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.

“Today’s Historic Decision by the Supreme Court should end all of Crooked Joe Biden’s Witch Hunts against me, including the New York Hoaxes – The Manhattan SCAM cooked up by Soros backed DA, Alvin Bragg, Racist New York Attorney General Tish James’ shameless ATTACK on the amazing business that I have built, and the FAKE Bergdorf’s ‘case.’ PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Truth Social after the Supreme Court on Monday seriously jammed up Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s DC case against him.

An exuberant and overconfident Trump is especially fun to watch right now as he just knows the political and legal situations for him should remain completely static through November, that it’s all going to be smooth sailing from here and that certain other actors will exercise all restraint.

Engineers with Chinese commercial concern Space Pioneer on Sunday couldn’t contain their rocket’s fuel load during a pre-launch test, with the vessel’s boosters firing prematurely and sending it crashing nearby and prompting shameful, red-faced apologies to partners, the Independent reports

“After liftoff, the onboard computer automatically shut down and the rocket fell 1.5 kilometres southwest of the launchpad. The rocket body disintegrated after falling into the mountain. The test site is far away from the urban area of ​​Gongyi. Before the test, we worked with the local government to improve safety measures and organise the evacuation of surrounding personnel in advance. After investigation, no casualties were found,” Space Pioneer said in a statement.

White nationalist alcoholic Steve Bannon will arrive at a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut to be stripped, deloused, and bathed Monday before beginning his four-month sentence for criminal contempt of Congress, a brief preview of the longer bid he likely faces in New York State.

Spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan’s House Judiciary Committee on Monday sued Attorney General Merrick Garland for copies of the audio of the October 2023 interview between President Joe Biden and documents fuckup special counsel Robert K Hur, CNN’s Annie Grayer reports.

The US Supreme Court at long last on Friday ruled 6-3 on convicted felon former President Trump’s claim of immunity in the case brought by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, finding that “the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts” and that “determining whether and under what circumstances such a prosecution may proceed requires careful assessment of the scope of Presidential power under the Constitution. The nature of that power requires that a former President have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure in office. At least with respect to the President’s exercise of his core constitutional powers, this immunity must be absolute. As for his remaining official actions, he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity.”

Unless Jack Smith files a superseding indictment trimming down everything that could be encompassed within this ruling – which also prohibits even the admissibility of anything that could be considered an “official act” – then this trial is not happening before the election.

First son and sort of accomplished painter Hunter Biden on Monday filed a lawsuit in New York against Fox News stating that the propaganda network sought “to harass, annoy, alarm, and humiliate him, and tarnish his reputation” as “part of their politically motivated attacks against the President and his family” centered on the stupid “mock trial” series Fox pulled in April.

“Without Mr Biden’s consent, Fox produced an entirely fictional six-part ‘mock trial’ entitled ‘The Trial of Hunter Biden’, which first became available for streaming on Fox Nation on October 21, 2022. The miniseries was described by Fox as ‘a riveting look at the unresolved legal situation of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.’ As Fox explained, the mock trial captures ‘how a possible Hunter Biden trial might look,'” wrote Hunter’s lawyers at California firm Geragos and Geragos, APC.

A DC federal judge on Friday tossed dipshit former dairy farmer-turned incompetent far right Congressman-turned Trump Media and Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes’s 2020 defamation suit against the Washington Post over a 2017 article that implied Nunes was full of shit when he claimed that a whistleblower had come to him with evidence that now-convicted felon former President Trump was the subject of surveillance by the Obama Administration during the 2016 campaign.

We’re not aware of any such lawsuit that Nunes has won or even made it to trial, much less settled.

.@TarajiPHenson: Show up and show out when it's time to vote. It's about making decisions that will affect us. Trump's Project 2025 plan is not a game. They are attacking our most vulnerable citizens. Pay attention and look it up

Learn more at https://t.co/DfMVVOKP8r pic.twitter.com/rExs41UVCc

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) July 1, 2024

Actress Taranji P Henson on Sunday night urged viewers of the annual BET Awards to look into the Trump Reich-in-waiting’s Project 2025 plan to implement a fascist white nationalist autocracy should their Orange Allah return to power, forcefully calling it an attack on rights and “not a game.”

In not really lighter but still kind of darkly funny news out of the awards show, the live audience voiced a collective “what the fuck” when OJ Simpson was included in the “in memoriam” montage.

“At 800 AM AST (1200 UTC), the eye of Hurricane Beryl was located near latitude 12.0 North, longitude 60.5 West. Beryl is moving toward the west-northwest near 20 mph (31 km/h). A continued quick westward to west-northwestward motion is expected during the next few days. On the forecast track, the center of Beryl is expected to move across the Windward Islands this morning and across the southeastern and central Caribbean Sea late today through Wednesday.”

“Data from the NOAA and Air Force Hurricane Hunters indicate that maximum sustained winds have increased to near 130 mph (215 km/h) with higher gusts. Beryl is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Fluctuations in strength are likely during the next day or so, but Beryl is expected to remain an extremely dangerous major hurricane as its core moves through the Windward Islands into the eastern Caribbean. Some weakening is expected in the central Caribbean by midweek, though Beryl is forecast to remain a hurricane. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 35 miles (55 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 125 miles (205 km). Grantley Adams International Airport on Barbados recently reported sustained winds of 47 mph (76 km/h) with a gust to 69 mph (111 km/h). The estimated minimum central pressure based on dropsonde data is 959 mb (28.32 inches),” says an NOAA bulletin.

“Without Presidential Immunity, a President of the United States literally could not function! It should be a STRONG IMMUNITY, where proper decisions can be made, where our Country can be POWERFUL and THRIVE, and where Opponents cannot hold up and extort a Future President for Political Gain. It is a BIG decision, an important decision, a decision which can affect the Success or Failure of our Country for decades to come. We want a GREAT Country, not a weak, withering, and ineffective one. STRONG PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY IS A MUST!” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Sunday, hyping up the big drop from Los Supremos on Monday.

While the far-right appear to have made gains in French elections, a reformist candidate led the slate of candidates in Saturday’s Iranian presidential elections, which will now head to a runoff between the top two vote-getters, CNN reports.

Reformist lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian will face off against the second-place finisher, ultraconservative Saeed Jalili, in the next round of the election, scheduled for July 5th.  Iran has had relatively free elections for its civil government since the Islamic Revolution in the late 1970s installed the religious head of the country as final authority in the country.

The liberal parties in Iran have gained support of voters in the weeks leading up to the election, which became necessary after a May 19th helicopter crash killed President Ebrahim Raisi.  Trailing conservative and religious candidates bowed out of the race in the days before election day, hoping to consolidate voters behind Jalili and other leading conservatives.

A dozen paid out-of-state operatives who don’t know how to spell the candidate’s name have registered in Arizona as part of the effort to get left-wing political dilettante Cornel West on the state’s presidential ballot to draw support from incumbent Democratic President Joe Biden, NBC News reports.

Saying the worked for Republican-linked Wells Marketing LLC, some of the individuals who registered to sign up voters said they worked for the campaign of “Carnel west” or “Cornelle West.”  While Arizona requires out-of-state signature gatherers to register, it does not demand them to list who’s paying them.

“The Democratic Party & the mainstream media are fabricating stories about us having ties to GOP operatives. False!” West campaign spokesperson Edwin DeJesus said. “We’re not hiring Republicans or Democrats. This is a clear smear because we’re championing workers, while they protect the interests of the wealthy elite.”

French far right extremist Marine Le Pen’s party is projected to make serious gains in Sunday’s snap parliamentary elections, the Associated Press reports on more owning of the libs.

Asked on Sunday by NBC’s Kristen Welker why the hell he thinks there was “smooth transition” from the Trump to Biden Administration in 2021 and reminded that “January 6 wasn’t exactly a smooth transition,” North Dakota Governor and likely Trump 2024 running mate pick Doug Burgum said “We have to say there was a smooth transition” which sounds awfully like he’s telling her that he, as a Republican and a Trump surrogate, is simply required to say it was “smooth” and that Americans didn’t see what happened live on television on the 6th and all of that shit beforehand.

Later in the bit, Burgum didn’t push back when Welker reminded him that Trump constantly lies and did so on Thursday, but said it’s okay because the lies are any new ones, just his usual falsehoods.

The Nevada Secretary of State’s Office on Friday announced that the petition for a ballot measure to amend the state constitution had qualified to be put to voters in November, Nevada Current reports.

Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said the petitioners had gathered 127,865 verified signatures, Aguilar said – more than the 102,362 required by state law to qualify for the ballot in the swing state.

It’s not clear yet if this is definitely the final step to getting the question on the ballot. It is however just the first of two referenda on abortion in the Silver State as it will have to be approved by voters on the 2026 midterm ballot also to be ratified in the state constitution for real.

Forget all that shit Steve Bannon said about putting Dr Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Chris Wray’s heads on pikes. He was speaking metaphorically to his very neurochemically balanced audience.

Anyway, the white nationalist alcoholic seems pretty upset about going to prison in about 24 hours.

A delegate to Germany’s far right Alternative for Deutschland Party’s congress is claiming self-defense after he bit a protestor during a scuffle Sunday outside the convention venue, DPA reports.

Stefan Hrdy, 67, says he was in his car on the way to the Grughalle Arena in the western city of Essen when he encountered traffic being blocked by a throng of leftist protestors. Hrdy got out to ask a cop to help clear the way when he was accosted. “Then I got kicked in the right calf, fell down and two or three fell on top of me, and then a kick came from the right, I was able to dodge a little, then I clutched the leg and bit down so that I didn’t get kicked again,” Hrdy told DPA.

A spokeswoman for Essen’s police department said this was news to them as they only learned of the biting incident via media reports and that neither Hrdy nor the unidentified protestor had filed a complaint. “Parts of the video do not match Hrdy’s account: It merely shows a demonstrator lying on top of him with his leg and Hrdy biting his calf. The kick to his calf that Hrdy described also cannot be seen in the video, although the view of the scuffle is partly obscured,” DPA writes.