Fox News “legal expert” Kerri Urbahn on Monday claimed that simply by showing up to her stepson’s trial that First Lady Jill Biden was “definitely” sending “a message from the White House” to the jurors as they were being selected. It’s not clear if Urbahn had any similar words for Republican members of Congress who sat in on fat former President Trump’s trial but lol no she didn’t.

Though they’re still on track to maintain their majority, Indian dictator Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and their coalition partners had either won or were ahead in 287 of 543 total seats in Parliament, well short of the absolute beatdown expected as the rival Congress Party and their partners were leading in 230 constituencies in Tuesday’s vote count, the AP reports.

“Congress party and other opposition parties have showed tremendous resilience. To have a stronger opposition augurs very well for India’s democracy that has taken a hit during Modi’s 10-year rule,” political analyst Rasheed Kidwai told the AP. Exit polling from the weekend – India’s elections last for like six weeks, but Tuesday is the last day – had projected Modi’s coalition to take 350 seats.

Obvious mild ebbing of his power aside, the genocidal son of a bitch Modi will still almost certainly remain in in charge of the world’s largest “democracy” for a third five-year term.

US Attorney General Merrick Garland will on Tuesday tell Republicans to shut up and deal with it when it comes to the demented conspiracy theory that he and Joe Biden somehow rigged fat former President Trump’s upgrade to convicted felon status in Manhattan last week, according to opening statement obtained ahead of a House Judiciary hearing obtained by the Huffington Post.

They didn’t link a PDF of the actual remarks, but in it Garland will debunk “false claims that a jury verdict in a state trial, brought by a local District Attorney, was somehow controlled by the Justice Department,” declaring the “conspiracy theory is an attack on the judicial process itself.”

“I will not be intimidated. And the Justice Department will not be intimidated,” says Garland of the moronic push to hold him in contempt over the audio of Biden’s interview with documents fuckup special counsel Robert Hur – for which the House GOP already have a transcript. “We will continue to do our jobs free from political influence. And we will not back down from defending our democracy.”

Look, politicians do strange things to get publicity for their campaign, but whoever on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s staff thought it was a good idea for him to try a stand-up set for the “Kill Tony” podcast owes an apology to Every. Single. American.  After a fair initial gag, Kennedy gets predictable and pathetic with “very funny” brain worm bits:  “My brain worm wrote some jokes for me,” Kennedy says to a mix of jeers and groans before saying, “He’s got a lot of information.  This is where I get most of my facts.”  It’s unclear if that was a confession or a joke, and given that his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, pulled him offstage soon after, we still don’t know.

As their bipedal comrades stood in formation, five canine members of the Ecuduran military intelligence unit received awards (and presumably many butt skritches) for their exceptional service to protect the people of the country, ABC News reports.  Dayco, Amanda, Apolo, Zeus and Maly were recognized in the capital Quito on Monday for various feats, including sniffing out a bomb in a car’s tire and your typical cornering a drug dealer.

Col. Santiago Salazar, commander of the Calicuchima General Intelligence Brigade in which the canines serve, said the five play “a crucial role in public security and the fight against organized crime,” noting, “We want to pay fair tribute and recognition to the dogs” as the country rages with gang violence.  (That’s not Fox “News” hyperbole:  Ecuador has an epidemic of gang violence.)

When Republicans have no policies, they call for action. Violent action. Trump advisor Sean Hannity and one of his many sycophantic Senators, Ted Cruz (R-Quintana Roo) need to wipe the drool from their chins as they hope and pray for a violent attack on the United States so they can achieve some political power.

Aggressively ambitious Republican New York Congresswoman and Lois Lane to Donald Trump’s EFT Superman Elise Stefanik apparently forgot she filed a judicial complaint against New York Judge Arthur Engoron and his clerk:  she and her staff appeared unaware when a Daily Beast reporter told her the complaint had been tossed by New York Commission on Judicial Conduct… back on March 14th.

In her letter to the manager from November 2023 as Engoron was determining the final penalty to be assessed, Karen Stefanik wrote, “I write today to express my serious concerns about the inappropriate bias and judicial intemperance shown by Judge Arthur F. Engoron in New York’s lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Organization. This judge’s bizarre behavior has no place in our judicial system, where Judge Engoron is not honoring the defendant’s rights to due process and a fair trial. These serious concerns are exacerbated by the fact that the defendant is the leading candidate for President of the United States, and it appears the judicial system is being politicized to affect the outcome of the campaign. How dare you mere mortals believe you can judge an Adonnis like Donald Trump; you are not worthy.”  (Okay, maybe not that last part.)

“Why are Palestinian protesters, and even rioters, allowed to roam the Cities, scream, shout, sit, block traffic, enter buildings, not get permits, and basically do whatever they want including threatening Supreme Court Justices right in front of their homes, and yet people who truly LOVE our Country, and want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, are not allowed to “Peacefully Protest,” and are rudely and systematically shut down and ushered off to far away ‘holding areas,’ essentially denying them their Constitutional Rights. America Loving Protesters should be allowed to protest at the front steps of Courthouses, all over the Country, just like it is allowed for those who are destroying our Country on the Radical Right, a two tiered system of justice. Free Speech and Assembly has been ‘CHILLED’ for USA SUPPORTERS. GO OUT AND PEACEFULLY PROTEST. RALLY BEHIND HUNTER. SAVE OUR COUNTRY! ‘THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF.’ ”

Yeah, it sounds just as crazy when you apply to Hunter Biden as it did when Trump originally posted it at the start of his recently concluded Manhattan trial to stoke a rabid crowd of MAGAts that never appeared.  CNN reports Hunter Biden’s felony weapons trial in Wilmington, Delaware will get underway on Tuesday after twelve jurors and two alternatives were chosen during Monday’s proceedings.  Reportedly, Hunter Biden stayed awake throughout the proceedings.

This may be why frequent business travelers die early:  A new study indicates that drinking alcohol while you’re flying maybe bad for your health, even if you’re not the one flying the plane, according to NBC News.  If you enjoy a $9 bottle of vodka, say, before nodding off on a long flight, you could be jeopardizing your health.

Drinking then sleeping in low air pressure, turns out, can be fatal.  The study shows subjects’ heart rates increased by 15% and blood oxygen levels dropped as low as 85%–remember from The Pandemic:  Blood oxygen saturation levels below 95% are dangerous.

Although the study group was small–just 24 individuals–the phenomenon happened with subjects of various backgrounds, from healthy young people to older unfit passengers.  Airline cabins are typically pressurized to 6,000 to 8,000 feet of altitude.

Team Trump has successfully ensured that the Fulton County RICO trial will not occur before the November election:  CNN reports the Georgia Court of Appeals tentatively scheduled its hearing for Donald Trump’s appeal to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for October 4th, making the deposition of Trump’s case before the November election unlikely.  The lower court’s case can continue as the appeal is pending, but Judge Scott McAfee has not yet set a start date for the trial.

The executive director of the DC Board of Elections is concerned for the safety of her team after a barrage of threatening calls and email have besieged her office.  “I am definitely nervous,” Monica Evans told the Washington Post. “The environment around elections has felt more unsafe.”

DC passed a law allowing non-citizens to vote in 2022, but this is the first election where they will be eligible, and conservatives are not happy. “Where the hell do you get off letting illegals vote? This is the nation’s capital. You are traitors, traitors to our country,” one voicemail said.  The threats have gotten so bad, Evans has advised staffers to avoid wearing or covering up the Board’s name and logo on clothing when they’re in public.  They’re not paranoid:  at an early voting center in a Georgetown library, a vandal wrote “VOTING NOT A RIGHT. IS A PRIVILEGE OF CITIZEN.”

So far, more than 500 non-citizens have registered to vote in upcoming local elections.  To be eligible, the registrant must be otherwise eligible except for the citizenship issue, and is not registered to vote in any other nation or jurisdiction.

Attorney @DrJohnEastman urges the Trump legal team to make the rare move of filing a writ of habeas corpus original writ with SCOTUS.

"This trial was full of such contradictions & violations of due process that one hopes the [SCOTUS] will understand & take it up & understand… pic.twitter.com/fYCIHeUo9B

— The Absolute Truth with @EmeraldRobinson (@AbsoluteWithE) June 2, 2024

Complete fucking worm and disbarred lawyer John Eastman on Sunday told former B-movie actress Emerald Robinson that he’s “concerned” that “people might take matters into their own hands” if the Supreme Court doesn’t intervene and prevent convicted felon former President Trump from being sentenced to house arrest or prison next month just days before the 2024 RNC.

“Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Jonathan Mellone, the Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Region of the US Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General (‘DOL-OIG’); and Andrew Wroblewski, the Assistant Director of the US Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (‘DSS’) Domestic Operations, announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging WEIDONG GUAN, a/k/a ‘Bill Guan,’ the Chief Financial Officer of a multinational media company headquartered in New York City with participating in a transnational scheme to launder at least approximately $67 million of illegally obtained funds to benefit himself and the media company. GUAN was arrested yesterday morning and will be presented this afternoon before US Magistrate Judge Stewart D Aaron. The case has been assigned to US District Judge Victor Marrero,” says a Justice Department/Southern District of New York press release.

Continued: “From at least in or about 2020, through in or about May 2024, GUAN, while working as the Chief Financial Officer of a multinational media company headquartered in New York, New York (the ‘Media Company’), conspired with others to participate in a sprawling, transnational scheme to launder at least approximately $67 million of illegally obtained funds to bank accounts in the names of the Media Company and related entities (together, with the Media Company, the ‘Media Entities’).”

In a court filing chock full of demands based on unsupported claims and transphobic hysteria, a pair of University of Texas professors filed a lawsuit against the federal government demanding the power to flunk students who have elective abortions and to refuse to work with any assistants or staffers who are transgender.  Unsurprisingly, the suit is supported by corrupt Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Brought by University of Texas at Austin philosophy professor Daniel Bonevac and finance professor John Hatfield and supported by such powerhouses as the deputy commissioner of administration for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the suit claims that providing medical exemption for students who have had elective abortions–regardless of where the medical procedure is conducted–violates Texas law and therefore does not qualify therefore for an excused absence under state law.

In identical statements, the pair declare ever-so-graciously that they will honor the absence for students who can prove to them that the abortion was medically necessary, even though neither of the professors is professionally qualified to determine what is medically necessary: “I will certainly accommodate students who are seeking medically necessary abortions in response to a pregnancy that threatens the student’s life or health. But I will not accommodate a purely elective abortion that serves only to kill an unborn child that was conceived through an act of voluntary and consensual sexual intercourse.”

A 46 year-old California man refuses to apologize for savagely punching a shark that was simply trying to feed itself during an encounter in the waters off of Del Mar on Sunday, NBC News reports.

A friend of the unidentified man who was present told NBC the man “punched it in the face, he punched it in the nose. I do know he had a gash on his hand from a shark’s tooth.” The man was taken to the hospital with bites to his left hand, left arm, and torso. It’s unclear what drove the man to interfere with and try to disrupt the shark’s natural feeding behaviors in its habitat.

I’m tired of Democrat antics claiming Republicans worship Donald Trump.

I worship God!

Democrats are still worshiping Convicted Felon George Floyd. pic.twitter.com/OVNQnZ71vP

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) June 3, 2024

Not trying to heap any more attention on this piece of shit than she already got with her meltdown in the hearing with Fauci on Monday, but just in case she stepped in it with this one. It’s definitely walking right up to the line with both sides: denying the divinity of her Lord and Savior among the MAGA base while also just being the fucking vile racist the rest of us know her to be.

The families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, already owed more than a billion by conspiracy freak Alex Jones, asked a federal bankruptcy judge on Sunday to “liquidate” InfoWars parent “Free Speech Systems,” saying the company as “no prospect” of getting a reorganization plan approved by the court and has “failed to demonstrate any hope of beginning to satisfy” their legal claims, the Associated Press reports. Jones himself was despondent, telling his fans on Sunday that “there’s really no avenue out of this. I’m kind of in the bunker here.”

“Biden Migrant Crime is out of control and is ravaging America! Last night, two brave NYPD officers doing their job were shot by a Monster Illegal Immigrant who came here illegally from Venezuela last year and was living in a tax-payer funded migrant shelter. Crooked Joe Biden has trafficked in the worst people from around the world, many with heinous criminal records, and unleashed them into our communities. Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg should focus on keeping the streets of New York safe, but has instead wasted time and money engaging in a ridiculous political witch-hunt against yours truly,” posted convicted felon former President Trump on his lame Twitter ripoff Monday.

What the fat fuck gets wrong is that the shooting happened in Queens, which is outside of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s jurisdiction. If Trump can’t even get that right then maybe it’s possible he doesn’t know what he’s talking about when discussing his own criminal case.

In today’s charged political climate, listening to the “other side” can feel like a betrayal. But consider this: democracy thrives on the clash of ideas. Here’s why staying open to opposing viewpoints is crucial for America. Firstly, exposure to different perspectives strengthens your own beliefs. When you understand the reasoning behind opposing views, you can refine your arguments and identify potential weaknesses in your own position by considering opinions from the other guys.

Secondly, common ground often exists beneath the surface of political disagreements. By listening, you might discover areas of agreement on solutions, even if the approaches differ. Maybe both sides want fiscal responsibility, but have different ideas on how to achieve it. Finding these common threads is vital for forging bipartisan solutions to complex problems. When we demonize those with opposing views, we lose sight of our shared humanity. Openness fosters empathy and understanding, leading to more civil discourse and a more productive political environment. So, next time you encounter an opinion piece like the one above, resist the urge to tune out or mock it.

A suspected cereal burglar was arrested outside of a home she had just trespassed in Butler, Pennsylvania late last month after being chased out by a resident, WPXI reports.

The resident said she had been relaxing in her bedroom when 31 year-old Tori Lynn Zaborowski wandered in, eating out of a box of Fruity Pebbles cereal she had absconded from the kitchen. The resident screamed at the intruder, who then hurried back to the kitchen and jumped out of the window over the sink. Police responded and arrested Zaborowski as she sat on the back porch. It’s unclear what became of the box of Fruity Pebbles. The incident is believed to be drug-related.