So far most of the coverage of the Idaho Republican Party’s official platform as their three day convention goes on is about how they’re adopting a resolution calling President Joe Biden’s election illegitimate just like the Texas GOP did at their last month. But an even dumber and more evil line in the party platform concerning the eligibility of voters in Republican primaries was passed by a delegate committee Friday, the Idaho Capital Sun reports.

The new rule, if implemented, would allow GOP county and legislative district central committees to disqualify voters who were affiliated less than 12 months before the next primary election held in an even-numbered year, deregistered with the Republican Party at any time in the prior 39 months, donated to more than one candidate of a different political party for office less than 25 months before a primary, registered with any other political party less than 25 months before a primary, or voted in a primary for any other political party less than 25 months before a primary.

The resolution does not explain how any of this is supposed to be enforced, but it clearly seems aimed at raising the bar for stealth Democrats re-registering with the GOP to try to tone down the extremism of Idaho Republicans. Idaho is an open primary state, the Idaho GOP itself however closed its primaries to non-members in 2012. Probably the best part is that the resolution’s sponsor, delegate and former state Senator Branden Durst, who lost the GOP primary for state education department chief in May – blaming it on the state’s “Democrat primary crossover problem” – was himself a Democrat until switching parties and registering as a Republican in 2020, likely less than 25 months before he ran and presumably voted for himself in the primary.

A heatwave in Scotland, with temperatures in excess of 30 degrees C, which is probably pretty hot when you translate it to real degrees, has forced the government to issue an advisory asking their citizens to forego their cherished national pastime: excessive consumption of alcohol, The Scotsman reports. “When temperatures increase, it’s important to monitor forecasts and follow public health advice, including drinking plenty of fluids and avoiding excess alcohol,” said Scottish Justice Minister Keith Brown, who did not say how many liters of whiskey counts “excess.”

Millennials are to blame for sky-high inflation, strategist says https://t.co/9iDGL3c7yP

— CNBC (@CNBC) July 15, 2022

We knew it! We just knew the MILLENNIALS did inflation! They’re to blame! Not hard working real Americans like the grunge flannel-wearing faux anti-consumerist “NO FEAR” bumper sticker on their Isuzu Trooper with a CD sound system Generation Xers or the engineer boots, leather jackets, and tight blue jeans wearing Boomers! They’re the victims of those punk-ass Millennials!

The autopsy of Jayland Walker, the unarmed Black man from Akron, Ohio who was shot by police fleeing after a car pursuit, shows he was struck 48 separate times by more than 90 rounds at him by eight police officers, Reuters reports.

After firing one or two shots at police during the pursuit, Walker jumped out of his car when it became disabled and attempted to run away.  Officers exited their vehicles and fired excessively at Walker, who was hit five times in the back, as well as in his face, torso, legs, arms and pelvis.

No gun was found on Walker, although police say one was found in his car.  A single bullet casing was found at the location where one officer said Walker fired from his car during the chase.  Walker, 25, had no alcohol or drugs in his system when he was killed by police June 27th, according to the autopsy report.   The autopsy did not include a test for gunshot residue on Walker’s hands or arms because Summit County Medical Examiner Lisa Kohler asserted that such tests are unreliable, although they are admitted into evidence in court to show an individual fired or handled a recently-fired gun.

Police claim officers fired at Walker as he ran away after abandoning his car following a police chase because the vehicle Walker was driving has a missing license plate bulb and a broken tail light.  Officers on the scene claimed that Walker turned towards them as he was fleeing, prompting officers to shoot the man who seconds before they were yelling to stop.

In a sign that Americans are shrugging off fears of a recession, consumer sales jumped a full percentage point in June after seeing a decrease of 0.1% in May, with consumer spending providing a stabilizing influence on the US economy, the Associated Press reports.

Calculating inflation into the data, sales increased by 0.3% in June following a drop of 0.4% in May.  Furniture sales (up 1.4%), restaurant revenues (up 1.0%) and electronics (up 0.4%) were the categories with the most solid data improvements.  Online sales rose 2.4%, which department store retail sales continued to slide, decreasing 2.6%.

The data from the Commerce Department indicates a steady, though not explosive economic growth expected for 2020, with Kathy Bostjancic, chief U.S. economist at analyst firm Oxford Economics, predicting the US will see a scant 0.5% GDP growth for the second quarter of 2022. 

That was so not a fist bump. It was a punch on the hand. See? Biden’s clearly punching Prince Mohammed Bonesaw on the hand as a show of domination and strength. Only weakling MAGA cucks think that was a substitute for a handshake. Joe Biden slowly but forcefully punched Bonsesaw on the hand. It’s clear from the video of them meeting that it was a punch. Biden was telling that scumbag in a lame bandana and silky white man-dress not to fuck with America ever.

Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis has sent letters to Trump minions in the state informing them they’re now the targets of a criminal investigation for their involvement in the fake 2020 electors scam, Yahoo News reports. Among the recipients of the notices were are current Lt Gov candidate and State Senator Burt Jones, state GOP chair David Shafer, and state Senator Brandon Beach.

QAnon fan and Trump 2016 Campaign photographer Gene Ho claims to be bringing back John F Kennedy Jr’s short-lived politics-centric Vanity Fair knockoff “George” which ran from 1995 until folding in 2001, two years after the QUniverse’s mythical savior died in a tragic plane crash, the Daily Beast reports. While it might be a stretch to call this a defilement of a venerable publication or whatever as George wasn’t all that venerable and treaded water for most of its brief existence even before JFK Jr’s very real and not-staged demise, it’s still hard to not feel a little nauseous in between the laughter while looking at this shit. The Beast notes that it’s not clear if Ho has the legal right to use the George logo and name, but there’s no sign of a cease and desist being issued yet.

Supposed champion of “election integrity” Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin’s campaign was caught submitting photocopied petition signatures and disqualified from appearing on the November general election ballot as the nominee of the now-defunct “Independence Party” in the New York State governor’s race, City and State New York reports. The 2020 election denier from the grimy MAGA part of Suffolk County on Long Island sought to benefit from a vagary in New York election laws that allow Republican and Dem candidates to appear redundantly on ballots as the nominees for minor parties no one’s ever heard of and never run their own candidates – Often uncontested local races for municipal judgeships and other offices will even have the same candidate running as the Democrat, the Republican, the Libertarian, and four or five other parties.

So Zeldin will appear twice for governor on the ballot, as both the Republican and Conservative Party’s nominees. He and the other statewide GOP candidates could’ve had third lines as the nominees of the defunct Independence Party had the Libertarians not dug in, finding multiple pages of the petition had been duplicated, leading the State Board of Elections to determine the GOP slate fell a few thousand short of the 45,000 signature minimum for access to the line (Why the hell this state allows a living major party to hijack the name of a dead one is a story for another day).

“Republicans talk about election integrity, but the Zeldin campaign attempted to fly under the radar and submit 11,000 fraudulent signatures in an attempt to get a third line on the ballot,” New York Libertarian Party Secretary Andrew Kolstee told City and State. “Let’s not forget: Lee Zeldin was one of the many far-right Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election under the guise of election fraud,” added New York State Dem Chairman Jay Jacobs.

“In light of the passing of Ivana Trump yesterday, we received a request from counsel for Donald Trump and his children to adjourn all three depositions, which we have agreed to. This is a temporary delay and the depositions will be rescheduled as soon as possible. There is no other information about dates or otherwise to provide at this time. We offer our condolences to the Trump family,” says the New York State Attorney General’s office in a statement.

QAnon conspiracy freak Mesa County, Colorado clerk Tina Peters’ pretrial bond was revoked Thursday after a judge determined she had left the state without permission from the court. The first clear sign she had done so was her appearance at some far right Sheriff’s event in Las Vegas, however that might’ve flown under the radar by itself, since not everyone outside the MAGAverse pays attention to that kind of shit. The thing that really did her in however was that Peters on Tuesday submitted her request for a recount in the Republican Colorado Secretary of State primary election – which she lost on June 28th by more than 88,000 votes – into current Dem Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office with a Nevada notary stamp. Signed in the state of Nevada.

To Peters’ arch-nemesis, Jena Griswold, who has more than once filed both civil and criminal complaints against Peters. And the notary’s name is Laurince Lovelife. “You can’t make this shit up” kind of lost its impact over these last few years. But what else is there to say?

The doctor in the middle of the Indiana side of the bi-state shitshow over a 10 year old rape victim’s abortion says she reported the procedure to the Indiana health department as required every time the procedure is performed on a girl under age 16, contrary to Republican Attorney General Mark Rokita’s screaming he’ll “investigate” her for failure to do so, CNN reports.

A roughly 30-year old Toyota Corolla station wagon used by the founder of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Omar, to flee invading American troops in 2001–and which he buried so he would not be followed–has been dug up in Zabul province, Autoblog reports.

Omar got the feeling that if American troops found his vehicle, it would clue them into his location, so he ordered his followers to dig a huge pit.  They wrapped the car in a protective layer of plastic and covered it with dirt.

Omar never saw the car again, dying in Karachi, Pakistan in 2013.  The car will be removed, cleaned and used as part of an exhibition at Afghanistan’s National Museum.

“Democratic” West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin will not support any funding for the Administration’s climate change goals nor will he support raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, effectively killing another Democratic initiative to pass a financial bill that would only need 50 Senators to pass, the Washington Post reports.

Just days ago, Manchin had signed on to an initiative to increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans to pay for increasing costs of healthcare by closing the Medicare loophole, which caps federal withholdings for Medicare at a specific dollar amount, so people who earn high salaries are not paying the full percentage.

After discussing the issues with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Manchin appeared to back off some of his early objections relating to the environmental issues in the bill, but Manchin reportedly told Schumer today that he wouldn’t support any bill with those provisions.

The Global Burden of Diseases study, a continuous review of global health data, determined that people under the age of 40 should not drink alcohol, while a very small amount is beneficial for those over 40 to consume, The Guardian reports.

Looking at only measurable health data and not the humiliation one feels after texting your ex seven times after your fourth shot of mescal, the study determined that young people drinking only leads to health problems, whereas there are health benefits for older people, including reduced risk in cardiovascular disease, diabetes and stroke.

“Our message is simple: young people should not drink, but older people may benefit from drinking small amounts,” said the study’s senior author, Dr. Emmanuela Gakidou, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine. “While it may not be realistic to think young adults will abstain from drinking, we do think it’s important to communicate the latest evidence so that everyone can make informed decisions about their health.”

Infamous sexual abuse misprisioner and man who enjoyed taking young men to the mat Republican Ohio Congressman  Jim Jordan took to the safe space of Newsmax to coerce Attorney General Merrick Garland to charge peaceful protestors who demonstrates at Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house after the draft decision revoking a person’s right to bodily autonomy was leaked to the press.

Jordan claims that it’s wrong for one branch of government to intimidate another–which is not actually not what not prosecuting peaceful demonstrations by private citizens is–and he’s openly attempting to intimidate the Attorney General of the United States with the threat of impeachment to get his way.

A DC Metropolitan Police Department officer who was part of the motorcade that transported Donald Trump around Washington on January 6, 2021 told the House Select Committee investigating the domestic terrorist attack on Congress that day that he witnessed Trump demanding to go to the Capitol, CNN reports.

The testimony corroborates the account related by Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who told the committee that she was told about the confrontation by Secret Service agent Robert Engel, who told her in the presence of then-White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato, a one-time Secret Service agent.

Trump going to the Capitol would to lead the attack by the domestic terrorists he stoked would have solidified his effort to be a dictator as he halted the certification of the Electoral College vote to name Democrat Joe Biden the winner of the November election.

With near Trumpian incompetence, cryptocurrency lending company Celsius Network amassed more than $1.1 billion in debt between its loan obligations and its $700 million in “digital assets” that it owns to account holders, Reuters reports.

Cryptocurrency lenders essentially acted as a broker for traditional institutional investors, allowing them to buy into crypto with their assets from depositors, who received a high rate of return on their account holdings.  Essentially, they were putting a dollar value on imaginary assets.

The information was made public in Celsius’s bankruptcy filing.  Cryptocurrenies and related companies are collapsing after the bottom fell out of the market, with no fewer than a dozen established companies declaring bankruptcy in the last two months.

Due to a year’s long drought, Utah’s Great Salt Lake has lost so much water it’s at the lowest point since it was discovered by European settlers in the 1800s, Newsweek reports.

The lake’s water level was recorded at 4,190.1 feet above sea level, the lowest level ever recorded, surpassing its previous low point calculated in October 2021.   The lake, which once covered around 3,000 square miles, now only measures about 950 square miles.  It is still the largest salt water lake in the Americas.

Scientists say around 42% of the loss is a result of human activity that exacerbated the impact of climate change, including redirecting fresh water springs from the watershed to feed agricultural activity and residential water supplies.

Texas’s intellectually-stunted male-dominated Republican leadership has filed a lawsuit to overturn a Biden Administration order that people experiencing a life-threatening pregnancy can access abortion services, idiotically claiming it will turn hospital emergency rooms into “walk-in abortion clinics,” the Washington Post reports.

Issued after far-right Supreme Court justices overturn the right outlined in Roe to reproductive health services, President Joe Biden’s directive, issued through the Department of Health and Human Services, reinforces the supremacy of a federal law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, that requires medical professionals to provide life-saving treatment to patients at risk regardless of the patient’s condition or ability to pay.

“President Biden is flagrantly disregarding the legislative and democratic process—and flouting the Supreme Court’s ruling before the ink is dry—by having his appointed bureaucrats mandate that hospitals and emergency medicine physicians must perform abortions,” the lawsuit file by Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott claims.