DC federal Judge Carl Nichols on Thursday revoked white nationalist alcoholic Steve Bannon’s bail and ordered him to report to prison to begin his long-delayed 4 month bid for criminal contempt of Congress by July 1st, Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports. The only bad part of this bumping up against the election is that it may prompt Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan to again postpone Sloppy Steve’s state-level trial on charges over the “We Build The Wall” scam, currently slated for September.

Jason Smith on Thursday used his ultra-manly affect to mansplain to Fox “Business” News host Stuart Varney that he didn’t just hear exactly what he heard in the clip Varney had just rolled.

A new Franklin and Marshall College survey of registered voters in Pennsylvania’s 10th District finds insurrectionist MAGA Congressman Scott Perry leading Dem challenger Janelle Stelson 45 to 44 percent overall, but also splits the sample on which respondents answered after Perry’s Orange Allah was convicted on 34 felony counts in Manhattan last week: Perry 49 – Stelson 42 before and Stelson 47 – Perry 39 afterward. In the same sample overall, Trump leads Biden 44 to 38 percent with Brainworms in third at 10 percent, but splitting again it’s Trump 47, Biden 36, Kennedy 8 percent pre-verdict, Biden and Trump tied at 40 with Kennedy up to 13 percent post-verdict.

Polling expert Adam Carlson urged libs to keep it in their pants, writing “the post-verdict respondents could just inherently be more Democratic leaning – either by chance (happens all the time) or because they were especially excited to participate in a poll right after the verdict,” which we guess is possible but one could easily say something similar about MAGA respondents overall this cycle, that their “enthusiasm” is artificially inflating Trump and Republicans’ numbers and why you see such wide gaps between mainstream pollsters. Another problem with that analysis: Would these Trump-to-RFK Jr defectors necessarily be “especially excited” and go out of their way to tell a pollster that they’re throwing away their vote now that Donald gave them an excuse to do so?

There are better reasons to dismiss this poll if one’s inclined to so, even if it’s by the well-regarded Pennsylvania outfit Franklin and Marshall, like the 6.1 percent margin of error and the small sample sizes at 392 overall split by 225 pre-verdict to 167 post-verdict. We need more time and data to see what the verdict’s impact is going to be on the presidential race and down-ballot. But the shift from Trump to Brainworms in a red district is notable and worth keeping an eye on.

A dual British-Mexican citizen who had been based in Doha, Qatar up until his arrest on charges of “possession of illegal substances” says he was entrapped by a catfishing operation after setting up a date with another man on Grindr only to find local cops waiting for him who then planted a small amount of meth on him during the arrest on the charge, CBS News reports.

Manuel Guerrero Aviña said he’s “deeply disappointed with yesterday’s unfair verdict, issued in spite of the violations of due process during my detention and trial, which included torture and mistreatment to pressure me into revealing the names of other gay partners and forcing me to use my fingerprint to sign multiple documents in Arabic without a translator. The Qatari authorities have convicted me because I am gay, and this is a breach of my human rights,” blasting the “unfair trial I have been subjected to and the torture and ill treatment I endured during preliminary detention.”

The not-that-bad news is that Guerrero Aviña was sentenced to a six month suspended sentence, a roughly $2,750 fine, and deportation from Qatar. Not hard to imagine the guy was careful when chatting on Grindr and didn’t write anything that was incriminating in regard to liability over “indecency” or whatever the “moral authorities” in those countries use, leading them to rig the meth charge as a means of punishing him indirectly for being who he is where he isn’t welcome.

Several of convicted felon former President Trump’s minions acknowledge to CNN that their Dear Leader was full of shit when he told Time Magazine in late April that he would be making an announcement “probably over the next week” on access to abortion pill mifepristone and that said statement isn’t coming anytime soon, despite Trump’s alleged “strong feelings” on the matter.

“Looking at policy on that, it’s still an internal process, but I don’t expect anything prior to the court weighing in on it at this point,” said one of the minions, referring to the decision pending at the majority right wing Supreme Court over whether the FDA overstepped its authority in easing access to the pill. “That type of announcement, I’d be surprised if that were to come in front of the court.”

“We’re gonna wait and see how everything shakes out with the courts,” said another Trump minion, almost as if they’re too chickenshit to simply own their position, whatever it is. As if to underscore that the person added there are “a lot of other issues that are just as important. We’ve got to focus on the economy, got to focus on immigration. There’s a lot of things that are happening.”

“Trump isn’t dumb,” falsely claimed “a person close to” the fat fuck. “He recognizes that banning abortion drugs isn’t good politics right now. It’s a sticky situation to navigate, but he’s keeping his options open,” the person added, as if the “good politics” on it weren’t also obvious.

A woman who survived after being left, handcuffed, in the back of a police car when it was hit by a train won a $8.5 million settlement against the two Colorado towns that employed the police officers involved, the Washington Post reports.

Seen in a dashcam and bodycam video that went viral after the incident in 2022, Yareni Rios-Gonzalez was arrested after an alleged road rage incident and placed in the Platteville Police cruiser parked directly on railroad tracks.  The Fort Lupton officer who belted Rios-Gonzalez in the cruiser locked the door with her in the car, but seconds later heard a train horn.  Despite efforts by the two officers to try to get Rios-Gonzalez, they had to retreat as the train approached, demolishing the car.

Rios-Gonzalez survived the impact but still suffers from multiple injuries including a traumatic brain injury.  Both officers involved were charged with crimes:  one was convicted of assault and reckless endangerment while the other pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment.

Black MAGA Congressman Byron Donalds on Wednesday didn’t exactly do himself any favors in a hit with CNN’s Abby Phillip about his positive comments on Jim Crow in Philadelphia the previous night.

In his second heavily-edited pre-taped Fox News interview this week, convicted felon former President Trump on Wednesday told Sean Hannity he has “every right” to prosecute his enemies if elected again even though what he’s gone through is supposedly so horrible and unprecedented.

The fat fuck also again took credit for ending Roe v Wade (also admitted it was bad for Republicans in 2022), again lied about whether he ever said “Lock Her Up” about Hillary Clinton, and again lied about the economy he left in shambles because of the pandemic he mismanaged. Typical interview.

It’s a long clip, but it’s worth the investment. In a CNN interview, the former neighbor of Supreme Court justice and vexillologist’s spouse Samuel Alito describes with credibility unflattering interactions with Mr. and Mrs. Associate Justice who, she says, addressed her and her spouse with their full legal names, like they had a security check done on them. Emily Baden’s account should be investigated because it contradicts key parts of Alito’s letter to Congressional leaders as part of his official response to requests for recusal. And making false statements and assertions to Congress is a crime.

In a fundraising email with the subject line “God Hates Pride,” the Colorado Republican Party instructed its followers to take up a campaign to burn rainbow flags to demonstrate their bigotry and intolerance, ABC News reports.  With an accompanying video titled “God Hates Flags,” the state Party repeated a list of homophobic themes like LGBTQ people are promiscuous child molesters because they’re angry about Pride Month.

“I personally found it very troubling. I spoke with many LGBT and non LGBT Republicans yesterday who also found the message in the email disgusting and offensive. This email does NOT Represent the Republican voters of Colorado,” Valdamar Archuleta, the GOP candidate for Congress from Denver posted on social media.  A gay man, Valdamar continues to be a Colorado Republican.

Knocking down a flood of doctored photos and video appearing online over the weekend purportedly showing the disaster, the Pentagon issued a statement assuring the American public that the the US Navy aircraft carrier The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower did not sink in the Red Sea, CBS News reports.

Chinese and Russian bot accounts have amplified the lie on various social media platforms, with anonymous accounts on Signal feeding C-list conservative propagandists doctored photos to support their claims.  The claims accelerated after the Houthis announced they had fired missiles at the nuclear aircraft carrier.

“The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) remains in the U.S. Central Command region. The sailors and the ship are ready and postured to respond to any contingency at a moment’s notice,” a Navy spokesperson said on Tuesday. “We are committed to protecting freedom of navigation and commerce in the region alongside our partners and allies.”

A Wisconsin high school infamous for a 2018 photo of virtually the entire male student population giving a Nazi salute or other white nationalist hand signs (noting for one defiant standout in the corner) became the scene of another ugly racist incident during its Friday commencement ceremony.  While the graduates of Baraboo High School were being announced, presented with diplomas, and congratulated by school administrators, 49-year-old Matt Eddy leaped onto the stage prior to his daughter’s introduction and forcibly pushed Superintendent Rainey Briggs out of his daughter’s path, saying “I don’t want her touching him.”  Eddy and his daughter are white; Briggs was the only non-white administrator in the congratulatory line on stage.  Three uniformed police officers had to intervene, and Eddy is facing disorderly conduct charges.

NBC News reports that convicted felon Donald Trump will have his New York City license to possess a gun revoked shortly; it had been suspended after his indictment.  It’s actually unclear if Trump himself owns guns:  while he’s been photographed awkwardly holding different weapons, there are no photographs or videos of him actually firing a weapon, unlike previous presidents.   Trump’s two adult sons are fond of posing with animals they paid to kill and mutilate using guns to compensate for their shortcomings.

The Georgia Court of Appeals ordered the Fulton County RICO trial against former president and malignant mango Donald Trump to pause proceedings while it considers the defendant’s appeal of a lower court ruling allowing District Attorney Fani Willis to stay on the case, the AP reports.

The order sets the date for oral arguments “if requested and granted” for October 4th, virtually ensuring this aspect of the case will not be finalized until after the November election.

With 51 Senators voting yes and 39 – all Republicans – voting no, ten Senators fucked off Wednesday on advancing a bill to protect access to contraceptive pills as the measure failed to reach the minimum 60 yes required. Why the hell the rules can’t just be changed to make it 40 votes in the negative versus 60 in the affirmative is not our expertise but the Senate is goddamned stupid.

“I agree that Laura Loomer shouldn’t have said that the Democrats should have death sentence, however look what this administration is doing. Slowly transitioning this country to a socialist/communist country. This how Hitler managed. People saw him as a great leader only to find out that he was misleading the world. We all know what happened in WWII. We must be open minded and look at what this administration is doing to us and this country,” writes Villager Erika Yaeger in a letter to the editors of Villages-News.com in response to the website’s article about Loomer – a white nationalist influencer well acquainted with MAGA Villagers – telling incel podcaster Tim Pool that Dems “should get the death penalty. You know, we actually used to have, the punishment for treason in this country,” after fat former President Trump was convicted last week.

Kind of obvious that Yaeger doesn’t actually disagree with Loomer so much as wish she hadn’t said it out loud to make the right wing’s bloodlust so obvious to independent/undecided voters.

A Fox “Business” News panel on Wednesday decided to switch things up and not blow smoke up viewers’ asses by getting them amped for Hunter Biden being convicted of lying on a federal gun permit application, citing that the trial is taking place in “Biden town” and that several of the jurors have family members who have suffered from addiction… Meaning the smarter choice right now for Fox is to pre-enrage fans over a “two-tiered justice system” rather than guarantee a “win.” This isn’t just right wing media being “circumspect” either as this morning Daily Beast legal contributor Shan Wu wrote that it appears the prosecution may’ve already lost the jury in Hunter’s trial.

In the middle of this segment you’ll notice that Fox anchor Bill Hemmer is wondering out loud why the jurors in convicted felon former President Trump’s trial haven’t come forward yet, something that Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall flagged on Tuesday, writing “Trump supporters are trotting out any number of responses to Trump’s string of felony convictions last week. One of the most perverse and malign is the demand or ‘request’ for jurors to come forward and explain their reasoning. Part of the idea is to suggest that the logic of the verdict is obscure or hard to justify and thus requires explanation. ‘Can you explain how you came to this very hard to understand verdict?'”

“Neither is the case. The logic of the verdict is very straightforward. There may be some room for debate about how the judge interpreted the relevant law. But within those interpretations the jury verdict is elementary. The other part is to suggest something odd or suspicious in the fact that none of the jurors have yet gone public in the press. It’s an apt illustration of the mix of disingenuousness and predation that is at the heart of Trumpism,” Marshall continued in the piece, noting it was an obvious play to get these people to willingly paint a target on their backs for MAGA terrorists.

House Republicans on Monday filed criminal referrals for Hunter and James Biden for something who the fuck knows and it was so important that it took John Solomon’s lame website two days to report it. Seriously The Hill didn’t even pick it up yet and they love this kind of bullshit.

A new survey of likely voters in Ohio by National Public Affairs finds incumbent Dem Senator Sherrod Brown leading bi-curious car dealer Bernie Moreno 54 percent to 46 percent in the super-freaking-important race for the seat. While we can’t speak to National Public Affairs’s reliability as we haven’t seen their track record, they also found convicted felon former President Trump leading President Biden by the same 54 to 46 margin, which is pretty close to Ohio’s 53.3 percent Trump to 43.2 percent Biden result in 2020, so maybe they know their stuff and aren’t just making shit up like some other pollsters we know. Plus the name “National Public Affairs” sounds kind of venerable and institution-ish. Then again so do the “Heritage Foundation” and “Federal Society.”