In an interview broadcast Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukraine’s military had received advanced US air defense missile systems to deploy in its defense against Russian invaders, Reuters reports.

“We absolutely need the United States to show leadership and give Ukraine the air defense systems. I want to thank President Biden for a positive decision that has been already made,” Zelenskyy said, referring to the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) units shipped by the US. “But believe me, it’s not even nearly enough to cover the civilian infrastructure, schools, hospitals, universities, homes of Ukrainians.”

“The picking and choosing and using the power of government to go after Americans simply because they have a different political view is going to stop,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy claims on Fox, apparently having not spoken to his caucus which has vowed to investigate everything from Hunter Biden’s laptop to Hunter Biden’s deals in Ukraine to Hunter Biden’s business in China to Benghazi.  “We’re gonna provide accountability regardless wherever it is, regardless of Party,” Kev continues, though no one believes him for a moment.

Exit polls in Sunday’s election in Italy indicate that far right harridan Giorgia Meloni will probably end up as the next Prime Minister, becoming the first ever female leader for the country that invented pizza and espresso, CNN reports, calling her “the most far-right since Mussolini.”

Two people are dead as the result of one of multiple crashes that occurred during an unsanctioned car rally in Wildwood, New Jersey after one of the cars crashed into a golf cart, killing the two people in it, the Press of Atlantic City reports.

Gerald J. White, 37. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was arrested and charged with two counts each of death by automobile and assault by auto, as well as leaving the scene of an accident, eluding and violation of laws to protect public safety.

Officials say the H2oi rally is an unsanctioned offshoot of a permitted classic car show that was happening in the town at the time.  Video posted online of the H2oi rally showing modified high performance vehicles revving engines and spinning tires.  Police were called to multiple accident throughout the night as drivers could not handle the vehicles they were driving.

A 12-year-old girl in Weatherford, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth, shot her father in the stomach as he sat in their home and then shot herself in the head into the street as part of a murder pact with a friend in another Texas, who did not act on the promise, NBC News reports.

The condition of the girl and her father are unknown.  She reportedly made a pact with a friend of the same age in Lufkin, Texas, 230 miles away, to murder their family members and pets, and the two planned to run away together.  It’s unknown if the other girls dropped out of the plan, which caused the girl in Weatherford to attempt suicide.

The girl in Lufkin, whose name is also not being released, is being charged with conspiracy to commit murder.  The source of the gun the girl in Weatherford used in the shooting was not released, but it’s Texas and she could probably buy one at the American Girl store at the mall.

Thousands of people continue to take to the streets across Russia to protest Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forced conscription of able-bodied men under the age of 18 to 27 into military service to become fodder in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, USA Today reports.

In the video above, hundreds of women in the Eastern Siberian town of Yakutsk, population 280,000,  protest the order that would send their sons and husbands to Ukraine to bolster the military at the front as Russian troops continue to take significant losses.  Protests erupted in Moscow, the capital, and Yekaterinburg, a regional capital with more than 1.2 million people. 

“Just in the last few days, we’ve seen some glaring examples of instances of overreach,” Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee claims while speaking to a propagandist on Fox.  “Ah, I mean, look, you-y-y-you’ve seen subpoenas issued, ah, to the Eagle Forum of Alabama, uh, trying to get in their subjective motivation for their efforts with the Alabama legislature on a particular bill.  It’s really none of the federal government’s business.  Err haven’t done anything wrong.  I don’t even think any crime is being alleged ah er against the Eagle Forum of Alabama.  You’ve got a Catholic father of seven who formed a group, ah, designed to e-encourage, ah ah, young men to be faithful to their commitments who was arrested in front of his seven children just recently.  [“Wow,” the Fox hostess interjects in muted reaction.]. You’ve got all these instances of overreach.”

North Korea’s military fired a short-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan off its eastern shore in a sign of its continuing petulance as Vice President Kamala Harris upcoming visit to South Korea nears and a joint US-South Korea military readiness exercise is set to kick off, Reuters reports.

With the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and its support ships arriving in the region for a scheduled military exercise starting Monday that will last through Thursday, the North Koreans fired a missile in its first missile test since firing eight on one day in early June.  South Korean media is also report the North is planning to fire one of its new submarine-based missile in the coming days.

Vice President Harris is scheduled to arrive in Seoul following a trip to Japan, where she will attend the state funeral of murdered former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, who was shot by an assassin using a homemade shotgun in July.  Harris will lead a delegation that includes Rahm Emmanuel, the current U.S. ambassador to Japan; Katherine Tai, the U.S. trade representative; Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., who served as ambassador to Japan under former Donald Trump.  While in Japan, Harris will meet with leaders of the Japanese, Australian and South Korea before traveling to South Korea on Thursday.

A Manhattan judge on Friday threatened alcoholic shitbrain Rudy Giuliani with jail if he does not pay up $235,000 in settlement and attorney’s fees to ex-wife Judith Nathan (not the cousin, that was his first ex-wife) as part of their 2019 settlement, the New York Post reports.

“If the amount is not paid by that date, I’m going to be forced – unfortunately because it’s not something I want to do – I’m going to be forced to remand the defendant into custody,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Michael Katz said at the Friday hearing Rudy fucked off from.

Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis decided it’s time to declare a state of emergency for the state of Florida, not because of its high cost of living, its crappy healthcare system, or its politically-endorsed crimes (like kidnapping and child sex trafficking).  This time, it’s to prepare for Tropical Storm Ian to make landfall later this week, the Associated Press reports.

Eager to rake in tens of millions of federal dollars so he can misappropriate funds to pull off political performance art rather than help the citizens of the state, DeSantis had previously requested a federal emergency declaration, which President Joe Biden–treating all states equally even if one’s headed by an idiotic partisan who enjoys making people suffer–signed Saturday, even before DeSantis’s statewide declaration.

A popular target of natural and man-made disasters, Florida is also a waystation for asylum seekers in Texas coerced into boarding a plane to fly them to an unspecified location in the country.  As a sign of God’s wrath for the governor’s deceit and lies, it’s a popular hurricane target.

An amended autopsy released Friday found 23-year-old Black man Elijah McClain died of an overdose of ketamine, which was administered to him by paramedics trying to sedate him after police restrained him, the Washington Post reports.

On August 24, 2019 in Aurora, Colorado, police were called to a man wearing a ski mask waving his arms as he walked down the street; the caller told police he didn’t believe the person was armed or harassing anyone.  McClain was known to wear heavier clothing and even a ski mask in summer because he had a blood circulation disorder that made him feel cold.

Police found McClain, a massage therapist, dancing in the street and attempted to question him but, they say, McClain resisted.  At one point, according to some of the officers’ reports, McClain reached for one of the officers’ guns, but which specific officer’s gun differs according to each officer’s account.  No body camera video exists, but audio was recorded because the officers claimed McClain ripped them off the officers’ uniforms; they were found on the ground in the investigation.

How you stand or sit after ingesting oral medications can decrease the absorption time of the drugs by more than half, a new study by Johns Hopkins University finds, potentially impacting the effectiveness or danger associated with certain medications, the Washington Post reports.

Subject patients in an experiment who sat or stood upright after taking a pill by mouth took an average of 23 minutes to absorb the medication in the pill, but people who leaned or rested on their right side took just 10 minutes to have the same results.  However, people who leaned or rested on their left sides took ten times that amount of time–more than 100 minutes–to absord the medications.

The findings may help patients who have adverse reactions to some medications tolerate those medications better by allowing patients to slow the introduction of the medication into the systems, the study suggests.  The study may also help to shape patient care and drug manufacturing to regulate the absorption of medications, as well as suggest ways for in-patient care providers to reduce complications in hospitals.

Georgia’s Secretary of State has ordered many of the voting and tabulation machines in a southern county to be replaced after their internal systems were accessed illegally with the help of a county elections official trying to find proof of the election fraud Donald Trump and his cabal claimed, Reuters reports.

Brad Raffensperger ordered the voting machines in Coffee County, Georgia to be replaced after video showed Cathy Latham, the head of the Coffee County Republican Party and a county elections official, leading a group of self-proclaimed forensic examiners working with Donald Trump lawyer Sidney “The Kraken” Powell into the county elections office.

“To allay the fears being stoked by perennial election deniers and conspiracy theorists, we’re replacing Coffee County’s election machines,” Raffensperger said in a statement on Friday.  The Coffee County incident is part of larger grand jury investigation into efforts Donald Trump made to undermine the integrity of the 2020 election results, which declared and certified Joe Biden won Georgia.

NASA announced Saturday their planned Artemis lunar launch was a no-go for Tuesday as Tropical Storm Ian churned toward Cape Canaveral, CNN reports, marking the third time the mission’s been pushed back. NASA is considering even putting the rocket in storage.

“On Tuesday, Tropical Storm Ian is forecast to be moving north through the eastern Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane, just off the southwest coast of Florida. A cold front will also be draped across northern Florida pushing south. The combination of these weather factors will allow for increased rain chances across much of the Florida peninsula on Tuesday, including the Cape Canaveral area. Showers and thunderstorms are forecast to be numerous and widespread across the region. Tropical storm-force winds from Ian could also arrive as early as Tuesday night across central Florida,” said CNN Meteorologist Haley Brink laying out the sucktacular situation.

Security agents at the Friday night Trump rally in North Carolina tried to stop fans from raising their arm and index finger to show their allegiance to QAnon at one point during the Orange Tyrant’s set, same as they did last week. One cultist complained it violated his “Constitutional right!”

• Ron, if you want to cosplay accurately, you should use trains like they did.
• Trump’s idea that he can declassify documents just by thinking about it is obviously faulty.  It presupposes that Donald Trump thinks about things and doesn’t act purely out of impulse.  If Donald Trump ever actually thought about things, he wouldn’t be in the mess he’s in right now.
• I enjoy watching D-II, D-III or HBCU football games on television more than high-profile BCS games.  Network coverage of big-college games is too much video-game-ish overload of visuals and noise.  Just show the damn game.
• Letitia James’ lawsuit against Trump was gift-wrapped for her.  Trump gave it to her by signing documents–many of which were sworn/certified financial statements–that show how he lied.  Trump metaphorically signed his own guilty verdict.

With the Republicans introducing their new pamphlet-sized policy called “Commitment to America,” they decided to drop a new video touting how all their things will be the most ‘Muricany American stuff ever, they may want to check the provenance of the images.

As HuffPost reports, two images used in the montage of stock photos and clips were filed in the GOP homeland of Mother Russia.  A pic purportedly showing the might of American fossil fuel power actually shows a Russian oil rig.  And that cute American blond boy?  He’s got a greater likelihood of being named Boris or Vladimir because he’s also Russian.

It’s not the first time the GOP has took to Russian imagery to portray their power:  in 2020, an ad for Donald Trump’s campaign featured Russian fighter jets and what are apparently Russian soldiers.  The ad had the headline, “Support Our Troops.”

An Arizona judge lifted a 50-year-old injunction on a Civil War-era state law that had been in place since before Arizona was a state that puts a near-total ban on abortion in the state, KPNX NBC-12 in Phoenix reports.

The only exception to the law is if the life of the pregnant patient is in immediate danger, meaning that patients seeking an abortion for any other cause will be forced to travel out of the state.

The 1864 Howell Code dictates a 2- to 5-year prison sentence for any person who “shall administer or cause to be administered or taken, any medicinal substances, or shall use or cause to be used any instruments whatever, with the intention to procure the miscarriage of any woman then being with child, and shall be thereof duly convicted[.]”

Capitol rioter Doug Jensen, famous for chasing USCP cop Eugene Goodman up a stairwell and for being caught violating his pretrial release conditions by watching the fucking Mike Lindell “Cyber Symposium” in his garage last year was convicted by a jury Friday on all seven counts against him.

Jurors returned the guilty verdicts after only a few hours of deliberations. Jensen had been charged with five felony offenses: assaulting, resisting, or impeding a law enforcement officer, obstruction of an official proceeding, interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a dangerous weapon, and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a dangerous weapon, and two misdemeanors of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. The “Cyber Symposium” thing probably won’t help at sentencing.

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