The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General on Thursday released a lengthy report on its review of former Attorney General Bill Barr’s involvement in a criminal investigation into allegations of election fraud in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in September 2020 and it’s not a good look for Barr, though the IG’s office concluded he hadn’t actually violated any rules.

Stupid story as short as possible: That month then-president Trump was constantly screaming about how there was going to be a massive fraud in the election, specifically over mail-in ballots. He seized upon an instance of nine military absentee ballots being found in a dumpster in Luzerne County and – funny enough – those ballots, seven of which were for Trump had been invalidated specifically because the voters had failed to enclose them in “secrecy envelopes” that state Republicans had demanded. Details like that didn’t matter to Trump or his fans, and he screamed at Barr to do something about it immediately. The best he had was skewing the narrative.

The IG’s report found he did: “The selective details about the investigation included in the initial [Middle District of PA] statement and the letter suggested that the actions of the individual who engaged in the conduct were intentional and likely chargeable criminally; however, even at that early stage of the investigation, Department leadership was aware of information that substantially undercut this narrative – including that the subject of the investigation was mentally impaired, appeared to have discarded the ballots by mistake, and would likely not be criminally charged. Indeed, the Department determined before Election Day that no charges would be brought in the matter, although it failed to inform the public of that fact until well after the election.”

House Oversight Chairbilly James Comer on Thursday admitted he had utterly failed to deliver accountability to the “Biden Crime Family,” and that simply hopes that Trump wins the 2024 election so a “new justice cabinet” will prosecute Joe, Jim, and Hunter Biden. He had to speak up and rush himself as Fox Business News began playing outro music over the end of the segment, one serving as a coda to thousands of man hours and millions of taxpayer dollars pissed away on creating a perception that Joe Biden is just as corrupt as Donald Trump in order to erase Biden’s advantage on the issue… and now Biden isn’t even running. The stench of failure must be suffocating Comer.

Supposedly leftist Deep State tech firm CrowdStrike on Wednesday decided to try to repair the reputational damage wrought by the cascading fuckup a faulty software update that canceled thousands of flights globally, brought down the London Stock Exchange, and all sorts of other miseries on downstream businesses far and wide. Their complimentary gift? CNN reports it’s a $10 Uber Eats voucher. Even better: The codes – for which it isn’t clear if Delta Airlines got one single $10 for the entire company or if they gave out hundreds to corporate employees – stopped working.

“Uber flagged it as fraud because of high usage rates,” a CrowdStrike spokesperson told CNN.

US gross domestic product grew 2.8 percent in the second quarter of FY 2024, crushing expectations of 2.1 percent and doubling the 1.4 percent gain in Q1 2024, CNBC reports.

Looking forward to hearing how the economy is watching convicted felon former President Trump’s poll numbers and was pricing in a win but if he loses it will be a depression even worse than 1929.

I’m Kamala Harris, and I’m running for President of the United States. pic.twitter.com/6qAM32btjj

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 25, 2024

Eyeliner-wearing Ohio Senator JD Vance last month abruptly broke off talks with Democrats on a bipartisan bill prohibiting insurance companies from charging new moms co-pays or other expenses related to childbirth while he was being vetted by convicted felon former President Trump’s campaign to join the fat bastard’s ticket as running mate, the Washington Post reports.

The sudden shift made all the more obvious by the fact that Vance had been working with Virginia Senator Tim Kaine on the bill since June 2023. Vance also backed out of supporting another bipartisan bill cracking down on fees charged by Visa and Mastercard with similarly curious timing.

Sources tell NBC News that former President Barack and former First Lady Michelle Obama were holding back on endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as to not overshadow President Biden’s withdrawal from the race and his own backing for the veep – something that will change in the next few days, with the two planning a joint appearance on the campaign trail in the near-to-middle term.

A “source close” to the 44th president said he’s “been in regular contact with [Harris] and thinks she’s been off to a great start.” The two have been in close contact since Sunday, with Obama offering his counsel to the veep on launching her campaign, specifically on how best to unify the party – which, if true, has been extremely valuable advice that Harris executed flawlessly.

A House Republican tells Axios that convicted felon former President Trump’s pick of eyeliner-wearing Ohio Senator JD Vance as his running mate was ill-advised, saying “The road got a lot harder. He was the only pick that wasn’t the safe pick. And I think everyone has now realized that.”

Another said “On the whole, the feeling is: [Vance] doesn’t add much. And now with Kamala at the top, the capacity to have expanded the map a little bit… would have been much more beneficial.”

Axios also points out that “Vance is the least-liked non-incumbent VP nominee since at least 1980, and the first to register a net negative favorability rating, according to CNN data analyst Harry Enten,” and that he ran 20 points behind Gov Mike DeWine on the Ohio GOP ticket in 2022.

Biden likely to keep same routine, accomplish 'nothing' in waning months of presidency: insiders https://t.co/8qpA5rsnvR

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 25, 2024

Two Russian and two Chinese bombers, apparently operating in coordination, were intercepted by NORAD fighter jets from the US and Canada as they approached US airspace in Alaska on Wednesday, CNN reports.  NORAD identified the Russian TU-95 Bear and Chinese H-6 bombers as they entered Alaska’s Air Defense Identification Zone, an area outside US airspace where US forces can redirect aircraft before they breach sovereign areas.

In response to the nuclear-armed game of “I’m not touching you,” NORAD deployed American F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, and Canadian CF-18 fighters.  Two things are unique:  it’s an unusual sighting of the Chinese craft that far north, which haven’t ventured into the Alaska ADIZ before.  It was also the first time the H-6 bombers were used on these types of incursion flights, giving US and Canadian forces their initial look at these renovated Soviet-era Tupolev Tu-16 twin-engine bombers.

As Death’s Uber continues to check house numbers on his street, 93-year-old Rupert Murdoch is attempting to change his will to ensure his right-leaning son Lachlan maintains control of the conservative media empire he created, the New York Times reports.  Murdoch’s efforts are being challenged in a Nevada probate court by his three other children, James, Elisabeth and Prudence, who all have more moderate political views.

The problem is, Rupert already essentially divided his estate up by establishing an irrevocable family trust almost a quarter century ago.  Rupert now wants to change the terms of the irrevocable trust to give Lachlan significantly more control over the media company, saying that should the company stray from its conservative voice, it would lose its audience and value, therefore harming the trust’s beneficiaries.

Despite calling the effort to change the trust “Project Harmony” hoping to avoid future conflict, Rupert’s underhanded attempt to wrest control away from his children while confirming his business model is to cater to conservative whims ultimately led to such a bad family rift, three of his children didn’t show up for his fifth wedding last month.

“Let me say at the outset,” human-weasel hybrid podcaster Ted Cruz (R-Quintana Roo) yips at the start of a promotional appearance on Fox to boost their copyrighted liberal panic, “Kamala can’t have my guns.  She can’t have my gasoline engine and she sure as hell can’t have my steaks and cheeseburgers.  She is a radical California leftist, and to be honest, she perfectly captures where today’s Democrat [sic] Party is.”

Yes, Ted–hey, guys, did you know Ted Cruz has a podcast?–the Democrat Party is in the White House today, in the leadership of the Senate, and in functional control of the House.  But the GOP is led by a rapist, a felon and a fraudster.

Minutes after the President addressed the nation, the First Lady of the United States, Dr. Jill Biden, posted a handwritten note to President Joe Biden’s supporters thanking them for their support and urging Joe’s faithful to wholeheartedly support his successor, Kamala Harris, in her presidential campaign.

Days after he announced on social media that he was halting his 2024 reelection bid and throwing the presidential race into momentary chaos, President Joe Biden will address the nation about his decision and the importance of keeping Donald Trump out of the Oval Office–stated in terms of voting to defend our democracy.  In the two days after he announced his withdrawal and his endorsement of his Vice President, Kamala Harris, forty thousand first-time voters registered to cast a ballot in the upcoming election.

A tourist spend last weekend in the hospital after sustaining third-degree burns on his bare feet when he walked on sand dunes in Death Valley when temperatures soared to 123º heat, according to the National Park Service.

CBS News reports the 42-year-old Belgian man wore flip-flops on Saturday while walking on Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, an area of the park that doesn’t have any marked trails but allows visitors to wander.  While on his walk, one of his plastic shoes broke and he stepped on the hot sand, burning his foot.  His family carried him to a parking lot to get help.

Convicted felon former President Trump will on Wednesday hold his first MAGA rally since President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid and Vice President Kamala Harris became his presumptive Democratic opponent in November. Minutes ago the fat bastard primed himself up for the show by posting “The Gag Order unConstitutionally placed on me is interfering with my Campaign against Lyin’ Kamala Harris. This is a FIRST in American History – A Highly Conflicted Democrat Judge putting a Gag Order on the Leading Candidate for President to benefit my Democrat Opponent. Can this really be allowed to stand?” as if Harris has anything to do with the two gag orders against him.

Rupert Murdoch is in a “secret legal battle” against three of his kids “over the future of the family’s media empire, as he moves to preserve it as a conservative political force after his death,” because of course it had to be like this since it was the plot of that popular HBO series that was a thinly veiled roman-a-clef of the Murdoch family and Fox News, the New York Times reports.

Basically Rupert made a change last year to the family trust to solidify oldest son Lachlan’s control over the Fox and News Corporations’ vast network of TV channels, radio stations, and newspapers after the old man finally kicks it, cutting out the other kids. “Those three siblings – James, Elisabeth and Prudence – were caught completely off-guard by their father’s effort to rewrite what was supposed to be an inviolable trust and have united to stop him. Remarkably, the ensuing battle has been playing out entirely out of public view,” the Times writes about the intra-family war.

What the family lacks however is a grossly incompetent older half-brother running a stupid and pointless third party presidential bid. That role was outsourced to Robert F Kennedy Jr in real life.

Doing so in just a tweet rather than a full-blown Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed, Republican former Georgia Lt Governor Geoff Duncan on Wednesday endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, following up on his endorsement of the former Democratic presumptive presidential nominee.

“I’m committed to beating Donald Trump. The only vehicle left for me to do that with is the Democratic Party. If that requires me to vote for, speak for, or endorse @KamalaHarris then count me in! 🇺🇸” Duncan, who could easily still be the Lieutenant Governor, wrote in the tweet.

Yeah this is probably exactly the kind of shit Trump’s handlers are trying to get him to not post, obviously suggesting some sort of conspiracy between Dems and the media to turn Harris into a racial chameleon or some shit he made up in his head. These headlines next to each other are about as remarkable as one that acknowledges that Barack Obama was the 44th white president. It’s actually literally fucking true that Kamala Harris is the first Indian-American US Senator and the first Black vice president. Those two facts about her background are not in tension with each other.

Trump also basically said outright he’s going to fire FBI Director Chris Wray if he’s elected, accusing him of lying and demanding he resign immediately for telling Congress he personally had not witnessed any signs of Biden declining physically or mentally over the last few years.

A fucking idiot’s joy ride in a stolen Seattle Fire Department engine ended all too quickly early Wednesday as the dipshit forgot to disengage the parking brake before revving up the hulking truck, making it only around the corner from the 9200 block of Second Avenue Southwest where it had been parked outside while firefighters responded to an unspecified emergency, KIRO reports.

The unnamed 22 year-old genius fled the scene but was arrested shortly thereafter. The fire truck was undamaged in the incident. The suspect was booked into King County jail pending charges.