Verbatim from tweets by a Michigan political news site reporting on MAGA Republican state Representative Neil Friske, who “was arrested by Lansing police last night and remains in the city’s jail. Charges will not be released until he’s arraigned either Friday or Saturday… Sources say he chased an adult dancer after a disagreement. He also had a gun in his possession at the time.”

Friske’s own Twitter feed is full of retweets complaining about state Attorney General Dana Nessel ignoring a fellow member’s bitching about Dominion Voting Systems, signing on to a pledge to ban COVID vaccines, and evidently agreeing with racist MAGA colleague Josh Schriver last year when he wrote “We should NOT allow 16/17 year olds to consent to extramarital sex, genital mutilation, porn and other sexual deviancy while at the same time making it ILLEGAL for them (even with parental consent) to consent to the Sacred Sacrament of Marriage as designed by God” in a complaint about Governor Gretchen Whitmer signing a bill banning child marriages in the state into law.

An El Paso, Texas-area man who bolted from his vehicle Tuesday during a traffic stop by police on I-10 successfully evaded arrest indefinitely after running away from the scene, KTSM reports.

As incredible as it sounds, it’s true: 53 year-old Oscar Munoz will never be arrested for whatever it was the cops stopped him over. There’s no way they can take him down and toss him in a cell.

Every criminal from the pettiest of pickpockets to the most powerful of gangsters and white collar scam artists dreams of escaping the law to live the rest of one’s life in freedom. Munoz made it, no doubt enjoying all 30 or so seconds he had before he was struck and killed by a vehicle traveling in the opposite lane, denying law enforcement the satisfaction of arresting him. Suckers.

"What I observe is basically a tale of two Joes. We see the State of the Union… and he's animated. He's speaking very, very quickly. And then we see him on a daily basis, getting lost and stumbling around."

— Dr. Frank Contacessa@DrFrank273 @RobFinnertyUSA pic.twitter.com/yyHtIrrMJh

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) June 20, 2024

“FoxNews Polls are always the worst for me. They have been from the beginning, and always will be!” posted convicted felon former President Trump on Thursday morning, obviously responding to a new survey sponsored by the right wing propaganda network finding a modest 50 to 48 percent lead for Joe Biden in a head-to-head, the pollster for which Trump obviously had no problem with, probably even posted a screenshot of it, when he led Biden 50 to 45 percent three months ago.

The fat bastard then posted “All Biden can do is talk about his WEAPONIZED Witch Hunt Trials against me because his administration has been such a failure. Never happened in our Country before!” as if it’s somehow unfair for a candidate to campaign on his opponent’s criminal record or that Trump himself didn’t use Hillary Clinton’s (largely imaginary) criminal offenses against her like every goddamned minute of the 2016 campaign – and then less-successfully push a bunch of unsubstantiated “corruption” bullshit about Biden in the 2020 campaign too. Which Trump lost.

Form a Martin County, Florida Sheriff’s Office Facebook post: “Saturday evening, Wells Fargo Bank alarm monitoring service notified MCSO of a bank robbery in progress at the branch on US1 in Hobe Sound. It was around 7pm. The suspect, now identified as 33-year old Colton Van Hohenstien of Hobe Sound, was caught on gas station video purchasing a mask. He then went across the street to the Wells Fargo bank where he walked through the unlocked doors of the closed bank. The suspect began opening drawers and cabinets but they were empty, so he left. BACK TO MCSO: Dispatchers received the call from the bank security video monitoring system of a ‘bank robbery in-progress’, sighting a masked man inside the bank. MCSO immediately responded and surrounded the bank.”

“But no one was inside. Not even the suspect. The alarm company later notified us that they waited at least one hour before calling MCSO, and the masked man who left empty handed was long gone.”

“Because security footage clearly captured images of the suspect buying the mask used in this incident, he was located and arrested this afternoon. He was charged with burglary despite the fact that the only thing he walked with was the mask that set him back five bucks. Why the doors were unlocked, and why the alarm monitoring company called in an ‘in-progress robbery’ on a burglary that happened at a closed bank one hour prior, is still under investigation.”

So it’s actually a three-way race between the suspect who would buy a mask across the street, the Wells Fargo branch who left their fucking front door unlocked (at least the vault wasn’t open), and the security monitoring company who tried to make it seem like they were on top of it when they very obviously were not. At least the sheriff’s office were able to find the asshole.

Wednesday brought a polling number Fox News fans were not hoping for from their own operation: Biden 50 percent to Trump 48 in a head-to-head, a 7 point net swing in Joe’s favor from March. That was the bad news the morning crew were breaking to viewers when they segued into more expectations management for next week’s big debate by uncritically para-quoting Trump’s claims that Biden will be “jacked up” on performance-enhancing drugs before he argues with a similarly aged man with far graver physical and mental health issues on live television for 90 minutes or so.

In related news, Brainwormed third-party candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr officially unqualified for the debate Thursday as he has not reached neither the minimum 15 percent support in at least four major national polls nor officially on the ballot in states totaling 270 electoral votes threshold.

Determining the actual winner of the Virginia 5th District Republican primary between incoming House Freedom Caucasians chair Congressman Bob Good and Trump-backed revenge challenger state Senator John McGuire could take weeks as sorting through provisional and late-arriving mail-in ballots is likely to expand to a full recount of the 63,000 or so cast, the Washington Post reports.

Per the AP, McGuire’s lead sits at 321 votes as of their last update at 5:56 PM EDT on Wednesday, just a slight gain for Good from the 327 vote deficit he faced that morning. Again, if 98 percent of votes have already been reported, the uncounted remainder is probably about 1,250 ballots, of which Good would have to win about 75 percent to overtake McGuire and win. Tough, but not impossible, and also assumes that they won’t be fighting on the margins down to single ballots.

Facing an absolute beatdown at the polls early next mont, the UK Conservative Party are moving to defend their most reliable seats, including the one held by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who personally is in danger of becoming the first premier to ever lose his seat, Bloomberg reports.

It’s easy to forget this but British prime ministers are just regular MPs selected by the party itself to lead the nation. This is how bad the situation is: Imagine if the Republicans became as unpopular as they deserve and Mike Johnson was in danger of losing his seat to a Dem in November.

Saying he was spending “too much time dealing with intra-party power struggles and local intra-party animosities,” the head of the Illinois Republican Party submitted his resignation on Wednesday, saying he would stay on until a new chair is elected, but no later than July 19th, the day after the end of the Republican National Convention in neighboring Wisconsin.

Reuters reports Don Tracy basically just got sick and tired of the childish politics played by childish politicians.  “In better days, Illinois Republicans came together after tough intra-party elections but now it seems that agreeing 80% of the time, as President Reagan said, is simply not enough for some who would rather fight each other than take on the Democrats,” Tracy said in his resignation letter.

“And frankly, the crime that’s devastating inner cities under blue mayors goes away with Donald Trump,” Mindy Noce’s fiance (for now) Tim Scott intones, even though crime in big cities is down since the Trump Administration, and violent crime rates nationwide are down.

Rain and hail fell on Ruidoso, a village that was evacuated as two separate wildfires closed in on it earlier this week, giving firefighters some hope of bringing under control the blazes that have burned more than 23,000 acres, destroyed 1,400 structures and are blamed for the deaths of two people, CBS News reports.

Largely still uncontrolled, the South Fork Fire grew to 16,600 acres and the Salt Fire stood at 7,000 acres.  The 8,000 citizens of Ruidoso will remain under the evacuation order as officials check the area for spotfires and other dangers.

After an unimportant third-tier conservative news-ish host attempts to push the already-debunked claim that Joe Biden wandered off during a photo op–it’s funny because the proof that people were to Biden’s left in the video are the people shown in the video to Biden’s left–Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett lights the fire under the other rightwing conspiracy theory that Democrats are going to oust Biden from the ticket at the DNC in August and paste Gavin Newsom in as the nominee, or as Burchett tells it, the ending Hollywood wrote for Democrats.

More than 24 hours after the polls closed for Virginia’s Congressional primaries and the most high-profile race is still undecided, illustrating the growing rift in the Republican Party’s extreme wing.  As the Washington Post reports, Virginia’s GOP primary for the 5th Congressional District seat is a dogfight between incumbent Freedom Caucus leader Bob Good and Trump-endorsed über-MAGA John J. McGuire III.  With 97.8% of the votes counted, McGuire leads Good by 321 votes out of more than 62,000 cast.

The thing is, McGuire isn’t really any more MAGA than any other member of the cult, and he’s certain not more conservative than Bob Good, who not only was Trump’s endorsee in previous election, he voted to oust Kevin McCarthy from the Speakership.  McGuire got Trump’s endorsement because he’s not Bob Good, who committed the venal sin of endorsing Trump opponent Ron DeSantis in the GOP presidential primary.  There can be no dissent.

Demonstrating for Texas what can happen when you don’t address vital infrastructure, the entire nation of Ecuador lost electricity on Wednesday after power lines around the country started to fail, causing a cascade effect that took down the nation’s power grid, NBC News reports.

“There is a failure in the transmission line that caused a cascade disconnection, so there’s no electricity at a national scale,” Public Works Minister Roberto Luque, who also serves as Ecudor’s energy minister while there’s a vacancy in the post.  Passengers were stuck on the subway in the capital city of Quito, while above ground, traffic grew chaotic after traffic light went dark.

Louisiana’s Republican-led government enacted a law requiring the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament to be displayed in all public school classrooms in the state, erasing the accepted line separating church and state, the CBS News reports.  Signed by GOP Governor Jeff Landy, the law makes Louisiana the first state t mandate the display of the religious laws in classrooms from kindergarten to state-funded universities.  Along with the biblical text, the display must include a “context panel” that explains the Ten Commandments “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries,” which is unusual given the United States is not yet 250 years old.

A McDonald’s employee in Lakeland, Florida turned the tables against the chain’s notoriously irate customer base Friday by firing several rounds at a pair of unruly patrons who had been giving her shit about their order being screwed up or taking too long or something, Fox News reports.

The arrest report for 22 year-old Chassidy Gardner describes an escalating drive-thru dispute in which “two of the customers got out of their vehicle and opened the drive through window to throw drinks at Gardner who then armed herself with a handgun” and followed the pair out to the front to argue with them some more, firing the gun as they sped off. At least one round struck the vehicle but no one was injured. Gardner was charged aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

A “close protection officer” to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been arrested and suspended for allegedly betting on the date of the country’s general election, Sky News reports.

A little background: While online gambling in the US is pretty much limited to sports, in Europe you can bet on pretty much anything, including politics. Earlier this year there was a big mystery over the date Sunak would announce over the special election. You see where we’re going with this, and that it’s an insider trading/Pete Rose type of situation. Will add however we’re kind of confused about why it’s illegal rather than just a fireable unbecoming of an officer. The prick cashed in and made a few bucks off the suckers who couldn’t maybe comprehend that someone else might have an edge.

North Dakota Public Service Commission member and nominee for the state’s soon-to-be-vacant at-large US House seat Julie Fedorchak on Tuesday filed complaints with the FCC and FEC over a fake mass text message sent last Tuesday to thousands of voters, falsely claiming she had dropped out of the race just hours before polls closed on primary election day, KFGO reports.

Obviously Fedorchak still won, given that she’s the nominee, having taken 46 percent of the vote over rivals Rick Becker, Cara Mund, and Alexander Balazs. “We’ve alerted the US Attorney’s Office to this because they have a responsibility to ensure that our elections are run in ways that aren’t patently deceptive to voters and they have a responsibility to ensure that elections are run in a fair and impartial manner,” said campaign counsel Shane Goettle, who didn’t otherwise name names as to which one of her opponents was behind the failed Roger Stone/Nick Wohl-esque scam.

We guess it could have been a Democrat but… It’s not like all Dems are saints and would never, ever pull this kind of shit, it’s just that it seems kind of not really worth the risk when you consider that it’d be a toss-up between her and Dem candidate Trygve Hammer if Fedorchak turned out to be biologically male and was caught sprinkling fentanyl on the stuffed animal section of a toy store.

So yeah, it had to be one of the other Republicans. Should be fun to see them get nailed.

As many as 550 observant Muslims from across the globe are dead from heat stroke during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca – the holy site in Saudi Arabia where the Prophet Mohammed defeated Buddha or Satan or someone in a spiritual battle – as the annual mass gathering unfortunately fell during the summer in a country that’s already freaking hot, the AP reports.

The estimate may have been on the high end and was based on a list crowdsourced from attendees and circulated online by parties unknown. A local paramedic who viewed the list told the AP it appeared to be largely accurate. Of course such a slapdash effort would not be necessary in the first place if Saudi officials would publicly provide accurate updates on the death toll and providing accurate information, which they aren’t. It’s almost like Bonesaw Regime doesn’t give a shit about regular people – especially foreign Muslims – and still wants the revenue bump from the traffic even though they’re already filthy rich from the shit underground that helped make this tragedy possible.