“A Santa Barbara man was charged today with taking his two young children to Rosarito, Mexico and killing them. Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, allegedly killed the 2-year-old boy and 10-month-old girl on Monday. A federal criminal complaint filed today charges Coleman with foreign murder of United States nationals. Coleman is expected to make his initial court appearance this afternoon in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles” says the Central District of California US Attorney’s office in a statement, which doesn’t include the level of detail in the criminal complaint.

In the complaint, the FBI agent in charge writes that when being interviewed after his arrest, Coleman “explained that he was enlightened by QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories and was receiving visions and signs revealing that his wife, A.C., possessed serpent DNA and had passed it onto his children. M. COLEMAN said that he was saving the world from monsters.”

We suppose it was only a matter of time before an act as horrific as this could be directly and explicitly linked to the perpetrator’s QAnon belief that we’ve covered here. There have been close calls. And the abhorrent murder of an infant in Oklahoma by a QAnon fan which, while equally horrifying, was not attributed to the Q cult belief, as far as we could tell. And then there was the you-feel-sort-of-bad-for-laughing-but-still-laugh-anyway murder of a sovereign citizen legal “expert” shot dead by a Q mama bear after his repeated failure to deliver on promises of regaining custody of her daughters. But this Coleman piece of shit’s crime is the true culmination of this evil cult’s reign of terror. Let’s hope this brings about the real “Storm” and the destruction of QAnon.

Last week Larry Elder, Conservative radio host and one of the leading Republican contenders for the California Gubernatorial recall election told a Sacramento Bee reporter in an interview that Joe Biden won the 2020 election fair and square, which of course is blasphemy in the GOP these days. Jenna Ellis, the former Colorado prosecutor fired for incompetence-turned Trump ‘Stop the Steal’ lawyer-turned wannabe MAGA influencer responded with her “endorsement” of some other guy:

So between saying Biden won “fair and square” and supporting biological men in women’s bathrooms… how exactly is Larry Elder any different than a moderate Democrat or RINO?

Consider this my full endorsement of @KevinKileyCA. California needs a genuine conservative.

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) August 11, 2021

Then Caitlyn Jenner chimed in with: “Good to know Jenna Ellis thinks she is the gatekeeper in declaring who is conservative and who isn’t. Gotta love it. Jenna, our movement has diversity in thought and that’s a good thing. Ever heard of the 80-20 rule?” To which Ellis shot back: “Terms have to mean something, Caitlyn, otherwise they’re useless. Like ‘man’ and ‘woman.'”

Really exciting stuff right? We’re on the edge of our seats with anticipation of seeing all out civil war explode in the MAGAverse, even though the most likely outcome is Jenner sulking away with nobody defending her because she’s not a “real” Republican.

“We commend Senator Alvarado for taking this brave stand in the fight against legislation that erects barriers to voting. This has been a long and arduous battle for our Texas Democrats – and because of our legislators’ commitment and courage, it’s nowhere near over. It is because of their bravery that Texans across the state, those in marginalized communities, people of all creeds and color, know that their freedoms and rights are Democrats’ top priority. Texas Democrats continue to show the world that we will do whatever it takes to protect our constituents and our freedom to vote. Thank you Senator Alvarado and to all our courageous Democratic Legislators for putting it all on the line” – Statement from Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa.

The opioid crime wave that is destroying rural America is a two part problem. The first problem consists of the “tweakers”, the white opiod addicts who will do anything for a fix. Although official figures are hard to come by as many rural Sheriffs have ties to white nationalist and anti-government groups and refuse to share crime data with the FBI, white crime in America’s interior is skyrocketing, including huge increases in prostitution, gun-trafficking, and bloody turf wars as opioid dealing gangs shoot it out for control of the drug trade.

“Intelligence officials are nearing the end of a 90-day investigation into the origins of Covid-19 that was ordered by President Joe Biden, and have drafted a classified report that is now in the preliminary review process, according to three sources familiar with the probe” CNN reports.

“Sources familiar with the initial report say that after three months of poring over data and raw intelligence, the intelligence community is still divided over two theories – one suggesting the virus originated from a lab in Wuhan, China, and the other suggesting it jumped naturally to humans from animals, the sources said. The report as it stands now contains ‘nothing too earth shattering,’ one source explained. In May, Biden told US intelligence agencies to “redouble” their efforts to investigate how the virus originated, including the possibility that it emerged from a lab accident. Biden ordered the investigation after receiving an earlier report on the origins and asking for follow-up information, he said in a statement. The 90-day clock that Biden set for this investigation will be up in late August. It’s possible that the draft report could undergo significant revisions during the remaining review process. Biden also tasked the intelligence community with declassifying as much of the report as possible, a process now underway as it undergoes initial reviews.”

The latest incarnation of Robin the Boy Wonder from the Batman universe will go a date with another man and explore his sexuality in a new storyline for the DC superhero universe due out this week, Polygon.com reports.

The character, Tim Drake, will become the first LGBTQ member of Batman’s posse in fifteen years; Batwoman revealed she was a lesbian in a mid-2000s story line.  Drake will accept an invitation from his old friend Bernard to go out on a date, after a dinner they were having got interrupted by some sort of event that needed a superhero’s response.  In the “Sum of Our Parts” storyline, Robin must save Bernard, who is kidnapped by a new villain, and Bernard doesn’t know his friend Tim Drake is Robin.

“When Dave [Wielgosz] (my editor for Batman: Urban Legends) reached out about doing another Tim story, I was thrilled,” writer Meghan Fitzmartin told Polygon via email. “We talked about where Tim Drake has been vs where he was at the time and came to the conclusion that it needed to be a story about identity and discovery. What was next for Boy Wonder?”

Unidentified hackers stole about $600 million in cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network in what is believed to be the largest theft in the history of cyber currency, and the website is now pleading with them to get it back, CNN reports.  And the plea may be working.

“The amount of money you hacked is the biggest one in the defi history,” Poly Network wrote in a letter to the attacker it posted to Twitter. “The money you stole are from tens of thousands of crypto community members… you should talk to us to work out a solution.”

The repositories of the various cryptocurrencies stolen have taken actions to freeze the so-called “coins” involved in the theft, and they’re working with cyber security professionals to mitigate the damage from the hack.  Multiple cryptocurrency exchanges were involved, including Tether and Binance.

The Dallas Police Department lost more than 22 terabytes of information related to cases detectives investigated and were now scheduled for court cases during the migration of computer files to a new system, according to information gathered by the Dallas Morning News.

The data were from investigation that occured prior to last spring, and they were lost during a system process that took place in April and May of this year.  It is not yet know the exact number of cases this has impacted, nor is the total loss known.

The police department informed the city of the error four months ago, as prosecutors discovered an extensive number of files that should have been in the system were missing or files were empty.  “At this time, it is too soon to estimate how many cases will be affected and what the impact will be on those individual cases,” District Attorney John Creuzot said in a written statement sent to journalists.

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Watch as two men come to realize Mike Lindell’s symposium is a sham.

“So I wanted to give you an update from the cyber symposium up here in Sioux Falls,” one of the obviously professional cybersecurity experts at the Lindell-hosted Gonna-Blow-Your-Mind Conference August 2021 edition (sponsored by MyPillow) says.  “Lotta information; not a whole lot of evidence.  I think that’s what I have the takeaway.  [His buddy chimes in with a sage-like, ‘Yep.’]  There was an announcement at seven o’clock with some breaking news that should’ve blown it outta the water.  Um.  Not that it wasn’t a lot of information.  The current Secretary of the State [sic] of Chi– of, of, of– [Again, his buddy, a man of few words, pipes up:  ‘Colorado.’] Colorado basically framed a county clerk for releasing the passwords that only she had access to, so…  Other than that, I mean, to me it’s kind’ve a nothingburger, but, um… I’m lookin’ forward to some evidence today and I think that hopefully we’ll get through that.”

“Amtrak mandates that all employees get vaccinated. In a companywide memo, Amtrak CEO Bill Flynn said all workers will need to be fully vaccinated by November 1. All new hires will have to show proof of vaccination starting October 4” reports CNN’s Ana Cabrera.

Guess what Jeffrey Epstein didn't do 2 years ago?!?!?

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 11, 2021

Politico:  “A federal judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump’s accountants must turn over two years’ worth of his tax and financial records to a House committee investigating whether Trump and his businesses profited from his service in the White House.

“U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta approved a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoena for Trump’s records covering 2017 and 2018, but turned down most of the panel’s request for similar information dating back to 2011.

“The decision is likely to be appealed by Trump’s lawyers and could also be challenged by the House panel.”

Michael Richards, the producer of the show, and actress Mayim Bialik were named co-hosts of the game show Jeopardy!, succeeding legendary host Alex Trebek, who died of pancreatic cancer last November, CNBC reports.

Richards will host the standard episode of the game show, with Bialik taking over special primetime shows and anticipated spinoffs, Sony announced on Wednesday.  “We took this decision incredibly seriously,” said Ravi Ahuja, chairman of global television studios and corporate development for Sony Pictures. “A tremendous amount of work and deliberation has gone into it, perhaps more than has ever gone into the selection of hosts for a show – deservedly so because it’s ‘Jeopardy!’ and we are following the incomparable Alex Trebek.” The dual hosts beat out a field of candidates, including audience favorite LeVar Burton as well as all-time champion Ken Jennings.  Katie Couric, Aaron Rodgers and Anderson Cooper also took turns guest hosting the show.

Reminder: At 2:20 PM ET today, we will conduct a national test of the Emergency Alert System in coordination with @FCC. The test will appear on televisions & radios, while specially configured cell phones will receive an emergency alert test code message. #IPAWS pic.twitter.com/VPDMsvVEQ8

— FEMA (@fema) August 11, 2021

The Federal Emergency Management Administration tweeted a friendly reminder that the planned emergency alert scheduled for 2:20 pm EDT Wednesday is just a test and not the actual activation of Operation Rubicon Genesis. All embedded deep cover Sigma-level operatives are instructed to stand down and refrain from activating their FEMA-issued 5G energy amplifier nodes, but otherwise proceed with rehearsal maneuver directives embedded in the emergency alert tone and decrypted into brainwaves by their implanted SorosTron AI neural uplink. Any Q freaks who have read this far into the article should question whether or not we’re just fucking with them with this nonsense, because while we’re playing it off as joke, you never know. We could be deadly serious.

Amway heiress and former government employee Betsy DeVos announced Monday that she will not seek the GOP nomination for Michigan governor, WJBK Fox 2 in Detroit reports.  The Secretary of Education during the Trump administration was considered one of the front runners for the nomination.

“I am not running for governor,” DeVos told The Detroit News, which reported the announcement first. “It’s not going to be me. I appreciate that some folks are interested in that, but I think the rumor and interest really only serves to highlight how desperate Michiganders are for new leadership.”

The 63-year-old billionaire and sister of mercenary Erik Prince said she never seriously considered a challenge to sitting Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer.  The anti-union and anti-public schools advocate would face harsh response from die-hard Trump supporters because she resigned from the Trump administration in protest to Trump’s incitement of the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol.

KOTA: “At the Sturgis Rally it’s all about freedom and riding motorcycles. Here, you’ll find both vendors and cyclists exercising their right to the first amendment, but what happens when exercising that right becomes offensive to some people? Different symbols and flags like swastikas and confederate flags can be found around the rally at different vendors, but one vendor claims this is more about business and giving the cyclists what they want. ‘A lot of bikers, you know, its freedom thing. A lot of bikers want to be free and voice their opinion and I like to cater to what they want. It doesn’t mean that I necessarily believe in everything but, you know, I like to please everybody,’ said one vendor, Jenny Alonso.”

“‘I do have a rebel flag tattoo, a confederate tattoo. It’s more about my heritage, not about my hate. I have no hate. I have a background with heritage and Indian and everything else and so honestly, I see it as no hate. I see it as just heritage and if you don’t know the heritage and just see it has hate then you were brought up wrong,’ said Amber Williams, a vendor from Texas. Pastor-Bishop Troy Carr of Faith Temple Church believes the confederate flag symbolized a time in our country where people were so adamant about keeping slavery that the nation was divided into war. ‘That’s the history. The history of half the south in our country wanting to keep slavery and the other people who fought to not have slavery. So, that’s what that symbol means. It’s a symbol of hatred, a symbol of intolerance, a symbol of racism, it’s a symbol of misguidedness,’ said Carr.”

The web store at DonaldJTrump.com is selling a t-shirt bearing Trump’s image from a lame old meme aping HBO’s Game of Thrones and its iconic title typeface. It may be too small to see from the image of the web page here, but below “Freedom is Coming” is “7.7.21”.

Having looked back at National Zero articles from that date, we see that it was when Trump convened a press conference at his Bedminster, New Jersey country club to announce he was suing Facebook, Twitter, and their respective founder/CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, so we guess that’s probably what the shirt is commemorating. There’s nothing else to our knowledge – MAGA rallies, QAnon reinstatement fantasy, etc – from July 7th the shirt could be in reference to.

Which is pretty fucking stupid. We can’t recall any further hype from the Orange Pharaoh on this lawsuit, nor any news of motions or court appearances for the plaintiffs or defendants. The main argument Trump and his assclown lawyers used in their complaint was already shot down in court when racist scumbag Laura Loomer tried it, so it’s only a matter of time before the case dies a lonely death. We’ll go ahead and hypothesize that the shirt was offered for sale prior to July 7th to build up fanboy anticipation for the “huge announcement”, didn’t sell out, and is still available on the store 35 days later because Trump and his minions are too cheap and greedy to donate their leftovers to charity. It’d also be kind of embarrassing for the Donald if a photo of a Cameroonian teenager wearing the t-shirt while farming sugar cane surfaced some time next year and served as a cruel reminder of his by-then failed post-presidential crusade against the first amendment.

“As COVID-19 patient counts continue to soar in Brevard County – swamping local hospitals to near breaking point – some in the medical and emergency management sectors paint an increasingly dire picture of the situation. All three hospital systems in the county are over capacity, and are continuing to deal with a strong surge in patients, Brevard County Emergency Management Director John Scott said. Brevard County Communications Director Don Walker said county officials are now working with the hospital systems to identify potential sites outside the hospitals to house patients, should the surge reach a level at which they run out of space and can no longer handle the patient counts. In addition, medical surge tents have been set up outside some local hospitals, and are being used for patient care. ‘Everybody’s being stressed to their limits, with the hospitals at or above capacity,’ said Dr. Adam Fier, president of the Brevard County Medical Society. ‘But everybody’s banding together and doing what we can to keep people as healthy as possible.'”

“The surge in COVID-19 cases also prompted Brevard County Fire Rescue Chief Mark Schollmeyer to urge residents to stop calling 9-1-1 for non-emergency calls, so as to leave hospital emergency room staff and facilities – and BCFR crews – to handle the urgent medical emergencies. ‘Our BCFR ambulances are seeing an increase in hospital times due to not being able to turn patients over to hospital staff,’ Schollmeyer said, referring to ERs filled with patients suffering from COVID-19 symptoms. ‘We continue to ask that people use 9-1-1 sparingly for non-emergent issues and to save the ambulances and ER trips for those who urgently need those services'” – Florida Today.

“Now who’s gonna be the Republican who comes in next and says ‘I’m gonna get rid of Pre-K, I’m gonna get rid of elder care, I’m gonna get rid of school lunches, I’m gonna get rid of free junior college, or community college’?!? It’s politically toxic to do stuff like that – to take it away once it’s given! That’s the hope!” moans Kilmeade over the $3.5 trillion budget bill.

Seems almost like he’s acknowledging that these proposals would help improve Americans’ lives to the point where they would be unlikely to vote for the party that opposes such improvements.