Officials with the Arizona Attorney General’s office have asked the Justice Department to open a investigation into the finances of “True The Vote,” a sham “election integrity” group MAGA famous for its work on the “2000 Mules” film by dipshit Dinesh D’Souza, Politico reports.

“Given TTV’s status as a nonprofit organization, it would appear that further review of its financials may be warranted,” wrote Arizona AG’s office investigator Reggie Grigsby to the Justice Department, describing meetings with TTV founders Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, who met three times with Arizona officials promising “proof” of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election, proof that of course never materialized. The apparent criminal referral is all the more noteworthy because Arizona AG Mark Brnovich spent his failed GOP Senate primary campaign paying lip service to “election integrity,” issuing several reports on his office’s investigation into the 2020 election. None of these described anything remotely close to what Trump and his fans wanted to hear, which is probably the main reason why Donald went out of his way to tell MAGArizonans not to vote for Brnovich in the primary months before he endorsed Reptilian humanoid Blake Masters.

• I got emotional watching the new video of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer hearing the news from Mike Pence that the House chamber would be reopened in about an hour.  A tear rolled down as I realized that was the moment our republic was safe.  The Republican VP telling the Democratic Congressional leaders that it will soon be safe to continue with our functioning democracy to confirm his successor was what this country needed.
• Walker did enough in today’s debate to stem supporters’ concerns about his mental capacity.  He repeated the talking points often and well, just like he was trained to do.  Warnock had a solid performance, but being a kind man, did not attack Walker’s multiple weaknesses enough.  Tonight could have ended the campaign, but it will linger.    
• Strange thing:  no media outlet has referred to the Crimean bridge explosion as a suicide bombing.
• When a decision like the one against Alex Jones–nearly $1 billion in damages against him–the courts should order all his property be put into receivership immediately so it can be liquidated and divided among the plaintiffs.  The punishment should be immediate, not delayed years in appeals.

A federal judge rejected an attempt by one of the many disgraced lawyers in the wake of Donald Trump, John Eastman, to get his cell phone back from the Department of Justice, which is investigating Eastman’s role in submitting slates of fake electors to the National Archives and Records Administration to undermine the 2020 election.

Politico reports the judge, New Mexico-based Senior U.S. District Court Judge Robert Brack, noted that Eastman failed to show that not having the phone was causing him irreparable harm, noting that Eastman obtained another phone hours after the FBI confiscating his phone as he left a restaurant in June.

Eastman made additional claims that the phone should be returned to him because it contained privilege attorney-client communications.  However, Brack noted investigators took standard safeguards to protect such information, calling the issue “moot.” 

A federal judge dismissed one of the five charges Special Counsel John Durham filed against Igor Danchenko, the person who provided much of the information that went into the Steele dossier about Donald Trump, dealing a significant blow to the prosecution, CNN reports.

District Judge Anthony Trenga dropped a charge of lying to the FBI relating to speaking to a Democratic operative, saying what Danchenko told the FBI agent “was literally true.”  Trenga determined that Durham, who was appointed by Donald Trump to get to the oranges of the Russian investigation, That investigation, started in 2019, has led to indictments for what conservatives call “process crimes” that are really just misunderstandings or somesuch nonsense.  The grand jury attached to the special counsel’s office has ceased meeting.

This is the latest debacle for Durham, who had to impeach his own witness on the stand after the witness, an FBI analyst, testified that he had given Danchenko positive reviews on reports, once saying that the best thing that came out of the Russian investigation for the FBI was its new relationship with Danchenko.

Months before she did her client, disgraced former President Trump a solid and appointed a special master to try to slow down the investigation into his theft of classified documents from the White House, shitty federal Judge Aileen Cannon denied a motion for the same from a South Florida businessman indicted in a health care fraud scheme, despite the FBI having seized attorney-client privileged materials when they executed a search warrant, the Miami Herald reports.

UPDATE 10/14/2022 5:29 PM EDT: In very related news, the Justice Department moved in for the kill on Friday, asking the 11th Circuit Court of appeals to end the Special Master review.

If you want to read a transcript of pretty much every Trump rally, feel free to read through the 14 pages of rehashed debunked conspiracy theories, grievances and general whining–peppered with a generous dose of egotistical self-promotion Donald Trump released in response to the prospect of being subpoenaed by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress.

Plaintiffs representing Christian, Jewish and Muslim faithful are suing the state of Indiana, claiming its new ban on abortions violates its right to practice their religions that was ensconced in the US and Indiana constitutions, as well as a 2015 law signed by then-Governor Mike Pence that guaranteed “religious freedom,” the Associated Press reports.

The law, which is currently blocked in a separate lawsuit, basically blocks abortion in all circumstances after ten weeks gestation, including after rape or incest.  There is an exception to protect the physical health of the mother.

Christian, Jewish and Muslim individuals, as well as the group Hoosier Jews for Choice, filed the lawsuit.  The group notes that Jewish teachings state that the fetus isn’t considered a living person until it is born.  The Jewish faith also puts primacy on the physical and mental health of the mother.  The briefs also include theological teachings from Islamic, Episcopal, Unitarian Universalist and pagan faiths.

“DVSorder is a privacy flaw that affects Dominion Voting Systems (DVS) ImageCast Precinct (ICP) and ImageCast Evolution (ICE) ballot scanners, which are used in parts of 21 states. Under some circumstances, the flaw could allow members of the public to identify other peoples’ ballots and learn how they voted. This vulnerability is a privacy flaw and cannot directly modify results or change votes. Nevertheless, the secret ballot is an important security mechanism, and some voters – especially the most vulnerable in society – may face real or perceived threats of coercion unless the privacy of their votes is strongly protected. Many jurisdictions publish data from individual voted ballots, such as cast-vote records (the votes from each ballot) or ballot images (scans of each ballot). This data is usually supposed to be randomly shuffled, to protect voters’ privacy. The DVSorder vulnerability makes it possible to unshuffle the ballots and learn the order they were cast. This sometimes makes it possible to determine how specific individuals voted,” say a group of University of Michigan eggheads, plus one guy from Auburn University.

This of course is the kind of thing the fanboys seize upon thinking it validates their crazy bullshit about Dominion. Indeed we only found this because John Solomon tweeted his lame site’s story about it (though if anything it’s arguably a vulnerability violent Trumpsters would love since they would know whose house to burn down). Even if he reported it straight without omitting any details making it clear that no votes could ever be changed, Solomon just wanted “Dominion” and “flaw” in a headline, and damned if he didn’t get it. Give it a few hours to percolate down to the Gateway Pundit. They’ll turn it into the ABSOLUTE PROOF they’ve been waiting nearly two years for now.

Interesting to think what our intelligence agencies may be picking up from overseas sources about documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago.

— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) October 14, 2022

Manhattan independent congressional candidate and Army reservist Major Mike Itkis, 53, whose campaign website pushes a “Sex Positive Approach” to public policy and his opposition to “the conservative idea that sex should only happen between a man and a woman who are married to each other”, this week decided to shake up his campaign and upload a 13-minute video of himself having sex with a porn actress named Nicole Sage, City and State New York reports.

“If I would just talk about it, it wouldn’t demonstrate my commitment to the issue [of legalizing sex work, making sexual rights explicit, etc]. And the fact I actually did it was a huge learning experience, and it actually influenced items on my platform,” Itkis told City and State of the video he filmed last year. The Nadler campaign did not comment. The Republican running for NY-12 was supportive however. “You gotta do what you gotta do,” said GOP candidate ​​Mike Zumbluskas “The media ignores everybody that’s not a Democrat in the city.” City and State New York’s report notes Itkis is a registered Democrat and describes himself as “very liberal.”

A federal judge on Friday ordered former Mike Pence Chief of Staff Marc Short to testify to the grand jury investigating disgraced former President Trump’s failed coup attempt, the Washington Post reports, adding that the decision could make it quicker to force others to testify.

Her Royal QAnon Highness Romana Didulo, self-proclaimed Queen of Canada, who we mistakenly assumed had simply conned followers into giving her and her entourage a number of the recreational vehicles they’ve been using to tour around the country, is actually renting them and has refused to return one whose owners demanded it back after she breached the rental agreement by taking it from Manitoba all the way to eastern Canada, Vice News reports.

Mike and Vicki LeBlanc had regularly advertised their RV for rental via Facebook to folks who use it for normal shit like camping when Romana’s royal court found them early last month and paid for two months. However the LeBlancs’ contract stipulated boundaries on where the QAnon cult leader’s retinue could drive with it and they asked her to bring it back upon finding she’d taken it too far afield. Romana responded by posting on her Telegram channel the LeBlancs’ home address and phone numbers, asking fans what crime they should be charged with. “High treason. Deserves a milkshake,” one said, with “milkshake” being their code word for execution.

Thankfully the LeBlancs have yet to be threatened directly enough to fear for their lives. “I panicked a little bit when I saw all our personal information posted, and I thought, ‘Oh, God,’ but most of the responses that we’ve gotten have actually been really positive and encouraging,” said Vicki LeBlanc. “There’s been very few people that have been angry and hateful.”

Unhinged right wing MAGA huckster Roger Stone freaked out the day disgraced former Trump left office without issuing a preemptive pardon for Stone given his involvement in the various yet-to-be-prosecuted crimes he committed to “Stop the Steal”, possibly even threatening to fight Donald in footage caught by a documentary film crew and obtained by the Daily Beast.

“Jared Kushner has an IQ of 70. He’s coming to Miami. We will eject him from Miami very quickly; he will be leaving very quickly,” said Stone while speaking to an unknown person on the phone, quivering with anger. “Very quickly.” Stone then said “He has 100 security guards. I will have 5,000 security guards.” “You want to fight. Let’s fight. Fuck you,” but the filmmakers were not entirely sure whose “100 security guards” he was talking about. The clip then ends with Stone saying “Fuck you and your abortionist bitch daughter.” On that they were sure Roger meant Donald and Ivanka.

Newsmax Senior Producer Ilona Braverman went on a bizarre rant about meat-alternative Impossible burgers on Friday morning, claiming variously that they’re “made in a lab” and she prefers food that’s “real” and “came from the earth and the planet.” Braverman then said Bill Gates “implanted” the burgers “with chips” in furtherance of some nefarious globalist mind and/or population control agenda. “I don’t want to eat Bill Gates’s fake meat,” she added.

We’re just assuming Braverman actually knows that Bill Gates backed Impossible’s launch. It’s actually pretty likely she simply threw his name in there because she and her audience like to use him as a boogeyman for everything that frightens them and just happened to be right this time.

Turns out Colorado Republican governor candidate Heidi Ganahl was actually right about schools buying kitty litter for kids to use instead of toilets, as NBC News found a Denver-area district has in fact been purchasing the trays and litter. We media libs were wrong, she was right.

One not very minor detail though: The schools are in the Jefferson County School District, which contains Columbine High School, the site of a horrific massacre in 1999. The district has been buying kitty litter since 2017 as a contingency in case students are locked down in their classrooms for an extended period of time during a shooting to use whether or not they “identify as cats.”

Donald J. Trump

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I will be putting out my response to the Unselect Committee of political Hacks & Thugs tomorrow morning at 8:00. Thank you!

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It is now, as of this writing, 8:43 AM EDT on Friday, 43 minutes after Donald was supposed to have made public his promised response to the House January 6th Committee’s vote to subpoena him to testify about his failed attempt to overturn his humiliating loss in the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

Interestingly enough, Trump had been posting other bullshit on Truth Social until just before the appointed hour, with his last one being some lame video at 7:57 AM. Two minutes before that he posted a link to a Fox News article headlined “Trump ‘loves the idea of testifying’ before Jan. 6 committee: source close to the former president,” which could indicate some absolutely desperate behind the scenes effort by his minions to stop him from putting out a statement saying he accepts the challenge and will testify. Or maybe Trump suddenly dropped dead of a stroke.

UPDATE 10/14/2022 9:17 AM EDT: Trump finally posted a lengthy letter, dated Thursday, in which the words “subpoena” and “testify” do not at any point appear, and apparently does not specifically address anything from the Thursday hearing at all. It’s not clear if this letter was even written on Thursday, as Trump simply rehashed the same bullshit he’s been saying since the he left office, like “The massive size of this crowd, and its meaning, has never been a subject of your Committee, nor has it been discussed by the Fake News Media that absolutely refuses to acknowledge, in any way, shape or form, the magnitude of what was taking place,” and other such insufferable whining.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Friday fired Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng as her government struggles to deal with everything going to shit, the BBC reports. The pound immediately dropped 1.3% on the news, which comes just a month into Truss’s premiership and an aborted clusterfuck of an attempt at a “mini-budget” centered on tax cuts on businesses.

Doug Ramsey, Chief Operating Officer of plant-based beef substitute producer Beyond Meat who was arrested last month in the parking garage of Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas on charges of terroristic threatening and third-degree battery after he got into a brawl and bit off a piece of another man’s nose in the altercation, has left the company, CNBC reports.

Ramsey, who joined Beyond Meat in December of 2021 after three decades with poultry giant Tyson Foods, was placed on leave following the gruesome incident that started when the driver of a Subaru made the slightest contact with his Ford Bronco as traffic was inching out of the stadium following the University of Arkansas Razorbacks’ 38 – 27 win over Missouri State. He then stepped out, and possibly in a rage over being deprived of animal-based protein for over nine months, punched through the back window of the Subaru. The other driver got out, upon which Ramsey “pulled him in close and started punching his body,” per a police report, and “bit the owner’s nose, ripping the flesh on the tip of the nose.” The would-be cannibal is due in court October 19.

Following the reading of the verdict which spared the life of Parkland MAGA terrorist Nikolas Cruz on Thursday, a juror called prosecutors to complain that another juror had threatened her during the deliberations, WPLG 10 reports. The juror told staff she had “received what she perceived to be a threat from a fellow juror while in the jury room,” according to a motion filed by the state requesting law enforcement investigate. Following the verdict, foreman Ben Thomas told reporters there were three holdouts against executing Cruz, however another juror put the number at one or two. Thomas was not one of them. “I didn’t vote that way, so I’m not happy with how it worked out, but everybody has the right to decide for themselves,” he said. “If a juror had a hard feeling that they were only going to vote one way, there’s nothing else you can do.”