A 5.9 magnitude earthquake, strong enough to cause significant structural damage and landslides if usually limited in casualties inflicted, struck 12 miles outside of Nevada’s capital of Carson City at 8:06 PDT on Thursday morning, according to a USGS seismological alert system that fucked up and sent a bunch of automated alerts out while nobody in the area felt any shaking whatsoever.

“This was an errant earthquake warning sent out by the USGS’s ShakeAlert system,” Kyren Bogolub, seismologist at the University of Nevada, Reno Seismological Laboratory, told the Reno Gazette-Journal following the non-disaster that killed 0 and injured 0. “There was no earthquake. We are awaiting more information from the USGS. Thank you for your patience while we sort this out.”

It’s not clear how many QAnon freaks learned of the false alarm and then immediately concluded that it wasn’t the USGS alert system that malfunctioned, but the Deep State’s secret earthquake weaponry that was scheduled to be tested on Carson City at that exact moment. That being said, this is an awfully freaking weird glitch if it wasn’t some IT engineer simply forgetting to make sure that he/she was still in the test environment. You can’t just find a USGS seismograph out in the field and hit it with a shovel expecting it to trigger an earthquake alert. There are redundancies.

Remember that thing about how convicted felon President Trump’s economy is supposed to get better next year because he’ll start doing something about it? Well Axios reports he will, in the form of MAGA rallies and speeches telling people that the Democrats’ focus on affordability is a con job.

“We’re told the president will aggressively push back against criticism over the cost of everyday essentials,” Axios writes, making the above characterization of their reporting pretty accurate.

“Three months after her husband, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated, Erika Kirk will open up about life, loss, the state of political discourse and more in a one-hour town hall event moderated by Bari Weiss, CBS News’ editor-in-chief. The special will be broadcast on Saturday, Dec. 13, at 8 pm ET/PT on the CBS television network and will stream later on Paramount+ and CBS News 24/7.”

“The event, filmed before a studio audience, will feature Kirk fielding questions from young evangelicals, prominent religious leaders, and figures across the political spectrum. The conversation will also focus on our country’s political divide – and how we can find our way out.”

“Erika Kirk is the chairman and CEO of the Turning Point USA. The organization was founded by her late husband, a conservative political activist who was shot and killed on Sept 10, 2025, while speaking before a crowd on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. ‘Like so many people around the world, I will never forget the moment that Erika Kirk forgave her husband’s killer,’ said Weiss. ‘I am eager to speak to her – and thrilled to be doing so in front of a group of Americans who I know will elevate the conversation.’ The town hall will be recorded in New York before an invited audience,” says a CBS News press release formatted as though it were an actualarticle.

“How embarrassing,” a plainly disgruntled CBS staffer told The Independent. “Bari’s been Editor-in-Chief for five seconds and has revealed that all she really wants is to be on TV herself.”

Virginia man Brian Cole has been named as the arrested suspect in the January 5, 2021 pipe bombing attempts at the DNC and RNC headquarters in DC, NBC News reports. More to come.

KFF Surveys: “If the enhanced premium tax credits are not extended, those who want to see them extended are most likely to blame Republican leaders, including President Trump. Four in ten of those who support extending the premium tax credits say that if they are not extended, President Trump deserves most of the blame (41 percent, or 34 percent of all Marketplace enrollees) and about a third (35 percent, or 29 percent of all enrollees) say Republicans in Congress deserve most of the blame. A smaller share (23 percent, 19 percent of all enrollees) says Democrats in Congress deserve most of the blame for not extending the credits. Unsurprisingly, partisans are most likely to say the other party deserves the blame if Congress doesn’t extend the enhanced premium tax credits. However, four in ten Republican enrollees who want to see the tax credits extended say they will either place most of the blame on President Trump (21 percent) or Republicans (21 percent).”

“Even among the most ardent supporters of President Trump, 14 percent of MAGA supporters say he will deserve most of the blame if the tax credits are not extended, and an additional one in five MAGA supporters (19 percent) say Republicans will deserve most of the blame.”

Concern lady Senator Susan Collins on Thursday told Punchbowl News she still plans to run again in 2026 but hasn’t made a final decision yet, which might be kind of concerning for her fans.

A grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia will be meeting Thursday to hear convicted felon President Trump’s minions pitch a new federal felony case against New York Attorney General Letitia James for “mortgage fraud” after the first one was dismissed last month due to now-former Acting US Attorney Lindsey Halligan’s non-lawful appointment to the post, Reuters reports.

Actually the headline’s wrong because this’ll be the third attempt. The first grand jury that examined days’ worth of evidence and testimony never ended up voting on the charges, the second one saw an extremely pared-down presentation before returning the indictment that was ultimately tossed due to Halligan’s illegitimacy rather than the very large multitude of other problems with the case.

“New York City Mayor Eric Adams today signed two executive orders that will ensure city agencies continue to make sound financial decisions that protect taxpayer dollars and that protect New Yorkers’ right to practice their religion at houses of worship without harassment, while protecting freedom of speech and peaceful assembly. Executive Order No 60 prohibits mayoral agency heads, agency chief contracting officers, and any other mayoral appointees with discretion over contracting from engaging in procurement practices that discriminate against the State of Israel, Israeli citizens, or those associated with Israel. The executive order also prohibits the chief pension administrator and mayoral trustees to the city pension system from opposing divestment from bonds and other assets that would discriminate against the State of Israel, Israeli citizens, or those associated with Israel,” says a press release from City Hall on the latest executive orders from the outgoing mayor.

It’s not clear if Adams thinks he’s got one over on Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani, but you could totally see him believing that he’s outmaneuvered his leftist, Israel-skeptic successor.

Dem Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth tells MS Now that Jesus Dork Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is quietly trying to remove from the next National Defense Authorization Act a provision mandating IVF coverage for all active-duty military members, which was really the only effort convicted felon President Trump’s regime would have made toward fulfilling his campaign pledge to make IVF more accessible/affordable for all Americans, not just actively-serving military.

“After this provision was championed in bipartisan negotiations in both chambers of Congress, it is repugnant that Speaker Mike Johnson is single-handedly working behind closed doors – and against the President’s promise – to rip this provision away from our heroes and their families,” Duckworth, a disabled former Army chopper pilot who lost both of her legs in Iraq and mom to a daughter conceived through IVF, said. “Given how much we already ask them to sacrifice, how dare Mike Johnson demand that they sacrifice their dreams of having a family,” Duckworth added.

A Johnson spokesworm responded saying that “the Speaker has clearly and repeatedly stated he is supportive of access to IVF when sufficient pro-life protections are in place, and he will continue to be supportive when it is done responsibly and ethically.” Which is like saying he supports the military possessing nuclear weapons as long as they don’t cause any radioactive fallout when detonated, as there is no such thing as IVF that isn’t wholly antithetical to the “principles” of forced birtherism.

K$H Patel’s FBI have arrested a suspect in the January 6th, 2021 pipe bombing attempts outside of the DNC headquarters, ABC’s Katherine Faulders and MS Now’s Ken Dilanian report, with sources claiming the suspect is a Virginian and – conveniently for the MAGA DOJ’s narrative – “the suspect has been linked to statements in support of anarchist ideology,” though “anarchist” could be spin.

Georgia state GOP Assistant Secretary Ja’Quon Stembridge, 19, abruptly stepped down from his post last weekend, after a post on some social media platform alleged that Stembridge attempted to meet up with a 14 year-old boy through some dating app, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

State Republican Party chair Josh McKoon said Monday that the “allegations, while serious and disturbing, are only allegations… While the GAGOP condemns any such alleged conduct, it also stands by the principle that is the bedrock of the American legal system that all people are presumed innocent until proven guilty,” McKoon said. “Mr Stembridge is presumed innocent unless and until adjudicated guilty of wrongdoing in a court of law,” McKoon continued, even though resigning is the first and most reliable sign of guilt. A real MAGA leader would’ve called it fake news.

“A Chinese mitten crab, a prohibited species in Oregon, was found in the Willamette River near the Sellwood Bridge and reported to ODFW on Nov 17. The crab was spotted in shallow water and captured by hand. It was alive and not released back into the river. Mitten crab is a non-native crab species that lives its adult life in freshwater and migrates to brackish water to breed, unlike Oregon’s native crab species that live in the ocean, bays, and estuaries. This recent confirmation is concerning for ODFW as another Chinese mitten crab was found in Oregon waters in April 2025 in a different location – marking the second confirmation of this invasive species in Oregon.”

“ODFW biologists are working with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland State’s Center for Lakes and Reservoirs and the Oregon Invasive Species Council to determine if other mitten crabs are in the Willamette River,” says a press release from the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Department.

Sounds itchy, dirty, and most of all deeply embarrassing. Like they need to be quieter about it.

BREAKING: US Air Force Thunderbirds F-16 Jet Crashes During Training Mission in California (VIDEO) https://t.co/aIMh14rqWS

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) December 3, 2025

After a lot of screeching and threats of ICE enforcement and attempts at sabotage by Don Jr’s allies, the canvassers collecting signatures for a petition that will freeze Missouri’s congressional map through at least the 2026 midterms – thereby preserving the seat held by Kansas City Dem Congressman Emanuel Cleaver – plan to submit their roll to the Secretary of State next week, having gathered 200,000 signatures, well above the 107,000 required, the Missouri Independent reports.

Of course Secretary of State Denny Hoskins is going to kick and scream over this, declaring he would not accept any signatures – about 90,000 – that were gathered before the state legislature passed the new map. He’s also being sued for changing the ballot measure proposal’s language to say it “better reflects statewide voting patterns” and replaces a “gerrymandered” version that “protects incumbent politicians.” Attorney General Catherine Hanaway meanwhile filed a federal lawsuit arguing that even though the MAGA map is a piece of legislation approved by the state legislature, it should not be subject to a ballot measure. God forbid they have to win the referendum.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is still alive the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports, adding that he also plans to run for governor of Minnesota next year. The mustachioed bedding pitchman, who is deeply in debt after pissing away tens of millions of his fortune on various failed attempts to overturn the 2020 election, used to be a crack addict and his disappearance from the media spotlight was assumed by this website to have been caused by a possibly fatal relapse into drug abuse.

“If there was someone to win, it would be me,” Lindell said of the GOP field that includes Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth, failed 2022 nominee Scott Jensen, state Representative Kristin Robbins, businessman Kendall Qualls, and attorney Chris Madel. They don’t have bobbleheads.

Shitweasel Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is now opposed to banning members of Congress from trading stocks, a 180 from his earlier (albeit lip service-y) position on the matter and wishes that psycho Anna Paulina Luna hadn’t filed the discharge petition for the bill, saying she “gets anxious and wants things to happen quicker,” Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman reports.

“So there’s probably a way to do that that still allows for lawful conduct by members,” said Johnson, saying that insider trading should be policed internally. “You don’t want another deterrence for good people running for office,” Johnson added, apparently with zero irony or even self-awareness.

The family of 42 year-old Alejandro Carranza Medina, one of now dozens of men killed unlawfully by the Trump Wehrmacht in the Carribbean over the last few months, have filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against convicted felon President Trump and binge-drinking date rapist Pete Hegseth for ordering the strike that ended Medina’s life, AFP reports.

Obviously Trump is most likely going to pardon himself and Hegseth when this four-year shitshow is finally over. However President Wes Moore or Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom will have certain latitudes to be creative, especially given the precedent set by Trump sending innocent asylum claimants to the CECOT dungeon in El Salvador. They can get very creative in finding justice.

Barack Obama killed hundreds of innocent civilians in drone attacks.

Not a word from libs on "war crimes."

Meanwhile, over 70% of Americans support @POTUS and @SecWar blowing up narco-terrorists who’ve poisoned our friends, family members, and neighbors before they reach our…

— Markwayne Mullin (@SenMullin) December 3, 2025