After ghoulish Fox host Laura Ingraham demands to see Joe Biden’s MRI after giggling away calls for Trump to release his medical records, Republican House Oversight Committee Chair and Gomer Pyle tribute artist Jamie Comer concurs:  “That, that’s what we want to do.  We wanna bring Dr. O’Connor in.  We have a lot of medical questions.  I’m gonna ask Ronny Jackson who was a White House Physician to come in and sit with us to help us ask the appropriate medical questions and we want to know, was there a coverup, and if there was a coverup was it because this physician has the same kind of liability that the President’s brother has with the Americorp Health scandal.”

That’s a lot of “ifs” Jamie’s throwing out to try to get something–anything–to stick in the minds of Fox viewers.  And O’Connor won’t violate HIPAA and discuss the President’s medical care without Biden’s permission.  It’s against professional ethics.  And speaking of professional ethics…

A sailor in the US Navy attempted to access Joe Biden’s medical record but did not succeed, the Navy said on Tuesday, in an incident that happened four months prior to the current questions swirling around the President’s reelection, Reuters reports.

In February, a coworker reported to supervisors that a sailor searched the military’s electronic medical records system for the President’s name but was unable to access any files.  Records indicate the unnamed individual tried to access the records two additional times within hours of the reported attempt.  The sailor received an administrative discipline for the attempted violation of privacy.

Despite previously calling Donald Trump “unhinged and unstable,” former South Carolina Republican Governor and last opponent in the primary Nikki Haley released her pledged convention delegates and urged them to support Trump, Politico reports.  But despite Haley’s albeit late statement of support, Trump’s vindictive campaign team refused to invite Haley to attend the convention, precluding any speaking slot or the possibility of a VP slot on the ticket.

A spokesperson for Haley confirmed that she “was not invited, and she’s fine with that. Trump deserves the convention he wants. She’s made it clear she’s voting for him and wishes him the best.”  There can be no opposition in the cult.

“Terrorist organizations continue to plot evil schemes to cause mayhem and chaos and suffering.  In Europe, Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine continues and Putin wants nothing less–nothing less–than Ukraine’s total subjugation, to end Ukraine’s democracy, destroy Ukraine’s culture, and to wipe Ukraine off the map,” President Joe Biden asserts in his address to NATO allies in Washington, DC.  “But make no mistake:  Ukraine can and will stop Putin.”

More than 36 hours after Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Texas, nearly two million residents are still without power and authorities said it could be days before electricity is restored for hundreds of thousands of Texans as the state sees temperatures soar into the 90s, the Washington Post reports.

As Republican Governor Greg Abbott tours Asia, more than 1.6 million people around Houston sat without electricity as high temperatures soared into the mid-90s with a heat index around 106.  Officials say power has been restored to more than seven million customers.  Four people in Texas and one in Louisiana were killed as Beryl crashed through the region.

“The Justice Department today announced the seizure of two domain names and the search of 968 social media accounts used by Russian actors to create an AI-enhanced social media bot farm that spread disinformation in the United States and abroad. The social media bot farm used elements of AI to create fictitious social media profiles – often purporting to belong to individuals in the United States – which the operators then used to promote messages in support of Russian government objectives, according to affidavits unsealed today,” says the Justice Department in a press release.

“In conjunction with the domain seizures and search warrant announced today, the FBI and the Cyber National Mission Force, in partnership with Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, the Netherlands General Intelligence and Security Service, Netherlands Military Intelligence and Security Service, and Netherlands Police released a joint cybersecurity advisory detailing the technology behind the social media bot farm, including details regarding how the bot farm’s creators leveraged their bespoke AI system in furtherance of the scheme. The advisory will allow social media platforms and researchers to identify and prevent the Russian government’s further use of the technology. In addition, X Corp (formerly, Twitter) voluntarily suspended the remaining bot accounts identified in the court documents for terms of service violations,” the release continued, and we’re waiting on Jim Jordan to start firing off subpoenas to all officials involved for weaponizing law enforcement and violating the Russian government’s constitutional right to free speech or whatever.

“One of President Biden’s most significant accomplishments was defeating a man who represented an existential threat to the nation and the institutions upon which this country has been founded: former President, Donald J. Trump. That’s why I ran for office in the first place. I know we cannot allow Trump to return to the White House and implement his dangerous Project 2025 plan that hurts the middle class and threatens rights and freedoms, including abortion.”

“I have heard from people in my district who are united in their concern for our country and our future. They want a leader who can continue to build on our successes but is also able to turn the nation’s attention to the urgent threat that Trump presents to our democracy, to our freedoms, and to our country. When I think of my four children and all of the rights that another Trump presidency endangers, and in light of the recent Supreme Court decision that gave inordinate power to the President of the United States, the stakes are too high – and the threat is too real – to stay silent.”

“I realize this is hard, but we have done hard things in pursuit of democracy since the founding of this nation. It is time to do so again. I know that President Biden and his team have been true public servants and have put the country and the best interests of democracy first and foremost in their considerations. And because I know President Biden cares deeply about the future of our country, I am asking that he declare that he won’t run for reelection and will help lead us through a process toward a new nominee,” says New Jersey Dem Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill in a statement, making her the seventh House Democrat to call on Biden to throw in the towel.

A lawyer for former Texas MAGAchruch Pastor Robert Morris, who served on convicted felon former President Trump’s “spiritual advisory council” and until last month led the large Gateway Church chain of congregations, had in 2007 told molestation victim Cindy Clemishire she was the one who had “initiated inappropriate behavior by coming into my client’s bedroom and getting in bed with him, which my client should not have allowed to happen,” on Christmas in 1980 when Clemshire was 12 and Morris was 20 or 21 and he had been staying with her family in Oklahoma, NBC News reports.

Morris resigned from Gateway last month after Clemishire came forward, obviously for not the first time as an adult, and admitted he had in fact molested her decades ago. The victim blaming bit was written by lawyer J Shelby Sharpe in response to Clemishire having hired a lawyer – Gentner Drummond, now Oklahoma’s Attorney General – and threatening to sue Morris, seeking $50,000 to cover the cost of counseling for the trauma of being molested, only for Clemishire to back out when Morris offered $25,000 if she signed an NDA. Sharpe denied to NBC he knew that Clemishire was 12 years old during the encounter. When confronted with a document stating it very clearly and that he definitely would have seen, Sharpe ceased contact with NBC and did not answer any emails.

Sharpe’s other clients include Southern Baptist Convention leader Paige Patterson, accused of covering up multiple instances of sexual assault and abuse within the organizations he oversaw.

WATCH:

Big crowd gathering to see President Trump ahead of his rally in Miami, Florida tonight at 7 pm EST!

It’s brutally humid here in Miami today, but people are waiting in the heat and rain showers to see President Trump! pic.twitter.com/EAOWhxfdl2

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 9, 2024

We mean we’ll have to source that from actual, reputable news sources on how many Trump fans were felled. Not Laura Loomer because she probably won’t give an accurate count. Or any count.

In a motion filed in just one of the several ongoing sexual assault cases against former Operation Underground Railroad founder Tim Ballard – played by adrenochrome-pilled freak Jim Caviezel in last year’s QAnon fan-favorite action thriller Sound of Freedom – accuser Celeste Borys told a court that a crime lab had informed her that DNA found on her skirt matched that of Ballard’s but the actual test result could not be released to her due to an ongoing criminal investigation, KTVX reports.

Twisted story short: Ballard, a Mormon former DHS agent, founded the anti-sex trafficking organization and went on undercover missions posing as an American pedophile interested in buying underage slaves in third world countries – a lamely melodramatic and action-packed fictionalization of which was the plot of Sound of Freedom. While on these missions, Ballard would recruit women to join him to pose as his wife and then proceed to coerce them into sex in a seedy hotel room overseas where they couldn’t escape. So really he was sex trafficking them himself.

Now Borys – Ballard’s former executive assistant – and at least four of these Utah Mormon housewives are exposing his rapey behavior. “It is believed that a search warrant was obtained, and Timothy Ballard provided a DNA sample. Approximately two weeks ago, the Utah County Detective verified to Plaintiffs, that the DNA was a 100 percent match of Ballard’s DNA,” Borys’s lawyers wrote in the motion filed Monday in opposition Ballard’s bid to dismiss the complaint.

“We write to request that you appoint a Special Counsel to investigate possible violations of federal ethics and tax laws by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas. Over the past year, public reporting and Senate investigations have uncovered evidence of repeated and willful omissions of gifts and income from Justice Thomas’s financial disclosure reports required by the Ethics in Government Act. The Senate is investigating these omissions as it considers improvements to ethics and tax laws,” write Dem Senators Sheldon White House and Ron Wyden in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and damn it’s about fucking time, fellas.

Continued: “The scale of the potential ethics violations by Justice Thomas, and the willful pattern of disregard for ethics laws, exceeds the conduct of other government officials investigated by the Justice Department for similar violations. The breadth of the omissions uncovered, and the serious possibility of additional tax fraud and false statement violations by Thomas and his associates, warrant the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate this misconduct. The Senate is not a prosecutorial body, and the Supreme Court has no fact-finding function of its own, making the executive all the more important if there is ever to be any complete determination of the facts.”

Bulls fans were disappointed Tuesday to learn that this year’s big dance against humans in Pamplona, Spain resulted in zero kills and just six injuries – only one of them a goring – suffered by mankind so far in the multi-day battle, Sky News reports on a disappointing streak for Team Bovine.

A new Emerson College national survey conducted after President Joe Biden’s clusterfuck of a debate performance against convicted felon former President Trump finds the Orange God Emperor leading Joe 46 to 43 percent nationally but the gap closes to a 50-50 tie when leaners are included in the head-to-head. When Russian assets Robert F Kennedy Jr, Jill Stein, and Cornel West are added to the mix Trump leads Biden 44 to 40 percent. Emerson of course did not include the Libertarian guy, who’s actually going to be on the ballot in a shit ton more states than Kennedy and West, nor did they mention what the “with leaners” number is in the full field.

Still, if this were the final Emerson number of the 2024 election we’d be feeling pretty confident about Biden’s chances since for at least the past two years they’ve been off by four to six percent in favor of the Republican. Examples: In February they found Dem Congressman Tom Suozzi +4 ahead of that Mazi Pilip idiot in the New York 3rd special election, Suozzi won +8. Last November they put Kentucky Attorney General Dan Cameron was +1 Dem Governor Andy Beshear. Then Beshear won by 5. In 2022 now-Senator John Fetterman was behind Dr Oz by 1 percent in Emerson’s final poll, then Fetterman won by 5. That Tudor Dixon dumbass was trailing Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer by 5 according to Emerson, Dixon lost by more than twice that. That Adam Laxalt dickbag was smoking Nevada Dem Senator Catharine Cortez Masto by 5. Then oops, she won in a squeaker.

We could keep going with these but then we’d look like we were taking the polling seriously.

Fox News on Tuesday oversold spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan’s legal acumen and clout by printing a press release laundered as a news article headlined “House Judiciary GOP calls on appellate courts to ‘reverse the verdict’ in NY v Trump in new staff report,” framing it as if it were an appellate brief or something – which doesn’t appear to even contain any actual legal arguments.

From the conclusion of the recycled bullshit embedded in Fox News’s “article,” emphasis ours:

New York appellate courts have been “dubbed the ’13th juror’… because judges are allowed to make decisions based on the facts of the case – not only the law.”204 One former Manhattan assistant district attorney called it “an underappreciated power that the appellate division has” when reviewing cases on appeal. The New York Court of Appeals characterized the intermediate appellate courts power to “review questions of law and questions of fact” as the “linchpin of our constitutional and statutory [appellate] design.” Given that President Trump’s indictment was conceived in legal and constitutional error and the trial exacerbated and compounded those errors, an honest review of the facts and the law will likely lead appellate courts to vacate the conviction and dismiss the indictment with prejudice. This will go a long way in restoring the American people’s trust and confidence in our justice system, although more work is ahead. In the meantime, the Committee and Select Subcommittee will continue our oversight of lawfare and its effect on the rule of law in the United States.

You really have to step back a little bit to appreciate the gap between the lede of the “article” claiming that Jordan’s “findings should prompt appellate courts to ‘reverse the verdict,'” and then the staff report itself simply saying it will all work out because see the previous 45 pages.

Their loss!
You are one of the best and smartest members of Congress.
Back stabbing Bob Good and the Never Trump freedom caucus members are the problem.
They have destroyed freedom caucus and have made it ineffective.
In doing, so they have made our entire Republican majority… pic.twitter.com/6o4iJwxhTr

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 9, 2024

Ohio MAGA Congressman Warren Davidson was tossed from the conservative klan on Monday for the sin of opposing chair Bob Good ahead of his narrow primary defeat to Trump-backed challenger John McGuire, all of it for Good’s original sin of endorsing heels-wearing Florida Gov Ron DeSantis’s failed Republican presidential primary bid ($400 golden Trump sneakers-wearing Texas scumbag Congressman Troy Nehls also resigned from the Caucasians in protest of Davidson’s ouster).

It’s not clear if white nationalist fellow former Freedom Caucasian Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “I feel you bro” was welcomed by Davidson, since we can’t read likes publicly anymore. Thanks, Elon.

French Fourth Reich-y party boss Marine Le Pen is under criminal investigation for possible illicit financing of her failed 2022 presidential campaign, the AP reports. Le Pen, whose National Rally Party got the shit kicked out of them in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, is being eyed for otherwise non-specific allegations of accepting a financial loan, misappropriation of property, fraud and forgery. No further details were available, but damned if it doesn’t sound very Kremlin-y.

Joe Manchin’s nightmare is coming true: Sherwood.news reports that wind has overtaken coal as a source of US electricity production for at least two months and counting starting in March through April, the most recent month that data is available from the Energy Information Administration, showing that wind turbines spit out 47,688 MWh nationally to coal-fired plants’ 37,223 MWh.

Anti-wind power advocates will no doubt be absolutely horrified by the news. “You want to see a bird graveyard, go under a windmill someday. You will see more dead birds than you’ve ever seen in your life,” said one in remarks last year. That same anti-wind power expert also in 2019 warned of a deadly form cancer caused by proximity to turbines. “They say the noise causes cancer,” the expert claimed at the time. The next year he asserted he knows more about wind than you do.

REPORT: Former Biden Stenographer Claims Biden Blackmailed Obama with Threats of Exposing Former President’s Alleged Private Homosexual Lifestyle

READ: https://t.co/mG6YEgsrvy pic.twitter.com/huk8c5iP3y

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) July 9, 2024

A very bad dog who was reaching for a treat in a jar stored behind a range accidentally turned on the stove and started a raging house fire in Parma, Ohio on Sunday, Cleveland19 reports.

The owner suffered second degree burns trying to rescue the four dogs present in the home that suffered extensive, though not total, damage in the inferno. Her three mutts were unharmed but sadly a fourth that she was watching for a friend who was out of town went to doggie heaven.

Or hell if they were the one who started to fire. It’s at least the second suspected case of pet-on-stove arson in Ohio in this year, as a Canton cat owner said one of her felines probably ignited a blaze that consumed a home in that city a few months ago. That cat is either in hell or headed there.

Convicted felon former President Trump on Monday commanded the mind-slaves in his party to fall in line behind that bullshit bill redundantly banning noncitizens from voting in federal elections, posting they must pass it, “or go home and cry yourself to sleep. Non citizen Illegal Migrants are getting the right to vote, being pushed by crooked Democrat Politicians who are not being stopped by an equally dishonest Justice Department. Our whole voting system is under siege. Harmeet and David, go to court and get this stopped, NOW.” No idea what the fuck this idiot is saying about going to court to get something stopped when the whole post was supposed to be about passing a bill.

Anyway, Trump continued with “The Dems can’t win on their policies, the only way they can win is to CHEAT. They do it at every level of government, and they do it well. That’s how they get an incapacitated moron like Joe Biden elected. Get tough RNC (Michael W!), Speaker Johnson, and all State and Local Republican politicians. The Justice Department is CORRUPT and won’t do a thing to help. They have no shame! All I can say is that if I’m elected President, we will pursue Election Fraudsters at levels never seen before, and they will be sent to prison for long periods of time. We already know who you are. DON’T DO IT! ZUCKERBUCKS, be careful!” with the “ZUCKERBUCKS” we take to mean as warning Mark Zuckerberg to stay away from election office philanthropy.

Also love the bitching at RNC chairman Mike Whatley, who replaced Ronna Not-Romney at the beginning of an election year specifically because she was “not good on election integrity.”