Cueball-headed Florida MAGA Congressman Brian Mast was pretty meh when asked to comment on Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s evidence filing describing convicted felon former President Trump as being meh when informed by staff that Vice President Mike Pence’s life was in danger when the saracens were storming the castle of democracy on January 6, 2021.

“The Justice Department announced today the unsealing of a warrant authorizing the seizure of 41 internet domains used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies to commit computer fraud and abuse in the United States. As an example of the Department’s commitment to public-private operational collaboration to disrupt such adversaries’ malicious cyber activities, as set forth in the National Cybersecurity Strategy, the Department acted concurrently with a Microsoft civil action to restrain 66 internet domains used by the same actors,” says a Justice Department press release.

“According to the partially unsealed affidavit filed in support of the government’s seizure warrant, the seized domains were used by hackers belonging to, or criminal proxies working for, the ‘Callisto Group,’ an operational unit within Center 18 of the Russian Federal Security Service (the FSB), to commit violations of unauthorized access to a computer to obtain information from a department or agency of the United States, unauthorized access to a computer to obtain information from a protected computer, and causing damage to a protected computer. Callisto Group hackers used the seized domains in an ongoing and sophisticated spear-phishing campaign with the goal of gaining unauthorized access to, and steal valuable information from, the computers and email accounts of US government and other victims. In conjunction, Microsoft announced the filing of a civil action to seize 66 internet domains also used by Callisto Group actors. Microsoft Threat Intelligence tracks this group as ‘Star Blizzard’ (formerly SEABORGIUM, also known as COLDRIVER).”

A spokesperson for Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff on Thursday denied the extremely suspect story propagated in right wing media that he struck an ex-girlfriend in the fact in Cannes during a party in 2012, telling Semafor the “report is untrue,” and “any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false.” That so far no MSM sources have even addressed it – despite Megyn Kelly having a fucking meltdown over that in particular – should tell you that it’s a MAGA scam operation.

Or an unsuccessful one. For now. You never know when the New York Times is going to buy into it.

Details are sketchy and Twitter-based but this was captured this morning on the line to get in to convicted felon former President Trump’s rally in Saginaw, Michigan. It does not appear it be racially-motivated because the sides of the combatants appear to be mixed in racial makeup. Credit to the Michigan Advance’s Anna Liz Nichols for capturing this lovely scene of MAGA behavior.

At least 200 people were killed last week when Hurricane Helene struck Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and the Carolinas, with 61 of those fatalities in the Asheville, North Carolina area and 33 across the state of Georgia, ABC News reports citing a tally by the Associated Press.

Two former Trump White House officials confirm to Politico E&E News what everyone pretty much already knew about the fat fuck’s responses to hurricanes and other natural disasters. “We went as far as looking up how many votes he got in those impacted areas… to show him these are people who voted for you,” said former Senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council Mark Harvey about trying to sell Trump on approving disaster aid for California after wildfires by showing him that Orange County had more of his voters than Iowa. “There’s no empathy for the survivors. It is all about getting your photo-op, right? Disaster theater to make him look good.”

Former Homeland Security official Olivia Troye said she would often have to lean on Vice President Mike Pence to get Trump to give a shit about disaster victims and warned that it’s only going to get worse if the fat fuck wins again. “It’s not going to be about that American voter out there who isn’t even really paying attention to politics, and their house is gone, and the president of the United States is judging them for how they voted, and they didn’t even vote,” said Troye.

Third Lady Melania Trump’s book publisher tried to hustle CNN for $250,000 for an interview with the former illegal immigrant, the network reports on a back and forth between them and Skyhorse.

“Neither Melania nor anyone from her team knew anything about the NDA and the document that was sent reflected an internal miscommunication,” Skyhorse CEO Tony Lyons said in a statement for the article – after his company definitely sent CNN a “Confidentiality and Nondisclosure Agreement” with laid out strict terms for the interview and use of content from the upcoming book, and stipulating that “CNN shall pay a licensing fee of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000).”

The Third Lady on Thursday doubled down on her “pro-choice” stance in a tweet.

You will not be surprised to learn that, over a month after telling CBS he would “very gladly” releasing his medical records to the public, convicted felon former President Trump has yet to do so and when asked by the New York Times how that’s coming along, his campaign only gave a copy of a one-page letter signed last year by some fucking quack that nobody had ever heard of before.

A violent antisemi-ite remains at large after slashing the tires of at least 80 semi trucks in the parking lot of a TA travel center in Madison County, Tennessee last week, Fox News reports.

The hate crime against trucking did not leave any antisemi-tic propaganda at the scene but because no other vehicles were reported to be attacked, law enforcement have deemed this a targeted act.

Haulers using the TA Center and other nearby “truck and fuck” overnight rest stops are urged to remain vigilant against antisemi-ites on top of their usual awareness of unscrupulous meth dealers, prostitutes carrying multiple backup box cutters in their purses, and most of all, other truckers.

"I feel confident that we would not have seen the delay in response from the federal government were Donald Trump in charge."

— North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards@RepChuckEdwards @RobFinnertyUSA pic.twitter.com/SV5hPbJsMF

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) October 3, 2024

Sure looks like they’re going to make this into a thing that if they can’t rely on the affected to vote MAGA then they’re just going to try to get everyone else as pissed as possible.

“Vote for the fattest bear of the year! Some of the largest brown bears on Earth make their home at Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Brown bears get fat to survive and Fat Bear Week is an annual tournament celebrating their success in preparation for winter hibernation. Matchups are open for voting October 2 – 8 between 12 – 9 pm Eastern (9 am – 6 pm Pacific). This is a single elimination tournament. For each match-up, vote for the bear you believe best exemplifies fatness and success in brown bears. The bear with the most votes advances to the next round.”

“Only one will be crowned Fat Bear Week champion. Meet the bears, fill out your bracket, predict your fat bear winner, and campaign for your candidate,” says the page at Explore.org encouraging Americans to cast a digital ballot for their favorite – or subjectively determined fattest – bear in Alaska’s Katmai National Park after a delay forced by Bear 469’s brutal murder of Bear 402.

Convicted felon former President Trump on Thursday morning woke up and decided he might as well stir up some more falsehoods and bullshit about the response to Hurricane Helene’s deadly flooding in the Southeast, posting “Kamala and Sleepy Joe are universally being given POOR GRADES for the way that they are handling the Hurricane, especially in North Carolina. It is going down as the WORST AND MOST INCOMPETENTLY MANAGED ‘STORM,’ AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, EVER SEEN BEFORE – BUT THEIR MANAGEMENT OF THE BORDER IS WORSE!” on Truth Social.

Maybe here is where we’d bring up Hurricane Katrina as an example of a mismanaged federal response to a storm. Or maybe Hurricane Maria, where much of Puerto Rico was destroyed and Trump himself didn’t give a fuck since those people don’t vote. Or his COVID response which for some reason he gets a pass on. But we can skip past that and speculate on what his game is here.

Would Trump be lying about the response if Alabama and Mississippi had been hit instead? Who knows. We know he didn’t give a shit about the 2021 ice storm that crippled Texas. He did make a big scene over the 2023 East Palestine trainwreck in Ohio, but keep in mind that was less than a mile from the Pennsylvania border, and the chemical plume very easily could have affected Keystone staters too. This close to the election yeah he probably have still made a scene an accused President Biden of purposely holding back on a federal response if hard red states had been hit.

MAGA Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett may or may not have colored inside the lines of “acceptable” Republican antisemitism Thursday morning on Fox and Friends, calling billionaire philanthropist and Holocaust survivor “a money-changer of the worst kind” for having bought up a shit ton of radio stations. The biblical reference to the “bad Jews” whom Jesus angrily screamed at to expel them from Herod’s Temple and trashed their tables is obvious enough.

As is the non-irony of Burchett complaining about “foreign ownership” of media when George Soros is an American citizen – as is the Australian-born billionaire owner of the television network the dullard Neo-Confederate Congressman is appearing on (not to mention that MAGA’s favorite social media network is owned by another naturalized foreign-born citizen).

Spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan is once again stretching his lower abdominal muscles in anticipation of a fierce wrestling match for the top of the House GOP, the Washington Post reports.

The picture the Post paints is of a House Judiciary chair who is unsurprisingly as much of a mentally unhinged asshole to his fellow Republicans as he is to American voters, but has since been (somewhat) chastened since his humiliating defeat in the October 2023 speakership shitshow, trying to build bridges by sharing his donors’ wealth with colleagues who face actual challenges in November because they represent less-ridiculously gerrymandered districts, as well as the NRCC writ large. The most obvious chance Jordan has to move up is if the GOP loses the majority because then they’re likely to kick Mike Johnson, which in turn will create an opening in leadership.

Jordan will then have to outwit other pieces of shit Steve Scalise, Tom Emmer, and Elise Stefanik to win the top spot. Which might be kind of tough, as the Post writes “Some Republicans still remain irate and may not ever support him in leadership because of how he comported himself during the last speakership election… Others just don’t trust Jordan given how he shunned helping out his non-Freedom Caucus colleagues throughout his early career in Congress. His scorched-earth tactics and refusal to be a team player and contribute to the party’s campaign coffers drew the ire of many colleagues who believed that he contributed to Republican losses in close races. Those actions set the example for a larger crop of far-right members who still refuse to donate to the NRCC and now campaign against GOP colleagues in primary elections, helping to drive intraparty divisions.” Lol.

A new Emerson College national survey finds Vice president Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 50 to 48 percent nationally. A majority of respondents, 58 percent, said there should be another debate between the two vs 35 percent no, with the lowest support naturally coming from Republican as it’s 49 percent yes debate to 41 percent no among GOP respondents.

Going into the red zone here it may or may not be useful to look at Emerson’s most recent track record in a national election rather than the long list of their state and local races in which they overrated the Republican candidate relative to the Democrat: In the October 2022 generic congressional ballot question Emerson said they found Republicans leading Democrats 46 to 41 percent nationally, the final result was 50 R – 47.3 D, a 2.7 percent miss. The point being that even if we have a pretty lengthy record demonstrating Emerson’s roughly 4 to 6 percent pro-GOP bias in local elections, their most recent national call was closer to the mark.

🚨🚨🚨 HUGE! 🚨🚨🚨 Former Trump White House aide CASSIDY HUTCHINSON said she’s voting for Kamala Harris! 🚨🚨🚨 BIG! 🚨🚨🚨 TOTALLY UNEXPECTED!!! 🚨🚨🚨 BUZZ-WORTHY!!! 🚨🚨🚨

🚨🚨🚨 EVEN BIGGER! 🚨🚨🚨 LIZ CHENEY is CAMPAIGNING with Kamala Harris in Wisconsin on Thursday 🚨🚨🚨 BIG DEAL 🚨🚨🚨 CNN reported it just a little while ago 🚨🚨🚨 HUGE!!! 🚨🚨🚨

A new report from the Department of Homeland Security said that election workers in this year’s campaign will face “the most significant physical threat” from domestic terrorists who will target “government officials, voters, and elections-related personnel and infrastructure, including polling places, ballot drop box locations, voter registration sites, campaign events, political party offices, and vote counting sites,” ABC News reports.

In the 2025 Homeland Threat Assessment, analysts said the threat level “will remain high” and that threats are coming from more than the Trump’s own Irrational Guard of supporters who think civilian election’s workers are cheating.  Other threats were also discussed.

“Between September 2023 and July 2024, [domestic violent extremists] driven by various anti-government, racial, or gender-related motivations have conducted at least four attacks in the Homeland, one of which resulted in a death. US law enforcement disrupted at least seven additional [domestic violent extremist] plots,” according to the assessment.; “Two [homegrown violent extremist] attacks, partially motivated by the Israel-HAMAS conflict, also occurred during this timeframe, and law enforcement disrupted at least three other HVE plots.”

Well, here’s another reason Melania isn’t on the campaign with her flailing husband:  The Guardian reports that excepts of Melania Trump’s creatively titled new book Melania show the former (not future) First Lady as solidly pro-choice, a stark contrast from her obscene spouse:

It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government. Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes. Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.”

Smokey the Bear would be very, very mad.  The wildfire that destroyed the historic Lahaina community on Maui after a grass fire started by downed power lines reflared after firefighters thought they had extinguished it, CBS News reports.

The fire, which claimed 101 lives, spread rapidly on the afternoon of August 8th, 2023 from an area where firefighters had responded to a downed power line and fire that morning.  While firefighters may have extinguished the original fire, it’s unclear from the findings if the area where teams spent three hours putting out the grass fire rekindled due to high winds, or if a spark drifted to a nearby gully and grew from there.

After flames were spotted again at the site, crews arrived within minutes, but fast, swirling winds fueled the fire and quickly grew out of control.

You guys want to talk about "employers"?

Let's talk about how 90% of Kamala's staff quit because she's abusive.

Here are the facts:https://t.co/1qSPsaiEvI

— KamalaHQLies (@KamalaHQLies) October 2, 2024

Maybe it’s a compliment to the efficacy of “Kamala HQ” that it appears the Trump campaign or some ballsucking PAC or whoever stood up a full-time, single-purpose rapid response account (Actually this was just supposed to be an “article” about the top tweet which was really fucking solid).

The reply was actually one of the slower ones, the usual speed is minutes for the “Lies” account to post an angry response which, almost certainly is the product of someone whose actual job is to “fact check” Kamala HQ as opposed to just a passionate Trump fanboy doing it for free.