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A Tullahoma High School has sued the school district as well as the principal and vice principal of the high school for violating his First Amendment rights after the student was suspended for Instagram posts skewering the principal, NBC News reports.  The student, who will be a senior in the coming school year, posted the memes featuring principal Jason Quick, shown above, to his account over the summer of 2022.

As school began in August 2022, the student was called into the principal’s office and told he would be suspended for five days.  The student suffered a panic/anxiety attack which made him physically ill.  After the school notified his mother, the principal met with her and told her the suspension was reduced to three days.

It’s amazing when two people with law degrees–poor man’s Frankenstein’s monster Matt Gaetz (William & Mary Law ’07) and Alina Habba (Widener Commonwealth Law ’10)–exhibit such ignorance of the law, but what can you expect from a Congressman who obviously wants a TeeVee gig and a spokeslawyer who obviously wants a TeeVee gig, too.  The pair discuss the potential for racketeering charges against indicted court-declared rapist Donald Trump, noting that people think of the stereotypical “Mob,” not “a former president.”  …except when that former president is running an organized effort to commit crimes.

Two wealthy Dem donors have been identified by Insider as among the buyers of irresponsible crackhead-turned legitimately talented painter Hunter Biden’s pieces and one of the two, Elizabeth Hirsh Naftal, was appointed by Joe Biden to a seat on the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, an unpaid post similar to an ambassadorship in that well-heeled donors often land them. Hirsh Naftal has donated $13,414 to the Biden campaign and $29,700 to the DNC so far this year and last year hosted a fundraiser with Vice President Kamala Harris. Insider doesn’t include any details on the other donor-buyer, Kevin Morris, who does not hold any similar post.

They were also unable to ascertain if the purchase came before or after Hirsh Naftal’s appointment to the commission, but either way as far as “self-dealing” goes this is pretty tame. She already donates to the Biden Campaign and it’s hard to see how she didn’t angle the spot independently of any purchase. The gallery transacting the sales goes out of their way to ensure that the buyers are blind to Hunter and the closest potential impropriety that Insider offers is that maybe Hunter found out that Hirsh Naftal bought the painting after the fact and then voiced his support for her appointment to the commission. But you know, this will still be an absolute atrocity compared to the innocent friendship a certain Supreme Court Justice enjoys with his billionaire Hitler fanboy friend from Texas and as such Republicans will no doubt be very much eager to make it a thing.

Speaking of which, on Monday the Justice Department sent a letter to spandex-wearing grapple freak telling them they “are deeply concerned by any misrepresentations about our work – whether deliberate or arising from misunderstandings” about Hunter’s plea deal with Trump-appointed Delaware US Attorney David Weiss, and said Weiss will be made available for testimony this fall.

Tafari Campbell, the 45-year-old personal chef for the Obamas who rose to public notice for brewing honey-flavored beers in the White House, apparently drowned while paddleboarding off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

While the Obamas were away, Campbell was vacationing at their Massachusetts property.  He was reported missing Sunday afternoon after he did not return home from paddleboarding.  His body washed up on shore Monday morning, police said.

“Tafari was a beloved part of our family. When we first met him, he was a talented sous chef at the White House — creative and passionate about food, and its ability to bring people together,” the Obamas said in a statement.  “In the years that followed, we got to know him as a warm, fun, extraordinarily kind person who made all of our lives a little brighter.”

Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team are scrutinizing a February 2020 Oval Office meeting in which disgraced then-President Trump touted his administration’s efforts at securing the upcoming election, sources tell CNN, adding that Donald was so excited he wanted the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to hold a press conference hyping it. The fat bastard began changing his tune just weeks later as states began expanding mail-in and early vote options as the COVID-19 pandemic exploded and has stuck with his constant “voter fraud” bullshit ever since, which CNN says indicates Smith is looking to establish his degenerate quarry’s state of mind and intent to try to overturn the results from long before the first votes had even been cast.

That same month was when Senate Republicans, led by life coach lady and dumb piece of shit Marsha Blackburn, blocked three separate election security bills, including one mandating campaigns alert the FBI and FEC about any contact from foreign entities assistance and a ban on voting machines from being connected to the internet… that last one later becoming a staple of 2020 election conspiracy fan fiction stories. Blackburn had accused Dems of using the bills as fundraising messaging and attempting to “seize control over elections from the states.”

“On behalf of Tennesseans, we are taking a united stand against the tainted electoral results from the recent Presidential election. American democracy relies on the consent of the governed. Allegations of voter fraud, irregularities and unconstitutional actions diminish public confidence in what should be a free, fair and transparent process,” Blackburn said in a January 2, 2021 statement announcing her intent to object during the electoral college vote count joint session four days later.

With the exceptions of South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, heels-wearing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and, of course, disgraced former President Trump, fake Democrat 2024 primary challenger Robert F Kennedy Jr has received more mentions on Fox News coverage than any of the Republican 2024 primary contenders such as former South Carolina Governor Nimrata “Nikki” Haley and fascist millennial businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, Media Matters reports on their quantification of the hype circlejerk surrounding the deranged antisemite by the propaganda network.

Between April 19 and July 20, 2023, Bobby Jr’s name was mentioned 779 times. It’s a small fraction of Trump’s 4,702 and DeSantis’s 2,484 mentions, but well within spitting distance of Scott’s 941.

“People in Trump’s orbit have touted Kennedy’s potential to function as a ‘chaos agent’ in the Democratic primary, softening up Biden and making it easier for the former president to defeat him in the general election. Fox, a Republican propaganda network that is re-cementing its role as a pro-Trump channel, is playing a key role in trying to stoke that anarchy,” Media Matters writes in a typically sharp and succinct summary of the incredibly fucking stupid situation.

It’s never been made clear why apparent drowning fetishist Greg Abbott feels the need to erect potentially deadly barriers in the river if Trump’s border wall is as effective as Republicans claimed, but anyway…  The US Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas and its Republican governor for installing a series of buoys reportedly covered in and connected by razor wire in a section of the Rio Grande to deter migrants from crossing, Politico reports.

The lawsuit alleged Abbott’s stunt–which has reportedly led to the hospitalization of many migrants, including children–violated various laws including constructing an illegal structure in a US waterway.

This transcript–faithfully taken at half speed to compensate for his vomitous speaking style–demonstrates how badly conservative gadfly Ben Shapiro wants to turn his pathetic, wimpy torching of toys because of a perceived demasculinization of the doll-based Ken character into a PR win.  Note how Shapiro now claims people are getting outraged over his reaction to a movie about a doll when he literally set things afire because of a movie about a doll.

The reaction to me burning a Barbie car with, like, Barbie and Ken in it, is like the reaction in the Islamic world when someone burns a Koran in Sweden. It’s totally crazy.  Idon’teven–like wow, guys.  Wow. I mean, there’s an article, in NBC, NBCNews.com:  ‘The internet is roasting for hatewatching Barbie while dressed like Ken.’  Apparently, being dressed like Ken amounts to black jeans and a black shirt. … There’s a really serious undertone to a lot of this stuff.  I mean, I actually got some death threats over the Barbievideo, I’m not kidding you.  There are people on, on Twitter that are literally tweeting out about, can we do something about this Shapir– like, over a Barbie movie.

Unshockingly, Ben Shapiro confuses the outrage Muslims feel when someone burns a Koran with the general mocking he endures after his publicity stunt backfires and he becomes the target of ridicule.

With the sudden, impetuous transition to rename Twitter to “X” which appeared to happen when he had another uncontrolled impulse to destroy a once-dominant social media enterprise, Elon Musk ordered the Twitter bird removed from all company property, from the website itself to emails.  Instead of the pleasant light blue bird icon, now the site is bedecked with a generic black-and-white “X” in the corner, a simplistic and uninspiring design that denotes nothing but laziness and poor planning.

And speaking of poor planning, Musk’s need for immediate compliance and fulfillment led to an order Monday for crews to remove the bird icon from the exterior of Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters.  But Musk never obtained the needed permits for the equipment, the work, or the need to partially block a city street to do the work safely, so the city shut it down.  Symbolic of Musk’s disastrous tenure, the company’s building now stands with a half-disassembled logo on the front until Musk can figure out who he needs to hire to fix it.

“The dwarves are even dwarves anymore because they thought that would be too politically incorrect.  Snow White is not even a white woman anymore even though her name is Snow White,” Fox guest idiot Charly Arnolt asserts, apparently ignorant that the races of millions of people like footballer Reggie White and entertainer Jack Black do not match their surnames.  “So it’s very interesting just the different directions just the actresses starring in the newest rendition of Snow White have said, y’know it’s no longer about this woman finding true love, she’s no longer going to be saved by a prince, y’know it’s all about her being a natural born leader that she was supposed to be.  We’re just going too far out of the way to make things super diverse and inclusive.  It’s no longer about high quality film production anymore or, and entertainment.  We’ve just completely lost sight of what Hollywood is supposed to be about.”

Disgraced former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik will turn to special counsel Jack Smith over more than 2,000 pages of documents relating to his unsuccessful efforts to uncover voter fraud or election irregularities to support indicted felon Donald Trump’s claims that he actually won the election, the Daily Beast reports.

Working under the guidance of hair dye dispenser Rudy Giuliani while Giuliani still had a legitimate license to practice law, Kerik at first fought the release of the documents case under attorney-client confidentiality rules.  However, Trump waived those claims last week, forcing Kerik to comply.

The documents are expected to give Smith and his team added insight into the effort Trump and his cabal went to undermine the results of the 2020 election, including communications and planning to submit fake slates of electors and to nullify the legitimate ballots of millions of voters.

For all intents and purposes, Trump’s momentary National Security Advisor and sworn QAnon follower Mike Flynn’s $50 million lawsuit claiming malicious prosecution against the federal government has been put on hold until the federal judge in the case hears a motion to dismiss from the federal government, a pretty solid sign that the judge is seriously considering tossing the frivolous case.

Per Politico’s Josh Gerstein, US District Judge for the Middle of Florida Mary Stenson Scriven halted all discovery motions and exchanges between the two parties involved in the Flynn v US case until the teensy matter of whether the case has merit gets determined.  Flynn claims he was unfairly targeted for prosecution because the Justice Department–after it was taken over by the corrupt Bill Barr and Flynn hired Trump-favorite Sidney “The Kraken” Powell as his counsel–dropped Flynn’s case at the insistence of Donald Trump, as he weaponized the government to protect his political allies, despite Flynn having asserted his guilt at least three times under oath.

🚨 BREAKING! 🚨 OMG! 🚨 HUGE! 🚨 BREAKING! 🚨 Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer will testify to the House Oversight Committee about their fun times smoking crack and taking money from foreign scumbags, RSBN reports! 🚨 HUGE! 🚨 THIS TIME IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT LIBS! 🚨

“What liberals will have us believe is that we went from the Civil War, to we didn’t start recovering until the 1960s.  They would not have us believe that for one hundred years we were moving in the right direction, not in the right place but moving in the right direction,” Fox personality Johnny Jones asserts that the US has recovered completely from the horrors and injustice of slavery, though he does so by glossing over the century of segregation, Jim Crow, “separate but equal” and attacks on affirmative action that conservative, racist states only complied with because they were coerced to with from financial penalties to National Guard escorting children into schools.

The Internal Revenue Service announced it will no longer send agents on unannounced visits to taxpayers suspected of shorting their tax payments, citing increased hostility and risk to their employees thanks to violent rhetoric against the agency led by Congressional Republicans.

The Washington Post notes that for decades, IRS agents would make tens of thousands of visits to the homes of people who have not responded to IRS outreach regarding misfiled, unfiled or past due accounts.  The agency says it will now cut those down to a few hundred per year, basing the need on the urgency and outstanding amount of the debt.

The policy switch comes as the Biden Administration shifts the focus of the agency from harassing middle-class taxpayers to concentrating on the massive unpaid taxes of the wealthiest Americans.  The Treasury Department set plans to hire more than 80,000 new employees over the next decade, with most focusing on customer service and administrative personnel, not enforcement agents as Republicans had characterized the entire lot of new hires.

Donald Trump’s post-presidency photo book, “Our Journey Together,” compiled from photographs taken by taxpayer-paid White House photographers, netted the indicted sexual assaulter $5.75 million in royalties since its debut in December 2021, a surprising number given just over 10,000 were sold in retail markets, Forbes reports based on financial disclosures.

The book’s publishing company, a new venture created by underachieving son Don Jr. and a former campaign staffer claims to have sold 500,000 copies of the book, but NPD BookScan, an independent company that tracks retail sales of books, reports just 10,200 books sold through brick-and-mortar and online retailers.  The rest were sold to special interest groups supporting Trump, his campaign, his lifestyle and his legal fees, so it’s impossible to track the actual distribution of the books that are stored in those groups’ warehouses.

Trump’s campaign and his PAC paid more than a quarter million dollars for a supply of books, which sell with a cover price of $75 each.  Trump’s campaign website still features the book as swag for people who donate $75 to the campaign, the same as the book’s cover price.  Trump book ranks 26,394th on Amazon’s Best Seller list; Barack Obama’s 2020 book, “A Promised Land,” by comparison, sits at 3,100 even though it’s been on sale more than year longer.

Former one-term Senator Kelly Ayotte announced her bid for the Republican nomination for New Hampshire governor, hoping to succeed retiring GOP Governor Chris Sununu, the Washington Post reports.  Regarded as a relative centrist in the Republican Party and someone who would cross the aisle to work with Democrats on legislation.  She’s also one of the few pro-choice Republicans to take national office.  She’ll face Chuck Morse, the former president of the New Hampshire state Senate who unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate in 2022, losing the nomination to conspiracy theorist Don Bolduc, who ultimately lost to Democrat Maggie Hassan.

Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday scored a big win against democracy as his far right ultra-nationalist coalition in the Knesset passed a bill allowing the government to effectively overrule the country’s judiciary whenever and however they want, Al-Jazeera reports.

Spandex wearing grapple freak Jim Jordan is aiming for a vote this week to hold robotic weirdo Mark Zuckerberg in contempt for ignoring Jordan’s stupid subpoenas or whatever, Punchbowl reports.

Or maybe Zuckerberg did comply with them but the documents he handed over didn’t prove Jordan’s stupid “Big Tech bias” conspiracy theories, leading to the pointless contempt threat.

Why is this fat bastard complaining so much about being indicted again if it helps him politically in the GOP primary? “I consider it a great badge of courage. I’m being indicted for you, and I believe the ‘you’ is more than 200 million people that love our country that are out there, and they love our country. This is a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time,” Trump said just last month.