“Hey, you said wheel, bro.”

Ahem. The New York Post reports that Grammy-winning country singer-songwriter Brett James and two other occupants were killed when a single-engine Cirrus SR22T plane crashed in Macon County, North Carolina on Thursday afternoon. While it’s not 100 percent clear he was behind the “wheel,” the aircraft was registered to James. His credits included the headline 2006 Carrie Underwood hit for which the jokes write themselves, Taylor Swift’s “A Perfectly Good Heart,” Brantley Gilbert’s “Bottoms Up” and Rascal Flatts’ “Summer Nights,” and a shit ton of other hits that were scarcely if ever heard on terrestrial radio stations in the New York City region over the last few decades.

MAGA Louisiana Congresswoman Julia Letlow, who won an early 2021 special after her husband Congressman-elect Luke Letlow died of COVID in late 2020 before he could take office, is “seriously considering” a primary challenge to incumbent Senator Bill Cassidy, one of the very few remaining Republicans who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial, NBC News reports.

Better yet, sources say that Letlow has “received encouragement from the White House to jump into the race” against Cassidy, a physician who opposed Bobby Brainworms’s nomination to Health and Human Services Secretary until Cassidy caved to pressure from the Reich and voted yes. All the caveats about this being anonymously-sourced, that maybe it’s coming from some faction in the White House that has less clout than another that has thus far prevented the Orange God Emperor from publicly annihilating Cassidy’s future in the Senate for nearly five years now, does anyone really disbelieve that would be the outcome? That Cassidy voted with his conscience in 2021, then was forced to eat shit in 2025 on the vague hope that it would spare him from the fat fuck’s wrath, only to be destroyed thereafter anyway? Trump ain’t endorsing Susan Collins but he sure as hell also isn’t endorsing a hardcore MAGA primary challenger to run against her… Probably.

Still, Louisiana ain’t Maine and Bill Cassidy is not Susan Collins. In fact it’s easy to imagine the only reason Trump has held back on backing a challenge is that nobody had stepped up yet. Until now.

“TONE IT DOWN!” @marcthiessen slams Democrats for continuing to use inflammatory rhetoric after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. pic.twitter.com/mNLZOm5uWs

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) September 19, 2025

New York City Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s team tell Axios that the object of seven years of MAGA media obsession is running for either the Senate – or president – in 2028.

The latter option is, um, a tad ambitious for a woman who would be 39 on January 20, 2029, but the allies say that winning isn’t necessarily the point so much as “to ensure that the Democratic Party’s progressive wing is represented in the primary — just as Sanders did in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.”

Remember how that ended up working out with the Dem voter base in the general election that year? So yeah, in all likelihood that would be very stupid for the country and AOC herself. Basically free Senate seats don’t exactly just open up every cycle and this one is definitely a gimme for AOC, whether the then almost 80 year-old Chuck Schumer runs for reelection or not. Even entertaining a 2028 run – rather than securing herself a higher perch in Congress and then working toward a 2036 or 2040 bid – kind of stains AOC’s otherwise exceptional political talents with the tar of hubris.

“A new Emerson College Polling survey of California voters finds 51 percent plan to vote in favor of Proposition 50 in the November special election, which would authorize temporary changes to congressional district maps. Thirty-four percent plan to vote no, and 15 percent are undecided.”

“Support for Prop 50 is higher among those ‘very likely’ to vote in the November special election, 55 percent of whom plan to vote yes and 35 percent no,” says Emerson’s write-up of their polling.

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— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 19, 2025

“Ilhan Omar’s Country of Somalia is plagued by a lack of central Government control, persistent Poverty, Hunger, Resurgent Terrorism, Piracy, decades of Civil War, Corruption, and pervasive Violence. 70 percent of the population lives in extreme Poverty, and widespread Food Insecurity.”

“Somalia is consistently ranked among the World’s Most Corrupt Countries, including Bribery, Embezzlement, and a Dysfunctional Government. All of this, and Ilhan Omar tells us how to run America! PS Wasn’t she the one that married her brother in order to gain Citizenship??? What SCUM we have in our Country, telling us what to do, and how to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Thursday.

Not sure what to add here. “Bribery, Embezzlement, and a Dysfunctional Government” are rich coming from him – while insisting that someone from such a country is not a worthy American.

Secretary of Date Rape Defense Pete Hegseth and his minions are considering a new recruitment campaign centered around the achievements of non-military veteran Charlie Kirk, using the slogan of “Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors,” in the propaganda, NBC News reports.

Yeah, that’s the stage of, um, grief that the regime is at now. GI Charlie, an American Hero.

Asked about the campaign, Pentagon spokesman/female torture fetishist/abusive husband father Sean Parnell told NBC “The media is so desperate to attack this administration’s success that they are now inventing lies about our recruitment efforts. Leadership matters, and under the strong leadership of President Trump and Secretary Hegseth men and women are coming out in droves to serve this great nation.” Guess Sean doesn’t really like the idea… Until they roll it out.

In an interview aired Thursday convicted felon President Trump assured Fox’s Martha McCallum that the economic good times will probably kick in “in about a year or so” which we were to understand that the economy was already doing spectacularly well soooo… Yeah what a fat fucking idiot.

“The TRAPPIST-1 system offers one of the best opportunities to characterize temperate terrestrial planets beyond our own solar system. Within the TRAPPIST-1 system, planet e stands out as highly likely to sustain surface liquid water if it possesses an atmosphere. Recently, we reported the first JWST/NIRSpec PRISM transmission spectra of TRAPPIST-1 e, revealing significant stellar contamination, which varied between the four visits. Here, we assess the range of planetary atmospheres consistent with our transmission spectrum. We explore a wide range of atmospheric scenarios via a hierarchy of forward modeling and retrievals. We do not obtain strong evidence for or against an atmosphere. Our results weakly disfavor CO2-rich atmospheres for pressures corresponding to the surface of Venus and Mars and the cloud tops of Venus at 2σ.”

“We exclude H2-rich atmospheres containing CO2 and CH4 in agreement with past work but find that higher mean molecular weight, N2-rich atmospheres with trace CO2 and CH4 are permitted by the data. Both a bare rock and N2-rich atmospheric scenario provide adequate fits to the data but do not fully explain all features, which may be due to either uncorrected stellar contamination or atmospheric signals. Ongoing JWST observations of TRAPPIST-1 e, exploiting consecutive transits with TRAPPIST-1 b, will offer stronger constraints via a more effective stellar contamination correction. The present work is part of the JWST Telescope Scientist Team Guaranteed Time Observations, which is performing a Deep Reconnaissance of Exoplanet Atmospheres through Multi-instrument Spectroscopy,” says the abstract to a new paper by a team at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore working off of data from the James Webb space telescope.

And yes, TRAPPIST was named by Belgian scientists for that type of beer brewed by local monks.

Does it count as “violent rhetoric” to say “a cheeseburger should kill this fat fuck” and call on some brave cheeseburger to be the one to finally stop his heart? No? Good. Come on cheeseburger.

Convicted felon President Trump has been nagging his underlings to develop a plan to retake control of the Bagram Air Force base in central Afghanistan, abandoned after the 2021 withdrawal from the country, CNN reports. The fat bastard’s objectives in regaining control is to surveil China, whose border is under 500 miles away, gain access to rare earth elements and mining in Afghanistan, establish a counterterrorism node to target ISIS, and possibly reopen a diplomatic facility.

The US Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case against the Orange God Emperor’s stupid, unnecessary tariffs on November 5th, Axios reports on a decision that could probably go either way.

In related-ish news the fat fuck’s scumbag lawyers also petitioned the court to make a decision on whether Fed Board of Governor member Lisa Cook can be fired over that made-up mortgage shit.

Surprisingly the petition does actually make mention of that completely specious justification for her firing rather than just spit out “Trump is president and can do whatever the fuck he wants.”

Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson played ‘furry’ porn video games online: report https://t.co/pGvQCZTptF pic.twitter.com/OytWgAO69d

— New York Post (@nypost) September 18, 2025

You will not be surprised to learn that Yahoo News reports media conglomerate Nexstar – owner of The Hill, NewsNation, and dozens of local TV stations – announced Wednesday they were preempting Jimmy Kimmel’s show on their two dozen or so ABC affiliates – which then prompted the network to put him on indefinite hiatus – as they sought FCC approval of their $6.2 billion acquisition of rival outfit Tegna, formerly Gannett Media, owner/operator of 68 local stations.

Also, sur-fucking-prise, there’s no mention of this in The Hill’s coverage of the Kimmel shitshow. On Mediaite, there’s three articles that do so in passing without making the EXTREMELY freaking obvious connection. “Last month, Nexstar CEO Perry Sook praised the Trump administration after the company announced it was acquiring rival TEGNA as part of a $6.2 billion deal, which is pending approval from Carr’s FCC,” they wrote verbatim in two separate stories. Ballsy by their standards considering that, though he quit his nightly NewsNation show in February, founder Dan Abrams said he would remain involved with the network and might’ve appeared on panel segments and what not.

It also hints at what some might’ve already guessed given The Hill’s bent: That Nexstar didn’t actually need to be nudged to preempt Kimmel and did it on their own – and it’s fair to question that they might’ve just done it anyway if they weren’t awaiting approval for the merger.

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu on Thursday owned the biased fake news media by signing into law a new media regulation statute that empowers him to permanently close down outlets deemed unpatriotic or something. The AP’s article does not actually specify what the criteria are for fining journalists $1,620 and outlets up to $6,485 per violation. Probably kind of the point.

Oh and the law passed 60-0 after 33 opposition MPs were removed for protesting the bill.

The Stardust Racers rollercaoster at Universal’s new “Epic Universe” theme park, which opened in May, is so freaking awesome that a guy was literally thrilled to death on the ride, CBS News reports.

In a statement a park official “was unresponsive after riding Stardust Racers and was transported to the hospital, where the guest later died. We are devastated by this tragic event and extend our sincerest sympathies to the guest’s loved ones. We are fully cooperating with Orange County and the ongoing investigation.” It’s not clear if the official then chestbumped a coworker, slammed a Four Loko, and then crushed the can on their forehead while blasting “Down with the Sickness.”

All jokes aside, is “a dude literally died on that ride” not actually kind of a selling point to zoomers and teenagers who want to get high and then the shit knocked out of them on a coaster?

Experts and policy think tankers constantly sounding the alarm over Chinese technological development outpacing that of the US were handed another chilling data point on Thursday as another major milestone in the communist dictatorship’s rush to become the unchallenged global leader in shaping tomorrow’s world: The first-ever mid-air collision between two flying cars.

The BBC reports that two Xpeng AeroHT vehicles – which really look like oversized drones with like eight propellers arrayed out from the top and not at all like “flying cars” seen in movies like Back to The Future Part II or The Fifth Element – crashed into each other during rehearsals for an airshow in the northeastern city of Changchun. At least one of the two $300,000 octocopters burst into flames, according to footage seen on the Chicom Twitter ripoff Weibo that was probably censored later. The company told CNN the vehicle had “sustained fuselage damage and caught fire upon landing,” and other reports said one person was injured but you should trust that as far as you can throw it.

Convicted felon President Trump has been privately raging over Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu’s unceasing campaign of genocide against the population of Gaza and the botched attack on Hamas leadership inside of key graft source Qatar, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing White House officials overhearing Trump complain “He’s fucking me.”