“NOAA’s outlook for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, which goes from June 1 to November 30, predicts a 30 percent chance of a near-normal season, a 60 percent chance of an above-normal season, and a 10 percent chance of a below-normal season. The agency is forecasting a range of 13 to 19 total named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher). Of those, 6-10 are forecast to become hurricanes (winds 74 mph or higher), including 3-5 major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5; with winds of 111 mph or higher). NOAA has a 70 percent confidence in these ranges,” says an NOAA bulletin.

“‘NOAA and the National Weather Service are using the most advanced weather models and cutting-edge hurricane tracking systems to provide Americans with real-time storm forecasts and warnings,’ said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick,” and oh fuck. Forgot NOAA and the NWS were part of the Commerce Department and that goddamned greasy shmutsik is in charge. Ughhhh. Fucking Nutlick.

Continued: “‘With these models and forecasting tools, we have never been more prepared for hurricane season. As we witnessed last year with significant inland flooding from hurricanes Helene and Debby, the impacts of hurricanes can reach far beyond coastal communities,’ said Acting NOAA Administrator Laura Grimm. ‘NOAA is critical for the delivery of early and accurate forecasts and warnings, and provides the scientific expertise needed to save lives and property.'”

Maybe it’s the “property” part of that, as in Miami Beach condos Nutlick and his fellow Wall Street chodes own, will get him to take this kind of shit seriously. Then again they’re rich and an insurance payout so they can walk away from the wreckage of properties they couldn’t sell would be just fine.

Still stuck in a hellish Louisiana gulag, Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil was permitted to hold his 1 month-old infant son inside the facility on Thursday, the AP reports. Their first meeting after a federal judge ordered him to be permitted the contact rather than separated by plexiglass, which was ICE’s preferred medium because, they claimed “granting Khalil this relief of family visitation would effectively grant him a privilege that no other detainee receives,” the Trump regime DOJ lawyers wrote in a court filing Wednesday. “Allowing [wife] Dr [Noor] Abdalla and a newborn to attend a legal meeting would turn a legal visitation into a family one.” Great argument, assholes.

An ICE stormtrooper wrote an affidavit saying it’d be “unsafe to allow Mr Khalil’s wife and newborn child into a secured part of the facility,” which sure sounded like an admission that if it isn’t safe for a grown woman then it wouldn’t be safe for a grown man either. Even better argument, assholes.

No, Tim Scott during this brief clip did not specifically mention the $TRUMP shitcoin his Orange Allah is using as a bribery mill and making who the fuck knows how much money off of it, nor does National Zero have even the most cursory grasp of the provisions of or the current status of this bill besides vaguely understanding it to be a bipartisan effort to deliver an ROI to crypto chode donors.

But if this is how Tim Scott is selling the bill then what the hell else does anyone need to know about it? He might as well be pitching fucking “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” books or Creflo Dollar audiotapes.

Oh my God. Guys, you know how convicted felon President Trump was going on and on about how much investment he secured for massive tech projects during his Middle East tour and the number kept changing from like $2 trillion to $5 trillion and $7 trillion? He was right that new partnerships between US tech companies and rich Arab backers would result in huge deals. It’s actually true because Axios just reported that OpenAI will build a huge new data center with UAE backing.

In the UAE. Not in Klanston, Alabama or North Cousinfingerer, West Virginia or New Auschwitz, Idaho but in the good ol UA of E. “By establishing the world’s first Stargate outside of the US in the UAE, we’re transforming a bold vision into reality,” OpenAI’s Sam Altman said in a statement. “It’s a step toward ensuring some of this era’s most important breakthroughs – safer medicines, personalized learning, and modernized energy – can emerge from more places and benefit the world.”

Axios, per usual, carries the Trump-Middle East aurocrat axis’s water, writing “For every dollar the UAE invests in Stargate UAE and the broader data center project in Abu Dhabi, UAE will invest an additional dollar in US AI infrastructure as well — including Stargate,” a sentence composed without condition or extrinsic attribution such as “Officials involved with the project say…” or “According to a factsheet issued by…” No, they just blithely print it as if it were a statement of present reality.

Now maybe one would be more likely to let that slide if, well, you know, the fucking Emiratis had simultaneously announced that they would invest the equal amount to build this or that new major AI center in Klanston or North Cousinfingerer or New Auschwitz and this were mentioned in the same article. But nah. Data center for UAE, Emirati investment and US jobs for hillbilly infidels TBD.

As convicted felon President Trump’s grave state of mental health continues to deteriorate, White House staffers have resorted to removing transcripts of his public remarks from its site, instead now directing visitors to YouTube videos of all of his public appearances, NBC News reports.

It’s pointless for two reasons. One is that they’re still paying official stenographers to bang out the transcripts and, more importantly, you can still find full texts of the stupid shit he says at resources like RollCall’s Factbase. So nice job Streisand Effecting your embarrassment, guys. Great work.

In an article headlined “Ceremony of Launching Newly-Built Destroyer Takes Place” North Korean state media site KCNA kind of buried the lede by leaving out some important details. Sure, it’s technically correct because the “Ceremony of Launching” took place, but the actual launch itself was… Well it sounds like a lot of navy officials are about to be executed. Or have been executed:

“A ceremony of launching a newly-built 5 000-tonnage destroyer took place at the Chongjin Shipyard on May 21. Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, watched the ceremony. A serious accident occurred in the course of the launch of the destroyer. Due to inexperienced command and operational carelessness in the course of the launch, the launch slide of the stern departed first and stranded as the bogie failed to move in parallel, holes made at some sections of the warship’s bottom disrupted its balance, and the bow failed to leave the slipway, leading to a serious accident.”

“After watching the whole course of the accident, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made stern assessment, saying that it was a serious accident and criminal act caused by sheer carelessness, irresponsibility and unscientific empiricism which should never occur and could not be tolerated. He seriously warned that the errors caused by the irresponsibility of the relevant officials of the Munitions Industry Department of the WPK Central Committee, the Mechanical Institute of the State Academy of Sciences, Kim Chaek University of Technology, the Central Ship Design Institute and other relevant units and the Chongjin Shipyard responsible for the accident that lowered the dignity and self-respect of our state in a moment would have to be dealt with at the plenary meeting of the Party Central Committee to be convened next month, and censured them for the fault.”

Raising the SALT deduction is a bailout for Democrat Governors—paid for by red states with low taxes. Tennesseans should not foot the bill for New York and California's mismanagement.

— Congressman John Rose (@RepJohnRose) May 21, 2025

Tough talk bro. Bet your wife that you started boning while she was still in high school was really turned on by your principled opposition to others in your party. Downright heroic.

A new Marquette Law School national survey published this week finds that, at 34 percent approve to 66 percent disapprove, convicted felon President Trump’s job approval on “Inflation/cost of living” is 32 percent in the red, the worst rating on any single issue in the poll, but far from the only negative one. In fact out of seven different issues handling plus overall job rating, just one was positive: 56 to 44 percent approve vs disapprove on “Border Security,” and one 0 percent net at 50/50 on immigration policy. Overall job approval was negative 8 percent at 46 approve to 54 percent disapprove (still too goddamned high), while on foreign policy, the economy, Russia-Ukraine war, and tariffs, the fat fuck was 14, 16, 20, and 26 percent underwater on each, respectively.

Broken down by respondents’ party affiliation, inflation is also Trump’s weakest issue among Republicans at just net 36 percent. Compare that to net 84 percent Republican approval on the border and net 74 percent overall job approval for their felon-in-chief. Republicans and indies rated inflation/costs as by far their most important single issue at 42 and 35 percent respectively, among Dems prices was a close second – 30 percent – to threats to democracy on top at 37 percent.

The Mega MAGA bill on Thursday passed the House of Representatives 215 to 214 after debating all night and voting on it just before 7AM, as if low-info voters would’ve been watching had they done it during daylight hours. The decisive vote came from Freedom Caucasians chairman Andy Harris who said “present” instead of nay, the “principled” pussy who’s only opposed enough to not vote yes.

A MAGA friend of mine’s wife lost her $70,000 job with benefits at the VA, another MAGA friend will lose his Affordable Health care coverage, another will see an increase in health care premiums from .8 percent of his federal government pension check to 9 percent, another had his work hours reduced from 40 hours to 24 hours-per-week because of Trump’s tariffs. In three short months the damage that Trump is doing to the working class is severe and life altering,” writes Villager John Elmore in a letter to the editor of Villages-News.com, headlined “My MAGA friends seem to be suffering from Trump’s policies.” The headline here was snappier than his, though both are accurate.

Despite convicted felon President Trump’s bullshit insistence that he augured “peace” between India and Pakistan after their skirmishes earlier this month there is still very much all but a state of war on the subcontinent, as Indian dictator Narendra Modi on Thursday told fans he is not at all backing down from plans to cut off as much as 80 percent of Pakistan’s water supply, Reuters reports.

“Pakistan will have to pay a heavy price for every terrorist attack … Pakistan’s army will pay it, Pakistan’s economy will pay it,” said Modi at a public event in the state of Rajasthan, which sits on the border between the two. Reuters’ article did not get into direct quotes specific to the water situation, but if there’s anything that’s going to lead to an all-out war between the two, this is it. India cannot simply starve Pakistan and expect them to simply take it on the chin.

Two employees of the Israeli embassy were the victims of a gun attack late Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum where a function was being held for young professionals in the diplomatic sphere, Jewish Insider reports, citing the event sponsor, the American Jewish Committee.

“American Jewish Committee (AJC) can confirm that we hosted an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. this evening,” AJC CEO Ted Deutch said in a statement. “We are devastated that an unspeakable act of violence took place outside the venue. At this moment, as we await more information from the police about exactly what transpired, our attention and our hearts are solely with those who were harmed and their families.”

In a reversal, drug-addicted billionaire Elon Musk’s car company will begin allowing owners of its iconically hideous electric shitbox SUV, the Cybertruck, to trade in their vehicles toward a different model Tesla after less than the original policy of a minimum one year, Business Insider reports.

And yeah, the depreciation rate is bad. Real bad. One owner of an all-wheel-drive owner told Insider he spent about $100,000 on the Cyberhunk of shit about a year ago. After putting 19,623 miles on the odometer, his trade-in estimate came in at $63,100, a roughly 37 percent depreciation. Worse still, another owner who put 8,604 miles on his $127,000 Cyberchump got a $78,200, an almost identical depreciation rate at about 38 percent despite the over 10,000 miles driven difference.

You know how sometimes you see those pics of kids in Africa wearing t-shirts saying shit like “San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl LVIII Champs”? Like maybe you’ll start seeing pics of police departments in like East Timor or Bolivia or Lesotho driving around in Cybertrucks. Or just pics of Cybertrucks with police livery painted on rusting in their department parking lots. Who knows.

Commerce Secretary Howard Nutlick Lutnick on Wednesday told the crowd at some Axios circlejerk “Building the Future” event that the website selling convicted felon President Trump’s moronic $5 million express “Gold Card” citizenships will be up this week. Lutnick was short on details but long on complete bullshit like the anticipated demand for them and how selling 1 million of them would pay off the national debt. “Everyone I meet who’s not an American is going to want to buy the card if they have the fiscal capacity,” Nutlick said, sounding every bit the glorified penny stock hustler he is.

“This is for people who can help America pay off its debt. Why wouldn’t you want a Plan B that says. God forbid something bad happens, you come to the airport in America and the person in immigration says, ‘Welcome home,'” Nutlick added and holy shit this guy’s such a freaking douche.

Sources in and around the Texas GOP and Senate Republican caucus tell NOTUS that Senator John Cornhole Cornyn and his allies are at the point where, a little over nine months to go from a primary election against Picasso-faced Attorney General Ken Paxton, really all they can do is hope convicted felon President Trump intervenes on his behalf and holy shit he is so fucked if he thinks Donald will endorse him over Paxton in the heated contest – which sources already say isn’t happening.

Some are hoping that a situation similar-ish to what happened in Georgia shakes out, where Trump was told on no uncertain terms that Marjorie Taylor Greene was going lose by double-digits to Dem Senator Jon Ossoff and thus led the ultimately successful effort, even commissioning internal polling, to talk her out of it. Texas MAGA Congressman Keith Self said fat Donald will “probably have to get involved, because we do not want to lose a safe Republican seat in the Senate,” as the last poll that went public showed 2024 Senate loser Collin Allred up by 1 percent in a general vs Pax.

Thing is that unlike Greene, Paxton’s already launched his campaign and it might be a safe bet that Trump privately greenlit it in a private conversation. And Allred’s edge is a margin of error, not freaking 12 percent or however much that Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll showed Ossoff ahead of Sporkfoot in Georgia. Also, Paxton might have some kind of kompromat on Trump (maybe).

The most magical company on Earth on Tuesday informed all 45 of their Venezuelan refugees employees on temporary protected status that they’re on a 30-day unpaid leave and will in all likelihood be fired if the Trump Regime is allowed to fully go through with revoking their status following Monday’s Supreme Court decision allowing it to move forward for now, Bloomberg reports.

Reporters had looked into it when a Venezuelan man told them he tried to clock in Tuesday morning at a Disney resort in Florida and was told to go home, getting confirmation form the company.

“As we sort out the complexities of this situation, we have placed affected employees on leave with benefits to ensure they are not in violation of the law,” Disney said in an email to Bloomberg. “We are committed to protecting the health, safety, and well-being of all our employees and their families, and our HR and legal teams assist employees who may be navigating changing immigration policies and how they could impact them or their families,” the company continued because God forbid they would announce their legal teams are going to be working around the clock to bang out work visa applications to help their people stay. At least fucking pay them for the next 30 days, you twats.

“Law enforcement officials in California and Florida today arrested 13 alleged members and associates of Armenian organized crime syndicates who are charged in five federal complaints with a series of crimes – including attempted murder, kidnapping, tens of millions of dollars’ worth of thefts of online retailer shipments, and illegal firearm possession – to expand and maintain their control in the San Fernando Valley. Among the defendants charged are Ara Artuni, 41, of Porter Ranch, who is charged with attempted murder in aid of racketeering, and a rival, Robert Amiryan, 46, of Hollywood, who is charged with kidnapping. The defendants arrested today in California are expected to make their initial appearances this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles. Vahan Harutyunyan, 50, of Hollywood, Florida, made his initial appearance earlier today in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and was ordered detained.”

“Two of the remaining defendants, Levon Arakelyan, 45, of Las Vegas, and Ivan Bojorquez, 33, of Gardena, are presently detained in state custody on unrelated matters. Law enforcement is still seeking one defendant and seized approximately $100,000 in cash, three armored vehicles, and 14 firearms during today’s operation,” says a Central District of California USAO press release.

.@POTUS NUKES NBC's @PeterAlexander for asking about a jet donated to our military when confronted about evidence of persecution in South Africa:

"What are you talking about?… that's NBC trying to get off the subject… You don't have what it takes to be a reporter." pic.twitter.com/QPesmQ2BHs

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 21, 2025