“A really bad day for Deranged Jack Smith, the wacko prosecutor used for Crooked Joe Biden’s attack on his Political Opponent. Today, as in the past, the Supreme Court gave the Deranged One a high level SPANKING! His ‘real’ bosses, Andrew Weissmann and Lisa Monaco, not to mention Merrick Garland, whose once great reputation has been shattered by these Thugs, and his constant defense of Crooked Joe, must be furious at him. Garland ought to call an end to this never ending HOAX, and let people focus on bringing back Greatness to America!” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Tuesday, continuing to lord his perceived invincibility over the libs and their “rule of law.”

In a brief news letter note on Monday, The Atlantic’s David Graham raised a pretty good point about the potential risks of a prolonged end-zone dance, writing he “was fascinated to see Trump’s campaign immediately label the decision ‘total immunity.’ Maybe that says more about his love of winning than it does about his team’s strategy. I expect we’ll continue to see more of this: He’ll claim that the Supreme Court fully vindicated him, ignoring that the trial court still has much to work out here, and he’ll say this proves the cases against him are just political persecution… I wonder if this is a good idea, though. Polls show that strong majorities of Americans – understandably! – don’t think the president should be fully immune from prosecution (nor do they trust the Supreme Court). In spiking the football, Trump risks reminding voters about the things they like least about him.”

Once you make that decision on Thursday, there's no going back.

Don't do something you might regret.

— Rishi Sunak (@RishiSunak) July 2, 2024

Under a headline that will totally be taken on the substance of the article therein and not in anyway otherwise be snickered at, Axios reports that the Biden Administration is making an investment in geriatric care training, specifically granting $206 million to medical schools to address a national shortage of geriatricians. News consumers will absolutely take the time necessary to digest the content and not simply scroll past the headline, their sole takeaway being that the Biden White House is training its personnel to care for a certain geriatric-aged member of their staff.

Crashing through the southeastern Caribbean on Monday night, Hurricane Beryl hit sustained wind speeds of 160 mph, promoting it to a Category 5 hurricane, beating the previous record for earliest-declared Cat 5 storm by two weeks, USA Today reports.  Beryl will sustain much of its energy as it travels westerly toward Jamaica, after which it will steadily lose power

The previous record-holder, 2005’s Hurricane Emily, was declared a Category 5 on July 17, 2005.  Beryl became the earliest Category 4 hurricane on record and the first one declared a Cat 4 in June east of the Greater Antilles.

Illegal border crossings fell to their lowest level in more than three years in June following President Joe Biden invoking tougher rules and regulations at the southern border and taking away a major talking point for conservatives in the upcoming election system, CBS News reports.

Fewer than 85,000 undocumented migrants were processed at US immigration centers in June.  That’s the lowest level since 75,000 were caught in January 2021 after the pandemic.  It also marks the fourth consecutive monthly reduction, according to immigration officials.

Will Scharf, one of Donald Trump’s myriad lawyer who no longer must rely on the facts or the law, argues that the schemes to assemble false electors in the wake of Trump’s 2020 election loss was actually an official act of the President.  Scharf, however, doesn’t explain how the President is responsible for assembling slates of electors from various and random states when the Constitution excludes anything to do with electors from the President’s responsibility.  Maybe the Supreme Court can fix that for him.

Fresh off newfound presidential powers he gained thanks to a highly suspect decision from the Supreme Court, former president and convicted felon Donald Trump is now referring to that ruling to move to vacate his felony convictions, the New York Times reports.

In a letter to Judge Juan Merchan explicitly mentions the Supreme Court ruling, saying Trump’s act were covered by the immunity imbued by six activists in robes.  The letter will be made public Tuesday.

Here’s what Democrats should do: In the House and the Senate, put forth bills explicitly countering the SCOTUS decision, making Presidents criminally accountable in federal court for illegal acts done while in office, regardless of if they were impeached and convicted while in office. Call it “The Presidential Accountability Act.”

Put it out. Watch the Republicans vote against it or block it. Then put it out again. And watch the Republicans block it.  Make a commercial of Joe Biden sitting at the Resolute Desk waiting for the legislation to sign.  “C’mon, Republicans, whatcha waiting for?” Joe asked into the camera.  “Don’t you wanna hold me responsible?”

President Joe Biden is expected Monday to announce he’s declaring martial law and ordering sweeping arrests – and summary executions – of his political opponents now that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of effectively unlimited immunity from prosecution for actions taken while in office.

Probably. In all seriousness when we try to imagine what a canned speech of platitudes about democracy and the need to vote and so on would look like we’re coming up empty. Why even bother with a near-primetime televised address if that’s all he’s going to say? It was one thing to address the nation after the abortion and student loan decisions and promise take whatever steps he could to push back and skirt around the rulings. This is different. The fact that he’s even going to speak about it is kind of remarkable since this is a political matter that concerns him personally, on both ends of this term. What if any steps is he going to announce here? Should we dare to imagine that Dark Brandon’s going to come out here and do something kind of fucking crazy, like dumping every record of Trump’s criminality in office to show Americans what the Supreme Court just greenlit?

Maybe too much to hope for. Still, given that he’s responding like this at all it’s worth considering that this just might be at least some sort of effort at turning crisis into opportunity.

Documents show Palm Beach police detectives were told of the system Jeffrey Epstein set up to lure young girls for sex at his Florida home two years before federal prosecutors cut a lenient deal with him in 2008, new documents released by the Florida state government show.

Per CNN, a Palm Beach detective testified to a grand jury in July 2006 that the initial investigation was opened in March 2005 after a woman reported her stepdaughter was offered $300 to perform a sex act for “a man in Palm Beach.”  Investigators identified Epstein as the man, saying Epstein would tell girls already in his circle to bring their friends to his mansion, thereby recruiting more victims for a $200 finder’s fee.  When one girl brought a 23-year-old friend to Epstein, he said she was too old, the Palm Beach detectives report, telling his recruiters “the younger the better.”

Although Epstein was technically convicted of a crime with his plea agreement in 2008–when the GOP Bush brothers led the governments in DC and Tallahassee–he received no jail time, weekend detention and a guilty plea to two state solicitation charges, with no significant prison time, just 18 months in a lax work-release program.

In a total witch hunt by Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, the Minister for Environment, Climate Change, and Energy Fathimath Shamnaz Ali Saleem and two unnamed accomplices were arrested last week on suspicion of “performing a black magic spell” after cops allegedly found one or more coconuts with spells damning the president carved into them at her home, Metro UK reports.

So yeah we kind of lied in the headline since Saleem wasn’t technically arrested for witchcraft, but more like wizardry or maybe voodoo. It’s a thing in Maldivian politics. Former President Abdulla Gayoom’s minions were accused of rigging elections in 2013 by hiding eggs and coconuts in certain locations – including a cemetery – around the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago’s capital of Male.

President Biden’s campaign tells CBS’s Weijia Jiang that their internal polling post-debate shows no change from May: Trump 46 to Biden 45 percent. “The poll focused on 7 battleground states: AZ, GA, MI, NC, NV, PA, and WI,” Jiang writes, which we guess means was an average of them.

#NEWS: Chairman @Jim_Jordan and @HouseAdmin Chairman @RepBryanSteil open new probe into North Carolina State Board of Elections' decision to keep qualified candidates off the ballot in November.

Read the letter ↓ pic.twitter.com/v4e4Ucqo1M

— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) July 1, 2024

WOW! Never thought we’d see Jim Jordan and Bryan Stwat or whatever his name is standing up for the little guy who might not want to vote for either Biden or Trump in North Carolina and lol they’re not even fucking trying to hide it with this bullshit effort to meddle with a state process. It’s only in the footnotes that they mention an article about Robert F Kennedy Jr and Cornel West being blocked from the ballot, for now, in the Tar Heel State on some technicality.

A registered Republican voter and Pinellas County, Florida sheriff’s deputy resigned from the force on Monday after being charged by prosecutors with ten counts of possession of child pornography and ten counts of transmission of child pornography, Fox 13 reports.

Want to know how 33 year-old Trevor Scott Willis was caught? Well he was also kind of wasting taxpayer time while watching the child porn videos (whose description we will not reprint here) by using the wifi at the jailhouse he was guarding to access the horrible smut. Then he admitted it.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Meidas Touch reports that Hailey “Hawk Tuah” Welch wouldn’t give convicted felon former President Trump’s mushroom a “hawk tuah,” as in oral sex. “It’s a no from me,” Welch told some podcaster, meaning that two potbellied fanboys in Virginia got those shirts made for nothing.

Ughhhhhhhh holy shit, lol… As stupid and debased as all this is we’re not entirely sure Meidas Touch are wrong to treat this non-endorsement as if it was significant. “Hawk Tuah” is so viral.

Expect a Visit …. https://t.co/QC5XrZ6PGy

— Chris LaCivita (@LaCivitaC) July 1, 2024

Here’s Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita not-very-implicitly threatening a 21 year-old kid supposedly on the Biden campaign’s influencer payroll for just having the same take everyone did.

Democratic Party officials are considering formally nominating President Joe Biden as the 2024 nominee on July 21st to put an end the pundit circlejerk over replacing him, Bloomberg reports.

Peruvian 2021 presidential election loser Ivanka Fujimori on Monday sat for the opening statements in the trial brought over money laundering charges stemming from her also failed 2011 and 2016 campaigns, Reuters reports. It’s expected to be a long haul as the prosecution and defense are expected to call as many as 2,000 witnesses in the case against the daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori. “It is very likely that it will last until 2026”, said Fujimori’s lawyer Giulliana Loza.

Non-Correction: The current version of this article misspelled Keiko Fujimori’s first name as ‘Ivanka’ in the headline and text. National Zero does not regret the error and will not be correcting it.

A court in Dusseldorf, Germany on Monday ruled that members of the far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) cannot legally own firearms as the BfV domestic intelligence agency has formally placed the AfD under suspicion of working to undermine the country’s constitution, DPA reports.

In related news, DPA also reports that on Monday a court in Munich ruled that the AfD can be put under surveillance by Bavaria’s state police intel unit based on their public statements.

The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control.

Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.

I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2024

Obviously Mike Johnson isn’t going to allow them to get to the floor but it’s not a bad way to shine the progressive left’s light back on Trump after months and months of Dem infighting.