With most Americans having obtained a certain level of protection against advanced sickness from infection, the Center for Disease Control and Protection altered the public health guidelines to loosen many of the regulations in public spaces, the Washington Post reports.

About four out of five Americans have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, so the CDC is lifting requirements about screening students at schools or employees at jobs.  And things like social distancing and quarantining unvaccinated people will also be loosened.

“The current conditions of this pandemic are very different from those of the last two years,” CDC epidemiologist Greta Massetti said Thursday.  With 78% of the population vaccinated and an unknown number of others who have been exposed to the virus, most Americans are not at significant risk of developing severe cases of Covid.

A Mexican-American man from Wisconsin who suffered from paranoid delusions and schizophrenia was committed to a mental health institution for life by a judge after being found responsible for driving directly into a white motorcyclist he did not know because he believed all white people were trying to kill him, the Associated Press reports.

In July 2020, 27-year-old Daniel Navarro drove his vehicle head-on into a motorcycle driven by Phillip Thiessen, a retired investigator for the Wisconsin Department of Justice and a former police officer, killing him. Navarro had had no previous contact with Thiessen and doesn’t appear to have known him.

Upon apprehension, Navarro told police that his white coworkers and neighbors were all plotting to kill him by poisoning and drugging him, and that he lived hearing constant racial slurs from the white people around him. 

The gunman who threatened the Cincinnati FBI field office before leading police on a 50-mile pursuit and was subsequently killed by Ohio law enforcement agents after an hours-long standoff has been identified by the New York Times as 42-year-old Ricky Walter Shiffer.

Lt. Nathan Dennis of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said officers attempted to use less-than-lethal tactics and equipment to coax Shiffer to surrender as he held off officers, but when he aimed his assault rifle at officers, at least one opened fire, killing him.

A review of his social media accounts show Shiffer was at a rally at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC the night before the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress; it’s unclear if he participated in the attack, but he had not been charged by federal investigators tracking down the miscreants. 

So the FBI was not acting alone as everyone was told… As usual allies never had up and the “conspiracy theorists” were right yet again.
You can’t trust a single thing these people tell you!!! https://t.co/9Bd3taMC90

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 11, 2022

It possibly appears that by suddenly publicly realizing the FBI wasn’t “acting alone as everyone was told” but at the direction of the United States Attorney General in executing the search warrant on Mar-a-Lago, that Don Jr believes they had been somehow “colluding” or whatever, and not like within the actual operating structure of the Department of Justice where the FBI is a subordinate agency that reports to the Attorney General. That it would have taken a “conspiracy theorist” to believe the Attorney General told officials in the department he leads to follow his orders.

It really looks like that to us, that Don Jr has no idea how federal law enforcement is structured, despite being a credible contender who would crush Rick Scott in the 2024 Florida Senate primary.

The white male MAGA terrorist who threatened an FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio has been neutralized, and possibly canceled, per the Wilmington News Journal, who transcribed law enforcement comms: “‘RESPONSE HAS ENDED. End lockdown.’ Also, some operations are continuing on-scene, so portions of Smith Road will remain closed. SR 73 to reopen shortly.”

If dead, the unnamed Trump fan will be the second major terrorist scumbag killed so far in August, joining former Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in hell for messing with America. Fuck yeah.

A Florida federal court has set a deadline of 3:00 PM EDT Friday for Trump’s lawyers to respond to the Justice Department’s motion to unseal the warrant executed by FBI agents at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, CBS News’s David Begnaud reports, which does not give the fat bastard much time to figure out a reason to object that he thinks his fans will buy. Well the smarter ones at least.

There’s still a shootout going on in an Ohio cornfield, but it’s not too soon to ask when the fuck Republicans are going to speak up and condemn this sick asshole MAGA terrorist for threatening federal law enforcement agents with a gun and putting local cops’ lives in danger.

Odds this will only be enforced in one direction? https://t.co/2OiTbkfoiq

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 11, 2022

Seriously. Where’s all the outrage we heard from them like a half hour after some California lib decided he didn’t want to kill Brett Kavanaugh and called the cops on himself? Why isn’t Ted Cruz condemning this attack yet? All he’s doing is bitching about Twitter (on Twitter). Why isn’t Jim Jordan saying violence isn’t the answer or some other empty platitude he doesn’t even believe? Who’s going to be the first to say “Well people are really upset over what happened at Mar-a-Lago and this is the kind of thing that happens”? Lauren Boebert? Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Attorney General Merrick Garland is scheduled to address the media at 2:30 p.m. ET regarding the search warrant executed at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property on Monday, during which the FBI seized documents that contained classified information the Trump cabal refused to turn over to the National Archives.

UPDATE 1:53 PM ET:  The Washington Post reports that a standoff with the gunman is still underway.  New details:  the man apparently entered the FBI building while wearing body armor and carrying a weapon.  NBC News reports the man was carrying an AR-15-style assault rifle, but fired at personnel in the FBI building with a nail gun.

Security responded, and the man fled, leading officer on a 50-mile car chase until he abandoned his vehicle for some reason in Wilmington, Ohio, where he is currently “contained” but not in custody.  The suspect is described as a white male wearing a gray shirt covering body armor.   The gunman exchanged gunfire with police during the chase and standoff, but there are currently no reports of injuries.  Given that the armed suspect is a white male, Ohio police will likely wait for a peaceful resolution to the shooting spree and won’t bring back former Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann, who would’ve just jumped out of his car to kill a child with a toy gun ’cause he was scared.

Authorities have cordoned off a one-mile perimeter around the suspect, warning residents to lock their doors and stay away from windows.  Roads in the area are being blocked off. 

Donald Trump received a federal subpoena in early June demanding that he turn over government documents he illegally had at Mar-a-Lago, and he refused to comply with the subpoena, the New York Times reports, setting off a string of events that led to the FBI seizing the documents after receiving a court-issued warrant.

Disgraced former The Hill staff writer John Solomon, who was designated by Trump to serve as one of his liaisons with the National Archive to facilitate the return of documents Trump never should have had.  Solomon was reportedly fired from The Hill for failing to disclose his participation in a plan to disgrace Joe Biden by promoting falsehoods relating to US policy toward Ukraine; Solomon was in the room planning the scheme with Rudy Giuliani, Joe diGenova, Victoria Toensing, and a representative of then-Congressman Devin Nunes, but in all his reporting for The Hill, he failed to disclose he was part of the conspiracy.

Similarly, in a blog post from early Thursday, Solomon neglects to mention that he was responsible for making sure the documents made it back to the National Archives.  Instead, he framed the story as Trump cooperating working to comply with the subpoena rather than actually complying with the subpoena, which would have meant to literally turn the boxes of documents over as the law dictates, rather than obstructing the process.

We expect the Fox propaganda system to make massive reaches to get reasonable pundits to undermine the integrity of the FBI search warrant of Mar-a-Lago for illegally possessed government documents, including some classified information.  But it’s quite ridiculous to turn to John Paul Mac Isaac, the legally-blind computer repair shop owner who came to fame solely because someone dropped off a laptop at his shop that they claimed was Hunter Biden’s, which the four-named man then copied and handed a harddrive to Rudy Giuliani.  JPMI has no expertise in law enforcement, search warrants, or presidential records–not even “son of president”-ial records.  Fox’s desperation is as plain as the hand in front of your face… Oh, wait, was that insensitive?

That phat-ass cracka with the Orange glow, always rippin hillbillies for the last of they dough, now he be retainin Atlanta criminal defense lawyer Drew Findling cuz the DA’s investigation is about to blow. Checkit! This report coming fresh from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the-

Ah fuck that was lame. Anyway, Findling has been described as – no joke – a “witch doctor,” a “magician,” a “god in the streets,” and “the illest” from quotes in a 2018 New York Times profile for his representation of rappers Gucci Mane, Migos, 2 Chainz, Waka Flocka Flame, Young Thug and Gunna, and a whole bunch of other names our audience probably do not recognize. Well now he’s representing Trump in the Fulton County, Georgia DA’s investigation of the coup attempt. Do we really need to point out how this is kind of incongruous that a disgraced former President whose largely racist fanbase have nothing but antipathy toward Black rappers is nonetheless hiring the Atlanta scene’s favorite lawyer? That really going to mean anything this long after irony’s death?

Maryland Capitol rioter Bryan Betancur was sentenced on Wednesday to four months in jail after taking a plea deal in May reducing his felonies to misdemeanors, the Washington Post reports.

Not the most remarkable lede these days given the number of insurrectionists still making their way through the justice system, but how he got caught is about as good as they get: Betancur, a 22 year old Proud Boy, was wearing an ankle monitor while serving probation on a burglary conviction and prohibited from leaving the state. He told his parole officer he was headed to DC to hand out Bibles with the Gideons (the group that leaves them in hotel rooms) and communicated with the officer regularly throughout the day, even giving the heads up he wouldn’t be home by curfew. Federal prosecutors used the GPS data from the ankle monitor to corroborate photo and video evidence from the insurrection to show that Betancur was not handing out Gideon Bibles that day.

For the first time since May, the average price of a gallon of gas in the United States fell below $4.00, hitting $3.99 according to the American Automobile Association, reports Reuters, echoing an earlier report from fuel-finding app GasBuddy.

The price peaked at $5.02 in June, and has been on a steady decline since then, dropping for more than sixty consecutive days.  Fuel prices had risen steadily after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which strained crude oil supplies on the world market, particularly in Europe.

Crude oil prices have been declining since June, after peaking at $119 per barrel in early March, two weeks after Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, and hitting another peak of $117 per barrel again May 30.  In another favorable sign for future gas price declines, futures are down 27% since hitting recent highs in June.

“Today, as we do ahead of other global elections, we’re activating enforcement of our Civic Integrity Policy for the 2022 US midterms. The Civic Integrity Policy covers the most common types of harmful misleading information about elections and civic events, such as: claims about how to participate in a civic process like how to vote, misleading content intended to intimidate or dissuade people from participating in the election, and misleading claims intended to undermine public confidence in an election – including false information about the outcome of the election.”

“Tweets with this content may be labeled with links to credible information or helpful context, and Twitter will not recommend or amplify this content in areas of the product where Twitter makes recommendations. People on Twitter will see a prompt prior to liking or sharing labeled tweets, and in cases where there is potential for harm associated with the false or misleading claim, the Tweet may not be liked or shared to prevent the spread of the misleading information,” says a Thursday corporate blog post from Twitter. This of course is the kind of shit that drives right wingers particularly insane, and why they thought Elon Musk was their savior as he would’ve done away with such measures entirely, leaving them free to spread whatever hateful fake shit they wanted.

We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: Twitter is by far our most valuable resource for this site. It’s how we’ve been able to deliver (a lot of) the biggest breaking news faster than the other guys – either we saw it ourselves or a reader posted a tweet in a comment. You can say it’s been a detriment on society otherwise, particularly in how it fueled Trump’s rise, but in 2022 it is the fire that powers our engine. And at least they fucking try to keep it clean now in contrast to Facebook, who reportedly are deliberately allowing the MAGA bullshit to flow freely this year.

The evil Deep State psy-op to demoralize conservatives continued Thursday as wholesale inflation, which is just like regular inflation except it’s Costco-sized, fell by 0.5% in July, CNBC reports.

Dow Jones had forecasted a 0.2% rise, meaning Soros definitely fed them false data so the Dark Brandon regime could take credit for Costco-sized inflation just like he did with regular Walmart-sized inflation this week. It’s possible that voters could even be tricked into believing the passage of the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” actually immediately reduced inflation. Evil liberal media manipulators will probably start propagating such a misconception.

Saki Air Base goes up in flames

This fell by our wayside amid the Mar-a-Lago shitshow, but Ukrainian saboteurs apparently infiltrated a Russian airbase in occupied Crimea on Tuesday, and blew up as many as nine planes in a surprise attack that the Kremlin embarrassingly called the result of “poor fire safety,” and led to a mass exodus of Russian vacationers. Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula which was forcibly annexed in 2014 by Russia (though it had been historically Russian territory and in 1954 was transferred from Russia to Ukraine internally within the USSR), was considered mostly removed from the war and the airbase sits more than 150 miles from the frontlines of battle.

The New York Times details plans of right-wing voting conspiracy groups to stake out every single ballot drop box in the country in the upcoming mid-term election, because they’re certain that they will uncover massive fraud.

Local “stakeouts” are being promoted on various social media sites, including Craigslist, Telegram, Twitter, Gab and of course, Truth Social, where conspiracy theories go to die.  “All-night patriot tailgate parties for EVERY DROP BOX IN AMERICA,” read a post on Telegram.

Popularized by the partisan fauxumentary “2,000 mules,” in which Dinesh D’Sousa crafts a fanciful tale about people dropping off hundreds of thousands of fake and fraudulent ballots which were then scanned by Venezuelan election machines and then the ballots were counted in Estonia before a mother and daughter in Atlanta snuck ballots from under tables….