Following the unexplained rejection of attempts to redraw the state’s congressional maps to be more favorable to Dems by the state Supreme Court, a coalition of Wisconsin Dems are trying again, this time looking to make their way up through lower courts to flip two seats blue, the AP reports.

“Anti‐competitive gerrymanders are every bit as antithetical to democracy, and to law, as partisan gerrymanders and racial gerrymanders,” the lawsuit from the Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy argues, adding “This is because electoral competition is as vital to democracy as partisan fairness” as the average margin in each House race is more than 30 percent.

“I knew and dealt with former President Jair Bolsonaro, and respected him greatly, as did most other Leaders of Countries. The way that Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a Highly Respected Leader throughout the World during his Term, including by the United States, is an international disgrace. This Trial should not be taking place. It is a Witch Hunt that should end IMMEDIATELY! Due in part to Brazil’s insidious attacks on Free Elections, and the fundamental Free Speech Rights of Americans (as lately illustrated by the Brazilian Supreme Court, which has issued hundreds of SECRET and UNLAWFUL Censorship Orders to US Social Media platforms, threatening them with Millions of Dollars in Fines and Eviction from the Brazilian Social Media market), starting on August 1, 2025, we will charge Brazil a Tariff of 50 percent on any and all Brazilian products sent into the United States, separate from all Sectoral Tariffs. Goods transshipped to evade this 50 percent Tariff will be subject to that higher Tariff. In addition, we have had years to discuss our Trading Relationship with Brazil, and have concluded that we must move away from the longstanding, and very unfair trade relationship engendered by Brazil’s Tariff, and Non-Tariff, Policies and Trade Barriers. Our relationship has been, unfortunately, far from Reciprocal,” and blah blah blah writes convicted felon president Trump in a letter to Brazilian President Luiz Lula.

Why isn’t every leader in Texas connecting the dots here? The Austin Fire Chief was there because of DEI and failed to deploy resources because he didn’t understand the word “reimbursement” https://t.co/jaSeRtM9LP

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 9, 2025

THERE’s the DEI angle for the Texas flood disaster. Whew. Looked a little dicey there for a bit. Oh and the Democrats are being disrespectful of the dead victims by questioning what could’ve been done to prevent this horrible tragedy. That’s small-face’s other angle.

House and Senate Dems on Wednesday introduced another bill for John Thune and Mike Johnson’s shredder, titled the “BEACON Act” aimed at amending “the Inspector General Act of 1978 to establish an Office of Inspector General in the Executive Office of the President, and for other purposes,” with BEACON for “Bringing Executive Accountability, Clarity, and Oversight Now Act.”

Like so much in our dark and stupid political era, the old “This time is different” trope has been played to death and watered down to the point of meaninglessness, especially when it comes to the immutable constant of the MAGA cult’s unquestioning loyalty to their Orange God Emperor. That he could literally fucking imprison their foreign-born spouses and ruin their livelihoods on a whim and still they would never lose faith in his divinity says enough. And yet… this time really is kind of different. The latest Jeffrey Epstein coverup isn’t the Iran strikes where the MAGA base was split sort of evenly between the “FUCK YEAH! PROTECT ISRAEL!” and the “NO MORE WARS EVER” sides and it was smoothed over quickly by the limited nature of the campaign, allowing them to move on to the next outrage cycle. This time it’s Trump fanboys angrily despondent over the failure to release everything the government has on Jeffrey Epstein versus the Trump fanboys not saying anything, wishing it would go away – plus Trump himself. Even if it’s extremely unlikely this time will end differently, the unease is extraordinarily palpable in these posts. Unless otherwise noted, all these comments were on stories specifically about Trump snapping at the Epstein question:

“You campaigned on releasing the List. Bondi announced she had it on her desk. Loudly condemning those that question why that promise is being broken only leads to unhealthy speculation on who might be on the list” – Top Comment on WeLoveTrump Report’s article. Wonder how long it took for him to write that comment and whether it was the product of agonized internal deliberation on how best to voice the apprehension evident in the “unhealthy speculation on who might be on the list” part. Like he couldn’t bring himself to post the Occam’s Razor explanation for why Trump was so triggered by the question but had to at least hint at it. Honestly, and from an outside perspective, it was a solid wordsmithing effort. Toes the line pretty gracefully for a MAGA shitposter.

“Yeah… That is following the dots. ‘Intel services are at the very center of the story. US and Israeli, and they’re being protected.’ I do not know how else anybody could spin this” – Top Comment on BizPacReview’s article about Tucker Carlson’s theories on the Epstein shitshow. Of course the article itself doesn’t go into the rabbit hole of Jeffy’s supposed connections to the Mossad and the CIA because that would kind of be an acknowledgement that Trump is powerless against and unwilling to expose a foreign/Deep State intel operation while Tucker himself seems alright pointing there.

“Epstein is dead, he will never molest anyone ever again, a small amount of justice has been exacted with his death. Who does it serve to keep making an issue out of this. With the Watergate like events surrounding the whole of the Biden years and this Epstein whirling dervish mudding the waters of the crimes of the Biden years seems to only be aiding the communist democrats” – The former top Comment on Blaze Media’s article. Former because it was tops as of around 2:30 PM EDT on Tuesday before it was sunk with downvotes. Kept it here for posterity and that it’s one of few here coming anywhere close to obeying the Orange Tyrant’s apparent official line on Epstein.

The One Big, Beautiful Bill promises no tax on tips or overtime.

This is a win for working-class Americans and our first responders. pic.twitter.com/eWekndTQXJ

— Rep. Jeff Crank (@RepJeffCrank) July 9, 2025

“A counterterrorism expert says that Iranian sleeper cells may be hiding ‘in plain sight,’ waiting to strike rural areas in America,” says the lede to a Fox News article and entire books could be written on that one sentence and how it serves as an epitaph of whatever subtlety there was once was to propaganda. Might as well just leave it off there so all can marvel in its glory.

Per the AP, Republican Swain County, North Carolina Sheriff Curtis Cochran tendered his resignation last week, days after he was arrested on two counts of oppression in office and one count of abusive sexual contact over two separate incidents considerably more fucked up than the statutes would imply. A June 27th Smoky Mountain News story on the charges – brought under Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians tribal law – are a red flag that the incidents were part of a pattern and just the times that Cochran, 72, got caught trying to diddle poor, young Indigenous women.

An affidavit from the first victim says she accepted a ride from Cochran after a fight with her boyfriend on the side of a road, which she regretted right away. “Curtis immediately took my left pinky and began rubbing it against his polo shirt as we were going by the sand bluff. By the time we got to Jenkins Grocery, Curtis began rubbing and squeezing my left breast with his right hand. When Curtis rubbed my left breast, he commented that my breast did not feel real and said, ‘show me.’ I did not show him my breast. I was wearing a camisole and Curtis tried to put his hand under my shirt through the neckline of my top. I would estimate his fingers went several inches into the top of my shirt. I pushed his hand away and told him that I didn’t like that,” the woman wrote.

An aide to “moderate” New York Congressworm Mike Lawler almost certainly posed as a local lefty activist to stir shit up with libs who heckled the Michael Jackson superfan at a May 4th town hall, Lohud.com has concluded after matching Lawler’s assistant district director Erin Crowley’s number to that of an apparently fictional “Jake Thomas” who infiltrated a Signal chat group prior to the event.

“Jake” posted “I can’t stand how he lies!” to the “Fight Lawler” group during the event at 6:38 pm on May 4th. “We should boo him off the stage!” It was then that, due to the vagaries of how Signal and similar apps interact with existing contacts in people’s phones, that Erin Crowley and not “Jake Thomas” appeared as the name on the phone of one of the “Fight Lawler” group members who’d had Crowley in his contacts. Then, after two of the libs were carried out for interrupting Lawler, “Jake” posted “Should we walk out en masse? Make a point we won’t tolerate his bullshit anymore.”

“Walking out of the hall would have been to their benefit. That would have been great for them. I said on the chat that I didn’t think it was a good idea,” said the group’s co-founder Ann Starer.

“Ciro Riccardi, Lawler’s director of communications, did not respond to two emails and a phone message seeking comment over the past three weeks. Crowley has not responded to three email requests for comment since first contacted on the issue May 20. She walked away from this writer on June 16 when asked about the Signal group following a meeting of Putnam County legislative committee in Carmel. She did so again on July 1, as she was escorted by a Putnam County deputy sheriff to a legislative meeting,” Lohud reporter David McKay Wilson writes about his efforts to get Crowley – also a Putnam County legislator – to answer some basic questions about the incident.

Police in Scotland and beginning to make preparations for a possible visit from convicted felon President Trump sometime this month, USA Today reports on Kilt-land’s coming misfortune.

“While official confirmation has not yet been made, it is important that we prepare in advance for what would be a significant policing operation,” said Police Scotland assistant chief Emma Bond.

Obviously he’s had a rough few days but his bedside manner leaves something to be desired. Also watch approximately zero right wing commentators and grifters going after this guy for water management and disaster preparedness like they did with Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass like they did back in January. Byron Donalds sure as shit isn’t going to say that the as many as 300-plus people who drowned had “a responsibility to elect competent leadership.”

“After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of 𝕏. When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App. I’m incredibly proud of the X team – the historic business turn around we have accomplished together has been nothing short of remarkable” and blah blah blah wrote now-former “X” CEO Linda Yaccasomething on Wednesday long after everyone forgot she existed.

Former Biden White House physician Dr Kevin O’Connor took the Fifth in his deposition with House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer’s stupid probe into the former president’s health condition on Wednesday, Politico reports on what came around now going around for Republicans.

“On the advice of his legal counsel, Dr O’Connor refused to answer questions that invaded the well-established legal privilege that protects confidential matters between physicians and their patients,” said O’Connor’s lawyer in a statement. “His assertion of his right under the Fifth Amendment to decline to answer questions, also on the advice of his lawyers, was made necessary by the unique circumstances of this deposition,” the statement continued. Per Politico the statement also made mention of “President Donald Trump’s own invocation of his Fifth Amendment right before his deposition with New York State Attorney General Letitia James, quoting Trump’s suggestion that only ‘an absolute fool’ would refuse to take the Fifth.” Nice touch on that part.

Mass deportations are great for the American economy because they’ll open up job opportunities for Americans who want to work 12 hours a day milking cows and picking strawberries, the ones who sit on their asses playing Xbox all day while collecting Medicaid checks that don’t actually exist because there’s no such thing as a Medicaid check and holy shit this is apparently the message now… Also wasn’t mass deportation only about getting rid of criminals and mentally insane people?

“The US Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education and the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS’ OCR) today notified the New England Commission of Higher Education (the Commission) that its member institution, Harvard University, is in violation of federal antidiscrimination laws and therefore may fail to meet the standards for accreditation set by the Commission. Pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order, Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education, both Departments have an obligation to promptly provide accreditors with any noncompliance findings related to member institutions.”

“The Commission’s ‘Standards for Accreditation’ state that its member institutions must adhere to ‘non-discriminatory policies and practices in recruitment, admissions, employment, evaluation, disciplinary action, and advancement.’ In light of HHS’ OCR’s finding that Harvard University is in violation of Federal civil rights law, there is strong evidence to suggest the school may no longer meet the Commission’s accreditation standards. ‘Accrediting bodies play a significant role in preserving academic integrity and a campus culture conducive to truth-seeking and learning. Part of that is ensuring students are safe on campus and abiding by federal laws that guarantee educational opportunities to all students,’ said US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon,” says the US Department of Education in a statement and yeah they want to turn Harvard into DeVry, lol.

Last week the Trump Administration provided to CNN a list of four Jewish organizations that the Reich claimed were supportive of Paul Ingrassia, the Holocaust-denying MAGA influencer now nominated to lead the Office of Special Counsel, and in a follow-up all four of them denied having made such statements, three of which had never even heard of Ingrassia before being asked.

The first, the Zionist Organization of America, had never heard of him and declined to endorse. The second, the US Holocaust Memorial Council — which the regime had referred to as “The Holocaust Council” — told CNN it is a nonpartisan group that does not take positions on political nominees. The third, the Israeli Defense and Security Forum also said they had never expressed support for Ingrassia. The fourth group, the Israel Heritage Foundation, at first told CNN the same. Then several days later the group’s president said they were in fact supporting Ingrassia, lol.

“This ‘war’ is yet another psyop to distract Americans from celebrating Columbus Day,” Ingrassia tweeted on October 8, 2023, a day after the Hamas attack that killed over 1,200 Israelis, but let’s hear more about Zohran Mamdani being the tip of the spear of antisemitism in the Democratic Party.

Crypto douche “Winning Team Publishing” co-founder and Trump White House Director of Personnel Sergio Gor on Wednesday admitted, through his lawyer, to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project that he was not born in Malta as he had previously claimed but in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, then part of the Soviet Union, and his real name is Sergei Gorokhovsky.

No big deal that the guy in charge of conducting background checks on people hired for the most important and sensitive jobs in the United States of America lied about his own background. This kind of shit happens all the time when Team Orange is running the show.

If Harvard won’t defend the interests of its students, then we will.

We tried to do things the easy way with Harvard. Now, through their refusal to cooperate, we have to do things the hard way. Harvard, like other universities, has allowed foreign students to abuse their visa… pic.twitter.com/mbWDnaADM4

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 9, 2025

Iranian-backed Yemeni militia the Houthis are still attacking vessels in the Red Sea despite convicted felon President Trump’s declaration of victory over them a few months ago, with the AP reporting at least three crew members of the Greek-owned Eternity C are dead and several more are missing after a bombardment. The attack followed the Sunday sinking of the bulk carrier Magic Seas.