A Trump-loving arsonist and his registered Republican wife were arrested in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles after they were spotted driving an old decommissioned fire engine inside the perimeter of the disaster zone on Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Oregonians Dustin Nehls, 31, whose Facebook posts make his Trump fandom unambiguous, and Jennifer Nehls, 44, Republican, were both dressed as firefighters when they pulled up to a National Guard checkpoint, claiming they were with a volunteer department somewhere in northern California. The troops waved them through, though an actual firefighter noticed something was off about the truck bearing decals saying “Roaring River Fire Department,” asking a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy also manning the checkpoint to investigate the suspicious couple.

Turns out Dustin did five years in the joint for arson after a series of fires he set at a golf course, a public park, and a water facility in the city of Woodburn (lol), about 30 miles south of Portland. The Roaring River Fire Department does not and never did exist, though the truck itself was obviously was the real thing before being decommissioned and auctioned off in the 1990s by a department somewhere in northern California. It’s unclear how the Nehls acquired it, but their intent was less mysterious as cops found tools that could be used for burglaries and shirts saying “Cal Fire.”

Also unclear is how long the two had already been in Los Angeles, though it’s known that Nehls passed himself off as a fireman to get a free room at a Holiday Inn Express for at least one night, meaning it’s possible he said “I’m not a real firefighter, but I did stay at a-” while being interrogated by sheriff’s deputies. The Los Angeles DA’s office expects to charge the Nehls on Tuesday.

I submitted my resignation last week…my 2 year term was already up 🤷‍♂️😅

I was honored to serve as co-chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. My fellow council members – unpaid volunteers like me – were hardworking, talented people who inspired me… https://t.co/8U1l7IoYVp

— Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 (@chefjoseandres) January 21, 2025

“To build on the IRA, on October 14, 2022, President Biden issued Executive Order 14087, ‘Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans,’ to further address prescription drug affordability through the work of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (the Innovation Center). The Innovation Center tests innovative payment and service delivery models designed to reduce program expenditures while preserving or enhancing the quality of care furnished to its beneficiaries,” said a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Studies description of Executive Order 14087 as it worked before being repealed by convicted felon President Trump’s Anti-Biden executive order on Monday. Suck it, senior citizens and poor people.

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, about two years into a 22 year sentence for seditious conspiracy over his fascist street gang’s plot for the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection, has been told he’s being released from the joint, the Washington Post reports. The exact nature of his release – as in whether it’s a full pardon or commutation – is unclear but it’s a fairly obvious indicator that Trump is letting all the worst of the worst inmates out of Arkham Asylum.

The US Senate on Monday confirmed their former colleague Marco Rubio to US Secretary of State 99 to 0, the only non-vote being Rubio’s himself, CNN’s Manu Raju reports.

Billionaire Elon Musk gave what appeared to be a fascist salute Monday while making a speech at the post-inauguration celebration for President Donald Trump at the Capital One Arena.

“Some elections are important, some are not. But this one, this one really mattered and I just… pic.twitter.com/K8Fo0sdozL

— PBS News (@NewsHour) January 20, 2025

The following is a non-exhaustive scorecard for where the United States is at on January 20, 2025.

🇺🇸 Average price per gallon of gasoline: $3.12/gal.

🇺🇸 Dow Jones Industrial Average: 43,857 points as of 11:13 AM EDT on Monday.

🇺🇸 Homicide rate: 7.5 deaths per 100,000 in 2022, the most recent year available.

🇺🇸 Violent crime rate: 363.8 per 100,000 in 2023, the most recent year available.

🇺🇸 Average electric bill: $144.84/month.

🇺🇸 Unemployment rate: 4.1 percent in December 2024.

🇺🇸 Average price of eggs: $4.15/dozen in December 2024.

Catch ALL the wildlife action on this LIVE CAM of a deer trough somewhere in Central Maine!

Might as well put this all in a live feed as the illegitimate 47th President of the United States comes to power. And make no mistake, he won the popular vote and the Electoral College. His illegitimacy stems from his characterlogical unfitness for office and the lies, big and small, with which he suckered so many into his cult and others into believing he would solve their problems.

Stick with National Zero for more on the dawn of a new era in American failure.

Convicted felon President-Elect Trump will revoke the security clearances of the 51 former intelligence officials who in 2020 signed a letter saying they agreed the whole stupid Hunter Biden’s laptop “October Surprise” failure contained all the “classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” Axios reports on some extremely fucking petty and ridiculous score settling.

President Joe Biden, in his final acts in office, preemptively pardoned General Mark Milley, Dr Anthony Fauci, and every member of the House Jan 6th Committee on Monday, Breitbart reports.

Relief from your suffering is nigh, Trump fans. In less than 20 hours you will be delivered from the oppressions the Biden Regime inflicted upon your people simply for having different opinions on the dangers of 5G technology and the efficacy of horse dewormer as a cure for COVID. The fecklessness with which “Brandon” managed the economy, costing you $18 for a Big Mac Extra Value meal and $99 for an NFT of Trump dressed like Elvis Presley. The way crime was out of control starting in 2020 when scumbags saw the then-former Vice President was leading in the polls and thus felt safe committing horrific acts of depravity against decent Americans. The insane open borders policy that cost what felt like thousands of cats, dogs, and ducks in Ohio their sweet innocent lives. The sense of insecurity wrought by wars in Ukraine and Gaza that never would have happened if those bamboo ballots hadn’t stolen his scared victory in the 2020 election.

That horror show ends at noon on Monday. America will be safe and rich again, and the world will be at peace – except for possibly in Greenland, Panama, and Canada. All 20 million or however many undocumented migrants will be rounded up and removed. The border will be closed. Birthright citizenship will be ended. Every person convicted of a crime committed during the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection will be pardoned. Everything imported from Mexico, Canada, and China will be hit with massive tariffs to the benefit of the American worker and their families, as tariffs will pay for free universal child care nationwide. And that’s just on day one of his historic second administration.

The explosion of solar farms in rural parts of the United States have brought job and food security to untold thousands of dumb sheep who have no fucking idea whatsoever of what outgoing President Biden’s energy policies have done to make their lives better, the Associated Press reports.

One company that services solar farms outside of Austin alone employs over 8,000 of these uneducated and foul-smelling rural Texans who are tasked with removing the grass and weeds before they can grow high enough to block any sunlight from reaching the photovoltaic panels. And there’s a lot of such work with the proliferation of solar farms across Texas and other Red States.

“Just the growth has been kind of crazy for us,” said sheepherder JR Howard, who named his company Texas Solar Sheep. “It’s been great for me and my family,” Howard continued, adding he expects to nearly double his 28-strong human workforce by the end of the year. Just going to stay out of speculating about whether he and however many on his staff that are adult US citizens voted.

National Park Service officials tell WUSA9 anchor Simone De Alba that, at the request of convicted felon President-Elect Trump’s Inaugural Committee, the jumbotrons that would’ve broadcast a feed of his safe and warm swearing-in ceremony inside the rotunda have been taken down.

De Alba did not provide specifics on why. However it’s easy to imagine that the fat fuck doesn’t want ANY of his fans there outside the Capitol because providing them with such a half-measure would be an invitation, one that would only be answered by maybe a few more of the same number of hardcore fanboys and girls that are still going to show up Monday morning. This way at least Trump’s minions can say the cultists showed up 100 percent of their own volition and were not prompted to by anything on his end. Which in turn lets them disown the no doubt abysmal turnout.

Officials on Maine’s Mt Desert Island say it could be a while before they can get the U-Haul that broke through the ice and sank in Echo Lake early Saturday out of the water as they need the ice to thicken again before a marine salvage company can pull it out, the Portland Press-Herald reports.

Cops say a 75 year-old man became confused and missed a turn, driving ones of the ubiquitous rental box trucks out onto the frozen lake at some point late Friday or early Saturday. He made it pretty far: About 450 yards before the roughly five inches of ice gave way and the front of the truck became submerged. The driver was able to climb to the top of the vehicle and dial 911, with first responders completing the rescue at 4:45 AM. The man was hospitalized briefly and released.

The truck later sank into the depths of the icy lake. No details on what was in it, if anything, were made public. It’s also unclear why the marine salvage operation will try to effect a recovery when the ice is sturdy enough rather than simply wait until April to winch the truck out from its watery grave.

Jesus Dork Speaker of the House Mike Johnson could’ve just said “No” when asked by NBC’s Kristen Welker on Sunday if he had a plan for bringing down grocery prices for Americans as is supposedly Republicans’ mandate to do and the one thing they campaigned the most on.

Asked if he would commit to not requiring “strings” for aid to Southern California’s rebuilding after the massive wildfires that are still burning, Johnson said no but again, like every other Republican, did not actually set any conditions on what would need to change. Lastly, on the topic of convicted felon President-Elect Trump pardoning Capitol rioters, Welker reminded Johnson that the fat bastard had told her last month that “he’s not ruling out anyone. So my question for you, would you oppose a pardon for someone who has pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer?”

“We commend Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft for following the law and halting operations with ByteDance and TikTok, and we encourage other companies to do the same. The law, after all, risks ruinous bankruptcy for any company who violates it. Now that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date. For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law’s qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China. Only then will Americans be protected from the grave threat posed to their privacy and security by a communist-controlled TikTok,” say far right Republican Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts in a statement that leaves zero doubt as to whether they’ll actually challenge convicted felon President-Elect Trump on this.

They won’t, lol. The statement came an hour after the fat bastard posted “SAVE TIKTOK!”

Later Donald simply pulled a new idea out of his ample ass, writing “I’m asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark! I will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security. The order will also confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order. Americans deserve to see our exciting Inauguration on Monday, as well as other events and conversations,” as if it won’t be on other platforms and actual television.

“I would like the United States to have a 50 percent ownership position in a joint venture. By doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands and allow it to say up. Without US approval, there is no Tik Tok. With our approval, it is worth hundreds of billions of dollars – maybe trillions. Therefore, my initial thought is a joint venture between the current owners and/or new owners whereby the US gets a 50 percent ownership in a joint venture set up between the US and whichever purchase we so choose,” Trump continued, thereby endorsing state ownership and communism.

Incoming Trump Reichsminister of National Purity Tom Homan is reconsidering plans for ICE raids in Chicago starting this week, claiming that the leak of him boasting that the Deep Dish City would be the first target on his list is causing him to back off temporarily, the Washington Post reports.

“ICE will start arresting public safety threats and national security threats on day one,” Homan told the Post. “We’ll be arresting people across the country, uninhibited by any prior administration guidelines. Why Chicago was mentioned specifically, I don’t know. This is nationwide thing.”

“The Wall Street Journal, which was first to report on the possible raid, wrote that Homan said at a holiday party last month in Chicago that the administration would start raids ‘right here’ and threatened to prosecute Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) for harboring undocumented immigrants if he got in the way,” the Post writes, which is exactly why “Chicago was mentioned specifically.”

…then he got back on. Kind of. Things moved fast for the man. Very fast.

Citing German federal police, the BBC reports the unidentified 40 year-old Hungarian national is lucky to be alive and only facing a misdemeanor charge of “an act disruptive to operations” after clinging to outside of the train that had accelerated to at least 175 miles per hour before other passengers saw him hanging on for dear life on Thursday. The man had tried to get back on the Lübeck-bound express train after stepping out for a smoke at a station in Ingolstadt, Bavaria.

“A police officer from the state police who happened to be traveling with the train found the 40 year-old Hungarian ‘passenger’ and brought him on to the train,” said a federal police spokesman. Cops brought the train to a halt about 18 miles north and detained the man, who was also supposedly traveling without a ticket. Not sure how they could rule out that he dropped it while clinging to the outside of a train that was moving at 175 miles per hour in Bavaria in freaking January.