John Eastman has filed a motion with the court to prevent the the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress from obtaining two notes to him handwritten by Donald Trump and at least 110 other items, NBC News reports.

Eastman claims the notes are protected under attorney-client privilege and contain information Trump “thought might be useful for the anticipated litigation” filed in an attempt to overturn the legitimate results of the November 2020 election.  Many of the other items were communications with the Trump campaign legal team or White House staff.

A conservative advocate and a member of the conservative Claremont Institute, Eastman claims he was acting as an attorney for Donald Trump but he has been unable to show any letter of retainment, billing, or other type of documentation showing that he was working for Trump or the campaign in an official manner.  There is also no record of him being retained by the White House in any official capacity.

The Republican-led PAC previously known as Fire Cawthorn, whose initial mission successfully unseated Republican North Carolina Congressman Madison Cawthorn has shifted gears and will go after Mean Girl Lauren Boebert (Q-Colo.).

Renamed “Fire Boebert,” the group was successful in its quest to remove Cawthorn from office because he was an embarrassment to America.  They found and amplified Cawthorn’s inflammatory rhetoric, juvenile behavior and criminal actions, which likely helped in defeating his reelection bid.

Several Trump 2020 lawyers who argued mostly unsuccessfully to have Pennsylvania mail-in ballots tossed out in the tipping-point state of the election that saw the end of the MAGA Reich are now fighting on opposite sides of the contested GOP Senate primary count and upcoming recount, making sure their respective candidates’ mail-in ballots get tabulated and/or the other guy’s get thrown out, Politico reports. The Trump-backed Oz is hanging on to a microscopic lead of 1,097 votes (down from 2,672 on Wednesday morning) but there’s seriously no telling where it could go or how many mail-in ballots remain to be counted. Ballots could theoretically be delivered to election officials this afternoon and still be tabulated given Pennsylvania’s three-day grace period on late-arriving mail-in votes (something MAGA assholes still claim is unconstitutional).

What Trump minions James Fitzpatrick and Shohin Vance on Team Oz and James Schultz, David Urban, Wally Zimolong, and Mike Roman on Team McCormick can look forward to is billing their respective client campaigns for an actual contested election where every ballot really does matter toward the outcome, in contrast to getting humiliated and laughed out of court repeatedly like in November and December of 2020 because they couldn’t show any evidence of fraud. Even the one case that Trump’s lawyers scored a victory on in Pennsylvania (the only one nationwide in 65+ lawsuits filed by Trump and pals) didn’t actually subtract from Biden’s 80,000-plus vote win because the few hundred ballots in question had already been separated from tabulation.

These legal teams are especially lucky the assholes in the Republican-dominated state legislature haven’t done anything to allow election officials to process ballots received prior to election day, forcing them to continue laboring for days to open envelopes and tabulate votes just like they did in November 2020. Otherwise the race might’ve already been decided by now or at least the recount would already be underway, depriving the lawyers of precious, overpriced billable hours.

Meet TikTok poster NicStanton0 who has some really bad advice for her fellow right-wing lunatics: Stop funding the government by refusing to pay your payroll taxes! It’s easy, she says: simply select “exempt” on your W-4 form to avoid paying taxes! How easy is that??? “Do you know what that means?” she says gleefully (and absolutely incorrectly). “You no longer pay federal income tax! You get to keep all of your money!”

How this individual woman found a way to avoid paying income taxes that literally generations of workers have simply overlooked is astounding! Now NO ONE will ever have to pay ANY federal income tax because they simply checked a box on a form!

Wha–? Checking that box doesn’t exempt you from paying income tax? It just zeroes out the amount of withholdings taken out of each paycheck so you have to pay 100% cash when you fill out your 1040 annual income tax return–which will likely result in a cash flow problem for people like this brainiac?  Well, jeez, that doesn’t sound great….

On Wednesday Republican Virginia Delegate Tim Anderson, suing on behalf of his client, a Republican Congressional candidate Tommy Altman, posted on Facebook he scored “a major legal victory. Today, the Virginia Beach Circuit Court has found probable cause that the books Gender Queer and a Court of Mist and Fury are obscene to unrestricted viewing by minors.”

“My client, Tommy Altman, has now directed my office to seek a restraining order against Barnes and Noble and Virginia Beach Schools to enjoin them from selling or loaning these books to minors without parent consent. We are in a major fight. Suits like this can be filed all over Virginia. There are dozens of books. Hundreds of schools,” Anderson wrote. Per CBS News, Altman describes himself as pro free speech on his campaign website, so just imagine that little asterisk that says “Some race and religion-based restrictions apply, especially to queers.”

Barnes and Noble for its part gave a standard customer service statement to CBS, saying it carries “thousands of books whose subject matter some may find offensive… We ask that our customers respect our responsibility to offer this breadth of reading materials, and respect also that, while they chose not to purchase many of these themselves, they may be of interest to others,” as if herpes sores like Altman and Anderson give a fuck about others. Barnes and Noble and other consumer brands need to put on their big boy undies and wake the hell up to the reality that there is no middle lane anymore. It doesn’t stop at this “injunction”, however toothless it may ultimately be. They’re going to keep coming at you. First it’s LGBT. Next are science books. Then Judaica. Books by Black and Latino authors. History. They won’t stop until everything’s gone except for the Bible, the “Art of the Deal”, and “Mein Kampf”. It’s coming.

Evil scumbag Ginni Thomas told Arizona lawmakers to reject the results of the 2020 election and send the fake slate of Trump electors to the electoral college in November 2020 emails obtained by the Washington Post. “Article II of the United States Constitution gives you an awesome responsibility: to choose our state’s Electors,” read the Nov. 9 email… please take action to ensure that a clean slate of Electors is chosen,” Ginni wrote to Arizona state House Speaker Russell Bowers and state Rep Shawnna Bolick, a total Nazi who later tried to empower the state legislature to overturn any presdential election they wanted in a bill filed in early 2021.

The FEC just dropped a major ruling on Hillary Clinton! https://t.co/JZKyTGTmhh

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) May 20, 2022

That’s former Trump 2020 Campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis, shilling a clickbait article written by a website owned by MAGA dickhead Carmine Sabia. She gets paid for tweeting this bullshit. How much we don’t know but it’s definitely tracked by a URL parameter that says “JE”, so she’s making something per click. So check it out if you want to earn her 50 cents or whatever, but you probably already guessed which way all six of the bipartisan FEC commissioners voted.

Five US states were the source of the majority of guns used in crimes in the Canadian province of Ontario between 2018 and 2021, a new investigation by the Global News reports.

Over that four year period, thousands of guns used in crimes in Ontario have been traced to sales in Texas, Ohio, Florida, Michigan and Georgia.  The report comes two weeks after it was disclosed that the gun used by a mass murderer in Nova Scotia to kill 22 people in 2020 was bought by an American illegally at a Maine gun show and sold to the Canadian mass shooter illegally.

In 2021, the 170 guns were traced to sources in Ohio; Texas (160), Florida (159), Georgia (129) and Michigan (59).  The report also notes that eleven Ohio men were recently arrested by the US Department of Justice for plotting to illegally ship 200 guns to Toronto.

Fat former President Trump has effectively abandoned his endorsed Georgia Republican governor primary candidate David Perdue and will not be returning to the state for another rally ahead of the Tuesday primary, NBC News reports. Perdue himself has pretty much thrown in the towel, with his campaign going dark on the airwaves since earlier this month. “David either has a bunch of geniuses working for him – because he’s basically spent no money – or he’s run the most flawed campaign in America,” said a Trump minion, who added the loser former one-term Senator has at least an outside chance of forcing a runoff against incumbent Republican Gov Brian Kemp, who led Perdue by a crushing 32 points in the latest Fox News poll of the race. Sarah Palin’s in Georgia on Friday to rally for Perdue though. That could sort of maybe kind of help turn things around.

“At the end of the day, Donald Trump doesn’t care about David Perdue winning. He just cared about Brian Kemp losing,” said Republican Lt Gov Geoff Duncan, who gave up on reelection after Trump fans threatened his family for defending the 2020 election. “And that was a very shallow attempt at trying to unseat a perfectly fit conservative governor.” Attorney General Chris Carr also appears likely to win outright against his Trump-backed challenger on Tuesday despite Carr’s similar refusal to buy into the “Stop the Steal” bullshit. So does state Insurance Commissioner John King, whom Donald also endorsed a MAGA primary challenger to run against for some fucking reason.

American intel officials are pretty sure Russian dictator Vladimir Putin wouldn’t give a shit if public opinion shifted against his murderous assault on Ukraine, CNN reports. The question is largely academic at this point since a large swath of the population remains sold on the propaganda and bullshit that the war is a just and patriotic defense of Russia – even as Western sanctions crush an already moribund economy and men face possible forced conscription into the army.

American intel “has very little accurate insight post-invasion,” one source told CNN. “The assumption right now is Putin has effectively isolated his people from information and repercussions regarding the conflict. How long he can do that is unknown.” One of the only possible red lines officials quoted by CNN identified was a mass mobilization order drafting all males into military service, which is why they said it appears unlikely Vlad would go all the way with it and risk a popular uprising against his rule. Euro policy think tank egghead Natalia Savelyeva says “We can only guess,” what the reaction to such a move would look like inside Russia given Putin’s support, but “that’s a very different thing when you just observe the war on TV and support it, and when your child or yourself have to go and fight,” she cautioned.

More con games from Nancy Pelosi — this time with baby formula.

It never stops with Pelosi, even when our nation's babies are put at risk because of their failures. pic.twitter.com/bu7uWqAgpp

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) May 20, 2022

President Joe Biden authorized the delivery of $100 million in military aid to Ukraine using a so-called “presidential drawdown” that allows the President to disperse equipment in the Pentagon’s inventory.

The aid will take the form of 18 155 mm Howitzers as well as 18 tactical vehicles to pull the artillery pieces.  Other equipment include three counter-artillery radar units and various parts and field equipment.

“Together with the contributions of our Allies and partners, we will keep security, economic, food, and humanitarian assistance flowing to Ukraine, across the region, and around the world, and further strengthen Ukraine — both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table,” Biden said in a statement.

I’m on my way to the Republic of Korea and Japan for my first trip to Asia as president. I look forward to strengthening vital security alliances, deepening our economic partnerships, and working with fellow democracies to help shape the rules of the road for the 21st century.

— President Biden (@POTUS) May 20, 2022

A Florida man accused of numerous incidents of fraud and forgery produced for the federal agents who arrested him a fabricated pardon from former president and fellow Florida man Donald Trump, a ploy the agents didn’t fall for, the Tampa Bay Times reports.

Alexander Leszczynski, 22, of North Redington Beach was being investigated for wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering in connection with two fraudulent Payroll Protection Plan loans, multiple counts of check kiting, and “check washing.”

Leszczynski used his various fictional charities, including a purported Christian charity he called Love & Bliss Inc., to apply for two PPP loans totaling $196,000, and he attempted to deposit $2.7 million of fraudulent checks into a bank account in an attempt to withdraw the money before the fraud was spotted.

Various federal paperwork filed by Republican Montana House candidate Ryan Zinke and his wife appear to establish the couple’s primary residence is in Santa Barbara, California, not 1,300 miles away in Montana, Politico reports.

Best known as the corrupt Interior Secretary under Donald Trump who required the rarely-used Interior Secretary’s official flag to be flown in any Department building he entered, Zinke controversial time leading the agency included saying he wanted to fire all employees who were not loyal to Trump and that 30% of Department employees “weren’t loyal to the flag.”  He was ultimately run out of office after racking up tens of thousands of dollars in extravagant travel expenses.

Zinke and his wife Lolita have filed multiple federal documents, not related to the election, which confirm their primary residence is in tony Santa Barbara, not rugged Montana.  Those documents include tax returns, business licenses, and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A Washington, DC judge threw out a defamation lawsuit Donald Trump cheerleader and ripped styrofoam pitchman Mike Lindell filed against Dominion Voting Systems calling the case “frivolous” and ordered Lindell and his attorneys to pay Dominion’s legal fees, Bloomberg Law reports.

Lindell filed the suits against the two companies after they sued him for defamation following his repeated statements that the voting technology companies intentionally altered the results of the 2020 presidential election to cause Trump to lose.  In fact, Trump lost both the popular vote, again, and the Electoral College count without interference, as countless investigations have proven.  Trump says he was cheated.

“Whatever the judge thinks, that’s his opinion,” Lindell said in a call with Bloomberg Law, in which he said he was preparing for investigations for the upcoming election where Dominion and Smartmatic systems will be used. “I’ve got lawyers doing more important things like removing these machines from every state.”

The Republican-dominated Alaskan legislature settled on a payout of $3,200 per resident from the state’s annual seizure of royalties from the revenues of oil companies operating in the state, the Associated Press reports.

The conservative leaders were debating a calculation that would have provided checks of $3,800 of the seized private-corporation revenue, but those Republicans decided that the government would require a larger portion of the seized revenues to expand government services.

The value of the check skyrocketed from just over $1,100 last year to nearly triple thanks to elevated gas prices which consumers all over the country pay.

Fresh off being unseated in the Republican primary, North Carolina Congressman Madison Cawthorn is using his lame duck status to try to find a way to maintain his Prince Troll status and sucker more money from supporters.

As Politico reports, the one-term Cawthorn, who got aborted in his third trimester in Congress, posted on Instragram a screed in which he claims he’ll deploy “Dark MAGA” to expose the corruption of establishment politicians, which presumably would have included himself if he were still going to be in Congress.

I am on a mission now to expose those who say and promise one thing yet legislate and work towards another, self-profiteering, globalist goal. The time for gentile politics as usual has come to an end. It’s time for the rise of the new right, it’s time for Dark MAGA to truly take command. We have an enemy to defeat, but we will never be able to defeat them until we defeat the cowardly and weak members of our own party. Their days are numbered.

SpaceX paid a flight attendant on the company’s private jet fleet a quarter million dollars for her to keep silent after its founder, Elon Musk, exposed himself to her and propositioned her on a flight, Business Insider reports.

The unidentified woman worked as part of the contracted cabin crew staff used by the company to staff their flights.  Documents obtained by Business Insider says Musk showed her his erect penis without her consent, rubbed her leg without her consent, and promised. to buy her a horse if she gave him an erotic massage.

When she took the contract with SpaceX, the woman was encouraged to become a certified masseuse as a way of making extra money and Musk’s penchant for getting massages in flight.  It was during one of these sessions that Musk allegedly exposed himself.

“In Washington DC, fetuses are burned to power the lights of homes and streets. The next time you turn on the light, think of the [fetus] incinerators,” said Catherine Glenn Foster, CEO of “Americans United for Life” at a House committee hearing on abortion Wednesday.