The Orange God Emperor’s legal team are “quietly” preparing a legal defense against expected criminal charges over the Capitol insurrection, the fake 2020 electoral college votes scam, the “find 11,780 votes” call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and other transgressions against democracy, Rolling Stone reports. The planning reportedly ramped up after former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified to the House January 6th Select Committee on June 28th.

“Members of the Trump legal team are quietly preparing, in the event charges are brought,” a Trump minion told Rolling Stone. “It would be career malpractice not to. Do the [former] president’s attorneys believe everything Cassidy said? No… Do they think the Department of Justice would be wise to charge him? No. But we’ve gotten to a point where if you don’t think criminal charges are at least somewhat likely, you are not serving the [former] president’s best interests.”

The Myanmar First patriots who took their country back from the socialists last year have not Made Myanmar Great Again, with the International Labour Organization estimating the Southeast Asian nation now has more than one million fewer jobs than it did in 2020, Al Jazeera reports.

“Eighteen months on from the military takeover, the employment situation in Myanmar remains very difficult,” said hater and ILO Myanmar Liaison Officer Donglin Li, adding “While there are limited signs of job growth, the ongoing erosion of labour conditions and the decrease in job quality is deeply concerning.” Myanmar junta fan Mike Flynn was unavailable for comment.

The McKinney wildfire in California has grown to an astounding 51,000 acres, nearly 50% larger than the entire District of Columbia, making it the largest wildfire this year and it is still 0% contained, meaning that it’s essentially growing uncontrolled, CBS News reports.

Meanwhile, in Kentucky, the official death toll from the heavy rains and flooding that hit the area last week has risen to 28, Democratic Governor Andy Beshear announced, with the area bracing for another round of heavy storms forecast to hit the area this week.  Another 37 people remain missing, and more than 350 have been housed in shelters because they homes were damaged or destroyed, or access to their homes has been blocked.

“We still can’t get into some areas to check on people,” Beshear said. “We’re doubling our National Guard. We’re going to work to go door to door, work to find, again, as many people as we can. We’re even going to work through the rain. But the weather is complicating it.”

“So the first thing you learned in school, you have to raise your hand to ask a question.  That’s a deterrent.  That’s actually teaching you, viscerally because, because you embody it, ‘Don’t ask.’  That actually eventually becomes, ‘Trust the experts.’  That’s not education.  That’s not a thinking person.  That’s a non-thinking person.  That’s what the schools are turning out.  That what school produces.”

So who is this education and child psychology expert who knows more than generation of people who have studied classroom management and child psychology?  Why, it’s Sam Sorbo, the wife of actor Kevin Sorbo who doesn’t have a college degree–she did study biomedical engineering at Duke, but never graduated because she decided to become an actress with credits like “Private Whitley” in JAG in 1996 and an eight-episode run as Dr. Caroline Eggert on Chicago Hope in 1996. Oh, and she has a podcast.  Her only experience in education?  Homeschooling three kids who will need extensive therapy when they get emancipated.

Previously a “good guy with a gun,” a professor at a university in Georgia shot into a car in a parking garage, killing a female student from that school, after he was kicked out of a local bar for threatening another patron, the Macon Telegraph reports.

The legal gun owner, 47-year-old University of West Georgia statistics professor Richard Sigman, was at an off-campus establishment Saturday drinking with his gun–it is unknown if the firearm imbibed as well which might explain it going off–when he got into an altercation with another man, who reported to the bar’s bouncers that Sigman threatened his life.  The bouncers bounced Sigman out of the bar.

Later, Sigman approached a parked car at a nearby parking garage–presumably one in which the person he confronted earlier rode–and he fired randomly into the car, killing 18-year-old Anna Jones, an innocent bystander who had no contact earlier with Sigman. 

“I have lived in Colorado for almost three decades, and I can tell you first hand there has been massive voter fraud ever since the RINO gov Bill Owens brought Dominion voting machines in over a decade ago. Since then only RINOs or dem’s got into office. The Rebublican party in this state is a sad RINO joke and nothing will change. Thank God I bought land in Florida where I’m now in the process of building a house, and I only have to suck it up here for another year. When I moved out here in the early 90’s this was a solid red state. Colorado was the initial Uni-Party’s test case for switching red states to blue” – The current top comment on the Gateway Pundit article “Colorado Secretary of State Brags About Increasing Ballot Drop Boxes by 65% in the State KNOWING They are a Major Means of Ballot Trafficking,” posted Sunday afternoon.

Speaking of percentages, 26.4% (or 18 out of 68) of county election commissions in Florida use Dominion Voting Systems equipment. Their “Democracy Suite” software was most recently certified as safe and secure by the Florida Department of State on October 6th, 2020. Maybe one of the very few National Zero commenters who has not yet been permanently banned from the Gateway Pundit would want to inform the current Coloradan and future Floridian GP reader that he’s got a slightly better chance of ending up in Dominion territory than he does correctly guessing the suite of a card randomly picked from a deck. May the odds ever be in his favor.

Nichelle Nichols, an actor and a civil rights activist best known for her iconic role as communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original Star Trek series, died Saturday in New Mexico at the age of 89, USA Today reports.

Nichols frequently recounted how Star Trek was a series that featured people of diverse races, ethnicities and backgrounds working in harmony, a challenge in the turbulent 1960s marked by the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War.  After frustration with the limited action of her character on the show–her characteristic move was touching her ear to convey she was listening to a message which she then repeated for the crew–Nichols said she met with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who encouraged her to continue because she was a model for young Black people–particularly girls.

Later in the series, Nichols shared the first interracial kiss–with Captain James T. Kirk, portrayed by William Shatner–ever shown on a primetime American television show.  Besides her appearances in various part of the Star Trek franchise, Nichols also did significant voice acting for shows, including The Simpsons, and she was a supporter of NASA exploratory missions.

In a front-page story Sunday, the New York Times spotlighted teachers training to carry guns in their schools to counter the wave of mass shootings at so-called “soft targets.”  Teachers fear that, as the last line of defense protecting the lives of their charges, they may have to employ deadly force, and they want to have weapons on hand to do so.

There are genuine concerns about the security of schools:  as Uvalde shows, multiple unsecured access points can provide entry to a malevolent individual; current systems to protect schools like resource officers aren’t 100% effective; and tightening school budgets make upgrades difficult.  (And Ted Cruz’s suggestion of having just one egress/entry point at a school is profoundly stupid on SO many levels it doesn’t merit serious consideration.)

Add to that a decades-long campaign by conservatives to demonize teachers, making them targets of conservative culture warriors who view them as “groomers,” “communists” and “anti-traditional family,” and you can see why teachers are worried for their safety both in and out of the classroom.

Investigators with the House January 6th Select Committee have conducted 107 interviews – approximately a tenth of all its sit-downs with witnesses – focused specifically on the security failures that allowed the insurrection to occur and for the MAGA rioters to make it into the Capitol and the Senate Chamber, Politico reports. This kind of undermines the right wing circlejerk that Nancy Pelosi let it happen, she was responsible, etc.

CBS News launched their 2022 Midterms Battleground Tracker on Sunday, forecasting a net gain of 16 seats and thus a slim 12 seat majority for the MAGA party starting early 2023. This is obviously not where the Dems want to be but it speaks to how tenuous the lead for Republicans is right now after over a year of shit talking about a monumental red wave that would annihilate the libtards.

Apparently someone is paying money to place automated calls to AZ voters at 2:30am, pretending to be from my campaign, obviously trying to enrage people. My political enemies are so desperate and shameless.

— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) July 30, 2022

The Oklahoma State Board of Education voted on Thursday to lower the accreditation tiers for two school districts after deciding teacher training sessions in each contained thoughtcrimes violating HB 1775, the state’s anti-Critical Race Theory law signed into law by Gov Kevin Stitt in May 2021, Fox News reports. Tulsa and Mustang School Districts’ accreditations were both dropped to “accreditation with warning,” after Tulsa hosted a session with content deemed meant “to shame white people for past offenses in history,” in August 2021 – before the law even came into effect – and an anti-bullying lesson a teacher in Mustang gave to students in January 2022.

The 2021 “Critical Race Theory” panic, brainstormed by Claremont Institute chode Christopher Rufo – a colleague of insufferable twat MAGA lawyer John Eastman – was a panicked reaction within the right to the 2020 reckoning following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other unarmed Black Americans by police. Unable to control the changes happening within popular culture and on social media exposing youth nationwide to the reality of racial injustice and its consequences being wrought, Rufo, Steve Bannon, Fox News producers, and other scumbags took an obscure but ominous-sounding term found deep within the ivory tower as their weapon to try to fight back. Wielding “Critical Race Theory” both in propaganda to conservative voters and in actual “governance” as you see here, is insidious and evil shit meant to make teachers’ jobs harder when they’re already getting their asses kicked after two years of pandemic on top of all the other shit.

But it’s also pretty pathetic. This is really the best they’ve got in trying to stop white kids from thinking Black people are human? Does this bland procedural vote prevent suburban kids from streaming hip-hop on Spotify or watching Jordan Peele movies on Netflix or seeing “woke” influencers make a good point on TikTok? How many more of the teens in these two school districts are in the pews at Megachurch this Sunday as opposed to last Sunday? Can Rufo point to that or any other possible measure of success in recapturing a generation already mostly lost to them?

The 46th President is so based. Think of it: He’s got tens of millions of Trump fanboys convinced he’s an agent of Satan ushering a dark age into their lives. They freaked out so badly when he won they literally attacked the United States Capitol en masse as part of their tantrum. Hundreds of them are currently or are going to do hard time in federal prison for it when they could’ve been pardoned by the Former Guy. If you’re a Democrat or Dem-leaning independent who might be kind of disappointed with Joe Biden, that’s fine. Now Biden’s accomplishments in office have certainly been underrated, but that’s on him for not being fully capable of taking the credit he deserves.

And that’s not really what we’re talking about here anyway. We’re talking about how Trump fanboys have gone completely apeshit for the last 18 months and 10 days of his presidency. They’re not happy and they continually make themselves look like complete assholes in expressing it. And a lot of that is due to one guy: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. He owns the MAGA dipshits. He’s based.

Unwilling to face the backlash of his opinion written in defense of the revocation of Roe in which he called for the revocation of various civil rights (except, strangely, the one case that legalized his interracial marriage), Justice Clarence Thomas has canceled his appearance as an instructor at George Washington Law School because it’s not a “safe space” where he can live without experiencing the consequences of his actions.

According to the student newspaper The Hatchet, thousands of students at the DC school signed a petition to sever the school’s relationship after Thomas wrote a concurring opinion that called for the review of the legal basis for LGBTQ marriage, the right to contraception and non-missionary-position sex.  Thomas did not make a similar statement about the Loving decision protecting interracial marriage; Thomas, a Black male, is married to Ginni Thomas, a white reported woman.

“Unfortunately, I am writing with some sad news: Justice Thomas has informed me that he is unavailable to co-teach the seminar this fall,” Gregory Maggs, a judge at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and a former Thomas clerk, said in an email, apparently unaware of what “sad” means. “I know that this is disappointing. I am very sorry.”

The dog catches the car.  The cat eats the canary.  And Republicans who supported their Party’s position denying LGBTQ rights and reproductive care now believe that they have caused a massive backlash against their conservative positions by quietly sitting by while radicals determined the Party’s policies.

As the Washington Post reports, the few rational Republicans left in the Party are now decrying the long-time GOP positions and rhetoric demonizing members of the LGBTQ community and people who seek abortion services.  Speaking out after the horse has left the barn, these Republicans feel that the Party is now perceived as too hateful and out-of-the-mainstream to reflect their views.

After a radicalized Supreme Court completely overturned Roe–a court decision that legalized abortion nationally and was tremendously supported by the public–rank and file Republicans found themselves having to defend politicians nationwide calling for the prosecution of rape and incest victims as well as pregnant persons who would die from severe complications.  And while there are significant numbers of Republicans who support the right to get an abortion, they were never accepted or put forward as candidates in the vast majority of jurisdictions in Red states. 

Reports from Trump’s Bedminister, New Jersey golf club describe a poorly attended event, generating little excitement and even lower ticket prices, but nobody really cares because the event was simply a way for the Saudis to line Donald Trump’s pockets with cash.

Golf Digest writer Joel Beall posted the photograph above on Twitter showing the largest concentration of fans at the event huddled around Donald Trump, who would alternatively sit in his golf cart or on a perch at the 16th tee.  Another photo shows literally no one at a bar in the “fan village.”

Tickets for the final Sunday round–the day when the exciting end of most tournaments attracts the largest crowds–are going for as little as $8 each on resale site StubHub; .  They sold originally for $120.

President Joe Biden will go back into isolation after being diagnosed with a “rebound” case of coronavirus, an uncommon situation where the viral load bounces back after the patient tests negative for the disease upon recovering from a case, Politico reports.

Covid patients who take the anti-viral Paxlovid have experienced rebound cases.  In May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory that rebound cases for patients taking Paxlovid were documented, but the rebound cases were no more severe than the initial infections in those patients.

“The President has not experienced any reemergence of symptoms and is feeling quite well,” White House physician Kevin O’Connor wrote in a memo released Saturday. “This being the case, there is no reason to reinitiate treatment at this time, but we will obviously continue close observation.”

The bipartisan Wisconsin Election Commission has refused to refer criminal charges for now on a group of conservative hackers who intentionally exploited a gap in the state’s ballot request portal to obtain thousands of absentee ballots for eligible voters, the Wisconsin Examiner reports.

The six-member commission will reconsider charges for actions brought to light by a Trump-supporting local sheriff, Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling, who discovered the hackers illegally hacked into the MyVote system to have absentee ballots falsely requested on behalf of actual registered voters and sent to improper addresses.  Schmaling has been on a two-year crusade to prove that Donald Trump was cheated out of reelection by millions of falsely-cast ballots.

Wisconsin election officials, however, say that the hackers didn’t expose a vulnerability in the MyVote system; instead, it asserts that the hackers simply submitted false information to the system to obtain the ballots–which is not voter fraud but voter registration fraud.  In other words, the conservatives lied, which in and of itself is a crime when certifying a person’s information is correct on registration forms.

With all the encouragement that the proposed agreement between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, one wild card–a politician who has danced while undermining popular legislation–may still sink the expansive bill.

As Axios reports, Arizona Senator and wannabe fashion icon Kyrsten Sinema may intentionally undermine the agreement that would address economic, manufacturing, budget and environmental issues that are widely favored by Democratic voters by encouraging Republicans to make significant changes before she signs off on it.

Sinema would be the 50th vote in the Senate–all that’s needed to pass an appropriations bill under Senate rules with the tie breaker going to Vice President Kamala Harris–but her solicitations of Republicans could introduce weeks of demands and counteroffers that would cut key provisions of the bill, like a carried interest tax that Sinema has opposed in the past.

I put this op-ed on Fox News because I want Josh Hawley, Roy Blunt, and every single Senate Republican who betrayed our veterans to see it. https://t.co/EpjIzW1dJw

— Lucas Kunce (@LucasKunceMO) July 30, 2022