Indonesia’s geological bureau on Monday issued a volcanic hazard alert after at least 10 people were killed in an eruption of Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki on the remote island of Flores, the AP reports on an interesting and quite unique approach to natural disaster mass communication practices.

One would assume the whole point of having a monitoring bureau who work to ensure that data from a network of seismometers and instruments capable of detecting changes in gas emissions from volcanic features indicative of an imminent eruption would be the time they say “DANGER! EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY” but instead Indonesia seems content to let a few people – at least one Catholic nun in a convent that was hit by a pyroclastic flow among them – become a cautionary example of why locals should take volcano safety seriously. It’s as if saying “See? These people are dead. This fucker means business,” is more effective than telling them they might be next.

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— JD Vance (@JDVance) November 4, 2024

Arguing in a hearing in Philly DA Larry Krasner’s lawsuit against Elon Musk over his $1 million lottery scam in Pennsylvania, defense lawyer Chris Gober told the judge on Monday that the giveaway is not actually a lottery, instead claiming “There is no prize to be won” and winners “are not chosen at random” but by their personal story and “suitability to serve” since it’s actually a salary they “earn” to be a “spokesperson” for the America PAC’s pro-Trump efforts, CNN’s Marshall Cohen reports.

Kranser’s office responded by calling that a “complete admission of liability” and Musk is running an illegal lottery under Pennsylvanoa law, showing the judge a clip of him literally saying “we are going to be awarding $1 million randomly” when announcing the “salary.” Gober then tried to argue that “randomly” and “by chance” are interchangeable. So yeah, that’s how it’s going in court for Musk.

This isn’t going to be that lengthy of a “big picture” piece like “Blank Canvass” Parts I and II. This does seem like the right time for a coda to them however, given the last few days’ of reporting on the state of the get-out-the-vote operations run by small-faced dipshit Charlie Kirk and ketamine-brained psychopath billionaire Elon Musk. What was, and still is, a “blank” is the ultimate effect on the final result of the 2024 election. We gamed out a VERY rough idea of what possibly was the end result in 2020 when the Biden campaign ceded the “ground game” to Trump until that October due to COVID but that was more like fine-tuning a question than coming close to answering it.

Still, that Trump got 34,000 more votes in Philadelphia in 2020 than he did in 2016 was no accident. If he had managed to get, say, 134,000 more votes in the city plus another 200,000 in Detroit and 40,000 more in Las Vegas he would have won a second term and all we would’ve fucking heard about from the media for the past four years was how Dems blew it on the “ground game.”

We don’t know who won 2024, but Team Orange definitely blew their “ground game.”

“A Stoughton woman has been arrested and charged in connection with smuggling goods into the United States and selling/dispensing counterfeit drugs and devices. Rebecca Fadanelli, 38, was charged by criminal complaint with one count of illegally importing merchandise contrary to law, one count of selling or dispensing a counterfeit drug, and one count of selling or dispensing a counterfeit device. According to the charging documents, since March 2021, Fadanelli, the owner of Skin Beaute Med Spa with locations in Randolph and South Easton, Mass, has been importing counterfeit Botox, Sculptra and Juvederm from China and Brazil and performing thousands of injections of counterfeit drugs and devices for which she received over $900,000 in client payments,” says DOJ statement.

“It is alleged that Fadanelli consistently represented to clients and employees that she is a nurse; in fact, Fadanelli is an aesthetician and is not licensed nor certified to dispense or administer prescription drugs or devices. According to payment records, from approximately March 2021 through March 2024, Fadanelli completed approximately 1,631 Botox appointments, totaling $522,869 in client payments, and 1,085 filler appointments, totaling $410,545 in client payments.”

The whole not properly-licensed thing is easy enough to get on board with. Safety first, second, and third when it comes to such matters. It’s just that it seems like if this woman was able to book and complete the better part of three thousand appointments over three years and this release says nothing about any injuries or disfigurement from it that kind of tells us it’s all way more about the false advertising. We’ll just skip the irony of an apparently otherwise safe but counterfeit version of a real product used to enhance fake lips and wherever the hell else they inject Botox these days.

Eagerly awaiting convicted felon former President Trump to take the stage in the first of four rallies on this final day of campaigning. Let’s see if he’s as physically and mentally unhealthy as he was Sunday. He was in very bad shape on Sunday as some of you may have noticed.

A top aide to Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu has been arrested on suspicion of leaking to foreign media intel that was apparently meant to torpedo a ceasefire/hostage release deal with Hamas, CNN reports on more of the usual fuckery from that piece of shit as he clings to power.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid on Sunday accused the Netanyahu’s crew of scumbags and zealots of leaking “faked secret documents to torpedo the possibility of a hostage deal – to shape a public opinion influence operation against the” families of the dozens of Israelis still being held hostage in Gaza more than a year after the bloody October 7th attacks and subsequent genocidal reprisal.

Hardcore fans of convicted felon former President Trump tell the Guardian they’re ready for other hardcore fans of the fat slob to be imprisoned or killed after a violent uprising should Vice President Kamala Harris win, a rebellion that they won’t personally partake in because of the dangers.

“People will riot if Trump doesn’t win,” said Trump fan Cedric Perness as he hawked bootleg MAGA merch outside of one of Donald’s Sunday rallies in North Carolina. He isn’t one of those people however, because rioting is too dangerous. “I’d get killed right there.” Perness said he’s doing his part instead by selling t-shirts saying “You missed bitches. Two times!” referring to the two assassination fails, though he did not elaborate on how that would help if the election were “stolen.”

“As Republicans, we are locked and loaded and ready to go” if Harris wins, said 55 year-old Vikki Westbrook at the same rally. When asked if that meant she personally would lock and load one of her many guns and start firing on George Soros’s foot soldiers, Westbrook said no. “I have kids, I can’t afford to go to prison. And I don’t like orange,” she said, referring clearly to prison jumpsuits and not any artificial skin color. Still she warned that “at this point, a lot of Republicans aren’t going to take it any longer. They won’t let the election be stolen from us twice,” speaking more carefully with “they” to mean others in this hypothetical armed rebellion that she’s pre-self-excluded from.

“Four years ago I felt angry, very angry. This time I will be even more angry,” Westbrook continued outside the rally. Asked what she would do and how she would channel the emotion if Trump does lose, she said only “If he loses, I’m scared,” again making it clear she is not in fact locked or loaded.

Sen. Mike Lee warns Democrats would 'Rule America uncontested for 100 years' if they sweep 2024 elections https://t.co/nGSPcdQPCc

— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 4, 2024

Several women who have either voted or are planning to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris secretly contra to the wishes of their MAGA husbands tell NPR why they’re going ahead with it.

“My husband will say it’s just what the media has fed me,” one identified only as “T” said. “And I’m saying uh-uh. I watched it with my own two eyes. I listened to it.” Another one, identified only as “K,” said the June 2020 upside-down Bible incident was what did it for her. “I was horrified. That was actually when I left the Republican Party,” K, who lives in a red state in the Midwest and stayed anonymous for fear of getting fired. Her husband “assumes I’m voting Republican. I just listen to him talk about his views, and I just nod my head and go uh huh. And I’m thinking, yeah and my nieces have less bodily autonomy and rights at their ages than I had.” That’s cheating, per Jesse Watters.

“As I was filling in that rectangle it was like, ‘Hell yeah, girl. You did something so powerful for yourself, and for a lot of women,” said “A” an Illinois woman who’s keeping her Harris vote a secret from her boyfriend and especially her father, described as “a committed Republican.”

Convicted felon former President Trump’s campaign co-manager Susie Wiles on Friday sent out an all-staff email headlined “Donald J Trump Administrative Update,” informing the team of how the rest of the month is going to go, with mostly dry updates on office usage and that everyone’s last day on the payroll is November 30th. What stuck out to Axios and whoever leaked it to them was the very un-MAGA verbiage such as “should we be victorious,” “regardless of the outcome of the election,” and “God willing” to describe the contingent nature of the election rather than the “FUCK YEAH THIS IS ALREADY IN THE BAG!” type of prognostication we’re used to hearing from them publicly.

“The matter-of-fact email comes as the Trump campaign is publicly projecting confidence, and promoting any polls that show Trump defeating Vice President Harris handily. Trump himself has been quick to belittle unfavorable polls and has vowed that the only way he could lose is if Democrats cheat. He has laid the groundwork for legal challenges if things don’t go his way,” Axios writes, plainly nervous that they may not have sufficiently groveled at the feet of both Harris and Trump amid all the uncertainty about the outcome of this apocalyptic election season.

Really stupid story short: After Vice President Kamala Harris made an appearance on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, Trump-appointed FCC commissioner Brendan Carr threw a fit, tweeting “This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule. The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct – a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election. Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns,” resulting in the above video being run by NBC during Sunday’s NASCAR and NFL post-game broadcasts on the network, the Huffington Post’s Yashar Ali reports. One wonders if Carr thinks it was worth it to get this low-energy, low-budget rant in front of NASCAR and NFL viewers. Donald seems almost too tired to speak.

Roughly one in five of the 93 Republican Party members from the swing states who have already been chosen to serve representatives to the Electoral College played some role in “Stop the Steal” in 2020, with 13 of them having signed the fake votes for convicted felon former President Trump that December – eight of those now facing criminal charges for the scam – and another six having had some other level of involvement in the MAGA coup attempt, Politico reports.

The eight facing charges include Michiganders John Haggard, Hank Choate, Timothy King, Amy Facchinello, Marian Sheridan, former state GOP co-chair Meshawn Maddock and Nevada state GOP chair Michael McDonald and Clark County Chair Jesse Law, the latter two’s charges having been dismissed but more likely than not to be revived as prosecutors appeal the dismissal.

“It would appear that the party leadership in the states where there are fraudulent electors serving as electors again are not taking seriously things like criminal charges,” said Georgetown Law professor Mary McCord, co-host of MSNBC’s “Prosecuting Donald Trump” podcast.

Pro-European Moldovan President Maia Sandu on Sunday declared victory against her Russian-backed rival Alexandr Stoianoglo in a runoff that saw massive interference from Moscow, Sky News reports on what’s hopefully not the only time Putin loses an election this week.

Convicted felon former President Trump is REALLY losing his shit at this rally in Pennsylvania. Above is Fox News cutting him off as he rants about the Iowa poll, calling Ann Selzer an “enemy.” Minutes later he said he wouldn’t mind if reporters got shot during another assassination attempt.

Former Florida woman Sheila Keen-Warren, who in 2023 pleaded guilty to a 1990 murder in which she dressed up like a clown, knocked on the door of her boss’s 40 year-old wife Marlene Warren, and fatally shot her romantic rival in the face, was released from prison on Saturday, having served just 18 months for a bit of home-wrecking as she literally married Warren’s husband, the AP reports

It took prosecutors nearly 27 years to develop the evidence to charge Keen-Warren with the crime, even though the fact that she married her boss after his wife was knocked off should’ve been enough. The trial has been delayed since 2017 due to other issues and the pandemic. Investigators had recovered fibers from the orange clown wig from the crime scene and the Chrysler Le Baron that Keen-Warren drove as the damning proof of the evil clownery that took Marlene Warren’s life.

Keen-Warren, who maintained her innocence even after her plea to second degree murder, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. But she had been in custody for seven years since her arrest in 2017, and Florida’s law in 1990 allowed significant credit for good behavior behind bars.

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, two failed Republican presidential candidates who were defeated by convicted felon former President Trump in the 2024 and 2016 primaries, respectively, found themselves stuck cleaning up after the winner on Sunday.

Burgum in particular made himself look like a complete fucking asshole, walking right into a trap set for him by NBC’s Kristen Welker in which she ran a clip of Trump calling Vice President Kamala Harris’s supporters “garbage” at a rally in September, right after Burgum was caterwauling about Joe Biden’s comments in which he (possibly, maybe) accidentally called Trump’s supporters “garbage.”

King Felipe of Spain, Queen Letizia, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, and Valencia regional Governor Carlos Mazon were pelted with eggs and angry insults from the royal subjects during a visit to the area devastated by recent flooding that left more than 200 people dead, CNN reports.

Most of the anger and egging was actually mostly directed at Sanchez and Mazon with the two royals – who are relatively popular in the country – collateral damage in the outrage. Felipe and Letizia hugged the locals and spoke them directly while the politicians ran away from the scene.

Good work Dana Bash, cornering this fucking weasel for trying to blame the media for convicted felon former President Trump’s demented conspiracy theories about the 2024 election.

Asked why convicted felon former President Trump is visiting North Carolina every single day until the election to play defense against Vice President Kamala Harris, an anonymous minion tells NBC News “if there’s one state that could bite you in the ass, it’s North Carolina.”