“On December 8, a pair of twins in Absecon, New Jersey, threatened to kill Department of Homeland Security (DHS) DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin and called to ‘shoot ICE on sight’ on social media. DHS and the Absecon Police Department SWAT team executed a search and arrest warrant for US citizens Ricardo Antonio Roman-Flores and Emilio Roman-Flores. Emilio Roman-Flores is being charged with unlawful possession of an assault weapon, possession of prohibited weapons, conspiracy terroristic threats, criminal coercion, threats, and cyber harassment. Ricardo Antonio Roman-Flores is charged with conspiracy terroristic threats,” says a DHS press release.

“‘Let this be a warning to anyone who dares threaten or attack our brave law enforcement officers,’ said Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons. ‘We will find you, we will arrest you, and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. We are NOT afraid of you. The extreme rhetoric of the news media, sanctuary politicians, and activists is leading directly to our law enforcement officers facing an 8,000 percent increase in death threats against them. If you threaten our law enforcement or DHS officials, we will hunt you down and you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.’ Both twins are American citizens. They are currently being held by the Absecon Police Department in New Jersey.”

Interesting how these two were nailed within a day of their posts but there doesn’t seem to be any news about MAGA assholes being cuffed for threatening Mark Kelly or Ilhan Omar, etc.

Spandex-wearing grapple-freak MAGA Congressman Jim Jordan on Wednesday spoke up at the morning’s all-hands House GOP meeting and, per Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman’s sources, said the party faces two choices on handling healthcare: One is that they suck up to it and add “reforms” to any extension of Obamacare subsidies – as in simply making it shittier and harder to obtain like they did with Medicaid – or the swing-seat “moderates” in the conference will end up joining with Dems on a discharge petition, which would pass easily, and thus no “reforms” to the ACA.

“VERY interesting. Made a lot of ears perk up in the room,” Sherman writes of the reaction.

Meanwhile Politico reports the meeting was otherwise a shitshow. “There was a general uneasiness because nothing is coming together,” one member said. “We wasted so much time,” said another.

Joe Biden's insane policies left American families unable to afford a decent living in their own country.

Through tax cuts, better paying jobs, and investment in American industry, President Trump is making America affordable again for working families one step at a time. https://t.co/XuynesfyEN

— JD Vance (@JDVance) December 10, 2025

Binge drinking war criminal Pete Hegseth on Tuesday ordered two F/A-18 Hornets to fly over the Gulf of Venezuela just outside of the socialist South American country’s nautical airspace in an obvious attempt at provocation toward dipshit dictator Nicolas Maduro’s regime, the AP reports.

On Wednesday National Zero reported that New York federal Judge Paul Engelmayer had complied with his now-statutory duty and ordered the release of the grand jury materials in the case against now-bubble-wrapped Club Fed inmate Ghislaine Maxwell – while copiously citing his previous objection to doing so from August, back when it’d been a matter of his discretion. The jurist at the time mulled granting the request if only to show that it was a bullshit effort by the Trump Regime to make it look like they were being “transparent” by seeking to unseal what the vast majority of had already been made public during Maxwell’s trial but decided to stick with SOP on grand jury secrecy.

Engelmayer’s colleague Judge Richard Berman – who presided over the 2019 case against convicted felon President Trump’s ex-bestie Jeffrey Epstein and would have overseen the trial had Jeff not been found dead in his federal lockup cell under questionable circumstances that year – had also last summer issued a similar ruling denying the Trump regime’s motion to unseal the grand jury materials in that case. Berman wrote the materials were a “mere hearsay snippet” of Dirty Jeff’s conduct, of “limited value” at best and, of course, a potential “diversion” from the DOJ’s files. Yet on Wednesday Berman followed Engelmayer – and the law – and ordered that material released.

Still, simply because Epstein never actually went on trial, there will still be more previously non-public information in this material and even if there aren’t any smoking guns it will be useful to journalists and OSINTers working on filling in gaps in the current understanding of Jeff’s exploits.

The largest well of files remains with the DOJ/FBI and the question isn’t whether there’s going to be fuckery but how much and whether it can be overcome through collective grit and determination.

“The Founders designed our government to be a system of checks and balances. Defendants, however, make clear that the only check they want is a blank one. Six months after they first federalized the California National Guard, Defendants still retain control of approximately 300 Guardsmen, despite no evidence that execution of federal law is impeded in any way-let alone significantly. What’s more, Defendants have sent California Guardsmen into other states, effectively creating a national police force made up of state troops. In response to Plaintiffs’ motion to enjoin this conduct, Defendants take the position that, after a valid initial federalization, all subsequent re-federalizations are completely, and forever, unreviewable by the courts. Defendants’ position is contrary to law. Accordingly, the Court ENJOINS Defendants’ federalization of California National Guard troops,” wrote US District Judge Charles Breyer in a ruling dropped Wednesday morning in the case of Newsom v Trump. Breyer stayed the ruling until Monday to give the regime time to appeal.

Trump Regime officials tell the Wall Street Journal that Nobel Peace Laureate activist Maria Corina Machado was smuggled out of Venezuela to the nearby Dutch territorial island of Curacao on Tuesday so she could travel to Oslo for the Wednesday award ceremony – which she didn’t make.

“I am very grateful to them. And this is a measure of what this recognition means to the Venezuelan people,” Machado told Nobel Committee Chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes in a phone call. “We feel very emotional and very honored, and that is why I am very sad and very sorry to tell you that I won’t be able to arrive in time for the ceremony, but I will be in Oslo, and I’m on my way to Oslo right now.”

Venezuela’s attorney general, Tarek Saab, has said that Machado will be considered a fugitive if she travels to Norway. What happens next and whether Machado returns to Venezuela is unclear.

Franklin is keeping his community safe, are you?

Call the HUD Crime Hotline at 1-800-347-3735 to report illegal criminal activity in HUD-funded housing. pic.twitter.com/xOgnQFv0xP

— Department of Housing and Urban Development (@HUDgov) December 10, 2025

There’s only so much a single green cartoon herpetofauna character can be abused and mutated into a symbol of fascist white nationalism and the “official” Pepe’s been dead for eight years anyway, so why not switch things up and ruin a completely different once-innocent and carefree creation?

Dem Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens – a Senate primary candidate – tells the New York Times she’s had enough of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F “Bobby Brainworms” Kennedy Jr’s batfuckery and will be introducing articles of impeachment against him.

“I am not one for political theater,” Stevens told the Times. “I am for standing up for the health and safety of the people I represent. It’s pretty clear that these are life-and-death issues for folks.”

A citizenship oath ceremony in Indianapolis on Monday ended with 38 of the 100 would-be new Americans turned away without their certificate after the Trump Regime arbitrarily and capriciously fucked them over in their cruel response to the murder of a National Guard soldier in DC last month by an Afghan national that had been granted asylum by the regime’s officials in April, NBC reports.

Indianapolis USCIS official Zhibo Zhao confirmed the oaths had been canceled due to new travel restrictions on Afghanistan, Burundi, Chad, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Laos, Libya, Myanmar, the Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, and Yemen. Asked if the 38 rejects – who have spent years and likely thousands and thousands of dollars in the insane grind of the legal immigration system – would have their oaths rescheduled or if they’re now subject to deportation, Zhao said “that is up to whoever’s in charge in Washington.”

“We just receive orders from the chain of command,” Zhao said. “I was in the military. Everything we do here in the federal government is just like in the military. Follow the chain of command and so on.”

Marion County Clerk Kate Sweeney Bell, who regularly sends her staff down to the oath ceremonies to register newly-eligible voters, issued a statement ripping the Trump Regime for fucking these people over: “These prospective citizens worked incredibly hard to reach this milestone. They studied our history, learned our laws, and demonstrated their commitment to our country. They arrived with their families, filled with pride and excitement, ready to take the oath of citizenship, only to have their dreams denied at the last minute by a racist policy from the federal government.”

Investigators combing through at least 315 piles of cremated human remains found last summer in empty desert land about an hour outside of Las Vegas have managed to identify just three of them and don’t expect to be able to make any progress on the remaining 312, KLAS 8 News Now reports.

Still pretty impressive that any of them could’ve been identified but it’d seem the large sample size helped. Cops still have no idea why the remains were dumped out there, though one theory is that a funeral home/crematorium went out of business and this was how they disposed of unclaimed ashes. Seems slightly too tidy though and one would think that if they have three names then they’d be able to match them with three death certificates and thus track down the culprit. Plus why wouldn’t the owners of that defunct business have found some other means of dumping the ashes better than friggin 315 (or more) distinct piles in the same patch of desert? Why not Lake Mead?

Something’s really weird and dark about all this. Maybe the failed funeral home/crematorium is the most plausible, prosaic reason but that it’s also the least bad one says a lot and nothing good.

“I have no higher priority than making America affordable again."

Watch President Trump speak in Pennsylvania last night. pic.twitter.com/ki0MchRDk1

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) December 10, 2025

“In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats), CBP is adding social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years,” says an update to the federal register printed Tuesday.

Just so you can “appreciate” this Trump post, coming right after he delivered indisputably the worst presidential speech in American history, even including William Henry Harrison’s inaugural address that led to his death, here’s the whole thing, in one single 487-word block of text, as posted:

Convicted felon President Trump is, no joke, at some dump of a casino in the fucking Poconos to deliver a speech in front of a banner that reads “LOWER PRICES, BIGGER PAYCHECKS” to kick off his long-awaited roadshow aimed at turning his piece of shit fascist party’s political fortunes around going into what’s expected to be a rough midterm year. Who the hell on his political team picked the goddamned “Mount Airy Casino Resort” over some kind of more normal setting that people won’t automatically associate with disabled boomers pissing away their reverse mortgage payouts on penny slot machines over the smell of roller grill hot dogs and cheap whiskey sour mix? What was wrong with, say, a historic railroad depot, a steel foundry, a high school gym, or a church?

Then again those more prosaic, everyday settings are a little less authentic to MAGA than a gutter casino with a 70-acre parking lot outside. The constant doubling down on the ephemeral promise of a big payout that never comes while every last drop of blood is sucked out of you and then you’re tossed aside is in fact much more on-brand for Trumpism than any union hall or worksite could be.

For the second time this week one of the eight or nine global conflicts that convicted felon President Trump claims to have solved is unsolving itself as the Associated Press reports that the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have made gains in an offensive toward the strategic city of Uvira in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing over 200,000 civilians and sending troops fleeing.

“There’s a risk of a massacre, and many people will perish,” said local leader Marafiki Masimango, who himself had fled from Uvira as the rebels approached the city. A “senior Congolese army officer” told the AP that soldiers were fleeing the rebel offensive and heading south and east toward the border with Burundi. Always a good sign when your generals are telling the media stuff like that.

One of convicted felon President Trump’s minions anonymously tells CNN that he and other minions are begging the fat bastard to stop trying to blame “Crooked Joe” and get real on economic issues.

“Joe Biden is no longer a threat to them because he’s out of office, he’s never going to be in office again,” the “them” being MAGA voters increasingly pissed with the Orange God Emperor. “You’ve got to feel their pain. You’ve got to talk about it every day,” the advisor continued. Problem is that Trump has been talking about it every day, and by talking he’s lying and calling it a “hoax.”

Another one of Donald’s handlers says they’ve started putting “policy time” on his daily schedule to try to coach him on taking the economy seriously and lol they are so completely, utterly fucked.

NASA’s Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977 to survey the outer solar system and is still ticking long after it drifted away from Saturn all the way back in friggin 1980, will be one light-day away from Earth in November 2026 if it doesn’t collide with an asteroid or something, CNN reports.

To put in perspective how much of a pain in the ass it is to continue to monitor and make any software/hardware tweaks to a spacecraft that old and far away, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Voyager project manager Suzy Dodd says “If I send a command at 8 am on a Monday morning, I’m going to get Voyager 1’s response back to me on Wednesday morning at approximately 8 am.”

Dodd thinks Voyagers 1 and/or 2 can make it a few years past their 50th anniversary in 2027.