New South Wales, Australia state Premier Chris Minns on Tuesday ripped into right wing state MP Gareth Ward’s lawyers over a last-minute move to land a court injunction halting their client’s expulsion from the state’s assembly following his conviction last month on four sexual abuse charges involving two young male victims, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports.

“Late last night, orders were granted in the New South Wales Supreme Court, injunctive orders obtained by representatives of Mr Ward, lawyers for Mr Ward, against the Leader of the House Ron Hoenig [and] the Speaker Greg Piper — which will stop or attempt to stop the expulsion motion in the Legislative Assembly,” Minns told Nine Radio on Tuesday morning local time down under.

Ward, 44, the state MP for the New South Wales town of Kiama, was found guilty last month of the sexual assaults of an 18 year-old man in 2013 and a 24 year-old man in 2015 and is a member of the “Liberals” which, in the upside down, is actually a right wing party. The scumbag’s also in jail awaiting sentencing so it’s not like he’s showing up to work, something Minns pointed out in the radio hit. “We’ve got a week of parliament to sit, and I think that most people would appreciate it’s an unconscionable situation to have someone who’s currently sitting in jail in Silverwater, convicted of serious sexual offenses, who is demanding to remain a member of parliament and continue to be paid,” said Minns. Asked whether he’s pushed for Ward to simply resign, Minns said it “would be the first and most obvious course. But clearly he’s got no shame.” Sounds familiar, right?

“The National Park Service announced today that it will restore and reinstall the bronze statue of Albert Pike, which was toppled and vandalized during riots in June 2020. The restoration aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law as well as recent executive orders to beautify the nation’s capital and re-instate pre-existing statues. Originally authorized by Congress in 1898 and dedicated in 1901, the statue honors Pike’s leadership in Freemasonry, including his 32 years as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Ancient Rite of Scottish Freemasonry. The statue has been in secure storage since its removal and is currently undergoing restoration by the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center,” says the National Park Service in a statement.

“This action supports both the Executive Order on Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful and the Executive Order on Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History, which direct federal agencies to protect public monuments and present a full and accurate picture of the American past. Site preparation to repair the statue’s damaged masonry plinth will begin shortly, with crews repairing broken stone, mortar joints, and mounting elements. The NPS is targeting October 2025 for completing the reinstallment of the fully restored statue.”

Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre De Moraes on Monday responded to convicted felon President Trump’s regime placing him and his family under US Treasury sanctions – punishment for his treatment of disgraced former President Jair Bolsonaro as he awaits trial on multiple serious charges – by placing disgraced former President Jair Bolsonaro under house arrest, the AP reports.

So no, it does not seem like the sanctions on De Moraes have had their intended effect. Guess it’s back to the drawing board for Team Orange as they try to get Jair out of this jam.

“Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, the first major action by the former Fox News host as the interim NASA administrator,” says the lede to a Politico story about the Real World cast member-turned-GOP Congressman-turned-Fox News host-turned-Transportation Secretary-turned-Transportation Secretary plus NASA Administrator’s ambition to destroy the moon, copied verbatim for effect.

Day One of her campaign to be only the second female governor of the Palmetto State and South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace is already zeroing in on what matters most to South Carolina voters… And as much as the previous sentence may sound sarcastic it kind of isn’t.

As has been fairly widely expected, Dem former Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown is readying a comeback campaign in Ohio to take on Republican Jon Husted for his Senate seat, Axios reports citing sources telling them that he’s interviewing consultants and campaign staffers.

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday ordered an unnamed federal prosecutor to go to a grand jury and seek charges against former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan for something something the 2016 election, Fox News’s David Spunt (lol) reports.

Probably going to have to get pretty creative and then even more creative again because the statute of limitations and all that headache but actually even writing that fucking sentence is probably giving Bondi and DC US Attorney Jeannine Box-o-Wine too much credit because it assumes the whole point is to secure indictments – if even that’s happening right now. The appropriate amount of credit would be that they’re simply leaking to Fox News that they’re talking about going to a grand jury just so they can look busy while the MAGA base is increasingly fucking furious at them for overpromising and under-delivering on state-sanctioned infliction of pain and suffering on their totems of hate.

All the credit in the world to them for that. Great job, Pam and K$H and Box-o-Wine. UR crushin’ it with the intentional leaking to state media on a preliminary step sold as “BREAKING NEWS,” rather than just waiting until those two are actually hit with indictments and THEN run to the right wing media to triumphantly lord your accomplishment over the libtards and the establishment.

“The SPAM® brand, in collaboration with Kroger, is turning heads this summer — and they’re doing it in style. Earlier this year, SPAM® sushi products rolled out nationwide at Kroger’s Family Stores, including Ralphs Grocery Company, and now they’re hitting the road to celebrate in true SPAM® brand style! Introducing the first-ever SPAM® Musubi Mobile: a larger-than-life food truck shaped like a SPAM® Musubi that’s nearly seven feet tall — an unmistakable site for fans and musubi lovers alike,” said some Spam press release National Zero chose to use as a spam filler article.

“In honor of National SPAM® Musubi Day on Aug 8, the SPAM® Musubi Mobile will visit select Ralphs locations in Southern California, offering free samples of SPAM® Musubi and SPAM® Norimaki, all accompanied by music, outdoor games, SPAM® brand merchandise, coupons and more,” the inane spam continued in an interesting test case to see how much spam readers will put up with.

If this spam proves ineffective in increasing engagement, even if it’s from spambots that would post spam like that shit about making $14583 from home last month, then it’s time for spam Plan B: Pasting in promotional copy about generic Cialis now being available without a prescription.

There’s supposed to be some reason for it other than what this peckerwood just said on CNN, that he’s doing everything in his power to make sure Dems don’t win the House in 2026.

Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday began living out every corrupt politician’s dream by ordering his cabinet to fire Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and end her pesky bribery case against him, Axios reports. The country’s supreme court immediately issued an injunction pending appeals with the eventual outcome unclear but sources said Netanyahu and his minions are looking to rally their base and create political pressure on Baharav-Miara to resign.

Afrikaner Adrian De Wet, one of three whites facing trial in the 2024 murder of Black women Maria Makgato and Lucia Ndlovu on a farm in South Africa’s northern Limpopo province, turned state’s witness on Monday, testifying to the court that his boss, farmer Zachariah Olivier, forced De Wet to toss the bodies into the pig pen after Olivier had shot the two dead, the BBC reports.

As if that weren’t already fucking horrific enough, De Wet, 20, said Makgato, 45, and Ndlovu, 34, had trespassed onto Olivier’s pig farm not to break into his home or hotwire his car, but to steal some nearly-expired dairy products that had been stored for the pigs to eat. They then became pigs’ food themselves after Olivier killed them and ordered a then-teenage farmhand “under duress” to dispose of their bodies. De Wet’s testimony, if accepted by the court, will earn him immunity and a dismissal.

The other two, Olivier and 50 year-old farm worker William Musora, have yet to enter pleas. But let’s hear more about how there’s “a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about. But it’s a terrible thing that’s taking place. And farmers are being killed. They happen to be white, but whether they’re white or Black, it makes no difference to me, but white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa and the newspapers and the media, television media doesn’t even talk about it.” That is unless you forgot about it three months ago because it’s hard to remember to continually assert there’s a genocide when there is no genocide.

Saudi Arabia, the monarchial petrostate famous for dismemberments, is on track for a record year of executions by beheading, CBS News reports, with 17 necks turned to stumps since Friday alone.

Prince Mohammed Bonesaw’s goons carried out 239 executions so far this year, well on track to exceed last year’s 338, a record since reliable-ish figures were made available in the early 1990s.

Start the presses! New York Post will expand to LA with launch of The California Post https://t.co/HqIWFuhThb pic.twitter.com/hDeewdvjnW

— New York Post (@nypost) August 4, 2025

The launch announcement literally says “The content will appear in a daily print edition and will have its own dedicated homepage for Californians with stories being published across multiple other platforms, including video, audio and social media,” emphasis added on that particularly insane part.

One small quibble: The “New York” in “New York Post” does not denote the state of New York, it’s the city of New York. The tweet says outright it’s going to be based in Los Angeles, so why “California” and not the “Los Angeles Post”? Yes, there’s a “Los Angeles Post” at LAPost.com but that looks like an AI-generated content mill that could’ve been bought up for a pittance.

Cops in Italy on Monday announced the arrests of 13 people connected to Chinese mafia crews on charges such as drug dealing, sex trafficking, and aggravated robbery following a nationwide sweep amid the gangs’ growing presence in the traditional homeland of organized crime – and where good old fashioned La Cosa Nostra and Ndrangheta are on the wane, Reuters reports.

The numbers don’t lie: In 1991 in Sicily there were at least 253 murders connected to mafia activity, in 2020 there were four of them. Meanwhile these Chinese crews have blasted at least two people in Rome this year alone as part of the “Hanger War,” an internecine turf battle over control of the luxury clothing trade. A direct comparison in illicit revenue within Italy is tough to come by but that the Chinese gangs are estimated to have minted €13 billion across the EU last year vs €10.7 billion for the locals in their country. Either way it’s clear the Temu Don Corleones are kicking serious ass.

Rasmussen Reports, the pollster that in 2023 found a majority of Republican respondents to agree that Mike Lindell should be the chair of the RNC, last week found a majority of respondents – 54 percent – to “believe it’s likely that members of President Barack Obama’s national security team committed crimes when they manipulated and manufactured intelligence to promote a false narrative about Russia and Donald Trump, including 37 percent who consider it Very Likely.”

Exactly how they found this majority is unclear, but it most likely required a good deal of trial-and-error in which the question was re-worded continually during as the survey was conducted, that it began with “Do you believe Obama and his team committed crimes connected to the 2016 election?” to “Recent reports from trustworthy sources indicate that former President Barack Hussein Obama, a Kenyan-born Muslim, had committed treason and tried to overturn President Trump’s historic landslide 2016 election victory. If true, should Obama be executed?”

“Sidney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the HOTTEST ad out there. It’s for American Eagle, and the jeans are ‘flying of the shelves.’ Go get ‘em Sidney. On the other side of the ledger, Jaguar did a stupid, and seriously WOKE, advertisement, THAT IS A DISASTER. The CEO just resigned, the company is in turmoil. Shouldn’t they have learned a lesson from Bud Lite, which went Woke and essentially destroyed, in a short but very Woke campaign, the Company. The market cap destruction has been unprecedented, BILLIONS OF DOLLARS LOST. Or just look at Woke singer Taylor Swift.”

“Ever since I alerted the world as to what she was by saying on TRUTH that I can’t stand her,” wrote convicted felon President Trump on Monday. It’s Sydney Sweeney, Señor Tiny Weenie.

The demented Truth Social missive was a break from the actual governing and policy-ish work of justifying his impulsive, Stalinesque firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics just hours after they handed him a shitty monthly employment report on Friday. “Last weeks Job’s Report was RIGGED, just like the numbers prior to the Presidential Election were Rigged. That’s why, in both cases, there was massive, record setting revisions, in favor of the Radical Left Democrats.”

“Those big adjustments were made to cover up, and level out, the FAKE political numbers that were CONCOCTED in order to make a great Republican Success look less stellar!!! I will pick an exceptional replacement. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAGA!” Trump posted, obviously realizing he fucked up but digging deeper as the fat fucking baby is wont to do.

Republican California Congressman Kevin Kiley is, supposedly, according to a tweet and not an article by Breitbart, planning to intro a bill in the House banning redistricting before 2030, effectively asking his party to stand down in Texas so his district does not end up getting erased by Golden State Dems in retaliation for the MAGA Republican power grab in the Lone Star State.

“Is this a Panican move?” Breitbart’s social media schmuck wrote in the tweet after the “reporting.”

The reception from Kiley’s GOP colleagues will all but certainly end up being like that of Republican Senators in early 2022, who expressed zero interest in remedying gerrymandering nationally even after the post-2021 map produced no real advantages for them in the House.

“Chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs make up an important part of the diet of our predators, especially the European lynx – which needs whole prey, which is reminiscent of what it would naturally hunt in the wild 🐾 In zoos we have a responsibility to imitate the natural food chain of the animals – in terms of both animal welfare and professional integrity 🤝 If you have a healthy animal that has to leave for various reasons, feel free to donate it to us. The animals are gently euthanized by trained staff and used as fodder. That way, nothing goes to waste – and we ensure natural behavior, nutrition and well-being of our predators ♻️💕” says an auto-translated Facebook post from the Aalborg Zoo in the town of the same name in Denmark. The “gently euthanized” part seems a little dicey.

The post links to a page on the zoo’s website, which goes into further detail and hypes the tax savings for live horse donations. “Aalborg Zoo gratefully receives live horses, which we euthanize and slaughter for food at Aalborg Zoo. Our needs vary throughout the year, and there may be a waiting list. Before you consider contacting us regarding donation, the following conditions must be met: You must provide your name, address and phone number when registering the horse…”