Sixteen Nobel Prize-winning economists believe Donald Trump’s policies would skyrocket inflation and bring ruin to the US and global economies if he gets back in the White House, Reuters reports.  “While each of us has different views on the particulars of various economic policies, we all agree that Joe Biden’s economic agenda is vastly superior to Donald Trump,” the letter states.  “We believe that a second Trump term would have a negative impact on the U.S.’s economic standing in the world, and a destabilizing effect on the U.S.’s domestic economy.”

As if it weren’t enough that there’s a new strain of the coronavirus emerging this summer as well as bird flu infections, but now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning doctors and other medical professionals to be on the look out for cases of dengue fever in the mainland United States, the Washington Post reports.

The mosquito-borne virus is experiencing an explosion in Central and South American reporting nearly 10 million cases of the disease.  In March, Puerto Rico reported more than 500 infected patients.  CDC officials believe tourists and migrants entering the country might be infected, which would lead to the spread in the nation’s population.

The US Supreme Court on Monday disbarred a Kentucky lawyer and former district attorney who, among other scumbaggery, in 2019 wrote a letter to then-outgoing Gov Matt Bevin asking him to pardon a man who in 2014 had raped an unconscious 15 year-old boy, the Courier Journal reports.

In February, Republican former Third Judicial District prosecutor Richard Boling was given 40 days to show cause to Los Supremos on why he shouldn’t be disbarred for the letter written in December 2019 seeking a pardon for then 25 year-old Dayton Jones which argued that the shitbag had been targeted by Democratic prosecutors because of a political vendetta against his grandparents, who were Republicans donors. Boling had apologized and owned up to the letter in 2020 – after Bevin freed Jones on year three of a 15 year sentence and commuted the requirement that he register as a sex offender for life. Jones is now again behind bars, having been sentenced to eight years in a federal prison for production of child pornography. Boling hung on to the job until January 2023 before resigning while the state House of Representatives brought up impeachment articles.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court ordered the state Department of Education to rescind its contract with the group behind St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, intended to be the first publicly-funded parochial charter school in the country, CNN reports., saying the state funding a religious school clearly violates the Constitutions of both the state and the United States.

“Under Oklahoma law, a charter school is a public school,” Justice James R. Winchester wrote in the court’s 6-2 majority opinion. “As such, a charter school must be nonsectarian. However, St. Isidore will evangelize the Catholic faith as part of its school curriculum while sponsored by the State.”

The lawsuit is another example of the chaos in the GOP:  Oklahoma’s Republican Attorney General, Gentner Drummond, filed the lawsuit that led to the revocation of the contract, which had been praised by Republican Governor Kevin Stitt.  “The framers of the US Constitution and those who drafted Oklahoma’s Constitution clearly understood how best to protect religious freedom: by preventing the State from sponsoring any religion at all,” Drummond said in a statement following the order. “Now Oklahomans can be assured that our tax dollars will not fund the teachings of Sharia Law or even Satanism.”

🚨 OH MY GOD! 🚨 HOLY SHIT! 🚨 YOU GUYS! 🚨 *PANTING* 🚨 NBC NEWS REPORTS TRUMP MIGHT ANNOUNCE HIS NEW RUNNING MATE THIS WEEK! This is so huge! The media’s been waiting for this like FOREVER! Or at least it feels like it’s been forever! The VEEPSTAKES winner will be announced! BREAKING NEWS! SO HUGE! VERY EXCITING! It’s like a major thing!

Ughhhhh… Anyway, what is kind of genuinely mildly amusing about this is that some outlet, we forget which, reported that Trump was saving the announcement for immediately after his sentencing date as something to do to move past a damaging news cycle. NBC’s article says the running mate announcement might come at a rally in Virginia on Friday, which should say he’s planning on playing that “change the subject” card earlier because the Thursday CNN debate could go that badly. We’re also fairly sure it’s going to end up being North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum.

MAGA lawyer Sidney “Kraken” Powell has reached a settlement with former Dominion Voting Systems exec Eric Coomer, a guy she and other Trump fans had falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election on behalf on Antifa, the Colorado Times Recorder reports. Terms were not disclosed.

Spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan plans to hold a markup vote Thursday over holding Joe Biden’s ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer in contempt of Congress for something about the classified documents fuckup that nobody even cares about anymore but whatever, ABC News reports.

Like if they’re going to go after political ghostwriters why can’t they at least also subpoena Kristi Noem’s too to see whose idea it was to make that shit up about the Kim Jong-Un meeting and just why in God’s name she thought it was a good idea to print a story about her murdering a puppy?

In more expectation mismanagement news, famously shitty right wing pollster Rasmussen has found that 47 percent of respondents think convicted felon former President Trump will win Thursday’s CNN debate compared to 37 thinking Biden will win, and the rest undecided, RSBN reports.

Separately Trump campaign spokesworm Karoline Leavitt on Thursday told Newsmax that her boss is definitely showing up on Thursday despite half of the MAGAverse trying to talk him out of it.

From a Facebook post by the Madison County, Alabama Sheriff’s Office: “Early this morning, the Alabama Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, comprising members from the Madison County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO), Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA), Huntsville Police Department (HPD), and Homeland Security executed a search warrant at 4834 Cove Creek Dr in Brownsboro. The search warrant was the culmination of an ongoing investigation into allegations of child crimes. As a result of the investigation, John Franklin Kvach, 53, was arrested and charged with five counts of possession of child pornography and a count of dissemination of child pornography.”

“Kvach is currently being held at the Madison County Jail Facility with a total bond amount of $100,000. The investigation is ongoing, and further updates will be provided as necessary. The Alabama Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and local law enforcement agencies are committed to identifying and prosecuting individuals who engage in illegal activities that harm children. The task force’s efforts are crucial in ensuring the safety and well-being of children in our community. Madison County Sheriff Kevin Turner would like to commend the law enforcement officers involved in this investigation for their exceptional work and dedication to protecting children from exploitation,” the post continued. What it doesn’t mention is that Kvach was formerly a professor of Southern history at University of Alabama Huntsville, per WHNT. It’s not clear if he’s a Neo-Confederate/Lost Cause type asshole but he sure fits the demographic.

This is it! The identity of the mysterious Agent Q has finally been revealed! Probably! Former Trump Administration HUD Secretary Ben Carson on Tuesday told Newsmax that “people are waking up, a lot of people now do their own research.” Those words alone mean that he’s a solid candidate to be the secretive father of the QAnon movement and since all patriots know to treat probabilities as absolute certainties then he’s gotta be it! WHERE BEN CARSON GOES ONE WE GO ALL!

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday suspended the law license of Hunter Biden in the District of Columbia following his conviction on three federal felonies in Delaware earlier this month.

House Republicans have, for now at least, bitched out of avenging their Orange God Emperor’s legal grievances legislatively as on Tuesday the Appropriations Committee on Tuesday rolled out a large funding package that includes spending on the Justice Department but not anything like defund special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation or grants to local prosecutors such as District Attorneys Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis’s offices, Politico reports while noting that the language in the bill is pretty much the same as it was last year. The one item on the MAGA wish list they did manage to include is denying funding for the FBI to build its long-planned new campus outside of DC.

The forces of geology and meteorology on Monday set aside their differences in Guatemala and focused on one of the things they have in common: the ability to generate lighting. There is literally no way of telling whether it was the thunderstorm rolling in or the pyroclastic cloud bursting from the Central American country’s Mount Fuego that was causing the fiery bolts to explode between the two. The only certainty here is that it wouldn’t matter to any puny mortal obliterated by them.

A violent Obama-led protest on Tuesday ended with police firing teargas into the crowd of Black voters enraged by tax hikes and economic inequality, CNN reports, with the half-sister of the 44th president of the United States among those blinded by the noxious anti-riot chemical agent.

“I can’t even see anymore, we’re being teargassed,” Auma Obama told a CNN camera as she was hit with the stinging white cloud fired by cops in Nairobi. The Kenyan-British activist, half-sister to Barack Obama, had been marching alongside a column of youth demonstrators as part of the “7 Days of Rage” general strike. “I’m here because look at what’s happening. Young Kenyans are demonstrating for their rights. They are demonstrating with flags and banners,” Obama said.

A new Atlanta Journal Constitution survey of likely Georgia voters finds convicted felon former President Trump leading President Biden 43 to 38 percent in the state, with brainworm sufferer Robert F Kennedy Jr taking 9 percent of the vote and Libertarian Chase Oliver at 1 percent.

Among respondents under aged 18 to 29, Trump leads the pack at 37 percent support to RFK Jr’s 29 percent, with Biden in third at 12 percent and holy fuck they actually published this garbage. If the AJC and their pollster at UGA can’t be bothered to try harder to sample the under 30s or at the very least attempt to infer some realistic number proportionate to past polling data and actual elections then why in God’s name do they even print it? Is it just sunk cost and group think running up against a deadline to get something, anything out the door before both are in town for the CNN debate ?

You see plenty of the both-sides-y media polling experts wagging the finger at liberals for “crosstab diving,” meaning pointing out unrealistic numbers among subsamples to discredit the topline number as a means of coping with this or that MSM poll showing Trump with a lead over Biden. The explanation is always “you’re still supposed to trust the topline even if the crosstabs are all fucked up” for some goddamned reason that we’re not even going to bother with tracking down and trying to translate because it’s probably bullshit, overly reliant on assumptions that laypeople – even ones without a partisan dog in the fight – are unwilling to buy into, laden with confusing jargon, et cetera.

The Fox News poll that Trump and his minions freaked out over last week showing Biden ahead 50 to 48 percent had a similar problem: Who the hell thinks that Biden is leading Trump by the same margin among rural voters? That they also supposedly found them tied at 38 with urban voter respondents is maybe sort of an offset that helps the topline’s credibility, somewhat.

Again – Dana Bash, who's moderating the CNN debate, her husband was one of the 51 treasonous traitors who lied about Hunter's laptop being Russian misinformation. https://t.co/bkPqWTW2gc

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“On 24 June 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (‘ICC’ or ‘Court’), composed of Judge Rosario Salvatore Aitala, Presiding, Judge Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godínez and Judge Haykel Ben Mahfoudh, issued warrants of arrest for two individuals, Mr Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu and Mr Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov, in the context of the situation in Ukraine for alleged international crimes committed from at least 10 October 2022 until at least 9 March 2023.”

“Mr Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu, born on 21 May 1955, Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation at the time of the alleged conduct, and Mr Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov, born on 8 September 1955, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and First Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation at the time of the alleged conduct, are each allegedly responsible for the war crime of directing attacks at civilian objects and the war crime of causing excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects, and the crime against humanity of inhumane acts under article 7(1)(k) of the Rome Statute. There are reasonable grounds to believe they bear individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned crimes for having committed the acts jointly and/or through others, ordering the commission of the crimes, and/or for their failure to exercise proper control over the forces under their command.”

“The two warrants of arrest were issued following applications filed by the Prosecution. Pre-Trial Chamber II considered that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the two suspects bear responsibility for missile strikes carried out by the Russian armed forces against the Ukrainian electric infrastructure from at least 10 October 2022 until at least 9 March 2023. During this time-frame, a large number of strikes against numerous electric power plants and sub-stations were carried out by the Russian armed forces in multiple locations in Ukraine,” says the International Criminal Court in a statement. Don’t be surprised if Republicans start calling for sanctions again.

In a landmark ruling, Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the country’s military to begin drafting ultra-orthodox men, reversing a long-standing cultural exemption to otherwise compulsory service that the AP reports could “lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition” given his regime’s reliance on the political support of religious extremists.

The exemption was, for obvious reasons, pretty controversial among the less hardcore of Israel’s Jewish population, fueling resentment from less conservative and even secular Israelis bled to protect the nation that has increased following the October 7th massacre. More than 600 IDF personnel were killed in the attack and the now nearly nine months of subsequent fighting in Gaza.

Netanyahu’s Regime had argued to the court that the end of the exemption would “tear Israeli society apart,” a very Trump-ish, l’État, c’est moi conflation of “society” with the corrupt dictator’s political survival as compelling the Ultras into service may lead to their parties leaving his coalition, triggering snap elections that “Bibi” is not at all favored to survive as prime minister.

In a lengthy new leak to ABC News about the lead-up to the August 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team lay out much more of their evidence demonstrating convicted felon former President Trump’s consciousness of guilt in possessing classified documents stolen from the White House following his humiliating defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 election, a leak pretty obviously timed to undermine the authority of MAGA federal judge Aileen Cannon as she continues to purposely stall the case to Trump’s advantage politically.

The leak, centered on lawyer Evan Corcoran’s notes, show a former president who was convinced he was damned if he did, damned if he didn’t return the stolen material, with Corcoran writing “He raised a question as to, if we gave them additional documents now, would they, would they, the Department of Justice, come back and say well, why did you withhold them and try to use that as a basis for criminal liability or to make him look bad in the press,” in notes memorializing a May 2022 meeting about the subpoena for their return. “Well look isn’t it better if there are no documents?” Trump also asked his lawyers after raising concerns about the DOJ “opening up new fronts.”

“Look, you know, I have ten different actions against me. They are trying to get me. They’re going after me. These people are ruthless,” Trump told Corcoran as if it mattered. “I’ve done all these great things for the country. I improved the economy, I lowered taxes, I did this, I did that, built the wall.”

When he had to adjourn the meeting to do some interviews, Trump told Corcoran and another lawyer, Jennifer Little, to “take a walk along the beach” and that “maybe… sparks will fly,” since both were single. This again was when they were trying to talk him into complying with a subpoena.