“South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster tested positive for coronavirus on Monday and will work from home while quarantining, his office said in a statement Tuesday, as cases and hospitalizations are surging in the state. McMaster, 73, has mild symptoms with a cough and slight fatigue. He will receive a monoclonal antibody treatment Tuesday based on advice from his physician. McMaster has been quarantining since last Friday when his wife, first lady Peggy McMaster, learned she tested positive and will continue for ten days” – Forbes.

Spectrum News: “Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday approved a long-sought bill creating a system of automatic voter registration at multiple state agencies in New York. ‘The right to vote is one of, if not the most, sacred pillars of our democracy and for too long, bureaucratic red tape has made it unnecessarily difficult for New Yorkers to exercise this right,’ Cuomo said. ‘From instituting early voting to making necessary reforms to the absentee ballot process, New York has already made elections more accessible, but we are far from finished. With this new law on the books, we are taking this work a step further and not only instituting automatic voter registration, but creating a single uniform platform for registering online.’ The new law is meant to expand voter registration in the state and make it easier to do so when a person interacts with a state agency like the Department of Motor Vehicles. For example, when a person fills out an application for a driver’s license, it will be integrated with an application to register to vote.”

“Only eligible voters can register and applications sent to the state Board of Elections with the signature and consent of the applicant. Opposition to the measure in the Legislature had stemmed in part over concerns undocumented immigrants would be eligible to register to vote under the measure; lawmakers in support of the new law have pointed to safeguards in the legislation and existing law that would prevent that from happening. The changes will be phased in by state agency: The Motor Vehicle process will come online in 2023, the Department of Health, Labor and Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance in 2024. The State University of New York will come online in 2025. The measure is the latest election law change approved in recent years that are designed to make it easier to vote in New York, including a system of early voting in advance of Election Day.”

A drunk driving suspect in Corning, California took a bite out of a police dog after the dog chased the suspect, who had crashed through a gate onto private property and ran to avoid arrest, the New York Daily News reports.

The police dog, Blaze, heroically hurdled two fences in pursuit of the suspect, Jorge Bucioperez, who had led police on a chase reaching 85 m.p.h. through a residential area late Friday night.  When human officers caught up to the pair, Bucioperez was wrestling Blaze and gnawing on the dog’s leg.

Bucioperez continued to bark like a dog after he was restrained by the human officers and attempted to bite the humans, according to a press release from the police department.  He was booked on suspicion of drunk driving and for possession of methamphetamine.

New York Times: “President Trump’s longtime banker at Deutsche Bank, who arranged for the German lender to make hundreds of millions of dollars of loans to his company, is stepping down from the bank. Rosemary Vrablic, a managing director and senior banker in Deutsche Bank’s wealth management division, recently handed in her resignation, which the bank accepted, according to a bank spokesman, Daniel Hunter. ‘I’ve chosen to resign my position with the bank effective Dec. 31 and am looking forward to my retirement,’ Ms. Vrablic, 60, said in a statement.”

“The reasons for the abrupt resignation of Ms. Vrablic, as well as that of a longtime colleague, Dominic Scalzi, were not clear. Deutsche Bank in August opened an internal review into a 2013 real estate transaction between Ms. Vrablic and Mr. Scalzi and a company owned in part by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Mr. Trump and a client of Ms. Vrablic’s. Ms. Vrablic and Mr. Scalzi joined Deutsche Bank in 2006 from Bank of America. Ms. Vrablic quickly made a name for herself as one of her division’s leading rainmakers. In 2011, she landed a prominent new client: Mr. Trump, who for decades had been mostly off-limits to the mainstream banking world because of his tendency to default on loans. With her bosses’ approval, Ms. Vrablic agreed to a series of loans, totaling well over $300 million, for his newly acquired Doral golf resort in Florida, for his troubled Chicago skyscraper and for the transformation of the Old Post Office building in Washington into a luxury hotel.”

“The Justice Department is suing Walmart, alleging the company unlawfully dispensed controlled substances through its pharmacies, helping to fuel the opioid crisis in America, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The civil complaint being filed Tuesday points to the role Walmart’s pharmacies may have played in the crisis by filling opioid prescriptions and by unlawfully distributing controlled substances to the pharmacies during the height of the opioid crisis, the person said. Walmart operates more than 5,000 pharmacies in its stores around the country.”

“The person could not discuss the matter publicly before an announcement and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. The Justice Department’s lawsuit comes nearly two months after Walmart filed its own preemptive suit against the Justice Department, Attorney General William Barr and the Drug Enforcement Administration. In its lawsuit, Walmart said the Justice Department’s investigation – launched in 2016 – had identified hundreds of doctors who wrote problematic prescriptions that Walmart’s pharmacists should not have filled. But the lawsuit charged that nearly 70% of the doctors still have active registrations with the DEA” – AP.

Axios: “Scientists with the alien-searching Breakthrough Listen project are investigating a signal that may have come from Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun. If confirmed as a true sign of life, it would be wildly exciting. However, in all likelihood, the radio signal – found in 2019 – has a much more mundane origin story. Scientists with Breakthrough picked up a ‘narrow beam of radio waves’ during observations with the Australian Parkes telescope in May and April of 2019.”

“These narrow beams are of particular interest because they look like the kinds of radio waves humans send out into the universe, but that also makes it harder to parse whether a signal like this is alien or human in origin. The scientists behind the discovery haven’t been able to find an obvious explanation for the signal and are now performing follow-up observations to try to piece it together. ‘The most obvious thing for them to do is to go back and use either Parkes or another observatory with similar sensitivity and just look again,’ the SETI Institute’s Seth Shostak, who isn’t involved with the new research, told me.”

“Alex Padilla, a Los Angeles Democrat who once developed software for satellites but later rose through local and state political office to become California secretary of state, was chosen Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to serve in the U.S. Senate – an appointment that tears down a barrier for Latinos that has stood as long as California’s statehood. Padilla, a longtime Newsom ally, will become the first Latino to represent California in the Senate, succeeding another history-making politician, Sen. Kamala Harris” – LA Times.

Houston Chronicle: “Attorney General Ken Paxton tried to get the Trump administration to revoke millions in federal COVID relief funding that Harris County budgeted for expanding mail-in voting earlier this year, newly revealed records show. Paxton wrote in a May 21 letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that Harris County’s plan was an ‘abuse’ of the county’s authority and an ‘egregious’ violation of state law. The letter was obtained and published by the Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.”

“‘We respectfully ask the department to scrutinize its award of CARES Act funding to Harris County in light of the county’s stated intent to use federal funding in violation of state law, and to the extent possible, seek return of any amounts improperly spent on efforts to promote illegal mail-in voting,’ Paxton wrote. ‘Without implementing adequate protections against unlawful abuse of mail-in ballots, the Department could be cast in a position of involuntarily facilitating election fraud.’ The letter to Mnuchin illustrates the lengths Paxton went in his efforts to stop Harris and other counties from making it easier to vote by mail during the pandemic, which included suing Harris County as it tried to send mail ballots applications to all 2.4 million registered voters. The mail-ballot application push was part of the county’s $27.2 million plan to expand voting options, funded in large part through CARES Act money.”

I’m proud to be number one on Biden Vindictive government list.

Sounds like the DOJ anti-Trumpers can't wait for Biden to make DOJ the GOVERNMENT Secret Police like they were under Obama.

They want to seize my emails.

No reason

No wrongdoing

Attorney-Client privilege.?

— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) December 22, 2020

Gabriel Sterling, the elections manager for the Georgia Secretary of State, filed a challenge to a vote cast by the woman who had previously owned his house after she received and voted using an absentee ballot listing his address as her residence, WAGA Fox-5 Atlanta reports.

Sterling became suspicious after receiving a flier from a third-party candidate addressed to the previous owner of his house, Meron Fissha, and encouraging her to complete and mail in the ballot as soon as possible.  Sterling had bought the house two years previously from Fissha, who had moved to Maryland.

Using public voter records, Sterling discovered that Fissha had submitted the mail-in ballot using his address, so he filed a complaint with the Election Commission in his district.

After January 20th, two of the three branches of government will be led by Papists – President Joe Biden, and Chief Justice John Roberts – and the third will be half controlled by Papist Nancy Pelosi. Depending on the outcome of the Georgia Senate runoffs, only either Jewish Chuck Schumer or Satanist Mitch McConnell – along with Baptist Vice President Kamala Harris – will stand in the way of Shadow Emperor Pope Francis having his agents in control of the United States.

Noted expert on Papists Dan Brown was unavailable for comment as he was probably writing another shitty novel about the secret symbols on the walls of the Vatican or something.

“NEW: Michigan AG Dana Nessel says she will seek professional sanctions against Sidney Powell, Trump campaign attorneys who made “what we believe to be an intentional misrepresentation” of facts in recent election lawsuits.” — Jonathan Oosting of BridgeMichigan

A former member of the Navy’s Judge Advocate General Corps has filed a petition with the Florida Bar Association seeking the disbarment of Republican Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, citing his participation in an “act of sedition.”

Pam Keith, the defeated Democratic nominee for Congress from Florida’s 18th District, filed the petition with the Florida Bar Tuesday morning, stating that Gaetz had committed no fewer than three previous acts worthy of sanction, but his support of the disenfranchisement of voters around the country merits the most severe punishment the Bar can levy.

“But Mr. Gaetz’s latest transgression is one that truly warrants loss of the right to practice law in the State of Florida. In this latest episode, Mr. Gaetz willingly participated in an act of sedition, and an illegal and immoral effort to disenfranchise millions of American voters,” Keith explained.  “I ask that the Bar fully investigate Mr. Gaetz’s actions, whether or not they believe themselves to have authority to discipline him at this time, and that the Bar publish its findings with respect to Mr. Gatez’s [sic] actions and choices.  I maintain that no lawyer should act in furtherance of sedition or destruction of the Constitution of the United States.”

NBC News: “When the church doors open, only white people will be allowed inside. That’s the message the Asatru Folk Assembly in Murdock, Minnesota, is sending after being granted a conditional use permit to open a church there and practice its pre-Christian religion that originated in northern Europe. Despite a council vote officially approving the permit this month, residents are pushing back against the decision. Opponents have collected about 50,000 signatures on an online petition to stop the all-white church from making its home in the farming town of 280 people.”

“‘I think they thought they could fly under the radar in a small town like this, but we’d like to keep the pressure on them,’ said Peter Kennedy, a longtime Murdock resident. ‘Racism is not welcome here.’ Many locals said they support the growing population of Latinos, who have moved to the area in the past decade because of job opportunities, over the church. ‘Just because the council gave them a conditional permit does not mean that the town and people in the area surrounding will not be vigilant in watching and protecting our area,’ Jean Lesteberg, who lives in the neighboring town of De Graff, wrote on the city’s Facebook page. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Asatru Folk Assembly as a ‘neo-Volkisch hate group’ that couches ‘their bigotry in baseless claims of bloodlines grounding the superiority of one’s white identity.’ Many residents call them a white supremacist or white separatist group, but church members deny it. ‘We’re not. It’s just simply not true,’ said Allen Turnage, a folk assembly board member. ‘Just because we respect our own culture, that doesn’t mean we are denigrating someone else’s.'”

The Arizona Superior Court threw out a lawsuit filed by the state Republican Party calling for another hand-count audit of election results in Maricopa County, calling the suit “meritless” and saying the Court will decide if GOP lawyers brought the case “in bad faith,” which could lead to the state GOP paying the costs of the state agencies defending the case.

The Arizona GOP filed a lawsuit November 12th demanding a “hand count audit” of votes, insinuating that one had not been done when, in fact, such an audit had been started November 4th, the day after the election, as demanded by Arizona law, and had representatives chosen by the Democratic, Libertarian and Republican Parties participating.

As the Court states, “The hand counts verified that the machines had counted the votes flawlessly.”  [Emphasis from original.]  The Court also found that the plaintiff, the state Republican Party, filed multiple motions and lawsuits far after issues had been decided and in many cases, trying to use the Courts to remedy a situation after Election Day that should have been brought up administratively prior to the election.

THE DEMOCRATS DUMPED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF BALLOTS IN THE SWING STATES LATE IN THE EVENING. IT WAS A RIGGED ELECTION!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2020

Two men have been arrested for a Halloween night incident where they shot up an Anaheim, California strip club with an AK-47 after being ejected for refusing to wear facemasks, the Washington Post reports.

Their assault wounded three people inside the club.  The pair, Edgar Nava-Ayala, 34, and Daniel Juvenal Ocampo, 22, were arraigned Monday after being arrested last Thursday.  They each face three counts of attempted murder.  If found guilty, they could receive life sentences.  A third man, Juan Jose Acosta-Soto, 20, was charged with three felony counts of assault with an assault weapon and one felony count of shooting into an occupied building.

The three were part of a larger group who went to the Sahara Theater strip club in Anaheim on Halloween night.  After refusing staff repeated requests to put on facemasks, in compliance with local ordinances and club rules, the group was ejected from the business.

President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Connecticut education commission Miguel Cardona to be the next Secretary of Education, the first Latino to be appointed to that position, CNN reports.

A former fourth grade teacher, Cardona became the youngest principal in Connecticut in 2003, at the age of 28.  He became the state’s top education official in August 2019.  Born while is family lived in a housing project on Puerto Rico, his parents moved his family to Connecticut when he was a child.

Cardona will oversee Biden’s education policy, which includes recovering from the coronavirus pandemic to safely reopen schools around the country, as well as providing two years of community college or technical school education at no cost to students.