A new Wall Street Journal/YouGov national survey has found on the question of “Who do you think is more responsible for the current state of the US economy?” a majority at 55 percent say it’s convicted felon President Trump’s to 23 percent former President Joe Biden’s.

Gateway Church, the Texas megachurch chain founded by Trump-allied child molestor Pastor Robert Morris, announced this week they’re cutting Saturday services at all congregations except for the main campus in Southlake, WFAA reports on another sign of a flock in serious decline.

“As we continue to strengthen our relationship with the Gateway Church family and community, we’re making a shift at several of our DFW campuses by hosting our church services on Sundays only,” a church spokesperson said. “This adjustment will allow us to minister to and love our congregation well while prioritizing the needs of our individual campus communities. Throughout all our locations, our commitment to loving God and loving people remains unchanged.”

Morris, the founding pastor who served on convicted felon President Trump’s “spiritual advisory council” during his first campaign in 2016 and until June 2024 led the large Gateway Church chain of congregations and – per Morris’s lawyer – had in 2007 told molestation victim Cindy Clemishire she was the one who had “initiated inappropriate behavior” by entering his guest room “and getting in bed with him,” on Christmas in 1980 when Clemshire was 12 and Morris was 20 or 21 and he had been staying with her family in Oklahoma, was indicted in the state in March on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child. Probably part of the branding problem for Gateway.

Not helping things are that Morris, fired by the board of elders, is suing them for $1 million in back pay as well as intellectual property rights to his books, sermons, and social media accounts.

At least 10 ICE agents were caught on security whipping their dicks out and pissing on the grounds of Ruben Salazar High School in Pico Rivera, California last month, in broad daylight while summer classes were in session, stirring outrage among district officials, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Now while that lede there might seem to heavily imply that this was a performative act of disrespect of what by the school’s name alone sounds like it’s in a heavily Latino school district, the video itself shows the agents one-by-one sneaking behind storage containers to unzip, so it’s harder to say that’s it was a deliberate choice of location than if they were all pissing on a statue of or plaque dedicated to Ruben Salazar in unison. At the same time they’re not FedEx or Amazon delivery guys who would be fired if not also charged for felony indecent exposure on school grounds.

“Activity in the oil and gas sector contracted slightly in the second quarter of 2025, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey. The business activity index, the survey’s broadest measure of the conditions energy firms face in the Eleventh District, turned negative, declining from 3.8 in the first quarter 2025 to -8.1 in the second. The company outlook index was little changed at -6.4, suggesting slight pessimism among firms. Meanwhile, the outlook uncertainty index increased 4 points to 47.1, indicating elevated uncertainty. Oil and gas production decreased slightly in the second quarter, according to executives at exploration and production firms. The oil production index fell from 5.6 in the first quarter to -8.9 in the second quarter,” says the intro to Wednesday’s quarterly Dallas Fed Energy survey’s main report.

Some choice comments from the survey: “The Liberation Day chaos and tariff antics have harmed the domestic energy industry. Drill, baby, drill will not happen with this level of volatility. Companies will continue to lay down rigs and frack spreads,” said an oil exec. “Tariffs are increasing our product costs. Despite efforts to mitigate their impact, the scale and breadth of the tariffs have forced us to pass these costs on to our customers. This comes at a time when the economics of oil and gas production are already challenged due to the dynamics of global oil supply and demand,” says a support service firm exec. “There is constant noise coming from the administration saying $50-per-barrel oil is the target. Everyone should understand that $50 is not a sustainable price for oil. It needs to be mid $60s,” says another exec, all of them almost certainly Trump donors.

Dem former Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, who lost his seat to a credibly accused closet homosexual car dealer in the Joe Rogan Cybertruck wave election last year, tells Semafor he’s weighing either a 2026 gubernatorial or senate comeback campaign for his next move in politics.

“Everything’s on the table,” said Brown. “I’m concerned about the direction of my state; I’m concerned about the direction of my country. So I don’t know,” adding he’s been “talking to family and friends” as he decides whether he “want[s] to get back in and do this.”

Encouraging https://t.co/eZ8KnoZUBX

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 3, 2025

A tribunal stood up by Bangladesh’s interim government on Wednesday sentenced, in absentia, fugitive former dictator Sheikh Hasina to six months in the clink after she was found in contempt of court for claiming she had a “license to kill” at least 227 protestors in last year’s uprising that ended with her fleeing to India, the AP reports, noting this is the tip of the iceberg against her.

The “contempt” charge seems based on something a little closer to the colloquial sense of the word rather than any motions by her defense that pissed off the judges – in fact she hasn’t even sent a lawyer to the trial, likely to avoid being seen as legitimizing it – but from leaked of a supposed phone call between Hasina in which she told a leader of the student wing of her Awami League political party that “There are 227 cases against me, so I now have a license to kill 227 people.”

Hasina’s larger trial for crimes against humanity remains ongoing. The tribunal judges ordered Hasina and her former home minister to respond by May 15 and got no answer. When they failed to do so, the tribunal summoned them May 25 to appear in court June 16 and nothing. Later the tribunal published notices in newspapers asking Hasina to appear. Guess how that went.

Also guess which old hag in 2009 signed the law establishing this very tribunal system, originally created to investigate and try crimes involving Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, specifically members of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party she saw as collaborators.

“On Tuesday, 6/24/25, at approximately 11:09 pm, a Walworth County Sheriff’s Office squad car was rear-ended while traveling northbound on I-43 near Hwy X in the Town of Darien. The deputy was northbound on patrol on I-43 when he saw a vehicle driving behind him approaching at a high rate of speed. The deputy was in the right lane, traveling at approximately 60 mph, when the vehicle continued to close the distance. The deputy tried to accelerate, but that did not prevent the accident. The vehicle rear-ended him at a high rate of speed,” says the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office in a June 26 Facebook post about one of their deputies almost getting killed.

“The driver of the striking vehicle was Kristin Belongia, a 41-year-old female from the Town of Geneva, who said she was eating Taco Bell while driving and wasn’t paying attention. She showed no obvious signs of impairment and denied using alcohol or drugs. The deputy reported minor injuries but was hospitalized. The Wisconsin State Patrol investigated the crash.”

The “rule vote” finally passed 219 to 213 like 15 minutes ago. NOW they’re debating the bill itself.

Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, an intern in the office of Kansas Congressman Ron Estes, was killed in Northwest DC on Monday night in a shooting that, per Roll Call, cops are calling a random crime.

And yeah, if this were a MAGA site and Estes were a Democrat this article would IMMEDIATELY begin speculating about what kind of kompromat he had on his boss, and then within minutes decide that it had something to do with Jeffrey Epstein, George Soros, the Trilateral Commission, and so on. That Tarpinian-Jachym had already loaded everything onto a USB stick and was on his way to a meeting with Charlie Kirk and Jack Posobiec when the unknown assassin – a top wetwork professional disguised as some gangbanger who will never be caught – intercepted the kid on some dark street and put a permanent end to yet another threat to the leftist Deep State.

In reality the death of Eric, a rising senior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he majored in finance and minoring in political science, is a fucking tragedy no matter his politics.

“‘Too Late’ should resign immediately!!!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Wednesday along with a link to a Bloomberg story headlined “Fed Chair Should Be Investigated by Congress, FHFA Head Says,” about fanboy Federal Housing Finance Agency chief Bill Pulte trying to delegitimize Powell with some circlejerk probe about renovations to the Fed’s headquarters to try to create a pretext for a “for cause” firing. The whole convoluted nonsense raises the important question of why Trump doesn’t have the balls to just do it and decide his cause was not lowering interest rates and having the temerity to point to uncertainty over tariffs as the main reason.

Why the bullshit “renovations” angle? Why can’t Trump just man up and fire Jerome Powell?

American pliot Ethan Guo, 19, is facing charges in Chile for unlawfully landing in Antarctica during his seven-continent flight across the world aiming to raise $1 million for cancer research, CNN reports on some pretty bizarre shit. Guo is accused of “multiple national and international regulations” by changing his flight plans without prior notice, landing on a part of Antarctica where the South American country maintains a territorial claim that isn’t actually recognized internationally.

“The accused provided false information to the aeronautical authority. He submitted a flight plan indicating that he was going to fly over the city of Punta Arenas,” said Cristian Crisosto Rifo, the Regional Prosecutor of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, which again, should just be Magallanes since there is no such thing as “Chilean Antarctica.” Nations can build and maintain research bases and what not but they cannot, by international treaty, claim sovereignty over the continent.

“However, he continued toward Antarctica without informing anyone and without any authorization, landing at the airfield of Lieutenant Rodolfo Marsh Base in Chilean Antarctic territory. With this behavior, the accused seriously endangered the safety of air traffic to Antarctica and the Magallanes region,” the prosecutor added. It’s fucking Antarctica, not Lower Manhattan or the National Mall.

Cristoso explained that as soon as Guo landed in Antarctica, he was detained and formally charged for the made-up crime. “The accused not only violated the Aeronautical Code but also multiple national and international regulations regarding routes to Antarctica and access to the white continent,” Crisosto continued. Somebody do a check on this guy. He might secretly be The Thing and is terrified that Guo might expose it before the pathogen can assimilate more people.

So very, very, very nightmarishly, horrifically wrong. Lovecraftian-level mind-meltingly awfully wrong. Just wrong to where you have to question what mind would conceive of such a thing.

A federal court did not buy Tennessee Capitol rioter Edward Kelley’s argument that convicted felon President Trump’s pardon for his January 6th crimes pardoned also covered his subsequent plot to murder the FBI agents who investigated him and thus Kelley is going away for life – or until the Orange God Emperor goes out of his way to spring Kelley loose for that crime too, WATE reports.

The sentencing ruling hilariously says “Life of Imprisonment. This term consists of Life as to Count 1, 240 Months as to Count 2, and 120 Months as to Count 3, such terms to run concurrently for a net term of Life. Followed by 5 Years Supervised Release,” emphasis added on the supervision of Kelley’s corpse whenever it’s removed from a federal prison’s mortuary after he expires.

“The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries has confirmed the presence of Africanized Honeybees in Barbour County following the collection of a feral swarm by local beekeepers.”

“The swarm has been humanely euthanized to protect Alabama’s honeybee populations. As a precautionary response, ADAI is implementing targeted monitoring efforts to assess and contain the presence of AHB in the area. Traps are being deployed within a 5-mile radius of the detection site to identify any additional activity. These efforts are part of the Department’s ongoing commitment to safeguarding pollinators and supporting local beekeepers,” says a press release from the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries touching on a lot of Alabaman cultural sensitivities.

I know my Wawas and I am certain this is in Richmond, the one off of I-95

There are currently only 4 Wawas in DC and none of them have gas pumps https://t.co/DxcZ10ZvfS

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 2, 2025

There was already plenty enough to be said about this fucking nutcase carrying a dog with her in public to go buy Red Bull in her pajamas at a Wawa at 1:29 AM and putting it on the internet set to AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell.” The fact that she didn’t even know what state she was in at the time and it’s on a notorious conspiracy theorist to truther it is just icing on the cheap, stale Wawa donut.

“An 18 year-old apparently wasn’t ‘lovin’ it’ when he received his McDonald’s order, with Polk County deputies saying he called the fast food restaurant multiple times, threatening to shoot it up,” writes Ryan Burkett, the apparent wittiest member of Fox 13 Tampa’s digital content staff, who put it all out there on the field to make readers chuckle at the most what-passes-for-clever incorporation of a fast food giant’s advertising slogan into a story of terroristic threats not seen since a February 28, 2024 article that opened with “A Winter Haven man quickly learned that he couldn’t always have it his way when he pointed a gun at another vehicle in the parking lot of a Burger King,” by Nancy Gay.

It’s not clear if there’s any sort of mentor-student relationship between Burkett and Gay. Or a friendly rivalry. Or an unfriendly rivalry. Or maybe one of the above but they also fuck on their lunch breaks. Or an unfriendly rivalry where they used to fuck on their lunch breaks until one of them started fucking another coworker which prompted jealousy and anger that fed into the rivalry.

What is clear however is that Burkett probably wishes it were Taco Bell and that the suspect, 18 year-old Dayton Schaffer had gone to the location and held the workers hostage at gunpoint. Then Burkett could’ve written that the employees were pleading that they wanted to “Live Más.”

Anyway the asshole’s been charged with false report concerning the use of a firearm against persons and misuse of a 2-way communication device for making the threats over a $5 meal deal that he said the McDonald’s had “messed up.” Before getting distracted by the Fox 13 lede, National Zero had intended to headline this story as “Florida man threatens McMassacre over McFuckup.”

“The president of the United States didn’t give us an assignment. We’re not a bunch of little bitches around here, okay? I’m a member of Congress. I represent almost 800,000 Wisconsinites” – MAGA Congressman Derrick Van Orden, quoted by Punchbowl’s Kenzie Nguyen.

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— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 2, 2025

Almost as amazing as this clip itself – in which spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan encourages wavering fellow Republicans to just vote yes even if the bill is complete shit – is the fact that lib journalist clip guy Aaron Rupar tweeted a shorter version minutes earlier.

A report issued by JP Morgan Chase on Wednesday estimates that the costs of convicted felon President Trump’s trade war on midsize firms “across the US are estimated as $82.3 billion, or $2,080 per middle market employee, on average. This represents about 3.1 percent of the average annual payroll of a US midsize firm. However, this is an estimate of the direct costs of tariffs averaged out over all midsize firms, including those that do not import – in practice, some firms are likely to incur higher direct tariff costs than this, while others will bear no direct costs at all. Note that our estimates show the direct costs that would apply if firms continued to import at 2022 levels and pay the associated tariffs. Importers may be able to mitigate the upfront costs in different ways, such as by raising sales prices or switching to suppliers subject to lower or no tariffs.”

“However, doing so might still be costly, as alternative suppliers may charge higher prices. For certain specialized inputs, a viable alternative supplier may not exist,” the report continued.