The term “journalistic malpractice” is far too professional for what happened on Fox “News” earlier Wednesday evening; it was more like a category listing on Pornhub.  The network’s supposed “straight news” anchor Bret Baier demonstrated why I choose to use quotation marks with the network’s name.  Come to think of it, maybe “straight news” refers to sexual orientation targeted, not professionalism, because there was nothing professional about that interview.  Baier stopped being a journalist and embodied virtually every conservative news site troll who solely watches his network:  angry, ignorant, and ill-informed.

Kudos to Vice President Kamala Harris.  Although she had to take a split second after Baier asked various questions to suppress a well-deserved smirk, she handled herself with integrity and grace.  At times, though, her face went from concentrating to concerned as she repeatedly heard comments from a Fox “News” comment section pop out of the interviewer’s mouth. Baier made multiple, exceptionally obvious attempts to goad Harris into an insult about Trump supporters, Fox viewers or the network itself; they failed.

Pornstar Stormy Daniels on Wednesday told MSNBC that convicted felon former President Trump’s lawyers last summer tried to get her to sign another non-disclosure agreement in exchange for which they would nix a portion of the money she owes him for a civil case that was tossed a few years ago. Details are a little sketchy and hard to follow and we’re awaiting a real summary, but all of this was to stop Stormy from talking about him publicly before the 2024 election.

“Former President Trump is ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential contest 50 percent-48 percent, according to a new Fox News national survey. That’s a reversal from last month, when Harris had a narrow advantage. Harris, however, is ahead by 6 points among voters from the seven key battleground states, and the candidates are tied at 49 percent each among voters in close counties (where the Biden-Trump 2020 margin was less than 10 points). Trump’s advantage comes from a larger share in counties he won by more than 10 points in 2020 (64 percent-35 percent) than Harris has in counties Biden won by more than 10 points (58-39 percent),” says the lede to the new Fox News national polling, we copied verbatim because the PDFs of the actual data doesn’t show anything with a “battleground state”-only crosstab so we don’t actually know what the head-to-head “battleground number” is, just that Fox News says she’s up six over Trump.

Again, it would definitely suck in the short term if Harris lost the popular vote and won the Electoral College. But in the long term it would probably actual spell the end of it. And be funny karma.

Faced with a customer irate over an incorrect order on Tuesday, an unnamed 34 year-old worker at a Philadelphia Popeye’s Chicken location used an escalation technique to resolve the dispute and get the rude guest to leave the premises: Stabbing the 28 year-old repeatedly in the head and torso, forcing him to run away and seek immediate medical attention, 6ABC Philadelphia reports.

“The 28 year-old customer had some sort of dispute with employees over a food order and began attacking and assaulting one of the employees,” said Chief Inspector Scott Small with the Philadelphia Police Department said of the altercation at the Popeye’s on the 6000 block of North Broad Street in the city’s Logan section – a joint known to be somewhat rowdy. “Other employees intervened and tried to push this 28-year-old out – back out from the front door. That’s when the 34 year-old employee getting assaulted and attacked pulled a knife and stabbed the 28 year-old.”

Cops say the employee is cooperating and has not been charged. The customer is being held at a nearby hospital in stable condition. The article seems to imply that he’s in trouble, not the worker.

A former Fox News producer texted Zeteo media reporter Justin Baragona on Wednesday to review Bret Baier’s performance in the interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, writing that the propaganda network’s “straight news” anchor “showed, again, he’s not a ‘straight news’ anchor. He’s a hack who’s no different than Hannity or Watters. He bowed to the pressure from his MAGA fans because he doesn’t care as long as they don’t change the channel.”

And yeah, probably. But that doesn’t matter. The one and only purpose of Harris sitting for an interview with Baier was to show she has the balls to do what convicted felon former President Trump won’t: Hold it together and even kind of thrive in hostile territory. Just her transgender prison care answer alone was a sledgehammer to the reality the network’s viewers live in.

Sorry if this is one right wing jackass streamer or another for a bootleg feed of Vice President Kamala Harris’s interview on Fox News. This is what we’ve got right now. Fox News doesn’t just put these online for free, even though they make tons of money from reverse mortgages, Patriot Mobile, Liberty Catheters, Ivermectin, gold and silver coins, and all that other shit.

You will not be shocked to learn that convicted felon former President Trump’s “all-women town hall” aired on Wednesday was in front of an audience of his fans, CNN reports, writing that Fox “did not disclose that the female audience it selected for the event was packed with local Republican supporters and the network edited its broadcast to remove some of their vocal advocacy of Trump.”

“I want to thank you for coming to a room full of women the current administration would consider domestic terrorists,” said one of them in a question that Fox edited out. “I proudly cast my vote for you today. I hope they count it,” she added. Fox News organized the event with local GOP groups in the Forsyth County, Georgia area where the “town hall” had been taped on Wednesday.

“Free Speech For People issued a letter today to US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, demanding that they investigate threatening text messages, identify the source, and promptly take appropriate enforcement action against the perpetrators in order to protect Wisconsin’s voters.”

“Last week, thousands of young Wisconsin voters received a threatening text message: ‘WARNING: Violating WI Statutes 12.13 & 6.18 may result in fines up to $10,000 or 3.5 years in prison. Don’t vote in a state where you’re not eligible. STOP2END.’ It was distributed widely across Wisconsin, but specifically targeted young voters 18-25 years of age, including young staff members of the League of Women Voters and many voters across the University of Wisconsin system. It is not yet known how many thousands of voters received this message. Its sender remains anonymous.”

“Wisconsin law is clear: students who live and attend college in Wisconsin are allowed to choose whether to register to vote with their school address or their home address; and Wisconsin residents who attend college out-of-state may elect to vote absentee in Wisconsin. But now, while voting by mail is ongoing and one week before early in-person voting begins, students may be wondering whether their decision to vote in Wisconsin will subject them to investigation and prosecution – and whether the safest course of action is to avoid registering or voting at all,” says a press release from the Wisconsin League of Women voters on some fuckery in these Cheesehead State. The law only mandates that a voter have lived in the state for 28 days before voting and has for quite a while.

“New Texts Reveal Liz Cheney Communicated with Cassidy Hutchinson About Her Select Committee Testimony – without Hutchinson’s Attorney’s Knowledge – Despite Cheney Knowing it was Unethical,” screams the headline of the a press release by the House GOP’s investigation of the House January 6th Select Committee’s investigation – and a credibly suspected fifth columnist traitor who led at least one insurrectionist on a tour of the Capitol the day before, Barry Loudermilk, who says his minion have “obtained never-before-seen correspondence between January 6 Select Committee Vice-Chair Liz Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson and in 2022, while Hutchinson was still a subject of the Select Committee’s investigation.” WOW! BIG IF TRUE, RIGHT?!? SO UNETHICAL!

“In the months prior to Hutchinson’s explosive private and public testimony, Cheney communicated with Hutchinson, both directly and through an intermediary – Alyssa Farah Griffin – while Hutchinson was represented by her attorney, Stefan Passantino. The Select Committee conducted six transcribed interviews of Hutchinson in total. Passantino represented Hutchinson for the first three interviews,” and this incredibly boring press release goes on interminably, at no point mentioning that the Passantino cocksucker – whose fees were being paid by some Trump PAC – had told Hutchinson not to talk about the steering wheel grab and the ketchup meltdowns.

Wondering what if anything is the point here. Like if this Loudermilk cock knob was just going to do it anyway, that’s one thing. And maybe it was – just to steal a brilliant line from Colin Allred simply more “angertainment” to feed the base. But it also feels like it was something he was keeping the powder dry on until Liz Cheney came out and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris thinking this was totally going to somehow sink her credibility as a Harris backer. If it’s the latter then goddamn this is fucking weak. “Unethical”?!? That’s a scare word for the Liz Cheney fanbase? Holy shit, lol.

“Kamala’s support is collapsing with Black voters. Inflation is hell. Worse, their cities are being used as illegal alien dumping grounds. If Kamala gets 4 more years, the Black Community loses its political power forever because their neighborhoods will all be majority migrant,” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Wednesday, getting extra racist and demagogue-y in the middle of an ongoing freakout over the uncertain and possibly exaggerated size of the Black MAGA vote.

A new Quinnipiac University survey of likely voters in North Carolina finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 49 to 47 percent while Trump leads in Georgia 52 to 45 percent. Dem North Carolina AG Josh Stein leads the Black Nazi guy 52 to 40.

“Defendant has filed a Motion to Compel Discovery, ECF No. 167 (‘Motion to Compel’), and a Motion for an Order Regarding the Scope of the Prosecution Team, ECF No 169 (‘Motion on Scope’). Collectively, the motions seek an order requiring the prosecution to search nine government entities for fourteen categories of information, and to produce any discovered information to the defense.”

“For the reasons set forth below and in a Classified Supplement that will be distributed to the parties, the court will GRANT in part and DENY in part Defendant’s motions, and require Defendant to file any further motions to compel immunity-related discovery by October 30, 2024,” writes DC Circuit Judge Tanya Chutkan in a ruling tossing convicted felon former President Trump’s bid to stall the DC coup attempt case with more discovery ahead of an expected evidentiary unsealing.

“Second, the fact that government agents wondered whether foreign actors were involved in the January 6 riot is entirely compatible with the belief that Defendant shared in the responsibility for the events of that day,” is probably the highlight of the order.

International Alliance of Community Chaplains Chair Tracy Elder tells WJHL that on Saturday she was working on the ground in flood-ravaged Eastern Tennessee on Saturday when a group of MAGA militia pulled up and began threatening her and other relief volunteers thinking she was with FEMA.

“They were all armed, open carry not guns drawn, but they had surrounded them and there was a lady there that was yelling and threatening them,” Elder said. She told them she heard them out on their grievances about FEMA but explained that her organization was not associated with them.

“People just need to be heard, and then some of that does take a skill that doesn’t take a confrontation,” Elder said. “I said, ‘hey I hear you. You can say there’s no volunteers but I’m standing right in front of you honey and I’m here and we’re helping.'” There were however FEMA workers present but Elder didn’t tell them that. She said that once she talked them down, that FEMA was not actually confiscating supplies from locals, the militia left and then later came back with donations.

Hey Fake News! Turns out it’s not just Aurora…

‘Evil' super gang seizes four apartment complexes in major Texas city in new terrifying show of strength https://t.co/NAuWko8xg7

— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) October 16, 2024

We were to understand that Texas Governor Greg Abbot, Lt Governor Dan Patrick, and Attorney General Ken Paxton were Venezuelan gangbangers’ worst nightmare… And yet here the campaign led by their Orange Lord and Savior is calling them inadequate for not responding immediately to the violent “occupation,” by the Tren de Agua, the evilest gang in the entire history of the planet.

Centenarian former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday cast his ballot in the 2024 election, NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reports, citing the Carter Center. It’s not clear yet if the county clerk is MAGA and will file a criminal complaint accusing his family members of forging his ballot or something.

“There has been a person living out of a golf cart in and about Spanish Springs for a least five months and I guess that is OK. What happens when a few more homeless people start doing the same thing? I can’t believe I am the only one who has noticed this? How long will it be tolerated?” writes Village of La Reynalda resident Dennis Corrigan in a letter to Villages-News’s editors.

Lol. Maybe after seeing this person for five months that Corrigan might have approached and asked if they really are actually “living out of” it. Seems like a little bit of a stretch in practical terms considering that unfortunate folks who live out of cars, trucks, or vans tend do so because passenger vehicles are protected from the elements and roomy enough for an adult to sleep in.

Neither of which would seem to apply to the golf carts we’ve seen, even the souped up ones that are The Villages’ street vehicles, no doubt many of which never end up carrying a bag of clubs onto a course. But the fact that we even have to engage in speculative consideration speaks to overall weirdness and apparent atmosphere of alienation in the vast retirement community. Like how fucking hard is it to just ask around if you’re not going to ask the person themselves?

You will not be surprised to learn that, despite convicted felon former President Trump’s operation pumping out ads attacking Vice President Kamala Harris for supporting taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners and migrants, his maladministration’s federal bureau of prisons allowed a number of inmates to receive hormone therapy, the New York Times reports.

Catch ALL the West African wildlife action in this LIVE CAM of a small watering hole in the Namib Desert! Let’s see what the lone antelope or whatever he is does next!

“Harris campaign organized a conference of kids separated from their families under the Trump family separation plan prior to his Univision town hall,” the Bulwark’s Sam Stein reports.

Copied that verbatim because we don’t want to over or under-interpret what it actually means other than that the Veep’s team seem to want to remind Latino voters of the cruelest and most quasi-genocidal moments of the obese felon’s maladministration.