Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who reported on issues like human rights violations and corruption by the royal family until he was arrested and imprisoned in 2018, was executed most likely via beheading by a scimitar, a large, thick sword wielded by a public servant, Middle East Eye reports.

There’s no official acknowledgement of al-Jasser’s beheading from the United States government, who weren’t shy about decrying false reports of a white genocide in South Africa or the designation of the Neo-Nazi AfD party as an extremist group in Germany. Yet this one will slide.

Tiny west African country Togo President Faure Gnassinge’s government has banned French broadcasters RFI, and France 24 for not being fair and balanced in covering his ongoing attempt to install himself as dictator for life through some constitutional fuckery, the Associated Press reports.

“This measure follows repeated failings, already reported and formally recalled, in matters of impartiality, rigor, and fact-checking. Several recent broadcasts have relayed inaccurate, biased, and even contrary to established facts, undermining the stability of republican institutions and the country’s image,” said the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication in a statement Monday.

“Freedom of the press cannot be synonymous with disinformation or interference,” they added.

Gnassingbe, who has ruled since 2005 after the death of his father, was appointed last month to the powerful and completely made-up title of “President of the Council of Ministers,” a council that he holds sole power to appoint and whom has sole power to reelect him indefinitely.

Great game 😂

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 16, 2025

Responding to reports that the Senate GOP is reducing the Big Beautiful Bill’s SALT deduction cap to $10,000 from the $40,000 passed by the House, New York Congressman Mike Lawler tells CNN’s Manu Raju “That is the deal, and I will not accept a penny less. If the Senate reduces the SALT number, I will vote NO, and the bill will fail in the House,” weeks before he and enough of the other Blue State Republicans holding out for SALT vote yes anyway at the very last second.

Back when Henry Kissinger and Ken Starr met their fates over the last few years a certain millennial-aged blogger wrote some very brief perfunctory articles about them, having not been born yet and in elementary school during their respective zeniths of right wing fame and fortune. Contrast this with other moments like the ends of Matt Gaetz’s, George Santos, and Kevin McCarthy’s careers, Tucker Carlson getting abruptly fired from Fox News, the collapse of The Messenger and so on, a valedictory by someone who lived through and witnessed something in the media is always going to be better than one by someone who has to backtrack and do a shit ton of research to write it.

So readers can take the wheel here and enjoy the pending demise of Rev Jimmy Swaggart, according to Fox 8 New Orleans. Swaggart, a prosperity gospel shitbag who tearfully admitted publicly to infidelity after being caught in the 1980s, went into cardiac arrest at 8 AM Sunday morning and hasn’t regained consciousness. “Right now he is in ICU and without a miracle, without a miracle, his time will be short… We’re going to give the Lord an opportunity to work,” said his son Reverend Donnie Swaggart at a special prayer service on Sunday evening at their MAGAchurch.

In a briefing to reporters on Monday, Acting US Attorney Joe Thompson detailed MAGA terrorist Vance Boelter’s movements in between the non-fatal shooting of Dem Minnesota state Senator John Hoffman and his wife and the fatal shooting of Dem state House leader Melissa Hortman at their home early Saturday morning. According to Thompson, Boelter visited two other Dem state lawmakers’ homes in nearby towns in suburban Minneapolis-St Paul, finding that his second intended target in Maple Grove was not at home but on vacation with her family.

At this third would-be target in New Hope, a cop who was dispatched for a wellness check on that lawmaker’s home encountered Boelter in his fake police vehicle and asked him what was happening. Boelter ignored her and the cop – unaware that the suspect was disguised as a cop – instead went to the home to check on the intended target as that was her first priority. When backup arrived Boelter had already departed en route to Hortman’s home in Brooklyn Park where he shot her and her husband dead before being forced to flee on foot when real cops showed up.

TUCKER CARLSON: The reason I'm speaking out is because if we get dragged into this, we could be witnessing the end of the American empire.

It could effectively end Trump's presidency.

I've seen it happen myself with George W. Bush and Iraq.@TuckerCarlson pic.twitter.com/bFzAEA7hff

— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) June 16, 2025

Tucker and Sloppy Steve weren’t the only state media personalities in thrall to a dysfunctional theocratic regime having a bad day due to Israel’s bombing campaign in Iran.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney kicked reporters out of the room at the open of the G7 summit in Alberta on Monday so he could start bilateral talks after convicted felon President Trump wasted time by ranting angrily about Russia being booted from the G8 by Justin Trudeau and Barack Obama, declaring he’s a “tariff man,” and about New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago refusing to submit to his rule. You can watch the whole rant here if you hate yourself.

ICE is likely to run out of money next month and will probably end up declaring all sorts of “emergency” situations to suck from the budgets of other agencies and departments, Axios reports.

“Get ready to experience the power of TrumpSM Mobile. Our MADE IN THE USA ‘T1SM Phone’ is available for pre-order now. Reserve your phone TODAY!!” says the section of the homepage of TrumpMobile.com on the T1 phone, barely a footnote while the rest of it is about the service.

Which is kind of in tension with what Eric Trump said to Russian asset Benny Johnson: “Eventually all the phones can be built in the United States,” during his infomercial tour this morning. Also note that he doesn’t hold the “T1” up to the camera or offer any information about its specs, even just the basics like storage capacity, dimensions, camera resolution, and so on. You’d think that if he had developed a phone that was superior to – or even competitive with – other top models on the market then there would be a lot of hype about that aspect or maybe some b-roll showing someone using it.

“Iran has been urgently signaling that it seeks an end to hostilities and resumption of talks over its nuclear programs, sending messages to Israel and the US via Arab intermediaries, Middle Eastern and European officials said,” says the lede to the Wall Street Journal’s article, copied verbatim to not mince words about what sounds like a state of panic and despair on Team Ayatollah.

Problem is that Israel has achieved air supremacy and all defenses have been neutralized, so Netanyahu’s regime has no intention of letting up before doing a shit ton of more damage.

A white Wisconsin dairy farmer on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump regime, alleging racial discrimination in USDA subsidy handouts to welfare recipients such as himself, the AP reports.

“The USDA should honor the President’s promise to the American people to end racial discrimination in the federal government,” farmer Adam Faust – whoc successfully sued the Biden Administration in 2021 for the same reasons – said in a written statement. “After being ignored by a federal agency that’s meant to support agriculture, I hope my lawsuit brings answers, accountability, and results from USDA.” The lawsuit, filed by MAGA activist law firm the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, contends that Faust is one of 2 million white male American farmers who are subject to alleged discriminatory race-based policies at three specific USDA programs named in the complaint.

This month the Trump Regime sued the state of Texas over a law allowing undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at public universities. Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton “defended” the state in federal court by immediately asking the judge to deem the law unconstitutional, which he did. It’s obvious enough that Paxton had asked the Justice Department to sue the state over the tuition law instead of going to the state legislature and asking them to do it democratically.

Now, obviously that previous paragraph is probably not at all unrelated to the story, even though there are dispositive differences in where the Trump Administration is in this Wisconsin USDA case. The point is that if these USDA programs are demolished in the next week or two then it will have been pretty obvious what happened, that it was collusive, non-adversarial court action that did it.

“A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has detected a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle physics, according to an international research group that includes scientists from Penn State. The unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, a range of instruments flown on balloons high above Antarctica that are designed to detect radio waves from cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere.”

“The goal of the experiment is to gain insight into distant cosmic events by analyzing signals that reach the Earth. Rather than reflecting off the ice, the signals – a form of radio waves – appeared to be coming from below the horizon, an orientation that cannot be explained by the current understanding of particle physics and may hint at new types of particles or interactions previously unknown to science, the team said,” says a press release from Penn State’s physics department.

They could be overthinking it and the signals are just coming from the secret Nazi base that’s been there for 80 years. No need to come up with some exotic new type of particle to explain conventional-ish technology the Third Reich adapted from crashed alien spacecraft they recovered.

From the Trump Organization’s Monday press release on the launch of their new mobile phone service and $499 “T1” phone: “Alongside the team from Trump Mobile, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump unveil T1 Mobile, a transformational, new cellular service designed to deliver top-tier connectivity, unbeatable value and all-American service for our nation’s hardest-working people.”

“I’m incredibly excited to step into this new digital space, hard-working Americans deserve a wireless service that’s affordable, reflects their values, and delivers reliable quality they can count on. We’re especially proud to offer free long-distance calling to our military members and their families — because those serving overseas should always be able to stay connected to the people they love back home,'” the statement then quoted that fucking moron Eric as saying.

“Trump Mobile will offer 5G [HOLY SHIT!!! WHAT A BETRAYAL OF THE FAN BASE, LOL] service through all three major cellular carriers. At the heart of Trump Mobile is its flagship The 47 Plan, which is available for only $47.45 per month,” the statement continued. Also wow that they’re going with postpaid. That’s going to close off a shit ton of the prime MAGA market.

“Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) are investigating a fatal boating incident that occurred in Jefferson Davis Parish on June 8. The body of Danny Harrison, 71, of Lake Charles, was turned over to the Jefferson Davis Parish Coroner’s Office following a fatal boating incident. Agents received a call around 8:30 pm about a boater that was fatally struck by an engine prop while he was in the water. Agents responded to the scene and learned that Harrison was operating a 16 foot vessel with a 40 hp hand tiller outboard motor when he hit an object in the water and was ejected from the vessel. The unmanned vessel then ran in circles when it struck Harrison in the water.”

“The LDWF Enforcement Division will be the lead investigative agency for this fatal boating incident. Harrison was wearing a personal flotation device, but the evidence collected to date suggests he was not wearing a kill switch lanyard. A kill switch lanyard attached to the operator is required for anyone operating a vessel less than 26 feet with a hand tiller outboard motor over 10 horsepower that is designed to have an engine cut-off switch while the motor is running and the vessel is underway,” says a press release from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

“We Believe in ‘TWO GENDERS’ Thank God for TRUTH!!!!” Harrison posted on Facebook on January 20th. And yeah, People.com reports he was indeed a minister. It doesn’t say at which church.

Two of the four men who escaped from ICE’s gulag in Newark, New Jersey were apprehended over the weekend, leaving Franklin Norberto Bautisa-Reyes and Andrew Felipe Pinea Mogollon still on the loose, WNBC reports on a shit ton of ICE resources being wasted on guys who should be in regular jail awaiting trial for crimes they allegedly committed, not awaiting deportation.

Who died and named Marjorie Taylor Greene the queen of MAGA?  Trump is MAGA. He received 77 million votes. You’re a little known politician from Georgia. Hate to break the news to you. We’re Team Trump. Go Trump! https://t.co/kj2Gtgijh2

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) June 16, 2025

“Anyone slobbering for the US to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war is not America First/MAGA. Wishing for murder of innocent people is disgusting. We are sick and tired of foreign wars. All of them. And this one will quickly engulf the Middle East, BRICS, and NATO as countries are required to take a side. Real America First/MAGA wants world peace for all people and doesn’t want our military killed and forever injured physically and mentally,” wrote Marge in the post that went on for far too long and also includes the sentence “Taking this position is NOT antisemitic,” which she had to add because libs opposed to Israel’s apartheid state are automatically “antisemites.”

It’s nauseating to not only admit Sporkfoot is correct on several points but to actually give her something approximating credit on them: (1) Swap out a lot of the nouns and it’s strikingly consistent with what most MAGA shitbags have said about Ukraine and Russia. It’s as if she internalized all that Kremlin propaganda and it mutated into something actually kind of principled-ish. (2) Relatedly, she’s trying to uphold convicted felon President Trump’s campaign promises more than he is. Trump doesn’t give a shit but she hasn’t pissed out that Kool-Aid yet. (3) The impotence of Levin’s response “Who died and made you MAGA queen?” might as well have just been a pic of his untreatable micropenis, lol. Not the best look for Team “America First unless it’s Israel.”

Asked by Politico why his bio on his company’s website said that he “holds commercial, multi-engine and instrument ratings” when the agency he seeks to lead do not list him as among commercial aviator license holders, convicted felon President Trump’s FAA nominee Bryan Bedford, CEO of regional airline Republic Airways, didn’t respond directly at all as of Sunday and probably still hasn’t.

He did however indirectly respond by either personally removing or having one of his staff remove the word “commercial” from the biography. Bedford did not perjure himself on the matter during his hearing last week and Politico concludes he’s probably going to secure nomination easily.

Prince William’s billionaire pal Sunjay Kapur’s final words revealed moments before fatal heart attack on polo field after swallowing bee https://t.co/TlClfhhk7k pic.twitter.com/BNqua3p5C6

— New York Post (@nypost) June 16, 2025

Yes, Sanjay Kapur‘s last words before falling off his horse and dying of a bee sting in his mouth or throat were were “I’ve swallowed something,” and not like “Rosebud” or some reveal of a deep personal secret or whatever. It was just “I’ve swallowed something,” and then he died. No need to click into the article to see the quote sourced from British rag the Telegraph.

At least four people are dead and dozens more injured after retaliatory strikes from Iranian missiles on the Israeli cities of Tel-Aviv and Kiss guitarist Chaim Witz aka Gene Simmons’s birthplace of Haifa, the Guardian reports without mentioning that bit of Kiss trivia in their article.