“A counterterrorism expert says that Iranian sleeper cells may be hiding ‘in plain sight,’ waiting to strike rural areas in America,” says the lede to a Fox News article and entire books could be written on that one sentence and how it serves as an epitaph of whatever subtlety there was once was to propaganda. Might as well just leave it off there so all can marvel in its glory.

Per the AP, Republican Swain County, North Carolina Sheriff Curtis Cochran tendered his resignation last week, days after he was arrested on two counts of oppression in office and one count of abusive sexual contact over two separate incidents considerably more fucked up than the statutes would imply. A June 27th Smoky Mountain News story on the charges – brought under Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians tribal law – are a red flag that the incidents were part of a pattern and just the times that Cochran, 72, got caught trying to diddle poor, young Indigenous women.

An affidavit from the first victim says she accepted a ride from Cochran after a fight with her boyfriend on the side of a road, which she regretted right away. “Curtis immediately took my left pinky and began rubbing it against his polo shirt as we were going by the sand bluff. By the time we got to Jenkins Grocery, Curtis began rubbing and squeezing my left breast with his right hand. When Curtis rubbed my left breast, he commented that my breast did not feel real and said, ‘show me.’ I did not show him my breast. I was wearing a camisole and Curtis tried to put his hand under my shirt through the neckline of my top. I would estimate his fingers went several inches into the top of my shirt. I pushed his hand away and told him that I didn’t like that,” the woman wrote.

An aide to “moderate” New York Congressworm Mike Lawler almost certainly posed as a local lefty activist to stir shit up with libs who heckled the Michael Jackson superfan at a May 4th town hall, Lohud.com has concluded after matching Lawler’s assistant district director Erin Crowley’s number to that of an apparently fictional “Jake Thomas” who infiltrated a Signal chat group prior to the event.

“Jake” posted “I can’t stand how he lies!” to the “Fight Lawler” group during the event at 6:38 pm on May 4th. “We should boo him off the stage!” It was then that, due to the vagaries of how Signal and similar apps interact with existing contacts in people’s phones, that Erin Crowley and not “Jake Thomas” appeared as the name on the phone of one of the “Fight Lawler” group members who’d had Crowley in his contacts. Then, after two of the libs were carried out for interrupting Lawler, “Jake” posted “Should we walk out en masse? Make a point we won’t tolerate his bullshit anymore.”

“Walking out of the hall would have been to their benefit. That would have been great for them. I said on the chat that I didn’t think it was a good idea,” said the group’s co-founder Ann Starer.

“Ciro Riccardi, Lawler’s director of communications, did not respond to two emails and a phone message seeking comment over the past three weeks. Crowley has not responded to three email requests for comment since first contacted on the issue May 20. She walked away from this writer on June 16 when asked about the Signal group following a meeting of Putnam County legislative committee in Carmel. She did so again on July 1, as she was escorted by a Putnam County deputy sheriff to a legislative meeting,” Lohud reporter David McKay Wilson writes about his efforts to get Crowley – also a Putnam County legislator – to answer some basic questions about the incident.

Police in Scotland and beginning to make preparations for a possible visit from convicted felon President Trump sometime this month, USA Today reports on Kilt-land’s coming misfortune.

“While official confirmation has not yet been made, it is important that we prepare in advance for what would be a significant policing operation,” said Police Scotland assistant chief Emma Bond.

Obviously he’s had a rough few days but his bedside manner leaves something to be desired. Also watch approximately zero right wing commentators and grifters going after this guy for water management and disaster preparedness like they did with Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass like they did back in January. Byron Donalds sure as shit isn’t going to say that the as many as 300-plus people who drowned had “a responsibility to elect competent leadership.”

“After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of 𝕏. When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App. I’m incredibly proud of the X team – the historic business turn around we have accomplished together has been nothing short of remarkable” and blah blah blah wrote now-former “X” CEO Linda Yaccasomething on Wednesday long after everyone forgot she existed.

Former Biden White House physician Dr Kevin O’Connor took the Fifth in his deposition with House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer’s stupid probe into the former president’s health condition on Wednesday, Politico reports on what came around now going around for Republicans.

“On the advice of his legal counsel, Dr O’Connor refused to answer questions that invaded the well-established legal privilege that protects confidential matters between physicians and their patients,” said O’Connor’s lawyer in a statement. “His assertion of his right under the Fifth Amendment to decline to answer questions, also on the advice of his lawyers, was made necessary by the unique circumstances of this deposition,” the statement continued. Per Politico the statement also made mention of “President Donald Trump’s own invocation of his Fifth Amendment right before his deposition with New York State Attorney General Letitia James, quoting Trump’s suggestion that only ‘an absolute fool’ would refuse to take the Fifth.” Nice touch on that part.

Mass deportations are great for the American economy because they’ll open up job opportunities for Americans who want to work 12 hours a day milking cows and picking strawberries, the ones who sit on their asses playing Xbox all day while collecting Medicaid checks that don’t actually exist because there’s no such thing as a Medicaid check and holy shit this is apparently the message now… Also wasn’t mass deportation only about getting rid of criminals and mentally insane people?

“The US Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education and the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS’ OCR) today notified the New England Commission of Higher Education (the Commission) that its member institution, Harvard University, is in violation of federal antidiscrimination laws and therefore may fail to meet the standards for accreditation set by the Commission. Pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order, Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education, both Departments have an obligation to promptly provide accreditors with any noncompliance findings related to member institutions.”

“The Commission’s ‘Standards for Accreditation’ state that its member institutions must adhere to ‘non-discriminatory policies and practices in recruitment, admissions, employment, evaluation, disciplinary action, and advancement.’ In light of HHS’ OCR’s finding that Harvard University is in violation of Federal civil rights law, there is strong evidence to suggest the school may no longer meet the Commission’s accreditation standards. ‘Accrediting bodies play a significant role in preserving academic integrity and a campus culture conducive to truth-seeking and learning. Part of that is ensuring students are safe on campus and abiding by federal laws that guarantee educational opportunities to all students,’ said US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon,” says the US Department of Education in a statement and yeah they want to turn Harvard into DeVry, lol.

Last week the Trump Administration provided to CNN a list of four Jewish organizations that the Reich claimed were supportive of Paul Ingrassia, the Holocaust-denying MAGA influencer now nominated to lead the Office of Special Counsel, and in a follow-up all four of them denied having made such statements, three of which had never even heard of Ingrassia before being asked.

The first, the Zionist Organization of America, had never heard of him and declined to endorse. The second, the US Holocaust Memorial Council — which the regime had referred to as “The Holocaust Council” — told CNN it is a nonpartisan group that does not take positions on political nominees. The third, the Israeli Defense and Security Forum also said they had never expressed support for Ingrassia. The fourth group, the Israel Heritage Foundation, at first told CNN the same. Then several days later the group’s president said they were in fact supporting Ingrassia, lol.

“This ‘war’ is yet another psyop to distract Americans from celebrating Columbus Day,” Ingrassia tweeted on October 8, 2023, a day after the Hamas attack that killed over 1,200 Israelis, but let’s hear more about Zohran Mamdani being the tip of the spear of antisemitism in the Democratic Party.

Crypto douche “Winning Team Publishing” co-founder and Trump White House Director of Personnel Sergio Gor on Wednesday admitted, through his lawyer, to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project that he was not born in Malta as he had previously claimed but in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, then part of the Soviet Union, and his real name is Sergei Gorokhovsky.

No big deal that the guy in charge of conducting background checks on people hired for the most important and sensitive jobs in the United States of America lied about his own background. This kind of shit happens all the time when Team Orange is running the show.

If Harvard won’t defend the interests of its students, then we will.

We tried to do things the easy way with Harvard. Now, through their refusal to cooperate, we have to do things the hard way. Harvard, like other universities, has allowed foreign students to abuse their visa… pic.twitter.com/mbWDnaADM4

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 9, 2025

Iranian-backed Yemeni militia the Houthis are still attacking vessels in the Red Sea despite convicted felon President Trump’s declaration of victory over them a few months ago, with the AP reporting at least three crew members of the Greek-owned Eternity C are dead and several more are missing after a bombardment. The attack followed the Sunday sinking of the bulk carrier Magic Seas.

Audio of a 2024 campaign speech to donors at a private event obtained by CNN reveals that convicted felon President Trump had told donors he had at some point between 2017 and 2021 warned Russian dictator Vladimir Putin he would “bomb the shit out of Moscow” if they invaded Ukraine and that he separately had delivered a similar warning to Chinese dictator Xi Jingping that the same would happen to Beijing if the People’s Liberation Army invaded Taiwan.

“With Putin I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the shit out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice. And then Putin goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you.’ But he believed me 10 percent,” said Trump, who pretty obviously did not order a bombardment of Moscow upon reassuming office nearly three years after Russia launched the “special operation” starting the still-ongoing war.

Ronald McDonald statue stolen from Pa. McDonald’s in broad daylight: ‘This was a full-blown McNapping’ https://t.co/EsoJw4sSuB pic.twitter.com/JJX5y5zVl0

— New York Post (@nypost) July 9, 2025

“As of 1:00 PM PT on July 8, 2025 – an earthquake swarm, consisting of hundreds of very small earthquakes have occurred since approximately 1:30 AM PDT this morning. An earthquake swarm is a cluster of earthquakes occurring in the same area in rapid succession. Currently, there is no indication that the level of earthquake activity is cause for concern, and the alert level and color code for Mount Rainier remain at GREEN / NORMAL” says a Tuesday USGS press release about recent activity on the mountain, urging people in the Seattle area to not freak the fuck out yet.

“Do they pose any significant threat to people hiking on the mountain today? No. These events are too small to feel and the shaking from these is too small to trigger any additional activity from cliff faces or glaciers. Warm temperatures on the volcano have occurred over the past couple of days that have caused an increase in rockfall and icefall that has been noted by Mount Rainier National Park. The current warm weather is not related to the swarm under Mount Rainier,” says one of the frequently asked questions listed under the press release, emphasis added on the last part because man that’s kind of depressing people would ask that frequently enough for them to include it.

“I brought down costs more than any President in recorded history. The Crooked Democrats are using the opposite narrative, even though they know it is a total LIE. Remember this when you hear their phony soundbites. MAGA!!!” posted convicted felon President Trump late Tuesday.

Douchebag podcaster Patrick Bet-David was about as unsparing as one could get on stupid Jesse Watters’ show on Tuesday night – meaning he was still pretty sparing relative to the shit the other fanboys have been posting on Twitter. Still, it was better than him trying to dodge it altogether, which was the whole point of the rest of the hour with all the shit about the FBI opening an investigation into friggin James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan. No way they were keeping that in their pocket for when they needed a timely distraction right? Lol.

White nationalist alcoholic Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth last week unilaterally halted arms shipments to Ukraine without informing the White House he had ordered the stop, CNN reports.