The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a request from Faucist states’ attorneys general to keep an anti-Constitutional freedom pro-COVID lockdown policy in place indefinitely pending a ruling.

The House January 6th Select Committee on Tuesday published another batch of testimony transcripts, including interviews with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, MAGA activist dickhead Ali Alexander, Women for Trump founder Amy Kremer and her daughter Kylie, two more from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and Trump assistant Johnny McEntee, among others. Again the PDF files aren’t OCR scanned, so you can’t search for key words in a web browser, which is annoying as hell.

In an interview conducted earlier this month but lame-ass Breitbart split into multiple articles to get more clicks so they published this part on Tuesday, disgraced former President Trump told a reporter he disagrees with the Biden Administration’s streamlining of the US Citizenship exam.

“I don’t like making it easier. I think people should go through a process. I’m all for legal immigration, but what’s happened in the last two years has probably never happened in any country in history. I think you have over 12 million people who will have come in in a very short period of time – not to mention the drugs and the human trafficking and all the other things that come with it,” said the orange bastard, as if drugs and human trafficking have literally fucking anything to do with plans to change the written civics component of the citizenship test into multiple choice questions.

“No, I don’t think we should make citizenship easy. We should make citizenship responsible – you have to be responsible if you come in to be a citizen. I would disagree with it,” Trump added, without offering to take a sample citizenship test to prove himself worthy of that he would deny others.

Zero people were killed in the Christmas Day avalanche in Austria, CNN reports, as officials in the Lech municipality announced Monday all of the ten skiers thought buried by the wicked blast of gravity and snow have been accounted for alive. It’s not clear how many were actually caught in the avalanche, though five were hospitalized for injuries, one of them seriously.

“We are very disappointed in Congressman-elect Santos. He deceived us and misrepresented his heritage. In public comments and to us personally he previously claimed to be Jewish. He has begun his tenure in Congress on a very wrong note. He will not be welcome at any future RJC event,” said RJC chairman Matt Brooks in a statement about Santos admitting he’s not Jewish.

It wasn’t the lying about where he worked, lived, having graduated college, or that he’s got a warrant out for his arrest in Brazil. It was just the misrepresenting his Jewish identity.

The Pennsylvania Secretary of State on Tuesday finally certified the results of the 2022 elections, ending a weeks-long shitshow after dozens of county elections boards infiltrated by MAGA scumbags needlessly dragged out the process over non-existent “irregularities,” the AP reports.

Reality television star and all-star breeder turned Fox political expert Rachel Campos-Duffy takes the conservatives’ easy, brainless way to explain a humanitarian crisis at the southern border by comparing it to … well, you’ll see:

It’s so interesting.  We had nationwide riots over slavery 200 years ago and here we are allowing traffickers and cartels to establish slavery in our own country, um, using the most vulnerable people.  Y’know you talk about the difference between Republicans and Democrats, you’re from Texas, Congresswoman, I remember what the media and the Democrats did when Con–, er, when Senator Cruz left on vacation in the middle of that ice storm.  Why hasn’t there been more outrage over what’s happening in our country:  energy— [continues with a vomitous list of conservative talking points that cost them their chance in the 2022 midterms].

Point I:  The Rule Number One:  The only thing that should be compared to institutional slavery in the pre-Civil War United States is actual slavery.  Migrants seeking a better life in America is most definitely not slavery.

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced convicted Michigan MAGA terrorist Adam Fox to 16 years in prison for his role in the failed attempt to kidnap Dem Gov Gretchen Whitmer, NBC News reports.

Fox and fellow right wing scumbag Barry Croft were convicted in August on conspiracy to commit kidnapping and to use a weapon of mass destruction in the 2020 plot against Whitmer over her COVID policies, a plot that no one seriously doubts was incited by disgraced former President Trump and his “LIBERATE MICHIGAN” bullshit. US District Judge Robert Jonker spared Fox from the life sentence recommended by prosecutors, saying 16 years was enough of a deterrent.

The Egyptian government on Sunday deleted a photoshopped image of Portuguese soccer legend Cristiano Ronaldo eating chicken feet according to Semafor, probably deciding that there are better ways to promote consumption of the normally discarded piece of fowl flesh in order to combat rising food costs than making it look like a non-Egyptian celebrity likes eating them. The Egyptian National Nutrition Institute wrote that chicken feet are “rich in protein and save your budget,” in the now-deleted Facebook post accompanying the faked photo.

George, if that’s even your real name, if you’re so convinced that #NY3 voters still trust you – resign & run against me again in a special election. Face the voters with your real past & answer questions about your criminal history. Let the voters decide https://t.co/IWUGPSmiPp

— Robert Zimmerman (@ZimmermanRob) December 27, 2022

Silly Rob Zimmerman forgets that there would need to be a Republican primary for a special election in that district first, which the “Jew-ish” and possibly not even an American citizen Santos would most certainly not survive. Not like the shitweasel would accept the challenge anyway, but why not call him out and get some press ahead of another run in 2024, which ought to be a better year.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic this week put his nation’s army on its “highest level of combat readiness” and claimed neighboring Kosovo’s military was planning “an attack” on the ethnic Serbian enclaves near the border amid flaring tensions, the BBC reports. The ethnically Albanian nation of Kosovo broke away from Serbia in 1999 at the end of the last major war in continental Europe prior Russia’s attack on Ukraine last year. A formal declaration of independence, which Belgrade does not recognize, followed in 2008. NATO troops have been stationed in the tiny country ever since.

Earlier this month Serb militias in the country’s north set up roadblocks and seized control of several towns after the Kosovan government declared Serbian government-issued license plates illegal and ordered all drivers to turn them in for “Republic of Kosovo” plates. While that’s obviously an especially fucking petty reason for this war to have started if and when it does, you could also say if it wasn’t that then it would’ve been something else. The Balkans is the reason why “Balkanization,” a word for fragmentation, is already in your device’s spellcheck.

In a meeting earlier this month at the Israeli embassy in DC, coalition of Jewish-American business leaders earlier this month warned that the inevitable extremism of the incoming Netanyahu regime will cause an even further cratering of support for Israel among American Jews, Axios reports.

The meeting hosted by Shuli Davidovich, the head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry bureau for the diaspora, was reportedly pretty tense, with one major sticking point being an expected severe curtailment of Israeli immigration law, which currently allows for Israeli citizenship for anyone who can prove at least one Jewish grandparent, plus their spouse, whether they identify as ethnically and/or religiously Jewish or not. Then there’s Netanyahu’s coalition partners, several of whom are even more racist and extremist than him, including at least one hardcore anti-LGBT politician.

“We said we were there to warn them that it could be really bad and they should be aware of it,” said one attendee, who told Davidovich to expect round-the-clock protests outside the embassy led by liberal American Jews should any major new crackdowns on human rights in Israel occur.

Yet another Russian oligarch has died of a gravity overdose as sausage tycoon Pavel Antov took too hard of a hit of pavement outside his hotel room in India on Monday, The Telegraph reports. Antov had criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine once. The death comes just a day after Antov’s friend, Vladimir Bidenov, was found dead in a room at the same hotel “surrounded by wine bottles.”

It turns out Joe Biden is doing more to protect American industry from Chinese competition than his predecessor.  Interesting write-up from Politico on the measures the Biden Administration is taking to boost American technology while simultaneously stifling tech development in China, thereby making the US less dependent on Chinese processors, hardware and systems.

Remember when Fatty put tariffs on… well… virtually everything coming from China, starting a trade war that increased prices and forced the Trump Administration to open hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies?  That didn’t work as well as Biden’s “protect” policy which targets China’s ability to manufacture chips, processors and other technological components while simultaneously pushing a “promote” agenda that boost manufacturing of these products in the US and limit potential US industrial development in China.  The CHIPS Act will provide tens of billions in aid over a decade to support the plan.

The “protect” and “promote” prongs of the policy agenda work in an environment where the US and Chinese economies are linked, adding an element of stability to the worldwide market:  even during the pandemic and despite Trump’s protectionistic agenda, trade increased between the two countries, the two largest economies on the planet.

“Pursuant to A.R.S. § 12-349, Governor-Elect Katie Hobbs applies for an order awarding her reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred in defense of this action. The definite fees and expenses sought to be recovered equals $83,725.50; the estimated additional fees sought to be recovered equals $550,210.00.”  So begins the motion filed Monday by Democratic Arizona Governor-elect Katie Hobbs seeking reimbursement from crybaby loser Republican election denier Kari Lake and her lawyers for legal services used by Hobbs to fight Lake’s challenges.

In a separate motion filed Monday, Maricopa County sought reimbursement for an additional $25,050 from Lake for the costs of its legal efforts to certify the election, as well as for counsel secured by an outside lawyer.  As lawyers in the case have noted, the judge stated at the beginning of the case that Lake and her attorneys had to prove that printer malfunctions at voting locations on Election Day were intentional; that they impacted the ability of voters to cast a ballot; that the intent of the plot by county officials was to alter the outcome of the election and that it did, in fact, alter the outcome of the election.  Lake and her team, the motions assert, did not prove any of those elements.

The government of Iran rerouted a commercial airliner flying to Dubai, ordering it to make an emergency landing on an island in the Persian Gulf where they deplaned the wife and child of a prominent retired soccer player who supported the anti-government demonstrations in the country, the New York Times reports.

Ali Daei, who held the world record for most goals scored in international matches before it was broken by Cristiano Ronaldo in 2021, says the plane carrying his wife and child left Tehran when it was ordered to make an immediate landing at Kish Island in the Persian Gulf.  Once landed, Daei’s family was ordered off the plane and questioned.  They were eventually released, but too late to reboard the plane, which departed without them.  Daei’s family was not permitted to travel to Dubai, where they had planned to spend a week.

A television network that acts as an outlet for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard broadcast that Daei’s wife’s passport had been revoked a month ago and that she was able to get onto the flight with the help of the American government.  The report stated the family was detained because they intended to use Dubai as a stopover to the United States.

Scumbag liar Long Island Republican Congressman-elect George Santos on Monday talked to right wing New York radio station WABC 770 about his “resume embellishments,” going public for the first time since a New York Times article revealed he’d lied about pretty much everything about himself.

“I’m gonna look through and see everything, and just like they nitpicked at me, now it’s gonna be my time to nitpick at both journalists who made it their mission to slander me across this country and across the world, and let’s see what happens at the end. But the one thing is, I will be sworn in, I will take office, I will be able to be an effective member… in the soon-to-be 118th Congress,” said Santos, who added “I don’t know what my options are,” for suing the Times, as if there’s any option where he would actually win a defamation lawsuit against the paper.

With an electrical power grid slightly shakier than the one in Texas, Russians are facing a cold winter relying on infrastructure that has already repeatedly failed even without targeted attacks like those its military is subjecting Ukraine to, the Washington Post reports.

While power outages are not uncommon in far-flung areas of the country, some of the larger cities are experiencing unexpected power outages as needs push the electrical infrastructure to its limits.  Transformers and substations, many decades old and rarely upgraded, regularly fail and because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, replacement parts from European suppliers are subject to sanctions.

Sewage lines exploded in Volgograd, flooding two streets with waste and excrement, also causing a days-long interruption in water and electrical service to 200,000 people in the city.  In another, smaller town, after sewage lines burst in the streets, residents carried buckets of waste to a city council meeting that night.

At least 55 Americans and counting, including 25 in Erie County, New York, were killed in weather-related incidents over Christmas weekend, NBC News reports. The death toll is expected to climb as bodies turn up in cars and buried under drifts of snow – which is still falling in the Buffalo area and will do so until Tuesday afternoon. Other states to see deaths in the massive storm were Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

The Chinese government’s DeSantis-style approach to COVID-19 is going smoothly, as only 4,000 new cases have been officially recorded nationwide from the virus since the Xi regime did away with Faucist lockdowns to contain the virus, the New York Times reports. So what if officials in individual cities like Dongguan are logging between 250,000 and 300,000 new infections a day, or if a health minister in Zhejiang province estimates one million new cases daily. They’re not the real government and their asses are about to get fired for contradicting the official line from the Big Pooh Bear.