Right wing propaganda network Newsmax on Thursday reached a settlement in Delaware with voting technology company Smartmatic just days before a trial was to begin in the multi-billion dollar defamation lawsuit filed over Newsmax’s blatant falsehoods claiming Smartmatic has somehow rigged the 2020 election against convicted felon former President Trump, the Guardian reports.

Details of the settlement were not available yet and they may never be as the one last year between Smartmatic and other right wing propaganda outlet OAN was reached confidentially.

Female fans of the first would-be female president are papering women’s restrooms, gyms, and boxes of tampons on store shelves with some variation of “Woman to woman: No one sees your vote at the polls. Vote Harris/Walz” across the country, NBC News reports on a trend that may inspire a similar movement to put “Man to man: Vote Trump or you’re a queer” in the men’s room at Buffalo Wild Wings, between pages of “Barely Legal” magazine copies, and at GameStop locations.

But more seriously, one of the women involved with movement, and who helps run a pro-Kamala Facebook group, says she had to enable anonymous posting “so people can talk, and what we have found is that a lot of wives are afraid to vote against how their husband votes.”

Free speech crusader Elon Musk on Thursday suspended the Twitter account of Substacker Ken Klippenstein just hours after he became the first journalist to publish one of the files hacked from the Trump campaign (allegedly) by the Iranians, despite being the at least the seventh to receive them.

This is the culmination of the cult of corruption rampant in the New York Democrat Party – from the former disgraced Governor Cuomo and his sycophant henchmen to the Communist Chinese who have infiltrated Kathy Hochul (the least popular NY Governor in history), to now Eric Adams.… https://t.co/XvgWwgqyDC

— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) September 26, 2024

“Of course, Eric Adams should resign. Add him to your spreadsheet. New York Democrats will pay the price for this corruption and incompetence in November and Republicans will sweep this November. Thank you to the New York Times for your staff work keeping track of my high forced resignation success rate. I stand by them all. Oh, and the New York Times forgot to add Joe Biden to the list…” wrote Stefanik after the cutoff and it’s getting REALLY difficult to not give into temptation just use the appropriate word for her, even at the risk of offending our female readers.

Cuuuuuuuuuuuun-founding nobody, Stefanik clearly enjoy rolling around in the pen of hypocrisy, that one indicted politician should resign while another should be elected president, again.

Oklahoma Superintendent of Education Ryan Walters plans to ask the state legislature for an extra $3 million in public funds to purchase a Bible for every public school classroom and $500,000 for firearms training for school staff in his upcoming budget proposal, the Oklahoma Voice reports.

We guess we should just assume that the Bible and gun training vendors will be owned by donors to Walters’ campaign until we have evidence otherwise. It’s easier that way.

Republican pollster Echelon Insights’ monthly national tracking survey finds Vice President Kamala Harris up 52 to 45 percent over convicted felon former President Trump up, a net swing of 8 percent in Harris’s favor after Trump led 49 to 48 percent in August. Sucks for MAGA.

After having no luck shopping around all the shit they hacked from the Trump campaign to the mainstream media and then with independent bloggers, the Iranians finally found a willing partner in Substacker Ken Klippenstein, who writes that his copy of Team Trump’s oppo dossier on JD Vance “reportedly comes from an alleged Iranian government hack of the Trump campaign, and since June, the news media has been sitting on it (and other documents), declining to publish in fear of finding itself at odds with the government’s campaign against ‘foreign malign influence.'”

“I disagree. The dossier has been offered to me and I’ve decided to publish it because it’s of keen public interest in an election season. It’s a 271-page research paper the Trump campaign prepared to vet now vice presidential candidate JD Vance. As far as I can tell, it hasn’t been altered, but even if it was, its contents are publicly verifiable. I’ll let it speak for itself,” Klippenstein continued.

The 216 page document contains 16 instances of the word “heroin” but zero of “Hitler,” in its lengthy record of all the shit Vance said publicly about Trump over the years. Obviously it’s a long slog and might not be worth digging into to find anything new, but hey, if it embarrasses the Trump campaign we’re for it. Let them turn around and say foreign election interference is suddenly bad.

“Helene is gaining strength as it approaches the Florida Big Bend. A large eye has become apparent in satellite images, and that feature has been gradually clearing out over the past few hours. The minimum pressure has been dropping steadily to near 960 mb, and based on the aircraft flight-level wind data, the initial intensity is estimated to have increased to 90 kt. There have been several reports of tropical-storm-force winds occurring in portions of South Florida and the Florida Keys during the past few hours,” says a Thursday update from the National Hurricane Center.

“It should also be re-emphasized that Helene is a very large hurricane. In fact, comparing the system with previous hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico over the past couple of decades, Helene is at the upper bound in terms of size. As a result, storm surge, wind, and rainfall impacts will extend far away from the center and well outside the forecast cone, particularly on the east side. In addition, the fast forward speed when Helene moves inland will result in a far inland penetration of strong winds over parts of the southeastern United States, including strong gusts over higher terrain of the southern Appalachians. Accordingly, a higher-than-normal gust factor is indicated in the official forecast while Helene is inland,” the bulletin continued and holy shit this sounds like it’s going to be pretty bad.

In plainer English this means that for a lot of people and infrastructure in parts of Georgia and Alabama that – although they’ve been hit with plenty of storms that came in through the Gulf – this is likely the first time they’re ever going to be hit with true hurricane-force winds.

Just seems kind of silly to be doing this outdoors when it’s raining… and where a dude with a loudspeaker can scream “This is not a black thing, this is a YOU thing! It’s not a black thing, it’s a justice thing!” while Adams is forced to stand there smiling like a fucking idiot. The mayor said he’s not resigning either but then again he’s also said he isn’t corrupt, so we’ll see.

The now-unsealed indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams lists seven counts: Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Federal Program Bribery, and to Receive Campaign Contributions By Foreign Nationals, Wire fraud, Bribery, and two counts of Solicitation of a Contribution by a Foreign National. Sounds like a lot of years in the joint for the incompetent dumbass.

Apparently thinking just “fuck it,” Oregon Senator Ron Wyden on Thursday introduced a bill to add six more justices to the Supreme Court, the Washington Post reports on about as bold a message as one can send to voters sick of the robed gods imposing their cuntish will on Americans.

“SHOCKING BREAKING NEWS: As exposed by the Great John Solomon, a REAL Journalist who cares about the TRUTH, and the GREAT work of Congressman Barry Loudermilk and Republicans on the House Oversight Committee, the Deep State chose to disregard my direct authorization of at least 10,000 National Guard Troops to ensure that Washington, DC, was safe and secure on January 6, 2021. These Deep State subversives disobeyed the President’s directives, which would have prevented any unrest that day – January 6th, as it is known, would never have taken place,” wrote convicted felon former President Trump in the first half of a two-part shitpost on Thursday.

Of all the lies the fat fuck has told over the years, calling John Solomon “a REAL Journalist” is just so far beyond the pale it makes the overall lie about the insurrection here look relatively benign.

“These revelations END the Sham J6 Civil Hoaxes and the lawless DC Case brought by Deranged Jack Smith, which has already been demolished by the United States Supreme Court’s Historic Immunity and Fischer Decisions. I called for everyone to act PEACEFULLY and PATRIOTICALLY, and demanded that DC be PROTECTED. The Deep State, and Crazy Nancy Pelosi, who admitted to her daughter on videotape that she was ‘responsible,’ have to be held to account, including for the damages, wasted resources, and time spent defending the Witch Hunts and Hoaxes. We have to SAVE our broken Justice System!” the fat bastard continued in the second part of his rant.

A House GOP tried to play stupid when asked by CBS’s Scott MacFarlane Thursday about the blatantly racist tweet about Haitian Americans posted and then deleted by Louisianan Clay Higgins, with the Republican claiming “he doesn’t have Twitter on his phone,” per MacFarlane. “Never saw it when it went up,” said racist MAGA Congressman Clay Higgins of racist MAGA Congressman Clay Higgins’s tweet about “vudu” and “eating animals.” Asked if he felt any remorse, Higgins told MacFarlane “regrets hurting the young lady’s feelings,” referring to a Florida Congresswoman.

Asked if he believes what he wrote, Higgins said “Sure,” and “About Haitian gangs… yes.”

Alcoholic shitbrain Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred in DC for good, per a final ruling Thursday by a Bar Association judge panel, making the indicted former New York City mayor’s morning just slightly less bad than the indicted current New York City mayor’s. At this rate Bill DeBlasio will murder another groundhog and Mike Bloomberg will make only $25 million instead of the usual $35 million.

FBI agents on Thursday stopped by NYC Mayor Eric Adams’s official residence at Gracie Mansion to pick up his phone (again) hours before his indictment was to be unsealed, the AP reports.

It’s not clear if the phone is evidence in the charges Adams is about to be hit with or if it’s part of a completely separate probe, or why Adams didn’t sic any of the ghosts on the agents.

A new Marist/NPR/PBS News survey of likely voters in North Carolina finds Vice President Kamala Harris tied with convicted felon former President Trump at 48 each in the Tar Heel State, while Trump leads 50 to 49 percent in both Arizona and Georgia. Of course they left out Nevada.

Good God. We have so many questions. Like how the hell does a woman who’s lived in the United States for like three decades still talk like a first year ESL student? And do Fox News video editors get paid more than the industry average given the obviously challenging nature of packaging such, um, “interviews” for the network’s audience? And how many times did they try to get Melania to answer that simple question before just giving up and running with that?

A new set of surveys of likely voters by University of Massachusetts-Lowell and YouGov finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 48 to 46 percent in Pennsylvania and 48 to 43 percent in Michigan, Politico Playbook reports without actually linking the poll data, claiming it’s a “sneak peak” that one of their team “got an early look at.” In the Senate races Dems have wider leads with Michigan Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin up 47 to 34 percent over Republican former Congressman Mike Rogers for the open seat and incumbent Dem Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey ahead of hedge fund douchebag Dave McCormick 47 to 38 percent.

With the caveats that its’ an “Axios Vibes Survey by The Harris Poll,” combining two of the leading brands in political media douchebaggery, the finding by the survey asking Americans what they see as the top sources of mis- and disinformation nowadays is still pretty interesting, as 51 percent of respondents listed “Politicians spreading misinformation” as the most concerning origin.

Tied for second place on the non-exclusive multi-choice list were “Social media companies failing to stop misinformation” and “AI being used to deceive people” at 35 percent. A close third at 34 percent was “Media personalities spreading revisionist history.” Surprisingly “Foreign governments spreading misinformation” ranked only fifth at 30 percent. Not sure what that says about Americans after almost a decade of Russian propaganda ops on the internet. Maybe it’s just a given at this point and that the finding reflects a recognition of domestic bullshit as more salient.

Harris Poll CEO John Gerzema seems to see it that way. “It’s like, ‘The call is coming from inside the house. In past elections, there was always fear of misinformation and election interference coming from abroad. But here we see the most likely source of concern is America’s own politicians spreading misinformation. It used to be, we were worried about China or Russia, fake ads or Facebook. Now, no, it’s coming from the campaigns,” said Gerzema. Of course he didn’t single out any particular political campaign that might be a little more reliant on falsehoods than others.

On another finding, Axios writes “In one noteworthy partisan difference, however, Republicans are much more likely than Democrats to dismiss information that conflicts with their own views if it comes from a source they don’t know,” as if that’s somehow surprising or that it actually matters whether or not it’s from a source “they don’t know.” Try taking a look at the Fox News comments under the article on their own poll showing Kamala Harris up 2 percent over Trump.