A California federal judge on Wednesday issued an injunction blocking convicted felon President Trump’s regime from laying off scores of federal workers, the Associated Press reports.

“It’s very much ready, fire, aim on most of these programs, and it has a human cost,” said US District Judge Judge Susan Illston at the hearing. “It’s a human cost that cannot be tolerated.” The American Federation of Government Employees had brought the case against the MAGA Reich.

BuT tEh RaCe 1s t1gHTiNing L1bS!!!!!111!!!1! The latest Quinnipiac University survey of likely voters in New Jersey finds Dem Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill leading MAGA 2021 gubernatorial election loser Jack Ciattarelli (headline corrects for proper pronunciation) by 50 to 44 percent ahead of the November election, though Shittarelli leads in “enthusiasm” by 91 to 86 percent among their voters.

Former Trump White House National Security Advisor John Bolton is about to be indicted by a Maryland grand jury sometime on Wednesday, the Gateway Pundit reports. Unlike former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, it seems that the evidence against Bolton is actually real – classified documents found in his possession during a recent FBI raid on his home outside of DC – and he is really kind of fucked. The case against him can be both politically motivated AND legitimate at the same time. They’re not always mutually exclusive.

Disgraced former Gov Andrew Cuomo’s campaign for mayor of New York City is looking to make prostitution a key issue, claiming that leftist Dem nominee Zohran Mamdani “would bring New York City back to the bad old days of rampant crime, decreased public safety and deteriorating quality of life,” by legalizing hookering if/when he’s elected to lead Gotham, the New York Times reports.

Mamdani has never actually even addressed prostitution as an issue in his campaign but Cuomo might as well run with it just for the laughs. He should even get into parsing how stuff like the call girl scandal that felled his gubernatorial predecessor Eliot Spitzer wasn’t like “real” prostitution because Spitzer arranged the date properly and what not while focusing on the street-level hookering.

It’s not clear if Khanna is the first ever elected Democrat to sit for stupid Benny Johnson’s show but either way this could (hopefully) get kind of heated and be worth a watch. Possibly.

“Mitt Romney’s brother filed for divorce just four months before his estranged wife plunged to her death from a California parking garage – and tried to make sure courts awarded her nothing in the split, court documents show. George Scott Romney, 81, filed the case against 64 year-old Carrie Elizabeth Romney in June, citing ‘irreconcilable differences,'” the New York Post writes in the lede to their Tuesday night article headlined “Mitt Romney’s brother tried to make sure estranged wife got nothing in divorce before her tragic end,” citing relevant court documents they obtained.

Copied that verbatim to not mince the words because holy fucking shit that is the most Arkancide-y piece of reportage since, well, back when “Arkancide” was first coined back in the 90s, right?

The BEST case scenario here is that Georgie – worth at least tens of millions just given the family’s wealth – drove his wife to suicide by leaving her completely destitute when the divorce case would have been ultimately decided. But it wasn’t decided yet and maybe she had good lawyers who would have successfully fought for a decent-enough-sized piece of him. Maybe Ronna didn’t want that gold-digging bitch to get a dime from her inheritance so she put some calls in with her old squad at the RNC. Lots of room here for imaginations to run wild given the already very bad look.

The High Court of Australia on Wednesday affirmed Home Affairs Secretary Tony Burke’s decision to ban far right sociopath Candace Owens from entering the country on the grounds that her batshittery could “incite discord in the Australian community” and allowing her to enter would be against the national interest due to her “controversial and conspiratorial views,” 9News reports.

“Australia’s national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else,” Burke said last October when he first turned down the deranged antisemite’s visa request. Owens was also ordered to pay the government’s legal costs for failing to overturn their own administrative ruling, lol.

Watch here as Jesus Dork Speaker Mike Johnson makes no effort to sell the American people on why Republicans should remain in the majority into 2027 OR listen live below to arguments before the Supreme Court as some MAGA lawyers make slightly more effort to sell the justices on why Republicans should be just handed a permanent majority through a further gutting of the Voting Rights Act that could – in the worst-case scenario – wipe out about 19 Dem seats in the South.

Texas state House Dem Gina Hinojosa on Wednesday launched her 2026 gubernatorial campaign, focusing her bid to deny Low Energy Greg a third term on his school voucher program, the Texas Tribune reports. “Our fight right now is against the billionaires and corporations who are driving up prices, closing our neighborhood schools and cheating Texans out of basic health care,” Hinojosa, a five-termer from Austin, said in her campaign launch video. “That’s who Greg Abbott works for. I’m running for governor to work for you,” and Jesus Christ fire the goddamned focus group directors who came up with that script and find someone more ahead of the curve.

“I was on active duty in the Marine Corps for several years and was honorably discharged. At no time during in my enlistment did I think that my parents were entitled to break any US laws because I was a Marine. These people have so little respect for US immigration laws that, despite all of the arrests and deportations of illegal aliens happening now, they arrogantly entered a US Military base on numerous occasions and the two Marines aided and abetted them. The bigger question is why, other than being in the custody of ICE, is it so easy for someone who isn’t even supposed to be in the country allowed access onto a US Military base? They have sentries, gates and fences for a reason. The two Marines need to be court marshaled and base security needs to be investigated and dealt with as necessary” – Top comment on the New York Post article “Father of US Marine arrested and deported by ICE after visiting pregnant daughter at military base,” posted Wednesday.

The article details how California man Esteban Rios – who was wearing his “lucky” hat and t-shirt both saying “Proud dad of a US Marine” – and wife Luisa Rodriguez were detained at the gate to Camp Pendelton by ICE agents last week when they were driving onto the base to visit their son, Steve, and pregnant daughter, Ashley, both stationed there along with Ashley’s husband. So really Esteban’s gear should’ve said “Proud dad of two US Marines.” It’s not clear if Louisa’s been deported too, but Esteban is definitely back in Mexico after 30+ years raising his family in California.

What a lame performance from this beta. Can’t even scream at Kaitlan Collins and call her a Marxist propagandist fake news shill when confronted with the reality that the Trump Regime is deliberately harming his constituents. All Montana Senator Tim Sheehy can do is stare at her silently for a few seconds and then try to change the subject back to Dems’ refusal to reopen the government over the Trump Regime deliberately harming his constituents by removing ACA subsidies. RINO.

Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki on Wednesday reasserted its power to command media attention with a new eruption that spewed an ash cloud over 6 miles into the sky, Reuters reports just like the towering behemoth would have wanted if it possessed sentience and motive.

Even lacking deliberate agency, Lewotobi Laki-laki’s pattern of recent eruptive activity demonstrates a mastery of the attention economy that most human political and economic actors could only dream of: First make a big splash with a few deadly eruptions in November 2024 and in July 2025, step back from the spotlight for a bit, and then resurge into the headlines with a flashy display of a towering ash column. The sporadic pattern to the eruptions is key here – erupt all day, every day for months or years and you risk fading into the noise of the day-to-day news cycle in a vast country of 200+ million people and a turbulent political culture. Staying dormant has a similar effect since there are only so many “looming threat” pieces geologists can print before people get bored and tune out.

But doing it suddenly and randomly on-and-off AND with varying eruptive intensity? Inspired.

A 59 year-old Mississippi prison inmate convicted of the 1993 rape and murder of a 20 year-old community college student has a busy day ahead of him, filled with meetings with his lawyer, clergy, prison staff, and pigging out on the meal of his choice before getting strapped to a gurney to help test out if the state’s choice of lethal injection chemicals works, the Associated Press reports.

Lawyer Krissy Nobile says other death row inmates at Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman consider Charles Crawford to be a real condemned’s condemned, always helping them out with their mental health struggles and advocating for them to prison staff, so in a way Crawford’s Wednesday night trip to the chamber is just one more instance of him taking one for the team.

Crawford will be the third inmate nationally to take one for the team this week as on Tuesday Samuel Lee Smithers and Lance Shockley were put to death in Florida and Missouri, respectively.

This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia. I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence. pic.twitter.com/kV57Wq7BLG

— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 14, 2025

The Vice President of the United States took a bold morally relativistic stand on Tuesday, making clear his refusal to “join the pearl clutching” over Young Republicans leaders joking about sending people to gas chambers for not voting they way they wanted in chair elections and trying to refocus Americans on texts sent by Democratic Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones.

Massachusetts Dem Congressman Seth Moulton on Wednesday announced he’s challenging nearly 80 year-old Senator Ed Markey in next year’s primary, with the 46 year-old moderate Marine combat veteran arguing for generational change in the party which he says in a launch video was stuck in the “status quo” and “isn’t fighting hard enough” against MAGA the Associated Press reports.

“We’re in crisis, and with everything we learned last election, I just don’t believe Senator Markey should be running for another six-year term at 80 years old,” Moulton said. “Even more, I don’t think someone who’s been in Congress for half a century is the right person to meet this moment and win the future. The next generation will keep paying the cost if we don’t change course. This isn’t a fight we can put off for another six years. The future we all believe in is on the line,” he continued.

At least 58 Pakistani soldiers are dead after multiple skirmishes along the border between Islamabad and the Afghan Taliban’s fighters have brought the two countries to the brink of war, CNN reports.

MAGA insurrectionist Zachary Alam, convicted in federal court last year on eight felonies and three misdemeanors for attacking cops during the January 6th, 2021 Capitol riot – but then pardoned and released just weeks into his eight year bid when convicted felon President Trump returned to power on January 20th of this year – is going back soon after a Virginia jury found him guilty of breaking-entering and grand larceny over a May 8th incident, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.

The dipshit broke into a Henrico County home on May 8th while the homeowner, Davon Smith, was in the shower. Smith heard someone “rifling” through the guest room. When Smith confronted him, Alam claimed he was with Xfinity sent to fix the wifi, then changed his story and said he was looking for his Airbnb rental. Doorbell camera footage captured Smith ejecting Alam from the house through the front door. Prosecutors said Alam had stolen electronics and jewelry during the break-in and, this detail is somewhat confusing, he returned to the home later to retrieve some of those items.

Alam faces up to 40 years in the joint when he’s sentenced, 20 max on each count. While that’s no joke and the crime was indeed “serious,” the scare quotes are there as that’s mostly in the legal, technical sense. It is not very serious compared to an actual violent crime or, to put it bluntly, there is no Laken Riley in this situation and that’s why Alam’s case flew mostly under the media’s radar.

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement represents. Those involved must immediately resign from… pic.twitter.com/SM12D8kMXb

— Young Republicans (@yrnational) October 14, 2025

Mormon former Utah state Supreme Court Justice Dallin H Oaks was chosen to succeed the recently embalmed Russell M Nelson to lead the Mormon Church on Tuesday, the AP reports to the surprise of however many who thought the Latter Day Saints might mix it up this time and pick a Catholic bishop or even a top Orthodox rabbi to take the helm for the church’s 17 million faithful.

The Mormon Church was founded in the 1820s and has produced important cultural touchstones like the hit TLC reality series Sister Wives, the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite, and Mitt Romney.