An new survey by Public Policy Polling finds Dem Congressman Reuben Gallego leading nutcase Kari Lake 42 to 37 percent with incumbent “independent” asshole Kyrsten Sinema in a distant third at 14 percent in a hypothetical three way race for the Arizona Senate seat in 2024, Jezebel reports.

It’s an improvement for Gallego over the Lake 41, Gallego 40, Sinema 13 finding by the same pollster in December, making it clear Sinema needs to drop out if she wants to help Lake win.

The FBI, DOJ, Treasury, and the entire government knows and has proof Hunter Biden was involved in human sex trafficking and they have done absolutely nothing about it.

But just imagine if Hunter’s last name was Trump.

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 24, 2023

“I haven’t watched the interview and probably never will because I know it is nothing more than leftist propaganda. I have watched the video of Ray Epps at the capital on J6 many times since J6, though. I have been waiting for Epps to be arrested, jailed in a DC gulag, and awaiting trial for instigating an ‘insurrection’. That has never happened, and since I have seen, as you noted, grandmas and grandpas being arrested and imprisoned for simply walking around the capitol peacefully, and others for doing nothing more than Epps did, or less, for most, I have come to the conclusion Epps is definitely a government operative/provocateur and nothing the lying mainstream media says or does will change my mind,” says the current top comment on the RedState.com article “60 Minutes Basically Screams, ‘Leave Ray Epps Alone!’” posted Monday.

This was by all appearances a sincerely written comment, as Red State requires Disqus users to pay a subscription fee to be able to post there. Someone who is almost certainly an actual genuine right winger actually wrote this out of real belief, without irony, snark, trolling, et cetera.

“We write to request the Office of Congressional Ethics initiate a review of and take appropriate action as a result of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA 14th CD) suspected violations of House Ethics rules and standards of official conduct. Representative Greene’s unethical conduct arises from her continuous verbal attacks, defamatory statements, publication of personal photos and data, and promotion of conspiracy theories about and against Robert Hunter Biden. None of these could possibly be deemed to be part of any legitimate legislative activity, as is clear from both the content of her statements and actions, and the forums she uses to spew her often unhinged rhetoric,” says a letter from Hunter Biden lawyer Abbe Lowell asking Office of Congressional Ethics Chairman Paul Vinovich and Co-Chairman Mike Barnes to drop the hammer on the QAdulteress.

In a possibly more consequential move, Lowell also on Monday wrote to the Treasury Department’s inspector general’s office asking them to look into how former Trump aide Garrett Ziegler, also a crazy fucking Nazi asshole,`obtained suspicious activity reports on Hunter Biden that he shared during an interview on Steve Bannon’s white nationalist podcast back in November.

A review by CNBC finds quite a few Red State financial officers have more than simply political interest in leading a crusade of divestment from “woke” banks that have made investments in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) sector. Among them is Missouri auditor Scott Fitzpatrick, who as treasurer pulled $500 million from the state’s pension fund out of BlackRock over their climate-focused policies, while also owning at least $10,000 worth of shares of Chevron.

Same story with Georgia treasurer Steve McCoy, who along with Fitzpatrick co-signed a letter telling the Biden Administration they “should be spearheading a call to invest in American energy instead of pursuing ESG initiatives that divide American energy businesses and discourage investment in these reliable energy industries.” McCoy, an appointee of Governor Brian Kemp, who as of 2020 owned at least $5,000 of bonds in fracking company Halliburton and a stake in the US Oil Fund, a crude oil ETF. Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar owns hundreds of shares in ConocoPhillips and Devon Energy and apparently didn’t see any conflict of interest when he co-signed the same letter and harangued other state financial officials for not inflicting enough pain on the “woke” banks earlier this year.

Five people have died from the new 105 XBB.1.16 strain of the COVID-19 virus – aka “Arcturus” – in the United Kingdom, all of them in Northeast England, the UKHSA reports via the Independent.

Arcturus reportedly causes horrible pink-eye like symptoms in patients, but it’s unclear who decided the virus variant had to have this ominous, science-fiction-ish name attached to it.

Christian prayer warriors 'called' into Boston with plan to counter SatanCon https://t.co/z8bmEczf0z

— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 24, 2023

President Joe Biden will name Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and the granddaughter of legendary labor leader Cesar Chavez, to run his re-election campaign, CNN reports.

A group of 3,000 migrants will travel from Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala to Mexico City to protest the conditions that led to 40 people dying in a fire at a government-run detention center, Politico reports.

The migrants–mainly Central Americans, Cubans, Venezuelans, Ecuadorans and Colombians–will likely try to reach the US border after making their grievances heard at the Mexican capitol.   Tens of thousands of migrants are backed up at the southern Mexican city of Tapachula, where officials are blocking their migration north using transit restrictions and setting up checkpoints to confirm documentation multiple times.

Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina, who we guess is now taking the lead on the EJ Carroll defamation lawsuit since his ability to work the Stormy Daniels hush money criminal case might be in doubt given a possible conflict of interest over his 2018 consultations with Stormy, filed a motion on Sunday asking federal Judge Lewis Kaplan if he can exclude testimony from a woman who accused Donald of shoving her up against a wall and forcibly kissing her from the upcoming trial… because Trump didn’t grab her genitals during the assault, according to MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin.

“You will recall that Ms Stoynoff testified in her deposition that Defendant escorted her into a room, and then grabbed her shoulders and pushed her against a wall and started kissing her. Then someone allegedly came into the room and the incident ceased. Defendant’s motion in limine sought to exclude this testimony under Federal Rule of Evidence 413(d). Your Honor denied our Motion; however, we request clarification with a proposed solution,” Tacopina wrote in the motion.

“If Trump’s conduct did not involve the groping or attempting groping of her genitalia – his words, not mine – they want her testimony excluded, as if forced kissing and holding a woman against a wall is not relevant,” Rubin writes. Sure sounds like this trial will be a fucking shitshow.

This is how hard Republicans in the Ohio state House and Senate are working to make sure a November ballot measure to institute a constitutional amendment establishing a right to abortion doesn’t happen, according to the New York Times: They want to raise the threshold for a ballot measure to pass from 50 to 60 percent and also make it much harder to collect signatures in a petition drive, but in order to do that, they have to hold their own ballot measure to pass that amendment first and are setting it for a special election in August.

The best part is that Ohio eliminated August elections a few years ago citing the cost and low turnout. They’re making an exception this year so they don’t have to worry about ending up like Michigan or Kansas, where pro-choice ballot measures passed by 57 and 59 percent last year.

Third place 2022 Georgia Republican gubernatorial primary finisher Kandiss Taylor, a QAnon freak who campaigned from a bus with “Jesus, Guns, Babies” emblazoned on the side, won this weekend’s race for GOP chair of Georgia’s 1st Congressional District, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

It was just one of several races in which the extremist “Georgia Republican Assembly” faction’s candidates defeated more “moderate” Republicans in what the AJC describes as the reason why the actual elected GOP officials in the state, such as Governor Brian Kemp and members of the legislature, have moved to build campaign infrastructure separate and apart from the state party.

“The party apparatus is, unfortunately, an entity that continues to choose irrelevance,” said lobbyist Cole Muzio of Frontline Policy Council. “Outside groups and individual campaigns have supplanted the GOP.” Former Cobb County GOP Chairman Jason Shepherd says he’s done with the state GOP too. “I don’t recognize the GOP anymore, and I’ve decided it’s time to devote my energies to better purposes, like actually helping elect Republican candidates,” said Shepherd.

“Madison County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the death and mutilation of cattle along TX-OSR. Ranchers advised a 6-year-old longhorn-cross cow had been found lying on her side, deceased, and mutilated on their ranch. A straight, clean cut, with apparent precision, had been made to remove the hide around the cow’s mouth on one side, leaving the meat under the removed hide untouched. The tongue was also completely removed from the body with no blood spill. It was noted there were no signs of struggle and the grass around the cow was undisturbed. No footprints or tire tracks were noted in the area. Ranchers also reported that no predators or birds would scavenge the remains of the cow, leaving it to decay untouched for several weeks.”

“While looking into the longhorn-cross’ death, five other similar occurrences involving four adult cows and one yearling were reported along the area of OSR running into Brazos County as well as Robertson County. Each incident occurred in different locations, pastures, and herds. The other cows were found in the same condition, lying on one side with the exposed side of their face cut along the jaw line and the tongue, once again, completely removed. On two of the five cows, a circular cut was made removing the anus and the external genitalia. This circular cut was made with the same precision as the cuts noted around the jaw lines of each cow. Just like the first, there were no signs of struggle or disturbance in the grass, no blood spill, and no noticeable tracks. No predators or birds would scavenge the remains for several weeks after death. The cause of death of all six cows remains unknown,” says a post by the Madison County, Texas Sheriff’s office.

“Today, the NAACP Office of General Counsel and Covington & Burling LLP filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on behalf of the NAACP, the NAACP Mississippi State Conference, the Jackson Branch of the NAACP, and a number of Jackson residents and civil rights activists to challenge two new Mississippi statutes. The counsel team includes former Attorney General of the United States Eric H Holder, Jr, Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling. Lawmakers and Jackson residents have opposed both bills throughout the legislative session, citing outside attempts to increase policing without adequate training, silence dissent from Jackson residents, and strip residents of their voting power to elect judges and district attorneys who serve their interests. Taken together, the two bills represent a state takeover of Jackson, MS.”

“The first statute, SB 2343, which was signed by Governor Tate Reeves on Friday, April 21st, significantly expands the Capitol Complex Improvement District to bring the entire predominantly Black city of Jackson under control of the state-run Capitol Police. The bill will also significantly restrict Mississippi residents’ ability to protest and hold demonstrations in and around buildings considered property of the state, requiring written approval from the Chief of the Capitol Police or the Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety before ‘any event’ occurs. The second bill, HB 1020, creates a new court with an unelected judge appointed by the Mississippi Supreme Court, which will have the ability to hear and determine all preliminary matters and criminal matters within the District. The bill also continues a court packing plan by appointing unelected Circuit Judges to the Seventh Circuit Court District in Hinds County,” said the NAACP in a Friday press release.

US officials have ordered the evacuation of American government personnel working at the embassy in Khartoum, Sudan as the nation sinks further into anarchy as military factions vie for control of the nation, CBS News reports.

No plans have been made to evacuate civilians not employed by the government, although the State Department advised all Americans to leave Sudan by their own means.  Some records show that up to 16,000 American citizens are in Sudan, but the State Department says the number is closer to 500.

“I’ve met Vladimir Putin, told him things he didn’t want to hear.  I judged the man.  Let me tell all of my friends here in Iowa:  anyone that thinks that Vladimir Putin will stop at Ukraine, if he overtakes that country, has what we say in Indiana, another ‘think’ comin’.”

There was a lot more in this week’s Wall Street Journal survey than the finding than what we picked up that the GOP primary swung 27 points in the fat former President’s favor against heels-wearing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis since the last time they asked the question in December.

Of course Trump has no problem accepting that finding from the same survey (though to be fair it’s not like he’s cherry picking because that’s among Republican respondents in the sample). What Trump is crying about here is Biden’s 48 to 45 percent 2024 general election lead over him the survey found, and probably that it also found DeSantis leading Biden in a hypothetical matchup by the same numbers, 48 to 45 percent. An even more troubling finding that the fat idiot probably didn’t notice is Biden’s massive lead among the “both of them suck” respondents by a staggering 54 to 15 percent. Remember this was a huge, quite possibly even the determinative difference between Hillary 2016 and Biden 2020: That Trump crushed Hillary with voters who disapproved of both of them, while that edge was erased against Biden in pre-2020 election polling.

Though the best part about Trump’s reaction is that he’s calling it a “globalist-inspired Wall Street Journal” poll, which is true insomuch as the Journal commissioned the survey. It was actually conducted however by Fabrizio Lee, the Trump 2016 and 2020 campaign pollster who we would guess is going to work with him again in 2024 too. Unless Trump fires them.