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President Biden’s reelection campaign will run an ad titled “Got to Work,” during Thursday’s NFL season premiere faceoff between the Super Bowl champs the Kansas City Chiefs and the Detroit Lions as the opening kickoff to his $25 million blitz defense of his economic record, Axios reports.

The ad, which touts achievements such as “fixing supply chains, fighting corporate greed, passing laws to lower the cost of medicine and cutting utility bills and make us more energy independent,” will run on local NBC affiliates carrying the game in key swing state media markets including Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Nevada. It’s also been booked for spots on all major media news networks, but will only run on Fox News during the daytime.

The Japanese government may launch a case in the nation’s courts to dissolve the local branch of the Church of the Unification, aka The Moonies, after a man aggrieved over his mother’s devotion to the South Korean cult blasted former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with a homemade shotgun last year over Abe’s links to the South Korean Christian cult, the Guardian reports citing local news.

The man who shot and killed Abe during a speech in the city of Nara last July told cops he believed Abe was linked to the Moonies’ Japanese branch. Nicknamed for their founder, the late Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who thought he was Jesus and that Korean people were the master race (a belief that the church’s non-Korean membership willingly agrees with), the Moonies are a serious financial suck on their adherents, and the shooter, 42 year-old Tetsuya Yamagami, believed his mother was bankrupted by her devotion to the Unification Church and took it out on Abe.

The Moonies have deep links to the American Conservatives, roping in Vice Former Guy Mike Pence to speak at their global forum in Seoul earlier last year (with disgraced ex-President Trump also addressing them via video), and owning the Washington Times, among other newspapers. Abe himself had spoken at Moonies events, most recently addressing them via video in September 2021, so Yamagami wasn’t entirely wrong to believe Abe was “linked” to the evil cult.

Following the assassination, the Moonies put out a statement saying “guns have no place in our religious beliefs or practices,” which might be technically correct about their mainline branch. However it’s a flat out lie when you consider the Pennsylvania sub-sect called the “Church of the Iron Rod,” founded by one of Moon’s sons, and whose religious beliefs and practices often feature a golden, jewel-encrusted AK-47. Republican Pennsylvania state Senator Doug Mastriano considers himself a friend of the Iron Rod crew, as does alcoholic degenerate Steve Bannon.

It used to be the week after Labor Day was known as “Back to School” time when students (and their parents) anxiously await the start of a new school year, but in 2023, Republicans have turned it into “Back to Court” season as their legal travails continue.

Having failed to convince a federal judge that his insubordination was demanded by Donald Trump, former White House economic advisor, and Fox host Peter Navarro heads to a DC court on Tuesday on his contempt of Congress for failing to honor a subpoena from the now-defunct House Select Committee investigating the Republican-led January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress.  Navarro had claimed that he ignored the subpoena after Trump claimed executive privilege, although Trump filed no such claim with the court.

With his co-conspirators receiving some of the longest sentences for the coup attempt to date for their seditious conspiracy to undermine the Constitution, former Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio faces sentencing on Wednesday afternoon in Washington, DC.  While his compadre Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers cyclopic leader, and one of his Proud Boy buddies were both sentenced to 18 years, Tarrio appears in line for a longer sentence, unless it gets reduced for his previous “prolific” cooperation with federal authorities.

The tens of thousands of rich, privileged people who had their Labor Day weekend ruined by the mud around the Burning Man festival in a remote part of Nevada have been released, and the “great exodus” has begun, CNN reports.

About 64,000 remained of the original crowd, estimated to have peaked at 72,000 before people started trekking out of the festival site when the site was access to the site was shut down due to dangerous, muddy roads.  The eponymous burning of The Man was rescheduled for Monday night, according to an announcement on the festival’s site.

The Kremlin reportedly invited the North Korean military to join in three-way military exercises with Beijing, proposing the three nations conduct joint naval maneuvers, as the leaders of Russia and North Korea plan an upcoming summit.

Per Reuters, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu proposed the exercises to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un during a July meeting.  On Monday, he confirmed the offer, saying, “Why not? These are our neighbors. There’s an old Russian saying: you don’t choose your neighbors and it’s better to live with your neighbors in peace and harmony.”

Kim has also committed to meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok later this month, per the New York Times, where the two tyrants will discuss increasing North Korea’s supply of arms to Russia given Moscow’s rapid burn rate of material in Ukraine.

The beautiful, tremendous wall that Chinese Ming Emperor Yingzong built in the 15th century and got Mongolia to pay for it has been damaged by two libtards with an excavator, CNN reports.

The two bad hombres, a 38 year-old man and a 55 year-old woman, caused “irreversible” damage to the section to create a shortcut, probably for trafficking fentanyl or something. Just disgraceful how the Xi Regime’s open borders policy allowed this to happen after the Yingzong Administration built that incredible wall. Not a lot of people know this, but it’s considered one of the eight wonders of the world. It’s historic that wall. Big strong men who worked on building it would come up to Emperor Yingzong and, with tears in their eyes, they would say “Thank you sir for letting me become part of something so historic.” Mongolia paid for the wall, they did. Before it was built they were allowed to just come in and take anything, take whatever they wanted. Yingzong stopped it, which means they paid for it, in a way. They paid big time. Ruined their whole economy. Yingzong stopped them.

After listing her unending list of people in the Biden Administration for whom she’s submitted articles of impeachment because they’re doing their jobs, Marjorie Taylor Greene resurrected a dormant QAnon event, the Great Awakening, which she ditched previously in her quest to seem normal, while speaking to soon-to-be-bankrupt defamer Alex Jones.

Here’s what’s happening.  The amount of evidence, Alex, is becoming so overwhelming, just like–here, let me say this, this is really impor-ent.  Just like, we can truly say, at least I can truly say, I believe the Great Awakening is occurring because, because of truth, people all over are waking up and God is dividing people by the sheep and goats, He is literally dividing us.  There’s people who can’t hear the truth right now and then there’s people who are waking up over and over.  The amount of truth that is, that is basically, ah, just coming out throughout Congress is forcing the will of Congress, forcing the will of Republicans.  Republicans that wouldn’t act before are now becoming willing to act.

Putting aside Marge’s claim that God Himself is the dividing force in today’s American political land, Marge has failed to present any evidence at all detailing any corrupt act by the dozen or so people she has presented for impeachment.  Her “evidence” is them doing their jobs; her grounds are that she doesn’t like the policy, which is not an impeachable offense, just a consequence of losing elections.  But then, Marge isn’t exactly the constitutional scholar that fellow impeachment presenter, her little bitch Lauren Boebert (LB²) is, right?

Mexican parents blaze textbooks infected with 'virus of communism' in fiery protest against gender ideology https://t.co/fMlrtsDVDI

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 4, 2023

Cops in Pakistan have determined that an incident which sparked destructive mob attacks on 17 different Christian churches and at least 100 homes in the Punjab province last month was a false flag blasphemy started by a Muslim jerkoff who planted shredded pages of a Koran in front of the home of Christian neighbor he had suspected of having an affair with his wife, the AP reports.

It’s not clear yet what charges the cuck, Pervez Kodu, and his three brothers will face for staging the holy crime on neighbor Raja Amir (or if Amir really was banging Kodu’s wife), but it would seem like an open-and-shut case of blasphemy as Kodu himself had ripped a copy of the Koran to pin the same offense on Amir. Despite the widespread property damage no one was injured in the riots and local authorities have been handing out cash reparations to families and congregations for repairs.

For anyone wondering how Kodu came up with the idea to sic the dogs on his (possible) dog of a neighbor, look no further than literally the very next story on the “latest” queue of the AP’s home page, headlined “Clashes erupt in Sweden’s third largest city after another Quran burning and at least 3 are detained,” about the latest cry for attention in unhinged Iraqi-born Christian activist Salwan Momika’s ongoing campaign of public antagonism toward IKEAstan’s Muslim community.

Ukrainian leaders are losing their conflict with Russia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a member of the US House of Representatives from Georgia, told US radio show host Alex Jones:https://t.co/fiiUgFmpJh pic.twitter.com/JUnzfYul5R

— TASS (@tassagency_en) September 4, 2023

Russia’s state-run TASS news agency gave a shot out to Republican Congresswoman and Georgian faun Marjorie Taylor Greene for her support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by repeating Russian propaganda.  And bonus points for doing it on fellow Putin sycophant Alex Jones’s program, Marge!

You can imagine flamingos, native of Mexico and Caribbean nations, being distributed by Hurricane Idalia around Florida as the storm swept through.  It’s not unusual for storms to disperse non-native species–birds, animals and plants–with flamingos spotted from the Gulf shore to the Atlantic in Florida.

But USA Today reports that since Idalia hit the Southeast, the pink birds have been spotted as far north as Virginia and as far inland as Ohio.  One birder in Florida was able to photograph a leg tag seen on a bird, with the information identifying the bird came from a sanctuary in the Yucatan.

Entomology student George Keller was searching for monarch butterflies in Caesar Creek State Park in Waynesville, Ohio when he spotted park employees discussing a small flock of flamingos at one of the parks ponds.  Tour guides at the Romaine National Wildlife Refuge near Charleston, South Carolina photographed two birds there last week.

Ukraine’s President Volodomir Zelenskyy said on Sunday he was replacing the nation’s minister of defense, Oleksii Reznikov, as the government begins investigations into allegations of official corruption, the New York Times reports.

Reznikov himself has not been accused of any corrupt acts, but many who work under him are being investigated for graft.  “Oleksii Reznikov has gone through more than 550 days of full-scale war,” Zelenskyy said in a statement Sunday night. “I believe that the ministry needs new approaches and other formats of interaction with both the military and society at large.”

Zelenskyy is expected to appoint Rustem Umerov, the chairman of Ukraine’s State Property Fund, a state agency that is overseeing the transfer of property that was once state-owned into private hands.

There’s been quite a bit of chatter over the last few weeks on potential efforts to remove disgraced former President Trump from the ballot in a number of states next year. Here’s Virginia Senator Tim Kaine this morning addressing a question on it from ABC’s George Stephanopoulos:

Kaine’s head is the right place, gently calling it a liberal pipe dream that nobody should be taking it too seriously, especially not at the expense of any bandwidth that could be devoted to Dems actually winning a Biden vs Trump rematch outright. Between the longshot nature of it and the sheer amount of moving parts involved across 50 states with really only a handful of them in which such an effort would even make sense to try that makes it almost pointless to even address.

That said, there are a few wild cards worth watching, starting with New Mexico. Alex Curtas, a spokesman for Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver tells Talking Points Memo they’re “aware of and are reviewing the legal theories regarding the 14th Amendment that conclude Donald Trump is ineligible to run for President. If Donald Trump files in New Mexico to run for President, we will make a determination at that time based on our understanding of New Mexico law and the requirements to run for office in New Mexico. Any determination about a specific candidate’s eligibility for the ballot will be made after the candidate filing day in February 2024”

Former Obama Administration Solicitor General and MSNBC legal analyst Neal Katyal on Sunday reported that after a grueling six mile hike through treacherous mud, he escaped the nightmarish disaster that the 2023 Burning Man Festival became when a half inch of rain poured into the normally dry and dusty northern Nevada desert basin hosting the countercultural-ish gathering.

“It was an incredibly harrowing 6 mile hike at midnight through heavy and slippery mud, but I got safely out of Burning Man. Never been before and it was fantastic (with brilliant art and fabulous music)… except the ending,” Katyal wrote on Twitter. It’s not clear if there were any other cable TV legal nerds currently or formerly stranded at the ruined gathering. Other sites are reporting that a number of “real” celebrities escaped on foot as well. A simple search on Google or other resources can return articles about those escapes for readers interested in those stories.

“I would not have nominated slates of phony electors,” hip-hop loving millennial “Republican” Vivek Ramaswamy told known Democrat propagandist George Stephanopoulos on his Sunday morning lamestream media show. “I disagree with a lot of what he did [on January 6th, 2021]… I think it’s different than saying he should be prosecuted.” When asked about President Trump’s taking of his documents from the White House, which he’s already completely exonerated for because of the Clinton socks case, the squishy RINO said “There’s different between bad judgment and a crime.”

Longtime Oregon Republican National Committeeman Solomon Yue, a Chinese-American businessman who immigrated to the US in 1980 and has since been a vocal critic of the ChiCom party who likes to throw around the nickname “Beijing Biden” to mock the 46th president’s perceived weakness against the Xi Regime, tells the Daily Beast other Republicans are accusing him of being a fifth columnist sent to spy for the commies simply because, well, he’s from China and nothing could convince the racist MAGA assholes who he thought were his friends otherwise.

“Those people try to basically attack and defame me, and I assume probably you got a call from the people in Oregon,” Yue told the Beast when they reached out for comment, adding “I actually catch Chinese spies infiltrating the RNC and the Trump campaign,” and that he’s introduced resolutions to “hold CCP China accountable for Wuhan Virus” should be proof his commitment to the GOP.

A US-based think tank determined the Russian forces fighting on the line of the Ukraine war no longer have the ability to return artillery fire in key areas at the front, a detriment that may have led to Ukrainian gains in the previous weeks, Newsweek reports.

In a report released Friday, the Institute for the Study of War said Russian commanders have long warned the Kremlin that the Russian military was losing its “counter-battery capabilities” in Ukraine.  Russian Battalion commander Alexander Khodakovsky said that his units have been under intense shelling, leading to a breakdown of battle readiness and moral, particularly because Russian forces cannot return the fire.  “Khodakovsky expressed concerns about whether distressed and exhausted Russian forces will be able to defend against a future Ukrainian offensive in this sector of the front,” the report reads.

The ISW noted that the situation is not consistent across all Russian units.  “However, Khodakovsky’s comments likely accurately reflect the situation in his limited but important sector of the frontline as well as the situation for often neglected proxy military formations such as Khodakovsky’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) ‘Vostok’ Battalion,”

Trump Media and Technology Group’s planned $300 million merger with the financial fund Digital World Acquisition Corp. faces a September 8th deadline to close the merger or the deal, like everything else Donald Trump touches, dies.

Per the Washington Post, DWAC has asked its shareholders for one more extension for the deal, which was originally supposed to wrap up within 12 to 18 months of the July 2021 announcement.  The merger would inject hundreds of millions of dollars into Trump’s Truth Social platform, which has been struggling to find users and advertisers, stuck with just MAGAts and Trump.

The deal has been delayed because of a number of investigations into DWAC, including accusations of a board member’s insider trading, the dismissal of the group’s CEO, and a $18 million fine from the SEC for giving false information to investors and the agency.  The current management will make a pitch on September 6th to secure the support it needs to extend the deadline.

A Florida state judge rejected a Congressional map designed by Republican Governor and GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, saying it illegally attempts to pull representation from the state’s Black voters, the Miami Herald reports.

DeSantis attempted to pass a highly manipulated Congressional map that would hand Republicans multiple seats despite earlier court orders to draw the districts to fairly represent the populations.  Second Judicial Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh found DeSantis’s map violated the state constitution’s Fair Districts Amendments passed in 2010 through ballot measures.  DeSantis, a Yale law school alum, tried arguing that Florida’s Fair Districts Amendments violated the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution.

While Marsh’s decision will only impact his district in the Panhandle, but it could be used by other plaintiffs in multiple suits around the state making the same case against DeSantis’s refusal to follow court orders regarding their districts.

After noting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis chose not to meet with the President of the United States while he toured hurricane damage in Florida on Saturday, Joe Biden said his message to DeSantis is simple: “We’re gonna take care of Florida,” like the President of the United States should.

No self-glorification.  No demand for political worship from a leader to a subordinate.  No insane boast about “the best response to a hurricane ever, in the history of our country, people are saying.  No one’s seen anything like this.” No adding on “again” to note how many times the Biden Administration has had to aid Floridians after one disaster or another, from hurricane recovery to civil rights violations ordered by the governor. Just calm, quiet competent governance.  From Biden, I mean.  DeSantis, on the other hand, is being a cowardly snowflake.