“A joint social media study from Montclair State University faculty in the Joetta Di Bella and Fred C Sautter III Center for Strategic Communication in the College of Communication and Media and the Global Center on Human Trafficking shows a 64 percent decrease in the total number of posts about human trafficking made by prominent QAnon affiliated/MAGA accounts when compared to the highpoint of such posts in 2023,” says the abstract to the study at Montclair’s website.

“Results from the study produced by the Center for Strategic Communication and the Global Center on Human Trafficking include a 64 percent decrease in human trafficking posts from significant MAGA accounts from 1/1/2025 to 7/20/2025 when compared to the same period in 2023 (the highest volume year of trafficking posts among online conservative voices), a 79 percent reduction in the total volume of human trafficking posts in the studied accounts between 2023 and 2025, no posts from the MAGA accounts studied related to proposed cuts to the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (despite such content generating 29.5M potential views from other online sources), and a greater than 50 percent reduction in views of human trafficking posts for 2025 from all studied MAGA accounts, indicating potential diminished interest from their respective audiences,” the abstract to the not-super-lengthy piece of research continued.

Failing, weak Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas called it quits Thursday amid multiple witch hunts into his personal and business affairs, the AP reports. He didn’t fight, he’s not a fighter.

“Seeing how the scandals are hindering the work of the government, I believe that I cannot allow our ruling coalition and the Cabinet to become hostages to these scandals,” Paluckas wrote in a letter to party members, aka Lithuanian Panicans. “Therefore, I have decided to take a quick and decisive decision. I never cling to any position in life – and so I am open to all scenarios and decisions.” Sad.

What the world saw on the campaign trail was only part of the story.

My new book is a behind-the-scenes look at my experience leading the shortest presidential campaign in modern history.

107 Days is out on September 23. I can't wait for you to read it: https://t.co/G4bkeZB4NZ pic.twitter.com/taUof0L4hs

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 31, 2025

National Zero is not in the business of supplying content ideas to right wing propaganda sites – if anything it’s the other way around – but in this case an exception can be made due to the dually phonetic and orthographic qualities of “Mein Kamala-ampf.” Just realize that the original was written after its author had failed to take power but before he was successful a second time around. MAGA media sites may want to avoid prophesying that which could self-fulfill and thus burden them.

says a National Park Service: “On Monday morning, July 28, a 17-year-old male suffered significant thermal burns to his foot and ankle area in the vicinity of Lone Star Geyser near Old Faithful. The juvenile was on a hike in the thermal area when his foot broke through the thin crust and he suffered burns to a lower extremity. Emergency medical staff responded and transported the patient to a hospital for further treatment. This incident is under investigation.”

New York City Police Department Officer Didarul Islam, who was shot dead Monday in Manhattan by fucking maniac Shane Tamura along with four other people, will be laid to rest in New Jersey on Thursday after a funeral at Parkchester Jame Masjid Funeral Home in the Bronx, the AP reports.

The 36 year-old patrol officer was working in uniform on a department-approved private security detail for an unspecified party when Tamura walked into the Park Avenue building housing the NFL’s world headquarters in what’s now known to be a targeted attack against the league over what Tamura wrote in a suicide note was CTE from high school football injuries. Islam was the first victim, killed before the psychopath got on the wrong elevator, ending up on a floor leased by vulture capitalist firm Blackstone where he shot an exec and mother of two dead, along with three others.

Anyway, as predicted and unlike that of his naturally-born fallen brother officer Jonathan Diller, shot dead in Queens early last spring, the Bangladeshi immigrant Islam’s memorial will not be attended by convicted felon President Trump, nor is there any reporting indicating that Trump offered to attend.

Yeah, it’s definitely hard to tell your audience that your Orange Messiah’s promises to lower the cost of living were bullshit and he does not know what the fuck he’s doing. Totally understanable.

A “Middle East expert who speaks regularly with” the Trump Regime tells the Financial Times that convicted felon President Trump told a “prominent Jewish donor” at some unspecified event in the last few weeks that “My people are starting to hate Israel,” which tracks with the fat bastard’s recent public pushback against the Netanyahu Regime’s genocidal campaign against Gazan civilians.

“Will there ever be a blow-up with Israel and Trump?” said the expert, anonymously because the Regime would immediately try to destroy someone who would go on the record about the Orange Tyrant’s court intrigue. “I don’t think so. But there are people in the White House who are watching this narrative develop in the right wing, in the MAGA world, that is very anti-Israel, very anti-Jewish.”

Yeah, no shit. Unfortunately it would seem that certain predictions are holding up all too well and more rapidly than its author had anticipated. Of course the conservative establishment’s thrall to Israel and MAGA latching onto that as a propaganda weapon against Palestinian-aligned leftist politicians and activists is a bad thing. It’s just that a post-Israel MAGA might be even worse.

Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre’s two brothers and her sisters-in-law tell the Atlantic that convicted felon President Trump’s claim that Jeff “stole” Giuffre from him makes her family members “ask if he was aware of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal actions, especially given his statement two years later that his good friend Jeffrey ‘likes women on the younger side… no doubt about it. We and the public are asking for answers, survivors deserve this.”

On Trump’s apparent consideration of a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the family wrote that “If our sister could speak today, she would be most angered by the fact that the government is listening to a known perjurer, a woman who repeatedly lied under oath and will continue to do so as long as it benefits her position… The government and the President should never consider giving Ghislaine Maxwell any leniency. Maxwell destroyed many young lives, and she was convicted for only a fraction of the crimes she actually committed.” And Trump wished her well back in 2020.

Irony’s been dead for years but Republicans continue to desecrate its grave, spread the fragments of its bones around, stomp on those tiny fragments, urinate on them, then smear the urine mud on their faces and scream “LOOK LIBS! WE’RE WEARING PISS MUD WITH DEAD IRONY BITS IN IT!”

If there’s any better way to describe House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer saying Biden wore makeup to conceal his decline and that he was surrounded by a cult then let’s hear it.

A “senior White House official” anonymously tells the Washington Post that the Epstein shitshow, in their view at least, has somewhat, sort of calmed down. Kind of. “I wouldn’t say it’s blown over,” said the source. “It’s one of those things where, with a certain segment of the base, a very small segment of the base, it’s never going to die down, no matter what.”

“Why would one ‘Republican,’ Senator Josh Hawley from the Great State of Missouri, join with all of the Democrats to block a Review, sponsored by Senator Rick Scott, and with the support of almost all other Republicans, of Nancy Pelosi’s Stock Trading over the last 25 years. The information was inappropriately released just minutes before the Vote – Very much like SABOTAGE! The Democrats, because of our tremendous ACHIEVEMENTS and SUCCESS, have been trying to ‘Target’ me for a long period of time, and they’re using Josh Hawley, who I got elected TWICE, as a pawn to help them. I wonder why Hawley would pass a Bill that Nancy Pelosi is in absolute love with – He is playing right into the dirty hands of the Democrats. It’s a great Bill for her, and her ‘husband,’ but so bad for our Country! I don’t think real Republicans want to see their President, who has had unprecedented success, TARGETED, because of the ‘whims’ of a second-tier Senator named Josh Hawley!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Wednesday, raging that the stock trading ban bill would include presidents and vice presidents along with members of Congress.

But it doesn’t actually “target” him because it won’t kick in until 2029… Unless he plans on canceling the election and remaining dictator for life, at which point a stock ban also wouldn’t matter.

Lmaooooooo now the media is trying to insinuate Trump killed Jeffrey Epstein himself. 😅😅😅😅😅😅

ORANGE MAN BAD

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 30, 2025

In one of those statements that was quietly passed to political news outlets and embargoed until the same exact time – this one being 3:00 PM EDT on the dot, so that’s really the only reason those perfidious twats at the Hill got to this first, former Vice President Kamala Harris announced she will not be running for governor of California in 2026, leaving the road open for a 2028 presidential run.

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday announced her retirement in a really roundabout, unofficial way by announcing she supports the Senate’s version of the congressional stock trading ban, saying “We must have strong transparency, robust accountability and tough enforcement for financial conduct in office because the American people deserve confidence that their elected leaders are serving the public interest not their personal portfolios. If legislation is advanced to help restore trust in government and ensure that those in power are held to the highest ethical standards, then I am proud to support it – no matter what they decide to name it.”

Yeah, of the bills is named the “PELOSI Act.” Continued: “While I appreciate the creativity of my Republican colleagues in drafting legislative acronyms, I welcome any serious effort to raise ethical standards in public service. The HONEST Act, as amended, rightly applies its stock trading ban not only to Members of Congress, but now to the President and Vice President as well. I strongly support this legislation and look forward to voting for it on the Floor of the House.”

“Today, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is sanctioning Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) justice Alexandre de Moraes (de Moraes), who has used his position to authorize arbitrary pre-trial detentions and suppress freedom of expression. ‘Alexandre de Moraes has taken it upon himself to be judge and jury in an unlawful witch hunt against US and Brazilian citizens and companies,’ said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. ‘De Moraes is responsible for an oppressive campaign of censorship, arbitrary detentions that violate human rights, and politicized prosecutions – including against former President Jair Bolsonaro. Today’s action makes clear that Treasury will continue to hold accountable those who threaten US interests and the freedoms of our citizens,'” says the Treasury Department in a press release.

“Today’s action is being taken pursuant to Executive Order 13818, which builds upon and implements the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and targets perpetrators of serious human rights abuse around the world. Today’s action follows the US Department of State’s revocation of de Moraes’s visa and those of his immediate family members on July 18, 2025, for their complicity in aiding and abetting de Moraes’ unlawful censorship campaign against US persons on US soil.”

Huh. “Their complicity,” like they’re supposed to kill their dad for signing off on charges against Bolsonaro for plotting a coup and inciting a riot after his defeat to Luiz Lula in 2022.

The fat bastard was similarly confused when a reporter asked him about the “burn bags,” the latest MAGA conspiracy thriller story but then he got it mixed up with the Epstein clusterfuck. Very sad.

The Federal Reserve Bank on Wednesday told convicted felon President Trump “fuck you” and refused to lower interest rates, disobeying the Orange God Emperor’s repeated and insistent commands to do so.

Officials with the US Department of Energy say yes, there are wasps at a former nuclear munitions plant in South Carolina and yes the wasps are radioactive but it’s not as scary as it sounds, the AP reports, explaining that they already blasted wasps with regular insect spray and they’re dead.

Nobody needed to use any sort of superpowered anti-nuclear insect spray. Okay? Jeez.

“On Saturday, August 2, Senator Cruz will join Attorney General Brenna Bird at the Brenna Bird Barn Bash in Dallas County, Iowa, where he will deliver remarks,” says a press release on TedCruz.org.

🚨🚨🚨 HOLY SHIT A BARN BASH! THAT’S ALMOST AS BIG AS A RUMP RIDE OR WHATEVER THEY CALL IT WHEN THE CANDIDATES RIDE ON MOTORCYCLES WITH THE IOWA PEOPLE! WOW! 🚨🚨🚨

MAGA Congressman Eric Burlison, who was credulous last year when presented with information that there are four main alien races regularly visiting Earth – the Greys, the Nordics, the Reptilians, and the Insectoids, who look kind of like praying mantises, according to abductees – was similarly open to possibly suspect claims on the question of whether President Donald Trump had ever visited dead sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s private abode in the US Virgin Islands when it was a really expensive brothel, telling Wolf Blitzer that he took Trump at his word on the matter.