“Expect to see more and more workers from all industries to walk off their jobs. Similar to Doctors and Nurses, many of them are trying to save their own Neck from Nuremberg Trials and or Military Tribunals. Those who took financial bribes will receive bullets to the forehead after Military Tribunal” warned the self-proclaimed Head of State and Commander-in-Chief, Head of Government, Queen of Canada, Romana Didulo on her Telegram channel on Monday.

Didulo, a single, childless, middle-aged, destitute Filipino immigrant living in a boarding house in Western Canada, has made her warnings of violent retribution for those ignoring her proclamations of legal authority over Canada a big hit with QAnon fans in both the US and Canada, having amassed over 43,000 followers on the Telegram platform, with countless reports of adherents sending cease and desist letters to hospitals, schools, businesses, and government agencies.

So here we are with a woman – who also claims to have extensive knowledge and contact with extraterrestrials and their intergalactic federation of governments – having fictitiously usurped the throne of Canada, with a relatively small but growing following, saying these batshit things and driving her fans into public confrontations over others’ refusal to recognize her non-existent authority – that she claims is enforceable under pain of death. This ought to end well.

The Atlantic: “Few political issues inflame passions so much as abortion. The issues of a woman’s right to bodily autonomy (for abortion-rights advocates) and the sanctity of life (for their opponents) are so elemental that scant room exists for compromise, conciliation, or cool analysis. Yet something strange has happened since a new Texas law that practically bans abortion after six weeks went into effect this week, with the passive assent of the U.S. Supreme Court. Liberal groups have been predictably furious and upset, though they recognize that Democrats who control the White House, the House, and (tenuously) the Senate cannot do much.”

“More left-leaning and centrist media outlets, having largely ignored the law before it went into effect, have now entered overdrive in their coverage. But conservatives have been conspicuously silent. As Vox’s Aaron Rupar, who obsessively tracks Fox News, noted, the network paid little attention to the Texas law for much of the day Thursday. Later in the evening, Tucker Carlson did discuss it, sprinkling bad information in as he went. Some anti-abortion organizations have celebrated the news; my colleague Emma Green interviewed John Seago, the legislative director of Texas Right to Life, who was jubilant. But across much of the right, reaction to the law, and the Court’s refusal to block it, have been met with either silence or muted approval.”

CBS Miami reports Mike Forster, District 5 commissioner of Monroe County, Florida – which covers the Florida Keys – has died of Coronavirus early Monday. A search of Forster’s campaign Facebook page does not reveal any particular pro-MAGA or anti-vax rhetoric, however a 57 year old man dying of the virus after being vaccinated is not especially common occurrence these days.

“House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy is claiming, without citing any law, that Jan. 6 committee communications request is illegal – though Republicans did just that with Clinton’s emails for Benghazi investigation” notes the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell.

“Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the head of the Taliban’s political office, has told Al Jazeera the group is in the process of forming an inclusive government following its lightning takeover of the country last month,” reports Al Jazeera. Baradar, is a staunch Trump supporter who credits Trump for his release from an Afghan prison.

“’I assure the people that we strive to improve their living conditions, and that the government will be responsible to everyone and will provide security because it is necessary for economic development, not just in Afghanistan but in the whole world,’ he said in the capital, Kabul.”

Daily Beast: “According to a former senior administration official and another source close to the former president, Trump was repeatedly briefed in the White House on the deluge of death threats directed at Georgia’s Republican officials. The 45th U.S. president’s reactions were – predictably – lacking in empathy. ‘There was this one time I heard [Trump] suggest they might be exaggerating the kind of threats they were getting. But more often, he’d make fun of them and say they were bad people who were getting what they deserved,’ the ex-official recalled. The person close to Trump said that when the then-president was told about the flood of vulgar or violent threats against officials not cooperating with his anti-democratic efforts, Trump would sometimes remark that if they wanted the threats to stop, all they had to do was what Trump kept demanding of them. The then-president would also praise those issuing threats – ‘my people’ – for harassing and pushing Georgia GOP officials to overturn the state’s legitimate election results in Trump’s favor, this source said, citing firsthand experience.”

“Due to Trump’s continued popularity among GOP voters, many prominent conservatives who privately blame Trump for the loss of the crucial Senate runoffs in Georgia are publicly keeping their mouths shut about the former president’s ongoing crusade against Kemp, Raffensperger, and others. And others are openly supporting Trump’s charge to purge the GOP of the supposed backstabbers and squishes. ‘One of the lessons of Jan. 5th is that a divided party loses,’ Kingston said, referring to the Georgia Senate run-off election. ‘We do not need to go into the gubernatorial or a Senate race with a divided party.’ Although Raffensperger’s top lieutenants have tried to put the Trump fiasco behind them, several of them are still careful to avoid speaking publicly about the ordeal, citing a fear that it will once again incite violent Trump loyalists. One source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the FBI waited until August to follow up on the death threats and recently asked staff there to resend copies of threatening emails.”

“Newly released records relating to the Arizona GOP’s partisan audit of the 2020 election results reveal that an anti-vaccine election conspiracy theorist and failed U.S. Senate candidate known as ‘Dr. Shiva’ was brought in on the operation. The state’s Republican Senate and its ballot-recount contractor Cyber Ninjas separately hired Shiva Ayyadurai – or ‘Dr. Shiva’ as he is known to his far-right fans – to help evaluate presidential ballots in Maricopa County, which backed Joe Biden, according to records released Aug. 31, The Arizona Republic and Vice reported. Ayyadurai baselessly ranted back in November 2020 that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. He also accused National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci last year of being a ‘deep state’ operative, has baselessly promoted vitamin C as a treatment for COVID-19, and says he invented email. Ayyadurai is not a medical doctor.”

“Cyber Ninjas CEO and QAnon acolyte Doug Logan has similarly repeated the same election lie, and claimed that any Arizona audit would inevitably turn up ‘hundreds of thousands’ of hidden votes for Trump. The 2.1 million Maricopa County votes have been checked and rechecked by actual election officials in the state, headed by GOP Gov. Doug Ducey, and were deemed completely legitimate. The Cyber Ninjas audit, popularly known as a ‘fraudit,’ was supposed to be completed in mid-May. The company has yet to issue any report on what it came up with. Audit spokesperson and former Arizona GOP Chair Randy Pullen defended the state Senate’s decision to hire Ayyadurai in an interview with the Arizona Republic on Friday. ‘Everybody has controversies. Is he knowledgeable and experienced enough to do the work?’ Pullen asked. ‘I’ve talked to him. I’m confident he knows what he is doing and he is trustworthy.’ He claimed Ayyadura has conducted signature reviews for banks” – Huffington Post.

KDSK: “Republican Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft is urging the General Assembly to prohibit local election workers from helping absentee voters correct mistakes, a move that would mean some votes aren’t counted. ‘We would like to see legislation that does not allow for curing of absentee ballots,’ Deputy Secretary of State Trish Vincent told the House Elections Committee last week. ‘Curing’ is a common term for fixing errors. The Kansas City Star reported this week that the request adds to a growing list of measures advanced by Republicans to alter the state’s elections, including restoring a photo ID requirement and making it harder to amend the state constitution through voter-initiated ballot measures. Some similar proposals failed this year but could be considered again in the 2022 session.”

“During the COVID-19 pandemic last year, Missouri lawmakers temporarily made all voters eligible to cast a ballot by mail, but required most to have their ballot notarized. Missouri previously required an excuse for voting absentee. More than 28% of Missouri voters cast ballots by mail in November, up from 8% in 2018. The House in March passed a bill that would allow no-excuse absentee balloting for three weeks before an election – but voters would have to show photo ID. The Senate didn’t debate the proposal but could revive it next year. ‘I don’t think we’re going to go back to the mail-in like we did during COVID,’ said Republican Rep. Dan Shaul of Imperial, chairman of the House Elections Committee.”

This essay was posted earlier today but several of the responses in the comments section led me to realize it was far from my best work. I went back to my notes and realized I’d left a few things out, and feel this revised version of the essay is a much stronger piece. 

Texas SB-8 is the anti-abortion bill recently signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. In this essay, I’ll be presenting an alternative approach to getting that bill struck down. The ultimate goal of this argument is to demonstrate how the Texas law violates HIPAA laws and Constitutional privacy rights, as well as the 14th Amendment Right to equal protection before the law. The ultimate goal in cases related to SB-8 should be Constitutional limits on the ability of states to grant “standing by statute” in civil cases, so as to avoid the creation of laws that can be used to harass women and political opponents.

“(a) Any person, other than an officer or employee of a state or local governmental entity in this state, may bring a civil action against any person who:(1); performs or induces an abortion in violation of this subchapter;(2) knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion, including paying for or reimbursing the costs of an abortion through insurance or otherwise, if the abortion is performed or induced in violation of this subchapter, regardless of whether the person knew or should have known that the abortion would be performed or induced in violation of this subchapter; or (3)  intends to engage in the conduct described by Subdivision (1) or (2).”

Click here to read the rest of this essay at the Otter Globe & Intelligencer.

“A migrant caravan of around 400 people, including many children, set off from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula for the United States on Saturday, just a couple of days after security and migration officials dispersed another large group. Mostly comprising Central Americans and Haitians, the caravan left at around 7:30 a.m. local time from a park in Tapachula where they had been staying, ignoring an earlier attempt by security forces to make them give up, a Reuters witness reported. Many in the group, which included Venezuelans and other South Americans, said they were fleeing poverty and violence at home as they began trekking towards the town of Huixtla. This week Mexican officials gradually broke up another caravan as President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he wanted undocumented migrants to stay in southern Mexico, while also urging the U.S. government to help them find work” – Reuters.

A former Marine donning full body armor and wielding an automatic weapon opened fire on police officers in Florida, after which police discovered four dead people, including a mother and her infant child, the New York Times reports.

The gunman, a veteran of tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, was seen nine hours earlier in the Polk County neighborhood where he told one of the victims that “God sent me here to speak with one of your daughters.”  Police were called, but did not arrest him.

Later, a sheriff’s lieutenant heard two volleys of gunfire while on another call and tracked the gunshots to the home.  There, they found a vehicle on fire amid the three homes on the property.

Insider: “Former president Donald Trump complained about Catholics and Jews who did not vote for him in the 2020 election despite all he did for their communities. Trump made the comments in a campaigning call on Thursday organized by the religious group Intercessors for America. ‘I did a lot for the Catholics. And I don’t know, you know, I’m a little bit surprised that we didn’t do better with the Catholic vote,’ Trump said. ‘I think now they would give us their vote. I think we got about 50% of the vote. And yet, we did a lot for the Catholic vote. So we’ll have to talk to them. We’re gonna have to meet with the Catholics.’ He pointed to the ‘situation with abortion’ with Democrats, and wondered ‘how can you vote 50/50?’. ‘I just don’t understand how that’s even possible,’ he said.”

“The former president expressed similar disappointment about receiving a low number of votes from Jewish people. ‘Look what I did with the embassy in Jerusalem and what I did with so many other things. Israel has never had a better friend, and yet I got 25% of the [Jewish] vote,’ he said. ‘I think they have to get together. There has to be a little bit more unity with the religious groups all represented on this call.’ The conference call, which included leaders of various Christian and Jewish religious organizations, could be seen as an attempt to shore up his conservative religious base ahead of the next election. During the call, Trump repeated his widely debunked claims that he won the 2020 election and told listeners, ‘we have to fight like never before.'”

Maybe if “The Mission Is Great” had actually read the article, he would’ve seen it was not original reporting by Rolling Stone, but based on a quote from a story by Oklahoma City NBC affiliate KFOR, But why let details get in the way of claiming it’s a Deep State psy-op?

NTV Uganda: “Army putschists in Guinea said on Sunday they had arrested the president and staged a coup, in the latest political upheaval to roil the impoverished west African country, as the government insisted it had repelled the attack. ‘We have decided, after having taken the president, to dissolve the constitution,’ said a uniformed officer flanked by soldiers toting assault rifles in a video sent to AFP. The officer also said that Guinea’s land and air borders have been shut and the government dissolved. But the situation remained unclear as Conde’s government released a rival statement saying that an attack on the presidential palace by special forces had been ‘repulsed’.”

“Another video sent to AFP by the putschists showed a rumpled-looking Conde sitting on a sofa, surrounded by troops. He refused to answer a question from one soldier about whether he was being mistreated. Guinea – one of the world’s poorest countries despite boasting significant mineral resources – has long been beset by political instability. Earlier on Sunday, residents of the capital Conakry’s Kaloum district, the government quarter, reported hearing heavy gunfire. Speaking on condition of anonymity for their safety, they reported seeing a number of soldiers on the streets who called on residents to return to their homes and stay there. A Western diplomat in Conakry, who also declined to be named, said the unrest started after the dismissal of a senior commander in the special forces – provoking some of its highly trained members to rebel and occupy the presidential palace.”

“Taliban fighters violently suppressed a women’s protest Saturday in Kabul,” demonstrating behavior that was remarkably similar to how the Trump administration responded to BLM protests over the murder of George Floyd in the summer of 2020.

The New York Times reports that: “Several of the women, who were demanding inclusion in the yet-to-be named Taliban government, said they were beaten by Taliban fighters, some of the first concrete evidence of harsh treatment of women by the group.”

“Power out, high voltage lines on the ground, weeks until electricity is restored in some places: The dismal state of power in Hurricane Ida’s wake is a distressingly familiar scenario for Entergy Corp., Louisiana’s largest electrical utility,” reports ABCNews.

“The power company has grappled with other widespread outages after Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike — not to mention Laura, Delta and Zeta — over the past decade and a half. Other Louisiana and Gulf Coast utilities have faced similar disasters, sometimes needing to rebuild entire networks. If anything, power restoration has [become] faster in recent decades.”

UPDATE: We still do NOT have 20% of the Florida Legislature willing to officially convene an emergency legislative session to BAN all mask and vaccine mandates in Florida—totally pathetic

When will these people stand up and actually do something?

Call your Representative today!

— Anthony Sabatini (@AnthonySabatini) September 5, 2021

CNN: “As Donald Trump publicly mulls his political future, playing a game of ‘will he-won’t he’ in a potential bid for the White House in 2024, all the while flexing influence in primaries for next year’s midterms, there is one key person noticeably quiet. Again. Melania Trump, perhaps the most private first lady in modern history, has retreated more and more from the spotlight since departing Washington last January. She has been seen publicly just once this summer, spotted in July by photographers leaving Trump Tower in New York City, accompanied by her son.”

“Melania Trump’s disinterest in public political life runs deep enough that she has gone so far as to tell several friends that not only does she not intend to bolster her husband’s inflated political ambitions, she has zero desire for a White House redux, according to several people who spoke with CNN about her mindset. ‘Being first lady again is not what she wants,’ said one of the people, who had a close relationship with Trump during her White House tenure. ‘For her, it was a chapter – and it’s over, and that’s that.’ She views her husband’s continued impact on the GOP landscape as his job, not hers. ‘You’re not going to see her at rallies or campaign events, even if he ‘officially’ says he’s running again,’ said another person aware of the disinterest Trump has shown in supporting the former President. ‘Instead it’s going to be Lara (Trump, the wife of Trump’s son, Eric) or (Kimberly) Guilfoyle (the girlfriend of Trump’s eldest son, Don). They have that same urge Trump has to (run) again; Melania absolutely does not.'”

“Marking the strength of vaccine resistance among some Americans, if a workplace mandate were imposed, three-quarters of unvaccinated workers say they’d quit their job (42%) or seek a health or religious exemption (35%). If those who sought an exemption didn’t get one, most say they’d then quit. In all, assuming no exemptions, 72% of unvaccinated workers not currently facing a workplace mandate threaten to walk if faced with one” – ABC News.

Daily Beast: “A local criminal investigation into then-President Donald Trump’s attempt to meddle with Georgia’s 2020 election recount is inching forward, as Fulton County investigators have interviewed elections officials and received documents from the agency, according to three people with direct knowledge of the probe. ‘They’ve asked us for documents, they’ve talked to some of our folks, and we’ll cooperate fully,’ Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told The Daily Beast this week. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis previously revealed to The Daily Beast that she has spun up a new anti-corruption team to explore what state laws, if any, were broken when Trump and his allies tried to overturn election results there.”

“But her office has been quiet about the matter in the five months since. Her investigators have since interviewed at least four officials at the secretary of state’s office, asking questions that show a particular interest in Raffensperger’s separate phone conversations with Trump and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, according to two of these sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Late last year, Raffensperger told The Washington Post that Graham called him a week after the hotly contested November election, asking if the state official could exercise his power to toss out mailed-in ballots in counties that had high rates of signatures that didn’t match those on file. Graham has since denied that he tried to get Raffensperger to dump legal ballots. Then there’s the Jan. 2 shakedown call between the White House and Raffensperger’s office. On that call – which was recorded and immediately leaked to The Washington Post – Trump pressured Raffensperger to ‘find 11,780 votes’ that didn’t exist in order to erase Joe Biden’s lead and flip the election results.”