Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eleanor J Hunter didn’t buy it when her fellow jurist, Republican Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, claimed on Tuesday that it was anti-itch cream, not alcohol detected by the ankle monitor he’s been forced to wear while awaiting trial for the fatal 2023 shooting of wife Sheryl during a drunken argument at their home, Fox 11 reports.

It’s not clear if Ferguson, described by People Magazine as “active in local Republican politics,” tried to claim that, per his lawyer, Ferguson had applied the anti-itch cream and gel “on his skin under the ankle monitor to help ease the blistering, redness and swelling, which is what caused the ankle monitor to spike” and then added hand santizer to ward off potential infection from all the chafing, because he bought that excuse from a similarly situated defendant in his own courtroom and thought it would work on Hunter. It didn’t, and Hunter ordered him taken to the clink and resetting his bail from $1 million to $2 million ahead of his next court date on November 1st.

It’s not clear if Ferguson posted or was able to post a new bond. He faces trial on one felony count of murder and one felony enhancement of personal use of a firearm and one felony enhancement of discharge of a firearm causing great bodily injury and death for shooting Sheryl in the chest during a drunken argument on August 3, 2023. The couple’s 23 year-old son Phil said he witnessed them first arguing over dinner at a Mexican place where Jeff made a gun-like hand gesture at her chest. Then at home, the argument flared up again in the living room when Sheryl screamed “Why don’t you point a real gun at me?” Jeff did, pulling a .40 Glock he kept strapped to his ankle and promptly shooting her in the chest. Jeff then dialed 911 and when the dispatcher asked if he shot his wife the judge said he wasn’t ready to discuss it at the time. Before the cops came he then texted his clerk and said “I just lost it. I just shot my wife. I won’t be in tomorrow. I will be in custody. I’m so sorry.”

Now this headline is not sarcastic as CNN reports none other than convicted felon former President Trump’s defense lawyer from the bench, Judge Aileen Cannon, has been assigned the case against would-be golf course assassin Ryan Routh. He’s going to be buried under a federal prison after a 45-minute trial. Hell his lawyer might as well just quit now and avoid getting sent there too.

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— Mark Robinson (@markrobinsonNC) September 24, 2024

Watch out CNN, here comes the BOOM from legal mastermind Jesse R Binnall, the Team Kraken member behind former Hunter Biden pal Tony Bobulinski’s defamation lawsuits against Dem New York Congressman Dan Goldman and former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson, and convicted felon former President Trump’s failed bids to withhold documents from the House January 6th Select Committee and avert getting ruled an insurrectionist and disqualified in Colorado. He’s leading a huge INVESTIGATION into how you used some AI machine to fake comments about jerking off to trans porn 12 years ago! Might as well give up now and save yourselves the pain and suffering!

YOU’RE ABOUT TO GET BINNALLED YOU LEFTIST FAKE NEWS MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

National Hurricane Center: “Helene is expected to rapidly intensify and grow in size over the eastern Gulf of Mexico. There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge along the entire west coast of the Florida Peninsula and Florida Big Bend. The highest inundation levels are expected along the coast of the Florida Big Bend. Residents in those areas should follow advice given by local officials and evacuate if told to do so. Damaging hurricane-force winds are expected along portions of coast of the Florida Big Bend, where a Hurricane Warning is now in effect. Preparations to protect life and property should be complete by early Thursday since tropical storm conditions are expected to begin within this area on Thursday. Considerable flash and urban flooding is expected across portions of Florida, the Southeast, southern Appalachians, and the Tennessee Valley Wednesday through Friday. This includes the risk of landslides across the southern Appalachians. Widespread minor to moderate river flooding is likely, and isolated major river flooding is possible.”

Shitty MAGA pollster Rasmussen screwed something up in Pennsylvania, as they found that 50 percent of likely voters in the Keystone State support Vice President Kamala Harris over their Orange Messiah, convicted felon former President Trump. Guess he won’t be posting about this one.

🚨 JUST IN: Diddy’s former bodyguard has revealed the mogul retained tapes of big politicians partaking in his infamous “freak off” parties, per Daily Mail

This is getting spicier every day.

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— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 24, 2024

From the rest of freelance “journalist” Nick Sortor’s tweet after the cutoff: “The bodyguard says Diddy’s trial would very likely expose high-level officials and celebrities, especially in New York. ‘This is all bigger than Diddy,’ he said without naming names. Hillary Clinton was US Senator for New York while Diddy was supposedly running this traff*cking operation with ‘high-level officials.’ I can’t help but wonder how much she knows.” Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh man, these fucking people, lol.

At the high level you can absolutely say there are similarities between the Jeffrey Epstein and “Diddy” cases. Totally fair to make the comparison of two wealthy scumbags using their money and power to systemically abuse women and girls (though as far we know there’s no underage element to the Combs case). But this asshole and his ilk are trying wayyyyyy to hard to put Combs on Epstein’s level politically, to the point where it’s like they’re experiencing serious withdrawal symptoms after the “Epstein files” left them wanting for some devastating Clinton BOMBSHELL.

Like they really think Hillary sexually abused some 20 year-old model with P Diddy in 2001? And even if she did in what universe does that somehow help the Republican Party win elections now?

“We write to express serious concerns about potential violations of US law arising from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent visit to Pennsylvania and request a full investigation into the use of US military assets and federal resources in relation to the visit. As reported, President Zelensky visited Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Sunday to tour the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, a facility that produces military equipment for Ukraine. The Ukrainian President was accompanied exclusively by Democrats including Governor Josh Shapiro, Senator Bob Casey, and Representative Matt Cartwright, forty-two days before the election in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania.”

“Zelensky’s visit and his comments criticizing the Trump-Vance ticket as ‘too radical,’ as well as arguing that under Vance, ‘America is headed for global conflict,’ smack of a Kamala Campaign stump speech. These actions have raised serious concerns that the visit may have been politically motivated, potentially violating US laws such as the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities while on duty or using government resources for such activities.”

“Additionally, it has come to our attention that President Zelensky may have flown into Pennsylvania on a US Air Force C-17 military aircraft and was provided Secret Service protection, both of which involve the use of US taxpayer funds. There is concern that these resources were used for purposes unrelated to US national security or bilateral diplomacy but rather to support a politically significant visit ahead of a major US election. If taxpayer dollars were used to facilitate this visit in a way that may violate federal laws or ethical guidelines, it is essential that Congress and the public receive a full accounting of those expenditures and the motivations behind the visit,” write MAGA Congressmen Lance Gooden, Clay Higgins, Andy Biggs, and a bunch of the other more white nationalist members in a letter to the Defense and Justice Department inspectors general.

National Zero is not Page Six:  we normally do not note which celebrity is sleeping with whom.  But this is the exception:  Sean Combs, the entrepreneur known as P. Diddy with the “P” standing for “predator,” is now rooming in the same cell block in Brooklyn’s  Metropolitan Detention Center as cryptofraud Sam Bankman-Fried, NBC4 in New York reports.

In other cryptofraud news, Bankman-Fried associate Caroline Ellison was sentenced to two years in prison for her role in running a hedge fund connected to SBF’s fraudulent FTX exchange.  The sentence is a fraction of SBF’s 25-year prison sentence, with prosecutors saying Ellison was very cooperative during the investigation.

Some asshole fired shots into an empty office used by Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee in Tempe, Arizona on Monday night, NBC News reports citing a statement from local cops. “We can confirm that on 9/23/24, what appears to be damage from gunfire at… a DNC Campaign Office, was discovered,” said Tempe Police Department, later confirmed by Arizona DNC manager Sean McEnerney who said “Overnight, several shots were fired into our Tempe Democratic Party coordinated campaign office,” adding that no one was injured.

Not that this is terribly shocking considering they used a friggin Xbox controller to pilot the goddamned thing, but on Tuesday a contractor for imploded undersea expedition company OceanGate testified to a Coast Guard inquiry that she saw the surface team for the Titan sub track its location manually using a pen and notebook along with an Excel spreadsheet, Insider reports.

“There were delays because there was this manual process of first writing down the lat-long coordinates and then typing them in,” said former OceanGate contract employee Antonella Wilby, adding that they then imported data from the spreadsheet into a mapping program. “We tried to do that every five minutes, but it was a lot to do,” she said was fired after calling the system “idiotic.”

Wilby admitted it wasn’t “the most tactful way” to communicate her concerns. “But I do stand by that. It was. It just – the whole system was absolutely idiotic. But that, of course, wasn’t received well after the dive. Wendy Rush told me, ‘Well, we can retrain you so that you understand how the mapping works, because we’ve had this foremost expert design it for us,'” Wilby continued, referring to now-imploded OceanGate founder Stockton Rush’s widow, who apparently worked there too.

You’d think that for $250,000 a ticket that maybe OceanGate could have had the “foremost expert” design a system that would automatically receive the data and spit out the coordinates so they didn’t need to use a friggin Excel spreadsheet to track where their “state of the art” sub was.

“Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar and the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee will hold a hearing on Trump’s Project 2025. Featuring testimony from everyday Americans who know firsthand how Trump’s Project 2025 have or will hurt them and their families, this hearing will explore the impact of proposals to criminalize abortion nationwide, hurt the middle class and end Social Security and Medicare as we know it,” says the descriptor on the House Minority Leader’s YouTube page.

DC Circuit Judge Tanya Chutkan on Tuesday gave leave to Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s request to file an 180 page report detailing convicted felon former President Trump’s guilt in his failed post 2020 election coup attempt, Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports.

A new Quinnipiac University national survey of likely voters finds 64 percent of respondents saying they would like to see another debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and convicted felon former President Trump versus 31 percent saying one was enough. In a very telling revelation about how the respective partisan sides feel about the way it went, among Dem respondents it was 70 percent yes to 26 percent no net +44, while just 58 percent of Republicans said yes to 36 percent no for a net of +22 percent ready for another round of “3-on-1” they can say Trump won anyway.

Trump leads Harris 48 to 47 percent in the full field but they’re tied nationally at 48 head-to-head.

A new Reuters/Ipsos national survey finds former McDonald’s employee Kamala Harris leading frequent McDonald’s eater Donald Trump 50 to 44 percent among likely voters in the race to lead the country that invented McDonald’s. Harris trails the Big Mac-chomping slob on the question of which would be better for the economy by a mere 43 to 41 percent, an improvement from an 11 point delta in July. In related news McDonald’s is extending its $5 meal deal through December.

In more related news Breitbart’s business/finance beat guy John Nolte on Tuesday printed a piece titled “Media Appear Scared to Confirm Kamala Harris’s McDonald’s Job,” writing “The corrupt corporate media appear terrified to look into the disputed claim that sitting Vice President Kamala Harris once worked at McDonald’s. Over several years, Harris has used the fact she once worked at McDonald’s while attending college to burnish her middle-class bona fides (which are also disputed). Although Harris is 59 years old and has been a public figure for two decades, there is no record of her mentioning this job until 2019, during her failed attempt to run for president.”

“The McDonald’s job has also been part of her 2024 campaign, including being featured prominently in a campaign ad. Nevertheless, there is no public record that shows Harris ever worked at McDonald’s, not in her two memoirs written in 2010 and 2019 and not on a 1987 job application for a law clerk position in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office that required the applicant list every job held going back ten years, which would have included her time at McDonald’s. Odder still, the Harris campaign refuses to provide confirmation of the job, which could be done easily with old tax documents or simply by naming the franchise location,” Nolte continued in the opinion/analysis.

We’re joining just as the fat fuck is dancing on stage ahead of what’s supposed to be a speech on “economic policy” and we’ll see if maybe 30 percent of it is about money and jobs.

Sounding like a middle manager telling a slacker he needs those reports by the end of the week, North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis on Tuesday told CNN’s Manu Raju that he was giving Lt Gov Mark Robinson until Friday to sue Raju’s employer for defamation or something or otherwise other Republicans would be pulling their endorsements for Big Mark in the Tar Heel State’s once-winnable gubernatorial election. “If Mr Robinson [note how Tillis doesn’t address him as ‘Lieutenant Governor’] doesn’t put forth facts as part of a lawsuit that would discredit the sources by this week, then we’ve got to move on. We’ve got an election that’s 40 days away, and we’ve got to move on.”

“(Trump has yet to rescind endorsement),” Raju notes parenthetically, lol. Also funny is the “move on,” like they need to process the grief of a loss and begin healing before it happens.

Asked by Raju if he thinks Robinson can win, Tillis said “I supported a primary opponent against Mr. Robinson because I didn’t think he could win the race then, and I was working with far less information than I’m in possession of now. And I’m hoping he discredits that information.”

“My team and I have worked relentlessly to secure a filibuster-proof 33-vote majority to get winner-take-all passed before the November election. Given everything at stake for Nebraska and our country, we have left every inch on the field to get this done. Unfortunately, we could not persuade 33 state senators. Senator Mike McDonnell of Omaha has confirmed he is unwilling to vote for winner-take-all before the 2024 election. That is profoundly disappointing to me and the many others who have worked so earnestly to ensure all Nebraskans’ votes are sought after equally this election. Based on the lack of 33 votes, I have no plans to call a special session on this issue prior to the 2024 election. I am grateful to the many Nebraskans who made their voices heard during this process,” says Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen in a Tuesday statement confirming that he’s giving up on handing convicted felon former President Trump a free electoral college vote.

There’s still six weeks to go but damn if this doesn’t sound like giving up. Would like to think that Lindsey Graham flying there actually turned the holdouts off even more. It’s a comforting thought.

A new CNN/SSRS survey of likely voters nationally finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump by 47 to 46 percent. Harris is 2 percent underwater on net favorability at 46 to 48 percent favorable/unfav to Trump’s negative 13 percent 42 to 55 fav/unfav.

In what’s believed to be the first ever documented case or corporal punishment in nature, new research from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior details observations of cyanea maraud octopuses not so much leading but enforcing group hunts with less-intelligent species of fish – and often beating the fish for getting distracted and failing to stay focused, NBC News reports.

The fish most often getting beaten for not following the octopus’s commands appear to be the blacktip groupers. “The ones that get more punched are the main exploiters of the group. These are the ambush predators, the ones that don’t move, don’t look for prey,” said the study’s lead author, postdoctoral researcher Eduardo Sampaio. “If the group is very still and everyone is around the octopus, it starts punching, but if the group is moving along the habitat, this means that they’re looking for prey, so the octopus is happy. It doesn’t punch anyone.” Sampaio theorizes this is learned, and not instinctual behavior as the younger octos seem to have a harder time fish-herding.

“In my intuition, I think it’s something they learn, because the smaller octopuses seem to have a higher difficulty to collaborate with fish than the large ones,” Sampaio told NBC News.

Jesus Dork Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wasn’t really in the mood on Tuesday to actually try to defend Anthony D’Esposito, one of the members key to his tenuous majority, from very credible allegations of graft instead just insisting the New York Times’s reporting on it was just a “partisan hit piece.” Later Johnson touched his face a lot when another reporter asked if he would stay out of it if Vice President Kamala Harris defeats his Orange Jesus in November. Johnson still qualified his response with the old “if it’s a free and fair election,” as if the last one he tried to overturn wasn’t.