In a motion filed by Fox News ahead of their upcoming trial in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit over their 2020 election conspiracy bullshit, the propaganda network’s lawyers asked Delaware Judge Eric Davis to ban any mention of the Capitol riot as it would “only unfairly prejudice the jury against Fox, inflame passions, prevent a fair trial, and taint any resulting verdict,” and also about threats to Dominion staff because that could “arouse the jury’s sympathy and provoke a desire to punish Fox for the actions of unrelated third parties,” CNN’s Oliver Darcy reports.

Of course it could’ve gone better, but the bottom line is Trump set the timeline that Biden stuck to and released over 5,000 Afghan prisoners in his deal with the Taliban. That’s it.

By a vote of 72 to 25, Tennessee state House Republicans on Thursday expelled Democrat state Representative Justin Jones over his support for an anti-gun protest at the Capitol last week, MSNBC reports. Two other Dems who joined Jones are expected to be expelled shortly.

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a West Virginia law banning trans athletes from girls sports teams from taking effect, CNN contributor and law professor Steve Vladeck reports.

A juror on sitting in the seditious conspiracy trial against five leaders of the fascist street gang the Proud Boys over their role in planning the January 6th insurrection against Congress told the judge on Thursday that she suspects people are following her and that a person approached her recently outside of a DC Metro station and asked if she was a juror on the case, CNN reports.

Guess we should expect an angry Truth Social post demanding that Fani Willis to admit that the attacks are actually getting to her and she’s so deeply offended and hurt by Trump’s words.

“The Committee on the Judiciary is conducting oversight of the New York County District Attorney’s unprecedented indictment of a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office. On March 22, 2023, we requested that you voluntarily cooperate with our oversight by providing relevant documents and testimony pertaining to your role as a special assistant district attorney leading the investigation into the former President’s finances. We received a reply letter dated March 27, 2023, stating that, at the instruction of the New York County District Attorney’s Office, you would not cooperate with our oversight. You enclosed a copy of a letter from the New York County District Attorney’s Office directing you not to cooperate,” writes Congressman Gym Jordan in his subpoena to former Manhattan DA’s office prosecutor Mark Pomerantz.

“There is only one leader at this time in our nation’s history who can seize this moment and deliver what we need – to get us back on track, provide strength and resolve, and Make America Great Again. That is why I’m HONORED TO ENDORSE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT IN 2024, and I ask my fellow Americans to join me,” says Florida MAGA Congressman Byron Donalds in a statement, snubbing his heels-wearing Governor Ron DeSantis in his quest for GOP dominance.

QAnon fans on the GreatAwakening.win forum responded to Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Wednesday presidential campaign launch with mixed feelings of excitement over Jr’s anti-vax views and trepidation that, in the extremely unlikely event that Kennedy would defeat Joe Biden in the 2024 primary and capture the Dem nomination, he would still likely have to face Trump in the general.

“Part of me soo wants JFK Jr to pop out suddenly 😁 And the duo finish what their fathers started!” one user wrote responding to the news, referring to the messianic QAnon sub-sect centered on John F Kennedy Jr who believe his return is the key to the initiation of “The Storm.” Another fan then replied “Stop Im getting a chub. Id still be 100% Trump. Id gladly see RFKjr in Trumps cabinet though.” To the same point another fantasized that Kennedy “gets the dem nomination, trump on the flip side and we have a history throwback where the loser is VP,” which would require the Constitution’s 12th Amendment to be repealed after 220 years after it was ratified.

Many seemed to settle on hope that, if not Trump’s running mate, that Kennedy would instead end up in another key post in the Second Trump Administration. “Hope there’s at least a place for him in 45-47’s Cabinet. He’d be a brilliant HHS Secretary,” one fan wrote in a different thread. Another said that would’ve already happened in 2017 but “the deep state got to the Presidents ear.”

All 18 House Republicans representing Biden 2020 districts were asked by Punchbowl News if they agreed with disgraced former President Trump’s demand they “defund the DOJ and FBI until they come to their senses.” Only three actually responded to say no, they don’t agree with that.

“[New York 19th District Congressman Marc Molinaro] has never and isn’t going to start responding to every Tweet from other politicians, presidents, and candidates for office. He was elected to address the issues facing Upstate NY – not to be a political pundit,” said a spokesman for Molinaro.

Never has such a tiny minority held so much social power over Corporate America.

Companies are allowing the Trans Mafia to hold them hostage. They're running Ad campaigns that their actual consumer base loathes because they're so terrified of being called "anti-trans." Pathetic! https://t.co/54VJTyqCu9

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 6, 2023

An investigation by ProPublica finds hardcore zealot Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been accepting free luxury trips – some valued as high as $500,000 – from billionaire Dallas MAGAdonor Harlan Crow, for more than 20 years, in violation of federal disclosure laws.

Imagine you’re a senior sales executive from Bismark, North Dakota who earned a trip to Boston to attend the big trade show because you sold the most Rocky Mountain Oyster harvesters in the Northern West States region for your employer, the king of Rocky Mountain Oyster harvester manufacturers, and you’re gussying yourself up for the industry mixer when–BAM!–a squad of armed officers bust through your hotel door and slap the cuffs on you.  And that’s before you even downloaded Grindr.

Well, that’s what happened to some unwitting tourist in Boston Tuesday afternoon–we admittedly took some editorial license about his backstory–when a team of Defense Department enforcement officers, working with the Boston office of the FBI, entered the wrong hotel room and detained the unwitting innocent occupant, according to Politico.

In another room, a role-player had been waiting for the raid.   “Based on inaccurate information, they were mistakenly sent to the wrong room and detained an individual, not the intended role player,” an FBI official said in a written statement. “Thankfully nobody was injured.” Boston Police were paged from a nearby Dunkin’ Donuts to investigate and confirm that it was, in fact, a training exercise.

“This is actually from the charging document. ‘The first check was paid by the Defendant’s Trust and signed by Trump Organization CFO and the Defendant’s son, as trustees.’ This is not the kinda thing you do if you’re trying to hide something, if you’re trying to deceive.  I just–and by the way, is that son you or Eric?  Did you know about this part?”

“A-A-Actually, th-th-tha-that son is me,” Junior gleefully proclaims.  “An-a And like I said, clearly not a campaign finance violation if it’s from his own trust.”

Well, yeah, Junior.  It actually would be an explicit campaign finance violation if the candidate spends his own money on a campaign expense and fails to report it.  That’s literally against the law.  But let’s look at the larger issues here:  either Junior didn’t know what the money the Trust was paying to Michael Cohen was for, demonstrating that the true reason for the payout was a secret and not a legitimate business expense but done to keep the affair a secret…. Or Junior DID know that the check he was signing was to cover the costs of his father’s illicit instantaneous extramarital affair he had with a porn star while his second stepmother–who, incidentally, is two years younger than Junior’s fiance, his Oedipal substitute for his current stepmother.

A Maryland sheriff who once testified before the state legislature about how gun regulations threaten liberty has been arrested by federal agents for submitting applications for licenses to obtain machine guns for his department but then turning over the weapons to a shooting range owner who already illegally possessed at least other seven machine guns, per the Washington Post.

Frederick County Sheriff Charles Austin Jenkins was arrested with Robert Justin Krop, owner of the Machine Gun Nest in Frederick–regionally known as “Fredneck” for its good ol’ boy community–for using the credentials of the sheriff’s office to obtain three machine guns for evaluation and demonstration.  Krop asked Jenkins to write the letters to get the authority from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.  Once approval was secured and the weapons obtained in 2018, Jenkins turned the weapons over to Krop to use at the range.  After getting the guns, Krop make more than $100,000 renting the weapons at the range.

I don’t like writing in the first person. I stretch the word “we” well beyond what’s logical let alone the kind of nonsense Jack wants no part in. This one I have to take on in my own voice because I was there. I spoke to that guy who was handing out the whistles. I was standing right next to him just before Greene arrived at the scene. He and the other libs making noise to drown her out were at least 100 feet away. The whistle guy and I had a brief exchange about whether Greene was definitely going to be there or at another park a few blocks away (I mistakenly thought her rally was going to be at another site further from the courthouse). Greene arrived shortly thereafter and was mobbed by reporters. As far as I could tell no one with a whistle or anything to drown her out got within 100 feet of her. There was zero chance she knew they were there other than the noise they were making from a distance with hundreds of cops and media in between them.

After presiding over the indictment of disgraced Republican Party leader Donald Trump and having the defendant’s son dogwhistling threats, New York Judge Juan Merchan and his family have been subjected to numerous threats from deluded Trump supporters, NBC News reports.

Merchan and his family have received “dozens” of threats, according to city officials.  Additionally, New York County District Attorney and various staffers in his office have been receiving threats since rumors of a forthcoming indictment started.  The threats–which have been sent via phone calls, emails and good ol’ fashioned snail mail–have so far been vacant, but with Republican leaders like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor calling for unrest because of the indictment of Trump because they want to undermine the Constitutional judicial system for fear it will operate fairly and equally, resulting in a Trump conviction.

Disney’s live action remake of ‘The Little Mermaid’ rewrites songs like 'Kiss the Girl' to teach consent https://t.co/LrFmcohKcm

— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 5, 2023

The America its fans knew and loved is gone forever and there’s no way to get it back, Fox News reports on those fucking millennials and “Zoomers” ruining everything. Even their favorite movies they took their kids to see back when a movie ticket cost only a few bucks and you could just have a nice time out with them. Not like nowadays when you come into a house and see the kids all watching separate screens and God knows what kind of garbage Big Tech is filling their brains with.

Enough! We’re losing this country, you see it right here in this Fox News story goddamn it! No! You have to listen! Did you know the new mermaid is Black too? She’s Black! It’s a European fairy tale! It’s Dutch or Danish or one of those countries. Those people aren’t Black! Time to wake up or this country is going to be even more gone than it already is. We’re becoming Venezuela.

In a survey finding they heralded Tuesday as a result of “a massive strategic backfire” shitty right wing pollster Rasmussen says disgraced former President Donald Trump leads respected and beloved current President Joe Biden 47 to 40 in a 2024 matchup, the Washington Examiner reports.

Rasmussen also found Trump at 51 percent approval among Black voters in 2020, that Kari Lake secretly won the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election by 8 percent, and indirectly ended Dilbert creator Scott Adams’s career producing newspaper comic strips. But at least they’re not Trafalgar.

Federal prosecutors are set to charge Republican former Michigan state House Speaker Rick Johnson over his alleged accepting of bribes to approve applications to open medical marijuana dispensaries in his current role as chairman of the weed licensing board, the Detroit News reports.

Johnson is not to be confused with Republican fellow former Michigan state House Speaker Lee Chatfield, who is also likely under criminal investigation for sexually abusing his sister-in-law and an array of other crimes. Western District of Michigan US Attorney Mark Totten and FBI Michigan Chief Special Agent James Tarasca are expected to announce the charges 10 AM on Thursday.