In a chilling game of cat-and-mouse that took investigators minutes to identify a suspect and then several tens of additional minutes to extract a confession from him, a southeastern Pennsylvania volunteer firefighter was revealed to have been the mystery arsonist who set a series of small, easily contained blazes that he and his company then responded to shortly thereafter, NBC10 reports.

The shock, twist ending for the fast-paced procedural thriller came when the Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshal’s office checked the database of license plate readers in the jurisdiction of the Perseverance Fire Company in Montgomery County, about 25 miles north of Philadelphia. Cops were quickly able to piece together that 29 year-old Perseverance member Justin Sholly had driven to and/or away from the sites of the three blazes set and had driven to the station and jumped on a fire truck to help put out at least two of those three, including the climactic, 4:26 AM May 31st inferno that consumed a barn, three vehicles, a shed, an outhouse, and a gazebo in Franconia Township.

That must’ve felt like the penultimate scenes of Backdraft for Sholly when he was riding on the truck to respond, as though Kurt Russell’s grizzled Irish-American Chicago smoke-eater was sitting right across from him with a death stare, having just then pieced together Sholly’s betrayal of everything firefighters lay their lives down for. Bet Sholly even Hans Zimmer’s pensive score puncturing the truck siren’s mournful wails cadences in his head… In reality it was legitimately escalation as Sholly’s first arson in the 30-hour spree was to a pile of wood on the side of a road, and then the second to an unoccupied barn, before the stunning set piece of third that still didn’t really come close to the chemical factory fire in Backdraft. It was also probably Sholly’s ex-girlfriend’s half-brother Brian, bleary-eyed from passing out drunk two hours prior, who was staring at the floor and spilling Gatorade on his pants as they sped toward the early Sunday morning multi-structure/vehicular fire.

“In cities across America, violent crime and public disorder have surged over the past few years. Policies that have weakened and demoralized law enforcement, limited the prosecution of crimes, and de-emphasized holding criminals accountable have resulted in a climate of fear and instability for law-abiding Americans. Communities cannot thrive when their citizens do not feel safe. Recent surges of federal law enforcement in cities like Memphis, Tennessee, and Washington, DC have demonstrated the successes that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Trump Administration have had when” and blah blah blah says the Trump Regime DOJ in the “Model Cities Initiative” intro.

“To Make America Safe Again by continuing and expanding the successes seen in Memphis and Washington, DC, DOJ is seeking applications for the Model Cities Initiative (‘MCI’). A model city implements comprehensive and innovative strategies to reduce crime, restore law and order, and serve as a nationwide example. It leverages technology, data, and partnerships to address drivers of crime. This initiative will provide substantial, targeted funding to select cities to realize this vision.”

“Funding awarded through MCI will emphasize common sense policing, including prioritizing deterrence through proactive policing and increasing police activity in high crime areas. Funding will also encourage the adoption of new technologies – including drones and artificial intelligence – and modern methods to track criminal behavior and gather intelligence. Additionally, recognizing that keeping cities safe requires a whole-of-community approach, MCI will provide funding to help cities build forensic and prosecutorial capacity, support victims, reduce recidivism, and address substance use and mental health challenges tied to public safety outcomes,” the program marketing continued.

And yes, “sanctuary cities” and any city with “DEI” hiring practices shouldn’t even bother.

Guess it wouldn’t be a Trump interview if there weren’t a shit ton of lies and nonsense to a plainly kind of unsettled Miranda Devine, but damn he is not doing so great these days and it’s probably why he hasn’t been on camera live and unscripted in over a week now.

Just in time to fuck homeowners sick of paying for fossil fuel-based home heating when prices are going sky-high, convicted felon President Trump’s regime is ending a Biden-era Home Electrification and Appliances Rebate program that provides up to $14,000 in rebates per household to convert to electrical heating sources, probably because some fossil fuel lobbyists bribed them to kill it off.

Spanish Crown Princess Leonor, the 20 year-old heir to the country’s ceremonial throne and future commander-in-chief of its armed forces, completed her combat paratrooper training at the Mendez Parada Military Parachuting School at the Alcantarilla Air Base in the Murcia region this week, DPA International reports citing an announcement from the royal palace in Madrid. Leonor is currently in her third and final year of officer school at the nearby General Academy of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AGA), toiling day in and day out alongside about 50 other cadets to prepare for a career of service defending the nation against threats from terrorist warlords and vicious tyrants.

In unrelated news, Ivanka Trump this week told some podcaster that she and her husband, real-estate heir Jared Kushner, are building a massive $1.5 billion off-the-grid private island off the Albanian shoreline, bulldozing a former military site considered sensitive to local bird populations.

“It’s massive in scale,” said Ivanka, whose husband’s previous project in the Balkans, a luxury development in Serbia’s capital of Belgrade, fell apart due to angry opposition from neighbors.

Real hard-workin’ God-fearin’ salt-o-the-North Dakota plains Senator Kevin Cramer ain’t gonna opine on matters outside his humble station in life, tellin’ them high-fallutin’ narrators at the CNBC picture news service that he’s not what them city folk call a “constitutional expert” so he’s gonna keep his dang trap shut when it come to the question of President’s legal authority to send the doughboys to fight against the Persians in some myserious, far-ways desert land.

Ughhh, what a dick. On the other hand it was funny how Cramer was pretty much a flat no on whether Bill “Fannie Man” Pulte would ever be confirmed to Director of National Intelligence, which was a contrast from how his colleague Bill Hagerty glazed the short little bastard to the hosts.

Justin Murphy, winner of Tuesday’s New Jersey Republican Senate primary and incumbent Dem Cory Booker’s opponent in November, has negative $23.71 in his campaign account, according to FEC filings viewed by Politico, an impressive figure amounting to negative 0.00010491083 percent of the positive $22,600,143.69 Booker has in cash on hand and setting up a real David vs Goliath scenario when it comes to ad spending, staffing, staging campaign events, and so on.

More seriously, of course nobody realistically expects Murphy to actually win and it would be stupid for the NRSC, RNC, and other GOP institutions to make a meaningful investment in New Jersey when they’re playing defense elsewhere. That being said, as Politico points out, Murphy’s still at the top of the Republican ticket in the Garden State where there’s still red turf to be defended in the House, specifically the 7th District represented by Tom Kean Jr, who hasn’t been seen in public in three months. So they might want to try to slap something together for Murphy and make some kind of moves pretending to New Jersey MAGA voters that Murphy has a realistic shot against Booker.

Sitting for a podcast interview with scumbag New York Post reporter Miranda Devine this week, convicted felon President Trump expressed pride in having only raised gas prices by about 50 percent over the last three months, saying “Everyone said it was going to be $300, $400 a barrel, it’s 98 dollars a barrel but that’s not a big price to pay if you look at the possibility of them having a nuclear weapon,” adding “I don’t know. I mean, I think it could be [closed through Labor Day], but I think it’s unlikely. I think that we’ll have it. I think this will resolve itself fairly quickly.”

Meaning he’s pretty sure gas prices will remain elevated throughout the summer into September.

Trump-endorsed Rep. Randy Feenstra lost Iowa’s Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday night to businessman and farmer Zach Lahn.

Trump had praised Feenstra as “MAGA all the way” in a last-minute Truth Social endorsement last week, and the congressman was widely expected to win… pic.twitter.com/hG9NwAhMRN

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OMG! CBS HAS FIRED SCOTT PELLEY! LET’S ALL CALL THIS ANOTHER SEISMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE MEDIA! THIS IS HUGE! HOLY SHIT! MEDIAITE BETTER GET RIGHT ON THIS ONE!

Long story short, some douchebag that evil hag Bari Weiss hired to produce 60 Minutes wasn’t getting along with Pelley so they fired his ass for “misconduct,” Puck’s Dylan Byers reports.

Is this a good thing? No. Not at all. This is the long tail of convicted felon President Trump’s corrupt crusade against the media taking yet another decent, hardworking newsman’s scalp long after Trump’s actual political capital was burned and the ashes pissed on through all his self-destructive impulses. Does it really matter as much as some people say it will? Ehhhhhhhhhhhh…

“US forces successfully defeated multiple Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, and conducted self-defense strikes on Qeshm Island in response to attempted attacks by Iran across the Middle East, June 2. Iran launched several ballistic missiles toward regional neighbors; however, all failed to hit their intended targets. Two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait fell short or broke apart enroute, and three missiles launched at Bahrain were immediately intercepted by US and Bahrain air defenses.”

“Moments earlier, US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces shot down three one-way attack drones launched by Iran toward civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters. American forces also conducted self-defense strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm Island. No US personnel were harmed. CENTCOM forces remain vigilant and ready to defend against unwarranted Iranian aggression during the ongoing ceasefire,” wrote CENTCOM on Tuesday.

Scumbag Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles on Tuesday deleted his “Homosexuality has no place in America. Happy Nuclear Family month” tweet after some pushback from pretty much everyone.

“Illegal Immigrants and Foreign Fraudsters steal BILLIONS every year from the American Taxpayer. As part of my Administration’s Historic effort to end FRAUD and reverse MASS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, I recently signed a powerful new Executive Order, which will be led by the Treasury Department, to stop Banks, Credit Cards, and Financial Institutions from being used to facilitate Human Smuggling, Drug Trafficking, Illegal Immigration, and the Criminal Cartels who orchestrate these activities. Access to our Nation’s Financial Systems must be limited to those who have a Legal Right to be here, and who are engaged in Lawful and Legitimate Commerce. Bank Accounts being used to enable Illegal Immigration, or to store the Welfare received by Illegal Aliens, will be shut down, and funds will ultimately face Impoundment and Seizure so they can to be returned to Taxpayers. It is not ludicrous, but profoundly dangerous, that any Illegal Alien can simply present a Blue State Drivers License, or Biden Border Document, and have unrestricted access to the US Financial System. This also sends a clear message to the anti-ICE rioters that your violent disruptions are only strengthening our resolve. My Executive Order will also allow us to stop Billions in leaving our Country in all manner of criminal activity. It has been said this measure we are taking is the most effective means of reversing Biden’s Border Invasion. We shall soon find out!” posted the Orange God Emperor on Tuesday. This has great idea and smart execution written all over it.

“Fake News Reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the USA, stopped speaking a few days ago are false and erroneous. The conversations between us have been going on continuously, including four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, one day ago, and today. Where they lead, one never knows, but as I told Iran, ‘It’s time, one way or another, for you to make a Deal. You’ve been doing this for 47 years, and it cannot be allowed to go on any longer!'” posted the President of the United States on his official social media account on Tuesday, deploying his unconventional style to put on blast the media’s misreporting of the state of the talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Remember back like two or three years ago when we all said “Trump is a threat to democracy, he incited a deadly attack on the Capitol, he’s a criminal with a small dick who lasted 45 seconds with a porn star and then got convicted of 34 felonies for his embarrassing failure to cover it up indefinitely, the economy went to shit when he failed to sufficiently manage the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, you’ll regret it if he wins again” and then too many voters were like “Fuck Joe Biden and fuck you. So what? Trump is a smart businessman who’s going to turn this economy around and bring the cost of a Big Mac back to what it was in 2018. Even Joe Rogan thinks he’s great”?

Ted Cruz might do well to remember how those appeals to conscience and virtue ended up working out for the Democrats in 2024 before the next time he’s asked how Republicans will do in 2026.

Or maybe even just wait until Iran is actually defeated? How about trying that one out?

Apparently after some donor or whoever with the NRSC sufficiently bribed shitty country musician/Texas state Senator Angela Paxton out of keeping her soon-to-be-ex-husband Ken off the campaign trail this month, lawyers for the corrupt attorney general on Tuesday announced that the Paxtons “have jointly agreed that a trial setting is no longer necessary and the Court has removed the case from the trial docket. The parties have made substantial progress toward an amicable resolution of all issues and remain engaged in productive discussions. We are optimistic that a final agreement will be reached in the near future,” precluding what could’ve been ugly proceedings.

The Biggest Threat to JD Vance Is Spencer Pratt, Politico reports on the main story on their home page as of 11:55 AM on Tuesday morning. The article, which at the top of the page says “Magazine,” as in “Politico Magazine,” then argues that “Washington loves Rubio. A brash bully from outside conventional politics is the bigger potential challenge,” thereby affirming the national ascendancy of Pratt, a former MTV reality show actor who is currently running for mayor of Los Angeles.

“The reality-soap performer has emerged as a disruptive force in the race for mayor of Los Angeles, churning up the city’s inert politics with performance artistry, authentic grievance and high-tech vapor,” Politico writes of Pratt, now a force to be reckoned with for the MAGA establishment.

The rest of the article is long and boring but hey, it’s a cutting-edge Politico take.