A full tally of New York City’s ranked-choice ballots has determined that State Assemblyman Harvey Epstein has defeated disgraced sexual predator former Congressman Anthony Weiner in the race for a lower Manhattan city council seat, the AP reports on Weiner’s latest failed comeback attempt.

There's lots of excitement around the 2026 Senate race, but let me be crystal clear about something: if @LaraLeaTrump enters this race, I'll be the first to endorse her and the first to fight for her victory.

— Pat Harrigan (@PatHarriganNC) July 1, 2025

MAGAchurch Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart finally died from God punishing him for his sins or something at the age of 90 on Tuesday, NBC News reports without listing some of his many scandals that millennials are unfamiliar with and may have difficulty describing concisely without a summary from a major legacy news organization that would have much if not all of the relevant information handy to put in their postmortem article. Hint fucking hint, NBC.

Senate Democrats on Tuesday successfully denamed the Big Beautiful Bill, using some maneuver to strike what they called an “inappropriate farcial title,” the New York Times reports.

The bill ended up passing 51 to 50 after Jaydee broke a tie.

Convicted felon President Trump will sooner or later on Tuesday start yammering at the new “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE gulag set deep in the reptile infested swamps of his adopted home state.

Speaking to a forum in Portugal on Tuesday, Federal Reserve Bank chair Jerome Powell said for all of convicted felon President Trump’s constant bitching and crying about high interest rates that they are, as everyone knows, actually his fault due to his stupid trade war, CNBC reports

“In effect, we went on hold when we saw the size of the tariffs and essentially all inflation forecasts for the United States went up materially as a consequence of the tariffs,” said Powell.

You will not be surprised to learn that Wess Roley, the 20 year-old MAGA terrorist who was killed after murdering two firefighters and injuring a third in an ambush shooting near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho on Sunday showed “Nazi tendencies” in high school, former classmates tell USA Today.

“My good friend saw drawings of swastikas and guns in his notebook,” former friend Harry Standley said of Roley. “We were all pretty scared of him… None of us have had any contact with him for years. I’m just really sad about what happened. Everybody just thought he was weird. He was also obsessed with guns,” Standley, who said he used to play Call of Duty with Roley, continued.

Dieter Denen, who attended elementary, middle, and high school with Roley, also recalled the swastika drawings. Denen said he always thought Roley’s Naziphilia was just a “kid being edgy,” adding “We all thought he was just messing around – that that was his way of trying to stand out.”

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Asked on Tuesday morning if he would deport former friend Ketamine Brain over his renewed opposition to the Big Beautiful Bill, convicted felon President Trump told reporters “We’ll have to take a look,” before going into more general, realistic threats. “We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies,” Trump said as captured by clip guy Acyn Torabi.

Now obviously the exchange – likely prompted by Trump writing “Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa” in his overnight rant – skipped a step because there’s no simply deporting naturalized US citizens. Key word there is “naturalized” because the Trump Regime last month ordered the Justice Department to “prioritize” denaturalizations of anyone they don’t like by finding misrepresentations on the forms they filled out during the process.

You know who might have made misrepresentations during his US citizenship process? Elon Musk.

Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday granted a petition brought by 36 senators who have accused Prime Minister Ivanka Paetongtarn Shinawatra of violating the constitution for breaching ethical standards during a call last month with former Cambodian Prime Minister/current Senate President Hun Sen, a call that was taped and leaked to the press amid serious tensions between the two neighboring countries, CNN reports on Bangkok’s ping-ponging political crisis.

Long story as short as possible: Paetongtarn Shinawatra, 38, is the daughter of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, himself ousted in a 2006 coup. On the leaked June 15th call with Hun Sen she addressed the semi-retired Cambodian dictator as “uncle” and badmouthed her own army’s actions after border clashes led to the death of a Cambodian soldier last month.

Wonder what it was like in the room when the producers decided they had to put “This segment is made possible by our sponsor: Ark Encounter” at the bottom. Was it a contentious fight between the brass and some conscientious objectors who put their feet down and said “Alright, this payola has gone too far for too long. Enough is enough. Either we disclose the Ark Encounter sponsorship on-screen or you find another fucking live broadcast engineering team at 5:35 AM on a Tuesday”?

Maybe that’s a stretch but equally hard to imagine is that there wasn’t at least some level of angst that led Fox to invoke that imprimatur of journalistic ethics, that finally somewhere there’s a line for them after decades of crossing so many of the others that still exist at real news organizations.

Then again what’s one more line? Plus they run a shit ton of other payola without disclosure. Hell if anything maybe this one being so blatant as to force the sponsorship functions as an effective limited hangout, that if they were “honest” about this one then other, marginally more subtle, undisclosed advertorials would appear as sincere enthusiasm and/or normal “buzz” coverage.

Dem former North Carolina Governor is “strongly considering a run” for the US Senate seat to be vacated by Thom Tillis next year and “will decide in the coming weeks” on whether to launch a campaign, Cooper’s top political adviser tells Politico about his thinking. It’s not clear what the hell the holdup is, even if “strongly considering” is obviously a good sign. National Dems see the seat as still winnable but a much longer shot should Cooper ultimately pass on it.

Further down the article Politico lists some potential backup candidates should Cooper end up passing: “former Rep Dan McCready, former Environmental Protection Agency Director Michael Regan, Lt Gov Rachel Hunt, state Rep Sarah Crawford and Canton, NC, Mayor Zeb Smathers.”

An April UNC Law School alum newsletter article includes a pic of Smathers’ head turning toward President Joe Biden in the Oval Office during a November 2024 meeting about the recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene. It’s not clear which one of the two men with short, dark hair looking at Biden is Smathers, though it’s likely he’s the one on the right since it’d make more sense to have then-Governor-Elect/Attorney General Josh Stein sitting closer to the president than a mayor.

A Tehran-linked hacker group on Monday threatened to release a shit ton of emails stolen from Trump Regime Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and psychotic weirdo swinger Roger Stone, Axios reports.

“Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate. It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one. Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!” posted convicted felon President Trump overnight.

If not for the “Women’s Cologne” and “Men’s Perfume” mistake the graphic art, one might note the “For Patriots Who Never Back Down, Like President Trump,” because no one’s going to want to fuck you willingly if you walk around stinking of this bullshit, lol. Also the “This Scent Is Your Rallying Cry In A Bottle. Featuring Trump’s Iconic Image And Raised Fist, This Limited-Edition Cologne Embodies Strength, Power, And Victory,” while the little statue’s fist is pretty obviously not raised.

The president himself promoted the fragrances in a Truth Social post saying “Trump Fragrances are here. They’re called ‘Victory 45-47’ because they’re all about Winning, Strength, and Success — For men and women. Get yourself a bottle, and don’t forget to get one for your loved ones too. Enjoy, have fun, and keep winning! Go to: gettrumpfragrances.com/” in between all his presidenting stuff.

Bryan Kohberger, the sick fuck who in November 2022 broke into off-campus housing and stabbed University of Idaho undergrads Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin to death while they slept, has reached a plea deal with prosecutors, ABC News reports.

A new YouGov survey of US adults finds a large plurality, 48 percent, say they “Hate it” on the question of “How do you feel about high humidity?” while 29 percent “Dislike it,” 14 percent were “neutral,” 5 percent “Like it,” and 2 percent of respondents “Love it.” The crosstabs were broken down by politics for some reason. Slightly more Dems than Republicans hate humidity.

Convicted felon President Trump’s stupid lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles has been assigned to US District Court Judge Fernando Olguin, an Obama appointee, Politico reports.

Paramount is in what Bloomberg describes as “advanced talks” to settle with convicted felon President Trump in his batshit insane lawsuit against them over standard edits applied to former Vice President Kamala Harris’s October 2024 60 Minutes interview – the one Trump pussied out of.

If this goes through it is the patriotic duty of all Americans to cancel their Paramount+ subscriptions and boycott every movie and broadcast EXCEPT for CBS News. Their journalists have suffered gravely for this and to continue to support them is important. Do everything you can to lower their share price and make sure that piece of shit Shari Redstone gets a smaller payout from the Skydance merger that’s the whole reason for this capitulation to a fascist dictator.

Omaha Trump voter Richard Randall tells the Nebraska Examiner he was “naive” and didn’t know his pseudo-son Jazon Gonzalez Perez would end up in ICE custody and facing deportation after he was nabbed for making a wrong turn onto an Air Force base. “I said, ‘Hey wait, he’s not a terrorist. He manages a restaurant. He’s a good kid,'” Randall said. “I thought we were arresting gang members, murderers and rapists,” the fucking idiot continued, adding “Call me naive, but my clear understanding was we were going to go after the bad actors, not hardworking immigrants.”