Joseph Ladapo, the California vaccine-denying physician who Republican Florida Governor (and major campaign benefactor from monoclonal antibody manufacturer investor) Ron DeSantis nominated to be the state’s Surgeon General, refuses to admit that coronavirus vaccines are effective in treating Covid.  He spends most of this 2 minute clip stammering while trying to dance around an answer to the simple question:  “Is the vaccine effective?”

“The Wisconsin Assembly voted unanimously in a voice vote in a privileged resolution to move forward Rep. [Timothy] Ramthun’s resolution to reclaim Wisconsin’s 10 electors for US President and Vice President who were certified under fraudulent purposes. The voice vote was unanimous and passed the assembly earlier this evening,” reports the Gateway Pundit, and this is so freaking stupid but we can’t leave it alone. Jim Hoft goes on and on about how brave and clever Ramthun was in using some arcane parliamentary maneuver to get the resolution passed “unanimously”.

“Representative Ramthun used the rulebook, used the Constitution, and was fearless,” writes Hoft, who has been credibly accused of pederasty by other right wing media personalities. However even he allows “it’s not a done deal,” as if a resolution passed by “privilege” that will then have to get passed by a committee run by the Assembly Speaker (who just last week disciplined Ramthun by removing his one and only staff member for accusing Vos of being a Hillary Clinton fifth columnist), then go to the floor for a vote, then also get passed by the state Senate, then somehow magically turn from a non-binding resolution to an actual statute bill, then be signed by the Dem Governor Tony Evers to strip Joe Biden of 10 Electoral College votes he won 13 months ago was ever going to be a done deal. Never mind that the exact same thing would also need to happen in Georgia and Arizona plus NE-1 to get Trump to 270 EC votes, and then maybe, just maybe…

Limestone County, Alabama man and methamphetamine enthusiast Mickey Joel Paulk’s trial on charges of possession of a wild animal, stolen property, and possession of a weapon by a felon had been expected to start this week but prosecutors got stuck with some extra paperwork after Paulk was arrested again on December 23rd, 2021 for charges of chemical endangerment of a child, trafficking methamphetamine, and some other drug and weapons charges, AL.com reports, lest anyone think we’re making this shit up. Cops originally raided Paulk’s shack in June 2019, acting on a tip he kept a caged squirrel and fed it meth to keep it aggressive. Sure enough it was there, but “there was no safe way to test the squirrel for meth,” said Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely’s office in a statement following the raid. The squirrel, whose name or if it even had a name was not made public, was released into a wooded area by sheriff’s deputies. Its whereabouts are unknown.

Hear me out: what if we skip the parts where 5,000-10,000 US troops die, we spend $2 trillion we don’t have and we leave defeated and instead just import 2 million Ukrainians? #UkraineCrisis @JackPosobiec pic.twitter.com/b3lFGoqdIy

— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) January 26, 2022

Former Third Lady and illegal immigrant Melania Trump’s lame auctioning of a hat she once wore as first lady packaged with some of her NFT bullshit was expected to reach a minimum opening bid of $250,000 worth of the “SOL” cryptocurrency but with the recent crash in crypto assets the final maximum bid reached Wednesday was the equivalent of $170,000 in SOL, the New York Times reports. “SOL” is short for “Solana”, the blockchain on which the cryptocurrency is based, not “shit out of luck”, but yes the joke writes itself. SOL tokens had been trading at $170 when the auction was originally announced, but declined to $90 each of 3 am EST when the auction closed.

The “I really don’t care, Do U?” lady had promised a “portion of the proceeds derived from this auction provides individuals who have been in the foster care community with access to computer science and technology education,” without saying exactly how large the said portion was. For all we know it could’ve been next to nothing while she pocketed the rest. Might as well assume the worst given her family’s notoriously brazen history of charity related scams.

Before he was ousted, Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore had refused to hire a Russian government-backed mercenary outfit called the Wagner Group to fight the jihadist insurgency whose attacks prompted military leaders to mutiny against Kabore – military leaders whom had been very much open to hiring and in contact with the shady Russian outfit, the Daily Beast reports.

The Department of Homeland Security issued an alert Monday warning about the risk domestic violent extremists pose to the nation’s power grid, the Daily Beast reports.  Power companies had pushed national security officials to recognize the risk after they experienced an increased number of threats in 2020 and 2021.

“DVEs have developed credible, specific plans to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020, identifying the electric grid as a particularly attractive target given its interdependency with other infrastructure sectors,” the alert said.  One case cited was last year, when four people with ties to a white nationalist group used assault-style weapons in attempt to make a substation explode.

Surveillance of websites frequented by various subsets of groups found a lot of chatter about the best ways to disable parts of the power grid, with some promoting “lone wolf” attacks instead of a coordinated effort.

“These people aren’t present.  They are not fighting for this country,” guy who never invoked the Sixth Amendment more than 500 times during a deposition Ewic Trump claims.  “Y’know, the difference between them and my father, my father sat there 24 hours a day and fought for the United States’ best interest.  These people aren’t fighting.  They’ve got no energy.  They’ve got no charisma.  They have no fight.”

Ewic wants us to believe his father wasn’t tweeting from the toilet 24/7 despite the evidence.  And of course a Trump wants a charismatic autocrat in charge.

The Biden Administration is formulating a plan to supply natural gas to European countries in case Russia shuts off supplies of its natural gas run through pipelines as tensions grow regarding Russia’s military posturing toward Ukraine, The Guardian reports.

The US and its NATO allies are prepping severe sanctions to punish Russia if Russia invades Ukraine.  Russia is a major natural gas supplier to Western Europe.  However, as dependent as Russia is on foreign income for its natural gas and oil, it would essentially be crippling its economy if it were to cut off the supply.

“To ensure Europe is able to make it through the winter and spring we expect to be prepared to ensure alternative supplies covering a significant majority of the potential shortfall,” a senior official said.

An exceptionally honest OAN host, describing a competing correspondent:  “And there you have it.  President Biden, the United States President, calls for, ah, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Douchey [sic], he called him, quote, a stupid son of a bitch early Monday.  Douchey [sic] asked Biden if he would take a question about the country’s inflation on his way out of the White House.”

They were faking it the whole time!  The religiousity, I mean, not the sex.  The sex was real, baby.  So…  Becki Falwell, the wife of disgraced evangelical university president Jerry Falwell, Jr., actually did schtup the 20-year-old poolboy, Giancarlo Granda, People reports.  And they filmed it, as good “Christians” do.

The Falwells say they never wanted the pressure of being in charge of Liberty University, an institute of higher than some education, but were thrust into that role when Jerry’s father, Beelzebub, died in 2007, meaning they had to promote the views of the school.

It was disclosed earlier that instead of relying on the video, Jerry would sit in the corner of the room as Giancarlo “cleared the leaves from Becki’s pool,” if you know what I’m talkin’ about.

The lawyers representing MyPillow CEO and Trump domestic insurgency advisor Mike Lindell in the Dominion lawsuit have failed to turn over documents and are missing meetings with other attorneys involved in the case, Business Insider reports.

In a court filing, the lawyers for other parties involved in the $1.3 billion defamation suit Dominion filed against Lindell and others said Lindell’s lawyers have missed scheduled meetings and calls to determine the deadlines for the case.  This obstruction has already led to delays in the case.

“Lindell and MyPillow’s change in position on whether the Court ordered and the Parties engaged in a conference presumably reflects their effort to avoid responding to requests for production Plaintiffs served the day before,” said the filing signed by lawyers for Dominion, Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Smartmatic.

The peer-reviewed medical journal Pediatrics examined seven emerging trends in baby birthing that are gaining popularity through urban-legend level of benefits, but in fact add no physical benefit at all, according to NBC News.  So expect MAGAts to demand to have them covered by insurance.

Studies have found, for example, that placenta consumption–which is exactly what it sounds like–provides no nutritional benefit to either mother or child, and it has led to at least one case of a newborn developing a rare bacterial infection because of placenta capsules taken by the mother.

Another trend is called “lotus birth” which is–steady yourself for this one–means not cutting the umbilical cord after birth and instead allowing it to fall off the mother and the child naturally which sounds… uncomfortable on sooooo many levels.  And if you’d care to read about the other five, please follow the link above.

The Coast Guard continues to search for survivors after a boat suspected in a human trafficking operation overturned in open water around 50 miles northeast of Miami, with 39 people reported missing, Reuters reports.

A passing boat found one man clinging to the bottom of an overturned boat.  He told officials that the boat was carrying 40 people and overturned when it became unstable in rough water as it hit a storm.

This tragedy occurred just three days after the Coast Guard rescues 32 people from another overturned boat in the same area.

“It was good to be with the Army Corps and our strong local leaders today to see the great progress being made at the Herbert Hoover Dike. By prioritizing Florida’s environment we know that generations to come will grow up in the Sunshine State we all know and love. While I was governor, we really put an emphasis on the importance of our environment by investing one billion dollars in Florida’s natural resources. I was the first governor to dedicate state funding to make the critical repairs to the Herbert Hoover Dike at Lake Okeechobee and am proud that Senator Rubio and I were able to help secure an unprecedented one billion dollars for Everglades restoration, the largest single amount ever allocated by the federal government. Now, I’m working to make sure that every dollar of this funding will go toward the most critical projects that build on our restoration efforts and provide a good return on investment for Floridians and all American taxpayers,” says Florida Republican Senator Rick “Squidward” Scott in a statement. Neither he nor his idiot co-Senator Marco Rubio voted for the bill Scott claims they “helped secure”.

“You guys. I explicitly said to NOT send fake racism tips to helpeducation@governor.virginia.gov and in response you all send this, pictured below. So I repeat—do not use the below as a guide on how to send fake racism tips directly to the VA GOP Governor’s Office. Thank you” tweeted civil rights attorney Qasim Rashid, who probably was not sincere considering some of the complaints he posted. These included warnings of kids learning Arabic numerals – which could be a harbinger of Sharia law, Harry Potter and Simpsons jokes, and other assorted madness.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco told CNN on Monday federal prosecutors are looking into the fake 2020 Trump electors scam, but declined to elaborate citing department rules on an active matter. Whether this means the DOJ has opened a formal criminal investigation into the plot is unclear at this point. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel had referred the matter to the department but left open the possibility her office would pursue it at the state level also.

This clip is a little on the short side, but basically Marge is visibly kind of sloshed when she tells Steve Bannon that Biden wants to invade Ukraine because they have dirt on him and his son Hunter “and this is why… this is why we could have many of our troops get killed in this war if-if Joe Biden wants to have happen” and blah blah blah. Wonder who her date is and if the handicapped stall in the bar’s men’s room is spacious enough for the kind of action she’s got in mind.

Less than 24 hours after a Long Island MAGA judge voided the statewide mask mandate in New York State an appeals court stayed the ruling on Tuesday, the New York Times reports.

While we have made progress much more needs to be done to improve people’s lives. This election is crucial: nothing less is at stake than our Democracy.

But we don’t agonize-we organize. I am running for re-election to Congress to deliver For The People and defend Democracy. -NP pic.twitter.com/ojwFPOdRs3

— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) January 25, 2022