A former Louisville police officers pleaded guilty to falsifying information on the search warrant that officers used to break down the door of Breonna Taylor, an action that led to Taylor being shot and killed by police, WPSD NBC-6 in Paducah, Kentucky reports.

Kelly Hannah Goodlett pleaded guilty to falsifying an affidavit, swearing that she spoke to a postal inspector who verified Taylor, a 26-year-old hospital technician, was receiving packages for her ex-boyfriend, a suspected drug dealer.  Goodlett, in fact, got no such verification; postal inspectors later testified they gave no such statement to Goodlett and stated Taylor had received packages for her ex-boyfriend from the postal service.

The affidavit was the basis for a warrant–at first that was issued as a “no-knock” warrant but later altered for a standard search warrant.  However, two armed Louisville officers breached the door of Taylor’s apartment.  Only one person claimed to have heard officers announce themselves and pound on the door; more than a dozen neighbors said they heard no such announcement.

A 67-year-old retired Republican member of the Alabama legislature who’s still active in Party leadership has been charged with felony first-degree sexual assault, the Montgomery Advertiser reports.

Perry Hooper of Montgomery was arrested by US Marshals Tuesday in connection with an incident that happened at 8 p.m. local time on August 16th at a downtown location a few blocks away from the state capitol.  He was being held on $15,000 bond.

A vocal advocate for Donald Trump in Alabama, Hooper served in the state legislature for nearly 20 years, from 1983 to 2002.  He co-chaired Trump’s 2016 campaign in Alabama.

The head of the Internal Revenue Service ordered all its facilities to review and solidify their security procedures as Republican politicians amp up a hate campaign against the agency, angering their base who have a tendency toward violence, Politico reports.

Numerous Republicans–including those irresponsible ones in Congress–have spread lies about a planned 10-year, $80 billion expansion of the IRS workforce which outlines hiring 85,000 employees.  Although the Republicans know better, they’re describing the entire group as “special agents” when they include administrative, data services, auditors and various other positions, and the GOP is also stoking fear in their base by claiming they’re being hired to target working families.

Since the heyday of the Tea Party in 2009, Republicans have been openly hostile to the IRS and have gutted the agency.  During the Trump administration, the specialty category of auditors, investigators and administrators that handle complicated returns for exceptionally wealthy people were, for all intents and purposes, shut down as agents were reassigned and retirements weren’t replaced. 

Doc just got another ten years in hypothetical MAGA prison for this interview alone – which we will note was not at all contentious in the usual way since it appears Fauci and Cavuto got along just fine (Fauci also didn’t literally say “Fuck your feelings,” we’re just paraphrasing). All the fire from Tony was aimed straight at the audience and they’re going to be PISSED.

US District Court Judge for South Florida Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by Donald Trump one week after the 2020 election, instructed Trump’s lawyers to clarify their argument for the need to have a court-appointed special master to review documents seized by the FBI two weeks ago at Trump’s snowbird retreat and supper club in Florida, CNN reports.

Cannon gave lawyers until Friday to tell the court what the specific problem is; what specific relief they’re seeking; and why they believe the court has the ability to provide that relief at this time.  Cannon also wanted to know if Trump’s lawyers had officially advised the Department of Justice about their request.

Cannon also wanted to know why Trump’s lawyers did not take the issue to magistrate judge Bruce Reinhart, given that he was the jurist who handled the case for the search warrant, hinting that Trump’s lawyers may have been seeking a favorable ruling from a Trump-appointed judge, also known as “forum shopping.”

A Republican-turned-Independent candidate for the US Senate seat from Missouri announced he’s withdrawing from the race, saying there’s no potential way for him to win, the Associated Press reports.

John Wood, who worked as an investigator for the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress, initially entered the race when former GOP Governor Eric Greitens was leading the polls; Wood said Greitens was “unacceptable” as a candidate.

Wood’s withdrawal sets the race against Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Democratic nominee Trudy Busch Valentine, who are looking to take the seat being vacated by a retiring Roy Blunt.

Bye byehttps://t.co/eTGSEnZUrr

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) August 23, 2022

Just in case the headline was confusing: The orange emoji ? was a lame and not at all silent protest symbol scores of MAGA Twitter users added to their handles on January 8th, a year to the day after Trump was tossed in the birdcage for life in the aftermath of the Capitol riot, and many, grossly incompetent Trump 2020 Campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis here included, still have it.

So for her to be gloating over the firing of some Georgia TV commentator for calling Trump “orange face” is kind of incongruous for lack of a better word to describe it when Trump fans scream “Soros is replacing white Americans” but then get offended when you call them white supremacists.

Ghoulish Florida Senator Rick Scott, a man who sort of earned his vast fortune and we guess is entitled to spend it enjoying nice things is, according to a report in Axios, currently doing just that and is in Italy fishing or hiking or gruesomely murdering backpackers in an underground dungeon like in those Hostel movies or whatever. The Senate’s on break for another 10 days or so, and we understand that he’d want a change of scenery, far away from his demented constituents.

We’re relaxed about this because we’re not Republicans. If we were, we would be apocalyptically pissed beyond belief that the skipper is taking shore leave in the middle of a pitched battle where we could lose as many as four seats to the fucking Democrats, guaranteeing a continued pipeline of judicial confirmations to federal courts outpacing Trump’s at the end of four years, and praying that the House flips because then we would be REALLY fucked in a lot of new and interesting ways if Nancy Pelosi is still the House Speaker with Mandela Barnes and John Fetterman as Senators while Beijing Blake, Russian Roulette guy, Doc Oz, and RonAnon shop around for private sector jobs.

Only God knows if it was really truly Jessica Simpson’s fault that Tony Romo threw that end zone pick to RW McQuarters with 0:09 left on the clock in the 4th, but Cowboys fans sure as shit blamed her for taking him to Cabo San Lucas during the bye week when he should’ve been studying the fucking Giants’ defense – even after beating them twice in the regular season. Rick Scott doesn’t have Jessica Simpson though. This is on him. In the very likely event that he, as Senate Republican campaign quarterback, fails to outscore the Dems, he should be able to tell fans he did everything he could and not have someone ask “then why the fuck did you go to Italy in August?”

Disgraced former President Trump turned over to the National Archives over 100 documents that were privileged and also planted by the FBI and also not actually classified and also shut up libs Obama did it too and he declassified them by standing order and the nuclear stuff was a hoax and the espionage act is outdated anyway, the Guardian reports. More than 700 pages of documents plainly marked “classified” were handed over to the National Archives in January, then more to the Justice Department in June, then finally the FBI came and took the rest earlier this month.

So it appears the Guardian is reporting this to inform readers that everything Trump stole is back in the government’s possession, more than six months after this “Trump took shit he wasn’t supposed to” story first hit the media. Well maybe everything. We don’t know if he sold shit to the Russians, Saudis, or Chinese. He could’ve just let them have the originals rather than photocopies.

We are just one month away from fall!

Last year we had a few nice fall fronts arrive in September. Hoping for a repeat this year! @wralweather pic.twitter.com/mYtJWTX0so

— WRAL Kat Campbell (@katcampbellwx) August 22, 2022

Michigan MAGA terrorists Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr, facing trial for the second time after the jury hung in the first one (while two of their pals walked) on charges they plotted to kidnap Dem Gov Gretchen Whitmer in fall 2020, were found guilty Tuesday in a federal court, WXYZ reports.

“A Tennessee state representative and his former chief of staff were arrested today at their homes on criminal charges related to a bribery and kickback conspiracy. According to court documents, State Representative Glen Casada, 63, of Franklin, and Cade Cothren, 35, of Nashville, are charged with conspiracy to commit theft from programs receiving federal funds; bribery and kickbacks concerning programs receiving federal funds; honest services wire fraud; and conspiracy to commit money laundering,” says a Justice Department press release with a lot of detail about their scam.

But the FBI is politically motivated against Republicans. Just look at what happened at Mar-a-Lago and you see that they’re biased towards Democrats and RINOs and blah blah blah.

Brazilian cops went all whatever MAGA hyperbole you want to use here on several business leaders loyal to far-right Trump-allied President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday, acting on media reports that the sons of bitches were planning a coup d’etat to keep Bolsonaro in power were he to lose the upcoming election, Reuters reports. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the raids on eight locations in five separate states. Though the targets were not named in the warrants, sources told Reuters among the suspected plotters are mall tycoon Jose Isaac Peres, home construction executive Meyer Joseph Nigri, and department store billionaire Luciano Hang.

We eagerly await the panicked reaction from right wing American Bolsonaro minions such as Jason Miller, Tucker Carlson, and Glenn Greenwald as they freak the fuck out over law enforcement raids on democracy-hating tyrants for the second time in less than a month.

America First super patriotic Republican Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters is a traitor because he invested in some Chinese biomedical startup alongside members of the ChiCom party (and lied about it too), per a Tuesday report in the Daily Beast. So to be fair and balanced, we’re going apply the same standard right wing media implied toward Hunter Biden and conclude Masters 100% betrayed America. No ifs ands or buts. Masters is a ChiCom sellout bitch. A fraud who cannot be trusted with elected office. That’s Blake Masters. We’ll call him “Beijing Blake” for a while and then go back to saying he’s actually a David Icke-style Reptilian Humanoid alien because of his creepy, skull-like face and rapey glare, but for now he’s “Beijing Blake”.

A new “scandal” touted in Breitbart’s top story this morning “REPORT: DOCUMENTS SHOW BIDEN WHITE HOUSE INVOLVEMENT IN TRUMP CRIMINAL PROBE” sucks. The story’s simply a re-hash of John Solomon’s stupid limited hangout attempt to control the damage from a letter which shows the National Archives told Trump on May 10th to stop fucking around and give up the classified documents he took to Mar-a-Lago – which to them means the Biden White House was aware the fat bastard was in trouble because Biden waived any privilege claims over the documents.

Breitbart uses the words “intimately involved” to describe the Biden White House’s disposition to the criminal probe of the Orange Caesar. We think that’s what they’re trying to say is a “scandal” here, that Biden asserting his powers as president and not getting in the way of the National Archives and Department of Justice’s investigation is somehow nefarious.

Thing is they don’t actually describe what would’ve been the “proper” or not “politically motivated” alternative course of action for Biden. All they have is Jeffrey Epstein-linked attorney Alan Dershowitz saying “The best thinking is that an incumbent president cannot waive the [executive privilege] of the previous president,” without detailing what that “best thinking” is supposed to be or anything about the merits of ex-executive privilege. Or that Trump already lost a case at the Supreme Court when he tried to claim ex-executive privilege over docs sought by the House January 6th Select Committee after Biden waived privilege over that material.

After years of taking a back seat to animal-named pathogens – swine flu, avian flu, monkeypox, etc – and even beer with the Coronavirus, vegetables finally are getting an illness of their own with this new “tomato flu” currently going viral in India, with dozens of children sickened in as many as three states on the subcontinent, the Guardian reports. It’s not clear if tomato flu, named as such for the red lesions it causes, is its own virus or an aftereffect of dengue fever infection. It does however appear to spread via contact between toddlers given their dirty lifestyle habits, per scientists.

“The Department of State has information that Russia is stepping up efforts to launch strikes against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure and government facilities in the coming days. Russian strikes in Ukraine pose a continued threat to civilians and civilian infrastructure. The U.S. Embassy urges U.S. citizens to depart Ukraine now using privately available ground transportation options if it is safe to do so,” says a new bulletin on the US Embassy website.

Disgraced TheHill reporter turned columnist (because he failed to disclose pertinent information about his involvement in planning the Trump Ukrainian story with Rudy Giuliani et al and continued to report on it like he was an uninvolved journalist) John Solomon has disclosed some significant information about the efforts to retrieve documents from Donald Trump.

Solomon published a letter from the National Archives and Records Administration sent on May 10th to some of Trump’s lawyers–who are not part of the television crew of female attorneys who seem to spend all their time on Fox or Newsmax.  Although Solomon never discloses that he was appointed by Trump to be one of Trump’s “representatives to the National Archives,” Solomon does reveal some very embarrassing information that contradicts many of Trump’s claims regarding the records.

Among the information disclosed by Solomon’s publishing the letter: