should’ve won a “Noble” Peace Prize for getting the other Arab-Israeli peace deals done and blah blah blah.

President Joe Biden refused to agree to conditions relating to the confinement and treatment of the final five defendants connected to the September 11th attacks being held at Guantanamo Bay, shutting down a potential plea agreement, NBC News reports.

To secure guilty pleas which would result in life sentences, avoiding the death penalty, the prisoners wanted assurances that they would not be held in solitary confinement and that they would receive treatment for the mental and physical trauma they experienced while they were being tortured at the Cuban facility or at other locations.  Biden refused those and other demands.

The pre-trial hearings have been going on for more than a decade for the five men, which includes Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged “architect” of the 9/11 attacks.  Along with these five men, there are still 25 other prisoners being held at Gitmo.

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the former mayor of Mexico City, has won the majority left-wing Moreno Party’s presidential nominee in the upcoming elections, virtually assuring her of becoming Mexico’s first female president, the Associated Press reports.

Sheinbaum won the election by double-digit margins over her nearest competitor, Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, in five Party votes.  She’ll take over for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is term-limited to one six-year stint.  

Asked straightforwardly if his client John Eastman did, indeed, intend to obstruct the official certification of the Electoral College vote, attorney Charles Burham responded less directly:

No, no, not at all.  His advice, as he said, to Vice President Pence was not to was not to impede the certification or somehow obstruct it or block it.  His advice, and he stated this many times before that interview, was simply to impose a short delay in the process to allow the state legislators to, legislatures who weren’t then in session to have one more look at the situation before reporting back to Congress, and then it would go back to Congress to make the ultimate decision.  That was his advice.  It remains his view today that that was appropriate.  It’s not obstruction.  It’s not impeding.  It’s not anything like that.

Nah.  Nothing like that.  It’s just fraudulently impeding Congress from doing its assigned task on the day dictated by law to obstruct the formal victory of the next president in the Electoral College so your favored politician could swoop in and steal the election.  Nothing like obstruction at all.

Heels-wearing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday appointed Tina Descovich, co-founder of the far right and more than Nazi-curious extremist group “Moms for Liberty” to the Florida State ethics Commission, presumably out of some desire to own the libs, FloridaPolitics.com reports.

The white nationalist hell witch also called for impeaching any judge overseeing a Trump criminal trial and bemoaned Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio’s 22 year sentence for seditious conspiracy.

“At 500 PM AST (2100 UTC), the center of Hurricane Lee was located near latitude 14.9 North, longitude 46.4 West. Lee is moving toward the west-northwest near 14 mph (22 km/h), and this motion is expected to continue for the next few days with a slight reduction in forward speed over the weekend. Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 75 mph (120 km/h) with higher gusts. Continued steady to rapid strengthening is forecast, and Lee is expected to become a major hurricane in a day or two. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 15 miles (30 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 90 miles (150 km). The estimated minimum central pressure is 991 mb,” says a National Hurricane Center bulletin on something something it’ll be too soon to talk about climate change if it hits the East Coast at full strength.

The former Orange-Osceola state attorney is asking the Florida Supreme Court to take up her case, alleging Republican Governor Ron DeSantis illegally removed her from her elected office, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

As a series of protests occurred across Florida in support of Monique Worrell, the ousted Orange-Osceola attorney, and former Hillsborough state attorney Andrew Warren, who was removed from office last year.  Both prosecutors were targeted by conservative stalwarts who claimed they weren’t prosecuting enough crimes amid accusations that they were corrupted by billionaire George Soros.

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In an affidavit filed in support of Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis’s motion to keep anonymous the names of the jurors who will decide if disgraced former President Trump and 19 of his co-conspirators are guilty of the many crimes listed in the sprawling RICO indictment handed down by a grand jury for their crimes against American democracy last month, Atlanta Police Department Chief Darin Schierbaum writes that those grand jurors (who also returned a massive RICO indictment against Antifa activists on Tuesday) – whose names were by law listed in the indictment – and DA Willis – had their home addresses posted on a Russian-owned website.

“In August 2023, I became aware that the identities of members of one of the Fulton County Grand Juries serving for the July-August term of court had been listed on a website known to be a location where information for ‘doxing’ people is listed. Those listings called for harassment and violence against the grand jurors. I was able to determine that members of the Fulton County Grand Jury who returned a true bill of indictment against 19 people, including Defendant Donald J Trump, on charges of racketeering and other felony allegations, were being contacted by people in harassing and/or threatening manners. The doxing included home addresses of the grand jurors whose names were found on the doxing website… A website where both the Grand Jurors who returned the indictment against Donald J Trump and the Fulton County District Attorney is operated by a Russian company.”