“Pro” wrestler-turned-Fox News personality Tyrus on Tuesday was nonplussed over the success of the “White Dudes for Harris” event the previous evening, as evidenced by his word salad.

A new swing state survey by Bloomberg/Morning Consult – a sponsor/pollster combo that was absolute shit for Joe Biden for really the entirety of his campaign – shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump by 47 to 46 percent in the aggregate. In both Arizona and Wisconsin, Harris leads by 2 percent – 49 to 47, in Georgia they’re tied at 47. In Michigan Harris is up freaking 11 percent – 53 to 42, in Nevada she’s up 2 percent – 47 to 45. Trump is up 4 percent in Pennsylvania – 50 to 46, and by 2 percent in North Carolina – 48 to 46 percent.

We chose to ignore this pollster previously because, like we said, it was shit for Biden. In April Trump led in every state except Michigan and by 6 percent in the aggregate. We’re still not taking this new one literally or seriously, we did however pick it up to show movement and to give you the heads up that there’s going to be a lot of shrieking on the MAGA internet in response to these numbers.

A Petersburg, Virginia firefighter put in an admirable effort at getting away with sideswiping a parked car with a ladder truck during a training exercise after drinking 18 cans or bottles of an unspecified beer with 8 percent alcohol, passing most field sobriety tests from a responding cop, but ultimately it was the breathalyzer that did 34 year-old Aaron Hinspater in, the Progress-Index reports.

Hinspater was able to do the one-legged standing and a walk-and-turn after last week’s incident, but the “jerky eye movement” part was suspect. Then Hinspater also blew a 0.145 in two tests 20 minutes apart, so that kind of made it open and shut. “Hinspater then said he had consumed 18 beers that were at an 8 percent alcohol count,” the responding officer wrote in the report. The now-suspended-without-pay firefighter will be arraigned Friday morning in Petersburg General District Court on one count of first-offense driving while intoxicated, a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Trumpworld bows down to left-wing media lies, and keeps signaling he doesn’t want his most loyal foot soldiers — who kept with him even when very few others did — or their conservative ideas in his next administration. Interesting. pic.twitter.com/Ne38h9vI7z

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 30, 2024

“President Trump’s campaign has been very clear for over a year that Project 2025 had nothing to do with the campaign, did not speak for the campaign, and should not be associated with the campaign or the President in any way. Reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed and should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent their influence with President Trump and his campaign – it will not end well for you,” write Trump Reichsgauleiters Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles in a statement responding to reporting on a Heritage shitbag quitting.

On that, the Daily Beast’s Roger Sollenberger did a full write-up on that, with a source telling him that “the rift between the Trump campaign and the Heritage Foundation was not ideological, but rather was about power and who will ultimately control Trump World and make staffing decisions in a possible second Trump administration.” Meaning that this is at least partially separate from Trump’s bullshit attempts at “distancing” himself from the effort. But again, it’s hard to see how this would be happening if the campaign wasn’t being tagged with the fascist plot.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign jumped on the pile with a statement on saying “Project 2025 is on the ballot because Donald Trump is on the ballot. This is his agenda, written by his allies, for Donald Trump to inflict on our country. Hiding the 920-page blueprint from the American people doesn’t make it less real – in fact, it should make voters more concerned about what else Trump and his allies are hiding. What remains clear is that Trump, Vance, and the Project 2025 agenda will take America backwards: more abortion bans, more suffering, higher costs for the middle class, cuts to Social Security and Medicare, repeal of the ACA, and empowering Trump to destroy democracy.”

Personnel with the Pittsburgh Police Department, Pittsburgh Regional Transit, and the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority were two-thirds heroes on Tuesday when they were able to rescue two out of three ducklings that were trapped in a storm drain next to Allegheny Station, WPXI reports.

“Officials said they are holding out hope that, with enough rain, the third duckling will make it to the river safely and reunite with its siblings,” WPXI wrote in the close of the brief article, as if that’s going to end well for the poor bastard… if he/she is even still alive. Who the fuck says that they “hope” the little ducky gets blasted out of an outflow pipe during a torrential downpour? Just say “Hey we tried our best. At least we got two of them out but unfortunately the third was out of our reach.”

Project 2025 director Paul Dans has stepped down from the Heritage Foundation after pressure from Trump campaign leadership and ongoing power struggle over staffing control for potential second Trump Reich, according to an internal email obtained by the Daily Beast’s Roger Sollenberger.

While maybe it really is over “staffing,” it’s extremely hard to see this as happening if Project 2025 hadn’t become such a political liability for the rapey convicted felon and his minions. Increasing negative publicity for the agenda was one of the few things that Joe Biden legitimately had going good for him before he dropped out – and Kamala Harris sure as hell isn’t going to let it slide.

Convicted felon former President Trump on Tuesday called into New York City right wing AM talk radio station 770 WABC’s morning show Sid and Friends and ranted that Vice President Kamala Harris “doesn’t like Jewish people. You know it, I know it. Everybody knows it, and nobody wants to say it… If you’re Jewish, if you vote for a Democrat, you are a fool. An absolute fool.”

When host Sid Rosenberg then called Harris’s husband “a crappy Jew, a horrible Jew” to which Trump muttered “yes, yes” in agreement with the (likely) Jewish conservative AM host’s outrage.

A new survey of Pennsylvania likely voters by Susquehanna Research finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 47 to 43 percent in the Keystone State while incumbent Dem Senator Bob Casey leads hedge fund d-bag David McCormick by 47 to 42 percent.

Socialist Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro’s third term “Project 2024” policy plan is off to a great start so far as Reuters reports his secret police on Tuesday arrested opposition Voluntad Popular’s national coordinator Freddy Superlano for who knows what kind of made-up crimes.

Election authorities in the dysfunctional South American state also have yet to explain why their official results for all candidates showed Maduro winning a 51 percent plurality out of 139 percent.

White Dudes For Kamala is not designed to get white dudes to vote for Kamala. It is a bunch of Hollywood influencer types ripping on masculinity and whiteness in order to convince single white women to vote.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 30, 2024

Repent white dudes, for thy prophet hath spoken. Do not be tempted by the brown-skinned sorceress of politics, for she hath most cucksome, humilating designs for thee. Heed the word of thy fearless leader whom spake in squeaky tenor thy truth of righteous, virtuous masculinity.

Vice President Kamala Harris will hit the campaign trail next week with running mate Gov/Senator To Be Determined (D-??), signaling the announcement is imminent, Reuters’ Nandita Bose reports.

FBI officials on Tuesday further confirmed the very MAGA politics of would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks, telling the Senate they found an unspecified social media account in which Crooks had posted shit that appeared to “reflect anti-Semitic and anti-immigration themes,” Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports on exactly the information we’d been waiting for about that sick bastard.

“Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey obtained a court order forcing the Biden Administration to use congressionally appropriated funds to construct a barrier along the southern border. ‘The Biden Administration has failed to abide by the law to finish the construction of a wall along the southwest border,’ said Attorney General Bailey. ‘Joe Biden refuses to carry out his constitutionally mandated responsibilities, so we took him to court to force him to do his job. This is a huge step forward in the fight to secure our border at a key moment in our nation’s history.'”

“In FY 2020, Congress passed a law explicitly requiring the President to construct barrier systems at the southern border to keep unauthorized individuals out of our country. The law provided $1.4 billion to build the border wall and explicitly stated the money ‘shall only be available for construction of barrier systems along the southwest border.’ The Biden Administration refused to comply with Congress’ command. When asked why the Biden Administration ‘did not build a barrier, such as a wall, to keep migrants out,’ it replied that ‘[i]t is not the policy of this administration’ because ‘[w]e do not agree with the building of a wall.’ DHS expressed its intention to ‘end wall expansion.’ The Administration even ‘call[ed] on Congress to cancel remaining border wall funding’ because they knew that without congressional action, they would need to use the appropriated funds for their specified purpose: finish the construction of President Trump’s border wall.”

“Yet when Congress did not capitulate to its demands, the Biden Administration ignored its constitutional obligations to abide by Congress’ appropriations laws and opted not to use the funding for the purpose Congress directed,” says Missouri AG Andrew Bailey in a statement.

Seems a little “sus,” as the zoomers used to say before the olds appropriated it. Think we’ll wait on some reliable reporting to explain what actually happened and the practical implcations.

“Facebook has just admitted that it wrongly censored the Trump ‘attempted assassination photo,’ and got caught. Same thing for Google. They made it virtually impossible to find pictures or anything about this heinous act. Both are facing BIG BACKLASH OVER CENSORSHIP CLAIMS. Here we go again, another attempt at RIGGING THE ELECTION!!! GO AFTER META AND GOOGLE. LET THEM KNOW WE ARE ALL WISE TO THEM, WILL BE MUCH TOUGHER THIS TIME,” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Tuesday, admitting that he was too lazy and impotent to successfully “go after” the tech giants in his failed term and losing his shit over his deification being throttled mistakenly by Facebook’s algorithm that (probably) removes pics of blood and violence.

The fat fuck also late Monday shared a meme of FBI Director Christoper Wray saying “WHAT DID YOU KNOW AND WHEN DID YOU KNOW ABOUT IT? RETRUTH IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO ORDERED THE ASSASSINATION OF DONALD J TRUMP.” Which seems to indicate that Trump is, at the very least, entertaining the idea the FBI was in on the failed attempt on his life.

A review by CNN’s KFile finds eyeliner-wearing Mike Pence replacement JD Vance’s Ohio Senate primary campaign fundraising emails displaying a full-on obsession with “childless cat ladies,” with one in 2021 reading “Did you see me on FOX Primetime recently? I needed to speak DIRECTLY to patriots like you about the serious issue of radical childless leaders in this country. We can’t have people who don’t have a direct stake in this country making our most important decisions.”

“We’ve allowed ourselves to be dominated by childless sociopaths – they’re invested in NOTHING because they’re not invested in this country’s children. Fighting back won’t be easy – our childless opponents have a lot of free time. That’s why I need YOU to stand with me,” the message continued.

Another one reads, emphasis JD’s, “Our country is basically run by childless Democrats who are miserable in their own lives and want to make the rest of the country miserable too… What I want to know is: why have we turned our country over to people who don’t have a direct stake in it?”

And yeah, you already knew this guy’s a fucking freak… And a complete worm considering he backed out of supporting a bill that would obviously help incentivize reproduction.

“A large tropical wave centered several hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles is producing limited shower activity due to environmental dry air. Conditions are forecast to become a little more conducive for development over the warmer waters of the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, and a tropical depression could form late this week while the system is in the vicinity of the Greater Antilles or the Bahamas. Interests in the Greater Antilles, the Bahamas, and the southeastern US should monitor the progress of this system,” says the National Hurricane Center in a bulletin putting the probability of the wave developing into a named storm at 60 percent over the next seven days.

The tropical storm – or hurricane – would be called “Debby,” as “she” is the next name on the list.

Ugh… Can’t they just make a list from what people are actually naming their kids and not like some dumpy, Virginia Slims menthol-smoking bar hag 30 years past her “prime” is named? Same with “Marsha” or “Tammy” or… ooof, “Trish.” And lest you think we’re being somehow misogynistic here, we’re of the same mind about the next name on the list, “Ernesto.” It just sounds like some really flamboyant, fun Latino guy who’s good at dancing and always the life of the party. What if it hits Fire Island? Will the real-life Ernestos be welcome there anymore? Similarly who the fuck wants their dying thought to be “I wished I had heeded the evacuation warnings about Hurricane Dexter, now my family and I are going to drown in this massive storm surge because I didn’t take the name so seriously”? Or if instead of “Dexter” it was “Herman” or “Dillon” or “Barry” or “Herbert.”

We’re not advocating for them to switch to calling them “Argos” or “Cthulhu” or “Odin” or “Poseidon” or “Valkyrie” or – well we’re not advocating against it either. We’ll be perfectly fine with it if they just stick to normal names unweighted by association with a “type” of douchey or unlikeable person.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign on Tuesday rolled out a $50 million, three-week ad blitz with the first TV spot of her presidential bid, titled “Fearless,” ABC News reports.

The push comes as Politico Playbook on Tuesday led their morning newsletter with free earned media to convicted felon former President Trump’s campaign to end American democracy with “The DONALD TRUMP attack-ad onslaught begins today. After being knocked off-kilter for a week by President JOE BIDEN’s decision to end his re-election bid and the Democratic Party’s quick embrace of Harris, the former president’s campaign is ready to try and knock his new opponent down a few pegs. The Trump campaign’s first $12 million ad flight targeting Harris goes live in six swing states this morning, and it’s all about the border – tagging the VP as ‘failed, weak, dangerously liberal.'”

So back to horserace circlejerking and water-carrying for fascism for insider-y Beltway media.

“The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in Maricopa County, Arizona, for the July 30 primary election. The Justice Department enforces the federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all citizens to access the ballot. The department regularly deploys its staff to monitor for compliance with federal civil rights laws in elections in communities all across the country. In addition, the division also deploys federal observers from the Office of Personnel Management, where authorized by federal court order.”

“The Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section, working with US Attorneys’ Offices, enforces the civil provisions of federal statutes that protect the right to vote, including the Voting Rights Act, National Voter Registration Act, Help America Vote Act, Civil Rights Act and Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act,” says a Justice Department press release posted on Monday.

Why they would need to have wingtips on the ground on a primary day is not clear. Arizona is more or less America’s election denial capital (if only by a hair over Georgia and Michigan) but Kari Lake’s pretty much a lock for the Senate nomination. Maybe this is simply the DOJ’s dry run for monitoring in November, when the MAGA freaks will be “monitoring” the polls themselves en masse?

Monday night’s “White Dudes for Harris” online event, which might have cost like $900 to produce, if that, drew more than 200,000 viewers and raised over $4 million, Politico reports.

In related news, free speech crusader Elon Musk for some reason perman-banned @dudes4harris from Twitter just hours before the successful event. Zero explanation was given for the canceling.