The US Chamber of Commerce, once thick as thieves with the Republican Party, will find itself the target of multiple investigations from House GOP Committees should Team MAGA take the majority in retaliation for their support of the “ESG” or environmental, social, and governance investment sector, the Intercept reports. This is that “woke capital” shit you sometimes see the Republicans whining about without any real context applied to it. The other axe to grind is the Chamber’s support for Democrats in recent elections, endorsing 23 swing-district Dems in 2020.

Weeks after being fired for backing the wrong horse in a GOP primary, failed former Wisconsin Republican 2020 election “review” czar and ex-state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman called for violence against the government over Trump’s loss in to Joe Biden, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports on video obtained from a closed-door event by muckraker Lauren Windsor.

“Our comfort is holding us back from taking the action that is necessary. The greatest challenge of our poor in this country is not lack of food, it’s obesity,” said Gableman, who is obese, at a private dinner hosted by Outagamie County, Wisconsin GOP on September 9th. “It’s a beautiful world. But it’s that very comfort that is keeping us from what our founders knew to be the only way to keep an honest government, which is revolution. Thomas Jefferson said that the tree of liberty must be watered by the blood of revolution in every generation. I don’t think that’s going to happen.”

A Minnesota federal judge on Monday denied MyPillow assclown Mike Lindell’s motion to dismiss the defamation lawsuit brought in January 2022 by voting systems company Smartmatic over Lindell’s insane 2020 elections falsehoods, Politico reports. “Smartmatic has alleged sufficient facts to support its allegation that Lindell’s statements were false,” wrote US District Judge Wilhelmina Wright in the ruling, as if Lindell wasn’t already having a shitty month. Lindell is also the defendant in a $1.3 billion lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems for the same reasons. Unlike Dominion, Smartmatic did not specify the damages they sought in their complaint against Lindell.

Plainly terrified of the very real possibility Dems could hold the House and expand their Senate majority in November, the Wall Street Journal’s far-right editorial board warned readers Monday the abolition of the Senate filibuster would do lasting damage to MAGAmerica’s fascist ambitions.

“The H.R.1 voting bill creates a federal right to mail ballots and overrides state laws banning ballot harvesting. It requires same-day voter registration and up to 15 days of early voting. House Democrats also passed H.R.4 that would require the Justice Department or D.C. district court to approve election-law changes in states and localities with a putative history of voting-rights violations. The Attorney General would have broad discretion, and you can bet GOP states will be the main targets as they were under Eric Holder before the Supreme Court voided pre-clearance in Shelby County v. Holder (2013),” wrote the Journal’s op-ed board, threatening democracy lovers with a good time. The board then continued with pants-pissing about increased corporate taxes, climate-focused legislation, and overriding Red State “right-to-work” laws.

“There’s much more we could include here, but you get the idea. If Democrats add seats in the Senate and hold the House, there won’t be much of a check on progressive ambitions. If they accomplish this with inflation at 8%, they will be even more emboldened. That is what’s really on the ballot in November,” the Journal concluded and by God may they be 100% right to panic.

A human trafficker named Perla lied to asylum seekers in Texas to get them on one of two planes flying to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts paid for by taxpayers of Florida at the direction of Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, documents provided by the non-profit advocacy group Lawyers for Civil Rights shows.

As the pamphlet shown above depicts, the asylum seekers were told they would be given “refugee cash assistance,” “refugee employment services,” and various relocation services available to refugees once they reached Massachusetts.  These were all false promises primarily because the humans being trafficked by Perla, DeSantis and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott are not refugees; they’re asylum seekers.

1st case of monkeypox was registered in Ukraine. In patient’s own words, he didn’t contact anyone affected by disease & he didn’t travel abroad. So when & where did he manage to get monkeypox? Questions & concerns should arise as some US biolabs are still operational in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/PJvlugjQ1v

— Russian Embassy in South Africa 🇷🇺 (@EmbassyofRussia) September 19, 2022

“I’m a country boy. I’m not that smart. He’s a preacher. (Warnock) is smart and wears these nice suits. So, he is going to show up and embarrass me at the debate October 14th, and I’m just waiting to show up and I will do my best,” said brain-damaged Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker at a press conference on Friday, acknowledging the grim expectations for how he’ll fare against the tenacious Dem incumbent. Give him points for trying the old “I’m just a hayseed and he’s this high-fallutin’ big fancy master’s degree-holdin’ sum’bitch.”

Would’ve been better to just not set a bar at all rather than setting a low one which he’ll still fail to clear. The only real question is how much damage Walker’s going to do to himself against Warnock and how much airtime the lowlights of his performance will will get. Georgia Democrats have a recent history of some pretty entertaining beatdowns during debates.

Rather than trying for some excuse like “they were Nazis and they deserved it” or “those people are actually Russians massacred by the Nazi Ukrainians,” the Kremlin on Monday simply went with “it’s a hoax” when addressing the discovery of mass graves of civilians massacred by the Russian army near the recently recaptured Northeastern Ukrainian city of Izium, the Moscow Times reports.

“It’s a lie and of course we’ll stand up for the truth in this entire story,” Kremlin spokesworm Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday. “Kyiv is pushing the same scenario in Izyum as it did with the provocation in Bucha,” he continued referring to a massacre in the small village near Kyiv where in late March as many as 1,300 civilians were slaughtered by a Moscow-loyal Chechen militia.

Jury selection will begin Monday in the trial of Trump minion Tom Barrack on charges he illegally lobbied the Donald’s misadministration on behalf of the UAE, Reuters reports.

This is Linda Paulson, a Republican candidate for the 12 state senate district in Utah, and she’s got her fingers on the musical taste of her proposed constituency with this… um… rap (?) video.

The island commonwealth of Puerto Rico is without power after Hurricane Fiona made landfall, nearly five years to the day that Hurricane Maria slammed the island killing nearly 3,000 people, NBC News reports.

Fiona hit Puerto Rico with 85 mile per hour winds, knocking out electricity service to 1.5 million customers because the power grid wasn’t significantly improved after Maria hit in 2017. Democratic Governor Pedro Pierluisi said up to 13 inches of rain fell on the island in a five-hour period, causing significant urban flooding as well as flash flooding and landslides in the countryside.

President Joe Biden declared a state of emergency for the island Sunday, releasing federal funds to help the island recover.  The White House has not released plans for Biden to throw paper towels at islanders who need supplies, like his predecessor did, and it likely won’t.

It’s not totally clear from the video who that is on stage telling Republican Pennsylvania governor candidate and QAnon freak Doug Mastriano fans to “Put your right hand in the air… America will have a new birth of liberty,” but it’s undeniable that things got reich-y here.

“But is it a firm decision, that I will run again?  That remains to be seen,” President Joe Biden says during a “60 Minutes” interview.

Officials with to the Elkhart County, Indiana Sheriff’s Department have determined that the fatal head-on collision which last month killed Republican Congresswoman Jackie Walorski – one of the 139 House members who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 election – was the fault of her aide Zach Potts, who was driving the Toyota RAV4, NPR reports.

Potts was trying to pass a slow-moving truck from the left, crossing into the opposite lane and gunning the engine up to 84 MPH when he collided with a car driven by Edith Schmucker. Potts, Walorski, communications director Emma Thomson, and Schmucker were all killed instantly. Walorski is the third Republican House member who voted against certifying fat former President Trump’s humiliating defeat to die in office since January 6, 2021, following Texas Congressman Ron Wright (COVID-19) and Minnesota Congressman Jim Hagedorn (brain cancer). We’re not going to say they somehow deserved to die for what they did, but it’s hard not think that way.

They were simply bad people and a disgrace to American democracy. The country is a better place without them. We feel bad for their families (and especially bad for the innocent woman who was just minding her own business and got killed probably because Walorski told the kid to speed up and pass the truck since she was running late for an event), sure, but really we’re not sad they and anyone else who would try to nullify the will of the American people are no longer among the living.

Massachusetts authorities have asked federal officials to investigate Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s $12 million political stunt of shipping foreign asylum seekers to Democratically-run states to “own the libs” instead of trying to increase teacher pay or cut down on child abuse in his state, USA Today reports.

“We are requesting that the Department of Justice open an investigation to hold DeSantis and others accountable for these inhumane acts,” state Rep. Dylan Fernandes tweeted Sunday. “Not only is it morally criminal, there are legal implications around fraud, kidnapping, deprivation of liberty, and human trafficking.”

The migrants involved in the stunt–DeSantis paid for private planes to move asylum seekers from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts as a publicity stunt paid for by taxpayer funds to show how much of an asshole he is–said they were told they would be sent to Boston where they would be given housing and jobs.  In fact, never DeSantis nor fellow asshole Greg Abbott, Texas’s Republican governor, did not inform anyone at the destination so arrangements could be made, sending authorities in Massachusetts scrambling to find the necessities for the migrants.

As many as four incumbent US House Republicans in California could lose to Dem challengers in November with abortion quite literally on the ballot in the state with Proposition 1, a measure asking if reproductive rights should be added to the Constitution, Politico reports. Most endangered is Rep Mike Garcia, in California’s 25th District North of Los Angeles, last held by a Dem in 2019. Others include Trump impeacher David Valadao, longtime 41st District Congressman Ken Calvert. and Orange County Rep Michelle Steel. “There’s no good answer to abortion,” said GOP strategist Mike Madrid. “On the face of it, when Republicans are talking about the issue, they’re losing.”

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The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta issued an order giving Trump’s legal team until noon on Tuesday to file its response to the Justice Department’s appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling on government documents going to a special master and ordering a suspension of investigations into why those documents were in Donald Trump’s Florida temporary housing and dinner service, Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports.

Legal Twitter is abuzz with how quickly the Court took up the case, with some pundits calculating that this shows the Court is eager to make a ruling.

A Texas judge has exhibited a modicum of common sense by blocking a directive by Republican Governor Greg Abbott that requires a child abuse investigation by government agencies of families that support gender-affirming treatment for transgender children, USA Today reports.

Abbott’s order requires child protective services to investigate reports of children obtaining gender-affirming medical care as child abuse reports because conservatives can’t let people live their own lives and believe government knows better than parents.

Judge Amy Clark Meachum’s order immediately halted a case against Adam and Amber Briggle, who have a 14-year-old transgender son, as well as two other family members.  Meachum also expanded her order to stop all current and future investigations.