People who have a diet heavy in ultraprocessed foods like hamberders, cakes, sodas, french fries and candy have at least a 25% faster rate of cognitive decline than people with healthier diets, according to a new study published Monday in JAMA Neurology.

CNN reports the study shows that people who ingest 20% of their calories from ultraprocessed foods show a faster rate of decline in their cognitive processing and executive processing.  For a person on a 2,000-calorie-per-day diet, that translates to 400 calories.  As a benchmark, a Mcdonald’s cheeseburger and small fries equates to 530 calories.

However, there is a reprieve:  If the balance of the individual’s diet consisted of minimally-processed foods like fruits, vegetables and whole grains, the increased rate of decline can be lessened or possibly eliminated.  So enjoy your hot dog on a whole-grain bun.

Republican former Florida Congressman David Rivera, who in 2017 signed a $50 million consulting contract with Venezuela’s socialist regime, was arrested Monday at an Atlanta airport in charges connected to an investigation into the country’s corrupt state-owned oil company, the AP reports.

Rivera, who served a single term from 2011 to 2013, was sued in 2020 by PDV USA, a Delaware-based affiliate of the Venezuelan oil giant Citgo, for allegedly not actually doing any of the “strategic consulting” work to curry favor with the Trump Regime for which he was paid upfront $20 million of the $50 million contract. The indictment against Rivera remains sealed, but that he never registered to perform lobbying work for a foreign entity is likely to be a factor. Last year Rivera was fined nearly half a million dollars by the FEC for meddling in the 2012 Democratic primary by funding a weaker Dem challenger to his 2010 opponent, Joe Garcia. It failed and Garcia won the rematch.

Shitty Florida federal judge Aileen Cannon on Monday sided with the Justice Department on staying upcoming deadlines for the soon to-be-ended special master review of the materials seized during the FBI raid on Mar-Lago in August from her client, fat former President Trump.

Beginning on Tuesday, Honduran government will suspend certain constitutional rights in the roughest neighborhoods in two cities for a period of 30 days to crush criminal gangs terrorizing citizens with extortion rackets, Reuters reports. “The partial state of exception will enter into force on Tuesday, December 6 at 6pm for thirty days, to promote the gradual activity of economic development, investment, commerce and in public spaces,” the government said in a statement.

Without making any judgments on whether or not the quasi-martial law declaration is definitely the correct course of action or if it’ll be executed competently without collateral damage to innocent civilians caught up in what’ll be an ugly fight between cops and the gangbangers, we can at least say they’re trying to address a clear and present danger to national security and that it’s limited in time and scope. It’s not to reinstall a failed ex-dictator because some libs at Twitter didn’t think a questionable story about his opponent’s son should be propagated on their platform two.

Tampa Police Chief Mary O’Connor has resigned, at the request of the city mayor, after the release of body cam footage from a Pinellas County sheriff’s deputy showed her asking for special treatment when her husband was pulled over driving an unregistered golf cart on the street, the Tampa Bay Times reports.

O’Connor was a passenger in the golf cart being driven by her husband when they were pulled over for not having license plates on the vehicle, a golf cart, being used on the roadway.  During the stop, O’Connor asked the deputy if his body cam was on.  She then reaches into her purse and pulls out her badge, which her husband helpfully hands to the deputy, identifying herself as the Tampa police chief.  Later in the stop, she hands the deputy her business card and tells the officer to contact her if he needs anything.

Mayor Jane Castor initially put O’Connor on administrative leave on Friday after the video became public, but requested O’Connor’s resignation from the $192,000 salary job Monday, which was delivered by O’Connor. 

Katie Hobbs certifies her own election, setting stage for legal challenges from Kari Lakehttps://t.co/PWrG2MeaY5

— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) December 5, 2022

Just going to throw it out there that RSBN did not have the same complaint four years ago when then-Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp certified his own election as governor. That was back when MAGA Land was cool with him, before he went all “RINO” after the 2020 election.

Moore County (North Carolina) sheriff’s deputies questioned a former US Army psychological operations officer who posted on social media that she knew the motive behind the attacks on two electrical substations which left more than 40,000 households powerless, Newsweek reports.  Unfortunately for the investigation, she was just a delusional conservative blowhard.

After the attacks on Saturday evening, Emily Rainey posted on her Facebook page, “The power is out in Moore County and I know why.”  She later posted a photo of Sunrise Theater in Southern Pines, the location of a drag show planned for Saturday night that had to be canceled because of the power outage.  She later posted a photo of the Sunrise theater with the comment, “God will not be mocked.”

On Sunday, she posted:  “The Moore County Sheriff’s Office just checked in. I welcomed them to my home. Sorry they wasted their time. I told them that God works in mysterious ways and is responsible for the outage. I used the opportunity to tell them about the immoral drag show and the blasphemies screamed by its supporters. God is chastising Moore County. I thanked them for coming and wished them a good night. Thankful for the LEOs service, as always.”

“SIMPLY PUT, IF AN ELECTION IS IRREFUTABLY FRAUDULENT, IT SHOULD GO TO THE RIGHTFUL WINNER OR, AT A MINIMUM, BE REDONE. WHERE OPEN AND BLATANT FRAUD IS INVOLVED, THERE SHOULD BE NO TIME LIMIT FOR CHANGE!” the fat bastard continued in all caps in a subsequent post on Monday. Reacting on Saturday, to the incredibly lame “Twitter Files” reveal by egomaniacal dipshit Matt Taibbi at Elon Musk’s behest, Trump wrote “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” in a Truth Social post, which we guess is different than saying terminate the whole Constitution.

Even though in practice it would be the same thing. The Constitution of the United States of America is kind of an all or nothing deal. Nullifying part of it means nullifying its entirety.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hired a former US Department of Justice Acting Associate Attorney General who has experience investigating Donald Trump, a sign that the dormant criminal investigation into the former president’s fraud and obstruction is resurrected, the New York Times reports.

Bragg hired Matthew Colangelo, who has also worked with the New York State Attorney General on investigations into Trump financial fraud, which has led to a guilty plea by Trump Org CEO Allen Weisselberg and which at the moment has a jury considering criminal charges against the company that they illegally compensated company executives.

When he took office at the beginning of 2022, two high-level investigators working on a criminal case investigating Trump financial fraud consisting of the manipulation of property values to avoid taxes and to bolster lending applications.  Their resignations were seen as a sign that Bragg had backed off pursuing a criminal case against Donald Trump and his conniving offspring.

A new survey by University of Massachusetts-Lowell finds incumbent Georgia Dem Senator Raphael Warnock leading shitbrained deadbeat dad Republican Herschel Walker 51 to 47 percent.

For what it’s worth the two other surveys we picked up from UML in the past were pretty damn on point in calling the winner and their final vote share: Early last month they found New Hampshire Dem Senator Maggie Hassan ahead of MAGA challenger Don Bolduc 51 to 41 percent. She won 53.5 percent to Bolduc’s 44.4 percent. In 2020 they found Biden leading Trump in New Hampshire 52 to 44 percent. Biden won the state 52.71 percent to Trump’s 45.36 percent.

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Alcoholic moron Rudy Giuliani testifies Monday at a disciplinary hearing by the DC Bar association over his failed attempts to overturn Trump’s humiliating loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff on Wednesday will chair a White House roundtable to address rising antisemitism in the United States, Reuters reports. Further details and the panel’s makeup have yet to be finalized, but the effort is an unfortunately necessary response to the lackluster pushback from conservatives against disgraced former President Trump hosting hardcore antisemites Kanye West and Nick Fuentes at his Florida palace in November.

Two Russian airbases far from the Ukrainian border were hit with drone strikes on Monday, with one attack about 370 miles from Ukraine damaging at least two Tu-95 bombers and another killing at least three people in a parking lot at a base about 125 miles outside of Moscow, Politico EU reports.

Kyiv did not claim responsibility for the attacks but didn’t deny it either. “Who has done that? Two strategic bombers are being damaged. There are dead and wounded. [We are] grieving,” wrote Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat on Facebook.

Lara Trump, the Trump daughter-in-law with poor judgement who married Ewic Trump not the one who divorced the reported “substance abuser,” was fired from her paid gig at Fox News because Donald announced his 2024 presidential campaign, the Washington Post reports.  She will likely continue to appear on the network as an unpaid Trump campaign manure spreader.

Hired in March 2021, two months after her father-in-law was ousted from the White House, Trump had previously been an entertainment television produce before closing her eyes and thinking of the bank account when she married Ewic in 2014.  She joined Donald’s campaign in 2020 as a “senior consultant” to campaign manager Brad Parscale, for which she was paid $15,000 per month.

At one point, MAGAts who think the people they see on TeeVee are really smert–i.e., Donald, Lake, Oz–wanted the former Inside Edition producer and culinary school dropout to run for the GOP Senate nomination in her home state of South Carolina in 2022; she decided to not join the family business.

More than 45,000 households in southcentral North Carolina are without power after two electrical substations were disabled when someone fired multiweapon bullets into it, NBC News reports.  Utility officials said power for those customers may not be restored until Thursday.

The power outage has impacted traffic and street light operations in Moore County, prompting officials to warn drivers and suggest people stay off the roads. Sewage pumping station operations have also been impacted.

“Unlike perhaps a storm where you can go in and reroute power somewhere else, that was not an option in this case,” a spokesperson for Duke Energy said Sunday. “Recognizing that, we are looking at a pretty sophisticated repair with some fairly large equipment and so we do want citizens of the town to be prepared that this will be a multi-day restoration for most customers extending potentially as long as Thursday.”

Politics sometimes make strange bedfellows, and they rarely last.  Kanye West has announced that former Marjorie Taylor Greene Congressional intern, the 38-year-old formerly gay Brit Milo Yiannopoulos is no longer affiliated with West’s cry for attention not-yet-announced 2024 presidential campaign.

The Daily Beast reports that Yiannopoulos, who claims he successfully underwent debunked anti-gay conversation therapy and now likes girls–well, presumably women, although Yiannopoulos had expressed his appreciation of relationships with underage boys when he was a gay–stated that he left the “campaign” on his own terms.

The separation comes after a horrible week for the rapper turned clothing designer turned presidential candidate.  He has lost most of his major partners and business deals since saying that Adolf Hitler did some good things and making anti-Semitic statements.

A view of the livestream of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii shows that yes, as of 6:21 AM Hawaiian Standard Time on Sunday, 11:21 EST, that fucker is still erupting tons upon tons of lava.

In a blow to the dreams of America’s religious conservatives who presumably viewed it as a scion in the repression trade, Iran has announced that it will disband the so-called “morality police” in whose custody a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman died after being detained for showing too much of her hair, the New York Times reports.

State media reported the division “was abolished by the same authorities who installed it,” according to a statement by Attorney General Mohammad Javad Montazeri.

Fat former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s niece was arrested on Thanksgiving morning at Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans after she harassed a family she thought were Latino on her flight asking if they were “smuggling cocaine,” and then bit, spit on, and kicked sheriff’s deputies who were trying to apprehend her, the New Orleans Times Picayune reports.