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Sarah Khalifa, a 32 year-old Egyptian former TV host, current plastic surgery entrepreneur, and the kind of person for whom the front-facing smartphone camera was invented, was among 12 sentenced to death in Cairo on Saturday following their August conviction in a massive yet non-specific narcotics trafficking case, TMZ reports. Public reporting only alludes to “synthetic” drugs for which Khalifa and her associates had imported 1,600 lbs of precursor ingredients with intent to manufacture. So it could be as bad as carfentanil or as mild as THC extract to make gummies and vape fluid, we have no idea and probably aren’t going to find out anytime soon.

The still-nominally-appealable sentence was, per standard operating procedure in all of the Egyptian justice system’s capital cases, handed down by the country’s Grand Mufti. And yes, that means a high-ranking Islamic cleric with a kind of fruity-sounding title decided that this woman should die when for all we know some oily jerkoff she met in a club could’ve smooth-talked her into allowing him to use her plastic surgery clinic as a front to place bulk orders for the ingredients.

Or maybe a life of privilege and comfort was getting boring so why not give crime a try. Stede Bonnet felt the same way. Interestingly enough Bonnet was also hanged for it (his best-frenemy Edward “Blackbeard” Teach went down more like Tony Montana just a week earlier) as Khalifa and her friends will be if the big moof’s sentence is upheld. It does not appear that she’s being singled out given the other 11 headed for the noose – last year 492 Egyptian convicts were sentenced and 23 were executed – so it may be fair to say that if she indeed knew what she was doing as a witting participant – then she should have known the risks too. Especially with that large of an operation.

Under the very Politico Playbook-esque headline of “‘The vibes are very bad’ in Texas” the mega-buzzmaxxed, always-plugged-in daily email newsletter powered by Anthropic – get 0 percent off your Claude Pro subscription when you use promo code “playbookzero” – reports the signals from the noise are achieving escape velocity into the conversation surrounding the “Trump-a-Palooza” kicking off in Dallas on Wednesday night amid a slump in the attention and, uh, real economies.

“My only hope is that no one watches it since it’s competing versus NFL opening games,” a “person close to the White House” told Playbook, adding “Hopefully nobody notices [convicted felon President Trump’s] embarrassing show,” before self-soothing with “I don’t think it will matter. No one knows about it, no enthusiasm, and it’s during football. Only DC people care.” The “vibes” person quoted in the headline, a “Republican lobbyist” added “Dems are salivating. Our people are debating Israel. Or melting down about this or that. No one is motivated to vote. Only the DSA rise is what’s keeping us in the game,” referring of course to what’s expected to be a “socialism”-themed two-night program in Dallas. Only the most liver-scarred should make a drinking game out of it.

“If you’re just a generic white Republican male, like Mike Collins or Mike Whatley… you’re struggling this cycle due to the national environment and the drag that the president’s popularity has on the ticket,” a “senior GOP operative working on midterm races” told Playbook, adding that convention has put some GOP candidates in a “tight spot,” but the party “might as well try something instead of just having Trump on Twitter all day. It’s probably a net wash at the end of the day.”

NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy reveals new details about the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that crashed at Miami International Airport.

Homendy says the 55-year-old captain had 7,145 flight hours and received his Boeing 767 type rating in May, while the 37-year-old first… pic.twitter.com/1GE2V2q1D8

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 9, 2026

Convicted felon President Trump, the economic miracle worker who was supposed to save a nation suffering under the feckless warmongering of the Biden Regime, has managed to push the price of a barrel of oil up over $100 again, NBC reports on the economic miracle for Exxon-Mobil and others.

“The Failing New York Magazine wrote a story that I wasn’t down at the World Trade Center after the Tragedy of September 11th, because nobody saw me there. Well, I don’t think I would be the first thing on anyone’s mind but, I was there, obviously not on the same day as the collapse, but shortly thereafter, with a large group of Construction Workers. I discussed it today during my Remarks on the Ellipse, in Washington, DC, for Tunnel to Towers. Everything I said was exactly accurate and, to prove the point, I am attaching clips of me there with numerous of my people, including my then Head of Security, Matthew Calamari, who has confirmed that very sad trip to Lower Manhattan, many times, to many different Journalists, but it’s a story that just won’t die. The Fake News doesn’t want to listen, even when they know their story is false. That’s why their approval ratings are at an All Time LOW, but mine are VERY HIGH!” caterwauled the valor thief on Tuesday.

Asked to comment by CNN’s Daniel Dale, all the White House had to say about the Orange God Emperor’s batshit lies about 9/11 was that “President Trump spent the morning paying tribute to the heroic first responders who laid down their lives in service to others in the September 11th attacks and honoring their incredible families. The President was relaying his experience of a city reeling immediately after and in the days and weeks after the horrific attacks – and the fact that the failing legacy media is using this to try to attack him is a disgrace and yet another reason why Americans’ trust in the media is at an all-time low.” So yeah it must be pretty bad if they consider it an “attack.”

A story of narrowly escaping certain death with the help of two New York City firefighters as the World Trade Center collapsed into a an avalanche of flaming steel is now part of the legend of President Donald J Trump, who apparently wants you to vote Republican in the midterms out of respect for the bravery he displayed on that horrific day nearly a quarter century ago.

In a preview of an upcoming book titled “Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment,” Haaretz reports that in the leadup to the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas that left hundreds of Israelis dead and led to the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people in Gaza, dictator Benjamin Netanyahu received multiple warnings from different sources including UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and CIA Director William J Burns that Hamas was planning a major assault, warnings that Netanyahu did not then share with his military leaders. The source was none other than Hamas’s leader himself.

“Convey a message that I am preparing the mother of all surprises. A terrifying operation. Something extraordinary. Please convey to the Israelis what I am saying word for word,” the now-dead Hamas chieftain Yahyah Sinwar told an advisor close to Bin Zayed during a meeting in September 2023.

At least 73 people near Saudi Arabia’s border with Yemen have been wounded in strikes from missiles launched by Iranian proxy militia the Houthis on Tuesday, Al-Jazeera reports.

The presence of Bombardier in Wichita supports a local workforce of more than a thousand employees, who contribute their talent and expertise to our nation’s defense and aerospace capabilities.

This afternoon, I reached out to the Trump administration to make certain the…

— Senator Jerry Moran (@JerryMoran) September 7, 2026

“This afternoon, I reached out to the Trump administration to make certain the President is aware of the significant contributions of Bombardier to Kansas and the importance of its presence in Wichita to many Kansas workers at Bombardier and in the Bombardier supply chain. I will continue working to see that Bombardier’s manufacturing operations not only remain in Kansas but continue to grow and create American jobs. Kansas is home to a hardworking, skilled workforce, and I will continue welcoming leaders in aircraft and defense manufacturing to do business here in the Air Capital of the World,” continued the hapless cuck in the rest of the low-wattage tweet after the cutoff.

No, Trump did not call him Jerry Moron yet. He did however post “Oil prices will drop precipitously, like everything else is dropping (but more!), when we WIN the war with Iran. Three Dollars a gallon, but ultimately, below Two Dollars a gallon. It will all happen quickly, and Iran will never have a Nuclear Weapon. MAGA!” Tell me again about the rabbits and the vegetable patch, George.

“NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough! Over 50 percent of their revenue comes from the United States – They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service – All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the USA. They even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada – Completely unjust and unfair! That Era is OVER! If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a ‘piggybank.’ BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Monday, once again just making it increasingly fairer to question whether he’s going to make it another two years.

Patrick Havas, the MAGA terrorist arrested Sunday after attempting while armed to force his way Dem Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, is the brother of Andrew Havas, a Vivek Ramaswamy campaign donor and GOP operative who resigned from incumbent Senator Jon Husted’s campaign earlier this summer after a 2009 incident with a 15 year-old girl resurfaced, TiffinOhio.net reports.

Patrick, 38, “knocked multiple fairgoers over while trying to get towards Dr Acton, and was found to be in possession of a taser and two pistols,” per a statement from the Ohio State Patrol. He was booked into the Mahoning County jail on two counts of assault and one count of disorderly conduct.

Andrew Havas, meanwhile, had resigned from his post as Franklin County Husted campaign chair after Acton’s campaign had questioned why her opponent, Ramaswamy, had accepted $10,102.54 in contributions from a guy who would have been a convicted sex offender had prosecutors not offered him a plea deal over the 2009 incident with a 15 year-old girl. Andrew, 22 at the time, took the deal allowing him to cop to misdemeanor assault and take 90 days in jail rather than felony sexual misconduct with a minor. “Ohioans deserve leaders who exercise good judgment and who put integrity first,” Acton wrote in July, rubbing it in for Da Vek as he struggles to fend off Acton.

An employee of the now-shuttered Trump Store of Manchester, Tennessee tells the Wall Street Journal that the MAGA merch retailer’s final 72 hours saw about 12 customers each day. “Steep discounts to clear inventory didn’t draw a flood of customers,” the Journal writes of the demise.

Syracuse, New York sales rep Lisa Hall, who supplies these Trump stores with all their Chinese-made bullshit, says sales cratered after the Orange God Emperor attacked Iran. “I used to be hearing from them, my phone would be exploding. Now, that’s not happening,” said Hall of her customers.

Notice how this weenie doesn’t actually say what, if anything, he’s going to do to “rebuke or punish” NBC’s Kristen Welker per his Orange Overlord’s command, but does at least sort of hint that maybe something will be done about “fake polls.” Of course nothing in terms of an actual process for determining which polls qualify as fake was even so much as hinted at but just give it some time and Carr won’t be asked about it again. Then it’ll be like he never said this at all.

A new NBC News national survey finds convicted felon president Trump’s approval down to 24 percent among independent respondents, an all-time low in their polling and part of a second-term low of 36 percent overall. Of particular note to NBC’s data geeks is the drop in strong approval among Republican voters at 41 percent, the first time it ever dropped below 50, and down from 52 percent in their March/April sample. Strong approval among MAGA voters is at 62 percent.

This clip’s a little dated as you can tell by the “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo” part of the chyron. Not that dated, since it was only six days ago and by then for weeks the shrill, unhinged far right anchor had been missing from the airwaves for weeks – but before she had officially been fired for leaking to the White House that her employer had been keen to avoid another $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. That very mild staleness also represents sand that fell through the hourglass since House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, within a span of about 29 seconds, sobbed that disinformation from “the left wing media” is causing Americans to feel like convicted felon President Trump and Congressional Republicans haven’t delivered on their lofty economic promises – and then assure Fox News viewers that voters are “smarter than” that and “recognize” that the midterms are a choice between “common sense” of Trumpism and blah blah blah…

Tom Emmer tends to get a little overly emotional under pressure, so he may not exactly be the most reliable barometer of sentiment within the currently ruling party. Still, for a leading Republican to be whining so plaintively on national television, his frustration so raw and undeniable, all but calling the American people fucking stupid and impressionable is in a way more of an admission of how dire he sees the situation than if he were to openly admit that he sees his party’s situation as dire.

Is it dire?

In an era of a lot of instant-“no shit, of course this would happen” headlines some nevertheless manage to stick out from the crowd of publicly chronicled predictable supervillainy, like this CNN report on drug-addicted semi-trillionaire Elon Musk putting the swiping the AMEX to help the struggling Senate campaign of comically corrupt and amoral Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

“The business interests, the long-term investment that he is making, the Musk operation politically does not need to have a Democrat in their backyard,” said Lone Star State GOP strategist Matt Langston, adding “They will invest. They will get involved in a big way,” but not saying “this is fucking embarrassing that a three-time statewide election winner needs this much money to win a fourth AFTER we already collectively pissed away $92 million to lose the primary to him.”

Because being a dick and getting breaking state law just to ram through a gerrymander wasn’t enough to get him to just leave it be, Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins on Friday petitioned the US Supreme Court to step in and overrule state Supreme Court’s decision pausing the new map.

Since the headline was already too much why not just take it further: “I have struggled to find the words to address everything that has happened over the last few days. I am still completely heartbroken and traumatized by the loss of my beautiful HeeHaw. He wasn’t ‘just a donkey.’ He was a baby I bottle-raised, loved, and cared for every single day. Trying to grieve him while suddenly facing thousands of opinions, accusations, and messages has been incredibly overwhelming.”

Those are the words of a Tuesday Facebook post by Polk County, Georgia farmer Hannah Israel, whose baby was tasered and then fatally shot early Sunday morning by a cop with the Cedartown Police Department, per Fox 5 Atlanta. The officer, who was placed on leave, had been searching for a missing child – later found safe and sound – when he entered the property and for God knows what reason used lethal force on HeeHaw. Israel’s Facebook post went on for considerably longer but did not get into any specifics about the alleged harassment besides that “just a donkey” part.

Cumming, Georgia-based attorney Chris P McCreme – apparent legal name Chris McCormick but changed to McCreme in his Facebook profile – did however get into detail in a cease and desist letter to an unnamed recipient, writing “since August 30, 2026, you have made public online social media postings falsely stating for the world to see that Ms Israel ‘abuses and neglects’ animals (on her farm), while encouraging/directing people to ‘quit sending yall money’ to her. Those postings, inclusive of you sharing posts by Ms Israel and by others (also who are defaming her) are patently misrepresentative of the facts: Ms Israel has not and does not abuse or neglect animals. Your public false statements have contributed to others making similar defamatory posts,” which the diligent counsel McCreme/McCormick obscured the addressee before posting the letter to Facebook.

The Georgia Department of Agriculture have opened an investigation into HeeHaw’s murder. It’s not clear why they have jurisdiction when a local cop tasers and shoots a donkey on a petting zoo.