French rail company SNCF announced on Friday its high-speed train system had been hit by “deliberate arson attacks to damage [its] facilities,” fucking with at least 800,000 travelers headed for Paris on the opening weekend of the Olympics, Politico EU reports. Smells Russian.

“The system was hit by three fires near train tracks “in areas far from Paris,” SNCF exec Jean-Pierre Farandou said. “These locations were chosen to have serious consequences, because with one fire, they hit two train lines.” A 40 year-old Russian-born man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of intent to “to stir up hostility in France,” a charge that carries a 30 year sentence.

One day after President Joe Biden said Supreme Court ethics reform would be a focus of his last months in office, Justice Elena Kagan told a California conference organized by the 9th Circuit that the Court needs a way to enforce its ethics guidelines, NBC News reports.

The Court adopted a new code of conduct in November but, Kagan noted, did not include a system to investigate and enforce alleged violations. “The thing that can be criticized is, you know, rules usually have enforcement mechanisms attached to them, and this one — this set of rules — does not,” she said.

Kagan is not without her own benefactors.  While she didn’t accept lavish vacations or even a motor home like her colleagues Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, Kagan has accepted a total of $1,184 in gifts since she joined the Court, an investigation uncovered, which is just as bad as the $4 million Clarence and Ginny got, some people say.

“At this point, the Republican ticket is sort of like a walking billboard for men who don’t go to therapy–or men who need therapy, right?” journalist Liz Plank quips, noting that female voters are sniffing through the facade of masculinity of the GOP pairing.

Failed New York lawyer and Nosferatu role player Rudy Giuliani’s gross incompetence may have finally benefited him:  the judge who recently dismissed Giuliani’s bankruptcy case said he may be forced to reopen the case to appoint an overseer to straighten out the former Trump attorney’s financial information, NBC News reports.

Like Gateway Pundit, Giuliani filed for bankruptcy to try to protect assets at risk from various defamation lawsuits including one he lost to two Fulton County, Georgia election workers for $148 million.  After Giuliani repeatedly failed to submit demanded records to creditors, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Sean Lane threw out the filing and allowed Giuliani’s creditors to sue him.

Lane now, however, finds himself in a position where he cannot dismiss the case because Giuliani has not paid the required administrative fee, and in order to ensure Giuliani would pay the fees in the future, Lane could keep the case open and appoint a trustee to clear up, manage and liquidate Giuliani’s assets as appropriate.  That trustee would essentially keep Giuliani on an allowance approved by the court.  Lane asked the involved parties’ lawyers to submit their preferences.

The Trump Vance Circus and Clown Show released a statement Thursday evening hinting that Donald Trump won’t debate until Democrats formally nominate a candidate, putting blame on the delay on Barack Obama, who clearly is delaying things while his wife gains momentum to capture the nom.

“Given the continued political chaos surrounding Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, general election debate details cannot be finalized until Democrats formally decide on their nominee,” the campaign said in a post that screams insecurity.  “There is a strong sense by many in the Democrat Party–namely Barack Hussein Obama–that Kamala Harris is a Marxist fraud who cannot beat President Trump, and they are still holding out for someone ‘better.’ Therefore, it would be inappropriate to schedule things with Harris because Democrats very well could still change their minds.”

Trump debating a seasoned prosecutor and politician like Kamala Harris is his campaign’s worst nightmare.  To most non-cultish pundits, Trump lost his debates against Hillary Clinton in 2016 largely because he acted like a sexist punk.  If he gets on stage with a bi-racial, multicultural professional woman like Harris could make Trump blow a gasket like never before.

“So brace yourself for Kamalot, the mythologized, whimsical media-created facade for Kamala Harris,” says Kellyanne Conway-lite, the woman who pointed to the term Kamalot as a media creation just a second before.  “It’s coming guys:  Kamalot.  The media’s already falling in love.  [Cut to montage of talking heads in 5-second clips.]”

Gateway Pundit failed in its effort to protect its existence through a fraudulent bankruptcy filing, as a bankruptcy judge in Florida ruled the company sought the legal protections in “bad faith,” the Washington Post reports.

Southern District of Florida bankruptcy judge Mindy Mora ruled that the defamation suits brought by Fulton County, Georgia election workers Rudy Freeman and Shaye Moss and election technology company Dominion Voting Systems may proceed.  Mora noted Gateway Pundits’ assets were valued at 22 times the company’s debts, with $3 million in revenue in 2023.

“In this unusual bankruptcy case, truth is at the center of all disputes. Lack of truthful disclosure, theories based upon half-truths, claims for which truth could provide a defense — all possibilities are on display,” Mora wrote in her decision. “Litigation about truth pushed [Gateway Pundit] to file bankruptcy, but that unusual twist does not alter the Court’s duty to remain focused on bankruptcy issues.”

We’d normally take the time to transcribe at least part of the video above but frankly, Junior’s hyped-up rapid delivery makes any script ineffective. You simply have to listen to how fast Junior talks–and we can assure you we did not alter the original broadcast. The clammy skin, rapid speech, disjointed thoughts, and desperate need for attention may be a sign of chemical abuse, or it may be the Trump gene.

New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron denied Donald Trump’s attempt to force him off the case, saying a random encounter with a non-involved lawyer did not constitute an improper communication about the case, CNN reports.

The motion was brought after a local New York outlet reported a real estate lawyer, Adam Bailey, said he had discussed Trump’s case with Engoron in a courthouse hallway.  “I saw him in the corner [at the courthouse] and I told my client, ‘I need to go.’ And I walked over and we started talking … I wanted him to know what I think and why…I really want him to get it right,” Bailey recounted.  It’s unclear if Bailey ever had contact with Trump or had done business with the Trump Organization.

Apparently unfamiliar with New Yorkers’ habit of making their opinions known, Trump’s lawyers claimed this ranting eviction lawyer may have influenced the $454 million judgment against their client.  Saying that he was “accosted” by Bailey during the “90-second incident,” Engoron called the accusation a “nothingburger.”  In his decision, Engoron noted that he had overseen more than 2,600 motions during the 3-1/2 year case.  I am supremely confident in my ability to continue to serve, as I always have, impartially,” he stated.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s support among voters between the ages of 18 to 30 in living in urban and suburban areas in Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania is at 53 percent to convicted felon former President Trump’s 29 percent, a 20 percent improvement over Joe Biden’s 33 to 27 percent versus the fat fuck the pollsters at Change Reserach found last month, Semafor reports.

“What’s clear in this poll is President Harris is exciting a whole audience of youth that might have otherwise stayed home in November if she was not the candidate,” said pollster Max Lubin.

It’s on video. THIS VIDEO. Why don’t you guys own ANYTHING and take responsibility for what you say and do? All you do is whine and cry and blame other people. Just own it. Be men. Stand up for what you believe in. This is just like you disowning Project 2025. Just own it. https://t.co/XQznm3b3kV

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 25, 2024

Eyeliner-wearing Senator JD Vance earlier this year endorsed Pizzagate scumbag Jack Posobiec’s book Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them), Mother Jones reports on another example of Don Jr’s exceptionally shitty job vetting his dad’s running mate.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office on Thursday filed its opposition to fat former President Trump’s bid to toss his conviction on 34 counts on falsifying business records to cover up his two minute sexual encounter with pornstar Stormy Daniels, arguing “Defendant failed to preserve any immunity-based objection to most of the evidence that is the subject of his current motion.”

“His arguments are meritless in any event, since the evidence at issue either concerned unofficial conduct that is not subject to any immunity, or is a matter of public record that is not subject to preclusion. And even if some of this evidence were improperly admitted, any error was harmless in light of other overwhelming evidence of defendant’s guilt. Finally, defendant’s unpreserved challenge to the grand jury proceeding is beyond this Court’s review and fails in any event under the highly deferential standard for reviewing such proceedings.” In plainer English this means Trump forfeited his right to assert “presidential immunity” from the charges when he backed out of a pre-trial bid to move the case to federal court because he was an “officer of the United States.”

Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday addressed reporters’ questions about the debate schedule, saying “You have been asking me about the debate and I’ll tell you I’m ready to debate Donald Trump. I have agreed to the previously agreed upon September 10 debate. He agreed to that previously. Now, here he is backpedaling and I’m ready and I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race.. on a debate stage.. so I’m ready to go,” per CBS’s Scott MacFarlane.

She didn’t address Fox News’s unsolicited bid for a September 17th debate, but just now her account tweeted “Trump agreed on a September 10th debate. It now appears he’s backpedaling. Voters deserve to see the split screen that exists on a debate stage. I’m ready. So let’s go.”

A snap national survey by the New York Times/Siena College finds Vice President Kamala Harris trailing convicted felon former President Trump 48 to 47 percent among likely voters.

Not that we necessarily believe it because polls are shit this year, but in the Times’s convoluted and self-calibrated telling of the story, it’s a 5 percent improvement over Biden’s numbers.

And Harris actually leads 44 to 43 percent in the full field with Robert F Brainworms Jr included.

How was Kamala Harris transformed from an embarrassing incompetent to the coolest, most inspirational leader in the world in a single day? Dr. Ben Carson on America’s North Korean media landscape.

(1:57) Kamala Harris
(11:29) Donald Trump
(26:12) Why the Black Community Loves… pic.twitter.com/fDJ13dZON7

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 25, 2024

“Our Country cannot survive as a Socialist Nation, and that’s what the Democrats want it to be. The USA will never become a large scale version of Venezuela. All control is already being taken away from Sleepy Joe. He has Zero to say!!!” – then-corrupt President Trump tweeting, October 12, 2020.

“We’re not ready for a Marxist President, and Lyin’ Kamala Harris is a RADICAL LEFT MARXIST, AND WORSE!” – Convicted felon former President Trump, posting on Truth Social, July 25, 2024.

Mercury, the desolate, scorched rock that orbits the sun at about 0.4 percent of the Earth’s distance, may have a 10 mile-thick mantle of pure diamond underneath its outer crust, Space.com reports citing data crunched from NASA’s MESSENGER probe mission that ended in 2015.

“We calculate that, given the new estimate of the pressure at the mantle-core boundary, and knowing that Mercury is a carbon-rich planet, the carbon-bearing mineral that would form at the interface between mantle and core is diamond and not graphite,” said research team member Olivier Namur. “Our study uses geophysical data collected by the NASA MESSENGER spacecraft.”

Namur said that the mantle likely formed eons ago when a liquid carbon ocean became heated and compressed into diamond. He did not go on to speculate about what it will be like for our descendants to have to toil in oxygenated mines and paid shit wages by some Weyland-Yutani-like megacorporation to exploit the massive vein of diamond since that’s obviously where this is going.

Lest the be any doubt about that, directly to the right of this story on Space‍.‍com’s homepage is an article titled “Alien: The Xenomorph life cycle explained,” subheaded “Ahead of Alien: Romulus, We explore every stage of the Xenomorphs’ gruesome life cycle and its evolution across the entire Alien saga.” Cool how a site for science just prints science fiction without any editorial distinction.

Real life isn’t like some TGIF sitcom where the foreshadowing is obvious and hubris gets punished in obvious ways by writers who would be working on shows that were actually funny if they had the talent required. Which is to say simply because the selfish, unlikeable character says he has so many votes that he doesn’t need any more doesn’t mean he’s actually going to end up losing.

Still… This is exactly the sort of line the writers of Family Matters or Home Improvement would think was a clever way to set up the rest of the episode, especially when the younger sibling warns the arrogant teenager “I wouldn’t say that if I were youuuu…” Here in real life the Fox couchpeople just tried to change the subject and we cut that from the clip. It was all pride, no goeth before the fall.

In their final vote before going on a six week break, the US House on Thursday split mostly on party lines – except six Dems voted yes for some fucking reason – on an “emergency resolution” from malevolent razorback House Republican Conference chair Elise Stefanik that reads in part:

“Strongly condemning the Biden Administration and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris’s, failure to secure the United States border. Whereas, on March 24, 2021, President Biden asked Vice President Kamala Harris to serve as the administration’s border czar in charge of: working to address the ‘root causes’ of illegal immigration into the United States; Whereas it took Vice President Kamala Harris 93 days as the border czar before finally visiting the southern border on June 25, 2021; Whereas when Vice President Kamala Harris traveled near the southern border for the first time on June 25, 2021, she decided to travel to El Paso, Texas, 800 miles away from the lower Rio Grande…”

Yeah, that’s what they voted for instead of the bipartisan border package that Trump killed.