As if the dipshits who keep mistaking manned aircraft for Chinese or Venezuelan drones will be assuaged, the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday announced a no-drone zone will be imposed over much of New Jersey on Tuesday for the next 30 days, ABC News reports.

“At the request of federal security partners, the FAA published 22 Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) prohibiting drone flights over critical New Jersey infrastructure. The temporary flight restrictions, which are set to last until Jan 17, have been implemented beginning Wednesday in the following locations: Hamilton, Bridgewater, Cedar Grove, North Brunswick, Metuchen, Evesham, Camden, Gloucester City, Westampton, South Brunswick, Edison, Branchburg, Sewaren, Jersey City, Harrison, Elizabeth, Bayonne, Winslow, Burlington, Clifton, Hancocks Bridge and Kearny.”

“We continue to assess there is no public safety threat relating to the reported drone sightings. In coordination with the FAA and our critical infrastructure partners who requested temporary flight restrictions over their facilities, out of an abundance of caution, the FAA has issued temporary flight restrictions over some critical infrastructure facilities in New Jersey,” said the FAA in a statement, warning law enforcement have been authorized to use “deadly force” against the drones.

Yeah, that’s what the article said. Weird choice of words. Suppose it’s more succinct than saying they would use force “that would be deadly if applied to a human,” and would in practical terms render most common drones useless. Still weird. They did not warn deadly force would be used against drone operators if found, instead saying that persons found piloting anything other than a common retail recreational drone under 400 ft in the restricted areas would be “intercepted, detained, and interviewed by the law enforcement/security personnel.”

United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s assassin Luigi Mangione was delivered to authorities in New York City on Thursday, and immediately found himself hit with federal charges on top of the local murder rap and whatever he got stuck with in Pennsylvania, as the AP reports Mangione has been indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of stalking and one count each of murder through use of a firearm and a firearms offense. His initial appearance is scheduled for Thursday.

We were to understand that the American people, or at least a slightly larger minority of them than the minority that voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, voted for convicted felon President-Elect Trump to lower the price of eggs, not Elon Musk to tell Trump what to do, and yet MAGA Congressman Andy Barr is insisting to Fox News everything’s fine. This is what they wanted.

The Tavares, Florida city council on Wednesday heard what they wanted to hear from quack state Surgeon General Joseph Ladopo and voted accordingly on the matter of water fluoridation, with QAnon bullshit defeating government-sponsored dental hygiene 4 to 1, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

“So many members of the public health infrastructure…instead choose to defend [fluoridation], and it’s really sad. I mean, the best case scenario is that people are just too lazy to really dig into the science, and I hope that’s the explanation,” Ladopo said, making the plea in-person before the city council. “The worst case scenario is that it’s more important to preserve public health tenets and public health victories than it is to actually take care of the people in the community,” the widely discredited and mocked MAGA public health official continued, evidently having driven hours south of the state capital of Tallahassee to make sure a town of fewer than 20,000 would stop fluoridation.

Convicted felon President-Elect Trump on Thursday told NBC News that the debt ceiling should be abolished permanently now that he’s returning to office and has to deal with it.

“The Democrats have said they want to get rid of it. If they want to get rid of it, I would lead the charge,” Trump told some reporter with NBC in a phone conversation, adding that he had spoken with Elon Musk before issuing his public statements on Wednesday. “I told [Ketamine Brain] that if he agrees with me, that he could put out a statement,” Trump said. “He’s looking at things from a cost standpoint,” Trump continued, adding their views as in line, and “very much on track.”

“REPUBLICANS SHOULD NOT MAKE A DEAL ON THE DEBT CEILING UNLESS THEY GET EVERYTHING THEY WANT (Including the ‘kitchen sink’). THAT’S THE WAY THE DEMOCRATS HAVE ALWAYS DEALT WITH US. DO NOT FOLD!!!” Trump posted from the sidelines on May 19, 2023, back when it was advantageous for his party to hold the global economy hostage to their whims.

Someone seems just a wee bit insecure after being accurately mocked for blowing up a carefully negotiated plan to fund the government at the command of unelected foreign oligarch Elon Musk.

Hard to see it any other way than convicted felon President-Elect Trump being fine with whatever was in the bill until Catturd and the rest of those whom Dan Crenshaw called “fucking incels” had nothing else to do but freak out and demand that Ketamine Brain flex his ill-gotten and even more ill-defined power, with Trump looking like his bitch. Even better is that, in adding a debt ceiling raise to his new set of unrealistic demands imposed on hapless peon Speaker Mike Johnson, they just handed Democrats a shit ton of leverage because that cannot pass without their votes.

Trump literally just told Fox News that Johnson can keep his job if he eliminates “all of the traps being set by Democrats,” when that’s the biggest trap. Whether this was some fit of pique to reassert control that Musk appeared to be wielding more effectively than him doesn’t matter, he’s already fucked this up for himself more than a month before he even reoccupies the Oval Office.

An incident at a courthouse in Poplarville, Mississippi on Tuesday revealed that Republican Mississippi state House member Jansen Owen could maybe be a little better at picking and choosing whom he represents in his lawyering day job given that he’s probably not going to see another dime in fees from one specific client. And probably spent hours getting interviewed by homicide detectives and likely a whole hassle with testifying against her in a criminal trial.

Plus, according to WLOX, Owen had to physically toss the client, 49 year-old Tanya Saucier, to the ground and restrain her before rushing to try to save the life of her 62 year-old newly-unwed ex-husband James Saucier as he succumbed to gunshot wounds in the entryway of the Pearl River County Chancery Courthouse, just after the hearing in which their divorce was finalized.

“Basically, I left the courthouse and she opened fire. I did ultimately subdue her at which point she made threats against me,” Owen said. “I administered first aid as best I could to Mr Saucier. I grabbed her and put my knee in her back until law enforcement took over. I kicked the gun away.”

Whether Tanya brought a pistol into the courthouse or had somehow retrieved it from a hidden location or her car is unclear. What isn’t in question is whether this was an isolated incident: He was set to go on trial in March for – wait for it – aggravated assault and domestic violence with a deadly weapon for shooting Tanya in the face and torso at some point last year and a grand jury returned an indictment for that shooting in August, though it’s possible it was self-defense. James’s lawyer Don Rafferty had evidently been planning to sell the trial jury on that, telling WLOX “My client said he was defending himself [when he shot Tanya] and you saw what happened today,” when both Rafferty and Owen saw their future billable hours savagely murdered right in front of them.

Wildlife officials in Hawaii are on high alert after capturing their third opossum this year, with concerns growing that the continental US mammal – also commonly known as the “Appalachian protein critter” – could wreak havoc on native flora and fauna were they to multiply, KHON reports.

The state’s Plant Quarantine Branch received a report of an opossum near an Oahu retail store last Thursday, an indicator that the fucker had possibly stowed away in a shipping container and hadn’t gotten far from where it had first escaped, although employees at the unnamed store said they did not see the animal emerge from a container. The wildlife SWAT team set up traps containing bananas, apples, and cantaloupe as bait, with one of them scoring their quarry. The male opossum, weighing approximately 9 lbs, was promptly executed and its remains will be tested for rabies.

Anonymous coward like “catturd” talking shit without any evidence. I’m used to it. Sorry I was guy fighting the wars that little bitches like you would never dare to. One of us has actually served this country and continues to, while losers like you make money being trolls on…

— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) December 19, 2024

Pornhub, the website that’s a lot like YouTube, but for masturbating, announced Wednesday they’re soon going to force Floridian masturbators to use VPNs to access their vast video library as on January 1st when a new law kicks in the Sunshine State’s pro-freedom government will require users to upload a pic of their photo ID just like in Texas and Utah stupidly did, WKMG reports.

“First, to be clear, [Pornhub parent company] Aylo has publicly supported age verification of users for years, but we believe that any law to this effect must preserve user safety and privacy, and must effectively protect children from accessing content intended for adults. Unfortunately, the way many jurisdictions worldwide, including Florida, have chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous. Any regulations that require hundreds of thousands of adult sites to collect significant amounts of highly sensitive personal information is putting user safety in jeopardy. Moreover, as experience has demonstrated, unless properly enforced, users will simply access non-compliant sites or find other methods of evading these laws,” the company said in a statement.

Worth asking if Governor Pudding Fingers would’ve signed this bill if Pornhub had just split the difference and offered to block all the BGTQ+ content from Floridian viewers. Hard to see how the L videos wouldn’t be fine with them. Some Bs too, as long as the guys don’t cross swords or anything.

Senator Bro from MO Josh Hawley tells CNN’s Manu Raju that convicted felon President-Elect Trump just found out on Wednesday what was in the continuing resolution government funding bill and decided it was “horrible” based on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy bitching about it.

“I know for a fact that Mike Johnson hasn’t talked to him about all of this and about what’s in the CR because Trump told me. So he needs to figure this out,” Hawley said, adding that Trump is “not read into this… and he’s just learning about it.. He’s just reading about it.” Meaning reading MAGA tweets.

Raju writes that Johnson’s team had been talking to Trump the entire time the funding bill was being written, which nobody has any real reason to doubt – except for maybe the fact that there’s no way Donald was actually listening and just nodded the whole time, probably looking at underage nudes Matt Gaetz had texted him. And why would he care? The specifics are pretty boring. But now that Trump has to look like he’s delivering for his base he needs to assert control and fuck everything up.

“Pretty sure I watched a House member go up to a hand sanitizer station, get a pump and then rub it over his face And still, not the weirdest thing I’ve seen up here,” tweeted Politico Congress reporter Olivia Beavers just minutes after she posted that the House will not be voting on the continuing resolution to fund the government until March on Wednesday.

“The most foolish and inept thing ever done by Congressional Republicans was allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling in 2025. It was a mistake and is now something that must be addressed.”


“Meanwhile, Congress is considering a spending bill that would give sweetheart provisions for government censors and for Liz Cheney. The bill would make it easier to hide the records of the corrupt Jan 6 committee – which accomplished nothing for the American people and hid security failures on that day. This bill would also give Congress a pay increase while many Americans are struggling this Christmas. Increasing the debt ceiling is not great but we’d rather do it on Biden’s watch. If Democrats won’t cooperate on a debt ceiling increase now, what makes anyone think they would do it in June during our administration? Let’s have this debate over the debt ceiling now.”

“And we should pass a streamlined spending bill that doesn’t give Chuck Schumer and the Democrats everything they want. Republicans want to support our farmers, pay for disaster relief, and set our country up for success in 2025. The only way to do that is with a temporary funding bill WITHOUT DEMOCRAT GIVEAWAYS combined with an increase in the debt ceiling. Anything else is a betrayal of our country,” posted VP-Elect JD Vance on Truth Social, billing it as a joint statement with his fat boss. This was after Elon Musk repeatedly said Republicans need to kill the funding deal.

“Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF. It is Schumer and Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief. THIS CHAOS WOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IF WE HAD A REAL PRESIDENT. WE WILL IN 32 DAYS!” Trump later added on his own account.

Your elected representatives have heard you and now the terrible bill is dead. The voice of the people has triumphed!

VOX POPULI
VOX DEI

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2024

“Governor Gavin Newsom today proclaimed a State of Emergency to streamline and expedite the state’s response to Avian influenza A (H5N1), commonly known as ‘Bird Flu.’ This action comes as cases were detected in dairy cows on farms in Southern California, signaling the need to further expand monitoring and build on the coordinated statewide approach to contain and mitigate the spread of the virus. The virus has spread in 16 states among dairy cattle, following its first confirmed detection in Texas and Kansas in March 2024. To date, no person-to-person spread of Bird Flu has been detected in California and nearly all infected individuals had exposure to infected cattle,” says California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office in a Wednesday press release.

“California has already established the largest testing and monitoring system in the nation to respond to the outbreak. This proclamation will provide state and local agencies with additional flexibility around staffing, contracting, and other rules to support California’s evolving response.”

Kentucky MAGA hick Congressman Thomas Massie on Wednesday told Punchbowl’s Melanie Zanona he will not be voting for Speaker Mike Johnson come January 3rd, raising the possibility there could be major chaos once again at the beginning of the 119th Congress, just as there was in 2023 when it took goddamned 15 votes for Kevin McCarthy to squeak across the finish line.

In related news, maybe good for Mike Johnson but who the hell knows, Matt Gaetz on Wednesday floated the possibility he could come back to DC to get sworn in and serve for three days to “File a privileged motion to expose every ‘me too’ settlement paid using public funds (even of former members)” and then “Resign and start my @OANN program at 9pm EST on January 6, 2025.”

Maybe that’ll help Johnson. What won’t is what Elon Musk just tweeted. “Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!” wrote Ketamine Brain on the social media network he ruined, to which Gaetz replied “Elon isn’t fucking around. He’s fully engaged, funding massive efforts. This is not an empty threat.” Ballsucker, lol.

House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer on Wednesday committed to possibly acknowledging that there might be a “cause for concern” if convicted felon President-Elect Trump is not “transparent” with his banking records, which if you recall was like a four year long court battle with House Democrats who sued to obtain a whole bunch of shit from Mazars USA, who fired Trump as a client.

“A Michigan man pleaded guilty today to one count of committing a hate crime by attempting to carry out a mass killing. According to court documents, Mack Davis, 22, of Owosso, admitted that he attempted to conduct a mass killing of individuals at a political party headquarters and a nearby bar in the Eastern District of Michigan because he associated both locations with gay people.”

“According to court documents, from at least July 2023 through June 2024, Davis accessed search engines and social media sites to research, post about, and pay tribute to mass killers, and wrote about dozens of mass killers in journals and on other items in his home. During that period, Davis also began to plot his own mass killing, by, among other things, drafting lists of weapons and tactical gear he owned and intended to acquire for use in his mass killing. By June, Davis had crossed off every item on the list of weapons and tactical gear he intended to acquire, and had amassed an arsenal that included two firearms, magazines, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a crossbow and arrows, assorted bomb-making parts, smoke grenades, tactical gear and clothing and several knives. Davis inscribed one of the knives with the anti-gay slur, ‘F*GGOT Killer.'”

The common California ground squirrel, long associated with nibbling on acorns and other seeds for sustenance, turns out to be a straight up predator. Not even an opportunistic one, but an eager and skilled predator, with researchers from the University of Wisconsin documenting no fewer that 74 instances of the squirrels viciously preying on smaller, mouse-like rodents called voles.

“Dietary flexibility allows animals to respond adaptively to food pulses in the environment. Here we document the novel emergence of widespread hunting of California voles and carnivorous feeding behavior by California ground squirrels. Over two months in the twelfth year of a long-term study on the squirrel population, we document 74 events of juvenile and adult ground squirrels of both sexes depredating, consuming, and/or competing over vole prey. Our video footage, photographic evidence, and direct observations of marked individual squirrels provide insights into the ecological circumstances favoring behavioral flexibility in foraging associated with a decadal peak in vole abundance,” says the abstract of the chilling new research into the bloody squirrel horde.

Here’s white nationalist Arizona Republican Congressman Andy Biggs telling a reporter he’s sure convicted felon President-Elect Trump “was just being humorous” when he again insisted he wants to annex Canada to the United States in a Truth Social post at 3:23 AM on Wednesday.