“The Pulitzer Prize Board has an established, formal process by which complaints against winning entries are carefully reviewed. In the last three years, the Pulitzer Board has received inquiries, including from former President Donald Trump, about submissions from The New York Times and The Washington Post on Russian interference in the U.S. election and its connections to the Trump campaign – submissions that jointly won the 2018 National Reporting prize.”

“These inquiries prompted the Pulitzer Board to commission two independent reviews of the work submitted by those organizations to our National Reporting competition. Both reviews were conducted by individuals with no connection to the institutions whose work was under examination, nor any connection to each other. The separate reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes. The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes in National Reporting stand,” says the Pulitzer Prize Board responding to Trump’s repeated moronic threats to sue them for awarding reporting prizes to the New York Times and Washington Post about the Donald’s treasonous connections to Russia.

Statement from House Judiciary Committee: “House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus Chairman David Cicilline (D-RI), Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) today announced the introduction of the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), enshrine marriage equality for the purposes Of federal law, and provide additional legal protections for marriage equality… ‘Three weeks ago, a conservative majority on the Supreme Court not only repealed Roe v Wade and walked back 50 years of precedent, it signaled that other rights, like the right to same-sex marriage, are next on the chopping block,’ said Chairman Jerrold Nadler. ‘As this Court may take aim at other fundamental rights, we cannot sit idly by as the hard-earned gains of the Equality movement are systematically eroded. If Justice Thomas’s concurrence teaches anything it’s that we cannot let your guard down or the rights and freedoms that we have come to cherish will vanish into a cloud of radical ideology and dubious legal reasoning.”

The Fulton County, Georgia grand jury investigating Trump and his minions’ attempt to overturn the 2020 election has subpoenaed loser MAGA Congressman Jody Hice, a filing from Hice seeking to challenge the subpoena in federal court revealed Monday. Hice threw away his career in Congress in a failed primary challenge to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a demotion to a lesser office he actively sought to please the Orange God Emperor, a defeat made even more embarrassing as Hice lost outright and couldn’t even force a primary against the hated “RINO” Raff.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, announced that he will retire before the end of President Joe Biden’s first term in office, CNN reports.

“I have said that for a long time,” the 81-year-old Fauci said on CNN Monday morning.  “By the time we get to the end of Biden’s first term, I will very likely (retire).”

Fauci joined the NIH during the Reagan administration and has served seven different administrations, only one of which cast aspersions on his expertise because a reality game show host believed he knew more about infectious disease that a medical doctor.

“For personal health concerns and based on medical advice given by my personal physician to take an immediate break from touring, Limp Bizkit will sadly have to postpone their 2022 Uk and European tour. We truly apologise for any inconvenience this may cause to our loyal fans, promoters and support staff. Stand by for further news. Sincerely, Fred & Limp Bizkit” says a post on Limp Bizkit’s Instagram page breaking the devastating news to dozens of fans.

It’s not clear what’s actually wrong with Durst or why the band’s social media manager used the British spelling of “apologize.” But to be quite honest, we would not be reporting this if Durst was not a known Putin crony and were looking for a reason to mention that. And who knows, maybe this’ll be the first sign there’s been a little polonium problem for the “Nookie” man.

Three years into Zoom interviews and this still happens.  It could’ve been worse:  he could have exposed his shortcomings on national cable television.

Soaring temperatures in the UK, exceeding 106 F, have forced the closure of the runway at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, the RAF’s largest airbase, Sky News reports.

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Republican Pennsylvania governor candidate and state Senator Doug Mastriano has been super busy lately running for the highest office in America’s fifth most populous state but luckily for him he was about to find some time recently to squeeze in deleting all the old Facebook posts and tweets espousing QAnon and other far right conspiracy shit about global warming, plus the time he tested positive for COVID-19 in the middle of a meeting with fat former President Trump to talk about ways to overturn the 2020 election in the state, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

In all at least 14 Facebook videos and an unknown number of other posts and tweets have been scrubbed including one livestream from just three weeks ago, says Erin Gallagher, a Harvard researcher who has been tracking Mastriano’s ascent independently of her day job. Gallagher also found Mastriano removed a line about “protecting life” from his Senate website, also deleting a June radio interview that he recorded for Facebook in which he called abortion a “distraction.”

Pennsylvania GOP consultant Chris Nicholas said the explanation is simple. “What’s concerning to some people is that his voter outreach efforts are not evolving. In terms of Facebook conservatives, he and his team, congrats to them, they really maxed out that vote in the primary. That doesn’t win you a general election. Now, you have to do something in addition to that,” said Nicholas.

According to FEC filings, far right racist scumbag Laura Loomer has outraised her primary opponent, incumbent Republican Congressman Dan Webster in her bid for the Villages-area Florida 10th District, Villages-News.com reports. Loomer has raised $665,021 in campaign funds through June 30th while Webster took in $552,103, so we’re not talking an absolutely apocalyptic lead here, but still it’s a sign that the woman who once chained herself to the door of a Twitter office to protest being banned for life over her racist bullshit is a credible future Congresswoman.

Loomer’s previous US House bid in 2020 for Florida’s 21st District, home to Mar-a-Lago, saw her completely annihilated by incumbent Dem Congresswoman Lois Frankel, losing by 80,000 votes, despite securing the coveted endorsement of Matt Gaetz. The move north to redder pastures in the state may prove to have been a smart one for the ghoulish white nationalist millennial influencer.

Fat former President Trump is reportedly privately saying out loud that he needs to become president again to avoid being prosecuted for inciting the Capitol riot and all the other illegal shit he did, Rolling Stone reports. While this is a total “no shit” story, it is still kind of impressive that the Donald would be so blunt, with a minion telling Rolling Stone the disgraced ex-president has “spoken about how when you are the president of the United States, it is tough for politically motivated prosecutors to ‘get to you’… He says when [not if] he is president again, a new Republican administration will put a stop to the [DOJ] investigation that he views as the Biden administration working to hit him with criminal charges – or even put him and his people in prison.”

A 51-year-old West Virginia woman emerged from a two-year-long coma, brought on by a bloody attack at her home, and told police it was her older brother who had butchered her with an axe or a hatchet in 2020, CNN reports.

In June 2020, Wanda Parker of Cottageville was found sitting up on the couch in her home with her body covered in wounds made by an axe or hatchet.  First responders initially though she was dead, but paramedics discovered she was breathing shallowly.

Earlier this month, Parker awoke from her coma at her care facility and was able to answer yes or no questions from police, who were able to discern from her answers that her 55-year-old brother Daniel had attacked her.  Daniel was arrested on Friday and charged with attempted murder and malicious wounding.

Three people were killed by a gunman at a Greenwood, Indiana shopping mall less than three weeks after the state started permitless concealed carry in public areas, the New York Times reports.

The gunman was killed by a bystander with a gun who was on the scene of the shooting.  Police called in the bomb squad to handle the shooter’s backpack, which was found in a bathroom in the mall, in case it had any suspicious material.

“We experienced a mass shooting this evening at the Greenwood Park Mall,” Mayor Mark Myers said. “The Greenwood Police Department is in control of the scene. I am in direct contact with the command post, and there is no further threat.”

Everyone knows that Jim Jordan is a self-important ass.  He doesn’t do anything without a political angle to it.  His brand is supporting anything with an (R) behind it and dragging down anything supported by Democrats.  And this even covers when a normal person would show empathy and compassion for a 10-year-old pregnant rape victim.

As the above clip shows, Jordan claims that he never doubted the story of a child who was forced to leave Jordan’s state of Ohio to go to Indiana to receive an abortion after being raped and impregnated by a 27-year-old man.  There’s no evidence that Jordan ever checked the story out:  he apparently never checked in with his district office to see if the girl was from his district, or even if there was a police report or child welfare report about the victim.  He decided it was politically inconvenient to his Party because the optics of a 10-year-old rape victim having to flee across state lines to terminate a forced pregnancy isn’t the narrative the GOP wants to defend. 

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s controversial, unpopular and legally questionable decision to overturn the half-century-old Roe v. Wade precedent, the vast majority of Americans favor significant changes to the makeup of the Court and the way justices are seated, a Fox propaganda network poll finds.

Conducted July 10-13, the poll found that an overwhelming percentage of Americans want to impose term limitations on justices on the nation’s highest court (81%), while a slightly lower majority wants term limits on members serving in Congress (60%).  Seventy-one percent of Americans also want to have a mandatory retirement age for justices.

A statistical tie (46% to 49%) wants to increase the number of justices serving on the Court, a narrower difference than the last time the poll was conducted in January, when it was 46%-51% against increasing the size of the Court.

More than 400 law enforcement officers from local, state and federal jurisdictions were on the scene at the Uvalde school shooting at Robb Elementary with no one taking control May 24th as a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers, a new report created by a Texas state house investigative team, the Associated Press reports.

The first arrivers didn’t respond for more than 80 minutes, with some positioned in the school but most lingering outside.  The total includes 91 state police officers and nearly 150 Border Patrol agents.  A Border Patrol emergency response team was the unit that finally opened the unlocked classroom door and eliminated the shooter.

“It’s a joke. They’re a joke. They’ve got no business wearing a badge. None of them do,” Vincent Salazar, grandfather of 11-year-old victim Layla Salazer, said Sunday after families were given a copy of the report.

Evil little bastard Ron DeSantis holds a double digit lead over disgraced former President Trump in yet another Florida 2024 Republican presidential primary survey as pollster Victory Insights finds 51% of GOP voters in the state prefer their governor versus 33% for the Donald. Last week another pollster found DeSantis leading 54 to 39. Warning signs for a destructive and apocalyptic war for the Great MAGA King’s throne continue to mount as does the pressure for Trump to get a clear head start against DeSantis, still bogged down having to run for governor of his bath salts, infectious giant snail, vicious man-eating reptile, senior citizen felon capital of America.

About 50,000 Russian soldiers have been killed, wounded or injured during that country’s ongoing occupation of parts of Ukraine which began five months ago, estimates the UK’s equivalent to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, USA Today reports.

Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the chief of the UK’s defense staff, said during a BBC interview that the Russians have also lost 1,700 tanks and 4,000 armored personnel vehicles.  Analysts believe that somewhere between 17,000 and 20,000 Russian soldiers have been killed.  For comparison, during the ten year Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, 17,000 Russians died from all causes:  combat, disease and accident.

Source place the total number of tanks available to Russia prior to the Ukraine invasion at around 12,800, including 10,000 in reserve.  If the British estimate is correct, more than half of the operational tanks at the start of the invasion have been destroyed.

Various sources are reporting that Sundae (Hahaha! Isn’t that clever?! We intentionally misspelled the day of the week!) is National Ice Cream Day, a celebration of the frozen dairy dessert food. It’s not clear if ice cream was invented on July 17th or if it was some other significant moment in ice cream history. But just for the hell of it, let’s assume that President Joe Biden and/or Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi declared it National Ice Cream Day to troll the right wing fanboys and their obsession with the two Dem leaders’ publicly documented love of the frozen dessert, even if the “holiday” is probably just the brainchild of some marketing jerkoff who works for an industry group.

No reason we can’t also connect it to some bizarre conspiracy, that Biden and Pelosi will declare martial law. We’ll say “I scream, you scream, we all scream in terror at Soros-FEMA troops rounding Christians up to be interned in Walmart parking lots,” where they’ll all be forced to eat Ben and Jerry’s vegan “frozen dessert” three meals a day in between their daily COVID booster shoots.

Ah maybe this is too silly or farfetched even for QAnon fans. It’s not like National Popcorn Day on January 19th, which in 2021 they took to mean that Trump was declaring martial law arresting all of his enemies, and (obviously) would not be leaving office the next day – which would be entertaining and popcorn-worthy to them. “Popcorn ready and wow the energy. It’s something to be awake!!! Thank God we are ‘awake’. Our purpose,” wrote one QAnon enthusiast on Telegram.

Yet again Republicans are freaking out over public broadcasting and yet again are they failing to mention that only a fraction of the production expenses comes from taxpayer funds. So really this asshole is saying individuals and corporations should stop contributing to NPR and its station.