Thursday was already a rough day for the Wisconsin MAGA Reich as far-right Assembly Speaker Robin Vos punished even farther-right Rep. Timothy Ramthun by removing Ramthun’s entire one-person staff for accusing Vos of scheming with Hillary Clinton to allow ballot drop boxes in the state. Then that night an unknown person recorded freshman Rep Elijah Behnke ranting in his office for nearly 27 minutes, saying shit like “Let’s cheat like the Democrats do”, calling Vos a “swamp creature”, and “I’m going to punch him, right? So here I am, I haven’t really seen him face-to-face yet, so we’ll see if I do” if he ever meets Wisconsin Gov Tony Evers. Read more at the AP.

The Special Master appointed by a Manhattan federal judge has completed her review of the material seized by the FBI in the April 2021 raid on Rudy Giuliani’s apartment and offices, deeming about half of it unprotected by attorney-client privilege and thus subject to evidence for a grand jury to consider for an indictment of the shitbrained former New York City mayor, the Washington Post reports. Former federal judge Barbara Jones had played the very same role in 2018 reviewing former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s case before he was indicted and pleaded guilty to an array of scams in service of the Orange God Emperor. More than 3,000 email and text messages were turned over to prosecutors on Wednesday in a federal investigation into Giuliani’s role in the 2019 Ukraine shitshow which led to the first of Trump’s two impeachment trials.

A Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas on Friday blocked the enforcement of the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for federal employees, stating that the mandate overstepped the authority of the nation’s top executive, the Washington Post reports.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown, a former clerk for now Texas governor Greg Abbott, rose to the federal bench with just 50 votes in the Senate after being nominated by Donald Trump, wrote that he didn’t know what the extent of executive power were, but that President Joe Biden’s mandate for employees to be vaccinated exceeds that limit.

“What is that limit? As the court has already noted, Congress appears … to have limited the President’s authority in this field to workplace conduct,” Brown wrote in his opinion, adding, “For its part, this court will say only this: however extensive that power is, the federal-worker mandate exceeds it.”

Microsoft’s new spellchecker notifies users when they are typing words that might be “offensive.”

If you type “mankind.” It will suggest you type “humankind” instead.

Neil Armstrong’s new quote?

“That’s one small step for a person, one giant leap for humankind.”

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) January 21, 2022

A review of the draft Executive Order presented to Donald Trump that would have authorized the Department of Defense to seize an untold number of voting machines shows sloppy work, false assertion, and out-and-out lies justifying a military takeover of civil elections.

I’ll set aside the important, but minor, errors–like Trump claiming Dominion is solely based in Toronto when its US headquarters is in Denver–and concentrate on larger themes.  The claims about Dominion in the document are all based on speculation and conspiracy, not facts, similar to the claims being made at the time by Sidney “The Kraken” Powell and Lin Wood (who seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth in recent months), which leads me to believe the author of the document is Powell or someone from her team, like Jenna Ellis.  Whoever wrote the E.O. had little experience in government and minor functioning knowledge of the laws surrounding the management of elections.

Bad data:  The most egregious error happens in the first sentence of the second paragraph:  “…that the forensic report of the Antrim County, Michigan voting machines,…”  The referenced report, done by failed 2016 Texas Congressional candidate Russ Ramsland, declared that voting from Antrim County, Michigan was out of whack with the number of voters in the county. 

Washington DC is the place to be for MAGA Cinematic Universe COVID Saga superfans this Sunday as Horse Paste-Con 2022 opens for tens of thousands of medical freedom lovers, NBC News reports. A veritable who’s who of heroes in the anti-vaccine, pro-piss-drinking galaxy will be there to meet and greet with revelers, including Joe Rogan-endorsed douchebag and ivermectin guru Dr. Robert Malone, probably fired Fox News digital host Lara Logan, Shadow Vice President John F Kennedy Jr’s cousin Robert, QAnon freak Trump minion and failed GOP House candidate Angela Stanton King, ex-con ex-First Lady of Virginia Maureen McDonnell, and many more!

Rudy Giuliani pal Igor Fruman was sentenced to a year in prison for the campaign finance scam that was tied into the Ukraine clusterfuck Trump was impeached over in 2019, the AP reports.

Republican Norwalk, Connecticut deputy election registrar Ellen Wink was arrested Thursday after shooting a neighbor dead, the Hartford Courant reports. The shooting took place at a property owned by Wink and it is believed the male victim, identified by police as Kurt Lametta, 54, was a tenant of Wink’s as she owns the property. “Patrol division officers located Wink at the scene and immediately detained her,” a Norwalk Police lieutenant said. “Norwalk detectives immediately began their investigation, which ultimately led to Wink’s arrest.” Wink was previously arrested in September at the same address for tossing a tenant’s belongings onto the street and changing the locks on him when he was nearly a month behind on rent. Police would not confirm if Lametta was the tenant in the September incident. Wink’s Facebook account, which hasn’t been removed yet, is full of all the bullshit MAGA memes you’d expect from a boomer who shoots a guy dead over rent.

“26 O.S. 2011, Section 4-102, is amended to read as follows: Section 4-102. A. No person shall be permitted to vote in any election conducted by any county election board unless such person is a registered voter, unless otherwise provided by law. Effective December 31, 2023, to be eligible to vote in any state or federal election, all eligible voters shall be required to reregister to vote and provide the following information to the appropriate county election board: 1. Proof of United States citizenship; 2. Proof of current residence; and 3. The same information necessary to acquire a REAL ID pursuant to Section 6-101 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes. C. Any voter failing to reregister pursuant to subsection B of this section, but meets the requirements set forth in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, shall be placed on a Federal Election Only list, and shall not be eligible to vote in any state election” – Text of Oklahoma House Bill 3677 by Oklahoma state Rep Sean Roberts. In 2020 this same asshole threatened to work to pull tax breaks for the Oklahoma City Thunder – the only major professional sports team based in his state – if the players kneeled during the National Anthem following the murder of George Floyd. They kneeled anyway.

Politico has reviewed and released two explosive documents in the hands of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress, and both show the Trump cabal’s plans to advance the insurrection were more comprehensive than originally believed.

One of the documents is an executive order, dated December 16, 2020, demanding the Secretary of Defense seize voting machines from jurisdictions around the country.  It also installed a Special Counsel to investigate election integrity, even though dozens of investigations have uncovered no malfeasance in the conduct of the election.

The second document seems to be a public statement that Trump would release or read to placate the fears of the American public as he shredded the Constitution and illegally stayed in the White House after nullifying the election.  It contains innumerable false statements about Trump’s actions to quell the violence on January 6, 2020.

On Friday the Justice Department arrested Texas MAGA terrorist Chad Stark on charges of violent threats toward Georgia election workers, the Washington Post reports . “Georgia Patriots it’s time for us to take back our state from these Lawless treasonous traitors. It’s time to invoke our Second Amendment right it’s time to put a bullet in the treasonous Chinese [Official A]. Then we work our way down to [Official B] the local and federal corrupt judges,” Stark wrote in an ad posted to Craigslist (lol) on Jan. 5, 2021. The arrest is the first from a new special task force the Justice Department formed last summer to investigate such MAGA terrorist threats to election officials.

The National Archives confirmed they delivered the documents from the Trump White House sought in the Capitol riot investigation to the House January 6th Select Committee, Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports. “Yesterday evening NARA provided the Select Committee with all the records at issue in the litigation. NARA continues to respond to the Select Committee’s request on an ongoing basis,” an agency spokes person told Cheney. Stay tuned for damaging leaks.

“My phone call to the Secretary of State of Georgia was perfect, perhaps even more so than my call with the Ukrainian President, if that’s possible. I knew there were large numbers of people on the line, including numerous lawyers for both sides. Although I assumed the call may have been inappropriately, and perhaps illegally, recorded, I was not informed of that.”

“I didn’t say anything wrong in the call, made while I was President on behalf of the United States of America, to look into the massive voter fraud which took place in Georgia. Just last week, it was further determined that they are looking into ballot harvesting in Fulton County, after supposedly watching tapes of it actually taking place. This alone could be tens of thousands of votes. What this Civil Special Grand Jury should be looking into is not my perfect phone call, but the large scale voter fraud that took place in Georgia. Then they would be doing a great job for the people. No more political witch hunts!” said the Orange has-been in a Thursday statement that only John Solomon bothered to notice. National Zero would’ve ignored it if not for the “perfect call” line.

The US State Department is weighing whether to evacuate the families of personnel living in Ukraine as a Russian invasion force builds across the border, Bloomberg reports. A decision is expected within the next few days for the precautionary move that would also apply to non-essential staff stationed in the country. Russian diplomatic personnel and their families were also spotted leaving their embassy and consular facilities earlier this week.

Trending post on QAnon fan site GreatAwakening.win from Thursday night. In related news, TMZ indicates that rock artist Meat Loaf was “vaccine free” himself when he died of COVID.

Third-string Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Everett Stern alleged to the House January 6th Select Committee in November that disgraced traitor Mike Flynn attempted to recruit Stern for a racket Flynn was running to coerce Republicans into backing 2020 election audits, The Guardian reports. Stern’s warnings were picked up by National Zero from substacker Seth Abramson back on November 1st, 2021, but otherwise went largely unnoticed since. Stern provided evidence to the committee of a Flynn-backed plot to dig up dirt on pro-impeachment Pennsylvania Republicans Senator Pat Toomey (whom Stern is running to replace) and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick.

Another possible connection here is a July 2021 report from the Washington Post in which former Trump-appointed US Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania William McSwain, who was looking to launch a campaign for Governor, publicly attacking former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr, alleging Barr had ordered him to “stand down” on investigating election fraud in Philadelphia, something McSwain had privately admitted to Barr that he knew was bullshit but said it anyway to gain Trump’s support, or at least neutrality, in a campaign. Whether Flynn was somehow involved in pressuring McSwain to publicly say something he knew to be untrue is unknown, however it would seem like an interesting line of inquiry for the Committee to pursue.

President Biden has directed federal agencies to raise the minimum wage for all workers to $15/hour, Axios reports. The move will affect nearly 70,000 workers in the Departments of Defense, Agriculture, and Veteran’s Affairs – about 56,000 of that number in the Department of Defense.

No American Olympic athlete sought an exemption to getting coronavirus vaccinations required to travel to China, which will surely be a talking point on Infowars when Americans don’t win every single gold medal.

According to Time Magazine, the US Olympic Team’s Chief Medical Officer credited an extensive education program–combined with a mandatory 21-day isolation period for unvaccinated athletes–as the impetus for compliance.  Around 240 athletes will represent the United States in this year’s Winter Games.

CBSN Los Angeles was broadcasting a motorcyclist being chased by police in Los Angeles when the motorcyclist made an unexpected stop.

Four inmates at an Arkansas jail are suing the county sheriff after learning they were given the horse dewormer ivermectin to treat Covid-19 after they became infected, NPR reports.

The prisoners were told that they were being given vitamins, antibiotics or steroids when they sought treatment, but the prison infirmary actually gave them ivermectin, a drug touted in right-wing circles as one of various miracle cures to treat coronavirus, but in actuality it is not clinically effective and can be harmful.

Edrick Floreal-Wooten, Jeremiah Little, Julio Gonzales and Dayman Blackburn say they were given such high doses of ivermectin, they developed vision issues, diarrhea, bloody stools and stomach cramps.  The complaint names as defendants Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder, the Washington County Detention Center, Dr. Robert Karas and his medical practice, Karas Health Care.