An Oakland County, Michigan judge on Friday blocked the enforcement of the state’s 1931 abortion ban indefinitely after two days of testimony from experts, the AP reports. “The harm to the body of women and people capable of pregnancy in not issuing the injunction could not be more real, clear, present and dangerous to the court,” ruled Judge Jacob Cunningham.

It appears Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano’s promise to turn Pennsylvania into Florida is getting a head start thanks to people like Pennsylvania Man Jeremy Lee Pauley of Enola in southcentral PA.  According to USA Today, the self-described “collector of oddities” arranged for an Arkansas mortuary employee to abscond with a corpse to sell to Pauley, who would pay the mortuary employee $4,000 according to messages between the two taken from Facebook Messenger.

Pauley’s Facebook page notes that he trades in body parts which he says he sells to collectors, museums and schools.  On his page, he shows himself searching through containers filled with femurs and other human bones.  Pauley runs a Facebook page called “The Grand Wunderkammer” where he offers his wares for sale.  When police searched his residence, they found full skeletons and various other human remains, including a bucket filled with what appeared to be the remains of a child.  Pauley was able to prove that some of the remains were obtained legally; he wasn’t able to demonstrate that for all that was found in his residence.

“I think I’ve seen it all, and then something like this comes around,” said Sean McCormack, district attorney for Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. “The question we had to answer was, Is the sale of body parts or bones and remains illegal … or legal? Some of it, to our surprise, was legal. And as the investigation went on, it became clear there was illegal activity going on as well.”

Read more on the positive respondent reaction to federal law enforcement searching the fat former President’s Florida hooker pad at Navigator Research.

“Well, I think considering the fact that this is the first, uh, airing of a former president’s home for, ah gack putter, potentially information whatever they think’s wrong, plus the way Hillary Clinton’s negotiation a-and ah, emails were handled, Steele dossier, Carter Page, FISA, you can name a lot of ’em,” GOP Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, the oldest Republican in Congress, stammered as he tried to get all the deflection points in.  “There’s evidence of the handle one thing one way for Democrats and another way, thing for Republicans, and I think I’ve poven [sic] some political bias in regard to Hunter Biden a-and Trump in the, ah, FBI so I think full transparency is what’s really called for in this very extraordinary situation.”

Yes, there is a double standard, Chuck:  Republicans lambasted Hillary Clinton when she complied with a subpoena and sat for hours of partisan questioning as the Republican-led House conducted no fewer than seven separate investigations into her actions on various things in what was literally a witch hunt because all of them determined there was no criminal wrongdoing.  And to repeat:  Hunter Biden is not an elected official, nor did Hunter Biden hide evidence or steal Top Secret documents and then lie about it.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s anti-vaccination group, the nonprofit Children’s Health Defense, had its Facebook and Instagram accounts suspended for continuing to promote false statements about vaccine, the Associated Press reports.

One of the most popular proponents of anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and alternative medical theories, Kennedy has drawn criticism for decades for his unfounded claims that vaccines of all types harm children.  While he presents a number of statements to support his claim, his theories are roundly rejected by people with experience in medicine and science.  Kennedy is a trained lawyer, not a doctor or medical researcher.

“Facebook is acting here as a surrogate for the federal government’s crusade to silence all criticism of draconian government policies,” Kennedy said.

Joe Quattrone, an 88-year-old Italian immigrant who has been the barber at the barbershop at the House of Representatives since 1971, announced that he will retire at the end of August, Roll Call reports.

Back on March 2, 1971, when haircuts cost 75¢, Quattrone joined one of seven barbershops that operated in the Capitol complex.  Today, he’s the last remaining shop operating on the House side–a taxpayer-subsidized barbershop cuts Senators’ hair for free–and now haircuts cost $20.

Quattrone remembers his first day of work well, because it was the day after the Weather Underground detonated a bomb in a Senate bathroom.  And he was there on January 6th when Republican-led domestic terrorists attacked Congress to stop the certification of the 2020 election.

Two small private planes collided over a California airport as the aircraft were both approaching to land, CNN reports.  The two planes–a single-engine Cessna 152 with one person on board and a twin-engine Cessna 340 carrying two people–were both descending to land at the two-runway airport in Watsonville.

The Watsonville airport is uncontrolled, meaning there’s no tower or air traffic control facility at the airport to direct planes flying in the area.  Instead, Watsonville uses a common radio frequency for planes to communicate between themselves.

A photo from the scene posted by the city shows debris from the crash impacted into a service shed at the airport.  The FAA is investigating the crash.

I gotta admit:  I’m a little impressed.  Props to Laura Ingraham for her move in this clip.  Here, one of “Donnie’s Angels” squad of lawyers, Christina Bobb, tries to explain to Ingraham why she didn’t join any of the motions or file a motion of their own in the hearing about the release of the affidavit submitted to get the search and seizure warrant for Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago supper club and upscale flop house.  Bobb said they just wanted to see how the hearing “played out” before making a motion.

Realizing that Bobb doesn’t know what she’s talking about, Ingraham jumps in and gives a live-on-the-air law school lesson on abandoning the ability to join a later action:  By not being part of earlier motions about the affidavit, Bobb may have forfeited the ability to object at a later part of the disclosure.  It’s impressive that Ingraham schooled her own guest to show that the lawyer doesn’t know the applicable law.  It’s unusual for us here at NatZero to tout the actions of a Fox propaganda network host–hell, this may be a first–but Ingraham really demonstrated to her audience that Trump’s lawyers are stupid.  And she did it looking refreshed after her recent vacati– oh, my gawd, what is happening to me!

I wonder if Donnie was watching, and if he’ll need to find a “Cheryl Ladd” to replace his current “Farrah Fawcett.”

Republican Maryland Governor Larry Hogan stated that his Party’s chosen nominee to succeed him in office is “not mentally stable” because he’s a conspiracy theorist who believes the lies of Donald Trump, the Washington Post reports.

Term limited so he can’t run for re-election, Hogan has frequently belittled the Republican nominee for Maryland Governor, Dan Cox, labelling him a “QAnon whack job” and a devotee of Donald Trump, with whom Hogan, a relatively moderate Republican, has significant problems.

“He’s not, in my opinion, mentally stable,” Hogan said during a Wednesday radio interview.  “He wanted to hang my friend, Mike Pence, and took three busloads of people to the Capitol.”

The entire statement you are about to read (or listen to) is a lie.

Really, if you look at the Espionage Act, it’s not really about taking the documents, it’s about destroying ’em, or hiding ’em, or giving them to the enemy.  It’s not about taking them and putting them in a place roughly as safe as they were in the first place.  And then, when asked to give them back, give um, er, gives them back, um… voluntarily.  I mean, they already got 15 cartons back voluntarily at the beginning of the year.  I spoke to two of his lawyers today just to clarify this point but, they were there a month and a half before, examined everything they eventually took, and announced that everything was in good order.  [crosstalk] They bought into the idea he should keep them there, they told him to put another lock on.  They gave him advice on how to secure it at Mar-a-Lago in a way that they were satisfied with, and then they called back, asked if it was done, and they said we’re satisfied.

Disgraced suspended lawyer and hair dye crash test dummy Rudy Giuliani is wrong about virtually everything he says here.  The Espionage Act deals with stealing government documents; the very section Trump was being investigated for, 18 US Code § 793, is literally titled “Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information.”  Plus, Trump didn’t “voluntarily” comply with anything, hence the need to conduct the search; “voluntarily” means Trump would have turned them over the first time he was asked for them, not after a subpoena or an FBI search.  And no one in their right mind would say a basement at Mar-a-Lago is more secure than the National Archives… where the nation’s founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are stored.

Democrats hold leads in Fox News polling surveys of voters in Wisconsin and Arizona’s statewide midterm races, with incumbent Dem Arizona Senator Mark Kelly leading evil Reptilian Humanoid Blake Masters 50 to 42 percent, Dem Secretary of State Katie Hobbs ahead of female drag queen Kari Lake 47 to 44 percent, Wisconsin Lt Governor Mandela Barnes getting 50 percent to in-scum-bent Republican Senator Ron “RonAnon” Johnson’s 46 percent, and Dem Governor Tony Evers ahead of MAGA douchebag challenger Tim Michels 49 to 46 percent.

Even though a generic Man from the state is the epitome of deadly stupidity, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor says he wants the commonwealth to be “the Florida of the North,” a statement that won’t win him any voters in the Keystone State.

Bragging that Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will travel to Pennsylvania for a rally this weekend, human pencil eraser Doug Mastriano said, “Oh, it’s going to be fantastic.  W- We heard from him and his team a couple weeks ago asking if we interested in, ah, in doing a rally in Pittsburgh, and I’m like, are you kidding me?  Heck yes, because my goal as governor of Pennsylvania is, uh, make Pennsylvania the Florida of the north because he set the gold standard for the good a governor can do, ah, leading a state.”

A US District Court judge for Northern Florida has stopped the implementation of Florida’s “Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees” Act–the Stop WOKE Act–from going into effect, saying the law blatantly violates people’s rights, the Associated Press reports.

The DeSantis dictum demands that no one in a workplace or school can require people to participate in training or lessons that make them feel uncomfortable about their race, with specific emphasis on protecting the fragile characters of white children and privileged adults who, DeSantis believes, do not have the moral fiber to learn white people committed racist acts, like slavery.

In his 44-page decision, Judge Mark Walker, an Obama appointee, said that the law is a direct attack on the First Amendment, with DeSantis demanding the state determine what can and cannot be taught to employees or students and punishing people whose view oppose DeSantis’s. 

Saying that the investigation run by the Republican-led legislature’s Office of Special Council “accomplished nothing,” a Wisconsin state judge issued a scathing 90-page ruling that effectively dismantles and neuters the team of lawyers Republicans assembled to find fraud in the 2020 election.

Just days after Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos fired former state Supreme Court justice Michael Gableman, Circuit Court Judge Frank Remington on Wednesday stated that the effort Gableman led was amateurish, incomplete and unproductive.

“If my prior estimation that OSC’s brief ‘contains inaccuracies’ was improvident, it was only in the suggestion that OSC’s brief also contains accuracies,” Remington wrote. “But to read the brief casually is to witness fiction distilled from the disappointment of a losing party; a fever dream version of the facts of this case.”

Total worm Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry on Thursday successfully argued to the state bond commission to block $39 million in funds to the city of New Orleans meant for flood mitigation as punishment for non-enforcement of the state’s abortion ban, Jezebel reports.

The parents of at least one high school student who lost a high school sports competition to a girl from another school demanded the state board that oversees scholastic athletics to confirm the girl’s gender, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.  The investigation confirmed the girl’s gender.

Neither the unnamed female student-athlete nor the girl’s parents were advised of the inquiry, which was done through a records check of her school registration records going back to kindergarten.  David Spatafore, the spokesperson for the Utah High School Activities Association, said that was done to protect the student’s identity, as was the policy to not discuss the student’s school or sport the student competed in.

In testimony before a state legislative committee, Spatafore said the UHSAA receives complaints to investigate athletes–primarily female athletes–to confirm their birth gender when they dominate a sport and in the opinion of spectators or other coaches, “when an athlete doesn’t look feminine enough.”  Spatafore said that the association typically relies on school records from where the student is enrolled, but in this specific case, decided to probe deeper at the urging of the offended parents whose child lose the sporting contest.

Commenting that it was “very important” to preserve public confidence in the ongoing investigations into Donald Trump, federal magistrate judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the Department of Justice to submit a redacted version of the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago boarding house and supper club by next Thursday, the New York Times reports.

Saying “This is going to be a considered, careful process,” Reinhart noted that he would review the redactions when they are submitted to see if they are appropriate, but he did not specify a time or date when the affidavit would be released.

The affidavit was used to secure a search and seizure warrant for Trump’s property, which was executed August 8th and found boxes of government documents, including some with Top Secret and TS/SCI classifications, in a lightly secured storage room in the basement of the supper club.  The search warrant was the first one to ever be executed on the home of a former president.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is announcing on Thursday some sort of action being taken by his regime against election officials in Broward County, but exactly what he’s up to is unclear.

Little Ron’s been somewhat starved of attention since the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago – which has probably already cost him whatever shot he had at the 2024 GOP presidential nomination – so look for him to do something even more lib-owning than suspending a duly elected district attorney for refusing to enforce his sick abortion and gender thoughtcrimes laws. The presser was supposed to start at 2:00 PM EDT, but Ron’s a powerful guy and we losers can be made to wait.

At least two Trump fans circled around the Palm Beach, Florida federal courthouse on Thursday as Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart heard arguments from media outlets seeking to unseal the search affidavits. Per Politico, Justice Department counterintelligence division Chief Jay Bratt argued against it, as it could compromise an ongoing investigation and reveal sources. Media lawyer Chuck Tobin said the DOJ could unseal it with redactions to protect the identities of informants but Bratt said doing so would render it completely useless for public consumption.

Reinhart however appeared to be open to at least partially unsealing the search affidavit, saying “I am not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed,” per Politico’s Kyle Cheney.

NBC News producer Frank Thorp V tweets that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has recognized that he’s like to stay in the minority in the Senate–politically speaking, not white man speaking–because of the host of horrible, no good candidates Republicans have nominated in Senate elections.

“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different, they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” McConnell said at a Kentucky fundraiser Thursday.

The statement recognizes the realities on the ground:  Democrats will likely hold on to seats in Georgia, where Democrat Raphael Warnock has a strong lead against GOP head trauma victim Herschel Walker; in Pennsylvania, where Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman continues to open up a lead against carpetbagging TeeVee personality Mehmet Oz for a seat previously held by Republican Pat Toomey, who is retiring; and in Arizona, where Democrat Mark Kelly will likely hold his seat against Trump-endorsed Blake Masters.