Now that they’re in power again, Republicans have resumed their harassment of Google over Gmail’s spam blockers filtering out their bullshit fundraising blasts, this time through the FTC, Axios reports.

“I write due to recent reporting that suggests Alphabet’s administration of Gmail is designed to have partisan effects, and accordingly to notify you that Alphabet may be engaging in unfair or deceptive acts or practices,” Trump FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson wrote in a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, adding “I write to inform you of your obligations under the FTC Act… Any act or practice inconsistent with these obligations could lead to an FTC investigation and potential enforcement action.”

Republican Surry County, North Carolina Board of Elections Chair James Yokely submitted his resignation on Tuesday, a few weeks after a bizarre incident described in an August 8th Wilmington Police Department statement posted on Facebook: “On August 8, 2025, while on patrol, a Wilmington Police Officer was flagged down by James Yokeley at the Sheetz gas station at 2517 Shipyard Blvd. Mr Yokeley informed the officer that his two juvenile granddaughters had found two hard objects in the ice cream they had recently purchased at the Dairy Queen located at 5901 Oleander Dr. Medical personnel checked the two juveniles. It was determined that they had not ingested any of the substances. The two pills were collected, and preliminary field tests conducted indicated that the pills were illegal narcotics. Those pills have since been sent to the State lab for further conclusive testing. WPD detectives were notified and opened an investigation.”

“During the investigation, it was determined by video footage that Yokeley had been the one who placed the two pills into both victims’ ice cream. Mr James Edwin Yokeley Jr, age 66, has been charged with contaminating food or drink with a controlled substance and felony child abuse. He was transported to the New Hanover County Detention Center and posted a $100,000 secured bond. This is still an ongoing investigation,” the post continued and extra LOL at the part where he was on video trying to frame the Dairy Queen for who the hell knows what reason or objective.

For his part in his resignation letter Yokely wrote he remains “prayerfully confident that I will be exonerated of all accusations levied against me,” so no explanation on motive or the point of it will be forthcoming. Also curious about where a 66 year-old MAGA gets coke and ecstasy.

“I am extremely alarmed at the firing of the CDC director… I see no basis for her firing. It is highly significant that her removal led to the immediate resignation of four other top officials who have served at the CDC for decades in some cases” said Maine Senator Susan Collins on Thursday.

Haha! Great one Jaydee! “If Donald Trump came out tomorrow and said he really likes puppies, you would have AOC come out and say puppies are terrible”! Classic! The crowd there loved it!

Luckily he didn’t say “If Donald Trump cured cancer…” because AOC would say “Actually you and Bobby Brainworms defunded research that could’ve cured cancer,” and the joke would’ve fallen flatter than it did out here in the real world, where pretending Dems like crime is a pretty weak play.

You will not be surprised to learn that psychopathic “Libertarian” Argentina President Javier Milei, whose whole chainsaw act rocketed him into office in 2023, turns out to be just as corrupt as the system he said he was destroying as his sister and other allies have been implicated in a bribery scheme to loot the country’s disability benefits program, the Associated Press reports.

“This week’s operation is nothing more than another in the long list of schemes by the ‘caste,'” said Milei on Thursday, using his version of the “Deep State,” which the AP says is his preferred term for Argentina’s left-leaning Peronist opposition that has dominated politics for decades. So yeah, Deep State. “Like all previous schemes, it’s another lie,” the douchey Trump wannabe continued.

Sales of Ketamine Brain’s cars dropped for the seventh month in a row in July in Europe, down 40 percent from January and leaving Tedla with just 1 percent of the market share, Gizmodo reports.

“Eating a daily serving of about one handful of walnuts (40 grams or about 1.5 ounces) with dinner may help improve measures of overall sleep quality and reduce daytime sleepiness in healthy young adults, according to a new randomized controlled trial published in Food and Function. Researchers from the University of Barcelona aimed to study the potential impact that daily walnut consumption could have on specified urine biomarkers (6-SMT, a biproduct of melatonin), sleep quality parameters (sleep latency, wake after sleep onset, awakenings, and efficiency) and daytime sleepiness,” says the California Walnut Commission in a press release on the exciting new results.

“The study evaluated the effects of consuming 40 grams of walnuts daily with dinner over an eight-week period among 76 healthy young adults ages 20-28 (85 percent female), who completed both walnut and control phases in a crossover design. Researchers found that eating walnuts boosted a key biomarker of the sleep-regulating hormone, melatonin, which was significantly increased in evening urine samples after a four-week intervention period when participants consumed walnuts, as compared to the control period. The walnut intervention also shortened the time it took participants to fall asleep by 1.3 minutes, improved overall sleep quality scores, and reduced self-reported daytime sleepiness compared to a control, nut-free period. While sleep quality scores improved, there were no significant differences in measures of circadian-related variables between the intervention and control conditions. With these findings, the researchers suggest walnut consumption could potentially be a simple, food-based approach to supporting healthy sleep.”

“*This research was funded by the California Walnut Commission,” the very lengthy press release says in italicized small print at the bottom. Big Walnut is mocking you to your faces, people.

A spokesman for Naval Station Great Lakes on Thursday said the Trump Reich DHS have ordered the commandeering of the base 35 miles north of Chicago for “limited support in the form of facilities, infrastructure, and other logistical needs to support DHS operations,” the Chicago Tribune reports.

The spokesman said it’s just a preliminary step thus far and personnel there have not been asked to support a National Guard deployment but it’s not hard to see where this is going.

Remember this when you go to the ballot box at the midterms, that these seven legitimate criminals and sex offenders who were here in the US illegally were the ones getting deported for their crimes while Democrats were protesting ICE detaining people like two wildland firefighters on the scene of major inferno in Washington state or 20 year-old Georgia nursing student Allison Bustillo Chinchilla who was held by ICE for 6 months until she begged them to simply deport her back to her native Honduras, from where her family fled violent extortionist gangbangers 12 years ago.

Yeah, that’s right. Keep this right at the forefront of you mind when you go to the ballot box and not the fact that Fox News wouldn’t even be airing this segment highlighting these scumbags at all if they were the only ones being arrested by ICE while a semi-pro soccer player from Angola whose wife is pregnant or a Pakistani-born US Army veteran and dad of two on his way were left alone.

That last guy was arrested in the middle of his citizenship interview, by the way.

“The Republican Party is doing really well. Millions of people have joined us in our quest to MAKE AMERICA, GREAT AGAIN. We won every aspect of the Presidential Election and, based on the great success we are having, are poised to WIN BIG IN THE MIDTERMS. We have raised far more money than the Democrats, and are having a great time fixing all of the Country Destroying mistakes made by the Biden Administration, and watching the USA heal and prosper. The results are incredible, a record pace!!! In that light, I am thinking of recommending a National Convention to the Republican Party, just prior to the Midterms. It has never been done before. STAY TUNED!!! DONALD J TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Thursday without so much as a hint to what the hell he actually means when he posted this shit.

What would this “National Convention” do that CPAC and all the other fan-cons don’t already? Is he trying to set the 2028 GOP ticket two years early? When will this fat fuck just stroke out?

An accident report released this week on the January 28th crash of an Air Force F-35 Lighting fighter jet reveals that the pilot spent 50 minutes on a call with manufacturer Lockheed Martin’s tech support trying to unfuck a partially stuck landing gear before their “troubleshooting” made things worse and the $200 million aircraft became uncontrollable, forcing the pilot to bail, CNN reports.

The Air Force blamed weather conditions at Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska – and yeah no shit it’d be cold – that froze the hydraulic lines that control the landing gear. Re-fully deploying the landing gear to try to retract them then only made things worse, causing the nose gear to be stuck at an angle. The pilot then called Lockheed engineers who told him to try “touch and go” landings to straighten out the wheels. Not only did that not work for the nose gear, it made things even worse, causing both the left and right main landing gears freezing up and not being able to extend fully to attempt an actual landing. The plane’s computer then engaged “automated ground-operation mode,” because it thought it was on the ground, rendering the controls useless. The pilot then pulled the eject lever, sending the craft plummeting straight down and causing a fiery explosion on its impact in an uninhabited field near the base. The pilot luckily suffered only minor injuries.

Lisa Cook, the member of the Federal Reserve Bank’s Board of Governors targeted for firing by convicted felon President Trump, filed a federal civil complaint against the fat fuck on Thursday, challenging his likely non-existent authority to can her. Curiously, as flagged by Politico’s Kyle Cheney, Cook also named chairman Jerome Powell as a defendant, though the implication of it is unclear. While there’s no standard operating procedure here since this is the first time it’s ever happened on the Federal Reserve’s board, it does track with past cases brought by other fired officials, like how Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe sued the FBI/ DOJ along with Trump.

“House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky) and Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) are investigating organized efforts, undertaken in violation of Wikipedia platform rules, to influence US public opinion on important and sensitive topics by manipulating Wikipedia articles. In a letter to Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Officer Maryana Iskander, Chairman Comer and Subcommittee Chairwoman Mace request documents and information related to actions by Wikipedia volunteer editors caught violating platform policies, as well as Iskander’s efforts to thwart intentional, organized efforts to inject bias into sensitive topics.”

“‘Multiple studies and reports have highlighted efforts to manipulate information on the Wikipedia platform for propaganda aimed at Western audiences. One recent report raised troubling questions about potentially systematic efforts to advance antisemitic and anti-Israel information in Wikipedia articles related to conflicts with the State of Israel,’ wrote the lawmakers. ‘A second investigation detailed actions by hostile nation-state actors to expose Western audiences to pro-Kremlin and anti-Western messaging by manipulating Wikipedia articles and other news outlets relied on for training AI chatbots,'” write the two southern idiots in a press release. This is the best AIPAC can get.

The Trump Reich last month awarded a $1.2 billion contract to construct a migrant detainee internment camp in the west Texas desert not to an established private prison outfit or Halliburton or Blackwater or one of those other Tom Clancy video game villains but Acquisition Logistics LLC, which the AP reports is listed as being based out of a “modest home in suburban Virginia owned by a 77 year-old retired Navy flight officer” with no experience in corrections and whose previous largest contract was worth $16 million. Oh and it doesn’t even have a functioning website.

The AP only knows those outlines of the contract for the gulag – which they report has already began interning migrants – as the Pentagon has refused to make public any of the other details per normal practice. At least one of the contractors who would otherwise have been sent RFPs filed a complaint with the GAO over the process. Joshua Schnell, a lawyer who specializes in federal contracts but isn’t involved in the complaint by Texas-based Gemini Tech Services said the obvious about Acquisition Logistics – that they’re being used as a shell for other entities – and took it further by naming private prison outfits Geo Group Inc and CoreCivic Corp as the likely real contractors.

Pointing to the likely reason for the laundering, the AP writes that the bids were only open to small businesses at least 51 percent owned by someone from a disadvantaged racial or ethnic minority and that despite the Trump Regime’s efforts to purge “DEI,” the rules are the rules when it comes to pissing away taxpayer dollars on fascism. Acquisition Logistics “receives preferential status because it’s classified as a veteran and Hispanic-owned small disadvantaged business,” per the AP.

The Everglades gulag dubbed Alligator Alcatraz will by the end of this week be holding zero detainees – if it isn’t empty already as of this morning – according to a Florida official’s email obtained by the Washington Post in which Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie wrote that “we are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days.”

Guthrie had been responding to an inquiry from a religious group seeking to provide chaplain services to detainees there. Asked by the Post whether this meant that the two-month exercise in performative cruelty was winding down as ordered by a court, heels-wearing Gov Ron DeSantis told the Post he thinks Guthrie “was just referring to they’re deporting them very quickly, and that’s a good thing. We don’t determine who goes into the facility… Who they send in or don’t send in is on their decision.” So no, Ron did not seem particularly keen on acknowledging the shutdown and dismantling of the facility – which cost Sunshine State taxpayers at least $218 million – ordered by a federal judge responding to lawsuits brought by environmental and local tribal groups.

And neither does the state Republican Party he leads, as they’re still selling these silly t-shirts or the $15 set of two White Claw can-sized koozies with the same design celebrating its opening.

“Monday’s Court Order in Utah is absolutely Unconstitutional. How did such a wonderful Republican State like Utah, which I won in every Election, end up with so many Radical Left Judges? All Citizens of Utah should be outraged at their activist Judiciary, which wants to take away our Congressional advantage, and will do everything possible to do so. This incredible State sent four great Republicans to Congress, and we want to keep it that way. The Utah GOP has to STAY UNITED, and make sure their four terrific Republican Congressmen stay right where they are!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Wednesday. It’s not like he ever really pretended that all’s fair in this cold civil war he escalated in 2016 so much as instead pretended that he and his party were so overwhelmingly popular that they could overcome occasional bad breaks like this.

In the August edition of their Monthly national survey, Quinnipiac University’s polling institute writes they “asked whether their sympathies lie more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians based on what they know about the situation in the Middle East. Thirty-seven percent of voters say the Palestinians, while 36 percent say the Israelis, and 27 percent did not offer an opinion. This is an all-time high for the Palestinians and an all-time low for the Israelis since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking this question of registered voters in December 2001.” Big ouchie for Bibi.

Ouchie for his fat slob friend too as the survey found President Trump’s approval at 37 percent.

You will not be shocked to learn that now-deceased Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman was MAGA, Patriot Takes reports, citing a video in which he urged support for extremist Texas candidate Brandon Herrera, who lost a primary bid against Congressman Tony Gonzales last year.

“A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Michigan returned a ten-count indictment against two defendants for their alleged roles in a forced labor and money laundering conspiracy that victimized individuals in Michigan, Florida, Texas, and Missouri. The two defendants, David Taylor, 53, and Michelle Brannon, 56, were arrested today in North Carolina and Florida in a nationwide takedown of their forced labor organization. The indictment alleges that Taylor and Brannon are the leaders of Kingdom of God Global Church (KOGGC), formerly Joshua Media Ministries International (JMMI).”

“Taylor refers to himself as ‘Apostle’ and to Brannon as his Executive Director. Their organization ran a call center that solicited donations for KOGGC/JMMI every day. Taylor established his first call center in Taylor, Michigan, and then operated call centers in other locations in the United States including in Florida, Texas, and Missouri. Taylor and Brannon, according to the indictment, compelled their victims to work at their call centers and to work for Taylor as his ‘armor bearers.’ Armor bearers were Taylors’s personal servants who fulfilled Taylor’s demands around the clock.”