“A seemingly unprovoked weekend violence spree through Atlanta’s ritzy Buckhead neighborhood has highlighted what area officials see as a need for more security and public safety protocols, as the recent crime jump has made some residents too scared to even pump gas at certain places” Fox News reports, which is just downright fucking heartbreaking for MAGA Nation because this is EXACTLY what they warned you would happen if you suburban housewives didn’t vote for Trump.

Crime. Suburbs. Swing state. GEORGIA for Christ’s sake. Everything’s here in this story and god freaking dammit why couldn’t this have happened last year when Trump was still in office?!? This would’ve proved he was right all along about the importance of saying “Law and Order”. And Kelly Loeffler would’ve fixed this. Even if she didn’t you would still feel safer knowing she was “fighting” for you Atlanta suburban people. But you still voted for the guy who “doesn’t represent your values”. Traditional values. Not the values of that Jew kid who showed up to debate an empty podium when Senator Perdue had more important things to do than waste his time having to talk about his stock trades. Who cares anyway?!? Oh and did you know Raphael Warnock’s church is very radical? Bet you Atlanta suburban voters who didn’t listen to our warnings about your neighborhoods being abolished don’t care about a radical church either! You fucking commies.

WOW!!! ⁦@DrBiden⁩ SEEMS TO THINKS SHE’S ALL THAT!!!! Well, I knew her “way back when” at that Stone Ballon PUB. Not good! pic.twitter.com/pyrSQteTq2

— Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) June 9, 2021

Republicans controlling the Wisconsin state legislature have structured a proposed two-year budget that will make state elementary and high schools ineligible for $2.3 billion in federal funding for coronavirus recovery, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinnel reports.

To qualify for the federal aid money from the American Rescue Plan, the state had to allot schools an additional $387 million over the next two years for improvements in things like internet accessibility, mobile technology and remote learning, as well as to upgrades such as the schools’ ventilation systems.

Wisconsin legislators planned for just an additional $128 million more for schools over the next two years.  Republicans claimed it was because the federal match would only be $1.5 billion.  According to their calculations, the state will collect an additional $4.4 billion in tax receipts in the next three years.

The Texas State Bar Association has opened a professional standards investigation into Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to determine if Paxton’s attempts to undermine the 2020 presidential election amount to professional misconduct, the Associated Press reports.

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Paxton, an ardent Donald Trump supporter, attempted to file a number of lawsuits against other administrations of four other states seeking to disenfranchise the voters to turn the election to Trump’s favor.  The cases were turned away by the Supreme Court.

Democratic activists filed a complaint with the state bar, asserting that Paxton’s action constituted a break of professional standards.  Although the bar initially denied the complaint, the bar’s Board of Disciplinary Appeals, which hears cases from clients and allied parties against lawyers, has decided to overturn the earlier decision and will open a case.

“Jurassic World: Dominion is coming this summer, but fans who want an early look can catch an extended 5-minute preview before IMAX screenings of F9. Jurassic World: Dominion star Sam Neil let slip a bit early on social media, but Universal Pictures and Amblin confirmed that fans who want a look at the next Jurassic World feature will want to head to an IMAX theater for F9 to do so. The company also released a new poster to go along with the news” – IGN.

Republican Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon announced that he will use $12 million in excess coronavirus federal relief money to fund oil and gas projects through the Energy Rebound Program, the Associated Press reports.

The Energy Rebound Program was set up in November to help oil and gas companies impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.  The program has a cap of $500,000 per company applying for aid.  The Wyoming Business Council estimated that the last round of program projects will receive more than $150 million in oil and natural gas in 2021.

Four weeks ago, Gordon announced that he was eliminating unemployment payments to individuals who lost their jobs or contractors who lost work due to the pandemic.  The state still has about $53 million in unallocated federal relief monies it has yet to spend.

In a surprising ascertion, the inspector general of the Interior Department declared that the US Park Police did not clear the area in Lafayette Square around St. John’s Church during BLM protests on June 1, 2020 specifically to allow Donald Trump to get a photo opportunity holding a Bible in front of the church.

According to a statement from Mark Lee Greenblatt, Interior’s Inspector General, said that US Park Police had intended to clear the area prior to Trump’s entourage marching over there.  The Park Police had to clear the square to facilitate the construction of an outer perimeter fence.

“The evidence we reviewed showed that the USPP cleared the park to allow a contractor to safely install antiscale fencing in response to destruction of Federal property and injury to officers that occurred on May 30 and May 31,” the statement reads.  “Moreover, the evidence established that relevant USPP officials had made those decisions and had begun implementing the operational plan several hours before they knew of a potential Presidential visit to the park, which occurred later that day. As such, we determined that the evidence did not support a finding that the USPP cleared the park on June 1, 2020, so that then President Trump could enter the park.”

According to the Wall Street Journal, the developers of the Keystone XL have abandoned plans to object to the federal removal of permits by the Biden Administration and will scuttle the project, giving environmental activists a major victory.

Canada’s TC Energy Corp. and the Alberta provincial government said on Wednesday that it would no longer pursue the plan to ship Canadian crude oil through the United States to processing facilities in the United States.  

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden fulfilled a campaign promise and revoked federal permits that would have allowed the XL pipeline project to cross over to American territory.  It was the final straw in a decades-long battle for TC Energy, formerly known as TransCanada, to build a third pipeline to the United States, which provides significant tax breaks unavailable at Canadian processing facilities.

Charlotte Observer: “County commissioners in North Carolina wanted to send a message to Coke by removing its vending machines from county property after the CEO spoke out against changes to Georgia’s voting laws. But the machines didn’t belong to the Atlanta-based beverage giant.”

“The 12 Coke vending machines on Surry County property were owned and operated by Coca-Cola Consolidated, an independent bottling company headquartered in Charlotte. Commissioners voted Monday to rescind the previous vote after company representatives pointed out the error during a public forum in which several residents also voiced their objections.”

“Alison Patient, vice president of government affairs at Coca-Cola Consolidated, told board members one of its 15 facilities in North Carolina is located in Surry County. ‘I’m here tonight because the commission has made a decision that directly impacts our business and the livelihood of the 37 employees and their families that work here in Surry County,’ she said. ‘We’re respectfully asking that you reconsider your actions.’ Patient also clarified Coca-Cola Consolidated is ‘completely separate’ from The Coca-Cola Co. in Atlanta and has ‘absolutely no control over their opinions or statements about any issue’… West Caudle from Elkin said commissioners passed the vending machine ban against Coca-Cola Consolidated and ‘didn’t have a clue about what they did.’ He said he also heard commissioners talk about not wanting companies like Amazon to come to the county. ‘Quite frankly, if you sit on the Board of Commissioners for Surry County and you would refuse any company to bring economic development to our county, you are a moron,’ Caudle said.”

In a continuing crackdown on groups opposing the rule of Russian president Vladimir Putin, a Russian court has banned all groups formed by jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, a man who was poisoned by a Soviet-era chemical weapon, the Associated Press reports.

The Moscow City Court ruled no member of Foundation for Fighting Corruption, a group founded by Navalny, can seek public office in local or federal government in Russia.  Allies of Navalny had planned to run for parliamentary offices in elections scheduled for September.

The move continues a campaign by Putin, oftentimes done through Putin-appointed judges, to shut out any political opportunity for Putin’s opponents to gain traction in political races.  Earlier this year, a different court banned membership in a group called Open Russia, prompting its members to disperse and its leader to flee to Warsaw out of concern for his safety.

Finally we get to see what the cock knob former Trump White House counsel fought so hard for over two years to hide from House Democrats. Read the transcript document here.

“With most (though not all) of the votes counted in last night’s Democratic gubernatorial primary in Virginia, turnout was more than 480,000. That’s higher than the Democratic gubernatorial primary of 2009 (319,168), but lower than the Democratic primary of 2017 (542,858). But that Democratic turnout yesterday even got close to what it was in the first year of Trump’s presidency is something party strategists are touting. We didn’t see that coming in what was a relatively sleepy primary that was short on attacks and crazy twists and turns” – NBC News.

“The Trump administration battled with CNN for half a year to obtain the email records of a reporter and insisted it all take place under an extraordinary order of secrecy, CNN’s lead attorney revealed on Wednesday. The pursuit – which started in July 2020 under then-Attorney General William Barr with a demand for two months’ of CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr’s 2017 email logs – continued even after a federal judge told the Justice Department its argument for access to Starr’s internal emails was ‘speculative’ and ‘unanchored in any facts.’ The Trump administration’s secret pursuit represents a highly unusual and unrelenting push for journalists’ records.”

“It included putting CNN general counsel David Vigilante under a gag order prohibiting him from sharing any details about the government’s efforts with anyone beyond the network’s president, top attorneys at CNN’s corporate parent and attorneys at an outside law firm. Had Vigilante violated that order, he would have risked being held in contempt of court or potentially faced a felony prosecution for obstruction of justice. It’s not uncommon for a media organization to receive a subpoena from the Justice Department for reporter records and to negotiate protections for its journalists. What stands apart is the total secrecy that surrounded the order, the months-long court proceeding and the Trump administration’s unwillingness to negotiate. This spring, the Justice Department notified reporters at CNN, The Washington Post and The New York Times that records had been seized in different investigations. This was the first public acknowledgement of the Trump administration’s attempts to obtain journalists’ communications without their knowledge. The CNN court battle appears to be the most protracted of the efforts and resulted in the network agreeing to turn over a limited set of email logs after reaching a deal with the Justice Department just days into the Biden administration” – CNN.

Washington Post: “The Biden administration is buying 500 million doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine to donate to the world, as the United States dramatically increases its efforts to help vaccinate the global population, according to three people familiar with the plans. President Biden is slated to announce the plan at the G-7 meeting in Britain this week amid growing calls for the United States and other rich countries to play a more substantial role in boosting the global supply of vaccines. Biden told reporters Wednesday as he boarded Air Force One to Europe he would be announcing his global vaccine strategy. The White House declined to comment and Pfizer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”

“On Wednesday, Texas Democrats announced the launch of Project Texas, an organizing effort 17 months ahead of 2022 that will attempt to register as many likely Democratic voters as possible. Democrats believe that of the roughly 3 million unregistered voters in the state, more than 2 million would vote Democratic if given the chance to go to the polls. That number would far exceed the 2020 presidential margin in Texas that saw Donald Trump defeat Joe Biden by 631,221 votes, or saw Ted Cruz re-elected in 2018 by 214,921 votes.”

“In a press conference touting the launch of Project Texas and the recent legislative wins by statehouse Democrats, Texas Democrats Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said Texas is where Georgia was in 2016. That year, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by a five-point margin in Georgia that would eventually close in favor of Democrats by the next presidential election cycle. Hinojosa said gerrymandering has made victories in the state more difficult, but Democrats are still close to winning. ‘In 2008 or nine years ago, the Republicans controlled almost every large county in the state of Texas except Travis County and Dallas County,’ Hinojosa said. ‘Today, Democrats control counties where 75 percent of people in the state of Texas live. We’re almost there, but we got some more work to do.’ Registering mass amounts of voters in Texas, a large and growing state that until recently had weak voter turnout, has always been a top priority for both parties” – Texas Signal.

A small bakery in Lufkin, Texas posted a photo on social media featuring it rainbow-themed cookies along with the message, “More LOVE. Less hate. Happy Pride to all our LGBTQ friends! All lovers of cookies and happiness are welcome here.”

According to the Washington Post, the shop, called Confections, lost dozens of followers on their Facebook page.  Under the photo, various people expressed their outrage that a bakery should take a political stand on the LGBTQ issue, declaring that the rainbow cookies prompted them to stop patronizing the business.  One customer called to cancel her order of five dozen cookies.

“She mentioned that we had gay propaganda on our Facebook page, and she was not going to support our business as a result of that,” said Felicia Tetu, 43, one of three co-owners of the bakery. “I was just dumbfounded. I couldn’t imagine somebody hating a group of people that much.”

AP: “A former federal judge was formally appointed Wednesday to ensure attorney-client privilege is protected in the examination of multiple electronic devices seized from Rudy Giuliani. U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken in Manhattan appointed Barbara Jones as ‘special master’ after the late-April raids on ex-President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney. She’s already familiar with the job, having done the same thing three years ago after FBI raids on Michael Cohen, another one of Trump’s former personal attorneys. Cohen eventually pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws and other charges. He spent about a year of a three-year prison sentence behind bars before the spread of the coronavirus in the nation’s prisons led to his release to home detention. Investigators are probing Giuliani’s interactions with Ukrainian figures to see if he violated a law governing lobbying on behalf of foreign countries or entities.”

“Sen. Cornyn says bipartisan background check talks have ended between he and Sen. Chris Murphy of CT. ‘Unfortunately we’ve been unable to find an agreed upon outcome, so basically, he suggested to me that there wasn’t any real reason to continue talking right now'” CNN reports.

“Multiple people were ejected from the Miami Marlins game Tuesday night after they hung signs supporting the Proud Boys and Donald Trump. Multiple photos showed the massive signs reading ‘Trump Won – Take Back America’ and ‘Proud Boys Did Nothing Wrong – Free All Political Prisoners 1/6/21’ unfurled at the game as the Marlins played the Colorado Rockies at loanDepot Park. A spokesperson for the team confirmed at least five people were ejected from the stadium after the signs violated the ballpark’s rules on banner size and messaging” NBC6 reports.

This is the second incident in as many days of Trump fanboys being ejected from a Marlins game for hanging oversize MAGA banners from the stands. On Monday, some jerkoffs were kicked out of Fenway for hanging a “Trump won” banner during Miami’s away game against the Boston Red Sox. Whether these petty acts of rebellion are some form of retaliation against Major League Baseball for relocating the 2021 All Star Game from Atlanta to Colorado in response to Georgia’s voter suppression laws remains to be seen, but it’s not really a boycott if they’re still buying tickets.