A top American conservative had previously praised 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado earlier this year, writing “Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado and President-elect Gonzalez are peacefully expressing the voices and WILL of the Venezuelan people with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the regime. The great Venezuelan American community in the United States overwhelmingly support a free Venezuela, and strongly supported me. These freedom fighters should not be harmed, and MUST stay SAFE and ALIVE!”

You already guessed which top US conservative this was, lol. He posted it on January 9th, 2025.

Paul Ingrassia, the Holocaust-denying MAGA influencer nominated to lead the Justice Department’s Office of Special Counsel is, unsurprisingly a typical MAGA sex pest and a pretty fucking amateurish one at that, Politico reports. Sick story short: Ingrassia, currently in a staff position as White House liaison to Homeland Security, had in July traveled to Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from the Trump Regime. Arriving at the city’s Ritz-Carlton, the woman found out at the front desk that her room had been canceled, upon which Ingrassia told her she had to stay with him.

Then the woman found out that Ingrassia had been the one who had canceled her hotel room. She had intially pushed back but, per sources, did not want to cause a scene in front of the team, so she backed down and stayed with Ingrassia and slept in separate beds. There was no further incident but the woman reported the episode to HR but later withdrew the complaint fearing backlash.

Ingrassia’s lawyer denies he was the one who canceled her reservation and that’s probably the smart move given that it’s such a fucking grade school-level attempt at putting the moves on a woman. Like holy shit did the accidentally touch her hand or pretend to have a stiff back and ask for a shoulder rub not work so you had to try forced overnight proximity instead? Good God.

“The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” says the Nobel Prize Committee in their announcement of the annual laureate for their highest honor.

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights. pic.twitter.com/X9U0EsHuGM

— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) October 9, 2025

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted by a federal grand jury for bank fraud in Virginia on Thursday, the second of convicted felon President Trump’s retribution targets to face some pretty stretchy charges, the Guardian reports. Insurance lawyer-turned-acting-US Attorney for Virginia’s Eastern District Lindsey Halligan personally presented to the grand jury, a move said to be extremely unusual and indicative that none of the actual prosecutors on her team wanted to do it.

House Oversight Committee investigators have reached out to convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers about scheduling her deposition with staff, CBS’s Scott MacFarlane reports.

Liberty Vote, a poll book software firm founded by Republican former St Louis elections director Scott Leiendecker, has bought up Dominion Voting Systems for an undisclosed sum, Axios reports.

Which, per Axios, is the reason why the company reached a string of settlements recently with all the MAGA propagandists it had sued following the 2020 election, including Newsmax, Rudy Giuliani, the Kraken, and OANN. If that strikes you as ominous there is a flipside as Dem Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar vouched for Leiendecker, calling him “open, honest and transparent.”

A new Quinnipiac University survey of New York City voters finds socialist Dem nominee Zohran Mamdani leading disgraced former state Governor Andrew Cuomo 46 to 33 percent with assclown vigilante right wing radio host Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa in third at 15 percent.

It’s the first major poll conducted after idiot Mayor Eric Adams dropped his reelection bid, something that Team Cuomo were counting on to turn things around, their mantra being “The first step is that Eric Adams has to get the fuck out of this race” and all good things would follow, they said.

Aaaaaaand here we are with the esteemed jackass out of the race and Zohran’s up 13 percent.

Oklahoma Gov Kevin Stitt on Thursday told the New York Times he doesn’t agree with neighbor Gov Low Energy Greg Abbott’s call to send hundreds to Texas National Guard troops to pretend to do shit in Chicago, saying “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration,” adding “I was surprised that Governor Abbott sent troops from Texas to Illinois. Abbott and I sued the Biden administration when the shoe was on the other foot and trying to force us to vaccinate all of our soldiers and force masks across the country.”

“As a federalist believer, one governor against another governor, I don’t think that’s the right way to approach this,” Stitt continued in his woke RINO-ish hateful rhetoric interview.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Thursday told Semafor that he and his lieutenants are considering offering Democrats a future vote to extend the Obamacare subsidies if they vote to end the shutdown. “Republicans, however, remain adamant that any action on, and the details of, reviving the subsidies would have to wait until the government reopens,” Semafor writes.

Well there you have it. Dems have not won this shutdown yet but that this offer’s even being floated as what Thune minion John Barrasso said was “an off-ramp” should tell you more than enough about how desperate Republicans are for one. Freaking Marjorie Taylor Greene of all people, lol.

Oh and Thune can fuck off with that future promise bullshit. There’s no reason, none whatsoever, that an ACA subsidy extension cannot be whipped up and voted on BEFORE Dems agree to end the shutdown. Throw in the full release of all the Epstein Files and some other smaller stuff AND demand that enough Republicans in both chambers vote yes to make it veto-proof. Then it’s a win.

“TGI Fridays®, where the world goes to celebrate, announced today that it will offer complimentary meals to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and air traffic control workers at TGI Fridays® locations across the country during the government shutdown. Available from October 9 until October 23*, TSA and air traffic control workers can receive one free meal per day from a specially curated menu featuring TGI Fridays® favorites, including the brand’s signature Cheeseburger with fries, Chicken Fingers with fries, Crispy or Grilled Chicken Sandwich with fries, or Chicken Caesar Salad. Eligible workers must present valid employee identification to redeem the offer at any of the brand’s 80+ US locations, including traditional restaurant settings and non-traditional venues such as airports, with the exception of Atlanta airport locations that are running an independent offer for TSA employees,” says TGI Friday’s in a press release, doing more for the workers than Trump.

And the asterisk is simply to note that if the shutdown ends before the 23rd then the giveaway will too. No other catch except for “At traditional TGI Fridays® locations, meals are available to enjoy inside restaurants with valid ID. At airport locations, meals will be available for to-go orders only.”

“To all the FBI Agents who were forced by Christopher Wray to go to the Capitol on the afternoon of January 6th, and then risked their careers to blow the whistle about the Political Bias and Abuses they witnessed, I want to thank you for your Courage, and assure you that you now work for a Director, Kash Patel, and an Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who are stamping out Political Bias from the Bureau and DOJ, and making sure Agents pursue criminals without regard to their political stripe, just the evidence. Keep up the good work!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Thursday in a display of kindness and mercy toward federal law enforcement professionals who someone talked Donald into thinking they had been “forced” against their will to respond to a serious civil unrest incident so the Bureau wouldn’t have to fire nearly 300 agents on top of God knows how many others have been cashiered for petty shit like kneeling during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.

Then again it’s a virtual certainty that at least some of those 274 have already been fired for revenge for having been assigned to work on all the many investigations into Trump and his minions.

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York assigned to get UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s assassin Luigi Mangione convicted and subsequently executed argued to the court on Wednesday that it’s not that big of a deal for convicted felon President Trump and top Justice Department officials like fascist shitbag Attorney General Pam Bondi to publicly make prejudicial statements about the case because Trump doesn’t know you’re not supposed to do that and DOJ leaders do know but they’re not the ones actually prosecuting it, so it’s fine, NBC reports.

“They operate entirely outside the scope of the prosecution team, possess no operational role in the investigative or prosecutorial functions of the Mangione matter, and are not ‘associated’ with this litigation,” said the prosecution team’s filing in response to SDNY Judge Margaret Garnett’s order for them to answer for the propaganda put out by DOJ leadership. Last month the fat bastard told Fox News that Mangione had “shot someone in the back as clear as you’re looking at me… He shot him right in the middle of the back – instantly dead… This is a sickness. This really has to be studied and investigated,” which was then posted by one of the eight or so MAGA White House Twitter accounts manned by taxpayer-funded federal government employees. That video was then reposted by reposted by Chad Gilmartin, deputy director of the Justice Department’s public affairs division, who wrote that Trump “is absolutely right,” prompting prosecutors call him to take it down, which he did.

One of the eight (?) wars convicted felon President Trump claims to have ended with his sheer singular charm and wit seems like it could flare up again as Pakistan Defense Minister Khawaja Asif on Thursday warned that the “chances of war with India are real” after 11 soldiers were killed in an attack by terrorists who Islamabad claims are bankrolled by New Delhi, the Telegraph reports.

Thing is that the attack on a convoy in the country’s northwestern Orakzai District happened closer to the border with Afghanistan than India. And it was 19 fighters from the Tehreek-e-Taliban militia who were found dead after the raging gun battle. And that it was the Pakistani government who created the Afghan Taliban, Tehreek-e-Taliban, Lakshar-e-Taiba, and a whole shit ton of militant Islamist organizations to fight as proxies against India in the disputed Kashmir region.

But go ahead and blame the neighbor for all the mice that escaped from your cage and bred.

This definitely could have gone worse for the Speaker of the House. Like really, really bad, like significantly way worse than it did. People don’t see it from the other side when they say “well, that could have gone better,” to remark after something went badly. Giving equal consideration to how a certain media appearance of whatever other situation could have actually gone worse is important because it both puts things in perspective and allows one to retain a sense of optimism even if it’s one that exists only relative to a hypothetically more catastrophically bad outcome.

“Earlier this week, the Supreme Court declined to consider Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her federal conviction for her role in recruiting and grooming minor girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and others. Pursuant to the subpoena previously issued to Maxwell by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in an effort to expeditiously continue the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators, I urge you to immediately schedule Maxwell’s deposition with the Committee,” writes top House Oversight Dem Robert Garcia in a letter to Chairbilly James Comer.

Before you trot out all the (often very fair) quips about “strongly-worded letters” keep in mind that it was Garcia who quarterbacked the effort to obtain and then immediately publicize convicted felon President Trump’s “enigma” birthday card to his now-dead best buddy. Whatever Garcia did to get around Comer or whether he even really had to get around him on that specific win getting that letter should be a hint not to underestimate the California Dem’s tenacity and vigor.